Heretic + Hexen 100% guide

On Xbox there are two ways to use cheats. Either works.

1. Open the pause menu, choose Cheats and type a code into the entry box. Once you've entered a code, it stays in that menu as a toggle.
2. Turn on Options > Gameplay > Unlock All Cheats. The Cheats menu then becomes a pick-from-a-list menu with every cheat.

The codes this guide uses (most have an alternate spelling that also works):

• satan (or quicken): god mode
• ghost (or kitty): noclip. Most pickups and teleporters only work with noclip turned off, so toggle it off before you grab an item or step on a teleporter.
• mapsco (or ravmap): use it once to reveal the automap, and a second time to also show items and monsters. A third use turns it back off. In Heretic, the automap also shows the map's kill, item and secret tallies (skull, potion and "?" icons). Hexen's automap has no tallies.
• massacre (or butcher): kills every monster currently on the map
• gunsgunsguns: all weapons for your current class, full ammo or mana, and full armor (it may give keys too)
• healthyself: full health
• whipit: all artifacts (a full stack of each in Hexen)
• shazam: Tome of Power (Heretic)
• squeal: turns you into a pig (Hexen)
• sherlock: all puzzle items (Hexen)
• locksmith (or skel): all keys

The PC-only console command exitlevel doesn't exist on Xbox. Wherever a PC guide would skip a map with it, this guide uses noclip and the map's real exit instead.

1. Heretic, episode by episode through Level Select, with the 100% map achievements done in E1M1.
2. Faith Renewed, including its secret map, Pocket Plane.
3. The hidden Episode 6 deathmatch map for You're Not Supposed to Be Here and two weapon achievements.
4. Hexen from a new game: Winnowing Hall, then the whole Seven Portals hub across all three classes for Triple Play.
5. Hexen endings and Deathkings: Necropolis, Nave and Constable's Gate.
6. Castle of Grief's Desolate Garden for the fourth weapon, then Vestiges of Grandeur, then the Gibbet only if the Heresiarch is still missing.
7. The Full Party in local split-screen.

E1M1 is the best map for the three 100% map achievements and both melee weapon achievements. It's short and has few enemies. Play it legitimately first, without god mode or noclip, so the melee kills and pickups count normally. Quicksave often.

Level-select E1M8. The map's final room has a Morph Ovum on a platform with Iron Liches above and Disciples and Golems on the floor below.

Level-select E3M8: D'Sparil's Keep and turn on satan. gunsgunsguns makes the fight quicker.

Level-select E5M8: Field of Judgement. You start in an enclosure with every weapon except the Firemace and a pile of artifacts. The Wings of Wrath sit on the red trident in the middle. Flying over the trident lowers the outer arena, which releases the Maulotaurs (3 on the lowest skill) and reveals more pickups, including a Tome of Power. Use whipit at the start so you have every Heretic artifact whatever the layout gives you.

Faith Renewed is the new Heretic episode, listed separately in the episode menu. It has nine maps: E1M8 The Grand Chapel is the finale, and E1M9 Pocket Plane is the secret map. Normally you'd reach Pocket Plane through E1M6 Foundry's secret exit, but Level Select goes there directly.

Episode 6, Fate's Path, is a hidden set of deathmatch maps. You can only reach it from Level Select, which lists E6M1 through E6M3. The episode secret levels like E1M9 don't count for the achievement below. E6M1 has Golems, every weapon and plenty of Tomes of Power, so finish the last two Heretic weapon achievements here before you exit.

Winnowing Hall is the opening map. It isn't part of a hub, so don't plan Triple Play here.

This whole hub is one Triple Play run. Play part of it as the Fighter, part as the Mage and part as the Cleric, then leave through the hub's final exit. Most of the class-specific achievements fit in along the way.

• Class book: a class-select book sits on a pedestal in the Seven Portals courtyard. Highlight a class and press confirm rather than just clicking it. A small red puff of smoke means the change worked. Weapons and inventory belong to each class, so use gunsgunsguns and whipit again after every change.
• Layout: you arrive at the north end of a long courtyard, facing south. Gates 1, 2 and 3 run down the east wall from north to south, Gate 4 is the big gate at the far south end, and Gates 5, 6 and 7 run up the west wall from south to north. The structure in the middle of the courtyard is the main puzzle, and stairways rise from it as you progress. The automap marks switches and doors, and the pictures around the hub show which steps you still have left.
• Noclip: use ghost to travel if you like, but turn it off before the Guardian of Fire bridge, every teleporter and portal, and the final arena. Keys from cheats (locksmith, and possibly gunsgunsguns) don't do the hub's work for you. Owning a key isn't the same as finishing the step that awards it, so still pull every guardian switch, place the Flame Mask, and take the Fire and Steel Keys from their Guardian of Ice rooms. Nobody has confirmed that Gates 5 and 7 open from key possession alone.

Hub route (the class achievements are slotted into it below):

1. Gate 2: pull the switch on the column in front of the east wall's middle door. That opens the door and lowers a tall triangular pillar in the courtyard, which holds each class's second weapon on the three lowest skills. Kill the Chaos Serpents in the room behind the gate, then climb onto the wooden platform in front of the window, where a Quartz Flask sits, and walk onto that spot. Passages open on both sides, a portal rises in the icy cavern beyond, and you take the stairs down and the lift up to that portal to reach Guardian of Ice. If nothing opens, make sure every serpent is dead and walk onto the platform again. If your Quartz Flasks are maxed out from whipit, use one so you can pick that Flask up, then try again.
2. Guardian of Ice, first visit: go to the far room with four pillars and pull the switch at the end. The pillars rise and fall, then a white arrow marks the one pillar that teleports you back. The other three crush you, and the correct one is random every time, so always follow the arrow. Back in the hub, Gates 1 and 3 are now open.
3. Gate 1, Guardian of Fire, first visit: the first room's floor breaks and lava rises, so head for the right-hand exit quickly. In the lava-pool room, pull the switch in the right-side alcove behind the falcon shield. Then open the mask-decorated wall on the east side of the main lava room. Behind it is the bridge room (see Look Out Below); take the Flame Mask on the far side, because you'll need it later.
4. Gate 3, Guardian of Steel, first visit: climb either staircase to the central square and take the open lift down to the basement. Pull the switch at the end of the open corridor. Then go back up and pull the bullhead switch in one of the two small chambers at the top of the staircases. That opens the blocked basement corridor; go down and pull the second switch.
5. Gate 6: it opens once the Guardian of Fire switch and both Guardian of Steel switches are pulled. The room works like Gate 2: kill every Chaos Serpent, then walk onto the platform with the Quartz Flask by the barred window to open the cavern. If it doesn't open, use a Quartz Flask so you can pick that one up, and step onto the spot again. Take either staircase down, run over the bright ice patches once to disarm their crushers, and ride the lift up to the portal to Guardian of Ice.
6. Guardian of Ice, second visit: pull the switch in the room ahead, then go back and pull the two switches at the top of the stairs that rose in the arrival room. A big crowd of Ettins teleports in. Cross the open icy area, take the lift up to the staircase with the windows and climb it. The bullhead switch at the top raises you on a platform to an upper room (an Ettin trap fires there). Walk on to the four-pillar room, where arrows now point to two doors. In the right room, put the Flame Mask in the mask socket to lower the Fire Key. In the left room, hurry to the left corner, pull the switch that appears and follow the ledge to the Steel Key. Teleport back.
7. Gate 7, Guardian of Fire, second visit: in the main lava room, open either of the two Fire Key doors and clear the room behind it. Pull the bullhead switch on the wall to bring up a lift to a lower area. Kill every Ettin down there; lava then floods across and pillars open over the lava river. Use the Flame Mask wall alcove on the south side, ride its lifts up into the tunnels, and take the teleporter near the Chaos Device to a sealed room with the puzzle switch. Pulling it gives the "stairs have risen" message. Leave by the arrow/teleport switch on the wall behind where you arrived.
8. Gate 5, Guardian of Steel, second visit: the layout mirrors your first visit. Open the steel door with the Steel Key and ride the lift down to the basement. Pull the puzzle switch at the end of the open corridor; the message says you have to find another switch. Go back up and pull the southern bullhead switch in the upstairs corridors, which slides the basement wall over to open the other branch. Go back down that branch and pull the second puzzle switch ("stairs have risen"). Return through either red portal upstairs.
9. Gate 4: climb all three stairways on the courtyard structure and pull the bullhead (cow's head) switch at the top of each one. The other switch on each of the two lower stairways only leads to the optional Bright Crucible secret, so skip it. Gate 4 opens after the third bullhead switch.
10. Final arena: kill the monsters, pull the switch beside the big doors at the far end and go out to the chasm. Kill the Centaurs on the portal side, and a blue bridge forms out to the exit portal. If it doesn't appear, the Wings of Wrath (from whipit, or the ledge in the crevice on the east side of the chasm) let you fly across instead. Every class's first fourth-weapon piece lies in front of the portal.

Stay as the Fighter in the courtyard before you pull the Gate 2 switch, and use the enemies you meet there.

Switch to the Mage at the courtyard book, take Gate 2 and do these in the first visit to Guardian of Ice. About ten Ettins guard that first section: two near the entrance and the rest after a trigger. Keep the first two alive and lead the whole group downstairs onto one level.

Switch to the Cleric at the courtyard book and finish the hub as the Cleric. On the three lowest skills, the Serpent Staff is on the pillar that the Gate 2 switch lowered. On skills 4 and 5 it's in the north end room of Guardian of Steel's basement instead. Either way, gunsgunsguns also gives it to you.

Level-select Necropolis. Pick the Mage or the Fighter, since both have good ranged options for Korax's second phase.

1. Turn on satan, gunsgunsguns and ghost.
2. From the start, the first door on the left (north-west) hides a portal straight to Dark Crucible. Noclip through the door, turn noclip off and enter the portal.

Use the Cleric for both Deathkings Level Selects.

Level-select Deathkings' second hub, Constable's Gate, as the Cleric on the highest skill, with monsters on. Reports of this Heresiarch come from the highest skill, so don't rely on him appearing lower down. Try satan and whipit (for a full stack of Flechettes) straight away. Players report using god mode on the remaster's highest skill, but the original Hexen disabled cheats there, so it isn't fully confirmed. If the cheats don't take, fight him normally using the steps below.

The dependable way to get Pieces of Power is the Vestiges run, which you play for Ozymandias anyway (see the default route at the end of this section). Desolate Garden, the secret map of Castle of Grief, holds all three pieces of every class's fourth weapon, so it's worth one optional quick attempt first. Two things are known about its portal. In the original game it only opens if you pulled a switch in Shadow Wood's Sacred Grove (and crossed the end of Bright Crucible) earlier, which a Level Select start hasn't done. Separately, console players report reaching it in the remaster with noclip. Which of those holds from a fresh Level Select start isn't established, so give it exactly one check.

Level-select Castle of Grief as the Cleric and turn on satan, mapsco and locksmith. Pickups and portals only work with noclip off.

The five-chalice, four-Heart full route below is the supported default; the portal check before it is an optional, unverified experiment. Vestiges is one hub, so start it from the beginning (if Level Select offers its Serpent Temple hub, start there instead). If you still need Pieces of Power, collect your class's piece in each of Glade of the Fallen, Volcano Chapel and Frozen Sanctum (locations under Pieces of Power) before entering Korax's Domain. Stay on one class for the whole run. Weapons don't carry over when you change class, and nobody knows whether weapon pieces do. Keep satan and mapsco on, and make a manual save before every scripted event.

• Maps: MAP01 Temple Outskirts leads to MAP02 Serpent Temple, the hub. Its four main maps are Swamp of the Forgotten, Glade of the Fallen, Volcano Chapel and Frozen Sanctum, and the finale is MAP08 Korax's Domain. Elemental Temple and Garden of Medea are optional secrets; skip them.
• Cheats: locksmith should cover all of the expansion's keys. sherlock is unverified in this expansion, so treat it as an experiment on a separate save, not part of the route. It may give the classic puzzle items (skulls, Hearts, books, masks, gears and so on), but probably not the new chalices. Use ghost only to reach things, and turn it off for every pickup and portal.
• Keep the game updated. Current versions fix one-use Serpent Temple portals and a softlock on Korax's Domain's final puzzle.

The five chalices and four Hearts below are the confirmed way through Vestiges. A console noclip shortcut through the right teleporters is shown in a community video, but it isn't written out anywhere and hasn't been verified, so this guide can't give its exact path. Treat it as a single optional experiment, and skip it entirely if you still need Pieces of Power:

1. In Temple Outskirts, use ghost to go straight to the temple at the end. Turn ghost off on open ground and step into the portal to Serpent Temple.
2. In Serpent Temple, ghost to the eastern wing with the four Heart pedestals and look for the portal to Korax's Domain behind it. Turn ghost off on open floor and try to step into it.
3. Make a manual save before you try the portal. If it takes you to Korax's Domain and you still need Pieces of Power, reload that save and play the full route instead so you can collect the pieces. Otherwise skip to Korax's Domain below.
4. If there's no working portal, you can try sherlock (unverified), but make a separate save first. Owning an item isn't proof that its step is done: switches, boss fights and scripted events tied to picking items up may not have fired. Only count a step as finished when its effect actually happens (a door opens, a Heart's pedestal accepts it, the portal appears). If anything stops progressing, reload the separate save and collect everything on foot.

Getting in: start Vestiges from its first map, Temple Outskirts. Turn on ghost and go straight to the temple at the end of the map (you don't need its keys or weapon choices). Turn ghost off on open ground and step into the portal to Serpent Temple, the hub.

Chalices come first, so the hub opens up. On the first visit to each main map, only its chalice can be reached. Each chalice goes on the main hall's podium steps: climb the stairs behind the hall's east double doors.

1. Coiled Chalice, Serpent Temple: from the start, drop down the rocks and head north past the large rocks to a tunnel guarded by a green Chaos Serpent. Go around the green rocks to a second serpent tunnel, then south into a cave with Afrits. Climb the steps past the blue mana over the deep hole and enter the cavern to the south; the chalice is at the top of the rocks. Place it on the middle step to open the north-west portal.
2. Gilded Chalice, Swamp of the Forgotten: follow the sludge river east into the Stalker tunnel, climb the wooden stairs west at the pit edge and enter the castle. Take the west door and the steps to a four-door junction (skip the south pair). Go out a north door, north again to the chamber with Timon's Axe, then down the steps; the chalice is behind the door at the bottom. Taking it opens the way back. Place it on the middle-left step to open the south-west portal.
3. Earthen Chalice, Glade of the Fallen: take the tunnel west to the wooden building with graves, go south past two buildings to the two Korax doors, then north across the river to the gargoyle clearing. Go east up the steps (Slaughtaurs wake here); the chalice is at the end of the path. Place it on the middle-right step to open both east portals.
4. Molten Chalice, Volcano Chapel: from the first pair of minotaur statues, jump the rock platforms left to the far cliffs, then work north and north-east across the platforms to the far side of the broken bridge. Climb to the chapel's double doors and take either set of steps beside the back altar to the chalice. Its room seals until you beat the Dark Bishops. On the way out, pull the minotaur switch that rises from the holy symbol at the entrance to raise the bridge back.
5. Rimed Chalice, Frozen Sanctum: climb to the clifftop, go east down to the frozen river and into the library. The switch by the pit on the library's west side makes a bridge; cross it, take the south-west doorway, then go west out a door and north down the steps to the chalice. The eastern door opens once all five chalices are on the podium.
6. Silver key, Serpent Temple eastern wing: go through the Heart pedestal room, then south into the stained-glass room and pull its north switch. Continue south through the rocky area and the Afrit tunnel and pull the switch at the top of the steps to open the west door. Fight on to the silver key room and hit the face switch at the top of its south steps to lower the key. Or just use locksmith.

Then the item chain. With locksmith on, skip every key fetch and just open the doors; keys open the same doors either way.

1. Frozen Sanctum: the library's south door (silver key) leads to a hall with a wooden platform. Through its east door, the switch in the north-east corner turns the bookcases into stairs up to the axe key. Through its west door, pull the switch at the north end, then the one in the next chamber. Go through the west bookcase and south into the sewer, where the swamp key sits on a platform past the Stalkers.
2. Glade of the Fallen: the axe key opens the brick tower at the north-east end of the graveyard; climb it and ring the bell. Then take the steps down at the graveyard's south end to the mausoleum. The castle key is in the tomb in the octagonal room east of it; taking it drops enemies through the ceiling. Don't place any skulls yet.
3. Swamp of the Forgotten: the swamp key opens the castle's south door. Go down to the storage room and through to the far side of the pit, then pull the moon switch for a bridge. Head east, passing (and noting) the dungeon door, wade into the sludge pool and enter the large rock ringed by six platforms for the horn key. Go west to the vine platform for Yorick's Skull 1. The castle key opens the western castle doors to an eight-door junction. Take a south-east door to the flooded library, where the switch behind the desk lowers two bookcases and the Liber Oscura is on the desk beyond. Take a north-west door to the hall with the steel key at its west end; run through the dart traps it triggers.
4. Glade of the Fallen: the horn key goes in the receptacle in the building north of the Korax doors in the south-west corner. That opens the storage area, with the fire key in a recess at its north-west end. The library off the storage area's east side has a switch at its north-east end; it opens the bookcases to the Daemon Codex.
5. Volcano Chapel: the steel key opens the steel doors on the north side of the chapel staircase into the green hall. Go down the middle steps and through the west doors into the bookcase maze. Pull the east switch, then the north switch, then the north-west corner switch, then the east switch again; the cave key is behind the south-west steel door. Take the cave route to the cloister for Yorick's Skull 2; its north-east switch then gives a lift and a moon-switch shortcut back to the chapel. The fire key opens the chalice room's north fire door to a circular pit. The dungeon key hangs in a cage above it (pull the pit's north switch to lower the floor), and taking it raises lava and six stone platforms to stand on. Both flame masks are caged in the room north of the pit. The moon switch past the door east of the pit opens one cage, and the one down the battlement past the door west of the pit opens the other.
6. Clock gears (dungeon key): in Swamp of the Forgotten, the dungeon door in the south swamp leads to five valves. Turn them in order: left, then the second past the Stalkers, then take the east tunnel lift for the third and fourth on west walls, then the west tunnel lift to the fifth across the pool. The gear is in the southern chamber. In Glade of the Fallen, the dungeon door is in the mausoleum's southernmost room; go through the prison and north past the sludge river. In Volcano Chapel, take the lift behind the chalice room's bronze door down to a dungeon door, and the gear is west and south past the Slaughtaurs. If the bronze door won't open yet, reach the cloister first. In Frozen Sanctum, take the sewer stairs to the dungeon door; the gear is in the six-door room behind the middle door on the west side.

Then the four Hearts of D'Sparil. Volcano Chapel, Frozen Sanctum and Glade of the Fallen each have a Heresiarch guarding the way, so I Hate That Guy unlocks here if you still need it.

1. Volcano Chapel: put a flame mask in the wall slot on the ledge south of the chapel entrance stairs to melt the metal block, then climb the bell tower for the Holy Relic. Back in the chapel the exits seal and a Heresiarch appears. Kill him, place the relic on the altar, take the urn in the chalice room and go down the circular stairs to the Heart. Traductus attacks through a window when you take it.
2. Frozen Sanctum: put both books on the bookcase in the wooden-platform hall; if it stays shut, check you placed both the Liber Oscura from Swamp of the Forgotten and the Daemon Codex from Glade of the Fallen. Some players report needing a second Liber Oscura from Swamp of the Forgotten. Go down the stairs it opens and out, then east up the steps for Yorick's Skull 3. At the far west end, south of where the chalice was, the ice-block room takes the second flame mask; kill the Heresiarch it releases for the Sigil of the Magus. Put the Sigil in the receptacle in the stone chamber reached through the tunnel south of the wooden-platform hall, kill Menelkir, and follow the path north to the icy platforms and the Heart.
3. Glade of the Fallen: manual save first. Put the three skulls only on the headless statues in the small garden north of the planters, east of the entrance portal. Placing them on the north-west gargoyle statues is reported to make the expansion unwinnable. Kill the Heresiarch for the Glaive Seal. Put it in the slot in front of the stone block by the north pool (west of the gargoyle statues), kill Zedek and take the west door, stairs and bridges to the Heart.
4. Swamp of the Forgotten: manual save first. Put the four gears in the clock tower hatches in the north-east swamp and kill the four Death Wyverns that appear. Then go through the metal door past the tower and north past the Stalkers to the island Heart.
5. Serpent Temple: place the four Hearts on the eastern pedestals to reveal the portal to Korax's Domain.

If the Korax's Domain portal hasn't appeared, check the hub in this order:

• Podium: all five chalices placed (Coiled, Gilded, Earthen, Molten, Rimed). The eastern door stays shut until the fifth goes in.
• Eastern wing: through the eastern door, with the silver key collected or locksmith on.
• Hearts: four on the eastern pedestals, one from each main map.
• Volcano Chapel Heart: flame mask 1 in its slot, Holy Relic on the altar.
• Frozen Sanctum Heart: both books on the bookcase, flame mask 2 in its slot, Sigil in the receptacle.
• Glade of the Fallen Heart: three skulls on the headless statues, Glaive Seal in its slot.
• Swamp of the Forgotten Heart: all four gears in the clock tower (from the Swamp valve dungeon, the Glade prison, the Volcano gaol and the Frozen Sanctum six-door room), and all four Death Wyverns dead.

If you're collecting Pieces of Power here, check before entering that you have all three pieces for your class. If one is missing, go back to its named spot (Glade of the Fallen, Volcano Chapel or Frozen Sanctum, listed under Pieces of Power) and pick it up with noclip off.

1. Pull the switch on the north wall to lower a lift and ride up. Korax rises from the central hole.
2. Damage him to half health. He teleports away and the surrounding doors open; clear the enemies behind them.
3. Save, then solve the symbol puzzle. Four symbols rise in the central chamber, and each corner chamber has a set of symbol switches. Press the matching symbol in each corner. A wrong pick spawns enemies and swaps in two new symbols, so save between presses, and go back to the central chamber to reread the symbols after every wrong pick before pressing the next one.
4. The north chamber opens and phase two starts. Kill Korax from range and keep your distance.
5. Kill the Chaos Serpents released in the north chamber and step into the portal at its north end. If the north doors ever stay shut, reload your save.

Only use this if I Hate That Guy is still locked after Constable's Gate and Vestiges. Level-select Castle of Grief and turn on satan, ghost and mapsco.

• I Hate That Guy fallback: play on skill 4 or 5. Use sherlock for the four clock gears (it should give them, but that isn't confirmed in the remaster; otherwise collect them by hand) and locksmith for the Axe key. Put the gears in the clock in the south-west clockhouse, ride the central tower lift and press the eight-pointed switch at the top to reach Gibbet. Take the Axe door on the west side of the central circle; it's open for only six seconds and doesn't reopen from inside. In the throne room, kill exactly one of the green Chaos Serpents, then stop and wait a few seconds. The script that opens the next area misfires if several die at once. The Heresiarch appears when the wall behind the throne lowers.

You need three controllers, one for each class. Guest profiles work for the extra players.

1. Pick Hexen, go to Multiplayer > Add Players and press a button on each extra controller, adding a guest account for each if asked.
2. Continue, choose Local, set the game to Hexen and pick a hub. Use the lowest skill.
3. Give each player a different class: one Fighter, one Cleric, one Mage. Update 2 fixed class selection in split-screen, so check that the classes actually differ before you start.

Co-op progress can't be saved, so plan to finish the hub in one sitting. The default is to leave monsters on, because several Seven Portals steps (the serpent rooms behind Gates 2 and 6, and the final Centaurs) normally open only after kills. Faster alternative: Xbox players report finishing with monsters turned off in the co-op setup (or on the lowest skill). With monsters off, the final bridge may not form because there are no Centaurs to kill, so cross the chasm with the Wings of Wrath. Take them from the ledge in the crevice on the east side of the chasm; whipit is a quicker source only if the Cheats menu works in your co-op session. If any other kill-gated door won't open, restart with monsters on.