Servant of the Lake Walkthrough

This is a complete step-by-step walkthrough for Servant of the Lake, the Rusty Lake series point-and-click puzzle game. It covers all three days, every puzzle solution and every code you need. Spoilers are kept to the steps themselves — major story twists are hidden behind spoiler warnings.

Day 1

The Arrival

1. Feed the carrot (from the planter) to the horse. ✦ Pet the horse near its eyes before feeding it (hidden achievement).
2. Take one tin cup from the carriage door and one from the left window. Open the right window and place your two cups with the three already there.
3. Arrange all five cups by the number of stripes: 1 stripe on the left through 5 on the right. The first cup opens — take the coin.
4. Give the coin to the coachman. He drops an iron bar: use it to pry up the loose floorboard and take the key.
5. Unlock the front door, take the crow feather, dip it in ink and sign the contract.

Preparing Breakfast

1. Gather wood and oats, light the stove, add milk and cook the porridge.
2. ✦ Give the cat the milk bottle before the dead mouse, or the hidden achievement locks out.
3. Feed the porridge to Aldous, then put on his slippers.

Waking Up Aldous

1. Set his alarm clock to 7:00.
2. Shave him — you will cut his ear. Feed the earlobe to the crow to get a key.
3. Add berries to his porridge, then squash the bugs in the mini-game.
4. Do his exercise routine in the toy figure’s pattern: Left, Right, Down, Right, Right, Down. ✦ Click him the wrong way until he gets stuck in a strange pose, then click again (hidden achievement).

Preparing the Reception

1. Clean the three dirty floor spots with the cloth.
2. Dust the three portraits with the feather duster — the siblings’ movements reveal the code.
3. Box code

   243

4. Open the locked box with 243 to get the third candle.
5. Light the chandelier candles so the markings form one continuous line.

Welcoming the Guests

1. Milk the goat to get a small key. ✦ Feed the bouquet to the goat before milking it (hidden achievement — see the Flower Puzzle page).
2. Solve the roach puzzle and the flower puzzle in the garden (both reward a stone tablet).
3. Open the mailbox with the key for the third stone tablet and a letter.
4. Insert the three stone tablets into the garden box and arrange them in two chains:
5. Stone coin / tablet box

   Tree → Nest → Egg → Bird
   House → Cabinet → Bottle → Droplet

6. Raise the red mansion flag to summon the carriage. Meet Alexandra and give her the bouquet.
7. Open the baby basket and shake it to read the diaper numbers — enter them on the suitcase.
8. Suitcase code

   374

9. Arrange the clothes to fit perfectly (white T-shirt upper left, trousers at the bottom, green dress lower right, blue fabric at the top, black letter in the centre) for a coin and a banknote.
10. Pay the coachman with the coin and feed the banknote to the horse.

Serving Tea

1. Gather sugar, tea, a kettle and the green powder.
2. ✦ Feed tea leaves to the cat first, then collect the sticky substance it coughs up (needed for the Serving Matcha Latte achievement).
3. Prepare Alexandra’s tea (tea, hot water, sugar, green powder, milk). She drops the cup — glue it back together with the sticky substance and make it again with petals, sugar twice, boiling water and milk.

Opening the Reunion

1. Light the fireplace, give Aldous a glass and pour wine from the wine box puzzle.
2. Wine box (rotate cubes to spell)

   1753

3. Open the button/cigar box: top left, top middle, middle middle, right middle, bottom middle, bottom right.
4. Light William’s cigar and use the tooth/mouth mechanics to take the spoon from his mouth.
5. Solve the fish painting puzzle in the order its title states: Timepiece, Book, Elixir, Fish.
6. Cook the fish in the fireplace and top the toast with fly eggs from the plant puzzle.
7. Feed fish on toast to all three Vanderbooms.
8. Calm baby James by touching the items Alexandra indicates (eyes, moon, body, ring, gem, lips, cloud, her eyes). ✦ Pour champagne into James’s mouth first (hidden achievement).
9. Wake William by tugging his ear and clicking the body part his eye points toward.

The Night Watch

Patrol the hallways three times: ring the bell when you spot something strange (corrupted portrait, bloodied cat, ajar door with a masked figure, figure at the garden door), blow out the candle when all is normal. ✦ Keep checking the glass garden door for the masked figure (hidden achievement).

Searching the Attic

1. Sort the body-part box: fingers, leaves/twigs, rocks, bones/flesh.
2. Light the lantern and solve the figurine poem puzzle line by line (soldier, woman, house, horse…).
3. Solve the constellation puzzle by moving clouds to reveal the house, moon and lake patterns.
4. Solve the golden box by matching statues to habitats (see the Gold Box in Attic page).
5. Take the scroll and the two ladder rungs, complete the ladder and open the hatch.

Day 2

Preparing Coffee

1. Use the house painting and the portraits to derive the coffee box code.
2. Coffee box code

   315

3. Grind the beans and brew the coffee. ✦ Roast the beans on top of the stove beside the teapot, not in the flames (hidden achievement — see the Coffee page).
4. ✦ Tickle William’s toes following the twitch pattern, then set the grandfather clock to 9:00.
5. Grow the plant with William’s drool and rainwater to get birdseed; feed the bird for an egg.
6. Align the special scroll into a fish shape and click: House, Hill, Door, Pocket watches, Book, Bottle, Silhouette.

Cleaning the Floors

Scrub the floor spots in the order indicated by the dots (by count 1–6, by size, or by the direction the dots point). ✦ Also scrub the faint stick-figure drawing in the top-left of the Servant’s Room before releasing the brush (hidden achievement).

Going Hunting

Shoot the deer, pheasant, rabbit, pigeon and boar — and shoot William twice. ✦ Use every bullet without a miss or an empty shot for the A Perfect Hunt hidden achievement (rabbit ×2, boar ×2, pheasant ×1, pigeon ×1, deer ×1, William ×2). Exit and re-enter the shooting screen to refresh targets. See the Hunting page for the full sequence.

The Meat Puzzle & The Shed

1. Match the severed body parts (eye, nose/tongue, talon/claw, ear) to numbers using the five senses.
2. Meat puzzle / shed code

   91276

3. Open the shed and take the butcher knife.
4. Steal Aldous’s silver timepiece while his eyes are covered in blood.

Doing the Washing

Collect seven pieces of laundry, wash them in the stove tub and hang them by stripe count from 0 to 6. ✦ Look through the bathroom keyhole for the masked figure (hidden achievement).

Helping with Bathing

1. Solve the bathroom sliding symbol puzzle (slide silver tokens onto matching symbols).
2. Find the matching tile sets to reveal the scissors and cut the stitches on Alexandra’s back.
3. Use the maggot to bait a mouse and get the bone comb.
4. Defend Alexandra in the bubble puzzle with the hairpin, then take her pendant.
5. Overlap the two notes to reveal the bathroom suitcase code.
6. Bathroom suitcase code

   281

7. Open the suitcase (left clasp, dials to 281, button left of the dials), place the necklace in the box’s recess and take the watch.

Day 3

Looking for the Cat

Find the cat under a chair, behind a bust, in the stove, and on the maid’s lap. ✦ Pet the cat until it jumps off the maid’s lap (hidden achievement).

Unforeseen Maintenance

Click the portrait in the order the note gives — hat, rifle, bear’s eyes, raven — to open the hidden passage. ✦ Open the hidden compartment in the table leg beside the cat to find a letter (hidden achievement).

Assisting in Alchemy

1. Decode the symbols from the clues around the room (river photo = water; the soldier statue moves left three times; the parrot drinks five drops).
2. Open the wooden box by pressing the arrows: Left, Left, Right, Right, Left, Right.
3. Pink cabinet code

   2451

4. Mix the recipe: 2 left + 3 middle = oil, 4 right + 1 left = acid.
5. ✦ Give some finished elixir to Harvey the parrot before Aldous (hidden achievement).

The Departure

Serve dinner and dress William (✦ add the fly to the soup, attach the fish pin, pull the lamp cord repeatedly — three hidden achievements). Follow the finale; afterwards the Notebook opens and you can replay every chapter.

After the Ending: the Secret Ending

After the credits, press Continue and you will receive a letter from Kate. It starts a seven-step chain across replayed chapters that ends in the true ending and the “You’ve Found Him!” achievement. Full spoiler-free steps: Servant of the Lake Secret Ending guide.

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