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Eve and the Solar Tower chest
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Stellar Blade

Stellar Blade: Solar Tower chest puzzle solution

How to unlock it and how to reach it.
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Gavin Mackenzie
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Published: Apr 27, 2024 08:26 am

In Stellar Blade, the Solar Tower is an important facility on the west side of the Wasteland map. If you scan the area around the Solar Tower, you’ll notice that there’s a chest on top of two shipping containers northwest of the tower itself. Unlocking it is a puzzle.

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To get your hands on the prized item hidden inside the Solar Tower chest, you have to do two things. You have to unlock the chest, and you have to get up on top of those shipping containers. You might think that you’d need to get up there first and then worry about unlocking it, but the unlocking part actually starts first. You see, unlike, say, the BAR 99 chest, this Stellar Blade chest isn’t opened using a passcode. Instead, it has a complex digital remote locking system.

How to unlock the Solar Tower chest in Stellar Blade

Map showing the console locations
The Ds mark the spots. Screenshot by Dot Esports

To unlock the Solar Tower chest, you have to find and operate each of the four Tetrastar consoles in the area to the north of the Solar Tower. The first three have large aerials towering over them, and the last one is actually up on top of the shipping containers directly in front of the chest itself. The easiest way to find them is to use the map above.

First console
Unlocking a chest using four remote consoles makes about as much sense as wearing a bunny suit on a mission to save mankind. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The first Tetrastar console is west of the chest itself. It’s guarded by a Hedgeboar that doesn’t move, so it is easy to insta-kill with an ambush attack.

Second console
LEGION 15, like this caption, is not useful information. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Continue counterclockwise around the edge of this area, and you’ll soon come to the second Tetrastar console. This one is guarded by a patrolling Hedgeboar, but its route is very simple, so it’s also easy to ambush.

Third console
Big yellow block just out of shot. Screenshot by Dot Esports

The next Tetrastar console is directly north of the Solar Tower. It’s guarded by another patrolling Hedgeboar, but this one is also an easy ambush kill.

How to get to the Solar Tower chest in Stellar Blade

Moving the yellow block
If you can’t double-jump yet, you might need to progress further in the story before you try this. Screenshot by Dot Esports

Close to the third console, there’s a big yellow movable block. Grab it and push or pull it all the way over to the northern end of the two shipping containers. Climb up onto the block, and then double-jump to get up onto the containers. Operate the fourth and final Tetrastar console, and the chest will turn green and unlock. Open it to discover that there’s nothing inside except a single can of Potential Tempest soda.

Look, I understand that soda cans are really valuable in Stellar Blade, but putting it inside that great big chest just seems a bit wasteful. Never mind, the main thing is that you enjoyed the satisfaction of completing a puzzle, right?

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Gavin Mackenzie
Gavin Mackenzie has been playing video games since the early 80s, and writing about them professionally since the late 90s. Having been a writer and editor on various British magazines including PLAY, GamesTM, and X360, he's now a freelance guides specialist at Dot Esports.