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    Endacopia Chapter 1 Walkthrough

    Full Endacopia Chapter 1 walkthrough: the body-pieces route, the cheese-and-cockroach coin trick, and the complete telescope puzzle solution.

    Chapter 1 begins the moment the Prologue ends: Mellow is out of his room and into the house hub, and the game stops teaching and starts testing. This is the chapter that pairs the game's two signature early sequences — the scramble to recover Mellow's missing body pieces, and the telescope puzzle that stalls more first-time players than anything else before Timesville.

    The route below is the same one as the main walkthrough, opened up: every beat gets its own step, the telescope gets a three-level hint ladder, and the chapter's items are tabulated at the end. Solutions stay behind spoiler toggles — read the visible layer for orientation, open a toggle only when you want that step solved.

    Chapter 1 at a Glance

    Position
    After the Prologue · before Timesville
    Signature events
    Body-piece recovery · the telescope
    Typical length
    ~35 minutes in a no-commentary full run
    Key mechanic
    Time of day advances on re-entry
    Chapter gate
    The telescope puzzle

    Chapter 1 Main Route

    Steps 1–5 are the recovery spine; steps 6–10 are the telescope gate. Nothing here is optional except the coins — the body pieces are the critical path, not collectible cleanup.

    Spoiler — Chapter 1 full route, step by step
    1. The chapter opens with the toilet adventure — a short, unpleasant set-piece that starts Mellow's recovery. Play it straight: examine everything, take what's takeable, move on.
    2. Your spine for the whole chapter is collecting Mellow's body pieces — the payoff of the “lost all his senses” premise. Follow the chapter's signals from location to location; each piece gates onward progress.
    3. Sweep every new screen before you leave it. Endacopia hides progression in hotspots that look decorative, and Chapter 1's rooms are the first real test of that habit.
    4. Re-talk after every recovery beat. Dialogue pools refresh after progress events — a character with nothing new to say before a piece was recovered usually has something after.
    5. Early coins — the cockroach: use the cheese to lure the cockroach out, then kill it for coins. The game charges you for it: Mellow is allergic to cheese, so the money costs a little dignity.
    6. When the jail area opens, walk in once just to read the walls — before you need anything from it. The telescope puzzle's answer is written there, and most players walk past it before they know what it means.
    7. Make it night. Enter and exit the jail repeatedly until the sky state flips. Time advances on re-entry — the game's standard trick, and your only clock here.
    8. At night, sneak past the pig guarding the area and use the eye scanner.
    9. Use the telescope at the small shed by the cliff. At night it finally shows what the wall writing was pointing at — the chapter's sky-watching step.
    10. Switch panel: if you hit a switch bank in this stretch, set every switch off except the yellow one, then continue to the chapter close and the road into Chapter 2 · Timesville.

    Source: route cross-checked against public full-game playthroughs for the current Steam build (July 27, 2026). The switch-panel setting in step 10 is community consensus rather than an official statement.

    The Telescope Puzzle — Three Levels of Help

    Same structure as the puzzle page: hints escalate, and each toggle only spoils one more thing. Stop reading the moment the gears turn.

    Hint level 1 — the missing condition

    Hint 1 — one condition is missing

    The telescope isn't broken, and where you're standing isn't the problem. It only shows anything at one specific time of day — and the game never announces when that time has arrived.

    Hint level 2 — where the answer is written

    Hint 2 — read the jail walls

    The jail walls tell you what the telescope is pointing at — go read them first. Then make it night the way time moves everywhere in this world: by re-entering the jail until the sky flips.

    Hint level 3 — the full solution

    Full solution — telescope puzzle
    1. Go to the jail first and read the writing on the prison walls.
    2. Enter and exit the jail repeatedly until the sky state flips to night.
    3. At night, sneak past the pig and use the eye scanner.
    4. Use the telescope at the small shed by the cliff.
    5. At the switch bank, set every switch off except the yellow one (community consensus).

    Chapter 1 Items & Characters

    The chapter's inventory is short — these are the three things worth remembering, with the full list on the items page.

    ItemWhat it doesNote
    Cheese Lures the cockroach out of hiding Mellow is allergic — the coins cost you
    Coins Reward for dispatching the cockroach Early currency; cheap to miss if you skip the cockroach
    Telescope The chapter's gate — reveals what the walls describe Only works at night, in the right spot

    Character-wise this stretch is mostly Mellow and the house's residents — the cast proper (and who matters for dialogue) is covered on the characters page, and the deeper dive on the protagonist is in the Mellow guide.