Once Human: Lunar Oracle Update Guide

“Visional Wheel – Lunar Oracle” is a new tag, which will be applied to all scenarios starting from January 16th, 2025. After this update, all players will receive a “Scenario Exit Card” for free. This card allows you to exit the current scenario at any time and join another one. This way, everyone will have an opportunity to join servers with the “Lunar Oracle” tag.

So far, this guide is based on the developers’ posts in the official Once Human Discord, but it will be updated over time as I explore new features.

Official Lunar Oracle Trailer

What is Visional Wheel

Visional Wheel is a “mysterious extradimensional Deviation” that cannot be secured by players. Within the game logic, this deviation warps reality across all dimensions and triggers anomalies in each scenario. At the moment, there is no more detailed info about it (appearance, story, etc.).

Scenarios affected by this deviation are called “Visional Scenarios” with unique rules. You can get access to them using the in-game sign-up system.

There are 3 ways Visional Wheel can affect scenarios:

• Survival: Alters survival rules, environmental conditions, and resource distribution.
• Combat: Introduces new weapon types and build changes.
• Game Modes: Modifies the rules of specific game modes within scenarios.

In Visional Scenarios, players can obtain exclusive deviations and other valuable rewards.

What is Lunar Oracle

Lunar Oracle is an anomaly generated by Visional Wheel. According to the developers’ promises, each “Visional Cycle” lasts for 2-3 months, after which the Visional Wheel generates new anomalies. Simply put, servers with the “Lunar Oracle” anomaly will be available for 2-3 months, after which the developers will introduce a new anomaly (scenario tag) with new rules. In the official Discord, they said this is done to add variety to gameplay, since many players were asking for this in their feedback.

Pay attention: Lunar Oracle Visional Scenarios are only available for experienced players via the in-game sign-up system. Novices will not be able to access them.

Roadmap

• January 16: “Lunar Oracle” Visional Scenarios will be released for Manibus, Evolution’s Call, Prismverse’s Clash, and The Way of Winter (not including novice scenarios).
• February 13: The “Crimson Moon” event will begin, and developers promise many “amazing gifts.”
• March 13: “Lunar Oracle” gameplay will be “upgraded” as a mysterious shadow appears. There is no more detailed information about this at the moment.

Lunar Oracle Unique Rules

Lunar Oracle will be active from 21:00 to 03:00 in-game time, which is about 15 minutes in real time. The lower your HP during this time, the more resources you can collect. The Lunar Oracle timer can be seen in the inventory.

Lunacy

Lunacy is a unique effect, which will be applied to all players during Lunar Oracle. If a player dies, they receive protection from Lunacy during the current Lunar Oracle.

When Lunacy is active, the character’s eyes will glow red. When the character is outside their territory, Lunacy gradually decreases Sanity to a minimum of 20%. The Sanity recovery rate is also decreased significantly, and you need to defeat enemies to recover it.

During Lunar Oracle, players have a resource acquisition buff. The lower the character’s HP, the stronger this buff. Also, while infected with Lunacy, players can discover hidden Oracle Crates in settlements and more deviated plants in the wilderness. Gathering resources in the wilderness during Lunar Oracle might trigger Deviant attacks, which makes survival difficult.

How to Find Hidden Crates

Every dusk, when the crimson moon rises (from 09:00 PM to 03:00 AM in-game time), explore various locations. There, you can find hidden crates (usually 2 crates per settlement).

They are placed under a large crimson moon symbol, which is hard to mistake for anything else.

The crates can have various grades, and to open them, you will need to spend a certain amount of Moon Whispers. Inside, you might find weapons, equipment, Lunar Suffix Mod Boxes, unique animals, unique Lunar animal skins, and other useful items.

Moon Whispers can be obtained by killing mobs and gathering resources (e.g., mining, chopping trees) during the Lunar Oracle. They remain in your inventory for 2 hours of real time and disappear if you don’t manage to spend them. Additionally, you will lose a certain number of Moon Whispers if your character dies.

Moon Whispers

Moon Whispers are a unique resource that can be obtained by killing mobs, gathering resources (e.g., mining, chopping trees) and participating in various game modes during the Lunar Oracle. Lunacy affects the amount of Moon Whispers you obtain, meaning the lower your HP, the higher the bonus.

They remain in your inventory for 2 hours of real time and disappear if you don’t manage to spend them. Additionally, you will lose a certain number of Moon Whispers if your character dies, depending on your Sanity level: the lower your Sanity, the more resources you lose.

Lunar Oracle Consumables

In January 17, 2025 players receive a gift from the developer via in-game main. This gift contains new unique consumables, which weren’t mentioned in patch notes.

• Lunar Gummy (Energy +50, Sanity -300). Effect: Use to gain a shield 60% of your max HP x the percentage of Sanity lost. Lasting 30s. Cannot be used again within 60s.
  
• Surprise Spring Roll (Energy +100). Use to increase Elemental DMG by 5-15%. The effect doubles if HP is below 40%.
  
• Roulette Dumplings (Energy +100). Use to randomly get one of the following effects: 1) Eating reduces Sanity by 150, DMG +15% against elite enemies, DMG +15% against bosses, DMG +15% against Deviants. During the Lunar Oracle you gain all these effects at once.
  
• Unusual Braised Meat (Energy +100). Use to gain 15% DMG Reduction if your Sanity is below 40%.
  

At the moment, there is no more info about these dishes. It is possible that they can be crafted after unlocking recipes, which only can be found on the Lunar Oracle servers.

Wilderness Changes

During Lunar Oracle, players will encounter the following changes in the wilderness:

• Berserk-deviants – a more aggressive version of themselves, dealing increased damage.
• Unique Elite enemies – they are going to “target players in settlements,” though it’s not entirely clear what the developers mean by this.
• Oracle Crates – they will appear in settlements, and players will be able to unlock them using Moon Whispers. Different grades of crates require different amounts of Moon Whispers to open. The crates might contain exclusive formulas (which significantly increase Meta’s abilities), unique mods with the “Lunar” suffix, Lunar animal skins, unique animals, and Lunar Oracle Morphed Deviations.
• The Prime War and Stronghold Conquest – these modes will also be affected by changes in the wilderness.

New Weapons

During the first Lunar Oracle, 3 new weapons will be available:

• A crossbow that triggers chained Power Surges.
• An SMG that allows you to exchange HP for ammunition instead of reloading.
• A pistol that has a chance to trigger Unstable Bomber to deal massive damage.

The update will also bring to the game 3 new Key Gears, 1 new Gear Set, several new mods, the “Lunar” mod suffix, a new seasonal Cradle effect, and balance adjustments for weapons and deviants.