Table of Contents
- Temple Island & Jungle Island
- Boiler Island
- The Starry Expanse & Prison Island
- Survey Island
- (More to come!)
Welcome to the Into Indie Games walkthrough for Riven (2024).
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Boiler Island
- Get off the minecart and take the ladder down.
- Here, you’ll find a giant boiler to your right, and a power distribution mechanism in the middle of the crater lake.
- Go to this mechanism and turn the handle so that it is in the middle position, i.e. along the pipe leading to the boiler.
- Go to the boiler now. As it is active, you can’t enter it, but there is a walkway leading left to the boiler controls.
- There’s four controls here.
- The leftmost handle controls the power distribution to the pipes.
- The wheel controls the level of water.
- The vertical handle controls the height of the floor.
- The rightmost handle controls the heat.
- First, turn the wheel, then turn the rightmost handle. Next, turn the leftmost handle to redirect power, and finally use the vertical handle to raise the floor.
- (Note: the water will stop draining if you redirect power. Make sure the water is completely drained before redirecting power.)
- Now return to the boiler door and enter. Take the ladder down.
- Follow the rusty pipe to the oceanside and then take the cliffside path all the way up.
- Follow the path to a walkway and slide the rusty handle to secure a shortcut down to the lake.
- Before we proceed, we should redirect power to the area beyond. Go down the ladder and return to the power distribution mechanism.
- This time, turn the handle back to its original position, facing right.
- Return to the ladder and go back up, then open the doors.
- Proceed along the walkway, down the stairs, and through the cave. At the end you’ll find a machine with a button. This is what the power pipe is supplying power to.
- Press the button to drain water and go down the ladder.
- Approach the white cloth near the mining area and use the mining pick to get a stone.
- Put the stone in the receptacle on the cart, and then use the wheel handle on the cart to move it as far as it can go.
- Get off the cart and approach the wheel handle nearby to bring down a dumbwaiter.
- Once the cart is in the dumbwaiter, get back on it. Use the lever behind the wheel on the cart to lock the cart in place, and then use the wheel to go up.
- You are now in Gehn’s laboratory on Boiler Island. There’s a lot of lore to explore in this room, but of special interest is this table with the bowl-like receptacle in it.
- Move the canister that’s holding down two pieces of paper. You should read both pieces of paper here, but be sure to take a screenshot to your notebook of the paper on the right.
- (You should see the screenshot control in the pause menu).
- This puzzle changes values every playthrough, and so you will require a screenshot for later reference. We have included ours below, but do remember that you may not be able to solve the puzzle if you use what we got for this walkthrough for Riven.
- There’s another thing to do here that will be useful later. Take the stone you mined, and put it in the bowl receptacle on this table.
- Use the vice to break the shell of the stone open. Pick up the fire marble inside and put it on the machine to the left.
- We must now determine the strike force for the marble. Pull the plunger on top and then press the white button to strike the marble.
- Then, move the horizontal switch across the spectrum, and strike the marble again. Keep doing this with different values until you find the reading pin in the exact middle, like below.
- Take a screenshot to your notebook of the machine once you’ve done this.
- There are two doors out of the lab. Both doors have to be unlocked first before you can open them.
- Simply use the handle on the right to unlock the door, and then the handle on the left to open it.
- One of the doors will lead to the Maglev, but ignore this door for now. Instead, take the other door to a walkway overlooking the crater lake.
- On this walkway, take a left and follow the path until you reach what appears to be a dead-end. The door blocking your way however, will open, revealing a path ahead.
- Go down this path and use the handle to open the door at the end of the stairs.
- Beyond, you’ll find a spinning sphere. Use your Moiety Lens and you’ll find a mark on one of the symbols on the sphere.
- This mark represents this particular sphere, so keep it in mind.
- Now turn around and close the door you just came through, which will open another path to the right.
- Go through the tunnel to find a stroboscope. Wait for the stroboscope to get to the symbol you saw marked before, and hit the button on top at that time. This might take a few tries.
- Return to the sphere, which has now opened up. Approach the inner sphere and you will enter the Starry Expanse.
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