Stopped Clock Tower

Stopped Clock Tower

Map of Stopped Clock Tower

Type

Activity

Region

Mad King's Realm

Connects to

Mad King's Tower Dock
Mad King's Tower Belfry

Loading screen

Image(s)

Mad King's Clock Tower

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The clock tower! Good choice. You must be quick on your feet and able to jump. If you reach the top, you'll be rewarded.

— In-game description

Stopped Clock Tower is a jumping puzzle-style festival activity set in the area of the same name within the Mad King's Realm. It was initially made available during Shadow of the Mad King 2023. It is a copy of the Mad King's Clock Tower with the distinction that it is not timed. There are also no bonus chests along the route.

Getting there

• From the starting area outside of each racial capital city: talk to the Lunatic Boatmaster and select to go to the Stopped Clock Tower.
• From Lion's Arch: enter a Mad King's Clock Tower haunted door (selecting the Stopped Clock Tower option), or talk to a Lunatic Boatmaster in front of any Mad King's Labyrinth haunted door.
• From the Eye of the North or various Halloween areas: talk to a Lunatic Boatmaster.
• From Gendarran Fields or Kessex Hills: Haunted Doors randomly give the option to enter after opening them. This will take you to the Mad King's Labyrinth where you'll find a Lunatic Boatmaster.

You'll first arrive at the Mad King's Tower Dock. This serves as a hub for groups waiting to start the jumping puzzle. Speak to Lunatic Courtier Amabel to enter the puzzle.

Walkthrough

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Part 1 You will start on a large gear and follow the platforms rotating around the the tower. Run up the stairs in front of you. It takes fewer jumps following the left side of the stairs. You will get to another cog. Jump on the clock, up to edge of the block, and then to the top of the block. Jump either on or over the floating cube in front. It's difficult to jump around. Jump to the next platform. Jump directly to the next block, ignoring the small gear. Hop up a step the jump to the platform on the right. Stay on the right side and jump to the next rock. Hop to the next platform then onto the large gear. Continue directly to the next platform. Jump across a couple platforms and a large gear then head up to another rock platform. There is a small cubic platform to your right, hop to it from the far edge, then head up the rock ahead. The next jump to the gear is long, so jump as late as possible. Jump up to the stairs on the right side. Part 2 Jump on top of the giant gear tilted right. If you fall to the left, you cannot recover. Jump to the staircase then up a couple purple platforms. You must jump to the narrow metal bar on your left. You can either jump to it directly or from the small gear near it. Jump horizontally to the wall piece connected to the upper stairs and hop a couple times to get up. Part 3 Follow the path until you get to two narrow bars sticking out of the platform. Jump down to the gear below, it's a long fall. Follow the next couple platforms. There will be two paths leading to the top, the longer one seemingly blocked off. You can follow this one if you use the next platform, but it takes much longer and has no chest for the effort. Hop across some rocks and a couple metal bars. At the end of second bar, jump to the rock piece on your left. Head up the connected stairs and into the broken clock face. Collect the Magnificent Chest as your reward.

Rewards

• No bags are received from the final chest if the player is rewarded with the mini.
• Rewards are per account.
  • Final Magnificent Chest
• Access to the Mysterious Craftsraven merchant at the top of the puzzle.

Related achievements

• Halloween Daily: Jumping Mad — Complete the Mad King's Clock Tower or Stopped Clock Tower jumping puzzles. (0)
• Shadow of the Mad King: The Night Time Stood Still — Investigate a new occurrence in the Mad Realm. (1)
• Shadow of the Mad King: Time Unmoving — Complete the Stopped Clock Tower jumping puzzle. (3)
• Lunatic Wardrobe: Mad King's Clock Tower — Complete the Mad King's Clock Tower or Stopped Clock Tower jumping puzzles. (10)
• Halloween Rituals: (Annual) Mad King's Clock Tower — Complete the Mad King's Clock Tower or Stopped Clock Tower jumping puzzles. Achievement can be completed once every year. (0)
• Halloween Rituals: (Weekly) Halloween Festivities — Participate in the Mad King's Labyrinth, Halloween races, the Mad King's Clock Tower or Stopped Clock Tower, Mad King Says, and Ascent to Madness. Progress awarded varies based on the activity. (0)

Notes

The starting area

• Mad King's Clock Tower counts for Daily Activity Participation.
• Gliding is available in in this instance.
• The Prototype Position Rewinder works in the climbing portion of this instance. It cannot be used to get repeated rewards as it resets when entering or leaving the chest room at the top of the tower.
• Teleport to Friend works in the climbing portion of this instance, while use of the Teleport to Friend from outside of the climbing portion will force reset a player to the starting area.
• Personal Waypoint works in the climbing portion of this instance, and will persist even after exiting the clock room, but there appears to be a cooldown on subsequent chest looting and credit that makes the Personal Waypoint only useful to regain ones footing after falling.

Trivia

The clock face of the tower resembles those of the Elizabeth Tower.

• Joshua Foreman built the original, timed, clocktower map, he estimated "maybe 5% of people would make it to the top."
• This, the Mad King's Clock Tower and Winter Wonderland are the only jumping puzzles that have its own activity-style instance.
• There are three versions of the clock tower:
  • The clock tower visible from Mad King's Tower Dock has platforms revolving around a stationary tower.
  • The actual puzzle instance of Mad King's Clock Tower has stationary platforms around a rotating tower. This is located directly behind the Dock in the distance, normally unable to be seen.
  • The clock tower is stationary when you are in Mad King's Tower Belfry and in the Stopped Clock Tower.
• The clock face on the Mad King's Clock Tower loading screen resembles the astronomical clock of Zytglogge upside down.

References

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Activities

Daily activities	Crab Toss Sanctum Sprint Southsun Survival Keg Brawl
Historical	Basket Brawl
Festival activities
Lunar New Year	Dragon Ball Arena Celestial Challenge
Festival of the Four Winds	Aspect Arena
Halloween	Lunatic Inquisition Mad King's Clock Tower & Stopped Clock Tower Reaper's Rumble
Wintersday	Bell Choir Ensemble Winter Wonderland Snowball Mayhem Toypocalypse

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Jumping puzzles