Have just finished Myst 5 and thought I'd have a go at Myst 1 again.

In Channelwood, I keep turning the spigot (I only get a pointing finger not a fist) but the water does not flow. Don't know whether I am turning it properly and can't see anything to pull, push, press to activate the flow.

Don't think I had this problem the last time.

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Am getting really frustrated as it's my last age.

You might have trouble spotting what to do if the monitor is too dark. Look around elsewhere in the windmill shed to see if there is something else to do. The valve itself is either on or off, as the sound will indicate.

Thank you for taking the trouble to reply.

I have turned upo the brightness. Water is flowing into the tank but I cannot hear any in the pipes, the controls for which I have turned the way I think they should be and again the way I think they should not be to no avail. Can see nothing outside the shed, i.e. on the sea side from where the water is extracted. The only other thing I can see in the shed is the generator thing whose pull down handle is a red herring I am told. I cannot get to the generator from any other angle to see if there is anything else.

I get into the lift - the correct one I think, the one I think of as the second object, the first object being in my mind the locked gate.

Any more hints, PLEASE?

Pamela

The handle on the windmill does work to start the windmill rotating. After that it's always on.

Hmm... You should be able to hear water running at the windmill valve. The left side of the valve turns the water on and the right side turns the water off.

After you get the water to run down to the docks you have to figure out the proper valve sequence(s) to get things to work.

Keep trying and keep us informed.

Thank you, Urdu. WIll give it another go and let you know (be a couple of days before I can try as got lot of work on)

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Originally posted by Urdu:
The handle on the windmill does work to start the windmill rotating. After that it's always on.

Keep trying and keep us informed.

Could not let work get in the way.

Success. I think that because the spigot does not turn very much I fiddled with it too much and was turning it off and on rather than just touch it once and leave it be. This time I just touched it once as you suggested and it worked.

Now finished the game again. I think that the first time round I had more patience.

Thank you very much. Appreciate your help.

Pamela

You're welcome! The first time I went through the game it took me a while to figure out how to work the entrance to Channelwood on Myst Island. The handwheel there works just about the same way.