As players make their way through House Beneviento in Resident Evil Village, they will find a wooden music box amidst some boxes. Fans can open this music box by using the Winding Key, and there are a series of cylinders inside of it. These cylinders can be moved, and indeed Resident Evil Village players must put them in the correct positions in order to solve the music box puzzle and receive a very important item.
For those fans that may be stuck on this puzzle in Resident Evil Village, the deep scratches that can be seen on the cylinders are the key to solving it. More specifically, players need to position the cylinders so that the scratches are all properly aligned, and there are three of these marks to focus on. The first spans the first and second cylinders, the second spans the second and third cylinders, and the third spans the fourth and fifth cylinders, and the image that is below showcases the correct alignments.
After putting the cylinders into the correct positions, fans should press the input that appears next to "Play" at the bottom of the screen. This will put the music box into smooth motion, and Ethan Winters will no longer indicate that something is wrong with the device, as he will when the cylinders are not properly aligned. Once the music box has played for a short time, a compartment at the bottom of it will slide open, and the aforementioned item is inside.
With respect to exactly what that item is, players that solve the music box puzzle will receive a pair of tweezers as a reward for their troubles. Without giving too much away, this instrument is connected to the mannequin puzzle in that Doll Workshop that will have led horror game fans to the music box in the first place, and it can be used straightaway. This will not mark the end of that larger puzzle, though, as indeed there several more steps to complete.
Notably, the music box puzzle is not the only music-related puzzle in the game, and players will have already completed a piano puzzle in Resident Evil Village by the time that they reach this one. While these two puzzles are quite different from one another in how they are to be approached, the music featured in both of them helps establish the game's creepy atmosphere and gives fans a bit of a break from the soundtrack's harsher offerings.
Resident Evil Village is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
