OS Order of the Sinking Star
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Coloured Beam Channelling

Coloured Beam Channelling

Taught in the West

DOSSIER

What this entry covers

Giant gems channel coloured light. Keeping a colour powered grants an ability while it is held: phasing through solid walls, smashing boulders, and long-range teleportation. The design pressure comes from needing two colours live at once.

Coloured Beam Channelling in-game screenshot
PLATE A · MECHANIC-BEAM

PROTOCOL CHAIN

How to work this entry

01 STEP

Identify which ability the level actually needs before routing anything. Beam puzzles are usually ability-gated, not light-gated.

02 STEP

Set up the simultaneous pair last. If two colours must be live at once, route the harder one first and keep it untouched.

03 STEP

Boulder smashing is often a one-time event. Check whether the rubble you create is needed as a platform before you destroy the boulder.

04 STEP

Long teleports usually land you somewhere without a beam. Confirm the return route before you take the trip.

FIELD NOTES

Reading Coloured Beam Channelling in play

Coloured Beam Channelling - Reading the board before you move
FIELD NOTE 01

FIELD NOTE 01

Reading the board before you move

Identify which ability the level actually needs before routing anything. Beam puzzles are usually ability-gated, not light-gated.

Coloured Beam Channelling - Working the chain in order
FIELD NOTE 02

FIELD NOTE 02

Working the chain in order

Set up the simultaneous pair last. If two colours must be live at once, route the harder one first and keep it untouched.

Coloured Beam Channelling - How this entry reads in motion
FIELD NOTE 03

FIELD NOTE 03

How this entry reads in motion

Boulder smashing is often a one-time event. Check whether the rubble you create is needed as a platform before you destroy the boulder.

PLATE WALL

Coloured Beam Channelling screenshot 2
PLATE B
Coloured Beam Channelling screenshot 3
PLATE C
Coloured Beam Channelling screenshot 4
PLATE D
Coloured Beam Channelling screenshot 5
PLATE E
Coloured Beam Channelling screenshot 6
PLATE F
Coloured Beam Channelling screenshot 7
PLATE G

SOURCES

Where this entry comes from

Each record below backs a specific claim on this page. Tier 1 is the developer or publisher speaking in their own words, tier 2 is established press, and tier 3 is creator coverage. Quotations are rendered in written form; the exact spoken wording from the source is kept underneath each one for verification.

  1. 01 TIER 1 - OFFICIAL Steam News - Community Announcements VERIFIED 2026-10-11

    Giant gems channel coloured light. Keeping a colour powered grants an ability while it is held: phasing through solid walls, smashing boulders, and long-range teleportation. The de

    “Fix unlock and smash beam icons being visible in wrapping when they shouldn't be”
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  2. 02 TIER 1 - OFFICIAL Steam store page (Thekla, Inc.) VERIFIED 2026-10-11

    Entity identity and official naming for Coloured Beam Channelling

    “From legendary director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness) comes Order of the Sinking Star, a massive puzzle adventure featuring more than one thousand hand-crafted puzzles designed to put your intellect to the test. You”
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  3. 03 TIER 3 - CREATOR FuryForged (YouTube) — The addictive variety of Order of the Sinking Star VERIFIED 2026-10-11

    Beam colours each grant a distinct ability: red beams disable red energy gates, green beams let you walk through walls, orange beams teleport you over a tile, and cyan beams grant the strength to push objects.

    “Red beams disable red energy gates. Green beams let you walk through walls. Orange beams teleport you over a tile, even over walls and obstacles. Cyan beams grant the strength to push things, because this character cannot push things normally.”
    Original spoken wording

    Red beams allow you to disable red energy gates. Green beams allow you to walk through walls. Orange beams cause you to teleport over a tile, even over walls and obstacles. Cyan beams grant you the strength to push things because this character can't push things normally.

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  4. 04 TIER 3 - CREATOR FuryForged (YouTube) — The addictive variety of Order of the Sinking Star VERIFIED 2026-10-11

    Two beam tools are described: a rod that force-pushes the beam emitters themselves, and a torque that changes the direction of an emitted beam.

    “The rod allows you to force-push the beam emitters themselves, and the torque allows you to change the direction of the emitted beams.”
    Original spoken wording

    The rod, which allows you to force push the beam emitters themselves, and the torque, which allows you to change the direction of the emitted beams.

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GRID RELATIONS

Cross-board links

Dossiers reference each other directly, so no entry is a dead end. Outbound links leave this entry; inbound links arrive from elsewhere in the atlas.

OUTBOUND → 3

INBOUND ← 6