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Tin Hearts Walkthrough – Act 3 (Level 40)

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Check out our walkthrough of Tin Hearts to find out how to solve levels 40, which introduces vac tubes to the game’s mechanics.

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Act 3 (Contd.)

Level 40

Begin this level by opening the toy soldier box and placing a bunch of prism blocks so that your soldiers get into the commutator. Check the screenshot below for one way to do that.

Once a soldier is in the commutator, you’ll activate the turnstile – but this turnstile requires 12 soldiers, when you only have 6 at hand. That’s not a problem, as we’ll soon find out.

Arrange a bunch of prism blocks so that your soldiers pass through the turnstile once, and then loop right back over the book to pass through the turnstile a second time.

Have a look at the screenshot below to see how this can be achieved.

Once the turnstile has been turned 12 times, you will activate a vac tube, which allows your soldiers to instantly be transported to new places.

Arrange two prism blocks so that your soldiers stop looping and instead make for the vac tube door near the start of the level.

Once through the vac tube, they will exit at the other end of the table. Arrange a few prism blocks here to guide the soldiers onto the treadmill.

After the soldiers have walked on the treadmill, arrange your prism blocks so that the soldiers climb above the books and return to the start of the level.

When your soldiers have crossed the book near the turnstile, place prism blocks as you did before, so that the soldiers re-enter the vac tube.

Now follow the vac tube to find out where the soldiers will end up – which is the other side of the room, near the palace.

Allow the soldiers to pass through the palace and then trap them there. Remember that your soldiers can re-enter the vac tube, which we don’t want them to do at the moment.

Now take control of your free soldier, who’s going to go on an adventure.

Go to the end of the table and jump across the crates and planks to reach a balloon machine.

Get a balloon and jump across the gap to reach the boxes next to the airship, and then the airship itself.

Use the pinwheel next to the airship to send the airship to the end of its path, and then as the free soldier, get on the shelf.

Proceed to the balloon machine on the barrel and grab a balloon. Jump across the gap toward the pinwheel, but be careful to land just before the pinwheel, or you’ll go flying elsewhere.

Run across the saw and onto the airship nearby, then use the pinwheel you just avoided to move the airship forward.

Adjust the drum near your new location to send the free soldier onto the big crates nearby, and then jump onto the drum.

Grab a balloon and wait. Now, adjust the pinwheel just ahead to point to the next pinwheel.

As for the second pinwheel, point it toward the crate with the balloon machine on it. Then when you’re ready, jump toward the first pinwheel to be carried off toward the crate.

Grab a balloon from the balloon machine and then jump for the shelf with the pinwheel on it. From there, jump onto the airship.

Use the pinwheel to send the airship going forward, and then grab a balloon from the balloon machine on the crate.

In the area up ahead, adjust the drum so that it will send your free soldier onto the platform with the cannon up ahead.

Then, as the free soldier, jump onto the drum and land on the platform ahead.

Adjust the cannon so that it points at the white arrow on the power hub, and then hit the cannon as the free soldier.

This has now routed the vac tubes so that your soldiers can enter the vac tube near the palace and be transported directly to the end of the level.

Go all the way back to the palace area and move any obstacles you may have used to trap the soldiers. Allow the soldiers to enter the vac tube and then return to the end of the level.

Your soldiers will automatically be routed to the exit door, so now we’ll focus on your free soldier. Aim the pinwheel near the drum so that it points toward the platform with the vac tube.

Then as the free soldier, grab a balloon from the balloon machine and jump toward the pinwheel to be taken to the other side.

Join the other soldiers in exiting the level.

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