Orb of True Knowledge (2024)

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Orbs of True Knowledge are collectibles that can be picked up by the player in the world. They are always accompanied by an Emerald Tablet, and many are also housed in Orb Rooms, which have hidden messages about the lore of the World when their basins are filled with specific contents.

Effects[]

When first collected, they will give the player a specific message depending on which Orb was collected and an accompanying spell, which also unlocks the spell for future runs, as well as newly generated wands in the current run. In all future runs, the player will instead receive a slightly different message (referring to the Orb as a Familiar Orb of True Knowledge) and an Extra Max Health pickup (+25 ♥). Shortly after an orb is collected, an eerie sound will play with an accompanying ominous screen shake effect, hinting that something more is going on as well.

When at least one orb has been collected, a counter will appear below the wand mana or potion capacity bar indicating how many orbs have been collected. This counter does not appear until the player has obtained at least 1 orb.

Kolmisilmä's health increases exponentially with each orb^[1]; reaching 131,481 ♥ if all 11 orbs in the main world have been collected.

Known Orbs of True Knowledge[]

Emerald Tablet	Orb Icon	Spell	Location	Message
Thoth		Earthquake	Atop the Pyramid	Secrets of Earth's anger have been unlocked to you
Volume I		Sea of Lava	Within the floating island above the mine entrance in the Forest	Secrets of endless lava have been unlocked to you
Volume II		Tentacle	Under the Frozen Vault, which is located under the Snowy Wasteland to the left of Giant Tree	Secrets of otherworldly life have been unlocked to you
Volume III		Nuke	Under the Lava Lake right from entrance. Can be reached if you dig through the extremely dense rock on the west side of the shaft down to Snowy Depths with black holes or by freezing the lava and drilling through.	Secrets of utter destruction have been unlocked to you
Volume IV		Necromancy	At the bottom of the Sandcave below the Pyramid	Secrets of Undeath have been unlocked to you
Volume V		Holy Bomb	In Orb Room To the left of the Magical Temple	Secrets of fire and brimstone have been unlocked to you
Volume VI		Spiral Shot	To the left at the bottom of the Lukki Lair west of the Underground Jungle or the top west of The Vault	Secrets of the Spiral have been unlocked to you
Volume VII		Thundercloud	In Orb Room to the right of the abyss (climb very dense rock or cross the rope bridge) which is to the right of the lava lake to the right of the Mines	Secrets of the stormy skies have been unlocked to you
Volume VIII		Fireworks!	In the center of The Work (Hell)	Secrets of jubilation have been unlocked to you
Volume IX		Summon Deercoy	At the bottom of the Snow Chasm under the Snowy Wasteland	Secrets of hidden danger have been unlocked to you
Volume X		Cement (Spell)	At the bottom of the Wizard's Den under the Desert Chasm and east of the Temple of the Art	Secrets of rebuilding have been unlocked to you

Orbs of Corrupted Knowledge[]

Parallel Worlds have an alternate version known as Orbs of Corrupted Knowledge. They always drop Cursed Extra Max Health pickups instead of a spell or Extra Max Health.

Gallery[]

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  A Familiar Orb of True Knowledge with its Extra Max Health pickup inside.

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  An Orb of True Knowledge with nothing inside.

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  An Orb of Corrupted Knowledge with its Cursed Extra Max Health pickup inside.

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  Collecting an Orb of Corrupted Knowledge atop the Pyramid in the Desert in a parallel world.

Secret orb[]

It is possible, but astronomically unlikely, to obtain a 34th orb from a randomly generated Great Treasure Chest, and 35-36 via Parallel Worlds. You will also need an Infinite Platform or Wall.

The only guaranteed ways to obtain these currently, are either:

1. via kaliuresis's Noita Orb Atlas, which lets you find the correct X,Y coordinates for your own random seed. Note, if using the player.xml file to exact your coordinates, you must account for rounding (1200.6 => 1201).
2. via a set seed.
   • This text walkthrough by kaliuresis explains the details: https://pastebin.com/raw/PSDpYsWY
   • Or, these videos explain the details:

See Also[]

• Guiding Powder
• Endings

Notes[]