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How to build and upgrade the Origin Staffs [UPDATED]
By CyKo
Simple and easy to follow guide to craft the staffs in Origins.
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Gramophone
The Gramophone can be found in this location:

First floor inside the excavation mountain beside the wooden table.

Record
The Record can be found in 3 locations:

Top of the excavation in a wheel barrel.

On the wooden walkway behind the excavation sign near the wheel barrel.

Back of the excavation along the path leading to the church.



Staff of Wind
There are 2 essential parts and 3 fragments to craft the Staff of Wind

Yellow Record

Inside the Lightning tunnel at Generator 5 on a desk to the left as you enter the tunnel.

Behind the stairs entering Lightning tunnel on a stack of boxes near a burning cart.

On a broken wall at Generator 5 near Stamina-Up

Yellow Gem

Enter the Wind Tunnel at Generator 4 and place your Gramophone

Enter The Crazy Place and pick up the Yellow Gem on the pedestal

Fragments

All 3 Staff Fragments are located in the robots.

Shoot the bottom of the robots foot to enter inside.

Once inside pick up a fragment.

All fragments are located in different robots.

Craft the Wind Staff inside the mound downstairs.

UPGRADING

1.
Enter The Crazy Place and look up after entering the wind portal.
Correctly line line up the symbols by shooting them with the wind staff as shown in the image below.
Once complete it would be obvious you have done that part right.

2.
After correctly lining up the symbols head out to these locations and line up the smoke with the Excavation Mountain by shooting it with the Wind Staff:

- Generator 4 Near Juggernog

- Behind the tank path at church

- Generator 5 near stamina up.

Once complete you will here a sort of ding and the smoke will be gone.

3.
Enter the Staff area and line up the colors from the cylinder to yellow.
Once all color are correctly lined up you have to shoot the yellow orb below the cylinder.
The orb will fly up and go to The Crazy Place.

4.
Enter The Crazy Place once again and place your Wind Staff in the pedestal.
You will have to charge up the Wind Staff unfil you are notified in your inventory its done.
Staff of Ice
There are 2 essential parts and 3 fragments to craft the Staff of Ice

Blue Record

First table entering Generator 2 Tank Station from the front.

On the shelf to the left of the mystery box in Generator 2 Tank Station.

On another shelf near the Stone Slab desk by the back exit in Generator 2 Tank Station.

Blue Gem

Enter the Ice Tunnel behind the church on the way to Generator 6 and place the Gramophone.

Enter The Crazy Place behind the Church and pick up the Blue Gem from the pedestal.

Fragments

All 3 Fragments can be found while digging when it is snowing.

If it is not snowing wait another round and continue.

Craft the Ice Staff inside the mound downstairs.

UPGRADING

Head back into the Crazy Place to the Ice Staff area where you picked up the Blue Gem.
You will see symbols on the wall and ceiling. Shoot the symbols on the roof that correspond to the symbol on the wall.
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Once you are finished with that return from the Crazy Place. You will be looking for 3 Tombstones.
You will shoot each Tombstone with the Ice Staff, freezing them, and shooting them with a bullet based weapon.

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At Generator 4 there is a tombstone in front of the soul chest where the Giant steps foot.
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From that first tombstone, turn and run towards the mound. You will enter another spot where a Giant steps foot. The tombstone is on-top the wooden ledge in front of the mound.
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The last tombstone is located behind the tank station next to the downed robot's twitching hand.
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Once you are done destroying all 3 tombstones head back to the mound and head down stairs.
Rotate the rings with the levers until all of them are blue.
Once all of them are blue, shoot the Blue Orb that is floating in the middle of the rings with your Ice Staff
The orb will fly up and now you must head back to the Crazy Place.

Place the Ice Staff into the Pedestal where you picked up the Gem.
You will need to get kills in the Crazy Place until you it notified it is complete.

You now have an upgraded Ice Staff!
Staff of Lightning
There are 2 essential parts and 3 fragments to craft the Staff of Lightning

Purple Record

Wooden Cart on the mud path at Generator 4 enterance.

On the table next to the Wunderfizz machine at Generator 4.

Bottom of the Wind Tunnel on top of a electrical box.

Purple Gem

Enter the Lightning Tunnel near the Stamina-Up machine at Generator 5 and place the Gramophone.

Enter The Crazy Place and pick up the Purple Gem.

Fragments

All 3 Fragments are collected via the Tank.

As you pass Generator 4 look to your right and jump onto a wooden platform and run down the path.

Leaving the Generator 2 Tank Station look to your left jump onto the wooden walkway at the Excavation Mountain and run down it.

On the same path from Generator 2 Tank Station jump onto a path behind the church to enter a hole and run down.

Craft the Lighting Staff inside the mound downstairs.

UPGRADING

Return to the Crazy Place with the Lightning Staff.
Head to the Lightning Staff area and you will find symbols and cords.
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Shoot the symbols in the corresponding order from the graphic below.
The symbols with a lightning spike in the diagram are the ones you will be shooting.
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If you succeed you will head an audio cue.

Next, you will need to turn a series of dials.
The dials are located around the map and must be turned in their correct position.
There is no order in which the dials should be turned.
Follow the graphics below (Images listed in order of position).
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Once all dials are turned a beam will project from the mound.
Head to the mound downstairs.

Rotate the discs with the levers until all are Purple.
Once all are Purple shoot the Purple Orb floating below in the middle of the discs with your Lightning Staff.
The Purple Orb will fly up and now you must head back to the Crazy Place.

Inside the Crazy Place, insert your Lightning Staff into the corresponding Pedestal.
Kill zombies in the Crazy Place until notified that the staff is complete.

You now have an upgraded Lightning Staff!
Staff of Fire
There are 2 essential parts and 3 fragments to craft the Staff of Fire

Orange Record

Inside the church between the tank and the staircase.

Upstairs in the church on a burning bench to the left.

On some boxes at the enterance to Generator 6 behind the church.

Orange Gem

Coming out of spawn through Generator 3 path go to your left to the Fire Tunnel and place the Gramophone inside.

Enter The Crazy Place and pick up the Fire Gem.

Fragments

Kill a Panzer which spawns near round 8.

Open up the door between the Church and the Excavation Mountain and shoot down a orange plane in the sky, doing so a part will fall down in front of the Excavation.

Inside the chest at Generator 6.

Craft the Fire Staff inside the mound downstairs.

UPGRADING

Head back to the Crazy Place.
There will be Cauldrons at the Fire Staff area that need to be filled by killing zombies.
You will need to kill zombies in front of the cauldrons on the metal plates WITH the Fire Staff.
There will be a puff of smoke when a zombie is killed to know if you are doing it correct.
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Once you light up all cauldrons Samantha will talk to you.

Exit the Crazy Place and head over to the Church.
Head upstairs and you will find lit up symbols.
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There are torches downstairs of the Church which have a corresponding number.
There is a torch with a blood stain (Number 4) but will be referred to as blood stain.
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You will be converting the lit up symbols upstairs to a sequence of numbers.
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Shoot the torches that correspond to the numbers from the symbols.
There is no particular order but you must be quick.

If you succeed you will hear an audio cue.

Head back to the mound downstairs.
Rotate the discs with the levers until all are Red.
Once all discs are Red shoot the Red Orb, with your Fire Staff, floating below in the middle of the discs.
The orb will fly up and now you must head to the Crazy Place.

While in the Crazy Place, insert your Fire Staff into the Pedestal.
You will need to kill zombies inside the Crazy Place until you are notified that it is complete.

You now have an upgraded Fire Staff!







17 Comments
bl1xur 29 Jan @ 1:55pm 
very helpful and useful guide. Thank you so much!! <3 :steamthumbsup:
VENCHURIEN 26 Nov, 2023 @ 4:50pm 
Ay ty ty
this guide helped me so much
at least for making the staffs
Adam 2 Sep, 2022 @ 9:06am 
you've got the dials for the lightning staff upgrade the wrong way around
dathotboinick 27 Aug, 2022 @ 7:02am 
my tombstones for the ice staff arent appearing
SandwitchGaming 6 Nov, 2021 @ 8:10pm 
ive done it so many times but ty
realHate 22 Jun, 2021 @ 1:37pm 
ty
Datura Draven 21 Feb, 2021 @ 9:30pm 
oh my god he's actually back wtf
CyKo  [author] 21 Feb, 2021 @ 4:05pm 
Extended Guide for Upgrading. Sorry it took a whole century lol
1V1DogFights 10 Oct, 2020 @ 4:30am 
On the upgrading side of things, this only tells how to upgrade the wind staff. Each staff has its own unique set of tasks for upgrading them.
LETS GO GAMBLING 23 Apr, 2020 @ 3:13pm 
still waiting on pics