What counts toward the main ending?
Only crafted anomalies advance the main ending; gambling-crate anomalies do not count.
Quick answer
Craft anomalies with your production line and feed those into The Maw. Anomalies obtained from gambling crates do not count toward the main-ending progress, according to a current player discussion and a creator's documented developer response.
Steps
- Advance to the anomaly product phase.
- Run the anomaly production chain rather than relying on gambling-crate drops.
- Feed the crafted anomalies into The Maw.
- Continue until the main-ending progress completes; the checked sources do not support a fixed count for this page.
Requirements / limits
- The distinction is between crafted anomalies and crate-obtained anomalies.
- The long-form walkthrough says the creator asked the developer why crate anomalies were not advancing the ending and received that explanation.
- No official public announcement checked here states the required total, so this page deliberately omits one.
Common mistakes
- Grinding gambling crates and expecting their anomaly drops to move the main-ending counter.
- Confusing the secret ending with the main production ending.
- Publishing a fixed anomaly count taken from an unversioned guide.
Still unverified
- How many crafted anomalies are required in the current release?Not verifiedThe sources agree on what counts but do not establish a stable official total.