Totenreich — Black Ops 7 Zombies Easter Egg Guide

Standard mode prompts you through this. In Cursed mode there is no guidance, so the sequence is: repair the broken power lines on both sides of the map, then enter the robot’s head (Tyr) through the yellow suction circle top-left or top-right and hold interact on the centre console.

You are ejected — and so is a zombie, which splats and drops an admin keycard. Use it on the War Factory admin door on the west side, take the GobbleDrop controller inside, zipline to Fishery Island and sink the drop. Pack-a-Punch spawns a moment later.

Loadout: a Voyak or Novaline, and a hitscan AR for the boss — avoid the Ray Gun there, since projectile travel makes you miss. Akimbo M1911s are superb for wave-clear and one-shot the floating Viking heads. Solo, take Frenzied Guard: there are no max-armour drops in the boss fight.

Know your lantern early. The Jotunn Star melees in a double swing, charges from melee kills into a ranged fireball on left trigger, and — crucially — holding it out while charged keeps you and nearby teammates warm against freeze effects.

Quick win: Intel at spawn before you touch anything: Building Blocks on the barrel outside Lief's Boat Repair opposite Quick Revive, The Chair Incident in the small barrel right of the big one by the robot head (a message in a bottle), and the Max Armor statue behind the hanging basket inside Lief's — C4 it. Once Tyr's Head has been activated, the Talk audio log is on the control terminal by the robot head in the lower War Factory, and Priorities drops when you Semtex the open vent up the War Factory stairs facing the Arsenal.

Chain links. At Dry Dock, press the button in the Titan crane room to temporarily lower the crane-held wall. Then wall-jump off the middle of the wall and hold interact mid-air at the tip of the boat to grab the chains. Miss it and simply press the button again.

Chili chunks. Take the tin from the crate behind the truck in the middle of Storm Bridge, next to Deadshot, and place it on the table in Skalland Market.

The timing rule: place it before round 10 and the round-10 special round is your trigger; place it later and the next round becomes a special round. On that round a zursa HVT spawns — kill it for the lantern part.

Cursed only — The Dancing Arnie relic eats the same Chilly Chunks can. Put the first can in the Blodheim Hall stew pot, then explode the back of the truck for a second can for the Star.

At the Burial Grounds, install the chains on the left side of the sealed door and hold interact to repair it — it takes a while — opening a secret basement. Place the lantern on the shrine and four constellations appear around its sides.

The order is strict: match each table constellation to the same one rotating around the walls, interacting left, right, back, then front as viewed from the stairs. A correct pick leaves the shrine constellations in place and sends an orb into the lantern. On a wrong pick the wall symbols vanish — interact with the symbol on the tabletop to send them back and restart.

The other guide: MrDalekJD instead reports the shrine symbols changing on a wrong pick, forcing a restart from the left.

Astrid. The ghost appears over the shrine. Follow her around the Burial Grounds edge; she relocates through Skalland Market and settles at soul-box stops, where you kill masses of zombies nearby to fill her meter. Her second stop is near the zipline toward the lighthouse.

Useful trick: keep one zombie alive to carry a fill across a round boundary.

The parkour — do not zipline. When her meter fills, floating platforms spawn. Start the jumping puzzle on the non-lighthouse side, climbing the rocks, with Kazimirs or Shroud ready for the heavy zombies. At the lighthouse, watch the ice giant rise from the ocean through the hole, then run onto the platform in front, drop down and wall-bounce across the course to the top. Inside and up the stairs there is a ladder into the lamp room — take the Jotunn Star off the table. The window is time-limited.

Quick win: In the lamp room, take Tyr's Bell off the table BEFORE the Jotunn Star — the room seals once you hold the Star. Radio Operator opens on the second floor afterwards, under the stairs by the crowbar cabinet, so grab it with the crowbar in the next step.

Take the crowbar from the shelf on the second floor of the lighthouse, and the cargo manifest from the shelf back-right of the War Factory admin room.

Read the manifest before opening anything. Find the row with the three-bullets icon and note its ID code. That tells you which crate is safe — the wrong crates hit you with EMP and cough-gas effects.

Crowbar the crate matching that ID — they sit in the War Factory, the bottom of Core Foundry, under the boat in Dry Dock, and on Fjord Road — for a flak gun round.

Load it into the specific cannon pointing at spawn by the lighthouse, interacting at its very back — the other cannons do nothing — then melee the back of the cannon with the Jotunn Star. It fires at the robot head in spawn.

Quick win: The Bonus Points statue is behind the barbed-wire fence on the north-east side of the lighthouse, on a crate — Beacon Island needs power first. Fishing here is worth the rod: Olaf's Cod Cranker spawns between the two red barn-style houses by the artillery gun (sometimes on Fishery Island), any red clip is a fishing spot, and catches include essence, salvage, equipment and killstreaks — fish enough and a helmeted Olaf, Cranker of Cod zombie spawns wearing the Golden Tide Helm, which speeds up every later cast.

At the robot head, hold interact to search it — a big salvage payout — then interact again for the transmitter. Carry it into Tyr’s head and install it at the sparking panel up the ladder to the left.

Reading the code: standing at the panel, two white lights — LEFT and RIGHT — each flash two numbers across two sequences. Both flash in unison first, then each continues alone, and the total count per light per sequence is its number. Watch one light per pass if that is easier; there is no penalty for re-watching.

Molotov the frozen rope in Core Foundry and climb to the oscilloscope. Amplitude is the LEFT number, frequency is the RIGHT. Enter sequence one and you are kicked out as the Origins robot fires a rocket strike. Wait about thirty seconds for the console to reactivate, then enter sequence two for the second strike.

Fail state: a wrong entry locks you out for 60 seconds — no round skip needed. If you are unsure of a count, trialling one either side is faster than re-watching.

Finish: collect the Wunderbarrage controller from the newly opened box next door.

Quick win: Tyr's Head hands out a free power-up every round if you want it: the terminal inside shows map coordinates and a kill count — get the kills there, come back for green lights, and on the next round collect the power-up and a new set. Ten completed cycles (one guide says fifteen) award the Cointoss Helm, a coin-flip chance of a power-up on your next kill.

Take the free RC-XD from the crate in Eid Skalland Square. In Core Foundry, shoot the metal grate on the wall and deploy the RC-XD into the hole.

The drive: down the ramp, then jump the water gap aiming slightly right — the tilted ramp drifts you left, which is what sinks most attempts. Land by the little sailboat, drive into the room and detonate at the front door. That opens the Group 935 genetic lab, which you enter from beside Pack-a-Punch via zipline.

Heads in jars. Five jars labelled A to E sit around the lab, and through the window a corridor shows five numbered doors, two bearing radiation symbols, randomised per game. Convert those two numbers to letters — 1 is A through 5 is E — and place the matching two heads on the machine in order.

Confirmation cue: the third jar fills purple. Blue means wrong — return the heads and re-read the doors.

Interact with the crab claw on the opposite table; it dissolves into a necro spike lockpick. Rotate the pick until the shutter section glows white and lock it in, three times over, and the cell opens on uranium #1.

Quick win: Two intel pieces are in the lab: Limitations on the table immediately left of the entrance and the Anatomy Chart on the east wall. The free Disciple Injection in the stave church next to Skallen Market and the free ARC-XD on the crates by the burning vehicle in Eidskallen Square are both on your way.

Fishing rods spawn all over — Dry Dock, Storm Bridge, Fishery Island, Beacon Island. Fish at the red metal clips: hold interact to cast, then interact again when the rod glows blue.

The green fish only appears once you own the Jotunn Star, so do not waste rounds hunting it early. Fish anyway though — it yields useful side loot regardless. There are around eleven spots: two at Eid Skalland Landing, three around Dry Dock, one on Tyr’s shoulder leaving the bridge, two at Eid Skalland Square, one immediately right off the Fishery Island zipline, and one in front of each flak cannon.

Catch it and an irradiated ravager crawls out, goes immune and despawns. The next round it returns as an HVT on your tac-map, roaming among the normal ravagers.

The chase: burn about a third of its health and it relocates — track the HVT icon. Repeat at the second spot, and kill it at the third for uranium #2.

Quick win: While fishing, a fish from the wall by the Beacon Island Arsenal plus a Shock Charge dropped on your next T.E.D.D. Task gives the parts for the Fishy Fish Bot trap, crafted in Loven's Antiquities — it is also the Fishy Fish Bot artifact.

Call a GobbleDrop — craft one, fish one up, or use the Pack-a-Punch one if you still have it — with a large horde already gathered, because the horde is the whole mechanic.

Zombies near the drop float and glow orange. Kill only the floating zombies, around twenty of them; each batch lights one of the three side-lights green.

Progress cue: the three side-lights, not a counter. All three green and it departs, spewing rewards including uranium #3.

Fire the Wunderbarrage at the ground in front of the blocked Dry Dock staircase door by the crafting table to clear the debris into the Machine Workshop. The doors can take up to a minute; re-barrage and wait if it seems stuck.

Load the three uraniums into the claw machine and drop the three rods onto the right-hand grid to push the meter into — not past — the green zone.

How the scoring works: an isolated rod with no neighbour adds a tiny charge; each yellow adjacency line adds a big one, and the target is usually seven or eight lines. Put the first rod into the biggest existing cluster for four or five lines, then adjust: need more, place adjacent; about to overshoot, place the last rods isolated in a corner touching only each other.

One attempt per round — plan the whole placement before you interact.

Carrying the core: no sprinting, you slowly lose health, and it auto-drops if you zipline, enter the robot head or go prone. Route accordingly.

Carry it to spawn, place it on the box right of Quick Revive, activate the generator in the shack behind and defend. The charge stalls twice — re-flip the shack switch each time and keep defending.

Then carry the charged core on foot to the black barrel with the yellow stripe mid-Storm Bridge, smashing or dodging the mini-icebergs that erupt on the way — a lantern melee destroys them. The robot’s claw takes the core, and the Origins robot fights the ice giant.

Quick win: Nuke statue: behind the Riesenroboter head in the War Factory, on the electrical box — shoot it as you leave. Full Power: on the stern of the Dry Dock ship opposite Speed Cola. Saboteur is on the barrel right of Speed Cola.

Pick up the Dravakar shard on the left side of the bridge near Tyr’s foot. Place it on the spit over the fire pit in Bloodhelm Hall, then fire a charged Jotunn Star shot at the meat to light a blue flame beneath it.

Take the free Disciple Injection from the church and use it in the hall to grab zombies and hurl them at the meat — about four clean hits starts the lockdown.

No round-waiting needed here despite the launch-day rumour — just keep throwing.

A named Necropincer HVT spawns and you are handed an insta-kill and max ammo. It drops the sunstone near where the meat cooked — not always at its feet, so sweep the area.

Place the sunstone on the church podium and melee it with the Jotunn Star. A rune compass appears in the sky above the church: the arrows with one, two and three slashes are your first, second and third symbols.

Strict order: light the bonfire mound matching arrow 1 with a charged lantern fireball, then arrow 2, then arrow 3. Mounds sit at the burial grounds, Eid Skalland Square, by the lighthouse, the spawn room and left of the bridge. A wrong fire re-scrambles the dial and you start over.

Confirmation cue: all arrows align one way, and the boss unlocks at the panel in the robot’s head.

Quick win: Insta-Kill statue on a gravestone through the break in the wall on the right of the Burial Grounds path; Double Points on the rock under Tyr's left claw, seen from Storm Bridge.

While the Origins robot brawls Dravakar, shoot the red weak spots that open on his body — he is a genuine bullet sponge, so sustained damage is the whole game.

When he goes immune, floating Viking ice-heads spawn — one, then two, then three across the fight. Charge the lantern and fireball each head’s open mouth to knock it down. Akimbo M1911s one-shot them. Take the heads fast: they drop ammo and armour, and they are the only armour source in the fight.

Free charge: the arena traps create a circle that refills the lantern’s ranged charge — stand in it and spam rather than hunting melee kills.

Hazards: an area-freeze that leaves one third of the arena safe — run to it, or hold the charged lantern out to keep yourself and nearby teammates warm. Ice meteors mean hiding behind pillars and peeking for crits. Red pulsing ground means leave that area. Floor geysers launch you — dodge or lantern-melee them. For ammo, melee the frozen middle ammo box with the Jotunn Star to unfreeze it, then buy.

Final phase: his glowing red eyes become the weak spot and he cages you into the middle arena, where a Max Ammo waits. He then rains meteors in set patterns — S-sweeps to weave through, V-shapes to stand in the gaps of, an arrow running back to front, and a ground-level horizontal line you must go prone under. Pop Near-Death Experience or Frenzied Guard and pour crit damage into the eyes. Downed solo players can shoot the eyes to self-revive with Equivalent Exchange.

Quick win: Playing Richtofen? After round 15 the Melee Macchiato punch on the barrel outside Core Foundry (south side) starts his side Easter egg: three radio codes in Von List's room — 01-01-05, 09-03-05, 07-00-04 — pay three audio logs, the three documents are unmissable on the way, and finishing it banks the Ritterkreuz artifact.