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Contents

  • Essentials
    • Gameplay
      • Overview
      • Characters
      • Apparatuses
      • Portal Science
    • Portal Chamber Strategy
      • Chamber 13
      • Chamber 14
      • Chamber 15
      • Chamber 16
      • Chamber 17
      • Chamber 18
    • Extras
      • Portal Art
      • The Cake is No Lie
  • Walkthrough
    • Test Chambers
      • Chambers 00-01
      • Chambers 02-03
      • Chambers 04-05
      • Chambers 06-07
      • Chamber 08
      • Chamber 09
      • Chamber 10
      • Chamber 11
      • Chamber 12
      • Chamber 13
      • Chamber 14
      • Chamber 15
      • Chamber 16
      • Chamber 17
      • Chamber 18
    • The Escape
      • Part One
      • Part Two
      • Part Three
    • Advanced
      • Advanced Chamber 13
      • Advanced Chamber 14
      • Advanced Chamber 15
      • Advanced Chamber 16
      • Advanced Chamber 17
      • Advanced Chamber 18

Portal Guide › Walkthrough › Test Chambers

Chambers 00-01

1. Test Chamber 00 Startpoint
2. Test Chamber 00 End Point
3. Test Chamber 01 Start Point
4.Test Chamber 01 End

Test Chamber 00

You wake up in a cold, sterile chamber, completely barren save for a bed pod, toilet, and radio. You have no choice but to heed the call of the synthesized voice over the PA as it beckons you out of the orange portal.

Walk through the circular door and into the next room. When you pass the large button on the floor, the Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent drops a Weighted Storage Cube at your feet. Pick it up by pressing INTERACT BUTTON, and drop it on the red button.

Head through the blast door that just opened, and proceed through the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grid into the elevator. Congratulations—you have just solved your first puzzle in Portal. Rest assured that it will only get more challenging from here.

Test Chamber 01

Exit the elevator and drop into the glass-enclosed chamber ahead of you. Turn 180 degrees, and you see a orange portal on the wall in front of you. The blue portal that is the orange portal’s destination is alternating between three locations: the room to your right, which houses a red button; the room to your left, containing a Weighted Storage Cube; and the room behind you, which leads to the exit.

When you can see the Storage Cube through the orange portal, run through it, snatch up the cube, and exit back out.

Wait till you can see the button through orange portal in the main chamber, then run in again, depress it with the Storage Cube, and leave once more.

In a moment, you’ll be able to see the exit door through the orange portal. Proceed through it, and you’re home free.

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