The door in the mountains is at the center of Tunic's most-elaborate puzzle, and it is one that many players will be interested in solving. However, the process of unlocking the door in the mountains can feel quite daunting, and fans may find themselves stuck at several points. This guide will begin by providing a general approach that players can use to tackle this complex puzzle, and it will conclude with specific instructions on how to open Tunic's mountain door.
Tunic: How to Open the Door in the Mountains
General Approach
In order to open the door in the mountains, Tunic players must solve the puzzle that is on page 49 of the instruction manual. This puzzle is composed of 25 numbered squares, and a hint about the significance of those numbers can be found on page 22 of the manual. Once a player has resolved the meaning of each of the puzzle's 25 squares, they should stand in front of the door in the mountains and combine their solution with the actions detailed on pages 43 and 44 of the manual.
Golden Path Solution
The numbered squares on page 49 each point to a specific page in Tunic's instruction manual. There is a gold line hidden on each of those pages, except in a handful of instances that have been detailed below, and players are intended to translate those lines into the grid to form a contiguous path that starts at the bottom and ends in the center. This path is to be mimicked, using the d-pad or arrow keys, when standing in front of the door in the mountains to open it.
While players now have all the information that they need to solve the puzzle, actually translating the lines and mimicking the path with directional inputs can still be difficult. For those puzzle game fans that would like to bypass that process, the path, and specific information on where its lines come from, can be found below. Additionally, the directional inputs have been noted below the path, and entering them correctly will open the door in the mountains.
Note: The input that is associated with a line that is broken by a short perpendicular line is to be pressed twice.
- Page 48: The gold line in the grid that the fox is pointing.
- Page 11: The gold line that is pointing to Tunic's main character.
- Page 2: The gold line that forms the candle at the bottom.
- Page 6: The gold line around the Tunic runes in the top-right corner.
- Page 52: The gold line under "MEMO" in the top-right corner.
- Page 27: The gold cross near the bottom of the map of Tunic's West Garden.
- Page 21: The path that is formed in the square in the bottom-left corner.
- Page 4: The gold lines in the background between the two machines on the left.
- Page 50: The gold lines peaking through the cracks in the door in the mountains.
- Page 42: The gold lines in the background that outline the information boxes.
- Page 15: The gold lines in the background, obscured by the information boxes.
- Page 22: The gold boxes that appear behind five of the squares.
- Page 55: The black line that leads to the circle on the back cover.
- Page 31: There is a square on the column on the left side of the page. The line is on that square.
- Page 33: The gold line that is formed by the sun behind the cloud.
- Page 46: The gold line that is above the book on the page about beating Tunic.
- Page 28: The gold line that extends from the rectangular item at the bottom.
- Page 9: This gold line is accessed by exiting to the main menu and loading the mysterious save file.
- Page 40: The gold line formed by the stain in the bottom-left corner.
- Page 18: The gold line traced into the dotted lines that separate stat-improving items in Tunic.
- Page 34: The gold line that encircles the map.
- Page 16: The gold lines in the background, obscured by the information boxes.
- Page 12: The portion of the blue lines that are inside the gold square.
- Page 39: The gold line around the gray banner at the top.
- Page 44: The gold line that is imposed atop the left side of the door.
Golden Path Directional Inputs
- up, left, down, left, up, left, down, left, up, right, up, right, up, left, up, right, down, right, up, left, up, left, up, right, up, left, down, left, up, right, up, up, left, up, right, down, right, down, right, up, right, down, left, down, right, up, right, right, down, right, up, right, down, right, up, right, right, down, left, down, left, down, right, down, right, down, left, left, down, right, down, left, down, right, up, right, down, right, up, right, right, down, down, left, up, right, up, left, down, left, up, left, up, left, up, right, right, up, left, up
Tunic is available now for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.