With four prisoners, one Acid Bottle, and multiple torture devices, Crow Country‘s Dungeon puzzle can feel like a complete dead end or an absolute death trap if you fail to spot the tucked-away computer.
The many puzzles of Crow Country take you from one sector of the theme park to another in an instant. While many are discoverable within the first hour of your search for Mr. Crow, you won’t be able to complete any until you find specific items. The Dungeon puzzle is one where you won’t be able to solve it until you find a late-game item, but doing so leads you directly to the vital Golden Key.
Here is how to complete the Dungeon puzzle and use the Acid Bottle in Crow Country.
Crow Country: Dungeon puzzle solution
The Dungeon is the first location inside the Haunted Hilltop. Seemingly a dead end to any who enter, the iron maiden and cloth-covered computer are the only points of interest inside this room. Neither can be interacted with until you find specific items, but the key to the Dungeon puzzle falls in the computer’s mainframe. Without any means to use the computer, Mara needs to find the Data Disk to solve this puzzle.
While it isn’t fully explained, the Data Disk is a puzzle reward. You can only get this inside the Games Arcade of the Ocean Kingdom. This is the third region you unlock in Crow Country. The Arcade leads to the backstage area (west Staff Hallway) of Crow Country, linking Fairytale Town and Ocean Kingdom together as safe passage (so long as you kill the creature residing in the Staff Hallway.
You need to solve the Arcade puzzle by getting the scores 1-2-4-8 on the corresponding game types (in the order of Mermaid, Dolphin, Boat, and Shark). Interact with the coin machine inside the Arcade room to obtain the Data Disk. This is used for the Dungeon and Train puzzle.
Once you have the Data Disk, return to the Dungeon and insert it into the computer. The Prisoner screen will load up, giving you four digits to correspond to body parts. The Prisoner is question is the Mermaid as this cell has the Acid Bottle inside it. Based on the hologram image of the Mermaid, the Prisoner code is revealed as
- Legs: Zero
- Arms: Two
- Heads: One
- Eyes: Two
The door will open when the screen reads 0-2-1-2. Be mindful that enemies and traps will be in this room as you enter. You can either evade them or take everything out with your bullets.
The next move is to go to the Underground using the nearest elevator to your location. It is easiest however to use the North West elevator and descend into the Underground so you are next to the Friday Root. Use the Acid Bottle on the Tank Faucet to the right of the small room where one of the Roots resides. The bottle will fill with an option to leave or turn off the acid-dripping faucet.
Where to use the Acid Bottle in Crow Country
With the full Acid Bottle in hand, head back to the Fairytale Town (first sector) and go into the Theatre. You should have opened this earlier, but if you somehow didn’t then you need to input the code DEAD into the Haunted Manor piano to enter the eastern Staff Hallway. This leads to Crow’s Office, Pike’s Office, the Dungeon, and Theatre.
Pour the acid into the Theatre water tank and use the valve to turn on the sprinklers atop the Fairy’s head. This won’t destroy the head however. It sounds extreme, but you must first shoot the Fairy’s head before turning on the sprinklers. This removes the outer coating, revealing its wooden head underneath. Turn the valve once more to dissolve the wood, where the Golden Key emerges underneath. Grab it by using the stage lift.
Lastly, the Acid Bottle can be used at the Toilet in the Crow Country sector (at the beginning of the game). Go into the second stall and select the Acid Bottle on the pile of bones to dissolve them. This gives you Magnum Ammo and counts towards one of the 15 secrets.
