This is an effort to try and streamline the questions coming through. If you have any question, post it here to facility access to others.
==Purchasing The Void and the different game versions==
Q: Where can I buy The Void?
A: The Void is available to buy from
Mamba Games,
Play.com,
Amazon.co.uk.
Q: All those sellers are European based, what if I don't live in Europe?
A: Gamersgate,
Direct 2 Drive and
Steam have the DD version of The Void
Q: With all the diferent version that The Void had, is the English version censured, especially considered it is PEGI 12+?
A: The English version IS NOT censored in any way or form from the German, Polish and Russian version. The only diference is that Nameless Sister starts with chain, just like all the other sisters.
Q: What are the differences between the various versions of the game (Russian, Polish, German, English)?
A: This has been answered
in this thread.
==Game Fixes==
Q: I get motion sickness when playing The Void. Any way I can avoid this?
A: Halfgild made a fix to the head bobbing in game. Just download
here and follow the instructions contained
Q: The game is too hard!
A: You can try using the official cheats found
here to make it easier.
Q: I don't like to use cheats, any other way?
A: A fan has made a patch adjusting the amounts of colour received. You can download it
here.
Alternatively I've made and easy and medium patch to the game difficulty, download which one you like and follow the install instructions on the same post.
==General Gameplay==
Q: I keep running out of Colour, what am I doing wrong?
A: There could be several things. The main thing you have to remember is that the more hearts you have filled with colour, the more colour you will process and the more colour you will loose. Consider going into life support mode if you are low on colour; fill one heart, at maximum two hearts, so you can slow down the process of lympha processing.
Q: Random colour drops are so small, where do I get more colour?
A: Your best option earlier in game would be to plant a garden with your excess colour.
Q: How do I plant a garden?
A: You need to fill up trees with the donor glyphs. When hit a tree with slash of colour you go into a mode where you can draw the donor glyph. As you draw the glyph you'll see a bar in the lower left corner fill up. When it starts to blink it means that the tree is at maxium capacity and you can finish drawing the donor glyph.
Q: Do these trees last forever?
A: A tree filled with colour, no matter what amount, will last around three cycle before running dry. When that happens it takes a few more cycles for the that tree to be available again.
A2: It depends on tree, really. Small ones in "Fireflies" last 1 cycle (if I remember correctly), and trees in the first garden work for 5 cycles, though only a few of them give large income.
Q: Help! The Brothers keep ravaging my garden.
A: Well you have two options there: either beat them to the garden and take out all the colour (yet the brother still ravages your garden and your trees become unusable); activate a trap on the garden to drive them away; or, later in the game, challenge the brother to a dual a kill him.
Q: How do I setup a trap?
A: Most gardens have some kind of sharp rock or object that can serve as a trap. When you get near it, you will see a kind of red trident appear on screen with two numbers: (xx/yy). XX is the amount of colour applied to the trap, YY is the colour the trap needs to become active. To give colour to a trap, just draw strokes of colour (no glyph required) while the trident is on colour.
Q: I cannot find a trap for this garden!
A: Bear in mind that some gardens do not have traps, yet remember that time doesn't flow inside the chamber so, barring other predators, that your time to explore every nook and cranny of the chamber.
A2: In Yani's garden look for a sticking snag. The same in Ole's garden.
Q: I failed a quest assigned by a brother, what will happen?
A: Get ready to fight.
Q: Sisters take too long to open up their hearts. Can I do something?
A: Before feeding a sister with colour, make sure you fill yourself with the most gold possible. That will reduce the amount of colour you need to open up a sister heart.
Q: What happens if I kill a sister?
A: Well, as expect it will stay dead, which can be dangerous if you haven't open up her second heart yet.
Q: Any tips to save on colour?
A: A good tip is that the more violet you have in your hearts, the less colour you actually use while planting a tree.
Q: I can't find any veins in the mines!
A: First make sure you don't have the ATI bug
here. If you don't have that bug, remember that veins can be anywhere: walls, floors and ceilings, also some veins can be pretty small so keep your eyes open.
Q: Why can't I find traps in my mines?
A: Don't worry brothers don't take colour from veins.
A2: If I am correct, they don't take colour from veins, but the do so from your harpoons collecting the lympha from veins.
Q: A fight is coming, how do I get ready?
A: Well, there are three good advices. First fill yourself with colour in you palette. If you need a good rush of colour remember to use amber in your hearts as it speed the transformation process and fill as much hearts as possible. Secondly always keep enough colour in your hearts as those will be your life points in a fight.
A2: Also it is mindful to boost up the characteristics you may need in the fight. Filling yourself with Gold or Violet is pretty useless, while Amarant (increases damage) and Azure (increases your movement speed) will surely come in handy. Note that some brothers deal almost no damage since the moment you understand how to fight them, so Emerald (increasing your defence) won't probably be of much use with these brothers.
Q: I draw Donor glyph to revive the tree, but the game says "You should have used Donor..." as though I have failed.
A: This means the game cannot recognize your glyph. Which is bad, because only a fraction of used lympha will be used by tree to grow and bear fruit. The demonstration video shows quite an an unusual way to draw the symbol. Actually you need to draw a horizontal loop-shaped symbol with two ends on the right, and no more (only keep the tails long enough). You may also draw a long line left and down, then make a small loop and draw a long line to the right, slightly bent downwards. All that is considered "Donor" in the game is a combination of these two in some proportion. Remember also to draw your symbols big, because the game takes small symbols for mere strokes of lympha (to put it into some object), and doesn't perform recognition on them.
Here is the video I recorded to aid you in drawing the glyph:
here . It is important to learn how to draw it effectively and quick, because you are probably going to draw it a lot during the course of the game.
Q: After Ole's first appearance I can't move any more.
A: The map just panned out, you can more the map around by click and holding the right mouse button and moving it around, you can also zoom in and out using the mouse wheel.
==Quest==
Q: I keep failing the mine quest given by Mantid. What am I doing wrong?
A: Remember that the quest involved two mines. One in the Nameless Sister realm and the other in Ava realm. Each mine has 3 veins which you must harpoon and remove all the colour for the quest to be considered as complete and you don't need to report back to Mantid after it.
==Fights==
Q: I can't seem to hurt Mantid as his rings are always gray.
A: Mantid only becomes vulnerable while it gobs down the blobs of colour spread around the arena.
Feel free to correct me and contribute to the FAQ. Any question answered in here will be added above.