Well Dweller Guides

For your next objective, open the Well Dweller walkthrough. For missing collectibles, use all 32 trinkets or the 100% checklist. For a failed timed course, use Time Trials. The table below sends each other route, boss or save problem to its focused answer.

Pick the guide for your current problem

Scroll sideways to compare all columns.

Follow the opening, then choose an accessible branch

The beginner guide follows Matchstick, Oil Vial, Groundskeeper, Flaming Vessel and Slingshot through the first food return. It also explains the minimap, healing and early purchases. You can complete that food route before Climb.

After The Swarm, collect Climb and return for Tent Travel. The walkthrough then connects the three elevator parts in The Drains, Hover in Desiccated Castle, the Docks Door Pearls and the two underwater entrances.

For midgame exploration, choose a branch your unlocked abilities can reach. The walkthrough's seven-feather section now includes Looter's four parts and delivery, the Shrine's left exit, and the reward checks to try at six feathers.

Prepare for a fight or a timed course

The Groundskeeper guide pairs its rake sweep, ground wave, chasing flowers and leaf rush with a response. Bosses gives 13 locations and response tables for Lady of the Drains and Shrine of the Seven Sons, plus their reward exits.

For a Time Trial, check the course's movement setup before starting. The PC extra-time setting offers up to 30 additional seconds; the restart prompt lets you retry immediately. Winning also opens a world reward door: collect the item behind it before marking the task finished.

Use Trinkets to choose equipment for the specific obstacle. Healing support, attack reach, vessel supply and collectible detection serve different tasks. Glass Eye and Rusted Compass help when the remaining problem is finding a concealed pickup.

Finish collections with the matching counter

The trinket list separates six shop purchases, three spirit rewards and 23 world pickups. This makes a missing inventory item easier to trace than an unfiltered map sweep.

The 100% checklist compares 32 trinkets, 20 returned spirits, 23 story pages and the ten trial reward rooms. It also separates spent Workshop Tokens from found tokens, and the 50-slot achievement from the later 80-slot collection gate.

For a short spirit count, all 20 locations groups the statues into 12 regions and distinguishes paired rooms, required route actions and the four trial doors. At 20 returned with a missing item, use the reward diagnosis instead of restarting the location search.

For platform goals, Achievements lists all 41 Steam requirements. A storybook page, a completed book and a fully upgraded trinket are different goals. Use the relevant counter before deciding which map layer to search.

Repair a missing reward or loading problem

If a spirit trinket is missing after its hand-in, update Steam and load the affected save. The October 2 patch should restore it automatically. Known bugs distinguishes repaired rewards, save issues and chase behavior; Updates links the developer's announcements.

For a loading crash, protect your save folder before trying the slot-backup steps in Save location. For route navigation, Map explains the external interactive map and fast travel explains the in-game tent network.

Sources and review date

October 31, 2026: added the book-grouped story-page routes and Steam Deck map-input entry. Startup and save-error diagnosis is available in Known Bugs.

Directory updated October 19, 2026 to add complete spirit routes, the 6/7 reward checks and camera diagnosis. Each linked guide identifies its own gameplay sources and review date. Confirmed Steam fixes use Kyle Thompson's announcements through October 2; console cases are labeled separately.

Start with the focused page for your problem. Its source notes distinguish recorded gameplay, game-menu text and player reports so you can compare the advice with your own installed version.