Carrion unbound

Become CARRION's growing flesh monster inside Noita's caves. Crawl across surfaces, bend a tentacle around corners to drag prey and objects, and feed to build biomass. Real creature artwork, health cells and sounds are loaded from your installed CARRION copy while Noita supplies its world, physics, liquids, enemies and wands.

This is a solo Windows beta requiring both Noita and CARRION.

• Feed and grow. Biomass is your size and shared health. Outgrowing an enemy lets you eat it with less weakening, up to 90% health for larger prey. Ordinary hearts add 100 biomass; Holy Mountain hearts restore your previous peak. Separate free tentacles automatically pull reachable passive animals from the start. Eating enemies also awards their normal gold.
• Use the world. Drag, throw and regrab real objects. Press E while holding a wand to cast its own spells, or use hearts, break potions and detonate explosive containers. Your close-range Space roar clears pixels and grows with your body. Gold survives drilling.
• Evolve in the shops. Each cleared Holy Mountain shop offers three saved, illustrated gold upgrades in place of its usual wands and spells; hearts, perks and portals remain. Choose Harpoon Volley, Hunter Tendrils, Extra Mouths, Instant Devour, Metal Appetite, Ravenous, Long Grasp, Barbed Tendrils or Reinforced Flesh. Several hunters can attack an inedible enemy from a distance. Goblin Tentacles lets purchased hunters fetch gold when danger has passed; Gold Magnet attracts loose gold.
• Unlock new powers. Buy demonic Membrane Wings, Camouflage, terrain-corroding Acid Glands, Tentacle Drill, all-material Barbed Drill or Devastating Roar. Fire-resistant Hide, Acid-resistant Hide, Lava Shell and the softer Crimson Glow help with hazards and darkness. Water Absorption and Blood Absorption turn contact liquid into biomass; Water Absorption also removes the need to breathe. Eating ten fish can earn Water Absorption for free.
• Become your prey. Morph learns native enemy forms from completed meals. Use [ and ] to choose a form in the top-left picker, then M to transform or return. Biomass, gold and purchased upgrades carry between bodies; flying enemy forms retain flight. Individual enemy special abilities and saving while transformed are not fully certified.
• Find free evolutions. Membrane Wings waits at the Mountain Altar. The Thundercloud orb at the lava lake has free Hunter Tendrils and Barbed Drill cards; that free Barbed Drill needs no basic drill purchase.

Move with WASD, hold left mouse to grab and steer a tentacle, and release to drop or throw. Bring edible prey and the cursor into your body to feed. E uses held objects or buys a nearby card. Purchased powers appear along the bottom with their current key bindings: right mouse for harpoons, Shift for drilling, I for camouflage and G for acid.

Startup requirements: Noita’s “Unsafe mods” support is required to read CARRION’s installed content. Melty’s launcher enables it for this session and restores your previous setting afterward. Version 1.1.1 also prepares Steam’s direct-launch metadata so Noita can retain the mashup’s launch settings on a fresh setup. Both games must be installed.

The launcher keeps a separate mashup save and preserves your ordinary Noita run. Close Noita before starting this profile. Tested game builds: Noita Jan 25, 2025 / Steam build 17130612 and CARRION Steam build 9877347; other versions are not broadly certified. Acid spit corrodes softer terrain, preserves metal/harder materials and gradually evaporates; it currently does not reliably damage enemies. Balance and long-run behavior remain beta work.

Credits: Noita — Nolla Games. CARRION — Phobia Game Studio / Devolver Digital. FMOD — Firelight Technologies, read in place from the player's CARRION installation. Original mod code, documentation, upgrade cards and wing artwork — Kronus Lol with Codex assistance. The wand bearer references TheHorscht/EZWand's virtual-wand pattern; no EZWand code is bundled.

Original mod work is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; remixing is allowed. Game content and FMOD remain their owners' property and are never included in the download or copied between games.