Has anyone made sense of this puzzle?

[Firewill]

Spoilers for what puzzle I'm talking about
drawings in the wall
Solve method
Find the odd letter between both pictures e.g. bath and bat gives us an H
Bigger puzzle
If we place all solved letters into a grid like the blueprints show i.e. a 9x5 grid
We obtain the following
I have a few spaces left but I'm pretty confident in my guesses

9 i f _ w e
8 _ o _ n t
7 s m _ l l
6 g a t e s
5 e i _ h t
4 d a t e s
3 c r _ c k
2 e i g h t
1 s a f e s

underscores signify I haven't been able to either get to the drawings or haven't solved them, most of them I'm pretty confident in. My best guess for the whole message is "if we count small gates eight dates crack eight safes." has anyone made any sense out of this? I have seen the Christmas photo of the office safe, haven't tried much with it, guessing that's relevant as well as the note in the conference room. But I'm pretty stumped on what small gates means. is it about the outer paths? I didn't really use dates for any of those. maybe my guess about row 8 being count is wrong, I should add I do have the drawings in row 8 column 1, our best guess was crate and rate, but that felt like a stretch to me. Has anyone got farther?

[CosmicRationale]

the small gate might refer to the gate outside to the orchard which DOES use a date to solve - this date is found on a photo in the dark room

[coolbarryo]

answers to your questions below
the christmas photo signifies the date 12/25, which is the combo
its create and crate
i got the same results as you for the matrix posted otherwise

[Mav]

You've mostly solved it but I suspect this one might be somewhat difficult for people who aren't native English so I'm posting this more in general for those who need it. This is my list of word combos I was working on...

Starting hint on what this about: In the Commissary room there's a pinboard with two drawings, each with a label of "with" and "without" . The idea is to come up with similar synonyms for each drawing and remove the letters from one of the other, what to do with those after that is explained above (or figure it out yourself).

Grmbl... table does not work, typical steam... cursed structured code block will have to do:

+----------------------------+--------------------------+------------------+------+
| With                       | Without                  | Synonyms         | =    |
+============================+==========================+==================+======+
| Mountain with strange peak | Peas in a pod            | Peak - Pea       | K    |
| Jello on plate with spoon  | Sanddunes                | dessert - desert | S    |
| Bathtub                    | Bat                      | bath - bat       | H    |
| Standing/Grandfather Clock | Padlock (locked)         | clock - lock     | C    |
| Rotary/Spiral staircase    | 4 stars in diamond form. | stairs - stars   | i    |
| Bridge                     | Bride                    | bridge - bride   | G    |
| Theater stage              | Stag/Deer                | stage - stag     | E    |
| Paintbucket                | Beermug                  | paint - pint     | A    |
| Minecart                   | Car                      | cart - car       | T    |
| Desert/dunes               | &-sign                   | sand - and       | S    |
| Theater stage              | Flower/plant             | stage - sage     | T    |
| Road between trees         | Fishing rod              | road - rod       | A    |
| Whiteboard with graph      | Minecart                 | chart - cart     | H    |
| Stag/Deer                  | #10 Tag                  | stag - tag       | S    |
| Pine tree                  | Safety Pin               | pine - pin       | E    |
| Crow                       | Man in rowboat           | crow - row       | C    |
| Queen of diamonds          | Car                      | card - car       | D    |
| Man in pilot outfit        | Garden plot              | pilot - plot     | i    |
| Raincoat                   | Campingbed/Cot           | coat - cot       | A    |
| 2 human spines (bone)      | Pine tree                | spine - pine     | S    |
| Indian Chief               | Chef (cooking)           | chief - chef     | i    |
| Praying hands              | Hand holding crowbar     | pray - pry       | A    |
| Wheat/Grain                | Raincloud                | grain - rain     | G    |
| Seashore cliff             | Raincoat                 | coast - coat     | S    |
| Earth painted by hand      | Doubledecker plane       | planet - plane   | T    |
| Pine tree                  | Hand + matchstick pin*   | pine - pin       | E *  |
| Corked vial                | Bathtub                  | E...but how???   | E ** |
| Tiger                      | Tiered cake              | tiger - tier     | G ?  |
| Tiered cake                | Tied tie                 | tier - tie       | R ?  |
+----------------------------+--------------------------+------------------+------+

* = Probably correct
** = Confirmed in workshop (stone slab)
? = Not 100% sure...

A few I haven't solved yet:
- Wooden box/crate with family crest + Flipboard with graph/chart on it...
- Stained glass window with snow + double decker plane
- Seashore cliffside / coast + #10 tag

[coolbarryo]

answering your missing picture puzzles

crate/rate pane/plane coast/cost

[Mav]

Originally posted by coolbarryo:

answering your missing picture puzzles
crate/rate pane/plane coast/cost

Ahhh yeah, that makes sense now. It's gets extra confusing when the same drawing is used multiple times using different words.

Also, OP... I think this means row 7 of your solution might not be correct? At least from my notes I have S.C.A.L._ now. So unless that's incorrect it might just be "If we count scale gates..." instead of 'small', and 'scale' is a math thingamajig too. But I haven't played around with all the dates yet.

[Sentinels_D]

I have finished the full puzzle:


IF WE
COUNT
SMALL
GATES
EIGHT
DATES
CRACK
EIGHT
SAFES

Its saying if you count the small gate for the orchad 8 dates will open 8, this is a hint so you can know that the awnser to the safes are dates

Here is the fulll list:

LINE COLUMN PICTURE 1 PICTURE 2 LETTER
A 1 CHIEF CHEF I
A 2 FLIGHT LIGHT F
A 3
A 4
A 5 CREATE CRATE E
B 1 CRATE RATE C
B 2 BOAT BAT O
B 3 HOUSE HOSE U
B 4 CROWN CROW N
B 5 PLANTS PLANS T
C 1 SPINE PINE S
C 2 TIME TIE M
C 3 PAINT PINT A
C 4 FLAN FAN L
C 5 PLANE PANE L
D 1 GRAIN RAIN G
D 2 COAST COST A
D 3 PLANET PLANE T
D 4 STAGE STAG E
D 5 COAST COAT S
E 1 TUBE TUB E
E 2 PILOT PLOT I
E 3 TIGER TIER G
E 4 CHART CART H
E 5 TENT TEN T
F 1 CARD CAR D
F 2 COAT COT A
F 3 STAGE SAGE T
F 4 FIRE FIR E
F 5 SAND AND S
G 1 CROW ROW C
G 2 TIER TIE R
G 3 ROAD ROD A
G 4 CLOCK LOCK C
G 5 PEAK PEA K
H 1 E
H 2 STAIRS STARS I
H 3 BRIDGE BRIDE G
H 4 BATH BAT H
H 5 CART CAR T
I 1 DESSERT DESERT S
I 2 PRAY PRY A
I 3 FACE ACE F
I 4 PINE PIN E
I 5 STAG TAG S

[Binnie]

H1 is tub and tube

[Salt Shaker]

So where are the eight safes?
Ones I've found so far:
Orchard entrance: 1128
Boudoir: 1225
Shelter: Opens at whatever time and date you set on the terminal
Not sure if I just haven't found other safes or if they aren't implemented in the demo.
Also related to the safes: The mechanical coin puppet tells you about how there are eight red letters, and that you will only ever find seven. The boudoir and shelter safes both have letters (#2 and #3 respectively), didn't see one in the orchard.

[CGA]

try looking drawing room, office and apparently one called draft room. havent that one yet. ohh someone mentioned study room too. will for now only give room hint, in case you want to solve yourself