Heroes and Artifacts is the second area in the HxB pairing (Heroes and Beamcasters), after Heroes and Light. It is much shorter: 12 puzzles and three overworld puzzles. The table below gives the start of each one in a full solution video.
Puzzle 1 of Heroes and Artifacts. The green hero, who pulls, starts between rock walls with a yellow block on the left.
Before you start
- Open the HxB Gold Room first. In Mikan Hako's playthrough series, Heroes and Artifacts comes after the Heroes and Light videos.
- The Vault of the Beamcasters has artifacts of its own, such as the rod and the torc. Our Vault and Torc pages explain how those work, if you need a refresher.
- The overworld puzzles come after puzzle 3, after puzzle 9 and after puzzle 10 (the video labels the last one "2.5"). Each one opens the next stretch.
- Puzzles 10 and 12 have the longest solutions, each over two minutes in the video. Most of the others take under a minute.
How to use the tables: "Starts at" is the point in the solution video embedded lower on the page where that puzzle begins. "Solution length" is how long the finished solution runs in the video, which is a rough guide to how long the puzzle is. Puzzle numbers follow the video's order, which is the order the player solved them in, not a number shown in the game. You can also jump straight to any of these puzzles from the Puzzle Finder.
All puzzles
| Puzzle | Starts at | Solution length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puzzle 1 | 0:00 | 0:32 | |
| Puzzle 2 | 0:32 | 1:11 | |
| Puzzle 3 | 1:43 | 0:53 | |
| Overworld Puzzle 1 | 2:36 | 1:06 | Opens the route to puzzle 4. |
| Puzzle 4 | 3:42 | 0:51 | |
| Puzzle 5 | 4:33 | 0:47 | |
| Puzzle 6 | 5:20 | 0:35 | |
| Puzzle 7 | 5:55 | 0:26 | |
| Puzzle 8 | 6:21 | 0:42 | |
| Puzzle 9 | 7:03 | 1:04 | |
| Overworld Puzzle 2 | 8:07 | 0:36 | Opens the route to puzzle 10. |
| Puzzle 10 | 8:43 | 2:12 | One of the two longest in the area. |
| Overworld Puzzle 2.5 | 10:55 | 0:26 | Opens the route to puzzles 11 and 12. |
| Puzzle 11 | 11:21 | 0:33 | |
| Puzzle 12 | 11:54 | 4:17 |
Puzzle 10 is played on stone platforms over open water. The gold-cloaked hero is on the left platform and two goblins guard a button on the right one.
Solution video
Puzzle list and timestamps from The Flying Chungus solution video. Count note: the community map at sinkingstarguide.com lists only 5 "Heroes And Artifacts" locations, because it counts differently from the video.