Cube Escape: The Mill

You'll see different parts of the ceiling depending on where you are when you look up.

I know I have to melt the golden tooth, but can't for the life of me figure out how... have hot water, have no idea what the wheel thing that moves the chain hanging from the ceiling is...

and here I was assuming it had to be much more complicated! :)

Click “The Living Room” it is the only part of the map available to you

First Wall:

Second Wall

Third Wall

Fourth Wall

Third Wall

First Wall

Second Wall

Three Wall

Fourth Wall

First Wall

The Living Room

First wall

Second wall

Third Wall

Fourth Wall

Face the clock and set it to 6:10. The clock is now unlocked. Open the clock and…

JUMP SCARE. Click the body. Continue clicking the body until it disappears off the right side of the screen. Turn right.

Continue clicking the body until, *sigh*, it falls down to the living room. Go down the ladder to the living room. Turn left.

The detective is back on TV. Click the TV. Keep clicking the TV and watch the detective put the black cube and then the white cube in the screen. When the detective disappears and the cube remains click the button one last time. A white light fades in and then out. Turn left.

Notice the beam of white light in the right window. Check it out with the binoculars.

The light is going into the body of the detective. Click this scene again and Mr. Owl appears. Another click and it starts to rain. One last click brings you back to the wide view where you see the gears are turning. Go back downstairs to the living room.

Turn to face the machine. Note the gears are turning down here as well. Someone hung the body up for us….thanks?

This is unpleasant. Use the arrows to put the woman’s head in the machine. You don’t have to get it exactly. The light will come on when she is placed correctly. If the light is NOT on and you can’t move the arrows anymore, face a different wall and then turn back toward the machine.

Go back to the old woman in the cabinet. Give her the knitting needles then cut her hair. Go back upstairs.

Face the spinning wheel. Put the hair on the spindle and then press the foot pedal. Remove the “wool” from the spinning wheel. Go back downstairs.

Give the wool to the old woman. Click her and she should ask for warm milk.

Take the pot of milk and put it on the stove. It heats instantly. Take the hot milk and give it to the old woman.

After she drinks the milk click her and she’ll make you an oven mitt. Click her again and she’ll ask for grilled duck. Head downstairs to the wheel to get some duck.

Right now the duck is not fat enough to make a good meal. You have to feed him plants. Click him and he’ll swim to the lowest plant on the far right and eat it. Now you have to raise the water to the right level to get him to eat the other two plants.

Once the duck eats the third plant his head appears to fall off. Grab him and go back to the living room.

Put the fat duck inside the oven and shut the door. He cooks instantly. Take out the grilled duck with the oven mitt.

Give the grilled duck to the old woman. Click her and she’ll eat it. Click again and she’ll knit you a net. Click again and she’ll ask for grilled fish. Go downstairs to the wheel.

Use the net on the fish to catch it. That was easy. Go back to the living room.

Put the fish in the oven and close the door. Open the door and remove the instantly grilled fish with the oven mitt.

Give the fish to the old woman. Click her and she’ll eat it. Click again and she’ll knit you a strong rope. Take the rope and face the machine.

Select the rope and click the large gear on the right. The rope will connect the machine to the gear and the second light will come on.

Click the window of the machine where the woman’s face is. Two brain hemispheres appear. Click the brain.

You’ll see a close up of the brain hemispheres and a place to enter a three digit code on the left.

Click the brain again and you’ll see twelve blank squares. Click again and six pictures appear. This is a matching game. You have a few seconds to memorize where each pictures match is.

Match all the pictures and the white cube appears. Click it and the white cube comes out of the machine. Pick it up and head down the stairs to the wheel.

Make sure the small wheel is turned so panel is open and the water level is rising. This turns the large wheel. Face the contraption.

The water should be running through the contraption. Place the white cube in the top of the contraption and flip the lever. The cube falls down and then disappears. As the cube disappears, three numbers appear in the window.

Go back up to the living room.

Face the machine and click the window with the brain hemispheres again.

Enter the 3-digit code to the left and flick the switch. You’ll have to play the matching game again. This time the pictures are less pleasant.

Once the matching game is solved the second time. The black cube appears. Click it and it will come out of the machine. Collect the black tube. Go downstairs to the wheel.

Put the black cube in the wheel and flick the lever. Things go dark outside. Go Upstairs.

There are a few spooky things to look at. The most important is the shadow person now standing next to the spinning wheel.

Click the shadow to progress through the dialogue. It will ask you to leave, but I couldn’t find anywhere else to go.

The shadow person stops talking, disappears and it looks like that’s it!

You’re looking at the ceiling. Note the location of the golden lock and the spider web. Click the down arrow

NOOOOO! MRS CROW! COW FRIEND! I need a moment...

Remember the phone dialogue?

The voice saying those things is the voice of the player character.

hot milk

the voice of the shadow figure. (Probably didn't need a spoiler for that. Eh.

the good and bad memories were clearly extracted from the body of the murdered girl by your actions, but the shadow says to you that YOUR memories are part of the lake now. So was I supposed to be a disembodied spirit of the girl extracting my own memories? Seems unlikely as that wouldn't add up. Then, who was the guy that was supposedly delivered to me by Mr. Owl? And I can't help but think of Tootsie Pops now.

I got stuck twice after giving the old lady the hot milk. The walk through says she's apparently supposed to drink it and give me an oven mitt. All she does is shrug whenever I click and no matter how many screens I visit, she never does anything differently.

I am not able to get back the milk. I did try to milk the cow again, but got nothing. So I thought I had to feed the cow before it gave milk, but that did not work either.

All you have to get to get a huge fiasco, is to have that milk highlighted and click the water in the basement.

You play the game as Mr Crow, the boatman/crow-headed man from the previous games. You live at Rusty Lake with your wife as shown in the picture on the wall and are one of the caretakers of the lake along with Mr Owl. Your dialogue is black with white text and you are the one speaking at the endgame. When You extract memories for the lake you accidentally create a hostile spirit from the woman, who proceeds to murder your wife and cow friend. It is implied this is not the first hostile spirit to emerge from the process and Mr Owl is looking for a solution.

I put the rope in the machine, and it appears connected, but the light doesn't turn on, so I can't move forward using the machine.

Came back like two weeks after playing through the first time to say that I've been thinking about the game and the series and only just figured out that the strange voice we've been hearing since Seasons is us (at least in this game - we play as Mr. Crow) and the phantom looking chap is the young woman's belligerent spirit after having all those horrible memories dredged up. At the end, "your memories belong to the lake now" is us (Mr. Crow) telling the phantom as politely as possible (Rusty Lake has more memories to get through, dear. All in a day's work.) to give in and relinquish control to the Lake. We know this because Mr. Owl wrote us to say that this could happen when dealing with the dark memories (the black boxes). What I can't figure out is why a similar-looking phantom was in her memories to begin with. (You see it when playing the matching puzzle in the machine in the Mill) Lemme just explore that a bit and see if I end up a little less confused:

When I first played Seasons, I thought that these black phantoms were a personification of the individual's depression or illness (and in Seasons, we would then appear to be playing as that depression, or, possibly, coming back to it with more seasoned eyes, an employee of Rusty Lake taking on that form -- we see ourselves as such when we look in the mirror); I discarded the theory but it makes sense to me again. So the woman (in Seasons still) was either murdered or did commit suicide, but it's unclear which. Perhaps some force from Rusty Lake poisoned her mind and drove her to suicide. Rusty Lake seems to target those struggling with mental health issues, and feeds off their vulnerability to harvest their memories, good and bad. In multiple games we consistently see references to medication, suicide, and Rusty Lake marketed to these poor souls as a mental health facility. Mr. Owl and Mr. Crow seem to have relinquished themselves to the power of the Lake as well, acting as somewhat reluctant/resigned stewards of the Lake rather than some dark predatory figures. I don't know - they just seem sort of sad to me. Seeing Mr. Crow's home and wife was (ironically) especially humanizing.

The reason, in the last game, Mr. Crow told Detective Dale Vandermeer that his place was already taken was because the young woman had, indeed, already called and presumably ended up dead as a result. (Were I in her position, I would have been sufficiently creeped the fuck out that a newspaper puzzle referenced highly specific items in my own home, but I digress.) Maybe she was already on her way to suicide and the Lake just nudged her in that direction. This could be a reason why the Lake chooses people on the brink of suicide: they might be more likely to be alone/lonely (so it's less suspicious if they disappear) and close to choosing death as it is. Another possibility is that negative emotions and memories are more powerful and therefore are more hearty fare for the Lake to consume, even if sometimes these scary violent phantoms emerge because of them. Indeed, most of the myriad boxes we encounter throughout the games are black rather than white.

Later in this game when we spot Dale on a distant shore, we know it's because he (we, the player, in Case 23) kept poking around and ended up at the cabin, where we (the player in the Mill) then picked him up and ferried him to what I guess is either a holding place or where Mr. Owl will simply dispose of him, since his arrival was not anticipated. Maybe his memories will be harvested next. Or is he even dead? Hope not! He's a plucky fella. But maybe, since the black figure appeared in his precinct, which very well might mark his death based on the track record of creepy black phantom guys so far. It could be his own spirit and he's already dead. I'd be interested to find out where all the bodies end up. The Lake (in which we fish up a carcass or two) sort of implies that they might end up at the bottom of the lake, which, like, duh. But still would be interesting to see. Does it harvest animal memories too? Also: Samsara Room appears to be entirely separate from this storyline of Rusty Lake, but we still see echoed therein the transportation of dead bodies via grandfather clock. Just throwing that in there.