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I don’t know what the Dev calls these rooms but I started in the area with the door and started naming major areas. These are my names and can change later. (Side note: Good job making the map interesting to explore. I LIVE for these kinds of maps.)

The Temple: The small area with the chess puzzle.

The Ratman Room: Hidden room in the Temple with the first piece. You can climb the wall as if it were a ladder to reach up there. There’s also a vent that leads there. Of note it has some writing on the wall that looks like clues and some world building. Looks like the world was split and regrew like a tapeworm? The Queen is here.

The Shaft: Large Lava Area just outside the Temple and something of the Hub of the map.

The Tangle: The Lava Area connected to the Shaft with two slanted and tangled platform areas.

The Well: Also connected to the Shaft opposite the Tangle. It has a stairwell that leads up into the ceiling into the City.

The City: Complex system of rooms. Kind of pleasant here.

The Halls: Large and cathedral like hallways that connect the Shaft to the Mosaic.

The Spike Room: The Room that has a huge white spike in it.

The Mosaic: Fourth Lava Room with a huge Mosaic on the wall that seems to depict the map itself.

The Womb Room: A Room in the lower city that has a bloody mark on the ceiling. A glitchy baby can be found here and, if destroyed, with rebirth out of the bloody mark.

The Crypt: The areas down the hole from the Temple. Accessible first through the Spike Room.

There is also Two vents connecting this all and at least one set of rock tunnels.

This map may take some archaeology.

So far, I’ve only discovered two pieces and collected only 1 without cheating.

- The Queen in the Ratman Room is the most obvious. Something of a tutorial piece.

- The Pawn is in…I guess I’ll call it a Spike Room? It’s floating WAY up above the spike in a shaft. No clue how to lower it. The Spike seems to be significant, and I’m not sure how. You can see it if you zoom in and, I admit, I no-clipped just to see what it was.

That’s all I’ve got. Will report more as I find it.

The rest of the pieces really aren't in as interesting of places I'll admit, I'd recommend looking for misaligned textures, leaking decals, etc, they're tucked away a bit

Oooo! A Hint!

I must say, GMod has some strange programming. I set up a room with coffee, books, and comfy props as a Head Quarters for my exploration, including keeping the Queen in said room, then saved my game. When I reloaded, the Queen could not longer be picked up without the grav gun.

I don't think that was a bug on your part. I think that's GMod being more GMod than usual.

Found the Knight thanks to the hint.

It was located In the Upper City
Where? In the room with the Tunnels entrance. Look for a scrape mark on the floor and destroy that wall.

Figured out the Pawn

It's at The Spike Room, connected to the Halls

To get it, you need The Glitchy Baby which is found at the lower city.

Once you have it, take it to The Spike Room and drop it on the spike.

Found the King & the Rook

King: It's at the back of the tangle room at the bottom of one of the pillars.

Rook: It's across from the Ratman Room, in that mirrored staircase. Break the wall where the scratches are on the floor.

Trying to figure out how to get the King out without dying.

i found the bishop if you go to the shaft and climb up to the top floor there is a part ware theirs a small walled off aria with a door that leads to the entrance of the symmetric maze and a doorway that leads to a other part of the shafts upper floor there if you look off the edge is a pipe you can fall onto and then a part of the wall will be breakable reveling the chess piece

hmm the inside of the crypt has a lot of messages and a singe rib cage i already try'ed the easiest thing to do and threw it at the spike nothing seemed to happen

Originally posted by willyandme:

hmm the inside of the crypt has a lot of messages and a singe rib cage i already try'ed the easiest thing to do and threw it at the spike nothing seemed to happen

yeah I have no idea what to do after gathering all the chess pieces I've tried throwing ragdolls into the hole but that didnt do anything and jumping in it yourself puts you into a loop until it puts you at spawn or into the lava

I had HOPED the Chess Pieces would open the shaft, but it looks like there's still some doings to do. I tried falling at different parts of the shaft (the corners, the edges etc) and it doesn't seem to effect anything. It seems random if it teleports you up, outside, or above lava.

im pretty positive the ribcage is just a prop, if you try to use the remover tool on any of the other scripted props (the chess pieces) it wont let you remove them, but you can remove the ribcage just fine

Guys I posted this on another thread but after you get all the chess pieces and open the crypt look at the many ceiling lights and find the ones that has sparks coming out of them (I found one in the tunnels, one in the room to your left when you're in the hallway to the big room with the podium and spiral stairs, one in the large room where you find the king chess piece, and the other EDIT: its in the the upper most room where there are two doorways to a dark maze) you need to shoot all of these lights and once you do come to the spike room it's lit up and has a laser coming out I don't know what to do after that yet

I don't know if this has to do with anything or if this is something my zeta players spawned in but I've been coming across bones thru out the map, like skulls and a spine, my addon thing says they're not props but c_baseanimating whatever that is