Keeping Connections

Keeping Connections
Identifier:	East 2-Δ1
Area:	Wooded Plateau
Puzzle Type:	Lost
Previous Puzzle:	Seesaw
Next Puzzle:	Loop

Keeping Connections is a lost puzzle in the Wooded Plateau area of The Talos Principle 2.

Puzzle Elements

• Blue door
• Connector
• Driller
• Emitter
• Purple barrier
• Receiver

Overview

To reach this puzzle, after finishing Puzzle 4, walk around the puzzle to its back and follow the road.

As you enter the puzzle, you find a driller and a connector in the main area. Near the center of the puzzle, there are two rooms on either side, with a set of purple barriers creating a passageway between them. In the left room is a red emitter. In the right room is a red receiver and another connector, and the receiver deactivates a blue door on the other side. There are copper walls for both the rooms. Beyond the purple barriers is a twisty passageway that leads to a red reciever that gives access to the progress wheel.

Hints

A basic hint:

[ hint ]

Since the name of the puzzle is Keeping Connections, you will have to use the alternate use key in order to pick up a connector while maintaining its connections.

If you're struggling to get started:

[ hint ]

Your first task is to activate the red receiver in the right room. Think how you can do that.

If you got the second receiver and then are stuck:

[ hint ]

Remember that lasers can pass through purple barriers.

Solution

[ solution ]

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  Drill the wall next to the red Emitter.
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  Take the Connector and connect it to the Emitter
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  Take the Driller and drill the other wall.
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  Take the Connector with the "Alternative Use" key and add the red Receiver to the targets. Place it down through the hole.
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  Walk around, take the second Connector and connect the red Emitter to the Receiver through the purple barrier.
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  Take the first Connector out of the cell.
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  Reposition a Connector closer to the purple barrier.
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  Take the other Connector and link the first Connector to the Receiver by the Progress Wheel.