tracking their Indiana Jones and the Great Circle achievements.
Click here to track your progress.

Gear Head achievement in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Gear Head

Solve the Cogwheel puzzle in Sukhothai.

Gear Head-1.0

How to unlock the Gear Head achievement

  • TerardedTerarded
    09 Dec 2024 09 Dec 2024
    This achievement can be earned in Sukhothai. There are 10 cogs scattered around the map, 3 of which will be encountered during the story mission "The Blessed Pearl" which will introduce you to how the cog puzzle works. If you didn't pick these 3 back up you can travel back and get them at any time.

    The other 7 are in various locations around the map all down in pits you can drop down to.

    Once you have all 10 you will need to find a particular cog puzzle west of Voss' Camp and solve it. I'm not sure if this is bugged or not since all the locations that you can find cogs at have similar puzzles but the achievement popped for me after only completing this one particular puzzle.

    This whole process requires visiting a number of unnamed locations so text explanations don't really work. You can either visit Tongdong to buy a map highlighting their locations or consult the video below for a guide on where to find all 10 gears as well as how to solve the puzzle.

    Guide not helping? View 1 more guide for this achievement.

    Showing most recent comments. View all comments.
    NoHeroes94@Outlander Henri - any chance you can screenshot? I can't even see any big cogwheels that are interactable ...
    Posted by NoHeroes94 on 07 Feb at 13:25
    Outlander HenriUnfortunately, I already uninstalled but if it helps, I'll walk through exactly what I did. The three cogs I was missing were the Blessed Pearl ones but when I first went back to get them while clearing the map I only found two. After scouring the entire godforsaken map (in that awful boat) for the last elusive cog I started googling and found the reddit thread I mentioned in a previous post. So I went back once again and, after pulling the first large cog off the left puzzle, found the last small cog. Interestingly, the small cog may not have even spawned until I turned away to toss the large cog on the ground (shy I guess?). So, maybe try looking away? Or try this method on the other puzzles? Frustrating, I know.

    Also, another thing that helped me with finding these damn cogs was going into the accessibility options in the pause menu and turning on item outlines (or whatever the actual option is called). Makes overlooking them a near non-issue. Wish I could help more
    Posted by Outlander Henri on 08 Feb at 07:19
    NoHeroes94Thank you @Outlander Henri; I cannot interact with anything in that puzzle; left or right. I cannot interact insert one of my 7 cogs that aren’t bugged but that’s it. As per my comments above I can physically see the 3 cogs but can’t interact with them.
    Posted by NoHeroes94 on 15 Feb at 22:28
  • Have you got any tips or tricks to unlock this achievement?
    Add a guide to share them with the community.

    Add a guide
  • UntilTammaroYTUntilTammaroYT
    25 Dec 2024 28 Dec 2024 28 Dec 2024

    00:00 Cogwheel Puzzle 1 Solution (3 Cogwheels)
    02:18 Cogwheel Puzzle 2 Solution (4 Cogwheels)
    03:30 Cogwheel Puzzle 3 Solution (5 Cogwheels)
    04:42 Cogwheel Puzzle 4 Solution (6 Cogwheels)
    06:20 Cogwheel Puzzle 5 Solution (7 Cogwheels)
    08:09 Cogwheel Puzzle 6 Solution (8 Cogwheels)
    09:31 Cogwheel Puzzle 7 Solution (9 Cogwheels)

    The first cogwheel puzzle in Sukhothai will be found during the main quest here as we search for the hidden pyramid. Each puzzle will give us large cogs and small cogs to use to solve the puzzle. The large cogs can only be carried, while the small cogs can be added to our inventory. For this first puzzle we can find two large cogs and 2 small cogs with a third small cog hidden in the room to the right. We can also use our whip in this side room to open the water pipe. From here we can then use the cogs to solve the puzzle starting with the right side of the room then the left. I’ll show the full solution for this first puzzle but for the rest I will be showing a freeze frame of the solution. It is very important to note that after solving each puzzle, we need to recollect the small cogs and carry them to the next puzzle as we will need them to solve the next puzzle. After each puzzle we will progressively increase the amount of small cogs in our inventory as each puzzle will give us another small cog to collect. Finally, we have to solve the puzzles in the order I show otherwise we won’t have enough small cogs for the later puzzles if we skip the earlier ones or try to do them out of order. These are located mostly at unnamed areas, so I highly recommend following the video to tackle these in the correct order.
    Showing all 3 comments.
    Apostle92627Got it, thanks!
    Posted by Apostle92627 on 05 Jan at 00:09
    Mgd226921Excellent videos across the board for this game, thank you.
    Posted by Mgd226921 on 31 Jan at 14:06
    JeppeBoy95Following this guide I unlocked the achievement without any issues at all, thanks
    Posted by JeppeBoy95 on 11 Feb at 11:20
Do you have a question about this achievement? Please post it in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle Forum