How to Solve Cubik Cube Puzzles in Rivage
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The Cubik Cube is a simple 3×3 Rubik’s Cube, but it ties into two different puzzles in Rivage. Here’s how to solve both of them and the reward you get for attempting both of them.
How to Get the Cubik Cube
To get the Cubik Cube, you need to get the Garage safe code from Rafael’s computer in the Lobby. Here are the steps you need to take:
- Grab the Storage Drive Disk from the first floor of the Laboratory. You can reach this place with the Train. Store it in the Train and retrieve it in the next loop.
- Travel to the Lobby and plug the Storage Drive into Raphael’s Computer.
- Repair the corrupted ‘map. pic’ file on the computer.
How to Repair the Corrupted File
Most of the missing information for the corrupted ‘map.pic‘ file can be found in the ‘.metadata‘ file. The missing password can be found on one of the drawings opposite the computer. To repair the image, you just need to replace the red Hexadecimal numbers with the correct ones. You can look at the examples in the first four rows above as a dictionary to fill them in.
The image below contains the solution for how to fix the corrupted file:
The missing password can be found on a drawing, and it is ‘ytcxc2p‘. Once you repair the image, it will give you the colors to open the safe back in the garage.
Go back to the garage to open the safe to get the Cubik Cube. Don’t start solving it right away. You might’ve noticed that the page said ‘1/2‘. Which means we need to go look for the second page.
How to get the Second Cubik Cube Puzzle Sheet
The second page can be found in the Laboratory by opening up the Containment Unit in the middle. To access the Containment Unit, you need to duplicate and bring the access card from Raphael’s desk.
Once you raise the Containment Unit, it will ask you to repair it. Head downstairs to the first floor of the Laboratory and open up the panel opposite the computer.
How to Solve Gear Puzzle
To get the second sheet for the Rubik’s Cube puzzle, you need to repair the Containment Unit in the Laboratory. This puzzle is fairly confusing and requires you to duplicate the correct gear and then configure them properly to solve the puzzle. The gears will spin six times, and you need to ensure they produce the correct output each time.
This will take a lot of trial and error to solve. Each of the six configurations needs to produce a specific symbol, not just any symbol. The required configuration order is as follows:
- Square + Triangle + Circle
- Triangle + Circle
- Triangle + Square
- Square
- Square + Triangle + Circle
- Triangle + Circle
As you can see, it’s a bit random and hard to calculate. You can try it repeatedly yourself, or you can refer to our image and hint below to solve it.
Hint: Duplicate the gear with one plug at the top and three diverging ones at the bottom, and arrange them in the exact order shown in the image below.
Once you complete the gear puzzle, you can head back upstairs and open the Containment Unit.
How to Solve the Cubik Cube Puzzle Sheet
The Cubik Cube Puzzle sheet shows you a series of inputs you need to make on the cube. However, you have to perform these actions at a specific location. If you look at the first image, it shows the symbol ‘3’ with a portal. This refers to the Anomaly Amaan was working on in the connector. If you take the cube there, it starts glowing.
The sheet gives you the order of inputs to perform here. When you perform a correct input, it will glow yellow. An incorrect input will give you a red glow. There are a total of 7 diagrams in the sequence. Diagrams two and seven simply refer to a clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation of the white side. The other diagrams show corner pieces and highlight the piece you need to click on. For example, the first corner piece will have three sides: green, yellow, and pink, and you need to click the green corner next to the yellow side.
Once you input the correct commands, you will be teleported to the Shed. Here you can find Raphael’s access card and gain Access Level 4.
However, there’s still one more secret this Cubik Cube hides.
How to Solve the Cubik Cube(Optional)
While not required for the main story progression, you can solve the Cubik Cube for an optional reward. If you don’t know how to solve Rubik’s Cubes, worry not. It always has the exact same configuration whenever you first pick it up. Here are the exact steps to solve it and some explanation of how it works. You can solve the Cubik Cube in 22 steps.
- Pink 180°
- White 180°
- Green clockwise
- Red counter-clockwise
- White clockwise
- Red 180°
- Blue counter-clockwise
- White 180°
- Yellow clockwise
- Green clockwise
- Blue 180°
- Yellow 180°
- Green 180°
- Red counter-clockwise
- Green 180°
- White 180°
- Pink clockwise
- Green 180°
- Yellow 180°
- Pink clockwise
- White 180°
- Pink clockwise
This notation ensures that you don’t have to worry about the position you’re facing the cube in. You only have to interact with the middle of each face. Clockwise and counter-clockwise mean a single spin in that direction. Meanwhile, 180° means either two clockwise or two counter-clockwise spins. As long as you follow these simple steps, you can solve the Cubik Cube.
Solving it always teleports you to the same location in the Garage, and you can find one of the seven Tarot cards here. That’s all you need to know about the Cubik Cube in Rivage.
For more guides, check out our main Rivage walkthrough.
