Void in DOORS

Void isn’t a hunter; it’s a janitor. Its job is to bring a player back to the right spot if the room unloads while they’re inside. In multiplayer, that means one thing: fall behind your group, and Void will drag you back by force.

My rules for avoiding Void. 1. I stick with the group. Especially when my health is low—Void can kill you. 2. I remember how many rooms the game keeps loaded. From the start of a floor, it’s 5 rooms; after door X64, it’s 4; after X80, it’s 3. Falling behind gets more dangerous near the end of a floor. 3. If Void shows up and I’m holding the Crucifix, I keep it out: banishing Void will protect me from damage. 4. After the teleport, I look around right away.

Banishing Void doesn’t cancel the teleport. Void will still send you to the last loaded room, just without dealing damage. The teleport starts right after Void is banished.

Void appears in The Hotel and The Mines. On each main floor, the number of open rooms it hasn’t swallowed decreases at the same points. After door X80, there are 3 rooms left until the end of the floor.

You’ll usually see Void in multiplayer when a player falls behind by several rooms. But it can also attack in single-player under certain conditions. For example, when Rush, Gloombats, or Seek opens doors for you. It can also appear in the multiplayer elevator: Void teleports players who fall far behind to their team.

The Crucifix works on Void, even though Void isn’t hostile to players. Here’s how: hold the Crucifix and wait for Void to appear in your room. Banishing Void will prevent damage, but the teleport will still happen.

There’s one catch. If you expect Void but want to save the Crucifix for later, put it away right away if you have enough health. But if you want to banish Void, you can pull out the Crucifix later—as long as you do it before Void deals damage. Then both the banishment and the teleport will be delayed. You usually wouldn’t use the Crucifix on Eyes, but if Void shows up at the same time, that changes things.

Void doesn’t appear in Alpha Release; Glitch takes its place. In Battle Mode, Void is more dangerous: it always hits for 50 instead of 20–40, 6 rooms are loaded at once, and emergency Void deals 50 damage and can’t be banished. But after Void scares you, you get God Mode for a short time.

Void usually doesn’t attack in PARTY MODE: the room disappears, but there’s no damage or teleport. But if you open the next door quickly, before the room disappears, you can trigger its scary attack. In TRICK OR TREAT, only 2 rooms are loaded at once.

• Falling behind with low health. Void takes 20 to 40 health and can kill you.
• Falling behind during Rush or Ambush. Void might teleport you to a room without any hiding spots, which can be fatal.
• Leaving several doors open when Ambush appears. Void might teleport players to the last open room, where they have no chance to survive.
• Not looking around after the teleport. A Void attack right before or after another entity’s attack can be deadly.
• Holding the Crucifix when you need it for later. Void will take it for itself.

No one knows what Void looks like: it’s just a black void. When banished, it appears as a large, round cloud of black smoke. One theory is that its name and lack of a form refer to the emptiness beyond the map unconfirmed. And since the Crucifix can banish it, maybe it has an invisible body unconfirmed.

Void is part of the canon: Moonlight names it as the cause of a player’s death. Before The Hotel+ Update, Glitch did Void’s job. When Void took over that role, Moonlight started naming it as the cause of death.