Finding Sir Bombastic / The Skull Secret

[finite hawk]

BREAKING NEWS

the grafiti extends to the leafs

which makes me think its just some lighting error

[knotty marsh]

This right here is what I meant when I said #1428509049061773456 message
and #1428509049061773456 message

[grand viper]

omg I laughed so hard at this hahah

[viral phoenix]

Okay I finished all of my videos for the locations of all 7 known skulls so far:
https://youtu.be/hE_aCbFOQNc
https://youtube.com/shorts/-U8oUhv-Sfo?feature=share
https://youtube.com/shorts/wzRILiPuxo0?feature=share

[gusty violet]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-mom-im-on-tv-hand-wave-im-here-bummy-buster-gif-10741566

[hazy arch]

I found the Liars skull inside wraithtide vault

[ancient valve]

Data mining kills imagination for secret exploration, wish it never existed

[fathom vessel]

theres like 4 to 5 of them, I think they are just there as "fillers" to make you try and find "the real one", it just happened to be the case that we found the real one First 😂

[fathom vessel]

can't agree with that. if i hadnt told people for example that there is a rat catcher skull now nobody would have kept looking. this channel was dead for at least a week before I said anything and because people knew there was something new they got excited and started searching and exploring again

nobody ever datamined a solution to any puzzle or secret. thats not even possible with how datamining UE5 games that use EAC works.

ue5 games are made with blueprints and unless you have the game files BEFORE they are cooked, you might be able to see what exists, but you cant see any logic behind it. so you can get puzzle pieces, but you still have to put them together yourself

[finite hawk]

yeah

but

we didn't find it

dev with an alt char showed us

and bretton obviously watching this channel

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-squint-suspicious-hmm-futurama-gif-8526915

[fathom vessel]

wise oak hasnt said anything since either lmaoo

[jovial jetty]

then people would have found it (later) naturally

[finite hawk]

i mean we had a 2nd perosn doing a "remmeber the skull" post that was here first time and joined like 2 days before that

#1428509049061773456 message

or rather was here for like 2 weeks but never wrote

[fathom vessel]

well I personally find a week of dozens of people searching for something more fun than nobody looking for anything and 1 Person randomly finding it and sharing it with everyone else but we can agree to disagree and that's okay

[jovial jetty]

personally idm either way - I just see were people are coming from. Some EE-communities strictly forbid datamining and you sounded like it wouldn't have been found without it

[dire arrow]

I found 1 skull randomly last night.
and then got linked to this.
We still dont know what the skulls are all about right?

[umbral summit]

Funny little easter eggs that commonly reference other games, is my take.

[dire arrow]

Yeah i see the talk and posts about it being linked to the mount.. but we literally have 0 knowledge of that being true... right?

[umbral summit]

Correct

[dire arrow]

where did the mount come into it then lmao

[umbral summit]

People want the rat.
People see anything vaguely rat-related.
People start telling each other things that they want to believe.
People see people saying things and begin believing them, passing them on to others.

Every skull except the "7 rats" one was already in the game prior to the Halloween event

(yes even the Wraithtide ones)

[dire arrow]

I'm more upset i didnt recieve the tiger mount after doing the demo test for the game

[jolly schooner]

does this have to do with the halloween event?

[worn brook]

whoa

That's a rat tail!

[jolly schooner]

he's behind the inn, i don't know if it's a clue or if it's to do with the halloween event

[dire arrow]

thats so weird! hes just floating there

[spare nymph]

you can find the rat in a few places around the stronghold 🙂 not halloween related

[finite hawk]

They got added with the Halloween patch so I would say they are

[jolly schooner]

ah fair enough then 🙂

[fathom vessel]

there is a rat catcher skull

[knotty marsh]

If you were in the first Steam Next Fest demo and played up to +5, you should have it
If you played any of the tests after that one, it wasn't included

[drowsy jolt]

Spoilering this, since is speculation based on data mining (which Im not very good at and am probably wrong about so huge grain of salt):

||There are two things in the files I think are worth mentioning:

1. The game has a WIP tutorial called "Journey To The Stronghold" and a "Stronghold Woods" level. Based on Bombastic's current description, my hunch is that we'll unlock him at some point during the tutorial, which takes place in the woods outside of the stronghold.

2. The game files contain references to two mounts "Sir Bombastic Brown" and "Sir Bombastic Soul". At one point "Sir Bombastic Brown" used to be called just "Sir Bombastic" and "Sir Bombastic Soul" used to be called "Dark Bombastic". The image text could be the description of the dark bombastic mount, although I cant cross reference it to anything else in the game files so whatever it belongs to might not exist in game currently.

TLDR: I dont think he's obtainable at the moment, and probably will be when the tutorial is added. Theres also a spooky version of Bombastic, no idea if its part of the puzzle, or just a future cash shop mount or something||

[knotty marsh]

1. That tutorial was playable in the first Next Fest demo. Not sure why it's not in the game at EA launch though.
2. Sounds like the mounts from the mount shop, Cheesers and uh... idk the name but it's a rat with blue energy stuff over it.
   Not sure what his name or description are atm, but he's in the in-game vendor

[drowsy jolt]

||Definitely two seperate bombastic mounts. Here are the thumbnails:||

[knotty marsh]

Seems like it then.
Maybe they intended to have him in the game for Halloween and couldn't make it in time? Might mean we have to wait until next year to see him in game

[finite hawk]

fits into wrathtide tbh

specrtal ghost like touch

[finite hawk]

the tutorial is added though?

[drowsy jolt]

||theres a tutorial quest in game yea, but in the files theres a whole tutorial level with enemies and such. thats not in game yet||

[finite hawk]

yes it is

click esc > tutorial

talked about it alot in this thread aswell that there is probably something hidden tehre

[drowsy jolt]

oh for real? I gotta check that out

[fathom vessel]

theres no connection in the game files between the Tutorial and the mount except for the tooltip

the only Dungeon connection in the files is to wraith because it uses the same model as the fuserats

[drowsy jolt]

There's an indirect connection, both the mounts item description and the rat catcher skull mention the rats "travelling to the stronghold", and the tutorial level is called "journey to the stronghold"

[finite hawk]

the rats are seeking entry

and im pretty sure that are the rats that are "in" the stronghold (they are outside the boundries looking to get into the stronghold)

[livid robin]

Guys, I don't know if it's related, but I played the tutorial to see if I could find anything and I managed to access a part of the map that's normally blocked, and guess what? I found a mine, but I can't go inside it.

To access this part of the map when you meet Sylvie, you climb onto this log and jump to the left.

It's a huge area that they'll probably open up in the future; there's a lot to explore.

Perhaps we'll find some clue about the mount.

[finite hawk]

another account joining the discord just a few days ago and only writing here 👀

that cutscene though

i think that is stormwatch

and the rat spot

deffo stormwatch spawn

traveling to the stronghold

no skulls sadge

sadge cant change hero

man the render distance is ass in there

thats as far as the fog of war lets you see lmao

found some random blue filter?

maybe simulating underwater

e

yeah prob water hitbox over the cam

map is huge for no reason

some assets floating around

most likely didn't see all of it but most of the assets stuff i would say

fell into some water, the falling death cam keeps jumping around me and i lose a bit of HP, heal up and lose a bit again

[gusty violet]

I can’t imagine that a boundary brake is needed for the skull secret or our precious rat.

But definitely interesting what u found

[fathom vessel]

thats why i said except for the tooltip

i feel like all maps (stronghold + Dungeons) were planned to be connected to each other at some point and they just used all those assets as a tutorial map

[finite hawk]

Honestly the out of bounds looks almost intended, after jumping up there are paths ok the ground, I just ran away a different way

[toxic fjord]

Sooooo, found a part of the OOB in tutorial with snowy mountains, and a huge dropoff, and uhhh... dont do that! xD No death plane, so ive just been falling for ages 😛 Gotta unstuck i guess

[knotty marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/loki-i-have-been-falling-thirty-minutes-gif-23033667

[toxic fjord]

I think maybe they used the area as a testing grounds of some sorts? Because they have invisible walls up by the snowy mountains

[gusty violet]

Did someone mange to get out of the stronghold?
I tried a couple things but nothing worked

[modest meteor]

The Hero's skull tower is all halloween'd up with a sacrificial dagger and magic circle

and a frog

[umbral summit]

They finally found the tutorial OOB, my last NDA trick 🙏

[umbral summit]

Indeed. You can see parts of Stormwatch from the Stronghold, and you can see parts of the Stronghold from Stormwatch.
When the SW boss says "quiet down, make ready to ransack the place" I'm pretty sure he's talking about ransacking the stronghold.

Now someone please find a way to get OOB from the stronghold. I've been actively searching for tens of hours since launch and I've yet to find a way out.

[knotty marsh]

Someone mentioned there's a way to get OOB by getting on top of the height barrier #1428509049061773456 message
I think it was based on a bug involving switching between Tariq and Meiko from hero select, because of a height offset? I never tried it

[finite hawk]

thats not Oob that just on the in

[knotty marsh]

Oh, I thought it was on top of the height limit invisible barrier and you could walk around the whole map like that. My mistake

[umbral summit]

Unfortunately not, the invisible walls extend very high up

• The top of either gate's watchtowers is not high enough.
• The top of the tavern is not high enough.
• The top of the tower next to the western gate (the one with the wooden poles sticking out that you jump on) is not high enough.
• The tree branch on the big tree south-east of the tavern (right next to the little waterfall) is not tall enough.
• The invisible walls extend all the way down to the floor at the bottom of the lake you can jump into.
• Invisible walls block otherwise seemingly climbable terrain in the eastern side (this is the area with most potential IMO).

[finite hawk]

lmao

[viral sundial]

not sure if this was already mentioned, but there's another one kinda peaking over the pallisades behind the training dummies (lil hard to see but he's there)

(a better view)

[umbral summit]

That is one of the 6 rats we know of, yes c:
Presumably sir bombastic is the 7th

[viral sundial]

oh, cool. May I ask for their locations? I know about 3 (inn, the one i posted, and above the waterfalls) But the thing is i'm pretty sure i didn't see them yesterday? Do we know if they're linked to interacting with the skulls?

[umbral summit]

They were there yesterday. They do not appear linked with interacting with the skull. If you find out anything else then please share.

Known Rat locations, in rough clockwise order

• east side of tavern
• through the southeast gate (can also be seen from top of wall west of tavern)
• west of the training dummies
• behind a big tree north-east-ish of the training dummies (can be seen more easily standing straight north of the mission table)
• through the north-east gate
• on top of waterfall in the east-south-east

[finite hawk]

maybe the mine we found oob is the entry to godfall quarry

[sonic coyote]

might as well just uninvent computers

[umbral summit]

I'm on team "data mining ruins some of the fun of secret exploration."
Just because it's unavoidable doesn't mean I can't dislike what it does.

[fathom vessel]

dont mind them, they are for some reason angry if they're not the ones spreading information that nobody else knows. I know that they broke their NDA and sent closed beta stuff around and that's for some reason fine. but sharing datamined stuff (that's available for everyone) is somehow not okay 😂

[sonic coyote]

Yeah I know I kinda wish as well not entirely sure why I made that comment :/

[umbral summit]

That is a very interesting way to interpret things.

[umbral yarrow]

So do we know of any more than the 7 skulls and 6 rats?

[finite hawk]

Just read patchnotes, event is gone, is the rat skull and the rats gone aswell?

ah nvm upcoming lmao

[umbral yarrow]

What about using emotes as a trigger for something? do we have a list fo available emotes? I know /dance /wave /yes /no all work

[finite hawk]

tried most i could find but nothing seemed to happen. My stance is, its just an easter egg with funny nodged towards other players

alot of copium have been huffed in here about it being connected to the mount. It's still a fun easter egg hunt and the rat during the halloween event moslty are in relation to the "new" rat catchers skull

[umbral yarrow]

Well I mean one of the skulls says there are 7 rats but weve only found 6

if its for the halloween event there should be 1 more

and what about the liar's skull that mentions Valstedt. I can't find any in game references to valstedt

[finite hawk]

the liar's skull does not mention anyone

Wrathtide has 2 types of skulls. Explorer's skull that mentions valstedt

and multiple "liar's skulls" that have no further tooltip or flavor text

Valstedt is mentioned on the Sailors abyss map

its most likely just in world lore

[umbral yarrow]

Ah yea explorers sorry

[finite hawk]

also would make sesens that its connected to wrathtide because its a pirate ship that crashed there with a pirate ghost theme on both maps (Sailors and Wrathtide)

[umbral yarrow]

i wish theyd let me solo queu low level dungeons so i could explore

[finite hawk]

text below on sailors abyss says something like " His expedition was lost to the tides" assuming his expedition was his crew

we walked around sailor but didn't find anything

the ship you see on the map is high up on a cliff and not reachable

atleast we didn't gind any esploits up to it

[umbral yarrow]

"His Expedition Was Lost To The Tides"

yeah sounds like Wraithtide to me

[umbral yarrow]

was this fixed already?

[umbral summit]

The Wraithtide skulls were present prior to the Halloween event, y'all just missed them.

[umbral summit]

Presumably bombastic is the 7th rat. He's traveling

[umbral yarrow]

Anybody noticed this one? Maybe just flavor text but worth looking at. "Offer a dawnbloom to the spring and the spirit shall emerge"

Its in the everdawn map

Dawnbloom is a mob in that place

[ionic lagoon]

Lmao

Dont think a rat is here

[drowsy jolt]

on a razers edge lmao

[white hinge]

spring as in the pond in the middle ?

then a boss spawns ? and we kill him and loot the mount 😄

and the rats where just a bait

[viral phoenix]

THEY REMOVED THE RAT CATCHER'S SKULL!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Either that or move locations

[hazy arch]

https://tenor.com/view/neat-thats-pretty-neat-smile-gif-14911905

[narrow viper]

I'm no Wise Oak but I was jumping around in the middle of the night, found The Hero's Skull and got into the trove that is this channel

My summary of way too much reading of the backlog

7 Named Skulls (+ Liar skulls) have been found
The Rat Catcher's Skull may of disappeared of this patch just released today 12/11/2025-13/11/2025

6 Big rats stalking around the outskirts of Stronghold have been found, may of just been a Halloween event or maybe related, unsure.
Edit* - The rats do appear to be gone after Halloween

Dev's may of put the easter eggs in the game before the mount is available, also there's been no official confirmation they are linked but some stuff Hamish said that has annoyed the community.

Leads?
Valstedt is referenced but appears unknown maybe related to the ship in Wrathtide / background lore (I'm wondering if anything is in the cutscene)
There are some suspicions around the Tutorial having some easter egg related stuff
There's some theory's around the demonic summoning / sacrifice circles and maybe some interaction with those
There's some runes / language / font that are being translated in hopes of finding cool stuff

Some testing was done around the Bomb rats and The Rat Catcher's Skull but not sure what extent this was.

You guys been digging and jumping for a while and was fun to do down the rabbit hole and see some descents into madness.

My guess after AuffLimits recent the rat catcher skull is gone is, you have to destroy the liar skulls to unveil the rat catcher skulls. Most likely destroying the liar skulls is done via the Rat Mob's casts going off breaking the liar ones and then you can find the Rat Catcher Skull (probably in it's original location)
Feels very much like some old WoW achievement stuff which is where a lot of the inspirations for the game have come from

My more unhinged theory is all the skulls relate to a hero you have to be in a party with or swap characters and then do something. e.g. Rock and Stone, Meiko, little froggy and the dagger, maybe the rogue and fire dude

[narrow viper]

Froggy, his dagger and the circle have also gone post Haloween

[narrow viper]

separate to my random theories. maybe the interact flag from skulls has been reset post patch and you could only see the rat catcher after interacting with all the previous ones

[livid depot]

it's not like that. I've been following this thread for a few weeks now. I could see and interact with the rat catcher but I didn't put down the effort to find the liar's skull in wrath or the one on the ropes above the trees

[finite hawk]

im no Wise Oak

https://tenor.com/view/bart-simpson-simpsons-gif-21258017

[livid depot]

Anyway, the tutorial map is waaaay too big when you jump over the railroad. It feels wierd to me

I'm off to explore the mountains

[livid depot]

I reached trough another route the "stormwatch" balcony. I was aiming for the tower in the background on the mountains

This broken bridge stops the path to the tower (top left of the picture) but the 2 carts on the left feel like a climbing point to avoid the canyon, yet I cannot pass through, anyone more skilled wanting to test it out?

I can't go across this jump

I love to fall into invisible walls traps...

Going across the left side of a cliff, you can reach this point but I can't manage to climb it either

[livid depot]

Took another route from the opposite side of the map, so close yet so far...

[livid depot]

Note: apparently you can't unstuck to the bonfires previous the meeting with sylvye, so it's better to take it before exploring

ok, this is wierd. Still testing in the tutorial. I found out that if you complete all the steps but you don't take the ending chest and go out of border from sylvie's spawn point, another chest appears not far from the starting point in the middle of this settlement.

[livid depot]

I managed to get across the fallen bridge, but it appears to be an empty ending with a bunch of floating trees and no further path ahead

[slate zinc]

@cerulean sonnet

[narrow viper]

fair just guessed most people hunting it would of previously found all the other named skulls, may test later today if I get time

[narrow viper]

The Wise Oak saga is hilarious, I'm waiting for acorn to appear in the clues

[livid depot]

same spot without completing the tutorial

ok, I'm inside a house. Now what? lol

[finite hawk]

graffiti gone at the rat catchers skull

but the heart is still there

[fathom vessel]

ngl i didnt read all of that but valstedt thingy is the ship in sailors abyss

[finite hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/wesker-albert-albert-wesker-resident-evil-resident-evil-4-gif-5143688443782660001

[scenic thorn]

so the rat catchers skull is gone in the new build

so is the rat from behind the stronghold

[narrow viper]

has anybody got a markers for the liar skulls where they were / where the rat catcher skull was. Trying to look but the 3 min timer or whatever it is is painful

found some unmarked skulls is all

[finite hawk]

rat catchers skull was in the stronghold

[umbral yarrow]

Explorer's Skull is the one in Wraithtide

[narrow viper]

ahh it's liar's skulls im looking for atm, were they not in wrathtide?

[umbral summit]

Liar's Skulls were in Wraithtide. I haven't checked if they're gone, but they 100% definitely were in there.

[weak yacht]

so all i got so far is 5 skulls that's it ?

we need 10 more so we can unlock the mount ?

[finite hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/copium-box-gif-4154066459530846772

[fathom vessel]

the mount isnt unlockable at the moment and nobody knows if the skulls are even related. it's probably just a dev trolling us

[arctic sandal]

guys i miss the frog buddy in the tower with hero skull :(

table seems so empty now

[viral phoenix]

we need a "in memorium" of our little frog buddy

[hazy arch]

https://tenor.com/view/nacho-libre-gif-25573225

Me trying to parkour to a skull!

[topaz sphinx]

We just found a 10th skull

[dusky yacht]

WHAT MAP IS THAT?

[topaz sphinx]

Wraithtide

right at the start

So we now have 5 skull in the stronghold and 5 in Wraithtide only one of which has a description:

4 are the Liars skulls

So we could assume 1 of the 5 skulls in the stronghold messages to be "right"

whatever that may mean

For clarification

[livid depot]

This is a map of all the found skulls in wrath, 1-4 are liar's and 5 is explorer. The red line marks the side the skull is facing.

[finite hawk]

pretty sure therre is another on below 5 on the rafters last time i ran a dungeon there

but pretty sure liars skulls are worthless, just a joke to make you think its a tooltip skull to make finding expeditions skull harder

[livid depot]

I dunno, the position seems close to the one in stronghold, either if rotated

[finite hawk]

yeah now that you say it

stronghold actualy looks like a rat

probably the 7th hiden rat

https://tenor.com/view/copium-meme-pepe-frog-gif-26117735

[livid depot]

The position of 2 in wrath is totally off tho, could it mean there is another hidden skull somewhere around the woods in the stronghold? Far off the border behind the inn

[jovial jetty]

Has anyone tried using bilge rats to use the ratexplode on the skulls?

[rain moss]

we did they have a spawn point

also the rats reset if you wander to far off

[dusky yacht]

Someone should create a TL:DR and sticky it for everything that is found so far. 🙂

[atomic igloo]

im ontop of the Inn... and the only way ontop of here had a conveniently placed wood plank ( marked in black ) that allowed me to get further up. Haven't found anything up here in terms of skulls but the fact the plank was placed there allowing access up here says this might be a clue?

[opaque tide]

You don't need the plank and the building is as empty as my soul

[cold herald]

Sorry for writing without any information but how far are people to figure out how to get sir bombastic?

[fathom vessel]

cant get him atm

[cold herald]

Sadge, guess it has to do with finding all the skulls? Cus seen a few but don’t know how to interact with them cus some of them are not highlighted when I hover over them

[fathom vessel]

we dont know if the skulls are related at all. some dev might just be trolling us

[cold herald]

Oh perfect 😂 well good luck gamers let’s hope you figure this out

[fathom vessel]

i havent touched the game since lol made me feel like someone got a laugh out of intentionally wasting our time, making us search for something that doesnt exist. left a bitter taste in my mouth and made me not wanna play lol

[gusty violet]

@fathom vessel I feel u. Also quit the search after the Halloween troll.

[finite hawk]

After the update i did some rounds in the stronghold but didn't find anything new @fathom vessel did u datamine anything new?

[fathom vessel]

no I haven't touched the game since the loose goose hunt

[viral phoenix]

We will just have to wait for the christmas update for them to add a new hidden skull that they take away from us again T_T

[covert herald]

Im guessing based on the names it PROBABLY has some sort of interaction in the actual dungeons too.

Demon brand having one thats obvious. Rock and Stone would be godfall quarry.

[gusty violet]

Would love to ignite the spark again but without something clear iam out.
Would be enough for me to hear „yes, something is out there“

[charred trench]

Its just not in the game yet. I doubt they finish up the puzzle until S1

[jovial jetty]

This would make a lot of sense - 7 skulls, 7 dungeons

[finite hawk]

Aren't there 8 dungeons?

Also demon brand references tuzari, a capstone aswell as having skulls In wrathtide so we have 12 dungeons

[jovial jetty]

True - its 8+4 capstones

[umbral yarrow]

Do we think the adventurer's skull is referencing Velstadt?

[drowsy jolt]

We've got no clue, honestly there's not much point in spending effort thinking about this. It's not in the game atm

[fathom vessel]

with how they are handling the community and especially the communication with the playerbase I'm unfortunately no longer interested in the game. learning what the team has to say through an outsider on reddit is just super unappealing and having a dev who knows we are looking for a rat put in a "rat catcher skull" to waste our time searching for it is just straight up disrespectful. I wish everyone else a good hunt, but I'm out! 🙂 take care

[finite hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-and-dumber-dumbanddumber-gif-9498707

[ocean plank]

We can find the Valstedt's courage on abyss map, idk if some people look around yet, but if any are interested, I'm up to look for more clues

[worn brook]

sadly i can't disagree. hoping @wind spear reads this and understands as the user just straight up left the server.

[wind spear]

Really sorry to hear that. Would love to know what i can do to help you feel like it's worth sticking around or at least come back at some point. We've had such a hectic first month that priorities for the team have had to be very focused on general game health which unfortunately means fun things like this might not be fully fleshed out.

[viral phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/ptsd-rat-rats-war-stare-gif-6652452482778739959

Instead of searching for more clues im just doubling down on Sir Bombastic as a hero concept. You can't stop me now

Here is a sneak peak into the legendary boots I have cooked up for him:

Boots of the Burrow Brigade
Each time you cast Vermin Tide, summon 1 additional elite rat that burrows underground and explodes after 2s for heavy AoE damage.
This elite rat applies a stronger Powder Burn.

Got a whole concept sheet laid out now, just finalizing it to make it presentable

[gusty violet]

Iam listening 👂

[gusty violet]

I think we all know that in an AE it’s not easy to manage everything at once.
But, as Otter said, putting effort into a rat-catcher skull just to “troll” the people who spend a massive amount of hours studying these skulls is simply mean and leaves a scar.

Bonus: riding Sir Bombastic infront of us is also mean 🤣

[static smelt]

I think riding an unobtainable mount in a showcase or update was too much of a tease tbh lol

[finite hawk]

@umbral summit #1428217588093161545 message

[muted locust]

there were some contradictory comments from the devs about possibility of receiving Sir Bombastic, so it'd be good to get an explicit answer in text to the question: "is it possible to obtain Sir Bombastic right now?"

[umbral summit]

https://youtu.be/qktLGbIGwMU

@finite hawk thank you for sharing this vital information with me

[finite hawk]

honestly it was more the guy in bug channel then me but sure i take the credit

https://tenor.com/view/funny-hahaha-gif-22505124

[umbral summit]

I have thanked him too, no worries. But if you didn't bring it to my attention I wouldn't have seen it, so you're also partly responsible

20+ hours of jumping at walls:
30 minutes playing with chickens:

[gusty violet]

Oh Shit let’s get startet

[umbral summit]

enjoy exploring, everyone. i look forward to seeing what you think of what you find out there

[gusty violet]

We will fine a mineshaft full of coperium.

And we will mine everything!

[drowsy jolt]

the cackle 😂

[crimson cape]

video of whats about there pls <3

[umbral summit]

Nothing, really. Just props and geometry clearly designed to be seen from far away. No big secrets, no surprisingly modeled-out areas like in the tutorial OOB, etc.
It's a bit like underneath Stormwind: not really much to see 😅

[crimson cape]

ripppp

[lofty leaf]

Idk if it's the same as during nextfest but you could go surprisingly far out there on the inn side

A few traps where the terrain stops being real but mostly traversable

[lofty leaf]

🙏 even just more fun lil jump puzzle easter eggs is fine with me, I love them for what they are even if they're not part of some grand larger secret

[lofty leaf]

yeah you can jump up there as tariq/meiko as well

[umbral summit]

It is also possible to do on every other hero by mounted jumping from the top of the flagpole on the left

Or just getting on top of the thing via the plank and walking off on the other side

[viral phoenix]

Whenever I get the next opportunity to stream it I will Going to be posting the whole project into discord after stream

[gusty violet]

I tried for an hour i cant get it to work. The chicken always snaps back to be after the suck and hero swap. am i missing something?

[umbral summit]

• The chicken will snap when it tries to attack. Time your arrow+swap to right after it melees.
• The arrow placement is finicky, I still can't get it consistently. Sometimes the check just pops back out. Keep trying I guess.

If you look at the clock in the bottom right statistics test, you can see it took me a few minutes of trying too

[gusty violet]

jesus iam out, ok i foud a setup that works for me

[gusty violet]

not much found other then a nice view on the stronghold.

[umbral summit]

Yeah. Not much to see out there, but it's still cool to just look around. Again, kinda like being underneath Stormwind: You're clearly not intended to be there, but being there kinda humanizes the developers, makes the game feel like a craft of passion?
I don't know.

[umbral summit]

What was it? I would like a less finicky setup

[gusty violet]

I can show you sometime. Basically ist just play a game of don’t look at the chicken XD

[gusty violet]

Wold play the shit out of
Him until iam Platin 🤣

[wind spear]

Just got extra-super-mega-confirmation that there's no way to unlock Sir Bombastic right now

[crimson cape]

crying screaming

[viral phoenix]

Because this is the plan right?
https://youtu.be/Ctfpx3szD_4

Just kidding I know that is a long shot dream, but still.... maybe?

[gusty violet]

Thank Hamish.

Then I think we can also assume that the skulls are just references to videogame culture, right?

[viral phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/dreams-stay-gif-7320845

[void pumice]

How did U get a super mega confirm?!!

[gusty violet]

He is Hamish 🤣

[rocky haven]

Do you know when it will be unlocked?

[finite hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/never-harrypotter-angry-fire-no-gif-4751988

[weak sable]

Then why is there a [redacted] call in the client's executable right at [redacted] that definitely [redacted]? Huh? How do you explain that?!

DO NOT TRUST A WORD HAMISH SAYS, HE'S BEEN KNOWN TO LIE (NOT TELL THE TRUTH) (MAYBE)

[clear bolt]

this is what they want you to think

[viral phoenix]

https://www.twitch.tv/hamishbode/clip/ObservantHyperHorseOSfrog-pFCJb7Kep64cjkU6

[gusty violet]

Let’s all get tattoos then XD

[gusty violet]

I mean is there a cute button version of sir bombastic? 🙄

[arctic sandal]

I want.. Bombastic plushie

[solid nexus]

Finaly we will be able to unlock him with the next update 🥳

[gusty violet]

I don’t think so 😅

[viral phoenix]

I think Hamish said that the NEW mount will have a secret behind it. So uhhhh might be a little longer idk we shall see.

SECRET FINDING TIME COME THURSDAY!!!!!!!!

[silk citrus]

Hi all... how does this work... we have to find all skulls to unlock him ?

Sorry new to the hunt

[umbral summit]

We don't know, and the secret in the upcoming patch is confirmed not bombastic afaik

And also watch out if you actually enjoy the act of discovery in-game, because the prevailing culture in this thread sees data mining for any/all hints/solutions as the very first thing to do when hunting.

[silk citrus]

Lol okay thanks for the heads up! I am to clueless to look for things haha

Hope all the worked hard on this will get it 😁

[umbral summit]

gl hf tomorrow y'all, I'll be stepping out of this thread for a while to avoid the incoming day 1 datamine spoilers

[drowsy jolt]

I won't post any spoilers 🫡

[lofty leaf]

if I find anything I'll probably post with spoiler tags, it's what I was doing with the skulls towards the start of the thread

[finite hawk]

i mean ottercide is nolonger on the server so prob low chances

[drowsy jolt]

I think we should just give the hunters a grace period before anything is posted. Some people (like me) cant resist clicking a spoiler even if they dont want to know whats behind it 😄

[lofty leaf]

oh sorry to be clear I will not be datamining, just hunting the ol' fashioned way!

[drowsy jolt]

Oh fair!

[finite hawk]

nah spoiler tag is fine if you can't handle not clicking it thats on you

[umbral summit]

And thus you prove my point

[finite hawk]

?

[umbral summit]

"If you can't resist looking at spoilered datamine in this thread, that's on you"?

[finite hawk]

brother can you not read?

first of all stop putting words in other peoples mouths thats not what i wrote

and vorime was not know for data mining. my interpretaion of his sentance was if he finds anything by running around and looking he will spoiler tag it

[umbral summit]

I'm sorry, this topic tilts me and I'm set up to assume the worst

[lofty leaf]

let's all give each other a lil grace and get excited for more secrets to hunt and skins to unlock 🥳

[umbral summit]

As I said, I'll be stepping out of here for a few days, in part because I know I'll get pissy like this and I don't enjoy being pissy at people and people don't enjoy me being pissy at them

[viral phoenix]

There are hidden treats around the Stronghold, dont know what they do yet but you can consume multiple of them

might be a race

This is in the Hero's Skull location

[uncut elk]

re: treats
|| 14 stacks is not enough to trigger anything except being quite fast. There are definitely more than 14 total, probably 20. They respawn directly after the buff expires from you. ||

[uncut elk]

currently mapping the treats

[uncut elk]

i've found || 29 || candies so far

[viral phoenix]

im at 21 so far

[red whale]

I've only found 28. how many do we think there are?

[uncut elk]

I'm guessing 31 for days of the month

[red whale]

im gonna snip my stronghold and ms paint the ones ive found so far.

[uncut elk]

here

[cloud island]

we at 29 rn

trying to find the last 2

[uncut elk]

Treats map with 29 so far

[red whale]

the blue dot is the one i havent seen yet gotcha

[jagged sun]

blue is the endpoint i think

[uncut elk]

|| 30 with your western snow pile ||

[red whale]

never thought to check that

wait second map is missing one that first map has

at the training dummies

[uncut elk]

yes his map is missing a few of mine

[jagged sun]

yeah i had a count of 25 from what i found, gnome had 29 i think, now 30

im updating my map

[uncut elk]

reposting with 30

[red whale]

the lake feels too empty, im gonna rummage around

[cloud island]

NEW BUFF

||+30 snowballs||

[red whale]

siiiiick

||do you have to make it to the present with the buff active or just collect the snowballs||

[cloud island]

||present is now interactable and can buy mount||

[cloud island]

Solution:||collect 30 = get new buff. then just let the speed expire, do the jumping puzzle to the present and it is interactable. collect your mount||

[uncut elk]

server maintenance they're adding another xd

[cloud island]

https://tenor.com/view/excuse-me-hands-up-woah-funny-face-gif-14275996

[red whale]

i forgot to get warm wishes so i could get it omfg

[small gale]

Man lookk at you guys, I am at work, I was just following this thread, exciting

This looks fun, basically a speed run to collect them, then buy mount?

[red whale]

pretty much

[small gale]

Exciting

[formal hamlet]

@red whale ||so I wanna collect all 30 things on map then do the jumping puzzle to the gift?||

[red whale]

ye

[jagged sun]

aww damn it

server closed as i was abt to complete it

||So how much is mount and did we figure out if you need to do all this with the requisite currency beforehand (aka will it reset your progress if you reload stronghold?) ((aka aka should we only complete this once we have enough warm wishes))||

[viral phoenix]

This is my planned route

[formal hamlet]

purple dot is turn in?

[sly kettle]

the autism is strong in here. appreciate you boys

[craggy tinsel]

its present

[spice isle]

gnomechewer has been warned

Reason: Too many spoiler tags

[uncut elk]

Winter Holiday secret mount guide
Vague Directions: || Eat so many tasty treats that you are overwhelmed by the spirit of the winter holidays! ||

Specific Directions: || Consume 30 treats around Stronghold without letting your 20 second speed buff expire. If you fail, all treats will respawn. If you succeed you will gain a untimed buff that grants access to the special vendor (shaped like a present) at the top of the tower jumping puzzle. It sells the mount for 4 event currency. ||

Map Legend: || Red dots are consumable treats. Black dots mean the treat is underneath a snow pile. The Blue/Purple dot is the vendor at the top of the jumping puzzle. ||

[coarse niche]

Dang, Gnome beat me to it! I discovered all ||30|| spots but didn't figure out the vendor before the server shut down. Only additional thing I'll add is that at higher stacks you run faster than being mounted.

[uncut elk]

Good point. I think mounts are 50% in the game, so at 10 stacks it doesn't even help to mount up.

[coarse niche]

I guess I'll also add the route I used while on foot since I already had a graphic for it.

[red whale]

mount is 200% move speed in stronghold

[red whale]

4 warm whatevers

@quasi bay over here

[quasi bay]

this was hidden O.o

[small gale]

Someone post a guide with a spoiler or something, instead of it getting buried here, whoever wants to take credit for it I guess 😛

[viral phoenix]

I am editing a video for it right now

[cloud island]

secret mount

[rotund hazel]

k is there anythign else besides the secret mount?

[small gale]

All the other skins and mounts?

[silk yarrow]

what is the pric in the vendor when you run

[viral phoenix]

||4 of the winter currency||

[silk yarrow]

thanks 🙂

[silk yarrow]

where is the shop after you have run it ?

[viral phoenix]

https://youtu.be/yptoWlXB_3g
Here is a quick video I made, it is 6am and I am going to go to bed now lmao

[rotund hazel]

dude the tumbnail

.

[viral phoenix]

wut :v I like criticism give it to me

[jagged sun]

I think it's pretty funny

[gusty violet]

The airhorns are missing I think and the mlg logo

[small gale]

I mean that's how youtube thumbnails look these days

[vague eagle]

||I can't find the one near the chickens, can somebody help with a screenshot?||

||Oh wait! It was under a pile of snowball, I totally ignored the pile lol||

[viral phoenix]

If you need any other help look up at the video above, I went to bed so no more screenshots from me 💔

[lofty leaf]

dang I see the EU gang has already done a lot of good work, gonna avoid looking until I can poke around myself

[finite hawk]

sadly the reward tree is broken and i cant interact with it/deselcts for me

[torn forge]

you need to do a dungeon first before clicking its a bug when first logging in

says you have it before you do

[lofty leaf]

finished the obvious thing ||finding and eating all treats|| - really enjoyable little minigame! but hilariously at the end ||I can't collect the prize because I don't have any event currency yet, I was not expecting it to be a vendor lmao||

location spoilers ||the ones under the snow piles were devious, I thought i saw one but tried clicking it with the snowballs still on top so it wasn't interactable so I moved on like a dummy for a lil while||

||test
test||

testing spoilers with line breaks because it looks weird in preview and I don't want to post big spoils on accident

here's my (rough) notes on ||treat locations roughly in the order I collected them to get the Transcendence buff. I also noted what type of treat was there to help you (and future.. but now past...) me spot them||

||Hanging from broken bridge, candy cane
Eastern gate brazier log bench, gingerbread cookie
Logs at edge of lake near Eastern Gate, gingerbread cookie
Roots to right of stone circle stairs, gingerbread cookie
Stone circle treasure pile, candy cane
Cauldron after bridge to stone circle, candy cane
Stables under armored Bloodfang, candy cane
Behind Shrine of Infusion, gingerbread cookie
Blacksmith's forge, gingerbread cookie
Jeweler's shelf, candy cane
Cart near Quartermasters, candy cane
Bushes to left of Quartermasters, gingerbread cookie
Sitting man above Hero's Rest sign, candy cane
Table to left of Hero's Rest door, gingerbread cookie
Wreath on tree in front of Hero's Rest, gingerbread cookie
Below and behind Monument of Legends, candy cane
Monument of Legends (leaderboard) gold pile, gingerbread cookie
Stairs to chickens, candy cane
Windmill front door, candy cane
Under snowballs near chickens (interact to remove), gingerbread cookie
In cart near chickens, gingerbread cookie
Table by stairs to training dummies, gingerbread cookie
Watering trough behind training dummies, gingerbread cookie
In snow mound above and behind training dummies, candy cane
Campfire behind training dummies, candy cane
West gate in cart, gingerbread cookie
Under snowballs near West gate, gingerbread cookie
Jumping platform tower under awning, candy cane
Bench to right of Hero's Rest door, gingerbread cookie
Border wall to right of Hero's Rest in quiver, candy cane||

||I routed it to get to the giftbox with the speed buff, not realizing it'd give me an extra buff and that the platforming would be near impossible at that speed lmao||

[umbral summit]

||Alright, managed 26/30 on my own before deciding to hop back in here to find the rest. Fun little hunt. The snowball ones caught me off guard, and I missed some really obvious ones too, but such is the way things go||

[umbral summit]

||I prepared a portal upstairs beforehand ||

[lofty leaf]

||I am really curious what the fastest route is to collect them all and get to the box. the portal is a great idea if allowed but I was thinking how you'd get to the box with the buff on otherwise. probably a dash character can find a way||

[umbral summit]

||Also: you had to run real real fast to get the bear, and the bear is literally named "brum". as in onomatopoeia for a revving engine||

[finite hawk]

||small pp if read||

[rotund hazel]

Didnt hamis hint another secret regarding sailor abyss?

[uncut elk]

you'll have to provide more context

[vestal thorn]

@wind spear pin this post? so useful

[cobalt mural]

how did you do this?!

[umbral summit]

with humming portalstone? i dont understand your question

[cobalt mural]

||every time I attempt I get an error that it isn't in line of sight. is it possible to sklip the jumping puzzle?||

[umbral summit]

||I didn't skip the jumping puzzle. I went upstairs and portal'd down||

||the jumping puzzle is not very hard||

[cobalt mural]

||I have 2 left hands and 10 thumbs wish me luck||#

[lofty leaf]

you probably already did it by now but if not ||check if you have the haste/movespeed set on and unequip it if you do, then all the jumps are a very simple tap w + jump||

[uncut elk]

If you are referring to the AI generated notes posted by Miztertea1 then that was Hamish reading off multiple unrelated chat messages from twitch chat at 2:50 on the vod.
If you were referring to anything else, please share! I noticed Sailor's abyss had some mob changes as well.

[wind spear]

AI summaries without editing are pretty dangerous given I can either be reading other people's words or just being straight up sarcastic 😉

[uncut elk]

the roots wont render underground so the vines hold them up

[finite hawk]

@tulip prawn #1428509049061773456 message

somewhat writen version

[desert egret]

Bruh I collected the buff, my game crashed, now I have to redo it XD

[haughty sigil]

Could it be possible, to get the Bombastic mount, by completing everydungeon, with all mobs killed, in time? - Has someone tried this already?

Hamish statet, that it is currently not possible, but there are ways. - Currently there are minibosses, so not all trash as usually is available

[finite hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/i-can't-read-discord-pins-read-arthur-gif-14544767839103426122

[haughty sigil]

?

[drowsy jolt]

Hamish statet, that it is currently not possible, but there are ways

He stated that it is not possible

[finite hawk]

what he is referencing is a twitch clip where i asked him about sir bombastic and he replied with what he said

however that was like 3-4 months ago

meanwhile he did a new statement that is pinned in this channel

but also on the side the first statement from the twitchclip was already saying "not possible" and people coped themselves into believing that "there are ways" means that he is actually available.

[pliant trellis]

how many warm wishes do you get per run AFTER filling out the star map?

[formal hamlet]

wdym warm wishes per run?

[rigid tartan]

as dungeon loot

[drowsy jolt]

Sometimes 1, sometimes 0

Ususally 0

[pliant trellis]

so dang... it really is just better to fire up an alt to collect more wishes?

[rigid tartan]

yes

[void pumice]

any luck finding the mount

[gusty violet]

The search is dead at the moment. I think before the big patch nothing is going to be found.

[viral phoenix]

The hope is that the reset comes with more secrets to find :3

[brave trench]

hey everyone
as part of the search for Mr. Bombastic, did you try to translate all of the text in "fellowship script" (like on the maps) to see if there were perhaps hidden info in there?

[charred trench]

its confirmed not in the game yet

[drowsy jolt]

I do believe folks translated that stuff as well

[chrome isle]

is the secret mount still obtainable?

for the secret vendor i mean

[brave trench]

It s not sorry 🙁

[chrome isle]

sad

was late thought it was something else

well got willy mouse

atleast

🙂

[gusty violet]

Is he coming?? 10k milestone mr bombastic?
There is a short that hints to that.

https://tenor.com/view/pera-algorand-algo-hopium-copium-gif-16765445473855345349

[upper cobalt]

It hints to 10k mount being the deer from that dungeon.

Hamish is just showing bombastic off to rub it on our faces.

[gusty violet]

In don’t know about that showing of thing. He can’t be this cruel…

So is he secretly evil? 🤣

[upper cobalt]

IDK who thinks its a secret at this point?

[viral phoenix]

I am still more convinced now that Sir Bombastic is going to be a hero first before we get him as a mount

[viral phoenix]

https://youtube.com/shorts/xQSpfAnk5yc?si=VMN0B1XDQJ0d5nYX
Can't convince me otherwise now

[drowsy jolt]

I think the new meadow area seems like a likely place for us to unlock him

[gusty violet]

I will keep looking for hints maybe we get new skulls there ^^

[wind spear]

It's no secret.

[viral phoenix]

T_T the tease

[gusty violet]

Nahaaa

[crimson cape]

If bombastic isnt the game yet, comments likethose are just sad really

[hazy shell]

Hey, I quit shortly after the halloween event, considering returning for S2 - anyone can give me a quick update / run down on the secret hunting progress so far? Have we found the rat? :D

[gusty violet]

Nope nothing new. I think everyone gave up after hamish told us there is no way to obtain him.

[faint glen]

still not ingame

[hazy shell]

Oh that's sad to hear, but thanks for the update!

[wind spear]

I've asked the team if there's a way we can include a path to Bombastic next season. It may be time. More news at 11.

[livid depot]

The dream!

[gusty violet]

Please don’t make it a reward as completing a path in the tree.

That would suck. Would kill all the passion and dedication people here have for him.
Additionally it would take away the mystery and myths surrounding him.

[upper cobalt]

at 11? wich 11 😄

[gusty violet]

2111 ofc

[viral phoenix]

As long as the path is a secret path im all game