Platforms of Kaptar puzzle

The Temple docking station
The **Platforms of Kaptar puzzle** explains the steps that are needed to reach the overhead catwalk of the Crankshaft cavern. This is a prerequisite for solvong the Polyarch antechamber puzzle.

## Prerequisites

After having solved the Kaptar swing bridge puzzle and the Crankshaft cavern puzzle, the fifth railcart objective has to be completed in order to disable the red beam of Kaptar. This is needed to pass through the cell wall portals of Kaptar to attain two important goals.

## The two goals

The North station
The first goal is to pass through the portal on the far side of the swing bridge of Kaptar in order to drive the cable car (*platform*) from the North station to the Temple and gain access to the Temple interior. After that, West side can be reached and from there the other platform has to be driven to the station by the Crankshaft cavern to gain access to the overhead catwalk of the cavern, which is the second important goal. Below are these steps in detail.

## Passing through the Temple interior

After the red beam of has been disabled, swap back to Hunrath and return to the Kaptar-bound seed-swap device over the Scrapyard. Swap again to Kaptar, call the swing bridge and the rotate it two positions to the right. Now the arm you came from is pointing to a portal. Cross it to the North station. The only thing that can be done there is to ride the platform to the Temple station. This frees the path under the platform, as the giant hook that was in the way has been moved to the opposite end.

Exit the station to the mesa at the front of the Temple and look for the path that passes under the rock of the red beam. It leads to the docking basin under the platform. Now the basin is free to cross. Go up the ladder to the left into the Temple interior. Exit from one of the staircases to the left. There is a turquoise sphere with a pond and a scaffolding that connects to a path that passes under some cetacean-like creature remains. Keep going all the way until the path ends at a portal.

## Reaching the overhead catwalk

The West side station
Cross the portal to the West side of Kaptar. There is a big accent towards the platform station. On the way, there are two important locations with seed-swap devices. The first one is a room easily seen from the ascending path, where a Maray-bound seed-swap device leads on a rock overlooking the Entryway with only a Villein control panel that opens it and no further paths. This is part of the Maray entrance puzzle and can be completed at this point of the game. Further up there is a conglomeration of golden Arai barnacles.

From this point there is a downward path to a Hunrath-bound seed-swap device, which is the continuation of the just mentioned Maray puzzle. But this can wait for after all the Kaptar puzzles have been solved. So instead of going down that path, continue the upward one all the way to the west side platform station.

Driving the platform across the path lands on the overhead catwalk of the Crankshaft cavern. Before going all the way to the elevator, lower the ramp to the left, go down and go to the little tower from where the shafts were connected to the crankshaft. **Disconnect the lower left shaft** so that the path to the Tree, and to the Heart below it, are accessible. Now climb again onto the catwalk, go left, enter the elevator and go down to the Polyarch antechamber cavern.