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Dealing with Mire Hazards
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Dealing with Mire Hazards

Learn how to navigate and overcome the dangerous Mire Hazards in Rotwood. This guide provides essential tips and strategies to survive the treacherous swamps and their unique challenges.

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Dealing with Mire Hazards

Learn how to navigate and overcome the dangerous Mire Hazards in Rotwood. This guide provides essential tips and strategies to survive the treacherous swamps and their unique challenges.

The Mire Hazards in Rotwood present a unique environmental challenge. Players must be cautious of the treacherous terrain and the creatures that inhabit it. This section of the guide will detail how to best approach these areas to minimize risk and maximize survival.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Navigate the sewers, being mindful of green zombies that require two knife attacks to defeat.
  2. 2
    Solve the liquid balancing puzzle to obtain a medallion.
  3. 3
    Use the medallion to unlock a gate, leading to either the WRot Radio Station or Barlow’s Meat Shop, depending on your character.
  4. 4
    In the Radio Station, solve the wave matching puzzle and defeat a boss to obtain the Radio Station key.
  5. 5
    In Barlow’s Meat Shop, find a tape for a locker code, solve the animal skull puzzle, and defeat a boss for the Barlow’s Meat Shop Key.
  6. 6
    Both keys unlock the path to Rotwood Downtown.
  7. 7
    In Rotwood Downtown, locate three altars and find three unique canes hidden in the Rotwood School, The Crimson Reel, and Bethany’s Curse and Crafts to unlock the gate to Rotwood Cemetery.
  8. 8
    When encountering enemies in Downtown, prioritize running past them unless combat is unavoidable.
  9. 9
    In Bethany’s Curse and Crafts, find moth parts, solve a portrait riddle, and combine the parts to get the first cane.
  10. 10
    In Gunderson’s General Store, find a journal tape and a gun room key, obtain a grenade launcher, and receive a Ritual Medallion from Zach.
  11. 11
    Use the sewer opening tool to enter sewers, navigate through green liquid and zombies, and use a ladder to resurface.
  12. 12
    In Vincent Rypard’s House, defeat zombies, solve an optional portrait puzzle to access a basement laboratory, and use a control panel to activate a sewer lift, saving your partner.
  13. 13
    Exit the house, find a mouth-tree with a Ripper’s Tape, and use an opened sewer to teleport to another area, returning to downtown.
  14. 14
    Use the Ritual Medallion to unlock a gate and fight zombies before heading to The Crimson Reel.
  15. 15
    In Video Outlaw, use a hammer to break planks, find the Crimson Reel’s key on a corpse, and obtain the Serpent Cane from the cinema.
  16. 16
    Return to downtown and proceed to the Rotwood School, bypassing small zombies outside.
  17. 17
    Enter the school, reach the safe room, and defeat a witch-like zombie to obtain the Skull Cane.
  18. 18
    Return to downtown with the Skull Cane.
Tips
  • Green zombies in the sewers require exactly two knife attacks to kill.
  • Conserve bullets in Rotwood Downtown; run past roaming enemies whenever possible.
  • The grenade launcher found in Gunderson’s General Store is useful for dealing with groups of zombies.
  • The shotgun is effective in the Rotwood School due to the linear arrangement of enemies.
  • The puzzle in Vincent Rypard’s house is optional but necessary to save your partner.
  • Three unique canes (one from Bethany’s Curse and Crafts, one Serpent Cane from The Crimson Reel, one Skull Cane from The Rotwood School) are required to unlock the gate to Rotwood Cemetery.
  • A Ritual Medallion is obtained from Zach in Gunderson’s General Store.
  • A grenade launcher is found in Gunderson’s General Store.

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