Start the elevator | Volcanic Vent Planet Samorost 3 Guide

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After you land on the Volcanic Vent Planet, you will see the view presented in the above screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

After you land on the Volcanic Vent Planet, you will see the view presented in the above screenshot. Note that the Mandragora that you have obtained on the previous planet is still present in your inventory. After you go off the ship, approach the area circled in the above screenshot. Interact with it, using your trumpet and watch the cutscene that will shed some light on the tasks here. After the cutscene ends, go towards the right edge of the screen and walk into the next section.

Here, you find that you can interact with, using your trumpet - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

Here, you find that you can interact with, using your trumpet. This will lead to the appearance of hints. They will be key for the next task, which is why you can ignore them for now.

Instead, note the objects circled in the above screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

Instead, note the objects circled in the above screenshot. It's two crabs that will always appear in this part of the location. Your task is to make the crab on the right climb onto the crab on the left. Left-click on one of the crabs to see the result of this interaction. The crab that you have clicked stops momentarily in that spot. Keep clicking on the crab to stop it, until the moment at which the other one climbs onto it.

After you complete this task, you will receive another sound collectible (Hermit Crabs Steam achievement) - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

After you complete this task, you will receive another sound collectible (Hermit Crabs Steam achievement). Go towards the right edge of the screen and walk over to the next location.

Before you start the main task, note the crabs circled in the above screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

Before you start the main task, note the crabs circled in the above screenshot. Your objective now is to use the crabs to form a living pyramid. Grab one of them by left-clicking on it and stand it onto another one. Remember that the biggest crab should be at the base of the pyramid and they should be getting successively smaller.

To obtain a sound collectible, you have to stack four crabs to form a stable pyramid - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

To obtain a sound collectible, you have to stack four crabs to form a stable pyramid. Try various combination. If any of the crabs is too big for its level of the pyramid, it will fall down. (Crab Pyramid Steam achievement).

Before you continue your journey, try to use the trumpet on the circled object - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

Before you continue your journey, try to use the trumpet on the circled object. As a result, you will unlock another logic puzzle.

The puzzle consists in eliminating the yellow objects shown in the above screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

The puzzle consists in eliminating the yellow objects shown in the above screenshot. The machine projects a big yellow circle, small yellow circles, big blue circles and small blue circles. Below, I have provided possible combinations for objects of the same color:

-big circle + big circle = plus symbol

-small circle + small circle = big circle

-big circle + small circle = three small circles

To manipulate the objects, hold down the LMB and drag them over each other. After you drop the circles, you get to see the result of the combination immediately. After you have eliminated all of the yellow objects, you have to combine the remaining blue objects into a big blue circle.

First of all, place a small yellow circle onto the big yellow circle. This way, you eliminate one big yellow circle and you are left with only small yellow ones. Form big blue circles and combine them into plus symbols. Combine PLUS symbols with small yellow objects. After you drop a yellow circle onto a blue plus symbol, the only things left will be be a big blue circle and a small blue circle. The yellow object will be neutralized. Keep combining the blue circles into plus symbols and eliminating yellow objects, up until only blue objects are left. Then, combine the small circles into big circles, the big circles into plus symbols. Then, combine plus symbols into even bigger circles.

After you have combined all of the objects, you should arrive at a single big circle - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

After you have combined all of the objects, you should arrive at a single big circle. Left-click on the circle. After you watch another cutscene, you receive another memento (Sputnik Steam achievement).

The machine opens up - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

The machine opens up. Inside, you find the second book for your collection. Remember that you have to collect the book as quickly as possible, after the machine opens (by left-clicking on it). If you do not do it in time, the machine's lid will close and you will have to solve the entire puzzle again. After you collect the book, press the ESC key and open the section with the book, where you can read it.

After you collect the book, note the object circled in the screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

After you collect the book, note the object circled in the screenshot. Your task is to tip it over, in a way that enables you to enter the crater to the left of the object. Hold down the LMB on the object. Start moving the mouse left and right to sway the object. Keep doing that up until it leans against the rim of the crater.

After you release the mouse button, the pointer should change shape into the one corresponding to movement - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

After you release the mouse button, the pointer should change shape into the one corresponding to movement. Left-click on the crater hole to make your character enter. Before you do that, however, return to the previous location and use the trumpet on each of the totems, thanks to which you learn their symbols.

Inside the crater, you get to see the view shown in the above screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

Inside the crater, you get to see the view shown in the above screenshot. Your task here is to manipulate. As a result, symbol that you have seen, after having interacted with each totem, should appear next to the totem on the surface. You can move the totems around by holding down the LMB on the totem mask and moving the mouse up and down.

The above screenshot presents the correct arrangement of symbols to set the wheel on the cave wall into motion.

Before you leave the cave, note that you can interact with the area marked in the screenshot - Start the elevator - Volcanic Vent Planet - Samorost 3 - Game Guide and Walkthrough

Before you leave the cave, note that you can interact with the area marked in the screenshot. After you click on the area, a centipede will come out of the wall. Click on the centipede for several times to obtain a sound collectible (Centipede Steam achievement). After you are done with that, return to the cavern with totems.

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