Outer Wilds Echoes of the Eye guide: starting, three archives and sealed-vault hints

Introduction answer: follow the dark shape from the satellite's 40-degree angle

Investigate the radio tower early in one loop, then fly straight to the satellite next loop to match timing more easily.

1. Inspect recordings and photographs in Timber Hearth's radio tower. The picture showing a dark shape across the Sun has Satellite Angle 40 degrees
2. Identify Deep Space Radio at the tower, then find the Deep Space Satellite using the Signalscope
3. Match velocity without colliding with the satellite; look toward the Sun when its angle display approaches 40 degrees
4. Fly toward the dark shape overlapping the Sun. Avoid straying far from that angle and losing it
5. After entering the hidden structure, land in the hangar and shine the flashlight on the entrance's light-responsive device

For later visits, mark the Stranger on the HUD from the Ship Log. You do not need to recreate the satellite photograph every time.

Artifact and other-world answers

The following covers an important mid-DLC mechanism. Distinguish ordinary lanterns from the metal Artifact.

1. Use the Scout to check safe access to the Ghost Matter-surrounded workshop in River Lowlands. Enter through the opening beneath the floor and take an Artifact
2. Find the ringed-planet mural in a mural building and move nearby lanterns away to darken it
3. Descend the revealed stairs and choose Doze Off at the green fire while holding the Artifact
4. Test Focus and Conceal after arrival. Focus operates distant devices; Conceal helps observe and move in darkness
5. When entering through ordinary sleep, losing the Artifact flame returns you to the original location. Falling into water interrupts exploration

The damaged laboratory also contains differently shaped experimental tools. Use a completed Artifact for normal exploration rather than confusing it with a prototype.

Other-world entrances and destinations (midgame spoilers)

Your entrance determines arrival location. Entering from another fire becomes useful later, so learn the connected docks first.

Wide tables scroll horizontally.

No matching entries in this table. Shorten the query or clear it to restore all entries.

Even within the same loop, flooding of the corresponding real-world fire interrupts exploration.

Island tower answers: secret room to three records

First try opening the sealed structure at Subterranean Lake slightly and watch the vision in its escaping light.

1. Create the bridge to the tower side in Starlit Cove and extinguish the candles in the corresponding room
2. Return to reality and climb upstairs through the cave entrance below the island tower
3. Check the remaining symbol sequence in the room opened behind the mural
4. Approach the Abandoned Temple's broken bridge from the Hidden Gorge side and enter the matching symbols
5. Investigate the three places indicated in the temple: River Lowlands drainage, a side route near Cinder Isles and beneath the Hidden Gorge elevator
6. Watch each hidden slide reel and record archive-entry routes in the Ship Log

Moving Hidden Gorge's elevator without riding it reveals the space beneath. Check your landing before descending.

Woodlands answers: enter from another fire and visit the lodge after flooding

Waiting after entering from River Lowlands wakes you when that fire floods too. First open the return door beside the waterway.

1. Enter Shrouded Woodlands from River Lowlands and use the extinguishing device to open the waterway-side door
2. Return to reality once, then enter from a different fire, such as Hidden Gorge
3. Ride a raft to the Woodlands dock
4. Find the concealed passage at the tree base used by patrolling inhabitants and head toward the lodge with music
5. Wait for dam collapse to extinguish the River Lowlands fire and remove the inhabitants, then enter the lodge
6. Pass through the fireplace shown in the slides and take the elevator beyond down to the Forbidden Archive

You do not have to wait inside the lodge. Wait somewhere safe for flooding, then follow the already checked route after inhabitants disappear.

Endless Canyon answers: leave the elevator ready and return by water

This route reduces lengthy dark trips through the front building. Inspect passages and the elevator while it is lit first.

1. Enter from Hidden Gorge, create the lodge's internal bridge and cross to the other side
2. Send the elevator down to the raft dock without riding it
3. Return to the outside upper lodge and cross the invisible bridge learned from slides to the extinguishing device
4. After extinguishing the lodge, return to reality and re-enter from another fire
5. Raft to the Endless Canyon dock and ride the elevator you left below
6. From the building's far side, take the lower mural passage and another invisible bridge to the archive elevator

Align yourself before crossing. Matching slide information with daylit reconnaissance is easier than anticipating an unfamiliar shortcut.

Starlit Cove answers: extinguish lights and descend the well

The well entrance combines illumination and an alarm. Circle the surroundings to find its extinguishing device first.

1. From the cove perimeter, head to the waterside raft. Conceal the Artifact's light near the alarm
2. Travel by raft along the rock wall; Focus on the hand-shaped device in the gap to move across
3. Ride the elevator up and extinguish the area's lights through the peephole device
4. Use the return hand device and elevator toward the well. Lure its guard toward one side using light, then pass on the other
5. Conceal light while descending the well to avoid its alarm. Inspect edge passages in the underground hall instead of running straight toward the central opening
6. Reach the stairs and elevator beyond, then inspect every archive slide

Running continuously in total darkness loses sight of holes and dead ends. Briefly illuminate from a safe distance, check the route and conceal again.

Final-seal answers: use three rules in the same visit

This directly explains late-DLC mechanisms. They are intended puzzles using phenomena learned in the archives, not mod or console exploits.

1. Carry a completed Artifact to the Cinder Isles green fire. Instead of Doze Off, touch the fire to die in-game and enter Starlit Cove
2. Reveal the dock and board a raft. Step off during the dark-cave transition between areas to fall to a different level of Subterranean Lake
3. Use the extinguishing device on the side you reach to remove one seal, then raft to the central side
4. Place the Artifact on safe ground and walk beyond its illumination range. Use the now-visible bridge pieces to adjust the symbol device into one continuous path
5. Pick up the Artifact again, cross the aligned bridge and remove the next seal using its device
6. Cross the alarm bridge. With no sleeping body in reality on this visit, the alarm cannot wake you. Remove the final seal and open the central structure

A visit entered through death in reality cannot return to ordinary wake-and-explore travel. Complete other investigations first and use this as the final sequence.

DLC ending and returning to the base game

After entering, use the light and tools the other person shows rather than searching for another code.

1. Go inside the opened structure and watch the offered vision through to the end
2. Use the provided tool to show your own memories
3. Follow the other person outside and inspect the final vision left there
4. This completes the DLC's final scene. End the loop and resume to return to normal exploration
5. Following the base game's final route afterward reflects this encounter in its last scene

Completing the DLC does not automatically move you to the base-game ending. Its travel steps are in a separate guide.