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What changes in randomised mode?
By avie!!
Simple spoilered list of changes to the game when you play randomised puzzle mode.
   
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Intro
If you're feeling a little daunted by the idea of randomised puzzle mode in this, don't worry, it's not all that different. You need to play randomised mode in order to obtain one of the achievements (going through the maze at the end of Selenitic without backtracking) and it may also help one of the currently bugged achievements pop off as well (seeing Bob the skeleton through the telescope in Mechanical.) Here's a list of everything that changes, all behind spoilers.

If you want a simple tl;dr answer: just make sure to check the tower for each area as you would in a normal playthrough and check the Selenitic book for the piano code.
Myst Island
  • Clock Tower entrance puzzle
  • Clock Tower puzzle
  • Dates to input at the planetarium
  • Picture code to raise the ship
  • Safe code to raise the tree elevator
  • Voltage amount to power Selenitic entrance
  • Piano puzzle
  • Fireplace code
Stoneship Age
  • Telescope & Compass puzzle
Mechanical Age
  • Code to leave the age
Channelwood
  • Absolutely nothing.
Selenitic Age
  • Door code
  • Path through the sound maze
Game-wide changes
  • Placement of the Red & Blue pages; They're in the same rooms, but in different areas of them.
Things that remain the same
  • Noises for cardinal directions (Clink, Exhaust, Cowbell, Spin)
  • Water drainer in Stoneship
  • Island placement and puzzle solutions in Mechanical
  • Number of the Fireplace code
3 Comments
CaRmAgE 20 Mar, 2023 @ 7:55pm 
I noticed a pattern with the Stoneship entry puzzle during my second randomized run (to get Stack Overflow). It looks like each symbol is assigned exactly one timestamp. For example, if one of the symbols you have to toggle is the snake, one of the timestamps will always be Jan. 17, 1207 5:46AM. I noticed this, because I got both the leaf and snake on both of my randomized runs, and they had the same timestamps.
avie!!  [author] 29 Dec, 2021 @ 5:01am 
good catch! guess I managed to roll lucky with my playthrough since it appeared in the same marker for me
BoxDroppingManApe 28 Dec, 2021 @ 10:14pm 
The marker that contains the white page also changes, as does the clue in Channelwood.