Can you fly to the Quantum Moon's sixth location? [Outer Wilds]

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[@kay_jello]

Part 2! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ7IhKZogLx5mdk

[@RSpracticalshooting]

after learning about the Quantum Moon it was always so cool to catch it briefly when you wake up on some loops, you see it for one blink and then it's gone.

[@Solscalr]

It looks so cool just vibing next to giants deep like that. The quantum moon is one of my favorite things in this game. The quantum rocks are meanies though as they always just appear right behind you and that always scares me.

[@Barber100Dr]

My favorite instance of someone discovering the quantum moon is in Nerdcubed’s playthrough where he’s reading notes about it (it was either on timber hearth or it’s moon) and then as if _on que_ the quantum moon just drifts into view before disappearing over the horizon again, so he’s just standing there like “what do you mean there’s another moo- *WHAT IS THAT* !!!!”. Just the realisation that there’s this whole other celestial body that he somehow completely missed, it’s so good.

[@kay_jello]

That's hilarous timing right there ha! My first time playing I went through ten loops before I even noticed it and went to my ship to get a better view and the thing just disapeared and I thought I was tripping. I think one of my most satisying moments playing was when I did quantum trials and realized the key was to take a picture of it and I was like "ohhhhhh" It's such a well placed mystery, I love it

[@NoNameAtAll2]

"you can't have hidden a WHOLE MOON from me!"

[@Jonymago]

Funny thing because that happened to me as well, I was in Brittle Hollow at the time, in that one place with the compass that tells you about the moon I believe, and I just see some white thing drifting past the corner of my screen and I'm like "????"

[@casualbird7671]

I loved the nerdcubed playthrough and the way he presented it

[@FTWGamerTrue]

For me I thought it was a scripted event I was near the start and I read about it for the first time, die right after, and that play after it flashed in and out of my sight in timber hearths orbit when you wake up and blink. A big wtf moment

[@LaneBeScrolling]

Alt title: Displaying the sentience of a video game by trying to do something blatantly illegal and encountering every impossible impediment

[@0xC47P1C3]

Inadvertently flying into the sun station was a 1 in a million

[@sinkbug]

I didnt even know you could break the artificial gravity you are insane

[@Solscalr]

It is one of two objects inside of the ship that can break. The other being the reactor which is a lot more threatening then the gravity.

[@poecollector64]

My artificial gravity broke the first time I actually successfully landed somewhere I needed to explore in Dark Bramble, of all places, and it made it so much harder to get out of the ship. I was like "NOOOO IM NOT DOING THAT AGAIN 😭"

[@kaus05]

​@@Solscalr i have waster 30 hours trying to find the reactor outside the ship....

[@Riverrocks777]

How did you accidentally fly to the sun station

[@kay_jello]

It came out of nowhere 😭 If only I could have done that when trying to get the hotshot achievement

[@adenward3266]

With pure skill. That's how

[@FrequentFlyer815]

By accident

[@thermophile1695]

@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 I stopped watching PointCrow after he tried to ruin SmallAnt's career

[@jimmyjohnjoejr]

@@thermophile1695 damn what did he do?

[@PloverTechOfficial]

6:01 the quantum moon decided that you had done *enough* no more quantum for you.

[@RazzleTheRed1]

The moon was like "I know what you're trying to do you lil shit" XD

[@corydharma]

Yup you got hit by an Island! I've seen it happen to several streamers while on the QM around Giant's Deep. The Islands sometimes hit the moon in orbit.

[@spring.on.neptune]

Oh yeah that would make a lot of sense. Those islands get absolutely yeeted, but i didnt know they went all the way to the QM

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

scary

[@Ub3ros]

That's actually hilarious. This game is such a gem

[@ameteuraspirant]

The sheer velocity with which you approach every landing brings me joy.

[@Johnpira]

Nomai could have done that to find The Eye. But nooooooo, let's explode the sun to go back in time to shoot a canon in different directions millions of times to find the eye.

[@pnoodl3s775]

What’s amazing is the little scout has enough energy to transmit from the eye all the way back to the player’s location. The nomai had to explode the sun to have enough energy to transmit the coordinate

[@CelestialsStorm]

@@pnoodl3s775it just shows the player’s species are just Built Different™️

[@karthany]

@@pnoodl3s775 I'm pretty sure they need that energy transmit stuff BACK IN TIME

[@sqwid12]

@@pnoodl3s775 I feel like all they had to do in this case was display "Scout connection lost" and the plot hole would have been sealed

[@closeben]

@@sqwid12usually you can’t track the scout on the Q-Moon. This is an edge case where your scout is considered to be outside the moon on the top of the tower and therefore trackable.

[@MazHazPazzaz]

Didn't expect to find The Eye, but I also definitely didn't expect that. Very cool video, thank you for making it!

[@kay_jello]

No problem! Thank you for commenting ❤

[@NotMeta]

I wonder if you just have a floating tower in an invisible Quantum Moon every time it visits the sixth location, or if it happens only when the scout is attached to it.

[@radiocabel]

If you clip out of bounds at the vessel when entering the eye coordinates (it's a common speedrun tactic nowadays), you can fly through space at the eye! However, the moon doesn't let you enter it, it repels you if you get close to it. It doesn't really "exist" like it does in the main map, unfortunately :(

[@CallMeTess]

Might there be a way to clip through the repulsion?

[@radiocabel]

@@CallMeTess If there's a way, I am unfamiliar with it, but I would be eager to see one!

[@andrewjohns1266]

Speedrun strats have them fly backwards at full speed while firing the scout for additional propellant. Somehow this lands the Hatchling in the Museum??

[@radiocabel]

@@andrewjohns1266 They fly down into the eye and not the moon to trigger the museum sequence

[@andrewjohns1266]

@@radiocabel that makes a ton of sense! Hard to tell what exactly is happening when it all happens in under 8 minutes lol

[@ThatJay283]

The instakill would be a barrier so that you only complete your quantum pilgrimage the way they intend tbh. Everything in the game has a physical location on the map, ig it's a small quirk of how the devs chose to implement stuff, so dark bramble has a physical location on the map on where it's stored and so does that other EoTE place.

[@Lardianyt]

I love how the very beginning he gets distracted and tries to get into the sun station, because that's exactly what I would do.

[@Kait0s]

Still wish there was a way to simply follow the probe to the Eye. Like, imagine if they add a 1% chance of the probe going straight to the Eye (But it only works after you finish the game, just to make sure new players don't skip the entire game lmao). That would be cool. Useless but cool.

[@Var_Will]

The first probe you see actually arrives at the eye of the universe, and that’s what activates the mask pairing

[@terryriley6410]

@@Var_Will Lore-wise yes, software-wise no, the probe is launched in a constrained but random direction on your first 7 tries then it fires in random directions. The eye is not physically existent in the gsme world.

[@Var_Will]

@@terryriley6410 Yeah I knew all that except that it was constrained, guess the cannon can’t have a hilarious first firing and it being the canonical location for the eye on that save

[@terryriley6410]

@@Var_Will Even though it's funny to be shot by the probe I would think the Nomai would program the cannon so that it wouldn't shoot at nearby planets, although there is no real loss if the loop works but it still feels wrong.

[@Riverrocks777]

@@terryriley6410 imagine it accidentally broke the ATPs solar panels they use to get energy. Or somehow broke the sun station

[@zsoltzsozso828]

*autopilot flies into sun station* well that is one way to get the hotshot achievement if you get it lined up just right... and then hit it in the right way... and not blow up the ship in the process would probably be harder than reaching the sun station (and getting on it alive) shipless

[@ManoredRed]

I find it funny that they just put it somewhere in space and hoped that nobody would ever fly there on accident. Or on purpose, as it may be the case =)

[@crazynachos4230]

just like the real location of dark bramble, its pretty interesting

[@weinereater-wm6qm]

I love how they did that for basically everything in this game except for the Eye Even the DLC does that

[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

4:44 - well that was horrifying.

[@NotGoingToGiveMyRealName]

the thing were you randomly die at giant's deep's quantom moon mirror hapened to me to. my theory is that one of the islands crashed into it.

[@speedude0164]

I had this happen multiple times at Brittle Hollow where I went to exit my ship after landing and it just started going crazy and broke every bone in my body. My theory is that because you're not technically there standing in the way or watching it a quantum object is appearing on the ship and screwing up the collision. Since then I've always landed super close to the south pole cause I don't think as many appear there.

[@leonelegender]

@@speedude0164 yes, seems like there is some places that are unlucky enough to quantum a object inside the ship, I had my ship explode once in brittle hollow and once on the quantum moon by having a tree and the nomad ship teleport into it when I was not looking

[@zzodysseuszz]

That happened to me but I had no idea I was circling giants deep as I still didn’t understand the quantum moon yet. I knew it was a stone object tho.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@leonelegenderlmao that also happened to me lol

[@squishymusic9723]

Watching this gave me such nostalgia, the crash landings and autopilot related collisions.

[@Zeldon567]

Wonder if it's because the quantum moon loads in on top of you. If you're willing to try this again, try taking note of the orientation of the tower and coming in slowly from above it.

[@kay_jello]

I tried this again and tried entering it without my ship and it actually worked, I'll post a video of it soon

[@Zeldon567]

@@kay_jello If you can manage to get your ship on the quantum moon at the sixth location I'd love to see the results.

[@Dan0RG]

@@Zeldon567 Believe it or not, I've seen somebody get the ship to appear on the Quantum Moon's sixth location during their first playthrough somehow. I don't remember who's LP it was, but to summarize it: as soon as they got in the seat, the ship tried to do it's "returning to solar system" autopilot thing, but it couldn't pass through the clouds (there's a wind that repels you if you try to do that), and because the ship automatically locked onto the sun, they could see how far away it was and how fast they were moving relative to it (the Quantum Moon moves quite fast on a very elliptical orbit when it's at the sixth location, as it turns out). The flight worked like normal, but I don't remember if they tried to go through the wormhole thing with the ship or not. It was a completely normal playthrough otherwise, this happened entirely on accident.

[@kay_jello]

@@Dan0RG That's insane, I tried getting my ship on the sixth location by letting it enter the moon first and then going in myself but it's difficult considering the moon isn't visable and it's hard to line up with it correctly since you can't lock onto it. I haven't been able to do it yet but good to know it's possible at least

[@Dan0RG]

@@kay_jello It might've been on an older patch, just FYI.

[@DanielRisacher]

I hereby award you an Internet prize for extreme cleverness.

[@Arkain89]

this video truly is a wilds wonder. it starts with the ship in critical condition despite the loop just starting, and seconds later it just gives a free hotshot achievement out of nowhere. really a "the universe is" thing

[@Dan0RG]

The moment I saw you outside the ship on the QM, I assumed that the death was caused by you being inside the ship when you entered. I've seen some crazy things happen when the player is somehow forced outside of the ship or a Nomai shuttle, so this isn't too surprising. Kinda fun how you bounce and spin around in the wormhole thing, though.

[@xiphosura413]

I laughed so hard when you and the ship got obliterated by the quantum boulder, now that's a hazard it'd be impossible to assess beforehand!

[@tylerherr4288]

6:06 HOLY FUCK THATS WHY I HATE GOING THERE ive been killed by random quantum objects on all versions of the moon and its really freaking unnerving just having your neck snapped by a rock you didnt even see spawn

[@memeler222]

For some reason autopilot always messes up when travelling to the quantum moon.

[@kr_ykoo]

never have the autopilot given me the hotshot achievement for free

[@Solidplasma]

Nothing quite like touching sticks while the universe ends.

[@AscendedLeftNut]

"Looks like it killed us...let's do it again." this game really brings out the Hearthian in us all

[@apotato5919]

0:32 average autopilot moment 💀💀 i've flown into the sun quite a number of times but never the sun station

[@kay_jello]

My jaw dropped when it happened, what are the odds lol

[@pablom.m.6229]

0:39 that may be the luckiest crash ever, Imagine that's how you accidentally get into the sun's station when playing the game for the first time

[@jaredtherock5692]

That Giant's Deep moon clip scared the mess out of me, I'm terrified when I go back to replay it all again, lol. This was a great video to watch! Thanks for sharing.

[@kay_jello]

It scared me too when it happened lol, thanks for the kind words! : )

[@MalownMcOwnage]

Videos start with accidentally flying in the Sun Station and almost got killed, Outer Wilds in a nutshell xD

[@sunbleachedangel]

6:05 almost, a quantum rock xlipped your ship and flung it into you. Quantum things broke my ship a few times but it never killed me

[@lunoxis8371]

5:50 I have a feeling this was a island launched up from giants deep, because it appeared in view and not in one frame. Never seen that before but it's sure funny as hell

[@DimensionPlant]

*Sees people use auto-pilot instead of the acceleration based movement scheme* Me: THERE IS AN AUTO-PILOT???? Though what's beautiful is the game seemingly handwrapping the hotshot achievement, only to reveal that it weights the player character's gravity 100x heavier than the ship causing you to be stuck to the side of it.

[@taekinuru2]

the autopilot will also kill you 90% of the time the remaining 10% is just your own actions

[@paulkauphart9444]

I don't use the autopilot anymore, and I die a lot less now. Also, it took me many nany many tries to fly to the sun station, and you did it by accident...

[@androski5247]

Inadvertently almost getting hotshot was just great

[@Zekrom123321]

woah i hadn't thought of doing this before! really interesting but sucks you just end up dying when you get close

[@LKLM138]

well the quantum moon is like 70% just full rock. seems like you clipped thru the rock and dieded. Only the poles are not full of it. You should approach the moon from the poles, but it's impossible to tell cause there's no visual ques.

[@geekhatter]

That's so weird. Wonder if they're gonna fix that and come up with something else for it, cause it seems like a bug more than anything

[@kay_jello]

It’s not suppose to even technically be possible because you can’t track the scout on the quantum moon unless it’s positioned on the tower in a specific way, but I don’t think that was intentional. If anything they’d probably just patch being able to locate the scout when it’s on the tower

[@getromire]

@@kay_jello ​i imagine someone without using the scout just randomly flying somewhere and then just smacking into the sixth location and being confused as hell

[@mx2000]

@@kay_jello strangely enough the scout is still visible on the map when you put it on the surface (only at a certain distance), but not on the Hud. The location is a bit further away than the deep space probe orbit, so probably the same that you found. Flying to it without the hud is pretty challenging though.

[@kay_jello]

@@mx2000 Oh that's interesting, I didn't know that

[@raehik]

5:50 when you step on a lego barefoot

[@kaliakoudis]

Nice. Very cool video. Outer Wilds has got to be the best game to try out "glitches" or unintended methods of exploring places.

[@peuzza257]

You can just enter without your ship alright, I just went to test it and I think to myself: what if I eject my seat to make me enter it (just like how you can enter the dark bramble) I tried to make that but I just went through it, cuz I wasn't staring at the photo, so the quantum moon just changed its location I was without my ship in deep space, I keep reopening the map to force the moon to its six location again, and somewhere near me so I managed to fly to the moon without my ship, I was expecting it just insta-kill me again, but actually, I was able to just enter the moon, didn't even need to slow down my speed, I just entered, next to sonalum everything seemed normal, but that tower you use to change the quantum moon location is impossible to enter I also notice that if you orbit the quantum moon while your scout is showing the moon's location you can see that you'll never be able to get near the scout, just if it's like the south pole of the moon is always pointing at you

[@BlueShellshock]

I remember trying this on my first playthrough, or something close. I dropped off the scout on the moon, and would open and close my map until the scout showed up at the 'sixth location'. I kept trying to pinpoint where this damn 'Eye' was until the sun went supernova a few times.

[@oreticencias]

That was so brilliant, I even got emotional!

[@foxfiredreams]

“It doesn’t like when we do that” lollllllll 💀

[@Baphelon]

My boy, you gotta work on those landings lmfao. Really awesome video!!! Never even thought to try this, and clearly the devs didn't either

[@MrMelonsz]

I love how this is the one game literally everyone buys the DLC for lol.

[@pendalink]

I loved everything about this, truly an experience

[@cameronhunt5967]

I bet that when the moons surface at the sixth location loads in your ship is intersecting with some rocks

[@LB_]

Hah, I had no idea about that scout exploit for tracking the quantum moon

[@closeben]

Oooh I would love to see what happens if you try to enter without your ship!

[@kay_jello]

I did! It's in part 2 :^)

[@TheLeviathan1293]

Great landings! Pilot of the year!

[@phlippy]

Entering the quantum moon while it's at the "eye" probably kills you because it sends you to the south pole, which is just solid rock

[@raisinsmakemeuncomfortable6893]

I love how the oter wilds community has fully adopted the harthians method of exploring. If we're gonna do it we'll do it FAST

[@hakenbacker]

I have to imagine your just talking to slate at the end there about the quantum moon and he's confused out of his mind

[@maruwapofilms815]

I've never seen autopilot fly someone into the Sun Station like that lmao, easy way to get Hotshot I gueses lmao

[@Louna483]

Quite some impressive landing skills there 😂

[@Thy_Guardian]

Your landings are scarying me lmao

[@ikcikor3670]

I think the rock spawned in the ship and made the ship hit you

[@gdaytoyamates8391]

i did not know you could break outer wilds this thoroughly

[@noabinnendijk361]

I tried this when I couldn't find a way to land on the quantum moon, but I just shot my scout right into it and it gets stuck in there automatically, and you can track it that way too. I guess you did it this way because you can not in fact land on it if your scout is inside. Learned that one the hard way

[@Charkid177]

Bro crased into the sun station. ☠️☠️☠️

[@Eichro]

and that is why you never land on the moon when it's orbiting giant's deep.

[@leonsubbotsky6087]

are sticks are touching was wildddd

[@IssaalaaRacing]

Maybe try entering the moon without the ship? Because it seems to kick you out of it anyway

[@recordwify]

That was the alpha death sound effect when you hit the eye version of the moon

[@karadara9215]

I have never once used autopilot in this game and I feel like I'm missing out

[@kay_jello]

You're better for it lol, sometimes it just doesn't work as intended

[@karadara9215]

@@kay_jello That's exactly what I'm missing out on

[@biggrayalien4791]

I get it man, when you have the opportunity, you gotta go for the achievement 😂

[@vermilisix]

That must be where it loads the sixth location then, does a similar thing for the inside of Dark Bramble

[@dremoralorde5215]

I've had a similar sudden collision death happen to me when spamming the flashlight in the quantum tower. I'm guessing it's a similar problem of things either loading too fast/incorrectly or not deloading things fast enough before the tower teleports (might be why it only seemed to happen while clicking the flashlight quickly.)

[@jamespruitt4756]

GRACEful landing... that's like a Let's Game It Out landing / parking :P

[@jonahweiss2124]

i think the reason it kills you is becuase when you enter the QM it always spawns you at the south pole, However i suspect the south pole of the QM is just quantum rocks so you teleport into the qm and get put inside of rocks.

[@kay_jello]

Interesting theory and canonically yes but it actually sends you to the North Pole since the South Pole doesn’t exist technically. Being in the ship is what killed me because I guess the game does not like it very much when you bring the ship past that barrier. I have a part 2 video where I went in with just my suit and it actually worked but I like your line of thinking!

[@kumataro_]

That's a cute lookin little tower

[@River9250]

I have tried hard to get onto the sun station and you just accidentally fly into it tf

[@randomuser9920]

That sudden death happened to me when i was switching the light on/off inside the temple, never understood why

[@SVignette]

Dude had the luckiest auto pilot in the world

[@Rbum4]

Lmao not even one damageless landing in this entire video 😂 also, the ease at which you find the parts you need the repair tells me you skipped learning how to fly properly, and just got really good at repairing the ship xD

[@jxckmw]

Thought you'd do a quick Hot Shot achievement while you're at it, ay?

[@kay_jello]

One does not simply crash into the sun station and not go inside

[@funny_fish902]

You deserve more subs because you put so much effort into your videos I hope you get the 1000 subs

[@Hevetmusic]

Runs straight into the sun station Bro: ???

[@thejoyfuldragon887]

i wonder if it would work if you got out of the space ship before flying in.

[@deemo1750]

Actually when you'r on the Giant's Deep's Quantum Moon, it drops down islands just like the normal one. That's why I hate it the most.

[@quazar1120]

Bro did a feldspar

[@Ph4lip]

What if you exit your ship and try to just enter it with just your space suit?

[@antarcticbirdenthusiast]

the real question is why didn't the nomai track the eye from the quantum moon when it's in the eyes orbit?

[@hideousred]

Why has the scout to specifically attach to the "static" portion of the tower? Cant any other structure of the moon work as well?

[@kay_jello]

No, It won't show up when you leave the moon so it has to be on the tower while also being outside of the moon so that way it's visible

[@samytby]

maybe use invincibility mod and freecam ?

[@Nidhsa]

The outer wilds experience

[@KermitninjaRC2]

I assume you die because of the whole rule that you always arrive at the quantum moon at its South Pole? And at the South Pole of the sixth location is the reflection of the wormhole at the eye which instantly kills you when you jump into it (from the sixth location). So maybe you’re flying into the backside of that and the game is then killing you as a result of passing through that checkpoint? That’s my best guess anyway!

[@KermitninjaRC2]

Just watched your part 2 - I can’t believe that worked?!?!

[@Kavukamari]

i think you probably figured this out in part 2, but you were getting clipped into the ground because of the approach angle i think

[@skerse]

I'm really curious to know what would happen if you paired this with a addon for the new horizons mod that allows you too see the inside of the quantum moon planets without being inside it

[@kay_jello]

Sounds interesting, do you know what the mod is called?

[@skerse]

@@kay_jello Yeah its called Cloudless Quantum Moons which is a addon for the New Horizons mod

[@kay_jello]

@@skerse Thanks! I'm gonna check it out

[@casualbird7671]

Quite a lovely find, I love this kind of exploration. Quite a shame the moon instant-kills you when you pass into its unloaded space. Maybe there's some way to load the surface before entering?

[@greywolf9783]

7:57 your clipping into the ground at that angle please remember where the tower is angled at bc that is what was your end

[@Celticjamz]

Bro got hotshot and didn’t even try 😭

[@sr.paloma4437]

You can enter without ship, also if you use cheatmod to tp ship to you, you'll dead

[@sr.paloma4437]

@Kaylee was this comment that give you the info for first time?

[@marino7544]

You seem cool and the video is cool so have a like :]