Crane synchronised switches
Also searched as: Crane Drop
The short answer
The coastal crane has one switch on each side, and both have to be pressed inside a very short shared time window. When you are too far apart for gestures to be seen, raising a lantern as the countdown signal is the most reliable option.
- Players
- 2 players
- Time
- 5-10 minutes
- Coordinates
- 3790, 2250
- Reward
- 1 green tower part (gourd)
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A pure timing puzzle. The only difficulty comes from the distance between the two players.
Before you start
- 2 players, one per side
Step-by-step 3 steps
- 1
Take your positions
Each player stands at the switch on their side of the coastal crane.
- 2
Agree a countdown
The two of you are too far apart for gestures to read. Raise a lantern as the signal: up means ready, down means press.
- 3
Press together
Both switches inside one short time window and the crane moves, releasing the part.
Where it goes wrong
These are the places players actually get stuck most often. Working through them in order usually finds the cause.
Other Green tower puzzles
After finishing: 1 green tower part.
Where this solution came from
Coordinates and the requirement to press both switches inside a short window, using a raised lantern as the signal, come from bigwalk.tips' green tower round-up. This is the single source for everything on this page: no linkable URL for it exists in the repo, and there is no date or independent retest. The coordinate 3790, 2250 is copied from that source as read, not measured here; 'short window' and 'raised lantern as the signal' are this site's paraphrase of the mechanic.
Puzzles in this game are not assigned in a fixed order: each tower needs a set number of gourds and has more challenges around it than that, so you choose which ones to clear, in any order. That is why two guides list different puzzle line-ups for the same tower — neither is wrong. Unless a coordinate is credited to a named source it is a community measurement, and later versions can shift it; once you are in the area, trust the landmark over the number.