Hall of Seasons - Furnace Room

After navigating through the first segment of the BASEMENT OF DOOM, as shown in the previous section, Lara has reached the entrance to the FURNACE ROOM. This is the door you unlocked earlier by placing the 4 ELEMENT CRYSTALS in their receptacles in the MAIN ROOM.

Go through and descend the spiral staircase.

The gate at the bottom opens as you approach. Use the lever to open the next gate and close the one behind.

Follow the wooden walkway to the left. Turn the valve near the air sign to supply one of the elements the machine needs to work.

Turn around and follow the walkway back toward the entrance. Before you reach it, turn toward the center of the room and take a running jump to the circular wooden platform surrounding the machine at the middle level.

Move around to the other side of the machine and find a chain running up and outward toward one of the V-shaped wooden supports on the outer wall. Jump up to grab the chain and traverse to the other end. Drop onto the curved ledge.

Go left and climb the ladder (or just pull up onto the ledge above). Turn the valve near the water sign, to let water into the boiler.

From the water valve, drop back down to the curved ledge, then traverse back to the center along the chain.

Move around the circular platform to the left. Just before the light-colored, vertical pipe, turn to face out over the room and take a running jump to the small wooden platform across the gap. There are two ladders here: one leading upward and another, in a dark alcove, leading down. Climb the ladder leading up.

Dismount on the right, and Turn the valve near the earth sign to fuel the furnace.

Climb back down the ladder. Go right, into the dark alcove, and jump to grab the other ladder.

Climb or drop down to the ledge below and step out onto the wooden beam.

If you don't care about kills and pickups, you can grab onto the chain overhead, and traverse across to the center platform. (Skip the next 3 screenshots and pick up the walkthrough below.) If you want it all, instead safety drop to the floor.

There's another undead knight (4) roaming around down here. Position Lara near the inside edge of the circular walkway, wait for the knight to approach...

...then knock him off the edge into the lava pool, using your fists, feet, or shotgun. (He's number 9/17 for the achievement/trophy "This is Lara!")

Grab the Viper clip (5) on the stone floor to the left of one of the big black gears anchoring the support chains. (It's the one below the Earth valve.) Then climb the nearby ladder to get back up to the middle platform near the machine.

Locate the valve near the fire sign on one side of the boiler at the center of the wooden platform.

Once you have used the air, water, and earth valves, the cage over the fire valve opens so you can turn it. When you do, the machine roars to life and is revealed to be a giant, pre-Renaissance Cuisinart.

To avoid the deadly blades, step straight back from the valve and safety drop to the floor.

Turn around on the spot (there are blades to the left and right) and move straight toward the outer edge of the circular walkway. Head left toward the ladder on one of the wooden support posts and climb up.

NOTE: In the Steam version of the Remaster, the spinning drill-like blades above the circular wooden walkway didn't activate, so I was able to just follow the walkway to the ladder. If they're causing trouble for you, instead, follow the path indicated above. Just take care when jumping across the gap between the huge gear and the ladder. If you start right at the edge, Lara will bang into the ledge and fall into the lava. Instead, take a step back, then jump.

At the top of the ladder, go around to the other side of the next ladder to climb up.

The exit is just ahead on the left. Climb the stairs...

...pull the lever to cycle the gates...

...then continue up the spiral staircase to the "BASEMENT OF DOOM."

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