The Myst Guidebook

Myst Island

You arrive standing on the dock. Go forward, up the steps to your left, then left along the walkway, then right up the steps to path of wooden planks. On the ground nearby you'll find an interesting letter. Read it. Explore the island.

Atrus letter speaks of a message in the forechamber by the dock. Go back to the dock and you'll find where you linked in, embedded in the earth is a metal panel. Inside, you'll find Atrus' dimensional imager.

• You can view some of his tests, but how do you receive his message?
• Go back outside and explore a bit. Notice all the switches around the island?
• Count the switches.
• Entering the number of switches on the island in a panel inside the imager room will unlock the message.

Going down the steps, the panel is just to your right at the bottom. Click the small button to open it and and enter the number of marker switches on the island (08).

Click the button on the front of the dimensional imager to see Atrus' message to his wife, Catherine.

The marker switches are located at the... dock, gears, planetarium, spaceship, pillar walkway, cabin, generator cave, and clock tower. Once those are switched up, proceed to the library, the large, rectangular stone building next to the planetarium. Inside, you'll find some pictures, a map, a fireplace, and a bookcase. Look for books that aren't charred, and read them carefully...

Getting to the Ages of Myst

The Ages of Myst may be accessed in any order you choose.

Note the map of Myst island in the library. Have you examined it closely?

• The tower on the hill behind the library holds clues to accessing the remaining books. You can access it by clicking on the paintings on the walls of the library. The left one will close the library's door and open a secret passage behind the bookcase, and the right one will close the passage and open the library.
• You need to turn the tower to certain locations to get a clue.
• If you flipped any of the marker switches up you'll notice those switches have appeared on the map in the library. Click and hold on the tower until you get a red line on the switch you want.
• Open the passage and hop in the elevator at the end. In the tower, you'll find two ladders: one shows you an important spot on the island, the other gives you a clue you need to get started unlocking a book.

Getting to the Stoneship Age

• Have you read Atrus's Stoneship journal? Did you notice the drawings in the back of it?
• The tower rotation clue gives you some dates. Where could you use them?
• Check out the planetarium next to the library. Using your clues there will give you an important key. Look familiar?
• The dates give you three different constellations. Sketch them out, then look for them in Atrus journal. This will give you three symbols.
• You will find the corresponding symbols at the pillar walkway. Click them, and the ship by the dock will rise. Inside the ship you'll find the Stoneship Age book.

SOLUTION

• The symbols to unlock the ship are the snake, the leaf, and the spider.

Getting to the Channelwood Age

• Read Atrus' Channelwood journal.
• Make sure the marker switch near the cabin the woods is turned up, then go to the library and turn the tower to focus on it. Click the left painting to open the passage, go get in the elevator and go up to find the clue.
• Where could you use the clue?
• Look in the cabin. The clue might spark some ideas about your next move.

Found the power yet? The clue is 7,2,4. Enter the clue in the safe in the cabin and it will unlock, revealing a matchbox. Open it, pull out a match, and strike it on the side of the box. Turn around and hold the match on the small lighter on the bottom left of the furnace.

• Noticed what the tower's slim window focused on? The large pine tree behind the cabin. The Channelwood linking book is beneath the tree.
• The tree is an elevator. The red wheel to the right of the furnace in the cabin controls the height and movement of the tree.
• Turn the wheel all the way to the right. This lights the furnace and raises the tree to the max.
• Notice the loud cracking noise as the tree rose? The elevator goes up and down with each crack.
• Since you're on your own, you need to hop in the elevator as its on its way down.
• Turn the red wheel all the way to the left, then quickly run outside and stand right against the trunk of the tree as it lowers.
• The moment the elevator opening levels with the ground, hop in. The elevator will reach bottom and stop, revealing the Channelwood book before you on a trunk-pedestal.

Getting to the Mechanical Age

Make sure the marker switch at the sunken gears near the dock is turned up. Go to the library and set the tower rotation on the map to the gears. Click the painting to the left of the bookcase to open the passageway, go through to the elevator, and up to find your clue.

• Noticed the clock sitting in the water of the edge of the island? There's another marker switch there, but how can you get to it?
• Did you write down the clue you found in the tower? It's time to reset the clock.
• The correct time is 2:40. On the box on the shore, turn the small wheel twice, and the large wheel eight times, then click the red button. A pathway of gears will open up. Go across and flip up the marker switch.

Inside the clock tower is a machine with two levers and three rows of numbers. The correct combination of numbers will open the gears on the other end of the island. Did you write down the other numbers from the tower? Pull the levers inside to get the combination. A little practice should get it easy.

SOLUTION

• You're aiming for 2,2,1. Click the right lever once and the top two gears will turn. Click and hold to turn the top two gears once, then the center gear will turn once every second you hold. The left gear will work the same with the bottom two gears.
• Click the right lever once and release. Click again and hold for one more turn. Then click the left lever and hold for one turn. The gear will open.

Head back across the island to the sunken gears. Inside you'll find the Mechanical Age linking book.

Getting to the Selenetic Age

Have you turned up the marker switch at the spaceship and gotten its clue? Have you looked through Atrus's Selenetic Age journal? There's something important in there you'll need.

• Sketch out Atrus's diagram of the keyboard.
• A corresponding keyboard is inside the spaceship, but before you can use it you need to send power to the spaceship to get inside.
• Go to the generator building in the woods, opposite the cabin, and descend the stairs.
• You need to generate exactly the right number of volts to power the spaceship. The tower rotation clue gave 59 volts.
• Carefully turn on the buttons shown below in bright red (though you may find other combinations that work as well).

Notice the two towers between the generator and the spaceship? If you charge the power over 59 volts, you'll have to go to both of them and flip the switches at the top to reset the generator, then return to the generator building and try again.

Once the generator is powered to 59 volts, go to the spaceship and open the door. To your right you'll find the keyboard. To your left, you'll see a machine with five sliding levers. Move each lever and you'll hear a different pitch.

Here is the keyboard diagram from Atrus's Selenetic journal:

At the keyboard, press down the key numbered 1. Let the sound sink into your mind....

Now go to the bars, and mimic the sound with the first lever. You'll need to do this with each key and lever. The settings will be as shown below, though you will need to listen to the sounds and do it by ear to get it right. When you think you have achieved the correct settings, click the switch to the right. If nothing shows up in the glass bubble above the bars, try setting them again. Keep at it!

The Stoneship Age

When you arrive in Stoneship, turn left (in realMyst, turn right) and go over the boards to the umbrella. Under the umbrella are three buttons:

• The left button drains water from the ship.
• The middle button drains water from tunnels leading to Sirrus and Achenar's bedrooms.
• The right button drains water from the lighthouse.

First, you need to explore the brother's bedrooms to find a page (whichever you choose), so click the middle button. The first doorway on your left (from the umbrella) leads to Sirrus's room. To go to Achenar's room go over the stone steps on the ship and go through the second opening on the left.

You can easily find the brother's pages—Sirrus's page is in his bottom drawer, and Achenar's page is on his bed.

Getting Back to Myst from Stoneship

The Myst linking book is down inside the ship. To see it though, you'll need some light. To get light, you need power. Where could you get power?

Have you looked in the lighthouse? Notice the basement is flooded and a trapdoor above you is locked. You need to get up through the trapdoor. Go back to the switches under the umbrella and click the right button to drain the lighthouse.

Go to the lighthouse and go down the stairs. There you'll find a chest, filled with water. Inside the chest is the key to the lock upstairs, but the key to the chest is bolted to the floor upstairs. Ideas?

• Open the lever on the side of the chest to drain the water out of it, then close it again.
• Go back to the umbrella buttons and click the middle button again, flooding the lighthouse and draining the tunnels. Go back to the lighthouse, and you'll find the chest floating above the water.
• Click the key attatched to the floor to unlock the chest.
• Take the key from inside the chest, and put it in the lock above you to open the door in the ceiling.
• Climb into the top of the lighthouse.

In the top of the lighthouse, you'll find an old-fashioned generator. Click the crank to power it up. Once it's all the way to the top, the generator will power up the lights in the two tunnels. Go back down, exit the lighthouse and go down one of the two tunnels, looking for a secret door (on the lower sides of the tunnel).

• Enter the door, and walk to the end, where the two inner tunnels meet.
• You'll find a compass-like object (shown below).
• Don't know which button to click? The wrong one will turn out the lights.
• Did you take a look through the telescope atop Stoneship's peak? What stood out the most? Did you notice at what degree the object was located?
• The lighthouse is located at 135 degrees. So which button is 135 degrees?
• Click the bottom-right button at the end of the red point.

Once you've clicked the right button, go back up through the tunnel, and back to the buttons under the umbrella. Click the left button. Go back to the ship, and go down the steps. Open the door. The inside is now illuminated! Make sure you have the page you want, and go down to the small table. Click the top of the table, and the Myst book will bizarrely materialize from the wood.

Once you're back in the Myst library, add your page to it's respective book.

The Channelwood Age

On arrival, after taking a momement to observe the tree-filled view, turn around, and follow the wooden walkway to the windmill.

Go up the rocky island path and step inside the wooden structure. It is important to know first that water is Channelwood's main power source. Click the red lever on the machine to your left, and the valve in front of the huge water tank. This will get the water flowing.

• Along the way, you will come to many forks in the paths. On each of the pentagonal wooden bases at each fork, you will find a switch. Turning it to the right will open the pipe to direct the water left, and vice-versa.
• To reach areas of importance, you need an elevator to reach the second level. Direct water to the elevator you need. Which elevator? From the first switch starting from the shack and the windmill, directing the water left, right, right, right will take you to the elevator.
• Get in the elevator, and click the red lever to go up to the next level.

The Second Level

Here on the second level is another elevator that will lift you to a third level—where you'll find Sirrus and Achenar's rooms. However, you need to send power to that elevator, so how can you power two elevators at once? You can't.

• You need to power the elevator leading to level three, but reach the second level another way. Did you see anything down on the ground level?
• The winding staircase is your answer, but there's a gate sealing it off. You'll need to explore the huts for a way to open it.
• To reach the staircase, from the direction of the elevator you came up on, go through the huts right, right, then turn right inside that hut, then go through the next hut, and you'll be in a special hut. Find the red lever and pull it.
• Now go back to where you got off the elevator. Go through the huts right, right, straight, right, and repeat. The stairway should be open. Note the second elevator next to it.

• Descend the staircase. At the bottom, open the door. Now you can access the second level without the elevator. Before you go back up, go to the first valve (from the windmill) and direct the water right (turning the lever left) toward the staircase.
• Now go up the stairs. The second elevator is now powered. Get in, and click the lever to go to the third level.
• Get out and turn around if you want to go to Sirrus's room. Go forward the through the open black gate to go to Achenar's room. Note some of the disturbing devices in his room off to the side, including a bizarre holographic recording.

You can find Sirrus's page in a drawer in his writing desk. Achenar's page can be easily found next to his message-recorder in his bedroom.

• Did you check out the two drawers under Sirrus's bed? He seems to have some problems of his own. One reveals a knife and the other has some wine bottles...but what's that? Half of a page? Where's the other half?
• Later, look in Stoneship. For now, let's focus on getting back to Myst.

Getting Back to Myst from Channelwood

Time to go home. Go back down to the first level (down the elevator, down the staircase). Did you notice another elevator at the far end of the forest?

• You can't get to the elevator yet because there is a break in the pathway.
• Direct the water (again, beginning from the windmill) left, left, right. This takes the water to a small area where there is a gap in the walkway. Click the lever on the left-hand side, and presto—a bridge rises from the water!

Now, go past the elevator, and you'll find a hand-turned crank. Turn the crank, and a pipe will extend to the other side. Now you can flow the water directly to the elevator.

• Turn around, and, from the windmill, direct the flow the water left, right around the tree, then right, then left.
• Then, go back across the bridge, and to the elevator.
• After using the elevator, open the door, and you will find the Myst book.
• Once you're back in the Myst library, add your page to its respective prison book.

The Mechanical Age

Mechanical is a small Age, and it's quite easy to find the brother's pages. You'll arrive on a small island. Walk over to the huge fortress you see ahead. Inside the doorway you'll find two hallways.

The left hallway is Sirrus's throne room, where you will see more of his accumulated riches. You'll find his page behind a panel in the wall next to his throne. It will be inside a box of gold coins. On the wine rack across the small room, you'll find a rolled up note from Achenar to Sirrus, complaining about "[Sirrus's] new tax" recently forced on Achenar's servants.

The right hallway is Achenar's throne room, where you will see more of his weapons and poisons, evidence of his violent, demented nature. Achenar's page will be behind a panel to the right of his throne, as well.

You have your page? Good. Now...how to get home?

Getting Back to Myst from Mechanical

Did you notice anything different in Achenar's room? There you'll find a fortress rotation simulator. Play with it for a minute and notice how long it takes to hold the lever to turn the fortress. If this is the simulator, where are the real controls?

• Did you notice the hallway on the backside of the fortress, in between the brother's rooms? There you will find an elevator, but you can't step inside. You must rotate it first.
• Click the red button on the wall. Stairs open up to reveal a basement.
• Go down the steps. Before you is a lever and a display showing the position of the elevator and the opening to it. Turn the lever until the symbol turns red, indicating the elevator is open for you to enter.
• Go back up and click the red button to raise the stairs. Enter the elevator. Inside, you'll find three buttons: up, down, and a middle button. Curious?
• Go up to the top and get out to take a look around. See anything? Look up.
• Hop back in the elevator and hit the middle button. Sounds like a timer. Hop out quickly.
• The center button is time-delayed. The elevator will head down without you (if you get out), exposing a set of controls sitting atop the elevator.
• Step forward and turn the left lever up. Then pull the right lever up and hold it for about four seconds. This turns the fortress to face a new island. Hop back in the elevator and go down.
• Go back outside. Hopefully, you'll find a new island before you. On top you'll find a podium with two symbols. Write them down, and head back up to the controls.
• This time pull the lever for just about two seconds, then go outside and collect the remaining symbols. At the controls, rotate the fortress for about four more seconds and go back outside.
• Enter the symbols into the podium and hit the red button. Down the stairs you'll find the Myst book.

In case you happen to lose the correct symbols you sketched out (or perhaps you've been having a fit with the controls and are ready to leave), here is the combination to unlock the Myst book.

The Selenetic Age

Selenetic is a hot and mostly barren world. Look out of the spaceship door and you'll be greeted a dirt path. The first thing you'll notice is a door set into the earth on your right. For now, it's locked, but you'll be back later. For now take time to explore the island and look for the brother's pages.

As you explore, you'll notice a microphone, symbol, and button in important areas, each with their own distinct sound. Click the buttons to turn on the microphones.

You'll find Sirrus's page at the end of the Stone Forest, a cluster of tall, spiky stone pillars on the water with a walkway going through them. To find Achenar's page, go to the Oasis, a small wooded area with a small pool at the end of it. The page lies by the pool. Remember you can take only one page per trip.

Getting Back to Myst from Selenetic

Sounds are the key in Selenetic. Have you found all the microphones and turned them on? Did you notice the tower with dishes all over it out in the bay? Follow the narrow path past the Stone Forest to reach the tunnel that leads to it. The control tower... (CONTINUE CONTENT)

SPOILER: The correct order of sounds can be found by moving the levers to the positions shown below.

Click the button on the pannel and the sounds will play back to you. The correct configuration will open the door. Inside, down the stairs, you will find the Maze Runner. Click the button by the door to open it, then enter. The controls are fairly simple. The puzzle, however, is is not.

• Forward, left, right. Obviously at the end of...one path through the maze lies the Myst book. How do you find your way? Listen very, very closely. What do you hear upon arriving at a new landing?
• The sounds are clues to directions. Take notes.
• Listen to hear combinations of sounds. A combination sound may refer to, for example—NW or SE instead of just N or S.

This is probably the most difficult puzzle you'll have encountered. If it's becoming a bit too much for you, here is the answer.

SOLUTION

Direct the maze runner N, W, N, E, E, S, S, W, SW, W, NW, NE, N, and SE.

D'ni

Once you link back into the Myst library, take your red or blue page to it's respective book. By now you should've added one page from each age to one of the books. Opening that book should provide you some very helpful information from one of the brothers. Sirrus or Achenar will instruct you to copy a certain pattern from the code book on the bookshelf. Using this pattern inside the fireplace will give you access to three important items—the final red and blue pages, and another linking book. You now have a choice to make.

• Which of the brothers seems more trustworthy to you? Or does either of them?
• Why did they both seem so fearful of their father? And what of the green book they warned you from opening?
• Why not open the green book, just out of curiosity at least?
• What missing page is Atrus speaking of? Remember seeing a partial message in the drawer in Channelwood? Or in Stoneship? Piece the halves together and you'll learn.
• The halves are in Sirrus's room in Channelwood and in Achenar's room in Stoneship. Together, they tell you the location of Atrus's missing page.

SOLUTION

The missing page to Atrus's Myst linking book is down by the dock, inside the marker switch. Flip the switch, take the page, and return to the fireplace. Open the green linking book, and enter K'veer...

Rime

(This section pertains only to realMYST)

Once you return from K'veer island, note that Atrus not only destroyed the red and blue linking books, but he dropped a plum-colored journal on the library floor. Time to read.

• To access the Rime linking book, go back to the fore-chamber in the dock. Enter 40 into the panel in the wall, then click the button on the front of the machine. A hologram of Rime will appear over the imager.
• Go to the back of the imager and click the second button. This will open the panel near the stairs. Now click the button in the second from the bottom circle.
• Go down the hill to the left of the spaceship walkway. At the end of the passage, enter the number listed in Atrus' journal: 2735. Hit the red button, and the machine will raise into the ceiling.
• Go up to the library. The center of the floor will be raised, revealing the Rime book.

Once you've linked into Rime, turn around and go up to the hut. Inside, you'll find a book back to Myst, and another door, but it seems to be frozen shut! Just outside the hut, you'll find a switch to turn on the stove inside. Go back inside and shut the door. After having a few minutes to warm up, the room will thaw and you can open the second door. At the end of the passage, you'll find an elevator. Hop in and go up. There you'll find a machine that generates different light shows in the sky—just another one of Atrus' amazing inventions. Back inside the elevator, click the red button to circle around and access another small writing room, with one last journal of Atrus that will tie together some more of the story.

The adventure continues in Riven: The Sequel to Myst.

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