mod: cleric.DeepBramble

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mod: cleric.DeepBramble

A 6-8 hour story mod following 4 Nomai who descend deeper into Dark Bramble. (by @coderCleric)

https://outerwildsmods.com/mods/forgottencastaways/

[T3rtu]

Incredible mod

Puzzles 10/10
Writing 9/10
Story 8/10
Visuals 6/10

Overall 8/10
want to kiss the fishes again

[coderCleric]

Lol, glad you enjoyed the mod and the fish.

[Spitflies]

so much reading lol. Seems very interesting though.

[coderCleric]

Yeah, some spots are definitely a bit dense. Glad you find it interesting though!

[Bwc9876]

Absolute banger

[PosingLake]

like mister beast would say... IT'S A BANGER

[LighttronPrime]

I really enjoyed this mod. There's a huge enviroment to explore, a well written story, some clever puzzles, and mostly solid presentation and pacing. I've played almost every story mod, and this was one of the few that came closest to hitting the emotional beats of the original game.

If I were to change one thing, I wish the scene where you sit lingered for ten to fifteen seconds or so, I wish I could have sat with that moment for a while and mulled it over.

[coderCleric]

Glad you enjoyed it! Sitting longer is a fair idea, I just didn't since I thought some people might get confused on if they're supposed to do something else.

[DaveLH]

Very good, if a bit poignant mod. One question: Can this mod coexist with "The Stanger They Are"? I ask because...

Spoiler warning

I have a hunch that it's going to desirable to go to the Eye and play thru the endgame with both mods completed and enabled.

[coderCleric]

I'm glad that you enjoyed it! Unfortunately, I have doubts about the two mods being able to coexist. I haven't been able to test it, however, as I still need to finish TSTA myself.

[SpiralUnstable]

I've done most of it and have a clear idea how to end it, but there's still something left to see.
I'm Having Trouble with one of the puzzles

Spoilers: For Puzzle

Having trouble with the gas cave and the Gravity Crystal Puzzle. I remembered that something SOMEWHERE mentioned a tool to fix the broken crystals But I can't for the life of me find that text again saying where. Certainly not in ship logs. I get I'm supposed to move the crystals around, to get to other functional crystals, but beyond that I'm stuck. ((And getting dizzy from all the flipping and falling)

[coderCleric]

It should be showing up in the ship log somewhere, but here's a hint!

Mod spoiler

Check back at the concert hall.

[SpiralUnstable]

Embarrassing Spoiler

Yeah I am ashamed to admit I didn't realize there was an entrance into there- Saw the recording outside and got distracted. Thought it was like... a stage outside.

[LeGrandCinerio]

Great Mod ! Almost perfect if not for one or two details.

Il really liked the story with the main plotline and some other little sides story that is very reminiscent of the original games. The puzzles are also very good !

My main critics would be with one of the "reward" that you get at one point which didn't feel like outerwild at all. Where in the original every "reward" is the better understand the world around you by getting knowledge as a player, here there is a very in game reward.

Details

Spoiler

The dictionnary that update the translator to understand the alien language

I was also a bit disapointed about the ending where it does't feel that you have any interaction with it and as i have seen in another comment, it would have maybe be better to have the final action be a little longer and maybe having

Details

Ssecond spoiler

Dithylum put his head on our shoulder ? Or something that at least give the feeling that he notice that at the end there is something with him

But in the end, it was one of the best outerwild story mod that i played ! So i highly recommand it for the peoples that want to expend their adventure in this fantastic game.

[coderCleric]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Those are both fair critiques, in particular your second point could be something neat to add. Regarding your second point though, I do want to let you know something...

Spoiler

The mod does change a certain location from the base game once you meet Ditylum.

[LeGrandCinerio]

Oh ! I guess since i saw "Forgotten Castaway" befoire being sent back to Timberhearth i thought there was nothing more ! I will go check this !

[Deepmight]

I have learned everything I need to end the story.
I am a bit worried for the timing because I am very slow in navigating

Details

Spoiler warning

venomous reject - particularly exiting it - and even slower in finding the evil node to be shut down. The last attempt I just got back to the Quantum Hot Shard when the timer expired.

But I hope to do it tomorrow and get to the end!

[coderCleric]

Good luck! Remember that most locations can be marked from your ship log for easier navigation!

[Deepmight]

Of course. I just got a lot of confusion from the "duplicate" signals so I preferred to learn by earth the directions :D

[nana205]

Enjoyed this mod so much that I created an account to comment about it here!

The puzzles and story were amazing. Especially loved the little love story in the midst of it all .

Agree with an earlier comment about allowing us to sit with the ending a little longer, but other than that it was amazing!

[coderCleric]

I'm glad that you enjoyed it so much, I'm flattered you made a GitHub account over it!

[Brutal-Souls]

Great mod. Figuring out the "scroll" gave me the same good "OOOOH" feeling as the Vessel code did in the main game.

I'll agree with other commenters. Probably too much dialogue. Also a couple of things that frustrated me.

Spoilers.

1. The center node entrance to Shattered Hearth doesn't feel like it lines up with the other exit. I ended up just trial and error-ing it every time.

2. Kevin's a bastard. I wanna say it took me an average of 20 scouts to get him to acknowledge it.

[Brutal-Souls]

Spoilin' for a fight

I actually cheesed that one on accident by orbiting through the cave. I didn't know about the extra gravity crystal until after I got the dictionary

[SpiralUnstable]

Dirty Cheese

I cheesed it as well 'after' I figured out the puzzle because I had another mod installed and I didn't want to have to do it again. Ship Enhancements: Adds a bunch of things... including a portable tractor beam you can place anywhere. I feel dirty but I was starting to get a little motion sick.

[coderCleric]

Lol, glad you both enjoyed the mod despite the sticking points.

Rotten Guac

Also, Brutal, if you wanted to know what the whole "lining up" thing is meant to imply, you're meant to find the outside of the enclosed space (probably by following one of the signals coming from the node inside) and then go to the center of Briar's Hollow. The entrance into the space lines up with the lump containing the node.

[SpiralUnstable]

Holy Rotten Cannoli Batman

WHAT? Oh my god.... I'VE WONDERED WHY THAT'S BEEN THERE THIS WHOLE TIME.

[coderCleric]

lol

[TheRealMagnor]

Wonderful mod. Highly recommend.

[JackTHerbert]

I absolutely loved this mod, this took the number 1 spot for my favourite story mod personally.

Awesome story, awesome puzzles, fantastic through and through.

[NVP2402]

I'm SO tired of searching that i can't even describe it. So, pls, if someone knows PLS answer me

Spoiler warning

I'm at what i think it is the end of the mod, or close, but for the last 3 hours i couldn't find nor the figure that comes out of the dangerous node nor a way to enter the enzyme lab. Could someone tell me how to do one of them at least??

[NVP2402]

Spoiler warning

Am I suposed to search for the Distant Node with the scout signal on the third position of the quantum rock?? Because i don't find nothing at all

[Brutal-Souls]

I think I see the problem (Spoiler)

Do you remember the Lakebed Cave rock in the base game? Did you put the scout on that? Or, something else?

[NVP2402]

Spoilers

No, i did with the rock that's in a cave on the magma planetoid inside Deep Bramble

[Brutal-Souls]

To be honest I don't know how else to hint at it so read spoiler 1 and if you still don't understand, the answer is in spoiler 2

Spoiler q

What i think you'redoing is putting the scout on the quantum rock and sending it to the 3rd location. If that's correct what else can go to the 3rd location besides the scout?

Spoiler 2

Put the scroll in one of the spots that the rock can go. Stand on the rock, and turn off your light (like the lakebed cave)

[NVP2402]

Damn, didn't think of that to be honest, i didn't even remember you could do that

[KONEKOakio]

This mod is absolutely fantastic! ★★★★★

I especially love how the Nomai are portrayed and their efforts, which feel completely true to the original game. The moment when I opened that certain door absolutely blew my mind!

Having played all the top-downloaded story mods, this is definitely top-tier quality. I believe the lack of translations might be why it's not getting the attention it deserves.

As a Chinese player, I’ve created a Chinese translation using AI tools and manually fixed mistranslations during gameplay. I’d like to share this translation file to help other Chinese players enjoy the mod without struggling with translation apps.

While my translation isn’t perfect (I kept most original terms like place/person names), it makes the mod fully playable and understandable. I hope better Chinese translations emerge in the future!

[KONEKOakio]

如有需要，简单的中国翻译此处取：
通过网盘分享的文件：chinese_simple.json
链接: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1MbKWQ-GtBIDWtse-wGgh6g?pwd=jkhv 提取码: jkhv
--来自百度网盘超级会员v7的分享

[visionsoftragedy]

非常感谢汉化组！( •͈ᴗ⁃͈)ᓂ- - -♡

[visionsoftragedy]

太感谢汉化组了( •͈ᴗ⁃͈)ᓂ- - -♡

[visionsoftragedy]

非常好的mod，音乐也非常的好听，我甚至想写一篇同人文了（♡´∀`♡）（希望作者不要介意我的另一条评论，我本来想留言给汉化组的呜呜呜）

[visionsoftragedy]

Very good mod, and the music is also very pleasant to listen to. I even want to write a fan fiction about it (♡´ ∀` ♡) (I hope the author doesn't mind my other comment, I originally wanted to leave a message for the Chinese localization group's)

[visionsoftragedy]

And I am truly sorry that I posted the comment I intended to send to the localization team below, but I am unable to retract the comment I just made 😭.I would like to once again marvel at the wonderful design of this mod and thank all those who participated in its production

[coderCleric]

Lol. I'm glad you enjoyed the mod, and no problem at all about the other comment. It's easy to accidentally click the wrong button.

[SpiralUnstable]

You can actually edit and delete comments. Its all hosted on Github. You can go to your comment on Github directly to change or remove it.

[KONEKOakio]

谢谢你喜欢！很好的mod和故事，enjoy it！ 871763809 ***@***.*** Original From:visionsoftragedy ***@***.***> Sent Time:2025-07-5- 17:04 To:ow-mods/outerwildsmods.com ***@***.***> Cc:KONEKOakio ***@***.***>, Comment ***@***.***> Subject:Re: [ow-mods/outerwildsmods.com] mod: cleric.DeepBramble (Discussion#263) 非常感谢汉化组！( •͈ᴗ⁃͈)ᓂ- - -♡ — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you commented.

[fsilveyra7]

Just finished, loved it!! Thank you so much for letting me experience Outer Wilds once more ::)

[fsilveyra7]

PS

Just read that you wrote that finishing the game changes a location from the base game! Can I get a clue please? I have no idea

[coderCleric]

I'm glad that you enjoyed it so much! I've put the location that gets altered below:

Exact answer

The Eye

[fsilveyra7]

Thanks! Just saw it, OMG you truly went far and beyond to add that!
You did an awesome job with this mod <3

[Pependosnik]

Hi, for some reason Im unable to download your mod, neither from here/github, nor from mod manager itself. Other mods are installed just fine but this one gives an error at around 40%. I tried changing provider but the issue remains. Any clues aw to why that happens? Or maybe another source to download like google drive

[sylafrs]

Hello :)
Is the sit + "at least" the end of the mod?

[coderCleric]

I'm not super sure what you mean by "at least", but there's just 1 big thing to do after sitting.

[sylafrs]

I pushed sit and then had a gameover screen, did not do anything, apart from that.

Spoiler

At least you're not the only last of your species (something like that)

[coderCleric]

Ah, now I understand, that's a secret ending for sitting after deactivating the ATP. The actual ending for the mod is below:

Spoiler

Once you've sat with Ditylum at least once, they show up at the Eye.

[sylafrs]

Oh! Then it's a bug, it was the previous loop I deactivated it (I trigerred another ending involving a distant star)

[Cobray96]

SPOILERS AND NOTE FOR DEVELOPER:
The Nursery part is broken, I was able to pass through it the first time is found it without even knowing who Kevin was and all the rest.
That's because I've always knew that you can fly very close to the fishes without alerting them as long as you use minimal thrusters...
I've seen countless playthoughs from the vanilla game where players go through the fishes parts of Dark Bramble with zero usage of thrusters because they don't know they can use minimal thrusters

[ninoburgo]

sorry, the mod is bugged for me unfortunately, when i get through the black hole, the screen becomes pitch black and it remains like this until i exit the game... i can hear the carachter moving during all of this but i can't do anything cause i can't see anything. please fix.

[coderCleric]

I'm gonna need some more details in order to figure out what's going wrong.

• Are there any errors in the console?
• What is your list of mods?
• Do you have the DLC active?

[collosiumsevenhundred-dev]

Lovely mod- but the ending in the Eye is completely bugged. I watched a playthrough to see if I was missing anything, but no. I can't see any signalscope signal of the Guy. It might be the other mods I have on (ship enhancements, travellers pack) but I didn't miss anything as far as I know. There's an empty space in the circle for the Guy, and the people all say "I think we need everyone here to continue" when there is no one more to collect (as per my signalscope signals, or lack thereof.)

[collosiumsevenhundred-dev]

I tested- it is the mods. I'm not sure what about them, but it works okay without them.

[Owen013]

One of my favorite story mods. Also, I never realized how cute anglerfish were until this mod. Thank you.

[eclipticcomet]

such a good mod!!! felt like outer wilds "hard mode" in a sense - while not Hard hard, stuff like navigation had me looking at a lot of mechanics from a new perspective! i personally really liked the amount of dialogue, as well as the tone; it all felt very true to the base game, and i definitely got that same stroke of confusion & wonder. loved it!!!!!!!

[coderCleric]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I sometimes feel like I went a bit overkill on the amount of text, so I'm always happy to see someone say that they enjoyed reading it.

[Bruhterwilds]

how does one warp to deep bramble with the vessel? i am unsure how to accomplish this very irresponsible feat?

[Bruhterwilds]

preferable if hints first before the actual solution ty in advance

[coderCleric]

Have you looked around the area in the vessel that has the projection of the Eye symbol?

[Bruhterwilds]

i have been there, i have actually completed the mod (amazing mod for the record another amazing one up there with the goats like outsiders or stranger they are) i wanna rebramble the vessel a g a i n, or did i misunderstand the acheivement?

[coderCleric]

Ah, lol, I think you misunderstood the achievement (that would be a funny one tho).

[hollowbel]

Beautiful work, easily favorite mod I've played. The new area was really mysterious and consistently surprising to explore while also feeling like a natural extension of Dark Bramble as presented in the base game. The standout to me though was the narrative; the characters were all really human and memorable (the romance in particular had me tearing up) and the scenario was really sweet. I'm adopting it as Dark Bramble headcanon because I think its presence makes Outer Wilds even better.

(Also props for doing absolutely twisted things with the natyresvfu; I never expected to be so endeared to them!)

[Apichiins]

Oh my goodness...... This was amazing. It was like I was playing an official DLC. 10/10 I loved everything about it ::'(

[jcblot77]

This mod is incredibly good! I loved that the smaller cast of characters we read about helped me to get to know each of them more!

Unfortunately, I ran into a couple of bugs in the mod's ending:

(Spoilers for mod ending)

For some reason, while the Ship Enhancements mod is installed, Ditylum's signal and the bramble seed fail to appear at the Eye, despite your other friends telling you that there's still someone to find, causing a softlock.

When I removed the Ship Enhancements mod it worked properly again, although I was unable to translate the text that appears on the small planetoid inside the anglerfish skeleton. The button prompt to take out the translator tool appeared, but it seemed to do nothing, other than changing your crosshair to the translator one until you pull out a different tool. I was able to see what that text was on someone else's playthrough, though.

Also, a small question I had, if the planetoids we find in the mod are from planets the Bramble has consumed, then why is there no planetoid for the Icy Planet that used to be in the Outer Wilds system? Is it because it was shattered and flung into space rather than being entirely 'eaten' by the Bramble?

[jcblot77]

Also, the new mechanic you added for locking on to signals is very cool! (even if I completely forgot to use it for half my playthrough, lots of clumsy crashes and overshoots before I remembered...) I couldn't find any other mods that adds this mechanic, so I wonder if you could make it into a mod of its own? (even if it might not be as useful outside of Bramble)