How to beat the Witch in SULFUR, and what happens after

Beat the Witch by preparing before you leave the Desert, shooting her black eggs the moment they appear, and using jump gear to clear the laser phases. The Amulet cannot take you home from Beyond the Veil, so every item you bring is at risk. After she falls, interact with the car, drive through the credits, and the story loops back to the Caves with Endless mode unlocked.

Before you leave the Desert

The game saves after Desert Claus. From there you walk into Beyond the Veil with what you carry.

• Empty your bags of valuables you want to keep, and bank SULF in a Priest’s Chest.
• Bring two well-ranked guns and a spare. Since 1.0 the Witch has damage gates like every other boss, so a single-shot build no longer ends the fight in one trigger pull. Plan for sustained damage; see guns for the Witch.
• Jump gear: Sulf Air, Springcoil Boot or the Pope Hat. Extra jumps let you clear the laser walls instead of threading between them.
• Sliding: Ass Wheel and Knee Pads let you slide under most non-homing attacks.
• Healing: Health Potions also cure Burning and Poisoned. The area has 20 Rödsopp mushrooms for potions (9 Rödsopp, or 3 Rödsopp and 1 Herb) or Rödsopp Paste, and your Priest’s Chest appears before the arena.
• Crowd damage: a multi-pellet gun with Chain Lightning clears adds if the fight drags on.

Guns for the Witch

Each role below is a complete rank-5 setup in gun builds.

Role	Build	Why
Damage on her	Holy Fire Fisk (608 per shot, 30-round magazine) or .50 BMG Pierre-Fusil (1,480 per shot)	Instant railgun beams hit her while she teleports; the Pierre-Fusil’s six rounds empty fast into each gated phase
Eggs and adds	Explosive 12Ga Corpsemaker	Forty pellets break several eggs per shot; each hatched Abomination has 1,600 HP
Reserve	Infinite-ammo D4RT	No ammo used and 1,200 shots of durability, since there is no Amulet exit to restock

• Wear explosion resistance with the 12Ga build. A Titanium Helmet (+30) or Motorcycle Helmet (+45) keeps your feet free for Sulf Air and its extra jump, but takes the Pope Hat’s head slot; the Peg Leg (+45) does the reverse and costs 15% jump power.
• Leave the Scroll of Crusader at home; a Chinese guide reports it does not affect her. Cryo Snakes can target every boss since 1.0.

Phases

Her attacks speed up, come more often and bring more adds as her health drops.

Phase	What happens	What to do
Teleport and throws	She blinks around the arena and throws eyes	Keep strafing; shoot when she settles
Ring of copies	Copies surround you; only the real one bounces	Shoot the bouncing Witch to advance
Broom bombing	She flies over the arena and bombs it	Move out of the marked areas; shoot her on the pass
Laser hallways	Beams sweep corridors at set heights	Double-jump over them or slide under
Eggs	Black eggs appear around the arena	Destroy each egg quickly or it hatches an Abomination

Since 1.0 the last boss also spawns more targets when it enters one of these phases.

If the fight seems stuck

• If she flies out of the burning church and nothing happens, the developers’ answer is to interact with the car.
• Being sent back to the start at 25% health was fixed for players by restarting the game; the save remained.

After the Witch

There is no alternate or “true” ending in 1.0. You drive the car through the credits (Space speeds them up), and the story loops back into the Caves. Her dialogue explains the Amulet’s nature; refusing to pick it up again only works by quitting the game.

• Achievements: It’s over… or is it? for finishing, plus the difficulty clear for your save slot and every easier difficulty. Hardcore’s clear is the rarest at 0.7% of Steam players. Keeping a Driver’s License in your inventory while driving unlocks Law Abiding Citizen.
• Endless mode opens through the floor hatch in front of the Church pulpit for 1 Stamp. See Endless mode.
• A Soul Cube pedestal appears near Arthur after the win. It does nothing in 1.0.6, and the locked Church cellar stays locked. The 1.0 announcement says new areas will come later.