This guide is up to date as of version 0.1.8.3
A tarot card deck can be obtained by either being bought at the strange shop found within M35 North East or by being found as random loot. A guaranteed deck can be found in the Slums inside a green saloon building on top of a coffee table.

When a tarot deck is used, the player pulls a random card out of the deck. There are 24 possible cards that can be picked.

Only the first card you pull per day counts, as any consecutive cards picked after are ignored. This works based on the in-game day counter, which means that if you pick a card at 23:55 on day 4, as soon as the clock strikes midnight and the game moves onto day 5, another card can be pulled.

Once a card is pulled, it has a 50% chance to fail and not do anything. If the player has the Weird Luck trait, the 50% chance to fail is ignored and instead the first card pulled will always work.

There is a direct sound cue that plays when a card is activated; a low reverberated "boom." This sound plays again for cards whose effects only properly trigger once another level is loaded.

• Psychic damage
  • Psychic damage is a special damage type primarily inflicted by anomalies and other supernatural events.
    
  • When a player receives psychic damage, their character will gasp, the screen will briefly be darkened and covered in a red vignette, and the player will have their health lowered. This can be lethal.
    
  • The amount of health lost is amplified by the amount of stacks of the Grim Aura trait the player has. Psychic damage however will always regenerate over time.
    
  • Psychic damage can be negated by the Mindful Whispers trait; each stack adds a 25% chance to nullify psychic damage and play a sound cue of soft whispers in its place instead. This chance is additive, and at 4 stacks of the trait the player can no longer take any psychic damage whatsoever. This trait can be gained by holding the Whispering Worm Familiar artifact in your inventory.
  
  
• Mental fatigue
  • Mental fatigue is a for the major part hidden and subtle mechanic. A player with high mental fatigue will occasionally experience auditory hallucinations, such as a bear roaring or a shotgun being pumped.
    
  • Mental fatigue naturally increases on its own over time. Its growth can also be accelerated by standing within the influence of a shadow sphere anomaly. Mental fatigue can be lowered by sleeping, eating cooked food, drinking whiskey and using perfume. Mental fatigue is increased by killing other Inheritors as well. This effect is further amplified by having the Guilt trait.
    
  • High mental fatigue additionally causes ghostly enemies to spawn which are only visible to the player (ignored by NPCs). Said enemies will attempt to ram themselves into the player to deal psychic damage on contact. They can be identified by distant wailing that can be generally heard across the entire map. This sound is however also shared with Lesser Angels which spawn during the dense fog weather event.
    
  • Mental fatigue can be identified by your character's animation in the inventory menu. While at or above 20 fatigue, the player character will begin to repeatedly glance behind themselves in a paranoid manner. This animation speeds up the higher the fatigue rises. If fatigue reaches 95 or higher, the player character will grasp their head and frantically flail around.
  
  
• Intoxication
  • High intoxication causes your weapons to sway which may make aiming difficult.
    
  • Intoxication can most easily be increased by drinking Whiskey. Red mushrooms also give you a high amount of intoxication, however those more often than not will instakill you upon consumption.
  
  
• Loot karma
  • Loot karma is a completely hidden mechanic that impacts the quantity of common loot found in generic green storage crates and lockers. Loot karma does NOT impact: red crates, blue crates, overall quality of found loot.
    
  • Loot karma is functionally a pity system. When the player opens a container that has nothing inside, their loot karma increases. When the player opens a container that has many things within it, their karma decreases. The amount of karma lost seems to depend on the rarity of items spawned within a container.
    
  • This means that at high karma, the next few containers the player will open will be filled with items.
  
  
• Reputation
  • The player's reputation with a faction dictates their members' relationship with the player. Your status with a faction is impacted by the amount of reputation you have with them.
    
    • [1000+] — Hero
      
    • [301 to 1000] — Trusted
      
    • [-100 to 300] — Stranger
      
    • [-500 to -101] — Distrusted
      
    • [-1000 to -501] — Pariah
      
    • [-1000+] — Despised
  • The way you're treated based on your status depends on the faction. For example, Freelancers and Revolutionists will act passively to you at Stranger, however other factions such as Insurrectionists, Cultists and the NFTA will warn or outright shoot you on sight if you are anything below Trusted
    
  • All instances of your reputation being increased or lowered are multiplied by the amount of stacks of the Intense Personalty trait the player has. At 2 stacks of intense personality, your reputation impact would be tripled, etc.
• Advantage
  • Faction advantage is a stat that impacts how much influence that faction has over the game world. The lower a faction's advantage becomes, the less often you will see their squads out in the wild. Advantage may go negative, however it is currently not possible to make a faction go "extinct."
    
  • Additionally, currently if the NFTA and Insurrection's advantage becomes low enough, the amount of their NPCs that spawn at Dead Bridge, the Refinery and the Goldwood Forest mill is significantly lowered or outright nullified.
  
  
• XP
  • XP is a hidden stat that impacts the world around the player. XP affects how well geared squads that spawn are, as well as which contracts are available to the player.
    
  • Naturally, player XP only increases as they progress through contracts and missions.
  
  
• Artifact seed
  • The world artifact seed is a number that dictates what artifacts can currently be found around the map out in the wild. These random artifacts choose where they appear out of preset possible spawnpoints, which means some areas may have an artifact spawn in a shared spot between two seeds.
    
  • This seed is occasionally rerolled by some heavy weather events, such as Eather Blowouts. Any change to the seed immediately respawns all wild artifacts.

Any frequently asked questions from the comments section may be included here for clarification

• The easiest way to maximise a tarot card deck is by purchasing a Shark Hat from the Strange Shop. As long as the player is wearing it, they gain weird luck, which guarantees the first card to work. This allows you to put the hat on and use a card, then swap back to your usual helmet. The hat can also be carried at all times without much consequence, as it only weighs 0.1 kilograms.
  
  
• The city's numeral is written incorrectly as IIX. The correct way to write 8 would be VIII. This may however be intentional for currently undisclosed lore/symbolism reasons.
  
  
• 451 is a commonly referenced number in immersive sims.
  
  
• The Flower Lady NPC spawned by the Forest is a survivor covered in flowers. Instead of old advertisements like the other suvivors, her voicelines consist of a lady crying. Notably, she is completely passive to the player, and will run away from all other NPCs. Interestingly enough, even other survivors will go out of their way to try and kill her.
  • She may rarely spawn naturally most often on Crossroads and Black Lake

Thank you to those that helped alongside the hunt:

• The Salty Rock
  
• JeffNotGeoff

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