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Floors are levels in Side Order. The level system of Side Order consists of individual floors in the Spire of Order, which are randomly selected on each run, except for the first climb.

List of floors

The floors available to the player during Floor Selection depend on the segment of the tower the player is on, with the available options skewing towards harder floors the more progress is made in the segment. Certain floors in a segment share the same root name and basic geometry, and are differentiated by different difficulty ratings, objectives, or name prefixes describing the floor's particular hazards.

If the player has not played a floor before, or if the boss is not revealed, the floor's name will display as "???". An "Updated" splash displays next to the player's completion time if they beat their recorded personal best for that floor.

1F-9F

Floor Name	Objective	Base Reward
Easy
Bowl.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	25
High-Tower.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	25
Pyramid.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	25
Forward-Momentum.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	30
Rising-Ground.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	30
Wide-Open.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	30
High-Tower.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	35
Orbit-Rail.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	35
Wide-Open.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	35
Bowl.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	40
Wide-Open.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	40
Rising-Ground.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	45
Steamroller.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	45
Stepping-Stones.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	45
Normal
Bowl.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	100
Rising-Ground.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	100
High-Tower.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	105
Pyramid.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	110
Bowl.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	115
Pyramid.Floor	Protect the zones!	120
Wide-Open.Floor	Protect the zones!	120
High-Tower.Floor	Protect the zones!	125
Pyramid.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	125
High-Tower.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	130
Careful-Aim.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	130
Rising-Ground.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	135
Uphill-Push.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	140
Whirling(Crowd).Floor	Protect the zones!	145
Hard
Field-Day_Pyramid.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	200
Assault(Incoming)_Bowl.Floor	Protect the zones!	205
Shelterless_Wide-Open.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	210
Up-and-Down_High-Tower.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	215
Pursuit(All-Out)_Wide-Open.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	220
Launching_Pyramid.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	225
Danger-Magnet_Bowl.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	230
Explosion-Festival.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	235
Exposed_Rising-Ground.Floor	Protect the zones!	240
Rigorous
Coverage(Between-Crosshairs).Floor	Protect the zones!	500
Acrobatic_Triangular.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	520
Bombarded(Relentless)_Rising-Ground.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	540

11F-19F

Floor Name	Objective	Base Reward
Easy
Crisscross.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	35
Rotational.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	40
Double-Hill.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	45
Fortress.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	45
Crisscross.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	50
Switchback.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	55
Normal
Danger-Magnet_Uneven.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	135
Rolling_Double-Hill.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	140
Field-Day_Fortress.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	145
Open-Season_Fortress.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	150
Danger-Magnet_Crisscross.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	155
Springing_Double-Hill.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	160
Springing_Uneven.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	165
Open-Season_Switchback.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	170
Open-Season_Crisscross.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	175
Reckless_Switchback.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	180
Exposed_Switchback.Floor	Protect the zones!	185
Danger-Magnet_Switchback.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	190
Carefully-Aimed-Reversal.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	195
Hard
Outstretched-Neck_Uneven.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	340
Bombarded(Constant)_Exposed.Floor	Protect the zones!	345
Ceaseless_Open-Season_Uneven.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	350
Onrushing_Shelterless_Fortress.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	355
Projectile-Spam(High)_Uneven.Floor	Protect the zones!	360
Springing(Swarmed)_Double-Hill.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	365
Ping-Ponging_Double-Hill.Floor	Protect the zones!	370
Springing_Jamboree.Floor	Protect the zones!	375
Frantic_Double-Decker_Crisscross.Floor	Protect the zones!	380
Rigorous
On-the-Run(Circles)_Eternally-Hunted.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	550
Ferocious_Invading-Droves_Fortress.Floor	Protect the zones!	570
Unreasonable_Shelterless_Up-and-Down.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	590

21F-29F

Floor Name	Objective	Base Reward
Easy
Danger-Magnet_Covered.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	80
Springing_Gateway.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	85
Field-of-Explosions.Floor	Protect the zones!	90
Normal
Frantic_Scampering_Two-Bridge.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	250
Open-Season_Ink-Spattered_Two-Bridge.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	255
Projectile-Spam(Med)_Divided.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	260
Bombarded_Whirling_Divided.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	265
Surrounded(All-Sides)_Covered.Floor	Protect the zones!	270
Whirling-Enemies(High)_Two-Bridge.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	275
Ink-Drenched_Gateway.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	280
Large-Underpass_Covered.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	285
Hard
Targeted(Giants)_Open-Season_Gateway.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	465
Scampering(Between-Crosshairs)_Covered.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	470
Intense_Homing(Swarm)_Gateway.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	475
Shelterless_Swarmed_Two-Bridge.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	480
Threatened(All-Sides)_Two-Bridge.Floor	Protect the zones!	485
Extensively-Circuitous_Covered.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	490
Springing_Open-Season_Divided.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	495
All-the-Way-Down(Then-Up-Again).Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	500
Dizzying_Unstable-Footing(Bounce-Pad).Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	505
Eternally-Vigilant_Soaker-Blockade.Floor	Protect the zones!	510
Powerful_Danger-Magnet_Divided.Floor	Protect the zones!	515
Rigorous
Unreasonable_Mountain_Battlefield(Ascent).Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	720
Flying_Springing_Open-Season_Divided.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	740
Eternally-Shelterless_Nightmare_Gateway.Floor	Protect the zones!	760
Cruel_Sisyphean_Eight-Shaped.Floor	Protect the zones!	780
Combined-Forces(Striking-in-Unison).Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	800

Special floors

• Control Room

This is the floor to fight Marina Agitando and the Overlorder

• Elusive-Bounder.Floor

This is the floor to fight the Pinging Marciale

• Intensifying-Harmony.Floor

This is the floor to fight the Parallel Canon

• Layered-Rotator.Floor

This is the floor to fight the Asynchronous Rondo

• Vending-Machine Corner

This is the floor for the Vending Machine

First climb

When playing Side Order for the first time, the player has to go through a 10-floor first climb before they are given access to the full 30 floors of the Spire of Order. This effectively functions as the tutorial of Side Order. During this first climb, the floors and the color chips given are not randomized, the player starts with three lives, the damage taken is set to 100% and color chips have double the efficacy that they do on subsequent runs (e.g., two Ink Saver (Main) chips on the first climb reduce ink consumption to 50%, equivalent to four Ink Saver (Main) chips normally). The player can choose to play 7F to 9F in any order. On 10F, the player faces Marina Agitando. The initial completion of the first climb gives a flat  50 as the score is not calculated.

The first 9 floors in the first climb are unique to the tutorial and do not appear in subsequent runs.

Floor No.	Difficulty	Floor Name	Objective	Reward	Color Chip
1F	Easy	First.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portal!	10	Main Damage (Distant)
2F	Normal	Home-Turf.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	60	Poison Ink
3F	Hard	Special-Surprise.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	120	Lucky Bomb Drop
4F	Easy	Gliding.Floor	Protect the zone!	20	Ink Saver (Main) x2
5F	Normal	Springing.Floor	Escort the turbine tower!	80	Drone Killer Wail
6F	Normal	Double-Zoned.Floor	Protect the zones!	80	Main Range x2
7F-9F	Easy	Rolling.Floor	Sink the ∞-balls!	30	Dodge Roll Attack
	Normal	Escape-Artist.Floor	Defeat the fleeing foes!	90	Main Ink Coverage
	Hard	Whirling-Shell.Floor	File:SO Icon portal.png Destroy the portals!	130	Max Lucky Chain
10F	N/A	Control Room	Liberate Marina!	N/A	N/A

Floor selection

Agent 8 on the floor selection screen during the first climb.

During a 30-floor run, the player will be given the option of three floors with varying difficulty, objectives, and rewards. Each selection has a difficulty, objective, and color chip reward, with a small chance of awarding two instances of the given color chip. Membux will be earned based on the difficulty of the floor the player selects; bonus floors offer the chance to gain additional Membux by imposing optional restrictions or fill the player's empty Palette slots with temporary Color Chips of a random color. The color chip is applied before the start of a floor.

Upon selection of a floor, the player will spawn onto a starting platform while the objective text will be displayed to the player. The cage will spawn at the end of this starting platform, where the player can ride the cage above the main platform, which will allow players to strategically plan where they will land on the floor platform using Pearl Drone to glide down. After landing, the player can glide using the drone by pressing while in midair.

Spire of Order map

The Spire of Order's map as Agent 8 ascends a floor

After finishing a floor, the Spire's map will appear and show a few completed floors below the player, future floors above the player, and what floor the player is currently on.

The background of the Spire map will change colors depending on what third of the spire has been reached. The first ten floors have a dark grey background, 11F through 20F have a dark turquoise background, and 21F through 30F have a dark purple background.

11F and 21F are always guaranteed to have a Vending Machine as an option, while 5F is guaranteed to have a Vending Machine if the last run made it past 5F, and a guaranteed Vending Machine can be unlocked on 15F and 25F using Marina's Hacks.

Spire map icons

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  A key icon

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  A vending machine icon located next to one of the floors of the spire map

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  A Player icon indicating what floor a player is located on within the spire map

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  A (hidden) boss icon indicating a boss floor on the spire map

Floor objectives

Floors can have one of five different objective types, although some floors are limited as to which objectives they can have due to being designed with a specific objective in mind.

Objective	Icon	Description
Destroy the portals!	File:SO Icon portal.png	Agent 8 must destroy all Jelleton portals found on a given floor.
Defeat the fleeing foes!		Agent 8 must pursue and defeat Panicking Alla Mambos that flee from them.
Sink the ∞-balls!		Agent 8 must guide one or more ∞-balls; this mode is similar to Octo Expansion's 8-ball stations.
Protect the zones!		Agent 8 must keep one or two zones inked for a timed duration while Jelletons attempt to attack and claim the Zone.
Escort the turbine tower!		Agent 8 must ink a turbine tower to move it along its fixed path; this mode is similar to Tower Control.

Boss floors

Boss	Icon	Description
Pinging Marciale		The Pinging Marciale is a large Jelleton similar to both the Rampaging Octowhirl and an 8-ball. Its arena has bumpers at the edges; if the Pinging Marciale hits them, a Wave Breaker-like shockwave will spawn when it hits the ground, many Jelletons are summoned, and the Pinging Marciale will periodically lose its outer shell, exposing weak points that the player can hit to deal more damage.
Asynchronous Rondo		The Asynchronous Rondo has layers that rotate around itself, with rectangular weak points that slightly protrude from each layer. The player must defeat it by knocking down each glowing layer, while avoiding floodlights, Jelletons, and bombs summoned by the boss.
Parallel Canon		Parallel Canon takes the form of Jelleton-like ink blobs in the shape of Inklings that attack using weapons, resembling Splatoon's playable characters. The boss is fought in three waves of one to five such creatures at a time. Its appearance can be influenced by the player's Splatoon 2 save data previously imported, specifically the appearance of their Agent 4.

Floor features

Features that can appear on a floor within the Spire.

Floor Feature	Description
Inkrail	An Inkrail found within the Spire of Order
File:SO Dash Track.jpg Dash Track	A dash track within the Spire of Order
Balloon Fish	A balloon fish within the Spire of Order
Crates	A crate within the Spire of Order
Armor	A case of Armor within the Spire of Order
Ink refiller	A Ink refiller within the Spire of Order, which refills 50% of the player's ink when collected.
Canned Special	A can, featuring Marina's poster, that fills up 50% of the player's special gauge within the Spire of Order
Disc Piece	A piece of an audio disc within the Spire of Order. Collecting three allows Pearl to play her "Step-Off Song", which temporarily disables portals, knocks back enemies, and stuns bosses.
Drone Batteries	A battery pack within the Spire of Order that partially fills up the drone gauge by 100p.
Whirling Accelerando shell	A type of top-shaped mechanism found within the Spire of Order that when attacked, rapidly pierces through nearby enemies for high damage and can bounce off walls. Dropped by defeated Whirling Accelerandos.

Bonus effects

Bonus effects are special events that can occur on any given floor, and are marked as such inside the floor selection screen. A bonus event can consist of one of two potential options: Color Chip Saturation and Bonus Objective

Color Chip Saturation

If a Bonus Event is a Color Chip Saturation, any empty slots in the Palette will be filled with random chips from the same tone.

If it is a Drone Chip Saturation, these chips can bypass any limits on the Drone, granting them up to a full suite of five Drone skills even if the hack for drone slots isn't maxed out, and including all potential Drone skills, even those which are currently not brought or active.

Note that if the Palette is completely filled, a Color Chip Saturation event can never happen.

Bonus Objective

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If a Bonus Event is a Bonus Objective, an objective will be chosen to act as an optional limitation. Completing the floor while adhering to the limitation imposed by the Bonus Objective will yield an additional Membux reward equal to the floor's advertised completion reward, with a minimum bonus of  100 for floors of sufficiently small value. Actions taken which violate the Bonus Objective will reduce the bonus reward given upon floor completion, indicated by a counter in the top-right corner of the HUD.
Bonus objectives won't spawn until you've reached 12F for the first time.

Bonus Objective	Breach Limit	Information
Don't use your main weapon!		This objective will have the Membux reward be tied to using the main weapon—using sub weapons, specials and the Pearl Drone will not reduce the reward, but each shot of the main weapon will reduce the reward accordingly.
Don't use your sub weapon!	6 Uses	This objective will tell the player how many times they can use the sub equipped before forfeiting the reward fully, and each use of one will reduce the reward accordingly.
Don't use special weapons!	3 Uses	This objective is akin to the sub weapon one as it will tell the player how many times they can use the special equipped before forfeiting the reward fully, and using one will reduce the reward accordingly.
Don't take damage!		If the player takes damage with this objective, the Membux reward will decrease.
Don't move in Octoling form!		Moving around in Octoling form reduces the reward, including hovering with the drone and most movement involving special weapons. The player is not penalised if they use a weapon that does not make them move.
Don't move in swim form!		Like above, but this time moving in swim form reduces the reward. This includes any movement during Kraken Royale or Crab Tank's ball form. The player can turn into swim form on an ink patch of their color and stay still without losing any Membux.
Don't glide!		The reward is tied to how long the player glides using the Pearl Drone. The automatic switch to glide mode after a certain amount of airtime can be overridden by entering swim form, attacking with a main weapon, or readying a sub weapon.
Don't jump!	10 Jumps	The reward is tied to how many times the player jumps or Squid Rolls. This only counts successful manual jump inputs—airtime gained from level elements such as dash tracks and inkrails, Spiccato springs, climbing walls in swim form, or simply walking off ledges are not counted, so long as the player did not jump to reach them.

Danger effects

Danger effects are debuff events that can occur on any given floor, and are marked as such inside the floor selection screen. Danger level floors will contain an augmentation similar to Salmon Run Next Wave's Known Occurrences. If a player decides to avoid a floor marked with danger upon its initial appearance, the danger augmentation is more likely to re-appear over more floors in the player's floor selection screen over the course of the run until a floor with the danger effect is selected. It is possible for a danger effect to become unavoidable and persist for the rest of a run.
Danger effects do not spawn until 15F is reached for the first time during a run.

There are a total of nine different danger effects, or which any one could spawn on any floor: six single danger effects, and three combo danger effects that combine two danger effects together.

Danger augment	Description
Lights Out	The stage is dark, making it difficult to see the terrain and enemies.
Ink Coating	Agent 8 must fight on a main platform that is fully covered in enemy ink (excluding zones if applicable).
No Pearl Drone	Agent 8 must fight without the help of the Pearl Drone (this includes gliding and the Step-Off song).
No Item Drops	Enemies do not drop items when killed. Crates still drop items, and the Drone Items chips still work as well.
Stronger Jelletons	Agent 8 must battle Jelletons that are in their tougher form right off the bat, rather than after some time left alive.
Arpeggio Barrage	Homing Arpeggios will continuously spawn and attack at unpredictable intervals.
Combined Danger Augments
Lights Out + Ink Coating	Not only is the stage darkened, making it hard to see, but (barring any Zones) the entire floor is covered in enemy ink.
No Pearl Drone + No Item Drops	Not only is the Pearl Drone disabled, but the Jelletons will not drop any items. Items will still drop from crates.
Stronger Jelletons + Arpeggio Barrage	Not only are all Jelletons in their tougher forms right off the bat, but Homing Arpeggios will continuously spawn and attack Eight.

Trivia

• In the September 2023 Nintendo Direct trailer of Side Order, the names of the floors do not have their formatting seen in the final game, now being shown to be written plainly rather than being formatted similar to a computer file.
• The jingles that play after clearing a floor (excluding the Control Room) reference various songs by Off the Hook.
  • On the first climb, the jingle references Color Pulse.
  • Outside of the first climb, the jingle on clearing a non-boss floor references Spectrum Obligato ~ Ebb & Flow (Out of Order).
  • The jingle on clearing a boss floor references We're So Back.
• It is possible to revisit the first climb by interacting with the headset found to the left of the elevator. However, no Prlz will be rewarded for completing the first climb again, and the palette equipped will be set to Pearl's.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	フロア Furoa	Floor
Dutch	Etage	Floor
French (NOE)	Étage	Floor
German	Etage	Floor
Italian	Piano	Floor
Russian	Этаж Etazh	Floor
Spanish	Piso	Floor
Korean	플로어 peullo-eo	Floor

Color-Chip Saturation

Language	Name	Meaning
Dutch	Tintenverzadiging	Tint saturation / satiety
French (NOE)	Monochromisme	Monochromism
Russian	Тональный овердрайв Tonal'nyy overdrayv	Tone overdrive