The Darkness

"Succumb to the subconcious."

- World Description

The Darkness is a secret world that the player may not encounter in most runs. The only way to access it is by killing shopkeeper Friendly Droids that spawn in a special room. This will cause the message Wrath takes hold. to appear, and the next world will be replaced by The Darkness.

All enemies that spawn here are world-exclusive to the Darkness, although The Shadow may be seen in other worlds through mystery buttons, similar to RHJvaWQgb2YgVG9tb3Jyb3c=.

Environment
The Darkness takes the environment of the world it replaces. Environmental hazards of the replaced world are also changed. Other than that, The Darkness also changes the walls to black, the floor to grey, and the time to night.

Rune
This special object is completely exclusive to The Darkness only. Runes will rapidly spawn multiple The Corrupteds and The Phantoms with only, then disappears afterwards. Runes replace any kind of Droid Spawners and Mystery Buttons present in the original world.

Trivia

 * Entering The Darkness will change the death messages and set their color to red. The messages will now motivate you to restart and continue. The name and description that appears when entering a world will now be red. This also happens when the world is cursed or blessed with a modifier.
 * It's important to note that all enemies from this world have the distinction of being considered "enemies" and not "droids" meaning items that count towards droids specifically (like the Shutter Shades) will fail to take any Darkness enemies into account.
 * The Smoke Bomb is an exception as it still affects all enemies and not just droids besides the tooltip.
 * It used to be possible to skip the boss fight by using a Skipping Stone.
 * In beta versions of the game, The Darkness was entirely separate from the world it replaces, and in even older versions it would be spawned from just the first Friendly Droid that you killed.
 * The player cannot warp inside The Darkness. Trying to do so will give the text: You cannot escape.
 * Additionally, trying to set the time to day will give the text: It's too dark...
 * Atomic Factory and Skytop Citadel cannot get replaced by The Darkness. Trying to do so will instead just normally set you to.
 * However, the aftereffects of beating The Darkness will still apply, meaning that altars will spawn, along with changed death messages. You will not obtain the Bat Wing, however.
 * After room 100, warping back to the world replaced by The Darkness will make you end up in Astray.