The Darkness

"Succumb to the subconcious."

- World Description

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 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, the world you are currently in will look like it also got replaced by The Darkness with the time also being changed to night, this is merely visual as when returning to that world nothing changes, it is unknown if the change affects any droids that may have been left alive through items like skipping stone.

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 1 HP, then disappears afterwards, these replace any kind of spawners present in the original world.

Trivia

 * 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 Darkness is one of three worlds that disables warping, if you try, a text will pop up saying "You cannot escape."
 * The Darkness and Blood Moon are the only worlds whose time can't be set to day. Trying to do so will have text pop up saying "It's too dark."
 * It used to be possible to skip the boss fight by using a Skipping Stone.
 * The Dark One dies instantly to Flashlight, this is one of (if not) the only way(s) of insta-killing it.
 * in old versions of the game (pre 1.5, also known as beta), The Darkness was entirely seperate from the world it replaces, and in even older versions spawned from just the first friendly droid you killed.