Aporia: Beyond The Valley

Aporia: Beyond The Valley

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The Glass Door: Location of all Shards
Tekijältä Innocentive
Have you had enough hunting for those shards you need to complete the glass door? Look no further...
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Introduction
Finding all the shards for the glass door in the chapter A Long Walk can be a tedious business. This guide aims at facilitating the acquisition of all shards. To that purpose there are two sections:
  • A map indicating the location of all shards. This map is supposed to only narrow down the scope of your search. You will still need to figure out where each shard actually is.
  • A precise guide of how to get each shard. This will obviously spoil the entire tediousness fun.
For completeness sake, the following contains lots of SPOILERS. ;)

And finally, feel free to comment if you find parts of this guide incorrect or incomplete.
Map locations for all shards
The following map indicates the location of each and every shard in the valley. Good luck finding the ones you haven't gotten yet.
Precise locations of all shards
Here is a screenshot of the completely empty glass door. I've added numbers for reference purposes:
Shard #01

This is probably the hardest shard to find. It is located on the first floor of the house that is just east of the bridge that leads from the forest area to the direction of the huge water puzzle area:

To get to the first floor you need to jump on the ruin parts in the north west of the house:


The easiest way I found to get up to the first floor is by standing north of the house facing north towards the white 'column'. You can easily jump up there.


Once you're on the first floor, the shard is easy to find in the north-east corner on a table.
Shard #02


This shard is rewarded after solving the lights puzzle in the forest pond. Simply interact with all 10 lights positioned in and around the pond and then add them to the stone table on the small island. All lights are clearly visibile from the small island in the pond except for one light in the water behind the wall on the west side of the small island.
Shard #03


This shard is rewarded after solving the puzzle with the light stands close to the glass door.


There are eight extinguished lights. To light them all interact with any position first and then interact with the following light positions (to the right or to the left)

3 3 (now all but one light should be lit)
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 (now only two lights next to each other should be lit)
3 3
Shard #04


This shard can be retrieved on the east side of the large river that borders the valley in the west.
Shard #05


This shard can be found on the first floor of the ruins with the huge tree in the south.
Shard #06


This shard is rewarded for solving the moon puzzle. Simply grab the sphere laying right next to the altar and place it on the altar while it is night time.
Shard #07


This shard is hidden behind the waterfall just below the place where you can find the complete map:


From the above perspective you can cross the river on some trees and make your way through the waterfall to the end of the path.
Shard #08


To get this shard you need to solve the water puzzle by moving four units of water to the rear basin.


Use these steps when all water is in the rear basin to fill the rear basin with only four units:
  1. 8 -> 5
  2. 5 -> 3
  3. 3 -> 8
  4. 5 -> 3
  5. 8 -> 5
  6. 5 -> 3
  7. 3 -> 8
Shard #09


For this shard you need to find the run down hut in the south-west of the forest.
Shard #10


This shard is laying in one of the stands in the south-east of the market.
Shard #11


To get this shard you have to solve the light pillars puzzle in the south of the forest. Simply turn the upper halfs of the pillars until the patterns match.
Shard #12


This shard is located beneath the huge tree that is in the center of the valley map. If you are standing north of the market facing towards the huge tree above in the north, you can see a path leading up to the right side of the tree.


Follow this path all the way up to the end and you will find a chest with the shard.
Shard #13


This shard can be found in a chest on the first floor of a house just south-east of the market. To get to the first floor you need to grow some vines.
Shard #14


Shard #14 is hidden in a chest in the water passage below the ruined house with the huge tree in the south. You can enter the passage on either side and will easily find the chest on the south side of that passage.
Shard #15


This shard is located in the basement of the house that held shard #01 in the first floor. The entrance to the basement is on the south side of the house.
Shard #16


This shard is located in a hut underneath the lost tree houses on the way to the scales puzzle area.

To get to that side of the river, you need to find the lever to operate the lift first.
Shard #17


This shard is located in a hidden passage that connects the furnace just below the glass door with the lower and the upper part of the huge water puzzle area in the east of the valley. You can access the passage from the furnace or, alternatively, via an aquaeduct.

Coming from the furnace you need to grow some vines to safely cross a bridge and turn left to get the shard.
Shard #18


This shard is located on a roof part of the huge ruins north east of the market. You need to grow some vines to reach it.
39 kommenttia
Qwampa 16.9.2024 klo 17.08 
Thanks! I could not find #01. The devs did not care about people exploring out of bounds. Except here apparently.
The Trump Storm 24.7.2023 klo 13.00 
Thanks so much! :) Very useful guide.
Innocentive  [tekijä] 3.6.2022 klo 14.26 
You're welcome! Glad I can help :)
greu - GinnyWhippet 3.6.2022 klo 13.35 
I am SO, SO appreciating your guides. Thank you for such excellent work and your kindness in sharing.
Innocentive  [tekijä] 31.12.2020 klo 10.10 
That is curious! Thanks for leaving a comment about this, visier777.
visier777 31.12.2020 klo 7.30 
Not sure if the order was changed in some update, my game glitched, or there's an issue with numbering from the start, but shards 5 and 6 were located at spots listed for 13 and 7 respectively. Just a heads up for anyone who can't find them at the listed spots
Innocentive  [tekijä] 25.7.2020 klo 11.28 
Much appreciated, spodge. And thanks for leaving comment!
spodge 25.7.2020 klo 9.32 
Thank you very much, that last shard was so elusive for me. as it turned out it was the first one in your solution, extra helpful award well deserved, great solution to very easy to use :steamhappy:
obi 29.9.2019 klo 20.08 
I wish I'd read all this before finishing the game. It's not worth it to go back for these. But it was very kind of you to go to the trouble of posting all those screenshots and instructions!
Innocentive  [tekijä] 10.3.2019 klo 23.33 
Thanks to all you guys/gals commenting!