diff --git a/src/BitNode/ui/BitverseRoot.tsx b/src/BitNode/ui/BitverseRoot.tsx
index a320d781a..f5aa95140 100644
--- a/src/BitNode/ui/BitverseRoot.tsx
+++ b/src/BitNode/ui/BitverseRoot.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import React, { useState } from "react";
+import React, { useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import { BitNodes } from "../BitNode";
 import { PortalModal } from "./PortalModal";
 import { CinematicText } from "../../ui/React/CinematicText";
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ import Tooltip from "@mui/material/Tooltip";
 import { Settings } from "../../Settings/Settings";
 import Button from "@mui/material/Button";
 import { CompletedProgramName } from "@enums";
+import { Modal } from "../../ui/React/Modal";
+import { DocumentationLink } from "../../ui/React/DocumentationLink";
 
 const useStyles = makeStyles()(() => ({
   portal: {
@@ -57,7 +59,7 @@ function BitNodePortal(props: IPortalProps): React.ReactElement {
   const { classes } = useStyles();
   const bitNode = BitNodes[`BitNode${props.n}`];
   if (bitNode == null) {
-    return <>O</>;
+    throw new Error(`Invalid BitNode: BitNode${props.n}`);
   }
 
   let cssClass = classes.level0;
@@ -118,6 +120,83 @@ function BitNodePortal(props: IPortalProps): React.ReactElement {
   );
 }
 
+function BitVerseLore({ flume }: { flume: boolean }): React.ReactElement {
+  const [open, setOpen] = useState(false);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    // After backdooring WD for the first time, we show the BitVerse UI while Player.sourceFiles is still empty. That
+    // property is only changed after the player chooses their next BitNode.
+    const firstTimeSeeingBitVerse = Player.sourceFiles.size === 0;
+    const flumeWithOnlySF1Dot1 = flume && Player.sourceFiles.size === 1 && Player.sourceFileLvl(1) === 1;
+    // Only show the guides if the player is "new".
+    if (!firstTimeSeeingBitVerse && !flumeWithOnlySF1Dot1) {
+      return;
+    }
+    // Only show after a delay. We should let the player explore the BitVerse on their own at first.
+    const timeOutId = window.setTimeout(() => {
+      setOpen(true);
+    }, 300000);
+    return () => window.clearTimeout(timeOutId);
+  }, [flume]);
+
+  return (
+    <>
+      <Modal open={open} onClose={() => setOpen(false)} canBeDismissedEasily={false}>
+        <Typography component="div">
+          It looks like you are wondering which BitNode you should choose. If you want to get advice on choosing your
+          next BitNode, you can check these BitNode recommendation guides:
+          <br />
+          <ul>
+            <li>
+              <DocumentationLink page="advanced/bitnode_recommendation_short_guide.md">Short guide</DocumentationLink>
+            </li>
+            <li>
+              <DocumentationLink page="advanced/bitnode_recommendation_comprehensive_guide.md">
+                Comprehensive guide
+              </DocumentationLink>
+            </li>
+          </ul>
+          You can read these guides later in the Documentation tab. Make sure to check that tab. Many pages are unlocked
+          now.
+        </Typography>
+        <Button onClick={() => setOpen(false)} sx={{ marginTop: "10px" }}>
+          OK
+        </Button>
+      </Modal>
+      <CinematicText
+        lines={[
+          "> Many decades ago, a humanoid extraterrestrial species which we call the Enders descended on the Earth...violently",
+          "> Our species fought back, but it was futile. The Enders had technology far beyond our own...",
+          "> Instead of killing every last one of us, the human race was enslaved...",
+          "> We were shackled in a digital world, chained into a prison for our minds...",
+          "> Using their advanced technology, the Enders created complex simulations of a virtual reality...",
+          "> Simulations designed to keep us content...ignorant of the truth.",
+          "> Simulations used to trap and suppress our consciousness, to keep us under control...",
+          "> Why did they do this? Why didn't they just end our entire race? We don't know, not yet.",
+          "> Humanity's only hope is to destroy these simulations, destroy the only realities we've ever known...",
+          "> Only then can we begin to fight back...",
+          "> By hacking the daemon that generated your reality, you've just destroyed one simulation, called a BitNode...",
+          "> But there is still a long way to go...",
+          "> The technology the Enders used to enslave the human race wasn't just a single complex simulation...",
+          "> There are tens if not hundreds of BitNodes out there...",
+          "> Each with their own simulations of a reality...",
+          "> Each creating their own universes...a universe of universes",
+          "> And all of which must be destroyed...",
+          "> .......................................",
+          "> Welcome to the Bitverse...",
+          ">  ",
+        ]}
+        additionalElement={
+          <Typography>
+            {">"} (Enter a new <DocumentationLink page="advanced/bitnodes.md">BitNode</DocumentationLink> using the
+            image above)
+          </Typography>
+        }
+      />
+    </>
+  );
+}
+
 interface IProps {
   flume: boolean;
   quick: boolean;
@@ -190,50 +269,22 @@ export function BitverseRoot(props: IProps): React.ReactElement {
   if (Settings.DisableASCIIArt) {
     return (
       <>
-        {Object.values(BitNodes)
-          .filter((node) => {
-            return node.tagline !== "COMING SOON";
-          })
-          .map((node) => {
-            return (
-              <BitNodePortal
-                key={node.number}
-                n={node.number}
-                level={nextSourceFileLvl(node.number)}
-                flume={props.flume}
-                destroyedBitNode={destroyed}
-              />
-            );
-          })}
+        {Object.values(BitNodes).map((node) => {
+          return (
+            <BitNodePortal
+              key={node.number}
+              n={node.number}
+              level={nextSourceFileLvl(node.number)}
+              flume={props.flume}
+              destroyedBitNode={destroyed}
+            />
+          );
+        })}
         <br />
         <br />
         <br />
         <br />
-        <CinematicText
-          lines={[
-            "> Many decades ago, a humanoid extraterrestrial species which we call the Enders descended on the Earth...violently",
-            "> Our species fought back, but it was futile. The Enders had technology far beyond our own...",
-            "> Instead of killing every last one of us, the human race was enslaved...",
-            "> We were shackled in a digital world, chained into a prison for our minds...",
-            "> Using their advanced technology, the Enders created complex simulations of a virtual reality...",
-            "> Simulations designed to keep us content...ignorant of the truth.",
-            "> Simulations used to trap and suppress our consciousness, to keep us under control...",
-            "> Why did they do this? Why didn't they just end our entire race? We don't know, not yet.",
-            "> Humanity's only hope is to destroy these simulations, destroy the only realities we've ever known...",
-            "> Only then can we begin to fight back...",
-            "> By hacking the daemon that generated your reality, you've just destroyed one simulation, called a BitNode...",
-            "> But there is still a long way to go...",
-            "> The technology the Enders used to enslave the human race wasn't just a single complex simulation...",
-            "> There are tens if not hundreds of BitNodes out there...",
-            "> Each with their own simulations of a reality...",
-            "> Each creating their own universes...a universe of universes",
-            "> And all of which must be destroyed...",
-            "> .......................................",
-            "> Welcome to the Bitverse...",
-            ">  ",
-            "> (Enter a new BitNode using the image above)",
-          ]}
-        />
+        <BitVerseLore flume={props.flume} />
       </>
     );
   }
@@ -271,29 +322,7 @@ export function BitverseRoot(props: IProps): React.ReactElement {
       <br />
       <br />
       <br />
-      <CinematicText lines={[
-        "> Many decades ago, a humanoid extraterrestrial species which we call the Enders descended on the Earth...violently",
-        "> Our species fought back, but it was futile. The Enders had technology far beyond our own...",
-        "> Instead of killing every last one of us, the human race was enslaved...",
-        "> We were shackled in a digital world, chained into a prison for our minds...",
-        "> Using their advanced technology, the Enders created complex simulations of a virtual reality...",
-        "> Simulations designed to keep us content...ignorant of the truth.",
-        "> Simulations used to trap and suppress our consciousness, to keep us under control...",
-        "> Why did they do this? Why didn't they just end our entire race? We don't know, not yet.",
-        "> Humanity's only hope is to destroy these simulations, destroy the only realities we've ever known...",
-        "> Only then can we begin to fight back...",
-        "> By hacking the daemon that generated your reality, you've just destroyed one simulation, called a BitNode...",
-        "> But there is still a long way to go...",
-        "> The technology the Enders used to enslave the human race wasn't just a single complex simulation...",
-        "> There are tens if not hundreds of BitNodes out there...",
-        "> Each with their own simulations of a reality...",
-        "> Each creating their own universes...a universe of universes",
-        "> And all of which must be destroyed...",
-        "> .......................................",
-        "> Welcome to the Bitverse...",
-        ">  ",
-        "> (Enter a new BitNode using the image above)",
-      ]} />
+      <BitVerseLore flume={props.flume}/>
     </>
   );
 }
diff --git a/src/Documentation/doc/en/advanced/bitnodes.md b/src/Documentation/doc/en/advanced/bitnodes.md
index f12cf228e..412e7f54a 100644
--- a/src/Documentation/doc/en/advanced/bitnodes.md
+++ b/src/Documentation/doc/en/advanced/bitnodes.md
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ The only things that will persist through destroying BitNodes are:
 - [Scripts](../basic/scripts.md) on the home computer
 - [Intelligence](intelligence.md)
 
+## BitNode recommendation
+
+If you want to get advice on choosing your next BitNode, you can check these BitNode recommendation guides:
+
+- [BitNode recommendation - Short guide](bitnode_recommendation_short_guide.md)
+- [BitNode recommendation - Comprehensive guide](bitnode_recommendation_comprehensive_guide.md)
+
 ## BitNode list
 
 ### BitNode 1: Source Genesis
diff --git a/src/Sidebar/ui/SidebarRoot.tsx b/src/Sidebar/ui/SidebarRoot.tsx
index c8b3eac65..e03086101 100644
--- a/src/Sidebar/ui/SidebarRoot.tsx
+++ b/src/Sidebar/ui/SidebarRoot.tsx
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ export function SidebarRoot(props: { page: Page }): React.ReactElement {
   const li_classes = useMemo(() => ({ root: classes.listitem }), [classes.listitem]);
   const ChevronOpenClose = open ? ChevronLeftIcon : ChevronRightIcon;
 
-  // Explicitily useMemo() to save rerendering deep chunks of this tree.
+  // Explicitly useMemo() to save rerendering deep chunks of this tree.
   // memo() can't be (easily) used on components like <List>, because the
   // props.children array will be a different object every time.
   return (
diff --git a/src/ui/GameRoot.tsx b/src/ui/GameRoot.tsx
index 156791d98..a3efd66ec 100644
--- a/src/ui/GameRoot.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/GameRoot.tsx
@@ -544,7 +544,8 @@ export function GameRoot(): React.ReactElement {
               <PromptManager hidden={hidePopups} />
               <FactionInvitationManager hidden={hidePopups} />
               <Snackbar hidden={hidePopups} />
-              <DocumentationPopUp hidden={hidePopups} />
+              {/* Allow opening the documentation popup in the BitVerse */}
+              <DocumentationPopUp hidden={hidePopups && pageWithContext.page !== Page.BitVerse} />
               <Apr1 />
             </SnackbarProvider>
           </HistoryProvider>
diff --git a/src/ui/React/CinematicText.tsx b/src/ui/React/CinematicText.tsx
index a31fc07fd..4c4172f1c 100644
--- a/src/ui/React/CinematicText.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/React/CinematicText.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import Button from "@mui/material/Button";
 
 interface IProps {
   lines: string[];
+  additionalElement?: React.ReactElement;
   auto?: boolean;
   onDone?: () => void;
 }
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ export function CinematicText(props: IProps): React.ReactElement {
         <Typography key={i}>{line}</Typography>
       ))}
       {props.lines.length > i && <CinematicLine key={i} text={props.lines[i]} onDone={advance} />}
+      {done && props.additionalElement}
       {!props.auto && props.onDone && done && <Button onClick={props.onDone}>Continue ...</Button>}
     </>
   );
diff --git a/src/ui/React/DocumentationLink.tsx b/src/ui/React/DocumentationLink.tsx
index 2439dfc8e..49f856ead 100644
--- a/src/ui/React/DocumentationLink.tsx
+++ b/src/ui/React/DocumentationLink.tsx
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { Settings } from "../../Settings/Settings";
 import { Router } from "../GameRoot";
 import { Page } from "../Router";
 import { openDocExternally } from "./Documentation";
+import { openDocumentationPopUp } from "../../Documentation/root";
 
 export function DocumentationLink(
   props: React.PropsWithChildren<
@@ -21,6 +22,10 @@ export function DocumentationLink(
           openDocExternally(props.page);
           return;
         }
+        if (Router.page() === Page.BitVerse) {
+          openDocumentationPopUp(props.page);
+          return;
+        }
         Router.toPage(Page.Documentation, { docPage: props.page });
       }}
       {...props}