CARRION Beginner's Guide — Check Your Abilities When Lost

Small, Medium, and Large Forms Have Different Combinations

Even after unlocking an evolution, current biomass determines your size. An acquired ability cannot necessarily be used in another form.

• This table helps choose acquired abilities. Simply enlarging your body does not grant an ability you have not obtained.

Deposit Biomass in a Designated Pool, Then Return

1. Identify the ability needed at the dead end and check its size combination in the table.
2. Return to a designated biomass pool. Shrink to the required form and leave deposited biomass there.
3. Return to the lever or obstacle and activate it. While you need small-form webs, avoid changing size through healing along the way.
4. After opening the route, return to the pool and reclaim the biomass. Adjust your form for the next mechanism.

• Do not treat every body of water as a deposit point. Confirm that depositing is possible at the designated pool.

Hit the Lever with Small-Form Webs

1. Confirm Arachnoptysis is acquired and return to small form at a designated pool.
2. Fire webs at the lever beyond the grate and check for changes to doors or water level.
3. Proceed through the opened side. Before repeatedly charging in a large form, review ability combinations.

• Lever positions and door directions vary by room. This does not guarantee coordinates or complete input sequences for specific rooms.

Prepare Small-Form Invisibility and Energy

1. Confirm Photokinesis is acquired and return to small form.
2. Refill energy at a power source, then approach the laser.
3. Activate invisibility to pass. Since energy drains, do not travel far with it active; switch it off after crossing.

• Moving while invisible consumes energy. Distinguish humans/biomass for healing from energy used by abilities.

Distinguish Medium-Form Pushing from Large-Form Pulling

1. Check the obstacle's front/back and your current form.
2. Use medium-form charge to push and large-form tentacles to pull. If your form is wrong, change at a designated pool and return.
3. Confirm the route is open before moving into the next room.

• This does not mean every wall or blocked door can be destroyed. Metal doors and other mechanisms require the room's specific controls.

Prepare Large-Form Shell and Energy

1. If Keratosis is acquired, prepare large form and refill energy.
2. Activate the shell before touching the explosion, then recheck energy afterward.
3. Before entering another mechanism, review refill points and body size.

• Extra biomass alone does not guarantee surviving explosions. Check energy afterward and avoid consecutive mechanisms without preparation.

Check Hydrophilia and the Water Level

1. Confirm Hydrophilia was acquired at Leviathan Reef Base. Shrinking your body cannot substitute for it.
2. Check that the grate is underwater. Where levers alter water levels, ensure water reaches the intended grate before approaching.
3. Move through the grate underwater. This does not mean you can freely pass grates on land.

• Treat this as an acquired traversal ability, distinct from size-specific offensive/defensive powers. This is not a guide to every lever direction or route in the area.

After Acquiring Parasitism, Control a Target to Reach the Switch

1. Confirm Parasitism was acquired at Relith Science HQ. Check the in-game prompt for its controls, distinct from ordinary grabbing tentacles.
2. Where a controllable target is beyond a grate, extend the parasitic tentacle to them. Some situations use fallen targets.
3. Once controlling the target, operate levers/switches and confirm changes such as opened doors.
4. End parasitism, return to controlling the creature, and follow the open route. Distinguish killing a target from actually activating the switch.

• Covers ordinary base-game Parasitism. Excludes later transformations, every target's weapon controls, and range values.