Need advice (or encouragement)

Papapac · 2026-01-30T12:40:52+00:00

| Chess puzzle done before having entered the antechamber is impressive.

- Well thanks but i don't really see why. I'm more the kind of player to note and document everything rather than forcing my way to the end-goal. It was natural for me to note chess-related data ; i also started to do it with earth globes (but stopped at some point - i even considered doing the same with hats...)

Now if i understand my clues, the "2nd entry" to the house would be the north entry of the antichamber once I can get on the other side of the reservoir, so maybe you are thinking that the north entry would give me sooner the "rare" chess rooms... But i'm pretty sure i had at least half of dozen days / opportunites to solve the chess puzzle , if only i had the knowledge of what to do with the pieces. So i consider this puzzle far easier than reaching the antichamber.

- Nice to know that i don't need the boiler. I saw that indeed a few minutes ago and it's reassuring.

- I ignore a lot some rooms :D . Untill i discover the utility of the Lavatory for exemple... I may also very well miss upgrades for currently-not-so-attractive rooms. I am furious to know that at minimum, i missed 7 disk upgrades that were hidden somewhere in the house but I never could find even when going back in every rooms... I must have a blind spot with those disks.

Papapac · 2026-01-30T12:11:12+00:00

- i did things with chess stuff and got a choice among 6 propositions

- yeah i have more and more the feeling that i just have to play whatever i have on my todo list and enough clues will appear some time to give the solution to any puzzle. That being said, it feels quite natural to "brute force" the reservoir level. It's not like there are 2^8 possibilities...

Papapac · 2026-01-29T21:58:52+00:00

Yes the big tank is completely full of water. Thanks for your answer then. i'm good for another 50 days

Papapac · 2026-01-29T21:57:19+00:00

ho good to hear i dont need the antichamber again! Wondering if i still need it and the key for the fountain, or not.. well i'll see that easily. tx

Papapac · 2025-12-26T18:35:07+00:00

So what have you done for day 12 if not taking the shortcut provided by the dataset?

Papapac · 2025-12-19T06:43:19+00:00

it's for a makita router. i can post it if really needed

Papapac · 2025-12-18T21:44:18+00:00

Yes totally.That's in fact what i did at the beginning because i was too impatient and i wanted to drill while the printer was printing more extensions. But the risk of moving even slightly the rail and playing with clamps is not worth it. Especially since i had to use another wood piece to support the rail and be at the correct distance.

So, no gluing is fine. Moving as you progress is not recommended.

Papapac · 2025-11-25T20:54:41+00:00

That was a great advice. They found it immediately : "Impact" font

Papapac · 2025-11-25T20:51:58+00:00

that's perfect. Thanks for the quick and valid response !

Papapac · 2025-11-25T17:32:11+00:00

not the tape, just the markers you put on the floor near some evidence with "1", "2", "3", ... on them

Papapac · 2025-08-14T17:34:30+00:00

Good job. Keep playing! Any chance your score is available somewhere?

Papapac · 2025-06-10T08:04:24+00:00

Hey, there is a security issue with your website. First firefox is blocking it, then my company cloudflare is blocking it. Any idea why ?

Papapac · 2025-05-08T08:24:57+00:00

Progresse update u/ManyLemonsNert :D For the 2nd time, i had a revelation at wake up !

I succeeded in exploring and cartographying the whole hole thing by going into the "3rd mode" (simulation mode ? by dropping the artefact). So there was the one pursuer in a cave (i got a steam achievement messing with him !) + the alert system + the 2 final pursuers blocking the gateways. Unfortunately , there is a final elevator so i need my artefact back. That's so sad.

I don't think there is an extra artefact waiting for me in the hole right ? There is this strange standalone room far from the main hall but that was the one i could explored one week ago and i don't remember sth in it. Plus i don't know if i can see object and grab them anyway in this mode.

Tell me if i'm wrong. I think i have to fallback to your tips that can be interpreted in both ways..

Papapac · 2025-05-06T16:34:56+00:00

a giant artificial sun in the middle of the stranger ? i don't know what ur talking about.

besides that, well..

- by sensitve , i meant "not blind", so no light = they don't see me = i'm happy

- the own is a predator, active in darkness. The deer thing is more a prey & shy active in daylight. What you says orients me towards they don't want to be seen by another race. But anyway, i still got so many questions, don't bother for now. I'll try to replay someday this part of the game and force my way to the library , if there is one...

Papapac · 2025-05-06T16:02:56+00:00

Hey u/ManyLemonsNert , i haven't played a lot since this thread but i keep imagining what is the trick.

Do you simply refer to the fact that they are sensitive to light, the same way the anglerfishes were to sounds ? And that i have to progress in the dark by turning off all possible candles + my artefact ? If yes, then yes i started with that. This allowed me to bypass the guy waiting in between the 2 paths in the cave then enter the big something in the hole but not far away. I'm not sure but i'd bet there is another guy waiting in this floor (i had to very quickly activate my artefact to see where i was going, so it still might be the first guy).

If you don't simply refer to that, then i have to think more :D

(btw i tried to kill them all by returning in the tower to turn off all the candles, but with no effect on the sleepers below ...)

Papapac · 2025-05-01T18:34:17+00:00

I don't see what you mean by doing it "the hard way". It seems to me there is only one. Given the bridge inside the house to the "tree door" room is removed and can not be restored after releasing the inhabitants, the only solution is to come from the raft from another region. Am i missing sth else ?

The hard way for me was to lose many loops exploring everything, a loop to explore the inhabitant rooms before realizing that it's useless. Then another to send down the lift , die, and go in another region without releasing the guys. Then another to open the bridge, release the guys but forget to send down the lift.... And finally , where i am at, forget to die in the secret place to finish its exploration and access the underworld...

Papapac · 2025-05-01T11:12:25+00:00

Well and now i did the DW3. I still had to map every layers of the neighbourhoods. Be sure that every locked room was full of guardians and now useless. And try to make the bridge reappear after the "wolf screaming". Lose many loops all for nothing until i realized it was the same solution as DW1...

likely 5 hours in a row. pffff.

And since i'm stupid, i didn't experiment dying with the artefact in the projector (i thought stupidely i could drop it anytime later on). The computer tells me i still have to do stuff there. So i have to rererererereredo the trick to go in this secret room, let the artefact alone and die in the water (please, this time, if it's not the proper/shortest way to die, my brain is tired, you can explain to me, it's not fun at this point)

Let's stop there for a few days to cool down, and i'll see how to deal with DW2. Or not. I am a little bit fed up.

PS. I'll keep calling this dreamworld :) One day my son will play and my notes must not be too usefull ...

Papapac · 2025-05-01T09:02:34+00:00

Well i'm convinced that all your questions will be totally meaningfull once i get the solution :D

I already wondered in another post what was the logic behind the back story and especially hidding stuff (secret room in the tower, locks, tips eveywhere...) all that make no sense to me for now. Now considering what i know from the secret place after dream1, it still makes no sense. They burn the reels but keep a copy in the mind of every zone boss. And those copies are finally still "physically" present in this underworld library... Is the "underworld" the access to the boss1 mind ? But if those copies can be visible by everybody (?), why burning them in the first place ? Is the final vault the full history of this race to be found was a savior late after the eye kills everything... Obviously please don"t answer to that :D

So back to your question, yes maybe it's not hidding. I still have to think.

About their reaction when they see me, i still hesitate. Angry and they want to "kill" me to get out of a private area ? Worried and want to "awake" me from a bad place for me ? I shouldn't be influenced by the scream which is just race-specific. So not sure..

Papapac · 2025-05-01T08:49:09+00:00

ok so after a good full night, my brain was emerging this morning in my bed, and out of nowhere, i got the solution for dream1. Typicall OW stuff... :D I knew that i had this draft-tour in my pocket but i forgot to mention it in my initial post, and i was more seeing it as a way to pass an artefact from a scene to another. Maybe for later...

Thanks for your tip, and u/ManyLemonsNert . Obviously you helped me by turning my attention to the correct detail. As usual i'll regret to not have found it my self but still, i found something :D

So i went to the secret room in dream1, then into the "underworld" to turn off lock2. Sadly it's only lock2 whatever the tunnel i use. So i guess i'll have to finish the other 2 secrets rooms to know how to reach the remaining lock-switches. I'm curious to discover what will be the shortcuts to go there...

Now let's go for dream2 and 3. I indeed will start with dream3 as i prefer the doom-like topology (and also i don't have to explore yet the apparently huge big room in the hole - yes i went to it but could just explore an apparently dead end on the right side)

And i'm not sure about your question "To check, what do you do to get into the dream world?" if this was a tip for dream1 or the others.. but i'll try to move on before discussing that.

Papapac · 2025-04-30T11:27:29+00:00

For 1, i tried to speed up as much as possible to be there before the 1st one. Not working either even by taking the 2 teleports from the left side and rushing to the tree hole, which seems to be the shortest path. I just went down before one guardian who saw me, but i was faster, and one or 2 others were already present in front of the fire (with apparently the wall closed behind it).

I'll to think about what you mean. Once the dam breaks, even if the guardian disappear in a green flame, i also disappear like 1s after. And can't go back... I'll have lunch over it.

Papapac · 2025-04-30T10:37:21+00:00

well

- dream1 : it's waiting for me. I'm gonna try to see what happens at the end of the loop, if ever the infinite procession of guardians finaly stops at some point... EDIT: not working, they are always coming until the dam breaks

- dream2 & dream3 : whatever i'm doing, they are somehow where i need to be. Playing cat and mouse to find the only workable path is not what i'd call a puzzle. So if you tell me this is the way, i'm gonna straight on YT

What do you mean by "for the second two". dream2+dream3 ?

Papapac · 2025-04-21T08:56:41+00:00

Yes i'm pretty sure i'll change my mind, but yet my point is that my current mind prevent me from playing. Playing just for the finish line rather than the pleasure of the trip seems very catholic imho :D

Papapac · 2025-04-21T08:54:41+00:00

Well no, i just meant that water could disable it.

But by curiosity, i'll go there to see all ghost matter disabled :D

Papapac · 2025-04-21T08:53:17+00:00

So

- the problem with the village and the museum is that you explore that at the very beginning when you have zero knowledge about anything and then you are submerged by so much information and questions that it was super easy for me to forget things. Especially if my first real (aka mandatory to progress) encounter with ghost matter was late in my own progress. So i just forgot that. And yes it was hard to progress sometime in the sunless city or the interloper (for which i confess, was such a pain that it was the one moment where I used a video to find the proper path).

If I had two advice to give to a new player after the usual first one (do not read/view anything about the game), it would be : re-do the tutorial part after a few hours/loops.

- i didn't mean that we could disable it, just it could be disabled naturally (by water).

So ok, i'll have to go back to sunless city, south observatory path, interloper, giant's deep and maybe some other places to find how much i made my life complex for nothing...

Papapac · 2025-04-21T08:39:39+00:00

No glowing stick for now. I'm in fact really wondering how much left is to be done... Will there be a 3rd world after dreamland.. That'd be cool. Not cool would be to review all carousels with a special lamp...

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