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Act 1 Walkthrough

The cabin safe opens with 273. You can read that code on the rulebook page for Mighty Leap, and the rulebook appears after your first death. 273 gives the key. The key opens the puzzle cabinet. The cabinet’s third drawer holds the caged wolf card.

Official Steam screenshot of the candlelit cabin card table in InscryptionOfficial Steam screenshot of Leshy across the table

Safe, drawers, knife, eye

Four drawers sit behind that key. The public cabin page and the GameRant clock guide both treat drawer three as the caged wolf. When the caged wolf dies in a fight, the wolf statue in the room opens, and the squirrel statue gives you the special dagger. The dagger weighs four extra teeth on the scale if you use it as an item, and its story use is the eye.

Use the dagger on the right eye. After the next battle you choose a replacement. Pick Magnificus’s eye. With that eye you can see marks on the clock face. Those marks are the bottom door. I am not printing a fixed hour for that bottom door. GameRant counts 1,728 hand positions, which is why guessing is a bad plan. The top of the Act I clock, set to 11:00, gives the ring that auto-passes the Trial of the Ring.

Bosses and the photo

Fight order is Prospector in the woods, Angler, then Trapper who flips into the Trader, then Leshy. Leshy’s own fight has three phases: the masks of those bosses, a deathcard phase, and The Moon. Win the first phase of an early boss too quickly, or beat the Trapper before your third loop, and the second phase becomes eight Grizzlies with Mighty Leap while Leshy says “Too fast. Too soon.” That line is a punishment, not an achievement name.

The film roll comes with the stunted wolf from the clock’s bottom door. Taking Leshy’s picture is the step the “after the photo” searches are about. The dark room and the mirror room are named in guides, but I only have the cabin wiki as a clear source for how they trigger, so I am not writing a one-path recipe for them. The safe, the eye, and 11:00 are the parts two sources agree on.

FAQ

What is the safe code in Act 1?

273.

What time is the Act 1 clock?

11:00 on top gives the ring. The bottom door follows the marks you see with Magnificus’s eye, not 4:00.

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