What Breach active means
"Breach active" means the creature is already inside. A solo player who heard it asked how to stop the breach, and nothing on screen answered. Spend the first seconds on a response, not on the door you already lost. The official instruction for this phase is hide, stay quiet, and survive until morning.
The house goes dark. It hunts the people still inside. Footsteps can sound like it is beside you when it is on another side of the building. Furniture is not guaranteed: one breached layout had no locker or closet in reach.
Two responses that have worked
Leave while it is in. When it commits inside, the porch is briefly empty. A solo player repeated the swap until it worked, including a night against The Boiled One. A squad agreed on the same trigger. This is a player strategy, not the alert text. The alert tells residents to remain indoors. Outside is dark, and one player who got out was still caught. If you use the swap, pick the door and the waiting spot before the callout.
Hide without being seen. The tutorial says to hide in a closet and not let it see you get in, turn the flashlight off because it can see the beam, and watch your noise. A player who reached a basement room lived through the search. The last living player on one squad was the one who hid. Squads that survive this call it before the blackout: when the lights go out, hide.
Silence is the verified instruction. Whether sound is what draws a search is argued in the recordings. One player was blamed for being loud and answered that they had been silent. Being quiet costs nothing. A hide still fails if the creature walks into it.
Spots that are and are not shelters
Confirmed hides in recorded play:
- Closets and lockers on the house. The tutorial names the closet. Players still have to find one. Some rooms have none.
- A downstairs cabinet next to the power system. One squad put everyone there and left upstairs empty.
- A basement room with a closable door. The player survived. That recording does not name the map, so do not assume the house basement until you see the stairs.
- The pantry on the house. A group called it the safest spot. The same night the creature walked in and killed the player hiding there. Usable, not safe.
Snowbound Lodge has no confirmed closet. One player searched and found none, and a hiding plan on that map still ended in a catch. Scout at the start. Do not build a Snowbound night on a hide you have not seen. Map notes are on Play Snowbound Lodge.
The shed does not open in the run that tried it. Treat it as decoration until a session shows otherwise.
Spots are scarce and have been fought over. Agree who takes which closet before night pressure starts. Role splits are on Squad Roles, Ghosts, and Revives.
Batteries in the dark
Your flashlight is the only light you still control, and even a lit beam has left players tracing walls. During a breach:
- Use a battery you already equipped. You cannot rely on finding one after the lights die.
- Turn the beam off when the creature is close. The tutorial states that it can see the flashlight.
- Swap the moment a cell dies. A dead battery and a missing battery feel the same.
The flashlight and cells are separate from floodlights. Details are on Flashlight and Battery.
Power comes second
Do not touch the breaker while the creature is indoors. Players spell the gate out: it has to leave the house before the fuses can be flipped. Then run the normal restore, shut the door, and sweep. Getting the lights back does not remove it for the rest of the night. The fuse steps are on Restore the Breaker.
There is no kill. The clock is the finish. One player checked 5:41 and saw daytime coming. Another counted about eight minutes of light. A squad closed on 6:00 a.m. and the lobby win. If it is still inside near dawn, hide or swap exactly as before.
If a teammate drops during the breach, a living player can still bring a world revive totem. Ghosts can scout. They do not pick the totem up themselves.