Vault Seals — Ancients Wiki

Every chamber in a Vault of Plouton is sealed. A seal is a short puzzle, a test of timing or memory, or a parkour run. Solve it and the gate to the chamber's reliquary opens. There are 17 seal rooms, and each vault deals you one per chamber.

The room's name and goal show as a title when you arrive, and the goal stays on the boss bar with your time left.

Controls

Right-click acts.
Sneak + right-click undoes your last move.
A lever, where the room has one, resets the room. In the Gilded Floor it replays the path.
Left-click does nothing, except in rooms that tell you to mine.

The Treasury

The first chamber. Six rooms.

Room	Goal	What the game tells you
The Treasury (mirrors)	Turn the mirrors to light the sun disc	Bounce light off mirrors 1 to 4, then onto the sun disc. Right-click turns, sneak turns back.
The Treasury (coin pit)	Cross the coin pit	Jump the columns to the far rim. A fall resets.
The Strongroom	Turn every arrow to the gold mark	Point every arrow at its gold mark. Plates show linked dials. Right-click turns, sneak turns back.
The Weighing Hall	Make both pans weigh the same	Right-click a sack, then a pan.
The Urn Gallery	Find all 8 pairs	Right-click two urns to match coins.
The Gilded Floor	Walk the lit path	Watch the lit path, then walk it from memory. Wrong tile resets. Lever replays.

The Forge of the Telchines

The second chamber. Five rooms.

Room	Goal	What the game tells you
The Forge of the Telchines	Run the gold to the mould	Turn the tiles to run the gold to the mould. Right-click turns, sneak turns back.
The Ore Yard	Push every cart onto a gold mould	Hit a cart to push it. Sneak + right-click undoes, the lever resets.
The Pouring Floor	Get an exact amount in one crucible	Right-click a crucible to lift, another to pour. Sneak + right-click undoes.
The Gear Hall	Link the drive to the gate wheel	Right-click a rack gear, then a lit peg.
The Hammer Floor	Cross the hammer floor	A glow means that hammer falls next. A hit sends you to the last plate.

The Heart of Plouton

The third chamber. Six rooms.

Room	Goal	What the game tells you
The Heart of Plouton (facets)	Mine the lit facets	Mine the glowing crystal. It moves. You need 16.
The Heart of Plouton (crystals)	Light all six crystals	Right-click a crystal to flip it and its neighbours.
The Glass Floor	Slide onto the gold pad	Slide across the glass onto the gold pad. Sneak + right-click undoes.
The Geode Wall	Mine the cells the numbers ask for	Left-click the cells. A wrong cell resets the wall.
The Star Chamber	Draw the star map in one stroke	Right-click crystals to draw every line once. Sneak + right-click undoes.
The Singing Well	Repeat the crystals' tune	Five rounds. The gate crystal replays the tune.

Every seal solved also counts toward the Great Vault.