HIVESWAP: Act 1/Unused Captchalogue Items

This is a sub-page of HIVESWAP: Act 1.

Here's a list of every captchalogue entry in Hiveswap: Act 1, with unused items highlighted in red. As you might expect, the internal name strings can't be read in-game; however, the display names also can't be viewed in-game! This might suggest that an earlier version of the UI made use of these strings.

Techniche Abilitechs

Internal Name	Display Name	Icon	Path ID	Notes
Ballet Dance	Ballet Dance		2401
Cuebat	Cuebat		2402
Flashlight No Batt	Flashlight No Batt		2403
FlashlightAbility	Flashlight		2404
Loaded Flare Gun	Flare Gun		2405
Tap Dance	Tap Dance		2406
Telekinesis	Telekinesis		2407
Joey Tablet	Joey's Tablet		2562
Ref Joey Tablet	Joey's Tablet		2563	An early version of the tablet Joey uses on Alternia. Its files contain an unused narrated version of the scene where she sends a selfie to Xefros, which was replaced with a cutscene in the final game. Its icon is blank.
Ref Xef Tablet	Xefros' Tablet		2564	An early version of Xefros' tablet. Its files contain a few unused lines of narration. Its icon is blank.
Walkie-Talkie	Walkie Talkie		2565
Xef Tablet	Xefros' Tablet		2566
Test Ability	Test Ability		3353	Allows you to use the "Exposit" ability, just in case you need to recite some Charles Dickens. The ability uses a placeholder icon.

Sylladex Items

Internal Name	Display Name	Icon	Path ID	Notes
Attic Key	Attic Key		2574
Autotune Mic no batt	Autotune Mic (no batteries)		2575
Autotune Mic	Autotune Mic		2576	An unused powered version of Xefros' autotune mic! This item can be obtained through hacking/glitches by combining the E-Cell Batteries with the unpowered Autotune Mic. Curiously, the E-Cells remain in your inventory after this interaction. Combined with the fact that there's a single E-Cell icon in the game's files, this might suggest that the mic only requires one E-Cell, and the second battery will have some other purpose in Act 2 and beyond.
Bent Silver Spoon	Bent Silver Spoon		2577
Big Book of Beasts	Big Book of Beasts		2578
Bowl of Milk	Bowl of Milk		2579
C-Cell Batteries	C-Cell Batteries		2580
Carrier Pigeon	Carrier Pigeon		2581
D-Cell Batteries	D-Cell Batteries		2582
Dammeks Hoodie	Dammek's Hoodie		2583	Based on this unused item entry and its associated narration, it seems Joey would have originally grabbed a hoodie while exploring Dammek's hive! Although the hoodie was scrapped from Act 1, she can be seen wearing one in the trailer for Hiveswap: Act 2.
Diary Key	Diary Key		2584
E-Cell Batteries	E-Cell Batteries		2585	Unlike any of the other batteries in the game, the E-Cells have a second icon of a single battery. Although it's easy to miss, this second icon is used very briefly in-game: it's possible to throw one of the E-Cell Batteries at a monster during the basement and kitchen STRIFE battles, which swaps out the icons during the brief moment it leaves Joey's hand. The batteries also have an unused interaction with Xefros' Autotune Mic, which can be seen here. Oddly, the E-Cells remain in your sylladex after combining them with the mic, suggesting that only a single battery is needed for the mic and the second battery may serve another purpose in Act 2 and beyond - despite this, the single battery icon isn't applied after this interaction.
Empty Bowl	Empty Bowl		2586
Flare Gun (Empty)	Flare Gun		2587
Flares	Flares		2588
Flarp Manual	Flarp Manual		2589
Flashlight Container	Flashlight (container)		2590	An unused version of Joey's unpowered flashlight, which is treated as a sylladex item rather than an abilitech. Its files contain an early script with a number of unused lines.
Green Key	Heirloom Thingamajig		2591
Grub Juice	Grub Juice		2592
Horus			2593
				It seems the Horus sculpture in Half-Harley Manor's Trophy Room was once going to be a sylladex item! It appears twice in the item list, but this instance can't be added to the inventory because the file's mostly empty. It seems intended to be an inventory item though, since the file structure resembles one and its PathID places it alphabetically within the item list. Since it was going to be a key item, and considering Horus is situated opposite the red-and-green-eyed tiger (seemingly symbolising Lord English) that figures prominently in the first half of Act 1, it might be worth noting that Horus' eyes also have strong symbolic connotations! His right eye is associated with the sun (which is used as Joey's symbol) and power, and his left eye is associated with the the moon and healing (which is evocative of Joey's veterinary skills). What this might suggest about Joey's ultimate role within the plot remains to be seen.
Hover Pad	Hover Pad		2594
Lusus Milk	Lusus Milk		2595
Magic Spice Mix	Magic Spice Mix		2596
New Item	Horus		2597	Another instance of the Horus item. Unlike the previous one, this can be loaded as an inventory item and is listed within the game's "StaticDataCatalog". It's missing an icon, and doesn't seem to do anything. All the files related to Horus are peculiarly named: this one's internal name is just "New Item", the previous one is missing a display name, the TargetID file (i.e. the data for the background object you click on in the Trophy Room) is the only one in the game that doesn't have a scene number at the start of its internal name, and the target also has "I need a name!" as its display name. Why this is the case is unclear. He's a deity, and an oddity!
Pet Treats	Pet Treats		2598
Pogs	Pogs		2599
Portal Diagram			2600	A glitchy unused item that always appears to be selected when placed in the sylladex. Strangely, the portal diagram that Joey picks up in Dammek's hive is actually a different sylladex item named "Sketchy Diagram". "Portal Diagram" uses the same icon. Perhaps this half-finished paper scrap item had something to do with the scrapped note that was once found near Dammek's safe? The fact that there's an unused "Got Note" counter that would've tracked whether Joey had picked up the note also suggest that this was once an inventory item.
Pouch with Marbles	Pouch with Marbles		2601
Power Cell	Power Cell		2602
Pusher Playbook	Pusher Playbook		2603
Sketchy Diagram	Sketchy Diagram		2604
Sloth Treats	Sloth Treats		2605
Software Box	Software Box		2606	The Scratchware encryption software that Doc Scratch sends Xefros seems to have once been a sylladex item! Its icon is glitched and can't be selected, although this might be intentional since rustblood Pushers like Xefros aren't allowed to touch "The Man on the Moon".
Stale Cracker	Stale Cracker		2607
Vet Medkit	Vet Medkit		2608
Walkie-Talkie (no batteries)	Walkie Talkie		2609
Example Backpack	Backpack		3361	Part of an example scene used early in development. It can be combined with the Example Book, allowing you to craft the rare and highly dangerous Backpack With a Book In It. It's like alchemy!
Example Book in Backpack	Backpack With a Book In It		3362	Part of an example scene used early in development. Books in backpacks, and imagination in readers' minds.
Example Book	Book		3363	Part of an example scene used early in development. A daunting text, to be sure. Maybe even an unabridged copy of HARRY ANDERSON'S "WISE GUY", BY MIKE CAVENEY?
Example Bowl	Bowl		3364	Part of an example scene used early in development. The EXAMPLE BOWL would level up to become the EMPTY BOWL, later sublimating into the BOWL OF MILK, skyrocketing up its ECHELADDER to a new rung: SUPPER'S CRUCIBLE, earning 413 BOONBUCKS. Things are really looking up for this vivacious vessel.
Example Throw Pillow	Throw Pillow		3365	Part of an example scene used early in development. A pity it remained unused, since it would've been cute to carry Byers around on the cushion, like a lil pigeon palanquin.