Tunnels Entrance - Box stuck, blocking path

How to get past the box

Minor spoilers for how to get into the tunnel.

After you enter the tunnels by cutting the chain, you'll likely find yourself blocked by a box in the water. It's not a bug: to progress, you have to pump the water out. Make sure the generator is on, and then flip the power box in the room (near the stuck box, at the end of the room on the left). Go back to the tunnel entrance next to the door you came from (where you cut the chains), and flip the switch on the machine (it's a pump) to pump out the water, and you can progress.

I got stuck here thinking it was a physics bug, since it looked like the box could be pushed out of the way, and I didn't understand that the machine at the start of the room was a pump. I thought it was a mini generator to power the tunnel area, or something, definitely didn't think it was a pump. I tried to fuel it up before going forward, but I couldn't do that, so I just ignored it and when I later flipped the power box, I didn't think to go backwards.

Maybe I just had a dumb moment here, but I was lost here for longer than I'd have liked. Hopefully this reaches and helps at least one person who also got stuck here.

[Oiling Oiliness Oiliest]

I didn't even bother going through the water on my first playthough, like I understood the "small generator" was a pump, I just didn't know how to start it, even when the main generator was on.
I looked at a fuckin' speedrun to see what they did at that point lol.

[Solar Flare]

I did the same shit my first playthrough 🙄

[Jared Mitchell]

Ahhh that's why? Thanks for the tip.

[Naberius]

Yeah, I think this is a small design issue, the machine at the start of the room looks a lot like the generator, it had a fuel canister spawning next to it, which made me think this was a machine that needed to be re-fuelled before I could turn it on.

The fact that the fuse box is further in the flooded room made them look unrelated, and that turning the fuse box on might be dangerous with the water.

[Pependosnik]

thanks, glad im not the only one