Steamworks
The Steamworks are the fourth location seen in Undertale Yellow, after the Ruins, Snowdin, and the Dunes. Clover enters the Steamworks after defeating Starlo in the Pacifist and Neutral routes, or after killing Ceroba in the Genocide Route. On the Pacifist Route, Clover traverses the Steamworks with Ceroba, while on the other routes they are supported by Flowey.
Geography[edit | edit source]
The Steamworks are a decommissioned factory that predates the CORE. When the Steamworks were operational, they fulfilled a very similar function to the CORE, being the primary source of power for the Underground. The Steamworks is a large complex located between the Dunes and Hotland, being connected to Sunnyside Farm in the northeastern Dunes on one end, as well as being just an elevator ride away from Hotland's UG Apartments on the other end.
The remaining inhabitants of the Steamworks are all old and usually defective robots. The miniboss of the Steamworks is the Guardener, who guards an area known as the Greenhouse, overflowing with pure white vegetation that the scientists of the Steamworks were experimenting with. The boss of the Steamworks is Axis, who chases Clover down throughout most of the Steamworks in the Pacifist Route. The tables turn in the No-Mercy route as Clover hunts down Axis. Furthermore, on the Pacifist and Neutral routes, if the protagonist has Golden Pear, Golden Coffee and Golden Cactus in their inventory, they can fight the secret boss Macro Froggit.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- A door in one of the rooms in the Steamworks is labelled with a number 427, referencing the Stanley's Office room number, from The Stanley Parable.
- On a list of award-winning Underground scientists in one of the rooms, one appears to be entirely obscured, recalling the numerous hidden references to W. D. Gaster in both Undertale and Deltarune.
- The concept of Steamworks being inhabited by robots might be based on Toby's scrapped idea of Hotland being full of robots.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Hotland was originally going to be full of robots and cyborgs but as time went on it felt weird to have any besides Mettaton. - Toby Fox, Undertale Art Book, page 87, ISBN 9781945908781