A Comprehensive Guide to Rusty Lake's Mixology 🍸

Whether you stumble upon these recipes during your gameplay or choose to delve into this guide, the world of Rusty Lake cocktails awaits your exploration. Cheers! 🥃 Spoilers ahead! Drinks from Rusty Lake Hotel, Cube Escape: Theatre, Cube Escape: Paradox and The White Door.

Where to find the drinks?

Throughout the world of Rusty Lake, you'll get the chance to make a few cocktails. In Cube Escape: Theatre specifically you will encounter a blend of ingredients and recipes that are essential for making cocktails at the bar within the game. These elements are a must for advancing through the gameplay. In Rusty Lake Hotel too, you will also get the chance to make a drink to die for.

Here's a comprehensive breakdown of what you can expect in this steam guide:

Ingredients for Cocktails

• Various ingredients are available to mix up cocktails in the game. These ingredients add a layer of complexity and fun to the gameplay, allowing you to experiment with different combinations.

Recipes for Cocktails

• Each cocktail comes with its own recipe that you need to follow to create the right drink. These recipes challenge your memory and attention to detail.

As you successfully mix cocktails and progress in the game, you unlock achievements that signify your mastery of the bar. These achievements surely serve as milestones and rewards for your mixology skills.

The Ingredients - Discover the Foundation

You can find them in the Cube Escape: Theatre game.
Here are the base ingredients available to you:

• Orange Juice
  
• Gallia
  
• Gin
  
• Tabasco
  
• Vodka
  
• Tonic

Bonus Tip: Before you dive into mixology at home, ensure your trusty water glass is within reach!

Recipes

This should be fun, right?

Gin Tonic [Optional]

To begin, I'll share a SECRET DRINK with you - crafting this particular drink unlocks an easily MISSABLE achievement. In Cube Escape: Theatre you have the opportunity to prepare this drink at any point BEFORE serving Bob the Bloody Mary.

Achievement - Rusty Lake G&T

Create a gin and tonic, mix and serve them to Bob for the achievement.

The recipe for this concoction can be discovered in Cube Escape: Birthday. Originally your Grandpa's Gin Tonic recipe, which you were too young to utilize back then (P.S: Finding the recipe unlocks the A drink at the theatre achievement). Anyway now, in Cube Escape: Theatre, you finally have the chance to mix it. You only need Gin and Tonic. Both ingredients are in the back bar.

Recipe

• 2x Gin
  
• 2x Tonic

Screwdriver Cocktail [Story Drink]

A simple blend of Vodka and fresh Orange Juice. You can find both on the back bar.

Story achievement - Screwdriver

The drink must be served to the character at the bar, Bob. After consuming the drink, Bob will unexpectedly regurgitate a real screwdriver for the player to retrieve. The achievement is unlocked when the player picks up the screwdriver and glass.

Recipe

• 2x Vodka
  
• 2x Orange Juice

Harvey Wallbanger [Story Drink]

It is a drink consisting of Orange juice, Vodka, and Galliano. You can find the ingredients on the back bar.

Recipe

• 2x Orange Juice
  
• 1x Galliano
  
• 1x Vodka

Story achievement - Harvey Wallbanger

After preparing the cocktail, give this drink to Bob, the solitary man at the bar. It will be his second mandatory drink. The ingredients should be mixed in a cocktail glass.
When Bob receives the drink, he will hit his head on the counter, resulting in blood flowing from his forehead. You should collect the blood in another glass in order to use it later to prepare the Bloody Mary.

Bloody Mary [Story Drink]

This unique cocktail consists of blood, vodka, and Tabasco sauce.
It holds a special place, making appearances in 3 distinct Rusty Lake games - Rusty Lake Hotel, Cube Escape: Theatre, and The White Door.

Rusty Lake Hotel

The ingredients are collected from Mr. Deer's room and presented to him in a glass from his table. In addition to the usual ingredients (blood, vodka, and Tabasco sauce), in this game the drink includes a lethal poison which results in Mr. Deer's death upon consumption. This action is essential for the player to obtain the deer meat needed for the evening's meal.
Here is how you can obtain the ingredients:

• Blood - Cut a piece of Mr. Deer’s antlers. Use the empty canteen to collect the blood.
  
• Vodka - Behind the couch Mr. Deer is sitting. The player needs to pour vodka first so the canteen will be empty to be used for the blood and Tabasco.
  
• Tabasco - Click the right antlers of the skull in Room 1 a couple of times. It will drop from the nose and you will need to use the empty canteen to contain it.
  
• Poison - Grow the poisonous seeds and grind them to powder. The powder, along with water, is put into an apparatus and heated, forming a bright green poison.

Cube Escape: Theatre

To finish the game, the player must serve this beverage to Bob, the solitary man at the bar, as his third drink. The ingredients are combined in a cocktail glass.

Story achievement - Bloody Mary
After Bob drank the Harvey Wallbanger , you will have the missing ingredient ( blood ) for the Bloody Mary.
Once more, just mix and serve to unlock the achievement.

Recipe

• 1x Vodka
  
• 1x Tabasco
  
• 2x Blood

The White Door

On the fourth day, Bob is served a Bloody Mary for his dinner. In his dream that night at the Rusty Lake Theatre bar, he requests another Bloody Mary from the bartender. Upon sipping the drink, Bob reveals a picture of Laura to the bartender, who then hands Bob a pistol to end his own life.

Rusty Lake Pilsener

A drink, brewed somewhere near Rusty Lake. It does not make an appearance itself, but it is advertised on coasters. Games where it is mentioned: Cube Escape: Theatre, Cube Escape: Paradox and The White Door.

Unfortunately, the creators did not give a recipe or ingredients for it.

Cube Escape: Theatre

At the Theatre bar counter, Bob drinks cocktails on the lone stool. After the fifth play, he departs, leaving three Pilsener coasters with a message about feeling dead inside, asking about his lost memory, and secret instructions if given a Gin Tonic before the play ends.

Here are the secret messages Bob writes after drinking a Gin Tonic prepared by you:

• 'Thanks for the gin tonic'
  
• 'Play "B-A-D-E-G-G" on the piano. Enjoy! This gets you the Bad Egg Symphony.'

Cube Escape: Paradox

Fun Facts

• In Rusty Lake: Roots, Vodka can be created in the alchemy lab by mixing together grain and a glass of water.
  
• In Cube Escape: Theatre, each name of the three mandatory cocktails forms a pun on Bob's actions after drinking.
  
• After Bob drinks the Bloody Mary, talk to the barman for some "deep" insight, and the Women... achievement.
  
• Although I wrote this guide on April 1st and it may seem unusual :p, it is not a joke.
  
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