New ARG Link

[Atnik]

Has anyone figured out the time intervals between each change on the countdown?

[LDMONTY007]

Also, After completing Cyclum for the first time I noticed that there's no way to use inspect to figure out where clicking will trigger events. Any click you make on the webpage sends a "Clickamajob" POST request which is where the server will check for what you've clicked on. Thus making it really hard to cheat. Honestly, super impressed they went this far. I love this kind of ARG. So, I also had a friend check and it seems the countdown is global and we can't increase it at this moment.


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37 minutes ago, CreativeCircuit said:

lDMONTY007, I was just seeing the same thing. I've set up some code to watch the change in numbers and mark the exact Date.now() moment it changes.
I'm seeing that as the number gets smaller, the code being sent for the fire changes slightly causing it to shift down .4% every .01 the fire/hourglass timers shift. So after the timer hits 0, If the same percent change happens the fire will be at an offset of 57% causing it to appear completely out. So I do believe that the fire will go out eventually.

Also, CreateCircuit has pointed out the countdown 100% relates to the fire going out. So we may need to wait until the fire goes out to continue the ARG. In the meantime I'm going to keep trying different clicking patterns like the original puzzle. 

[tipsyGnostalgic]

ok so every hour the countdown for the fire and hourglass go down by 0.01, which is around 4 days time in hours. that means the countdown ends on the 6th of this month, which coincides with a harvest supermoon this month, i wonder if this is related

 

[Cybersgh0st]

17 minutes ago, Gooba said:

thats most likely cause the factory, hourglass and fire are all moving so they are most likely gifs instead of images

yeah I was gonna assume that lol. interesting tho!!

[reddocc]

speaking of morse code Is the orange outline on the pine trees in the fire scene pulsating as if it was morse or I'm going crazy

[Gooba]

by the way, the hourglass is flowing UPWARDS. i'd take a video but im too lazy rn

[Sinistrem]

2 minutes ago, Gooba said:

by the way, the hourglass is flowing UPWARDS. i'd take a video but im too lazy rn

Same, I assumed I was hallucinating but since I'm not the only one it must be so.

[LDMONTY007]

1 hour ago, LDMONTY007 said:

This is what the payload currently returns, so most likely until the countdown hits zero we won't get the actual page changes. In the code I posted above it parses the entire payload for JSON data so it's presumably waiting on that to continue the ARG and setting up the webpage.

Additionally here's the exact time the countdown decremented.

It's really odd. Maybe it has something to do with how many users have accessed the site? Or maybe there's some sort of trigger to make it decrease?

[Cassielu]

I got 750 points. It seems to come from this puzzle

[LDMONTY007]

4 minutes ago, Cassielu said:

I got 750 points. It seems to come from this puzzle

I also got the lore interaction, so maybe the countdown goes down when that's triggered? Could that be possible? 

Also, in your post you have the EXSPECTAMUS reward link which you get a thousand coins for separately which my friend ReKuna gave me the direct link for here: https://accounts.klei.com/link/Exspectamus

[AMS.IVI]

19 minutes ago, Gooba said:

Кстати, песочные часы текут ВВЕРХ. Я бы снял видео, но мне лень.

[Sick_ses]

Thanks for the link

4 minutes ago, LDMONTY007 said:

I also got the lore interaction, so maybe the countdown goes down when that's triggered? Could that be possible? 

Also, in your post you have the EXSPECTAMUS reward link which you get a thousand coins for separately which my friend ReKuna gave me the direct link for here: https://accounts.klei.com/link/Exspectamus

 

[LDMONTY007]

20 minutes ago, Sick_ses said:

Thanks for the link

 

np, Also just wanted to say here's the code where it's printing the countdown for fire and actually setting the styling for the fire.

1 hour ago, LDMONTY007 said:

This is what the payload currently returns, so most likely until the countdown hits zero we won't get the actual page changes. In the code I posted above it parses the entire payload for JSON data so it's presumably waiting on that to continue the ARG and setting up the webpage.

Additionally here's the exact time the countdown decremented.

Last changed at 20:43:20, still at 0,96 at 22:58, over 2 hours have passed and we still haven't seen a change in the countdown. 

[GlooooomerBzzt]

6 hours ago, Aldair Reis said:

Of course.... If I go through with that, I’ll crash myself

Idk if this helps, but it's the place where winona disapears. They said we need to get a step back, so...

It's a bit weird that in the short, the factory's ceiling is still intact, while the factory we see here seems to have gone through some kind of explosion. Also, the timing has changed from the evening (in the short) to midnight, and there are more trees around the factory now. I wonder if more details about what happened will be revealed since the new images seem to be a flashback? 

[DavePlaysDST]

we 100% need to wait for next thursday. (and someone said earlier that the timer would reach 0 in 7 days, and klei loves rolling out updates on thusdays as well.)

 

[Popian]

The message here is to burn base at night because they can rollback in the day.

[SilverBisexual]

NEW PUZZLE AYYYYYYYYY! I remember contributing to the cyclum puzzles way back in my undergrad days.

[Bumber64]

2 hours ago, tipsyGnostalgic said:

that means the countdown ends on the 6th of this month, which coincides with a harvest supermoon this month, i wonder if this is related

A reference to Harvest Moon for the Super Nintendo?

Klei is making a new farming sim game???

Edited October 3, 2025 by Bumber64

[Kondr_]

do we know when Woxola incident has happened?

[alainmcd]

1 minute ago, Kondr_ said:

do we know when Woxola incident has happened?

1919.

 

[R4TT4R]

Maybe i'm thinking too much but if you don't mind I leave it there.

I wonder if this is ARG then is there a chance that names of this images could be messeges or codes decrypted in some way?

 

Chair and table: 547D75F4E66760A3CEDA63CA7FD4ED8506D932D856C3380D6BF4477D

Factory at day: 8F729B57E62474358A0A358AAC95A28C77C2CD78CA0CCD25C64EBBC1

Night and smoke: EE0D6231E420F7E2F74D48D858A740A909AA9DCA5AEAA781A9C87010

Edited October 3, 2025 by R4TT4R

[CupioWaffles]

Idk if this is just cause I'm on mobile or something but it kinda looks like its smoking outside now compared to before? 

(Ignore the circle had to snatch from dooces to get a before image) 

 

Edit: Probably is just the paper texture, just confused me cause it's different from the others and the last panel had a more obvious paper crease look

Edited October 4, 2025 by CupioWaffles

[R4TT4R]

I think it's not smoke, rather this photo also "folds" just like the factory photo above.

6 minutes ago, CupioWaffles said:

Idk if this is just cause I'm on mobile or something but it kinda looks like its smoking outside now compared to before? 

(Ignore the circle had to snatch from dooces to get a before image) 

 

[alainmcd]

Yeah, that's just the crease effect overlay applied, same as the other panels: https://exspectamus.dontstarvetogether.com/static/DB2B48106BA815A099387241ADA1BD968068164B72AD1F9289E37FCC

Hmm, that suggests we aren't seeing the action "live", but through photos.

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33 minutes ago, R4TT4R said:

I wonder if this is ARG then is there a chance that names of this images could be messeges or codes decrypted in some way?

Looks like random hex to me, just to prevent people from guessing URLs. Klei learnt this the hard way.

[DDNW]

I've checked the Fire code, and there was a value for position of fire in frame - it changed from 17.4% to 18.6%, so it gets lower.