Badge Handbook

A second jump, taken mid-air before landing or touching a wall. It is the first badge ever issued, carried out of Ancient Village by every Wondernaut since the Regulator fell.

Recovered from: The Regulator

Scripted first unlock, granted with the Source Harmonic; collecting it opens Ability Select. Every collected badge is always active — there is no passive badge slot cap.

Hold the bolt and let the charge build, then release a stronger shot for target locks, armored hides, and distant switches.

Recovered from: The Graft

Raising the shield commits even a tap to a brief guard. Every eligible bolt, hostile projectile, and grenade arriving during its opening window reverses ownership and flies home; the reflect cue appears only on a successful return. Held longer, it becomes a standard draining shield. It will not answer melee, stomps, beams, or blasts already detonated.

Recovered from: The Clog

Double-tap run for a short, rolling burst that phases through enemy body contact. Keep run held and the Wondernaut exits into a faster run while stamina allows; projectiles, melee arcs, and hazard lanes still demand respect.

Recovered from: The Burden

Wonder Rifts may temporarily shuffle each player's equipped badges, drawing only from the party's unlocked set; the shuffle can alter active cast emphasis but can never remove collected passive powers like this one.

Hold run underwater and the body becomes a torpedo: fast, quick to steer, and damaging to anything it touches. Hollowmere's currents taught it; Undertow's defeat sealed it into the toolkit.

Recovered from: The Undertow

Duck, and energy returns faster — low-profile pauses become deliberate recharge windows. The Echo's branch teaches that stillness is a resource.

Recovered from: The Echo

Passively pulses whenever a secret lies near. Bound to a cast button it becomes an aimable prismatic cone that reveals hidden routes, decoys, breakable blocks, concealed switches, invisible blocks, and Blackcoil's own true position.

Recovered from: Blackcoil

A hybrid badge: the passive pulse is always on once collected, while the aimed reveal requires an active cast binding.

Hold strike to build a heavy close-range blow, then release it for maximum force. The Censor's doctrine, answered in kind.

Recovered from: The Censor

Strengthens the ghost pull and widens the revive touch radius for co-op recovery. Where the Leash bound its captives, the Wondernauts now bind one another — gently, and to better ends.

Recovered from: The Leash

Charge an aerial dive whose wide, shallow electric burst damages enemies and drains and briefly locks their stamina actions. Radar Thicket's storms, carried in the heel.

Recovered from: The Static

Aim and fire the hook across open air: anchors catch, small enemies are dragged close, and vertical routes open. The Sentry's vigilance, repurposed as reach.

Recovered from: The Sentry

Active badges bind to the Y cast button by default; temporary level pickups take the B slot, and a second temporary pickup can occupy Y and suppress the badge until the temporary inventory clears.

Hidden villager and critter talk bubbles surface into view — route rumors, secret hints, and local story texture the channel always carried and no one could hear. Forecast's gift is attention, not force.

Recovered from: The Forecast

Deliberately not boostable: its value is information quality, and a stronger version would only become noise.

Translucent icons rise at the screen's edge, pointing toward non-secret Harmonic Summoners, reward rooms, and the next goal — an unvisited checkpoint ahead, or the level's end. It chooses direction; it does not solve nearby hidden-object puzzles.

Recovered from: The Paradox

Deliberately not boostable. Source-attribution note: wonder_badges.md names the Archivist of Data Archives, but boss_identity_catalog.gd and story.md name this Controller The Paradox; this dossier follows the runtime and story canon.

An arcing burst that freezes enemies and lays temporary surfaces where the terrain allows. In contested play, the opening freeze slows movement and prevents new badge activation; the lingering chill slows badge cooldown recovery without draining stamina or hard-stunning.

Recovered from: The Ice Queen

Impact pulls enemies inward, then a ten-second well stands guard: hostile heavy projectiles bend into its safe-fizzle core while allied shots and fast bolts pass unbothered. Double-tap the cast button to collapse the well early.

Recovered from: The Nullstar

The first impact sets a grounded exit and opens a linked entrance over you. Press Up immediately or fire an allied grenade or Cleansing Mist pod through it; double-tap the cast button to close the pair early.

Recovered from: The Flux Nautilus

A wide arcing burst followed by a damaging burn, with fire enough to ignite organic enemies, cover, and combustible puzzle targets. The Hoarder's stockpiles made excellent kindling.

Recovered from: The Hoarder

Every activation creates one cleansing cloud around the caster and lobs a pod that creates another where it lands. The pod can traverse allied Portal Links while retaining its cleanse. Both fields cure fire, freeze, and a long register of maladies without healing or revealing hidden characters; they cancel enemy portal pairs and gravity wells caught inside them, and briefly ward nearby allies.

Recovered from: The Sporebound

Toggle the cloak and enemies simply stop looking. It steadily drains stamina, running and jumping become more expensive while hidden, and any combat action breaks the veil.

Recovered from: The Monoculture

A booster attunement of the Double Jump badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Adds a third jump before landing.

Recovered from: The Regulator

Each of the three branch capstones grants one booster capacity, up to three active boosters per player; boosters upgrade only badges already collected.

A booster attunement of the Charged Bolt badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Charged Bolt reaches full charge faster, and the charged projectile hits slightly harder.

Recovered from: The Graft

A booster attunement of the Reflect Shield badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Reflected projectiles hit harder and refund a small amount of energy.

Recovered from: The Clog

A booster attunement of the Burst Dash badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Permits two quick Burst Dashes in a row before the normal cooldown resumes.

Recovered from: The Burden

A booster attunement of the Torpedo Swim badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Torpedo Swim runs faster and drains less energy.

Recovered from: The Undertow

A booster attunement of the Recharge badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Passive recovery improves while idle or walking, and duck recharge grows stronger still.

Recovered from: The Echo

A booster attunement of the Scanner badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Passive pulses and aimed reveals reach farther and last longer.

Recovered from: Blackcoil

A booster attunement of the Charged Strike badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Charged Strike reaches full charge faster and hits slightly harder.

Recovered from: The Censor

A booster attunement of the Rescue Link badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Rescue pull and revive radius are strengthened whenever any player in the party carries this booster.

Recovered from: The Leash

A booster attunement of the Static Stomp badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: The stomp shocks a wider area, stuns longer, and deals a little more damage.

Recovered from: The Static

A booster attunement of the Grapple Hook badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: The hook reaches farther, costs less energy, and recovers faster.

Recovered from: The Sentry

A booster attunement of the Ice Grenade badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Ice bursts spread wider and freeze longer.

Recovered from: The Ice Queen

A booster attunement of the Gravity Well badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: The impact pull is wider, stronger, and longer, and the heavy-projectile field holds for longer.

Recovered from: The Nullstar

A booster attunement of the Portal Link badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Portal pairs begin with a longer lifetime; the first allied-player traversal still shortens the remaining time.

Recovered from: The Flux Nautilus

A booster attunement of the Fire Grenade badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: Fire bursts spread wider, hit harder, and burn longer.

Recovered from: The Hoarder

A booster attunement of the Cleansing Mist badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: The mist wards longer, reaches wider, and costs slightly less; it still does not heal.

Recovered from: The Sporebound

A booster attunement of the Hide badge, applied at Ability Select once branch-capstone victories open booster capacity.

Boosted: The cloak recovers a little faster and can absorb one concealment break from damage without preventing that damage.

Recovered from: The Monoculture