Aniimo Sanctum of First Sight Walkthrough (All 5 Chests)

First Sight is a solo challenge dungeon in Aniimo built around a single mechanic: a launcher that fires a purple ball across the room, and a row of blue barriers called rams that you raise and lower to steer it. Land the ball in the right socket and a gate opens. Land it in the wrong one and nothing happens, so you reset the ball and try again. Five chests are tucked behind those gates, and one of them is invisible until you awaken the Sanctum’s own Animo.

Quick answer: Enter the Sanctum in Breezy Plains at -0551, 1612, then send the ball into the right, left, upper-right, and upper-left slots in that order, collect all 5/5 chests, and restore the Vein.

Where the First Sight Sanctum is in Breezy Plains

Open the world map, move to the Breezy Plains region, and look for the Sanctum marker at coordinates -0551, 1612. If you have already touched the entrance once, you can teleport straight to it from the map. Otherwise, travel there on foot and interact with the portal structure to activate it.

Activating the entrance brings up the challenge prompt for Sanctum: First Sight. Confirm it and you will load into a solo instance with the objective to reach the heart of the sanctum and restore the Vein, plus a chest counter that starts at Chests Obtained 0/5.

Sanctum Challenge objective tracking the Vein restoration as the player approaches the sealed inner door — The Sanctum Challenge objective stays active from the moment you spawn, pointing you toward the sealed door at the heart of the room.

If you try to glide or fly across Breezy Plains and get the “No flying Animo equipped” message, set one on the Animo Management Exploration tab before the trip. Long overland sprints will also stop you with “Not enough stamina.”

How the ram and ball puzzle works

The main chamber has one launcher and a set of blue barriers standing in the ball’s flight path. Walk up to a barrier and use the Raise/Lower Ram prompt to flip its height. A raised ram deflects the ball; a lowered one lets it pass. That single toggle is the whole puzzle, repeated four times with different combinations.

Side-by-side view of the Raise/Lower Ram interaction prompt with the ram platform set to two different heights — The same ram platform in two states: on the left it is being positioned with the Raise/Lower Ram prompt on screen, and on the right it sits ready for the next launch.

If the ball goes somewhere useless, do not chase it. Use the Refresh Ball interaction at the launcher to put a fresh ball back in place, adjust one ram, and fire again. Four sockets matter, and each one controls a different door.

Target slot	What it opens
Right side	Main gate to the Animo statue
Left side	Left-hand side passage
Upper right	Middle-level chest gate
Upper left	Remaining upper chest alcoves

The upper-right and upper-left routes are the fiddly ones, because the ball has to clear more than one barrier before it drops. Expect a few refreshes while you find the height combination that carries it high enough.

Chest 1: awaken the Animo and use Twine vision

Head to the launcher and set the rams so the ball lands in the right-side slot. The main gate at the back of the chamber unlocks as soon as the ball seats itself.

Walk through the open gate and find the purple, helmet-shaped Animo statue. Use the Awaken prompt on it. A short line appears on screen as it wakes: “With a single eye, hidden truth is revealed.”

Player awakening the purple helmet-shaped Animo statue past the first gate in the Sanctum — The single-eyed helmet Animo sits just past the first gate, and awakening it is what unlocks the vision you need for the hidden chest.

Twine with the Animo to switch on its vision. Hidden geometry in the room becomes visible while you are twined, which is the only way to spot the first chest.

Turn toward the stairs and look at the wall beside them. A chest is concealed behind it. Open it and the counter ticks over to 1/5.

Chests 2-5: opening the upper alcoves

Return to the launcher and reconfigure the rams so the ball travels to the left-side slot. That opens the left gate and the short passage behind it.

Refresh the ball and rebuild the barrier line for the higher route. Aim for the upper-right socket, which releases the gate in front of the middle-level chest.

Adjust the rams one last time and put the ball in the upper-left socket. This unseals the last set of alcoves on the top tier.

Take the stairs up and sweep the open alcoves in order, collecting chests 2/5, 3/5, 4/5, and 5/5. Check the counter on screen before you move on.

Player heading up the interior stairs toward the upper chest alcoves with the Sanctum objective on screen — The stairs in the main chamber lead to the upper alcoves where the last four chests sit once their gates are open.

Chest collection and Sanctum completion are tracked separately. Restoring the Vein resolves the challenge whether or not the counter reads 5/5, so clear every chest first rather than planning a return trip.

Restore the Vein to clear the Sanctum

With the counter at 5/5, follow the objective marker into the final chamber and interact with the core at the heart of the room. The interaction plays a completion sequence, the Vein energy is restored, and the challenge resolves on its own.

You know it worked when the result screen appears and the objective clears, dropping you back outside the entrance in Breezy Plains. The entrance stays activated on the world map afterwards, so you can teleport back to that spot whenever you are passing through the region.