Link to the game on the off chance someone randomly gets here: https://eevee.itch.io/fox-flux-deluxe
This walkthrough was made for version 0.10.1 beta bugfix #1 on itch.io.
The hearts in a level seem to be in order of how you’re supposed to collect them! So if you miss a heart, grab hearts until you find the one just before or after the missing one and look around in the inbetween area. Or use this guide.
I gave hints where it was appropriate (and I could think of one), sometimes to the location if that was the difficult part or sometimes to the puzzle. Sometimes I just couldn’t think of a good hint though.
I tried finding a better solution for “spoiler” content than making the background and foreground on text the same color, but I couldn’t. Sorry about that. Highlight the text you want to see, or copy paste the text into a basic text editor like Notepad to strip the formatting.
I’ve included images for the few I felt needed them. They’re on Imgur so you have to click to view them. Hopefully my descriptions are enough though.
Dungeons only have images since I really don’t know how else I would convey the solution. I edited the game files so the ‘placed’ indicator is far less visible.
And finally, this is the first walkthrough I’ve ever made! I hope it’s useful!
Table of contents:
Level 1 - Green Behind The Ears (wilds_green)
Level 2 - The Grate Outdoors (wilds_grate)
Level 3 - Something in the Water (wilds_water)
Level 4 - Manifest Destiny (wilds_bag)
Level 5 - Pasture-ized (wilds_farm)
Heart 1:
Type: Candy (any transform)
Gather 250 candy and it will appear above you.
Heart 2:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: Out in plain sight just right of spawn.
Heart 3:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint: Near the boulder section.
Location: Just after the boulder section, go up left on the islands instead of continuing right to the vaccoon area.
Heart 4:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint: You can walk on clouds.
Location: At the floaty platforms (the ones with blue crystal looking bits) before the chest, go up right on the clouds.
Heart 5:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint 1: You need the kiss ability from Star Anise's shop.
Hint 2: The kiss ability works on pink stuff.
Solution: Kiss the jellybeans on the mouth of the face above the chest, they'll turn into platforms. You can then grab the heart. If you already grabbed the jellybeans, try the level again.
Heart 6:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint: The balloon form makes you float indefinitely until you hit a ceiling.
Location: At the end of the level, go up and then right when you are balloonified by the puffupine rather than directly right to the door.
Drone Dungeon:
Location: Up and left on the vines just past the vaccoon.
Solution: https://i.imgur.com/4JUjDah.png
Candy corn:
Hint: Have you explored everything at the very end of the level with the puffupine?
Location: At the end of the level, go up and then left when you are balloonified by the puffupine rather than directly to the door.
Star:
Location: Above the boulder area. Visible from the platform with the heart on it (heart 3).
Hint 1: You need to enter the level not as a rubber fox, but something else. This "something else" comes from a nearby level.
Hint 2: An otherwise inaccessible area can be accessed with the Slime transformation.
Hint 3: There's a grate just to the left of the level spawnpoint.
Solution: Exit level 2 with the Slime transformation. You can hop over the salvert at the end (the hitbox extends a block up, be careful!) Then go to the left when you enter level 1, and pick up the box. Progress as normal, but go up left just past the boulder section and use the box to get the star.
Note on level completion: You can't get the treasure chest, so you need to place the box down in front of the door which requires getting the treasure so you can jump over said door.
Heart 1:
Type: Candy (any transform)
Gather 250 candy and it will appear above you.
Heart 2:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint: Pink blocks can be kissed again to become solid again and be able to be stood on.
Location: Go out of the starting area, then turn around and kiss the starting blocks again to make them solid, and jump up them and up the wall.
Heart 3:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: Up the first set of accessible vines in the level and to the right. Jump between the two vines as indicated by the jellybeans to not get grumblebee’d.
Heart 4:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: Just right of the first vine section, you can hop up into a dirt bit with two grumblebees.
Hint: You can’t get stunned by grumblebees if you’re already stunned.
Solution: Ram into the left grumblebee to bounce past the grumblebee guarding the heart. This will likely take more than one try.
Heart 5:
Type: Rainbow (any transform)
Solution: It’s visible from the ground. Jump off the bounce shroom and weave around the grumblebees. It helps to jump off the left or right side.
Tip: You can bounce extra high on the bounce shrooms if you press jump just as you bounce.
Heart 6:
Type: Slime
Hint: Remember, you can go through grates now!
Solution: Jump up left from the platform above the slime pit, onto the bit of land jutting out and then again onto the platform with the heart.
Solution Image: https://i.imgur.com/dLk7xOu.png
Heart 7:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Solution: Go through the grate next to the heart with slime, revert to rubber with the salvert next to the chest at the end, and backtrack.
Drone Dungeon:
Location: Beneath the bounce shrooms with jellybean trails, just past the vaccoon.
Solution: https://i.imgur.com/AbJW8pC.png
Candy corn:
(bad) location hint: There is only one place in the level which appears inaccessible.
Location: Above the bit with heart 4.
Hint 1: Grumblebees can knock you quite the distance.
Solution: Go up the rightmost vine in the bit before heart 4, and jump around the grumblebee flying to your right so you get hit to the right. It’s really hard to do this but it is possible.
Tip: It doesn’t matter what velocity you hit the grumblebee with, only where you are relative to it. Try to jump on it from the platform and touch the right side of its hitbox, it’ll still send you right.
Heart 1:
Type: Candy (any transform)
Gather 250 candy and it will appear above you.
Heart 2:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: In the center gift box of the set close to the ground just outside of spawn.
Heart 3:
Type: Slime
Location: At the very top middle of the section just past spawn, floating above a grate.
Solution: You can reach it with a well-timed jump off the platform with the salvert.
Heart 4:
Type: Slime
Location: Just past the first bweehorse door.
Solution: Backtrack to the initial slime pit after opening the bweehorse door. If you used both slimes, restart the level.
Heart 5:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint 1: Next to the grumblebee wall.
Hint 2: Kiss works on things with pink hearts.
Hint 3: Look closer at the details.
Location: There’s a tile in the platform to the left of the grumblebee wall with a heart on it. Kiss it from the right side, then go back to the left and collect it.
Heart 6:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: In the underwater path below the grumblebee wall.
Solution: Climb the pink vine to the right of the heart and jump off the nearby floating platform. If you passed the water section, go all the way right to the fire and bweehorse door and take the top path back.
Heart 7:
Type: Slime
Location: As slime, go up the path in the middle of the lake with the bonus door (the one made out of legos) in it. It’s there at the top.
Heart 8:
Type: Slime
Location: Directly above Purrl, past the second bweehorse door.
Solution: Go to the first bounce shroom to the right of Purrl. Go up the vine as rubber and kiss the pink block to turn it into a grate. Then turn into a slime and use the bounce shroom to go up, then jump off the left side of the platform to the heart.
Heart 9:
Type: Slime
Location: There’s a pink vine on top of the Drone Dungeon area. Take the vine up and you’ll see it.
Hint 1: You need to make a way up that doesn’t use a vine. What do you have to work with?
Hint 2: Remember, you can kiss pink blocks to toggle their state. This applies to grates too.
Solution: Set the pink blocks such that you can get up as slime without having to use the vine on top of the Drone Dungeon area.
Solution image: https://i.imgur.com/2EecyqI.png
Heart 10:
Type: Purrl (any transform)
Hint 1: Purrl has something to say.
Hint 2: Purrl doesn’t like your slime form.
Hint 3: The quest is NOT limited to just the slimes in the pool.
Solution: Talk to Purrl in your rubber form to get a quest and then get rid of EVERY slime in the level. Even those back at spawn. Then talk to Purrl again and they’ll spawn the heart.
Drone Dungeon:
Location: Keep going to the right of Purrl, past the second bweehorse door. It’s in a mound of dirt.
Hint 1: Since you can’t get through the fire as slime, and can’t get through the grates as rubber - how about transforming while past the fire?
Hint 2: Slimes (the enemy) can’t burn and can also go through grates.
Solution: You can lure a slime into the drone dungeon area from either the left or right side. They have a rather short follow range, and will hop if you get close. You’ll need to use this to get them up blocks. Once one is past the fire, go in and turn into a slime while inside the area.
Drone Dungeon solution: https://i.imgur.com/H9YEiGM.png
Candy Corn:
Location: Just left of the grumblebee wall, on the platform that heart 5 is part of.
I couldn’t figure this one out. An idea I had was to use the grumblebees further right to bounce across all the platforms up top and use the remaining iframes where I have control to get through but I did it seemingly perfectly and it still wasn’t nearly enough.
Another idea I had was to jump from the platform to the right into the grumblebee wall and with the knockback bounce off of said platform and then off of the ground to the right of the wall, then through the wall. I managed to BARELY bounce off the ground but it didn’t give me enough height to get onto the candy corn platform.
Heart 1:
Type: Candy (any transform)
Gather 250 candy and it will appear above you.
Heart 2:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: In the first room, above the boulder section.
Solution 1 (cheese): Jump off the presents on the left.
Solution 2: After pushing the boulder down, use it to get up with a box in hand. Place the box below the heart and jump off it to reach it.
Heart 3:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint 1: At the beginning of room 2, explore further up.
Hint 2: Using the puffupine, keep going up.
Hint 3: What’s blocking your path?
Solution: Using either the puffupine or the pink vine to the left, get up to the platform above the grumblebee. From there, use the box on the patform to jump and you can just kiss the pink blocks from the side. Then jump down and puffupine’d again, and float all the way up to the heart.
Heart 4:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: On top of the rightmost set of floating platforms in room 2. Climb up the vines.
Solution 1 (cheese): You can just barely jump off of the vine leading up to the heart on the left.
Solution 2 hint: You need a box.
Solution 2: Get the box out of the heart 3 area (climb down the pink vine on the left with box in hand, you can go through semisolids that way) and make your way over to this heart. Use the box to jump up to the upper platform on this platform set.
Heart 5:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: At the very right side of room 2, in the floor.
Solution: Make the pink blocks intangible, and jump down through them from above. The floor will disappear and you can grab the heart.
Heart 6:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: In the cave in the third room, guarded by the grumblebee on the far right.
Solution: Bring the box to the room on the left of the grumblebee, and hop up onto the pink blocks using said box and then jump to the right and get the heart.
Heart 7:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Hint: You need to get the box from the cave first.
Location: Just outside of the cave, rather than going up through the semisolid with the box, jump onto the platform to the left and use the box to go up left.
Heart 8:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: All the way to the right in room 3. You can just see it if you climb up to the top of the vine.
Solution: Grab the box from the tube with pink blocks to the right, then go up the vine up left, then to the right over the grumblebee. Don’t hit the block and get grumblebee’d like I did.
Heart 9:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: All the way to the left in the upper area (the area with three crates).
Solution: You can bring two crates up to the heart and jump up them to collect it.
Drone Dungeon:
Hint: In the second room, look closely at where the bananalizards are walking.
Location: There is a bananalizard to the right of the bounce shroom in the second room. The wall next to it is hiding a ladder down to the drone dungeon.
Drone Dungeon solution: https://i.imgur.com/3MA1SHG.png
Candy Corn 1:
(bad) hint: In the first room, once you have the boxes you don’t NEED to go to the right.
Location: Take the two boxes and go back to the spawnpoint, and go up. There’s a room with a single lonely candy corn.
Candy Corn 2:
Location: On the roof of the area with heart 3 (room 2).
Solution: Jump to the left from the bonus area (lego door). To get to the bonus door, first get the box out of the heart 3 area by going down the pink vine on the left. If you haven’t activated that, do it now. You can simply climb down through semisolids if you’re on a vine. Take that to the right to the bounce shroom and hop up. Resolidify the pink blocks and put the box on top, then go up left with that.
Star:
NOTE: Uses an untaught mechanic! Try experimenting with what you have!
Location: In the third room, above heart 7 (above the entrance door).
Part 1 hint 1: You can get a box out of the upper left area and into the upper right area.
Part 1 (bad) hint 2: You don't need to stack boxes to do this.
Part 1 solution: In the upper left area, put a box on the right side of the spike bed. Since one box was used to get up to the spikes, you can pick up the third box in the area and jump off the spike bed box to the right and reach the upper middle area where you can jump down to the right.
Part 1 solution image: https://i.imgur.com/ElomhZD.png
Part 2 hint 1: Boxes can go past litter signs as long as you're not holding them.
Part 2 hint 2: A box dropped onto a hill from high up can slide quite a distance.
Part 2 solution: In the upper right area, bring a box onto the platform up left from the platform the vine goes through. You need both the existing box and the one you got out of the upper left area. Drop the box off the left side of the platform onto the slope below, and it'll rocket past the litter sign into the area with the trash can. Put it next to the left litter sign and jump up left to the star.
Part 2 solution image: https://i.imgur.com/A6ByIX8.png
Heart 1:
Type: Candy (any transform)
Gather 250 candy and it will appear above you.
Heart 2:
Type: Starcow
Location: Left of the spawn barn, in the area you are introduced to the Starcow transformation.
Heart 3:
Type: Starcow
Location: On top of the barn you spawn in.
Solution: Go left first and grab the starcow transform. You can’t go on clouds as starcow, so climb the ladder on the right.
Heart 4:
Type: Starcow
Location: Above the barrel stack to the right of the spawn barn.
Hint: The game is working fine, you’re just too heavy for clouds. Find another way up.
Solution: Go to the right until you find a ladder in the ground. Climb down it and you’ll find a hidden area with a sprouter pot. Move it to the left with the opening in the ceiling and place it to grow a vine. Go up it and go left on the platforms, then jump to the heart.
Heart 5:
Type: Starcow
Location: On the upper area on the right from the starting barn, all the way to the right.
Hint: You can’t jump that high as starcow
Solution: Go to the heart in the rubber form but with milk in your inventory, and transform after you’ve jumped up to it.
Heart 6:
Type: Stone
Hint: If you touch the triscocks (the cockatrice looking things) you turn to stone. It seems like it’ll damage whatever you stomp across.
Location: In the second main room, get triscock’d and stomp across the stone blocks immediately to your left. You’ll collect it as you fall down.
Heart 7:
Type: Rainbow (any transform)
Hint: In the heart 6 area, there’s another way you can get out (it’s not hidden).
Solution: Put the sprouter pot on the left side, where you entered, rather than the right side and go all the way up and jump off to the left.
Heart 8:
Type: Starcow
Location: Just past the bweehorse door in the second main room. You can see it if you stand on top of the brick blocks.
Solution 1 (cheese?): Jump over the grumblebee on the right from either the stone blocks or the leftmost present box. It’s still possible if you’ve broken one stone block, but I don’t think it’s possible if you broke two or three.
Solution 2: You need the cattle prod, so you have to have beaten the level and gotten the treasure already. You can charge through the grumblebee without getting knocked back.
Heart 9:
Type: Strawberry (rubber)
Location: Group of three with 10 and 11. On a platform in the middle of three bounce shrooms in the second main room.
Solution: Using the salvert down left from the area with the hearts, revert to rubber and jump over the grumblebees to grab the heart.
Heart 10:
Type: Starcow
Location: Group of three with 9 and 11. On a platform in the middle of three bounce shrooms in the second main room.
Solution 1: Turn into starcow at the milk cart to the left and grab a second bottle. Go past the triscocks, turn to rubber using the salvert down left from the area with the hearts, jump over the grumblebees, and turn back into starcow when inside the area.
Solution 2: You need the cattle prod, so you have to have beaten the level and gotten the treasure already. With that, just charge past the grumblebees; you’re invulnerable to them while charging.
Heart 11:
Type: Stone
Location: Group of three with 9 and 10. On a platform in the middle of three bounce shrooms in the second main room.
Hint: You need the cattle prod, so you have to have beaten the level and gotten the treasure already.
Solution: Break one of the three blocks to the left of the area with the hearts with the starcow charge, then turn to stone via the triscocks, and make your way over to the stone heart. You’ll need to bounce off the bounce shroom. You are invulnerable to grumblebees as stone.
Heart 12:
Type: Starcow
Solution: Past the area with hearts 9-11, jump down to the milk crate and trigger the pink vine. Then turn into starcow and grab a second milk bottle. Go up the vine, and to the right of the vine drift down on the floating platform and jump off to the right. Go right to the salvert and turn back to rubber, then jump up and left to the heart, and use the milk in your inventory.
Drone Dungeon:
Location: In the second main area, above and slightly right of the triscock pen.
Hint: In the heart 6 area (below the triscock pen), there’s another way you can get out (it’s not hidden).
Solution: Put the sprouter pot on the left side, where you entered, rather than the right side and go all the way up and jump off to the right.
Drone Dungeon solution: https://i.imgur.com/aA3KaMC.png
Heart 1:
Type: Candy (any transform)
Gather 250 candy and it will appear above you. Or it WOULD if there was any candy in the level. This one’s inaccessible!
Nothing here! I added it because I found it funny that the level number in the game code is literally just “👿” and wanted to share.
To apply these, first take the .love file and unzip it. It’s a normal .zip file. Modify what is described in the steps of the mod you want to apply, and then put the modified files into a new .zip file and rename its extension to .love, and run it as normal.
Make sure that the contents aren’t in a subfolder, the “main.lua” file has to be the first thing you see if you open the zip!
The paths to files I describe in the instructions are relative to wherever you extracted the .love file to.
Unlock game scaling size:
self.scale = math.max(1, math.floor(math.min(sw / target_size.x, sh / target_size.y)))
with
self.scale = math.min(sw / target_size.x, sh / target_size.y)
this should be line 105, in a function “Game:_determine_scale”.
No damage knockback:
Shop for free:
The .love file is just a zip file. Extract it as such and you have access to all the game code, assets, etc. But please remember the request to not share new content you find!
The tile editor needed is called Tiled, and can be found here. You can open the .tmx.json files in /data/maps with it. The names for the respective levels are in the headers for each section in this document.
(Mostly for dataminers): The candy heart isn’t counted as heart 1 in-game, it’s always just assumed to exist. So what I describe as heart 2 here is actually heart 1 in the level files. Just thought I’d mention that somewhere.
Lastly, since I only figured this out quite late, you can open the game with modifications without repacking it into a .love file and running it. You can point the Love runtime to the folder with the decompressed game files, modified or not. Make sure main.lua is at the root of the folder you point it at.
