This is the last achievement in Servant of the Lake and it does not exist until the credits have rolled. It sends you back through all three days re-entering specific answers, and finishes at a window with a telescope.
Finish Day 3 before reading this page.
Updated 16 August with a fuller source: this route has nine steps, and two of them — the cellar box and the bottles — can now be described in words rather than left blank.
What you will need
| Where | Value |
|---|---|
| Day 1, clock in Aldous's bedroom | 4:05 |
| Day 2, bathing tiles | Alexandra, bathroom, bathtub, suitcase, hand |
| Day 3, the maze | right, right, right, left, right, left, right, right, left |
| Day 1, attic | three constellations — castle, moon, water |
| Day 3, cellar box | a line drawing, copied from an unlocked document |
| Day 3, three bottles | bronze, silver, gold, in order |
| Cellar | 6294 → telescope |
The nine steps
1. Continue, and read the note. After the credits, choose Continue on the title screen. Read the note — this is what arms the sequence, and skipping it is the most common reason nothing happens.
2. Day 1 — set the clock to 4:05. The in-game clue is "The crow awakes at five past four." On the first pass this clock wanted 7:00, and muscle memory is why people get this wrong.
3. Day 2 — the bathing tiles. Select Alexandra, the bathroom, the bathtub, the suitcase and the hand.
Sources disagree on the count here: one lists five picks as above, others give four by treating the bathroom and the bathtub as one. Work from what the grid actually offers you — the set is the same either way.
4. Day 3 — the maze. Input right, right, right, left, right, left, right, right, left. Described elsewhere as a click sequence on the alchemy boxes; one guide frames it as navigating a maze from the centre to the exit. The nine inputs are identical.
5. Day 1 attic — the constellations. Not a dial. You connect three shapes:
| Constellation | Connect |
|---|---|
| Castle | the gate, two windows, the tower — 4 points |
| Moon | two half-moons — 2 points |
| Water | the fish, the droplet, the boat — 3 points |
The point counts are 4, 2, 3, which is why the earlier shorthand "attic stars 4 2 3" also gets you there. Connecting the right shapes is the actual mechanic.
6. The cellar box — a line drawing. Reproduce the pattern from the document you unlock. The one thing that makes it readable: where the drawn line looks thicker, two lines overlap. That is why screenshots of this step were so hard to follow.
7. Three bottles in order. Each carries a bronze, silver or gold marker, and the correct order opens a passage in the barrel. One guide ties the markers to three portraits — past is bronze at five o'clock, present is silver at eight, future is gold at ten. That mapping is single-source, so treat it as a strong hint rather than a settled answer.
8. The cellar box — 6294. The code is derivable rather than arbitrary:
- 6 — the number left uncrossed in Alexandra's letter
- 2 — from the window in the Preparing Coffee chapter
- 9 — from the animal parts in the hunting chapter
- 4 — from the symbol in the alchemy chapter
9. Telescope → the upper window. Take the telescope from the box, leave the cellar, and look out of the window near the dining room.
That is the achievement.
Why the route is built this way
Every step is a lock you already opened once, re-opened with the same answer or a deliberately altered one. The clock gives it away: 7:00 got Aldous out of bed, 4:05 wakes something else. The game is asking whether you were paying attention the first time, not whether you can solve anything new.
If it does not fire
You skipped the note. Step one is not flavour.
You used 7:00. Check step two.
You never opened the cellar box. The telescope has no other source.
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Still to be confirmed
We could not verify the following against more than one source, so we have left it out rather than guess. This page is updated as confirmations come in.
- Whether the bathing tile step takes four selections or five — one guide lists the bathroom and the bathtub as separate picks, the others merge them.
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