History VideoGame / Noita

* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Consuming fungus, fungal blood, frogs, or glue causes the Tripping effect. Maintaining this effect for several minutes at various sites is the only way to see the clues for creating [[spoiler:the New and Dark Suns]].

* ArrowsOnFire: Spell modifiers can set projectile spells on fire or cause them to leave a trail of fire behind them.

** If the player collects enough Orbs but not all of them (5-10) and completes the game, it allows the player to transfer their character for a New Game+. A new world is generated with a significantly altered layout and more difficult enemies. This process can be repeated, each time adding an additional + to the game mode, with each iteration requiring more Orbs, eventually reaching the cap at +28.

* MidasTouch: The Draught of Midas turns any solid material it touches to gold. There's also the Touch of Gold spell which converts any material it is cast at to gold, including the player. [[spoiler:When you complete The Work and beat the game via the normal method, the entire world turns to gold... including ''you'', which kills you unless you have at least 5 Orbs of True Knowledge or have the Saving Grace perk, in which case the effect will be an HPToOne.]]

** Acquiring enough [[spoiler:Orbs and placing the final boss drop on the sky altar]] allows the player to transfer their character for a New Game+. A new world is generated with a significantly altered layout and more difficult enemies. This process can be repeated, each time adding an additional + to the game mode.

* DamageEnhancingDebuff:

** The final boss has increased health based on how many [[spoiler:Orbs of True Knowledge]] the player has gathered. With enough [[spoiler:orbs]] it becomes this, going as high as 131,481 HP when you have found all [[spoiler:11]] of them. [[spoiler:By visting parallel worlds in New Game+, you can get a maximum of 33 orbs, which increases the bosses health to half a TRILLION, while enough iterations of New Game Plus can take it as high as one one SEPTILLION. Good thing the fight is optional at those stages of the game.]]

* EarnYourBadEnding: Depending on how far you go, it's possible to make your ending worse by doing more work. Specifically, [[spoiler:completing The Work in the proper place with precisely eleven orbs (the normal number possible without visiting parallel worlds) nets you an already esoteric happy ending where the entire world turns to gold, which you now have no use for. But if you collect a few more orbs, without going all the way to 33 - impossible to reach before NewGamePlus in any case - you get... an even ''worse'' ending, where the world turns into ''toxic'' gold; this is also the ending if you collect a mere zero to four orbs, meaning that collecting just some of the parallel world orbs without going all the way makes your ending actively worse.]]

** Chain Spell will let a projectile shoot another copy of itself after it expires, up to five times, but decreases the lifetime of the spell as a tradeoff.

** Triplicate Bolt does the same for the player, firing a three-bullet shot that increases spread and thus lowers accuracy. Modifieds affect all three bullets, however, making it synergize incredibly well. It also causes rather excessive bleeding.

* DefeatEqualsExplosion: The flaming skull enemy releases a large amount of exploding gunpowder on death. Similarly, the ice flame skull explodes into a cloud of Freezing Vapor. The Suur-Ukko also generates a Thunder Charge explosion on death. Kauhuhirviö will unleash a massive slime explosion on death.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Tower is a bonus area unlocked after beating the boss, though the portal is out of the way. This section is a marathon level revisiting all the biomes and a random assortment of all enemies from the game. Going around the levels isn't possible as the entire Tower is encased in Cursed Stone. As a reward at the top are three incredibly powerful wands.

** In general, the large bodies of water and other liquids that are found throughout the cavern will usually be what kills a lot of enemies at once, either through drowning them out or causing a large explosion. In addition, some wands fire spells that are better used on the environment than in combat, further pushing the player towards messing with your environment. Also, enemies drop 2x gold nuggets when they were killed by environment.

* EscapeRope: Summon Sädekivi grants the player a single-use item which blasts a tunnel to the surface, allowing the player to retreat to less dangerous biomes even if they lack a digging wand.

* InfinityPlusOneSword: At the top of the Tower are the three strongest wands in the game: a wand with max capacity that casts a couple dozen spells at a time; a wand with Always Cast Nuke; and a wand with negative cast delay. A player may only choose one and the Tower is not present in New Game+.

* LaserBlade: The Luminous Drill spell creates a short-lived laser blade from the wand, with the secondary effect of drastically reducing the recharge and cast delay of the wand. It cuts through everything and does decent damage per hit. With the right setup, it can easily reduce the delay on a wand to 0, allowing it to fire for as long as the wand has mana to fuel it. Timer versions of the spell can be chained to make a longer beam, and certain modifiers (Ping-Pong Path, notably) will extend the range of the beam.

** Worm and Fungal enemies bleed a greenish-yellow and glowing pink liquid, respectively, which both act as a potent hallucinogen.

** Consuming Worm Blood tints the screen slightly and grants an All-Seeing Eye like effect for the duration. This does trump environmental effects, but the darkness comes back once the effect wears off.

* DoorToBefore: Defeating the final boss opens a portal to the Tower, the most difficult area in the game. At the top of the tower is a portal which deposits the player back where they began the game.

** The Iron Stomach perk removes all negative consequences of eating, both in terms of overeating and the negative side effects of certain materials. If the player consumes certain liquids with a negative effect (polymorphine, for example) they gain brief immunity to those substances. The one drawback is that Berserkium no longer grants its effect if consumed, as it is considered a negative side effect despite also having beneficial properties.

* ForcedTransformation: Creatures who touch Polymorphine will temporarily become a winged sheep with no attack and little health. Unstable Polymorphine will choose a random Hiisi while Chaotic Polymorphine can transform into any creature in the game, which can result in an enemy or hazard being more or less dangerous. Polymorphers use this as their primary attack and are actually dangerous, since your helpless animal form can be one-shot by just about anything. Being hit by a polymorph spell while already polymorphed is a guaranteed OneHitKill. And, of course, there are ways that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIGZ75W0r9Q Noita may either protect themselves from or exploit Polymorphine]], despite lacking the Wands to cast it yourself.

** Ambrosia grants complete resistance for the duration of the stain.

* BigEater: Once you kill an enemy, you can crouch over their corpse and begin feeding on them until there is nothing left but a pool of blood, which you can then drink dry as well. [[IAmAHumanitarian This includes sapient humanoid enemies.]]

* BlackoutBasement: Some areas have little to no lighting, forcing the Noita to use spells or eat certain materials that grant night vision. While some areas have this effect by default, others can have it randomly added as a modifier.

** The "Gold is Forever" perk removes the [[EverythingFades timed-despawning of gold nuggets dropped after enemies die]], removing a source of pressure to collect them immediately, especially when doing so is risky. It also means that gold dropped by enemies killed well away from the Noita (such as when enemies fight each other) also remain indefinitely and can be collected at leisure. The result is a large amount of more easily accessible gold that almost eliminates scarcity problems.

* BuildLikeAnEgyptian: The Pyramid is located in the middle of the Desert. It contains end-game mobs, a mini-boss, and an entrace to the various caves beneath that portion of the world. An Orb can be acquired on top of the Pyramid [[spoiler:which is also where the new Suns can be created]].

* DungeonBypass: Careful use of items or spells will allow players to bypass seemingly impassable obstacles, potentially allowing them to reach later or earlier levels of the game out of standard order. Some areas are surrounded by Cursed Rock to prevent this, but even that can be bypassed with some preparation.

** The Telekinetic Kick power is normally used to hurl objects at enemies, but is also very handy for grabbing gold nuggets from a distance.

** Every spell has a hidden Digging rating which determines what materials it can destroy as a digging tool.
** Wand Refresh can be used to turn a large capacity wand into storage for spells you want but don't have inventory space to carry without rendering it useless.

* RealityWarper: Getting more than 180 seconds of the Tripping effect allows the Noita to replace one substance throughout the world with a different substance - for example, all lava being replaced with water.

** Climbing the tree to the left of the spawn point (which is very easy once you have a basic grasp of levitation) leads you to a Wiggling Egg (which, [[SmashedEggsHatching when thrown, hatches]] into a hostile worm) and an Eternal Wealth perk. [[spoiler:Also known as Curse of Greed, this perk triples all gold drops, but follows you with magic bursts of turning everything into highly-dangerous greed-cursed rock and liquid.]]

* RealityWarper: Tripping while at a Fungal Altar allows the Noita to replace one substance throughout the world with a different substance - for example, all lava being replaced with water.

** Timer projectiles cast the following spell in the wand after they expire; for example, a Luminous Drill with Timer will cast another spell at the end of its extremely short duration, such as another copy of itself.
** Similarly, Trigger spells cast the following spell in the wand after making contact with an obstacle or an enemy. This is key to safely delivering some of the game's most dangerous spells. Double Trigger spells do the same but cast the next ''two'' spells.

** The various Larpa modifiers will cause projectiles to constantly fire out copies of themselves or other projectile types as they travel.
** The Orbit modifiers cause every projectile to fire with a group of other projectiles orbiting it. This can range from simple fireballs to deadly sawblades to ridiculously excessive ''nukes''.

** The [[MinusWorld East and West Worlds]] were difficult to reach initially only due to the thickness of the separating walls which made plundering them for additional perks and wands a default strategy. To counter this, a large section of Cursed Rock was added to the wall between worlds which will quickly kill unprepared players. Additionally, Orbs in the alternate worlds were also modified to damage the player rather than boosting their health.

* OrbitingParticleShield: The Magic Guard spells create and orbiting group of magic orbs that reflect attacks. Unlike the regular shields, this has to be cast to activate it and doesn't refresh on its own.

** Spells with infinite lifetimes can be created via an underflow error. Every projectile has a variable lifetime measured in the numbers of frames it will exist, which can be increased or decreased with various modifiers. By combining the right set of modifiers and projectile, it is possible to create a spell with a -1 frame lifetime which the game treats as infinite. This error is very particular however, as a lifetime of -2 or less will be treated as having a lifetime of 0.

** Timer projectiles cast the following spell in the wand after a set duration; for example, a Luminous Drill with Timer will cast another spell at the end of its extremely short duration, such as another copy of itself.

** Fireball Thrower causes any projectile to randomly shoot fireballs around it as it flies.

** Chain Spell will let a projectile shoot another copy of itself after it expires, up to five times.

* ExtremeOmnivore: As launched, the Noita could consume a wide range of items including the corpses of enemies, fungus, and most liquids. The only materials that gave trouble were oil, which caused ticking damage, and lava, which made the Noita catch fire. Later updates added a food poisoning mechanic for materials the Noita logically shouldn't consume, he duration increasing as more is consumed. However, the Noita can still consume a wide array of materials and the Iron Stomach perk allows them to consume pretty much anything safely, even lava and oil.

* FantasticNuke: The "Nuke" spell will cause a extremely large and powerful explosion, and the said explosion destroys any material.

* AbnormalAmmo: Aside from standard magical and non-magical projectile spells, there are also weapons that fire off projectiles such as Deercoys, explosive-filled Minecart, and a flock of Ducks.

** Vampirism lets you heal by drinking blood but you lose a third of your health and actually healing a reasonable amount requires a ''lot'' of blood, more than any single enemy is likely to bleed unmodified. And of course many of the enemies don't bleed actual blood, instead bleeding [[HollywoodAcid Acid]], [[MyBloodRunsHot Lava]] or slime. If you can find a way to summon blood infinitely on demand, it's a lot more practical, but getting to this point likely means more common means of infinite healing are available.

** Compared to gameplay impacting perks like Glass Cannon and Teleportitis, many of the perks are relatively tame but useful. Extra Maximum HP From Hearts for example will double the rate at which a player increases their HP bar, which adds up quickly if you get the perk early.

* CannibalismSuperpower: Eating the corpse of a Master of Polymorphing grants temporary Polymorph Immunity.

* CatchAndReturn: Flasks thrown by enemies can be caught in the air if you're deft enough, or retrieved intact if they happen to land without breaking, allowing the Noita to throw them.

* LethalJokeItem: Flock of Ducks seems like a goofy spell with no real use. However, the Ducks are one of the few projectiles with an inherent piercing property and their death explosion is capable of hurting the caster. Modifiers applied to the spell also applies to each of the summoned Ducks, multiplying the effect.