Steamworld Dig 2 Map Upgrade Cog By

On the left just above the first purple creature is a secret bit of wall, lurk next to it and the shots from the purple creature to your right should knock it out, revealing the way.

Steamworld Dig 2 is another perfect slice of portable gaming.

As you move through the terrific robotic adventure ( review ), youre more than likely to miss a few of the fascinating artefacts that are well hidden in each puzzle room, down among the lava beds and other locations across the game.

While not exhaustive, here are the ones that caused me a fair bit of grief, along with some of the solutions to tougher puzzles and the location-based trophies.

To speed up your artefact finding, focus on upgrading your lamp as the Eye for Weakness mod will light up secret entrances.

Use the Hook Shot to hang above the exit door, making sure you dont accidentally leave.

The lava will come up, but not to the top, then flow back down.

Carefully drop to the bottom of the level and at the lower right is the entrance to the secret area.

Lava Shooters: The fossil artefact can be found on the last leg of this long run through fireballs.

When youve done the long runs left, up, right and down, head inside the structure, look for the pair of jets shooting down and follow the rightmost up to a ledge where you can break through into the secret area.

Leaky Lodge: If you enter from the higher of the two doors, you will see a big 2X2 rock just waiting to fall down.

The other hidden area is on a long left-to-right run at the top of the maze.

Mine Cart Madness: This is one of my favourite set puzzles in the game.

The first is just a warmup really, move the higher minecart to the right and watch it fall, then move the lower cart into that.

It will fall through the quicksand and into place, allowing you to advance.

Hop over and hammer the first cart until it is destroyed and move the new replacement cart to the right.

Now move the old cart right into new one, and it will fall down.

Finally, and heres where I had so much fun, there are three carts to move.

Hodge Podge Hang: To the right of the start is a treasure, you have to hook and thrust jump around the ceiling thats below you to access it.

Steamworld Dig 2 Map Upgrade Cog By

At the very top left of the map is some ore and you can get an upgrade cog by going all the way around the tricky map to the final narrow drop back to the start.

The first secret here is on the left near the bottom of the first descent among the spiky blocks.

Then do the loop around to the section that heads up with more spikes and a few spitting purple beasts.