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Root Map
This is a map of all the Roots of Evil locations in the game that aren't specified in the main walkthrough, each marked with a number that corresponds to the description below. Destroying these roots is essential to completing Alone in the Dark, as doing so awards you Spectral Points. You need 50 Spectral Points to advance to the end of the game, so kill these roots as described below as early in the game as you can to avoid having to go back to find them later.
Root 1
- Spectral Points Awarded: 9
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: There are a lot of Humanz around this root, so clear them out first. To kill the root, chuck an explosive bottle at it, then shoot it out of the air.
Root 2
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Plastic bottle, wick, double-sided tape
- Notes: You'll find this root in the basement of the building on the edge of the reservoir. Fight off the Humanz as you approach the door, then bash it in with an axe or shovel. Head in, climb down the ladder in the middle of the room, and grab some glowsticks when you reach the landing below. Climb down the next ladder after dropping a glowstick down the shaft, as there's black ooze down below. At the bottom, keep pushing back the ooze until you reach the pumping station. Use the ceiling conveyor belt by pressing the large red button, then turn it off when one of the pipes it's carrying is directly in front of you. Head to the nearby table and locker and create a bomb with a plastic bottle, wick, and double-sided tape. Chuck the bomb at the pipe, then press the red button again to move the conveyor. If you timed it right, the pipe should swing your bomb behind the fence and blow up the root. Grab your glowsticks and other materials now and head back through the ooze to the ladder.
Root 3
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: You'll find this root in the basketball court with Humanz nearby. Kill them, then chuck an explosive bottle at the and shoot the bottle in the air.
Root(s) 4
- Spectral Points Awarded: 6
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: There are actually three roots in this building, each worth 2 Spectral Points. Grab the nearby sledgehammer and bash open the door, then bash the Humanz inside. Torch them with the flamethrower, then torch the three roots: one grows out of a wall, one is in the brick-walled room at the back of the building, and one is in a holding cell.
Root 5
- Spectral Points Awarded: 5
- Required Items: Plastic or glass bottle of fuel, double-sided tape, bullets
- Notes: This root is growing on an asphalt ledge off the main road. You can't throw an object far enough to hit it, so you need to tape a box of bullets to an explosive bottle to make the blast radius large enough to reach the root. Throw your bomb at the room and shoot it in the air.
- Another method is to drive a car off the ramp east of the cliff (to the right of the root if you're looking straight at it.) This ramp will land you on the balancing chunk of road in front of the cliff, which will hurl a flaming car husk at the root.
Root 6
- Spectral Points Awarded: 5
- Required Items: Plastic bottle of fuel, double-sided tape
- Notes: You'll find this root at the top of a ledge above the street. Check the trash can to the left of the root for the materials you need to kill it. Fashion a bomb of a bottle of fuel, tape, and bullets, then throw it at one of the Ratz climbing the nearby cable so that it sticks to the animal. The beasts should carry it to the top of the cable, at which point you need to shoot it, taking out the root in the subsequent blast.
Root 7
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: Find the statue by the entrance to the park and you'll find this root growing out of it. Create a flamethrower to fight back the Vampirz protecting it, then throw a bottle of fuel at the root and shoot it midair. Leave the area before the Vampirz succeed in killing you!
Root 8
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Grab the sledgehammer near this root and use it to beat back the Humanz here. Burn their bodies, then chuck a flammable bottle at the root and shoot it in the air.
Root 9
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: You'll find this easily-accessible root at the top of the stairs, by the chess tables. Kill the nearby Ratz, then torch the root for your Spectral Points.
Root 10
- Spectral Points Awarded: 9
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: From the edge of the street, find the root on the island of asphalt, throw an explosive bottle at it, then shoot it at the bottom of the arc. You can also toss a Molotov cocktail at the root.
Root 11
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Another easily-accessible root. Find it in the middle of the trees off the path near the mall, and torch it with whatever you've got.
Root 12
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Thrown explosive or bullets
- Notes: You can't reach the plot of grass where this root is located on foot, as it's on top of a spire, but you can by car. There's a car not too far from here, so steal it, take the items out the glove box, then drive it full speed straight up the dirt ramp to the island. Park your car directly beneath the root, then stand at the far edge of the island and shoot the car's gas tank to take out the whole shebang. Descend the nearby rope to get back to the ground.
Root 13
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: There's a pretty sizable monster guarding this root, and if sees you before you can kill it, it's going to tear you to shreds. Approach it from the side and torch it with a flamethrower before it can get you with its claws. When it's dead, chuck a bottle at the root and shoot it with your gun to torch it.
Root 14
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: A clawed beast guards this root, which can be found near the Alice in Wonderland sculptures. Instead of running straight up to it to destroy it, chuck an explosive bottle at it from a distance, then shoot it in the air as it hits the root. The beast will come after you at that point, so get the heck out of there!
Root 15
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Nothing guards this root, which grows on the hillside, so run right up to it and torch it.
Root 16
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: This root is found near the ruined footbridge. Pour a little fuel on it, then light it. Done.
Root 17
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Like the previous two roots, this root is unguarded and easily destroyed with just a little fuel and some flame.
Root 18
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Yet another easily-dispatched root. It's in the ferns around the waterfall. Pour some fuel on it and bring on the fire.
Root 19
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Look for this root between two bridge support columns. Humanz guard it, so kill them all before going after the root. Chuck a flammable bottle at it and shoot it in the air, or use a flamethrower.
Root 20
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Check the shadow of the tree for this root, which is completely unguarded. Torch it how you see fit.
Root 21
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: You'll find this root on the Cleopatra's Needle obelisk. It's unguarded, so just nail it with a flammable bottle.
Root 22
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: There are three Humanz guarding this root, so find something to bash them with, torch their bodies, then torch the root with whatever flammable objects you've got.
Root 23
- Spectral Points Awarded: 3
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: Look around the playground on the western side of the park for this root. Vampirz will attack you when you get near it, so use a flamethrower to force them back. Hit the root with a thrown explosive like a Molotov cocktail, then quickly leave the area, in a car if possible.
Root 24
- Spectral Points Awarded: 3
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: You'll find this root in the shrubs on the left side of the road that runs beside the reservoir. Use whatever flammable weapon you've got in your inventory to take it out.
Root 25
- Spectral Points Awarded: 6
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: Pretty hard to miss this route, which is on the walking path that passes through the reservoir. You can reach the path by heading behind the building where you killed Root #2. You'll face some Humanz as you make your way across it, so torch them when they're close enough to do so. The root will be found to the right, growing out of the water. Throw an explosive bottle at it, then shoot it out of the air to finish this root off.
Root 26
- Spectral Points Awarded: 2
- Required Items: Anything flammable
- Notes: Nothing protects this root from your fiery wrath, so find it on the edge of the abyss, behind a wall. Burn it as you see fit.
Root 27
- Spectral Points Awarded: 4
- Required Items: Thrown explosive
- Notes: The final root can be found in the middle of the outdoor amphitheater. Bring some fire bullets with you as you enter, as there are lots of Humanz you need to take out before you can safely torch the root. When the Humanz are neutralized, chuck an explosive bottle at the root, then shoot it in the air to thwart its rooty ways.
