[Spoilers] Issue with a missing fuse for the elevator

[evigl]

It seems like I'm stuck and cannot progress due to misplaced item.

Here's what I've done:
1) When I've first visited Tesla's lab, I saw a fuse lying around[disk.yandex.ru] (image from YouTube) and took it with me.
2) Afterwards at the power station in the fuse puzzle I took this fuse from the pocket and mixed it with other fuses.
3) I completed the fuse puzzle at the power station like this[disk.yandex.ru] and I'm not sure if I used the fuse from the lab.
4) If I remember correctly I then took the remaining fuse and stored it in my apartment somewhere.
5) Then I went on to complete the Tesla timeline and took the black hole, after that my apartment became all modern and all the items were reset into other places.

Now I'm trying to complete Germany timeline and suddenly I need that fuse for the elevator.
What I've tried:
- It's not in the lab at the initial place[disk.yandex.ru]
- Box with a key at the lab cannot be open now (idk if this is related)
- It's not at the fuse puzzle in the power station
- I cannot take a fuse out of a power station puzzle now after it is completed.
- I didn't manage to find it in the apartment - it seems like all items that are not from there originally have been reset
- My apartment's power room is also locked out in a modern apartment.

How do I proceed now? I don't want to start from scratch, I'm too far in the game.

[ab.g]

I am having the same predicament. I just went all over the timelines to find the fuse in case I dropped it somewhere but to no avail.

I have definitely used the fuse for the puzzle because I thought I needed to put one extra for a bit of resistance for the last part of the energy plant puzzle. I guess I can't take it out anymore as it seems to be part of the level structure by now.

Have you tried restarting the chapter from the title screen yet? Maybe that'll fix it.

[Xerx]

The only thing you can do is to restart the chapter (should be chapter 7.4), so all items will be reset to their original position. Any progress in that chapter is lost then though, but still better than to start from the beginning. I just had the same problem but with another item.

[evigl]

Originally posted by Xerx:

The only thing you can do is to restart the chapter (should be chapter 7.4), so all items will be reset to their original position.

Thank you! I ended up restarting from the chapter with tesla lab, didn't know I could restart from the later chapter.

[iago H.]

Same issue, very frustrating. Loading the chapter confuses all my progress :(

[Callak Skytower]

This happened to me as well. Guess I will have to back it up a bit.

[Cryptospook]

Came here to say I had the same issue. However, I left my fuse in the fuse panel inside my apartment cause hey, installed in the fuse board is an appropriate place for a spare fuse. But once I completed the tesla lab, I can't get in there and can't move forward :D

[luvspud]

I did exactly the same as you Cryptospook, because the apartment is now a future version you cant get into the back room where the fuses are (and like you, where I put the Tesla fuse). Great game, but so frustrating that this late in the game I cant move forward. :(