Glitch in DOORS

Short answer: nothing. Glitch is a friendly, passive entity, and its jumpscare doesn't deal damage. It works as a safety mechanism against game glitches. Its whole job is to move you to the last open room.

The trouble starts when other things are nearby. If Screech is close, it attacks right when Glitch jumpscares you, without its usual warning. It's been like this since The Hotel+ Update came out. In The Greenhouse, Glitch can simply distract you, and an extra second can be deadly there.

Here's what I do to avoid meeting Glitch in the first place: 1. I stay with my group. Starlight itself recommends sticking together. 2. On subfloors, I remember when a room will unload: falling 4 rooms behind is enough in The Backdoor and The Outdoors. 3. If I get pulled anyway, I check for Screech nearby before moving on. 4. In The Rooms, I remember that rooms unload quickly—7 rooms—and don't rummage through lockers behind the group.

Everywhere. Glitch is the only entity that appears on every floor. Technically, it can appear in any room. Glitch still appears in The Backdoor, even though Jack and Timothy don't.

On subfloors, Glitch has a special job: it moves players to the last open door if their room is unloading. Each subfloor has its own threshold. In The Rooms, a room disappears when you're 7 rooms past the last open one; in The Archives, it's 21, and in The Stairwell, it's 16. In multiplayer elevators, Glitch takes players who fall far behind their team.

It doesn't work: you can't use the Crucifix on harmless entities, and Glitch is one of them. There's no need to, anyway—Glitch won't kill you.

In HOTEL- mode, Void is missing and Glitch takes its place. This is the only time Glitch deals damage on its own. Glitch also pulls players out of rooms that are about to disappear on subfloors, in Retro Mode, and with the Hotel- Modifier.

In Retro Mode, you can reach the void while rooms disappear and trigger Glitch by stepping into it. In Super Hard Mode and PARTY MODE, entering the secret void room in The Reception triggers it. In BATTLE Mode, its jumpscare even gives you temporary God Mode. With the Stop Right There and Room For More Modifiers, Glitch's jumpscare can sometimes trigger A-90.

• Using the Crucifix on Glitch. It won't work.
• Standing around after being moved and looking at what happened. If Screech is nearby, you'll take damage without warning.
• Falling behind in the dark Greenhouse. Getting distracted by Glitch there can cost you more than anywhere else.
• Assuming Glitch is gone after its first appearance. It can show up several times in a row.
• Expecting Glitch to give you death hints in Visions. There, it only says its opening and closing lines, with no advice.
• Leaving your teammate behind on a subfloor without talking it over. In multiplayer elevators, Glitch takes players who fall far behind, so your friend will lose time.

For a long time, Glitch was just a technical workaround. The Content Update made it part of the canon. Now it's canon thanks to Glitch Fragments and Visions. If you die in Visions, Glitch talks to you, not Moonlight or Starlight.

Glitch is one of seven entities that can talk to the player. It says you need to get out as soon as possible and that nobody but Glitch will help you. One theory is that Glitch wants to escape the world of DOORS with the player it calls "Vessel" unconfirmed. Nobody knows who created Glitch. People often suspect Starlight because it knows about the Fragments and mentions a "fracture" unconfirmed.

Starlight admits Glitch exists and seems clearly worried when you die to an entity from a Fragment. Moonlight seems not to know about Glitch unconfirmed.