Secrets and unlocks¶

This section tracks hidden unlock conditions, Easter eggs, and secret weapon candidates.

Overview¶

Crimsonland contains several layers of secrets:

1. Credits click puzzle — Clicking lines containing "o" in the credits unlocks the Secret Path
2. AlienZooKeeper minigame — A match-3 game accessed via the Secret button
3. Cryptic messages — Decoded hints pointing to unknown in-game actions
4. Secret weapons — Weapons not unlocked through normal quest progression
5. Statistics date gate — March-3 randomized text easter egg (Orbes Volantes Exstare)
6. Startup date gate — Date-based balloon.tga preload path in startup prelude

Documents¶

• Easter eggs — Credits puzzle, AlienZooKeeper, decoded messages
• Weapon candidates — Data analysis of weapons missing from quest unlocks
• Survival weapon handouts — one-off Survival grants for Shrinkifier 5k and Blade Gun

Current status¶

• Credits puzzle logic is fully mapped (click 'o' lines, avoid others)
• AlienZooKeeper minigame code is understood but has no external unlock
• The decoded "Dead Center...Sacrifice...Firepower" line is now best-mapped (inference) to the Blade Gun Survival handout gate; no direct string->logic xref is known yet
• The March-3 statistics text gate (stats_menu_easter_egg_roll) is mapped in decompile.
• The startup date-gated balloon.tga path is mapped as a startup-preload-only gate (no in-binary consumer xrefs in v1.9.93).
• 17 named weapons are not in the quest unlock table
• Survival has two verified one-off secret-weapon style grants (Shrinkifier 5k and Blade Gun), with strict runtime gates