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Defoliation Game Written Walkthrough Guide + Red Leaf Locations (Nintendo Switch)

writ­ten 6/13/26, updat­ed 6/17/26

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  • Pub­lished: COSEN
  • Devel­oped: Ris­ing Win Tech
  • Plat­form Played: Nin­ten­do Switch 2
  • Price: $1.99 MSRP: $9.99
  • Rat­ed: T (Blood, Vio­lence)
  • Genre: Adven­ture, Puz­zle, Sur­vival
  • Date Released: May 31, 2018

This is a puz­zle, adven­ture game set in Tai­wan. The con­trols are a bit clunky on the Switch, the trans­la­tion is not per­fect, and there’s a bit of a cul­tur­al gap. The east­ern-mind­ed puz­zles are dif­fer­ent from the west­ern-mind­ed ones I gen­er­al­ly play. I wrote this to help any­one who needs it (and also to help myself try to work through some of them), because there are zero walk­throughs any­where… In Eng­lish, at least. It’s rec­om­mend­ed to have a notepad or some way to write out the puz­zles to under­stand them bet­ter. I don’t 100% know how some of the answers are got­ten, but I did work through the ones that make sense to me.

Table of Con­tents

*Use the search func­tion (ctrl+f) or click on the links below to nav­i­gate the page

GAME START

Chapter 1: The Accident

  • Read the dia­logue
  • Choose: “Beg again and again”

Bad Ending 0: Nothing Happened

  • Choose: “I give up this time”

Chapter 2: The Cabin

  • Read dia­logue
  • Take Pot­ted Plant
  • Take Hand­ker­chief
  • Look at win­dow, read dia­logue, and take Iron Crow­bar
  • Look at red bricks, inspect the mid­dle upper one, get Red Bolt
  • Look at the shoe rack

Shoe Puzzle

Solve using Hand­ker­chief clue found

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Top Row: Blue slip­per, Yel­low boot, Green boot, Blue slip­per, Green slip­per, Red boot, Red slip­per, Yel­low slip­per

Bot­tom Row: Red boot, Blue boot, Green slip­per, Yel­low slip­per, Blue boot, Red slip­per, Green boot, Yel­low boot

  • Get Scis­sors and Red Bolt
  • Look at chair; Use Scis­sors; Get Red Bolt
  • Equip Pot­ted Plant and use it on the ground
  • Get Paper with Win­dow Graph­ic
  • Look at rug in front of the door
  • Click on the top left cor­ner, then use the Iron Crow­bar
  • Get Red Bolt
  • Look at the door

Lock Puzzle

Look at the win­dow. First, you have to solve this puz­zle to get the code for the door using the clues you’ve read and found:

  • Clock­wise
  • Loca­tion of num­bers to use
  • Mid­dle cir­cle of num­bers in win­dow indi­cates this is math-ori­ent­ed
  • Using the last dig­it
Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber Code: 52351247

Add Red Bolt x4

  • Go inside

Chapter 3: The Old Lady

  • Read dia­logue
  • Take Green Leaf Bolt from tree on shelf
  • Look at the code input

Shelf Lock Puzzle

  • Look at books, read all of the titles and dia­logue
  • Look at the dec­o­ra­tive dish’s num­bers, ele­ments, and direc­tion­al nota­tions
  • Solve the code
Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber Code: 2385

*Hon­est­ly, I have no idea how this is the answer. I think you have to know some­thing about Chi­nese his­to­ry and stuff, which I don’t.

  • Get Rag and Green Leaf Bolt
  • Go into the Kitchen
  • Take Pot from the counter; Use on the faucet
  • Use Pot Filled with Water on the stove
  • Look at the sink; Get Clump of Hair
  • Use Clump of Hair on the pot on the stove; Boil it
  • Get Green Leaf Bolt
  • Use Rag on dirty poster

Kitchen Utensil Puzzle

Ori­ent the kitchen uten­sils into the cor­rect order using the clue

Solu­tion (click to expand)

If: 123456

Then: 653412

  • Look at top unlocked cab­i­net; Get Tile with Num­ber On It
  • Look at bot­tom unlocked cab­i­net; Get Green Leaf Bolt
  • Look at the floor; Use Tile with Num­ber On It

Kitchen Door Lock Puzzle

Using the rules of Sudoku puz­zles, solve the puz­zle to get the door code

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer:

2314

4132

1243

3421

Using the clue from the Sudoku Puz­zle, open the door lock

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Code: 3234

Use Green Leaf Bolt x4

  • Go inside

Bad Ending 1: Die at the Cabin

  • Go into the old lady’s room

Chapter 4: Trapped

  • Choose: “Don’t open it”
  • Take Coin from the near bath­tub rim
  • Take Han­dle from far bath­tub rim (how you did­n’t get killed I have no idea)
  • Use Coin above toi­let; Get Handrail
  • Look under sink; Take Plunger
  • Com­bine Plunger + Han­dle = Plunger
  • Use Plunger on toi­let; Get Clump of Hair
  • Use Clump of Hair on bath­tub; Get Cat Toy
  • Look at the mir­ror

Plumbing Puzzle

Solve the num­ber puz­zle under the sink using the clue from the mir­ror

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 13, 7, 12, 9 (Blue, Red, Yel­low, Gray)

I think I fig­ured out why (below). Which is kind of mis­lead­ing giv­en the way the green shape is ori­ent­ed. This is only way the answer works. #6 is there to mis­lead

  • Now that the water is off, open the cur­tain
  • Take the Cur­tain
  • Use the Handrail on the wall, start­ing on the south­east cor­ner of the cube and work your way counter-clock­wise just as the graph­ic indi­cates

Bad Ending 2: Killed by a Monster

  • Choose: “Open it” as soon as the chap­ter starts, or any­time before turn­ing off the water valves

Chapter 5: The Wardrobe

Fun Note: If you did­n’t take the cur­tain or use the hair in the water, you’ll still end up with the Cat Toy and Cur­tain in this chap­ter

You have to fig­ure out (through tri­al and error, super obnox­ious) how to get out of the wardrobe alive

Solu­tion:

  1. Choose: “Do not open it”
  2. Use Cur­tain
  3. Choose: “Do not open it”
  4. Equip Cat Toy, click on the bath­room hole; Grass will drop the Cat Toy
  5. Wood will say: “I can’t hold it any­more”
  6. Choose: “Go through door”

Bad Ending “4”: Killed by the Old Lady

This is a typo as it’s sup­posed to be End­ing 3

You get this if you do any of the fol­low­ing:

  1. Don’t do any­thing and let the timer count down
  2. Go through the door
  3. Use Cur­tain and go out the door
  4. Use Cat Toy and go out the door
  5. Use Cur­tain and Cat Toy and let timer count down
  6. If you try to go back into the bath­room, Grass will drop Cat Toy. If you count down, or go through the door

Chapter 6: The Door Downstairs

  • Look at the yel­low jack­et 2x; Get Blade and Red Leaf Bolt
  • Look at the blan­ket; Get Red Leaf Bolt
  • Look at the win­dow; Note the pat­tern
  • Take Bot­tle from foot of bed
  • Take Bot­tle from head of bed
  • Use Blade on floor cush­ion; Get Red Leaf Bolt
  • Take Bot­tle from table
  • Take Bot­tle from shelf
  • Look at the indents in the shelf

Cabinet Lock Puzzle

Fig­ure out what to put in the indents, and in what order using clues from before

  • Smash each Bot­tle on the floor (just like the pot­ted plant in the begin­ning)

IMPORTANT: Do not smash the bot­tles with­out first mem­o­riz­ing which shape of bot­tle you’re smash­ing

  • Remem­ber what col­or belongs to each Bot­tle
  • Order the spheres cor­rect­ly on the shelf
Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: Blue, Green, Yel­low Red

  • Look at the antique phone; Take Fin­ger Plate
  • Use Fin­ger Plate on the cab­i­net at the head of the bed

Bed Cabinet Puzzle

Using the clue from the phone­book, solve the num­ber puz­zle

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 984955956

*I have no idea how this is the answer. Maybe I don’t under­stand some­thing about Tai­wanese phone num­bers? If some­one can fig­ure it out, let me know in the com­ments

  • Get Paper with Maze on It and Red Leaf Bolt

Basement Door Lock Puzzle

Ooo almost out! Using the clues received, solve for the code

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber Code: 215

Place Red Leaf Bolt x4: up, down, up, down

  • Go through the door

Chapter 7: Downstairs

  • Smash the vase; Get Point­ers (Clock hands) and Bolt
  • Use Point­ers on wall clock

Clock Puzzle

For once an easy puz­zle. Pull on the 3 ropes to change the hands so that the time is cor­rect on the clock (denot­ed by the red marks)

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: Left (x5); Right (x2); then the Mid­dle

  • Get Black Chess Piece
  • Go to the Tea Room
  • Take Match from the couch; Use it on the wood han­dle to the right of the couch; Get Lit Match
  • Take Bolt from the padded chairs
  • Look at the rug near the padded chairs; Get a Bolt
  • Look at Go game­board on couch

Gomoku Puzzle

Look at the game and place the Black Chess Piece in the cor­rect place. Con­sid­er what the char­ac­ters have already said about the game

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: Place it on the bot­tom mid­dle, in sur­ren­der

*Yeah… I don’t know how to play Go

  • Get Teacup and Bolt
  • Use Teacup on tea set on table; Get Cab­i­net Han­dle (Flower men­tions that it fell out of nowhere after they replaced the teacup. Creepy…)
  • Use Lit Match on teapot
  • Lis­ten to dia­logue; Choose “Drink”
  • Go back to the stair­case; Use Cab­i­net Han­dle on the holes under the stairs
  • Get Bolt and Piece of Draw­ing Paper

Stair Lock Puzzle

Using the pro­vid­ed clue, solve the lock puz­zle

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Code Num­ber: 521846937

Place Bolt x4

*Nope. I don’t get it.

  • Open the door

Bad Ending 4: Killed by Teenager

  • Choose: “Do not drink” when asked about drink­ing the tea

Chapter 8: Leave the Cabin

  • Take Note­book
  • Take Knife
  • Lis­ten to dia­logue
  • Choose: “Note­book”
  • Look at the wall that’s just been opened up

Othello Door Puzzle

Using the rules of Otel­lo, place the pieces into the game board

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Solu­tion:

  • Go inside

Bad Ending 5: Killed by a Teenager

  • Choose: “Knife” when prompt­ed

Chapter 9: The Pond

Option 1

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue
  • Choose: “Yes”
  • Things are get­ting more unnerv­ing

Option 2

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue
  • Choose: “No”
  • Look at things
  • In the end, no mat­ter what, you have to give Yifeng the Knife

Chapter 10: The Well

  • Click any­where but the puz­zle; Get Knife
  • Look at col­or­ful puz­zle

Colorful Puzzle

Match the col­ors to com­plete the puz­zle

*Good luck to any­one with vision impair­ments! It’s real­ly small and dark!

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Solu­tion

  • Go in

Chapter 11: The Hallway

  • Choose: “Yes” when asked to tie up Yifeng (oth­er­wise you play through the entire chap­ter and then die)
  • Take Key from the pond; Use it to unlock the bul­letin board

Kaleidoscope Wall Lock Puzzle

Solve for the code using the clue from the bul­letin board

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 7369

Rea­son­ing: The num­bers are sup­posed to be set up like a cal­cu­la­tor (if you try the hints, it will men­tion cal­cu­la­tor).

Num­ber Sequence:

789

456

123

So, if the clue is Blue, Pur­ple, Black, Green, then the answer accord­ing to loca­tion of the col­ors is 7, 3, 6, 9

  • Get the moth­er­load: Book, Pen­cil Case, Pen, Eras­er (Pen­cil), Piece of Chalk, and Eras­er (Chalk Board)

Scale Puzzle

Weigh each of the items from the pri­or puz­zle to ascer­tain their weights

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 7528 (Pen, Pen­cil Case, Pen­cil Eras­er, Book)

Rea­son­ing: Book > Pen > Pen­cil Case > Board Eras­er > Pen­cil Eras­er > Chalk

Book = Chalk + Pen­cil Eras­er + Pen­cil Case

Pen­cil Case = P Eras­er + B Eras­er

B Eras­er = P Eras­er + Chalk

Pen = Pen­cil Case + P Eras­er

So,

Book = 8

Pen = 7

Pen­cil Case = 5

B Eras­er = 3

P Eras­er = 2

Chalk = 1

  • Look at the ground that just unlocked

Water Pipe Puzzle #1

Ori­ent the water pipes so that the col­ors near the arrows are con­nect­ed

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Click on the eye­ball piece to fin­ish the puz­zle

  • Get Col­or­ful Beads x3

Water Pipe Puzzle #2

Uuu­ugggh. Now you have to do it again!!!

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Click on the eye­ball piece to fin­ish the puz­zle

  • Get anoth­er set of Col­or­ful Beads x3
  • Can you guess what’s going to hap­pen next?

Water Pipe Puzzle #3

*Sigh* Again it is…

Solu­tion (click to expand)
  • Lemme guess… Col­or­ful Beads x3!!

Aaaaand no more pipe puz­zles!!

  • Except now there’s a new puz­zle because 9 col­or­ful beads seem like they would match…

Overhead Door Colorful Bead Puzzle

Using the kalei­do­scope again, place the beads in the cor­rect order

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer:

Blue, Black Green

Yel­low, Red, White

Orange, Light Pur­ple, Dark Pur­ple

  • Choose: “No” when Yifeng asks to be untied

Bad Ending 6: Killed by a Teenager

  • Choose: “No” when asked to tie up Yifeng in the begin­ning. (Super bum­mer because now you have to play the entire chap­ter again!!)
  • Choose “Yes” at the end when Tifeng asks to be let go

Chapter 12: The Stairwell

  • Enjoy the dia­logue
  • Take Cards x8 from the floor and stairs
  • Take Rag from the stairs
  • Look at the lights on the stairs

Stairwell Card Puzzle

Place the cards in their appro­pri­ate places accord­ing to the clues (Hint: either col­or or sym­bol need to touch)

Solu­tion (click to expand)
  • Get a Long Pole
  • Com­bine Rag + Long Pole = Mop (a Swif­fer, it looks like)
  • Use Mop on the stain on the ceil­ing
  • Look at the tele­phone

Rainbow Telephone Puzzle

Using the clues pro­vid­ed, solve for the tele­phone num­ber

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Num­ber: 7445665

Rea­son­ing: Count the num­ber of col­ored stars on the ceil­ing. The phone has a rain­bow on it explain­ing the order of num­bers (Red, Orange, Yel­low, Green, Blue, Pur­ple, Teal)

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue (Good. There’s a clear plan now)
  • Get Win­dow Han­dle; Use it on the win­dow
  • Go through

Chapter 13: The Red Leaf

  • Lis­ten to the dia­logue (The trans­lat­ed Eng­lish is dif­fi­cult to fol­low… Or maybe the sto­ry is just dif­fi­cult to fol­low)
  • Choose both ques­tions
  • Lis­ten some more (Weird sto­ry all around)
  • Choose: “Red Leaves”
  • Choose :“You’re right, but she’s our old lady.”

Bad Ending 7: Atonement

  • Choose: “No, I killed the old lady”, and you’ll decide that you should stay in that world alone to atone for your sins

Chapter 14: The Adventure

  • Take Key from the ground; Use it on the teacher’s desk
  • Get Rag; Use it on top of the desk
  • Read the papers on the wall
  • Take Note from top-left desk with shoe prints and a bag on the side
  • Take Note from mid­dle-left desk with cracks in the top
  • Take Note from bot­tom-left desk’s floor with the glue stick on top
  • Take Note from bot­tom-mid­dle desk with heart doo­dles on it
  • Take Note from top-right desk with can­dy
  • Take Note from mid­dle-right desk with all the words on it
  • Take Note from the bot­tom-right desk with the green mat on it

Warn­ing: If you haven’t been pay­ing atten­tion to what the notes say, do it now. Write it down some­where or take screen­shots. Once you com­bine them, you won’t be able to see what they say again! …Or just don’t glue them togeth­er until you solve the puz­zle

  • Go back to the bot­tom-left desk and click on the glue stick (You should have Notes x7)
  • Choose: “Yes”
  • Get Com­plete Note (“Luoyu”)

Teacher’s Desk Schedule Puzzle

Using the clues from the Notes, fill in the blanks on the sched­ule

Notes:

  • There is only one sec­tion ‘E’
  • There is no ‘M’ and “E’ before noon
  • The after­noon class has ‘M,’ ‘C,’ and ‘E’
  • No lessons in sec­tion 1 and 2, except Wednes­days
  • There are four sec­tions ‘C’
  • The morn­ing class on Mon­day is dif­fer­ent from Tues­day
  • Mon­day has 4 sec­tions ‘C’ and Fri­day only has 1 sec­tion ‘E’

Hint: The char­ac­ters on the top row are 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (Fri­day, Thurs­day, Wednes­day, Tues­day, Mon­day), as they read from right to left

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer:

Rea­son­ing:

  • C: Only 4 total; Only on Mon­days; Can be either morn­ing or after­noon
  • M: Only in the after­noon
  • E: Only 1 total; Only on Fri­days; Only after­noon
  • S: Only morn­ings
  • Fri­days only have 1 les­son??
  • And I don’t under­stand why Wednes­day 1st sec­tion does­n’t have class even though it specif­i­cal­ly states that no lessons on the 1st and 2nd sec­tions (peri­ods) except Wednes­day. Per­haps it’s a cul­tur­al thing I don’t know about their schools
  • Notice the 17:10 (5:10pm) etched in what appears to be blood sud­den­ly on the table­top
  • Look at the far­thest left desk with the col­or­ful graf­fi­ti on it; Click on the box

Desk Lockbox Puzzle

Use the clue to solve for the code (Thank good­ness for a straight­for­ward, easy one…)

Solu­tion (click to expand)

Answer: 1710

  • Get Wal­let with Leaf Pat­tern and Chalk
  • Use Chalk on the chalk­board

Chalkboard Door Puzzle

Fig­ure out the cor­rect pat­tern to open the board using the giv­en clue

Solu­tion (click to expand)
  • Choose: “Open it”

Chapter 15: Another Person

  • Read the dia­logue to learn about Xifeng and Beiyue’s back­ground sto­ries

Note: You can look around the class­room if you’d like, but Zhiqiu will just tell you there’s noth­ing to find. The only one that’s dif­fer­ent is the far-left desk where the lock­box was. Zhiqiu will men­tion that the col­or­ful graf­fi­ti is evi­dence of bul­ly­ing

  • Go Behind the Black­board
  • If you want to be a creep­er, choose “No” and keep ogling the sleep­ing beau­ty
  • Choose: “Yes”

Chapter 16: Run Away

Great. Now that they teamed up, they imme­di­ate­ly want to kill us and we’re play­ing the ulti­mate cat and mouse game. AND there’s a 60 sec­ond timer

Author’s Note: There’s only 1 pos­si­ble path to take. I tried them all. You’re wel­come

  • Choose: “Let’s hide in the stair­well”
  • Choose “We run down­stairs”
  • Choose “Move to Main Hall­way”
  • Choose “Go to the near­est Stair­well”

Bad Ending 8: Time to Kill Game

  • Let the timer count down
  • Choose: “Go down­stairs first”
  • Choose: “Let’s hide in the back of the class­room”
  • Choose: “Quick­ly go through Hall­way”
  • Choose: “Hide in the restroom”
  • Choose: “Fol­low them”
  • Choose: “We hide in the oppo­site class­room”
  • Choose: “Stand still”
  • Choose: “Run to the base­ment”

Chapter 17: The Truth

Note: If you did­n’t both­er gath­er­ing or com­bin­ing the notes in the class­room, you won’t be able to wake up the girl and will have to redo Chap­ter 14 and get the Com­plete Note

  • Use Com­plete Note on the girl
  • Read the dia­logue (con­fus­ing at best, but made worse through the trans­la­tion)

Chapter 18: Back to the Cabin

  • Read the dia­logue (It’s start­ing to all come togeth­er…)

Chapter 19: Bleeding Tree

Bad Ending 9: Not Going Back

  • Read the dia­logue (All is revealed!)
  • Take Key
  • Go Inside the Cab­in
  • Take Key from the Kitchen
  • Go to the Bed­room
  • Use Key x2 on the draw­ers in the Bed­room
  • Get Gaso­line and Match
  • Go back to the Out­side of the Cab­in; Click on the tree
  • Choose: “Burn it”
  • Read the dia­logue (Luoyu says “Grand­moth­er, wait for me.” Beiyue and Yifeng stay. The old lady dies in the hos­pi­tal before the 4 of them arrive)

Play Chap­ter 19 again

Bad Ending 10: Sorry

  • Take Key
  • Go Inside the Cab­in
  • Take Key from the Kitchen
  • Go to the Bed­room
  • Use Key x2 on the draw­ers in the Bed­room
  • Get Gaso­line and Match
  • Go back to the Out­side of the Cab­in; Click on the tree
  • Choose: “Burn it”
  • Read the dia­logue (Luoyu says “Grand­moth­er, I’m sor­ry,” and stays behind with Beiyue and Yifeng, telling you to apol­o­gize to the Old Lady, but she already passed away at the hos­pi­tal)

Play Chap­ter 19, yet again

True Ending

NOTE: You need to get 100/100 Red Leaves to get the good end­ing of this game. This means you need all 10 end­ings (as each end­ing gives you Red Leaves) and all of the leaves through­out the game. So now, you need to go back through all the chap­ters and find them all. The good news is that it will auto­mat­i­cal­ly save once you find one, so unless you did­n’t com­plete the dif­fer­ent End­ings, you don’t have to do the puz­zles over again.

  • Take Key from Out­side the Cab­in
  • Go inside; Use Key on the shelf
  • Get ‘Civil­ian’ Card (“Strength”)
  • Take Key from the Kitchen
  • Take Key from the Bath­room
  • Take Key from the Clos­et
  • Go Down­stairs, then into the Tea Room
  • Take Key
  • Use Key on locked cab­i­net at the bot­tom of the stairs
  • Get Witch Card (“High Priest­ess”)
  • Go Pool­side; Take Key
  • Go back to the Bed­room
  • Use Key x4 on draw­ers in Bed­room
  • Get Gaso­line, Match, King Card, and Queen Card
  • Go back Out­side the Cab­in
  • Choose: “Don’t burn it”
  • Read the dia­logue for the REAL ENDING OF THE GAME!!! (Luoyu says, “Grand­moth­er, thank you.”)

Final Puzzle

Match the cards with the right char­ac­ter using the hints from Wood

  • Civil­ians do not lie
  • Witch­es lie
  • The King tells one less lie than the Queen
Solu­tion (Click to open)
  • Civil­ian (“Strength”) = Luoyu
  • Queen = Beiyue
  • Witch (“High Priest­ess”) = Zhizhu
  • King = Xifeng

GAME OVER!!

Story Spoiler

Open to see the end­ing spoil­er (Click to Open)

Sum­ma­ry: Instead of burn­ing the tree, they all dec­o­rate the tree with the 100 red leaves they’d gath­ered. The weath­er turned from stormy to sun­ny. Beiyue and Xifeng are ner­vous about going back, giv­en their lives are crap­py. Wood’s real name is Lu Heyuan. They get back to their world (out of Luoyu’s heart/soul world, because that’s her pow­er). They get a call that grand­ma is ill. They all go to the hos­pi­tal where they get to talk to her, then watch her pass away. Time pass­es and their lives change for the bet­ter, slow­ly, while they all remain friends, nev­er for­get­ting the adven­ture that pushed them togeth­er.

End­ing dia­logue (word for word):

“Zhizhu want­ed to share the good news with the old lady, but she was­n’t home. The phone range. It was the hos­pi­tal. The old lady passed out at the front door. She is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion. We picked up Luoyu, Xifeng and Beiyue on the way to the hos­pi­tal. The old lady was so weak when we arrived. Luoyu cried out loud when she saw the old lady at the hos­pi­tal. The old lady smiled at Luoyu. Luoyu could­n’t stop cry­ing. The old lady looked at us and smiled. She asked Luoyu to come clos­er and then she whis­pered to her.

Grand­ma: “Luoyu, you are spe­cial and unique. Be your­self!”

Luoyu: “I will, grand­moth­er!”

The old lady passed away with a smile. Time flies! Luoyu’s par­ents appre­ci­at­ed that we had spent a lot of time with the old lady and brought Luoyu back. After­wards, Luoyu began to take care of Xifeng and Beiyue’s mat­ters. Luoyu report­ed the orphan­age’s direc­tor’s behav­ior to the police. I still remem­ber when I saw Beiyue at the orphan­age. She was skin­ny and wore dirty clothes. Luoyu pulled some strings to help Beiyue so she could be adopt­ed. Not sure that this is the right deci­sion, but at least Beiyue can live in a bet­ter place.

Beiyue: “I sud­den­ly think that you are the best.”

Luoyu: “What are you talk­ing about, Beiyue?”

About Xifeng, his moth­er went back home to take care of him. Luoyu con­vinced his father to divorce his moth­er while he was in jail. Zhizhu also helped Xifeng. Zhizhu hired Zifeng to work for him, so Xifeng could cov­er his own expens­es. This way, Xifeng could spend more time study­ing. Xifeng took the job and thanked Zhizhu.

Luoyu: “Well! Like grand­moth­er said, ‘Be your­self!’ ”

Xifeng: “You are!”

Heyuan, Zhizhu, Luoyu, and I went back to the old lady’s house. The house was sim­ple and ele­gant, just like before. We walked around and thought of the old lady and every­thing that had hap­pened.

Zhizhu: “Hey! Let’s make an apple pie!”

Great idea. How­ev­er, we don’t have any apples. Zhizhu rush­es to buy some.

Luoyu: “Zhiqui, your apple pie tastes just like the old lady’s!”

Zhiqui: “Ha! I can teach you how to make an apple pie.”

ZhiZhu: “Haha. What did you just say? Are you sure you can teach her, haha!”

Zhiqui: “What did you say?!”

We spent the day at the house and had a great time togeth­er. We all know that we need to move on.

Luoyu: “It’s unbe­liev­able!”

Heyuan: “What’s the mat­ter?”

Luoyu: “We’ve been through a lot.”

Heyuan: “We have. I won’t for­get what we have been through.”

Luoyu: “Me too.”

Luoyu did­n’t under­stand what I was talk­ing about, but she will some­day

Note: I don’t under­stand what they’re talk­ing about, either, or who, exact­ly, is nar­rat­ing

.…

Zhizhu: “Look.”

Xifeng and Beiyue wave to us. They are late. Every­one is inside the house, enjoy­ing apple pie and chat­ting. Luoyu and I stay out­side to watch the red leaves fall down from For­ev­er Red.

Zhiqui: “It’s beau­ti­ful.”

Luoyu: “Yeah, It’s beau­ti­ful. Thank you.”

END

Red Leaf Locations

Total: 104

Note: I went to play through a 2nd time and end­ed up with extra leaves! I already hit 100 and got more… Which means that I’m not sure where the extra ones came from, and that there’s pos­si­bly 105

For every end­ing, you get Red Leaves, and they are scat­tered through­out the game. You basi­cal­ly have to click/poke every­where to find them

Anoth­er Note: Some­times some leaves give you +2, and some­times it does­n’t. I’ve played through at least 5 times now, and ones that gave +2 changed to +1 and some that were +1 changed to +2. It seems super ran­dom

Chapter 1: The Accident

Total: 2

  • +1 — for fin­ish­ing the chap­ter
  • +1 — for Bad End­ing 0

Chapter 2: The Cabin

Total: 6

Note: For­got to fix the pic­ture, sor­ry! Did­n’t cir­cle the one on the low­er left cor­ner of the win­dow

  • +1 — Mid­dle pan­el under shoes
  • +1 — Fold­ed cor­ner of rug, near the hole
  • +1 — Pot­ted plant/handkerchief
  • +1 — Remov­able brick
  • +1 — Low­er left cor­ner of win­dow
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter

Chapter 3: The Old Lady

Total: 11

  • +1 — Under branch, right side of tree
  • +1 — Locked pan­el on shelf
  • +1 — Low­er left of door frame to bed­room
  • +1 — Mid­dle black frame
  • +1 — Trash­can next to sink in kitchen
  • +1 — Mid­dle of upper cab­i­nets
  • +1 — Water stream at the lev­el of the sink
  • +1 — Low­er left cor­ner of bath­room door in the kitchen
  • +1 — Wall Pic­ture (Leaf icon does not show, but counter goes up)
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 1

Chapter 4: Trapped

Total: 7

  • +1 — Between base of toi­let and bath­tub
  • +1 — Cor­ner of tub with han­dle
  • +1 — Under cab­i­net doors
  • +1 — Low­er left cor­ner of mir­ror
  • +1 — Mid­dle of bath­tub (no cur­tain)
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 2

Chapter 5: The Wardrobe

Total: 4

  • +2 — In between fold­ed clothes #2 and #3
  • +1 — Fin­ish­ing chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 3

Chapter 6: The Door Downstairs

Total: 6

  • +1 — Pock­et of yel­low jack­et
  • +1 — Bot­tle at end of bed
  • +1 — Upper right cor­ner of mat­tress
  • +1 — Upper right leg of floor table
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner of glass door
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 7: Downstairs

Total: 7

Note: There’s more in the tea­room, but if you wait until the next chap­ter you can avoid run­ning into dia­logue while search­ing. Your choice

  • +1 — Upper left cor­ner of rug, near wall
  • +2 — Bot­tom right cor­ner of han­dle door
  • +1 — Bot­tom of post, 2nd from the top
  • +1 — Bot­tom right edge of rug
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 4

Chapter 8: Leave the Cabin

Total: 7

  • +1 — To the right of the left arm­rest
  • +1 — Low­er left leg of the tea table
  • +2 — Upper edge of the left padded chair
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner behind couch
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 5

Chapter 9: The Pond

Total: 1

+1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 10: The Well

Total: 3

  • +1 — Mid­dle of puz­zle
  • +1 — Mid-right between well and well-top (after puz­zle, but before leav­ing)
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 11: The Hallway

Total: 7

  • +1 — Key next to plant bed out­side
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner of wall
  • +1 — Low­er right cor­ner of door frame
  • +1 — Low­er left root of scale plant
  • +1 — Blob of root under floor hatch
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 6

Chapter 12: The Stairwell

Total: 11

  • +1 — On the Rag
  • +1 — Low­er left most cor­ner of lev­el
  • +2 — Low­er right-most cor­ner of lev­el
  • +2 — Upper right cor­ner of upper stairs
  • +2 — Bot­tom of pil­lar where rag was
  • +1 — Upper right por­tion of ban­nis­ter
  • +1 — Upper left por­tion of stairs (I just poked in the area a lot and got one)
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 13: The Red Leaf

Total: 2

  • +1 — Fin­ish Chap­ter
  • +1 — Bad End­ing 7

Chapter 14: The Adventure

Total: 9

  • +2 — Lock on door
  • +1 — Left cor­ner of desk #4, mid­dle
  • +2 — Left side of teacher’s dais
  • +1 — Left side of 2nd desk back, far left
  • +1 — Glue stick
  • +1 — Top of green desk
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 15: Another Person

Total: 2

  • +1 — Beiyue’s out­stretched fin­gers
  • +1 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 16: Run Away

Total: 6

  • +3 — Get caught and killed
  • +3 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 17: The Truth

Total: 3

  • +3 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 18: Back to the Cabin

Total: 3

  • +3 — Fin­ish chap­ter

Chapter 19: Bleeding Tree

Total: 6

  • +3 — Bad End­ing 9
  • +3 — Bad End­ing 10

Thank you for read­ing!

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DIY: Wood Porch Package Shelter with Solar Powered Camera

writ­ten 6/8/26; updat­ed 6/15/26

Overview

What

Shel­ter for pack­age deliv­ery

Why

Cov­ered area from the ele­ments for pack­ages

Time and Effort

Time: 2–3 Days

Effort: Mod­er­ate

Supplies, Equipment, and Cost

Bought Mate­r­i­al

Exte­ri­or Wood Screw Ass­rt Kit

Min­wax Wood Filler 16oz

XL Rec­tan­gu­lar Feet Rub­ber Bumpers

(0.59″ H x 3.00 L x 1.51″ W)

#10, 1½” Truss Head Wood Screws (80ct)

Tapo C400 Solar Out­door Cam­era Kit

Goril­la Water­proof Patch Seal Spray (x2)

Varathane One Step Stain+Spar Exte­ri­or

Sand­ed Ply­wood 23⁄32″ x 2′ x 4′ sheet

Woost­er Short­cut 2″ Paint­brush

Cost

$15.99

$11.98

$16.99

-

$9.99

$49.99

$29.92

$29.98

$28.20

$7.47

Total

$200.51

Owned Sup­plies

1x4 Wood

2x4 Wood

1x2 Wood

Masks

Eye Pro­tec­tion

Gloves

Hear­ing Pro­tec­tion

Impact Dri­ver

Drill Dri­ver

Cir­cu­lar Saw

Driver/Drill Bits

Wood Screws

Cord­ed Sander

Sand­pa­per

Squares

Pen­cil

Mea­sur­ing Tape

Spac­ers

Clamps

Work­ta­bles

Wet/Dry Vac

Option­al: Spring Loaded Cen­ter Punch, Rub­ber Shims

Schematics, Measurements, Wood Needed

These are the mea­sure­ments I end­ed up with. Feel free to make it to any desired dimen­sions for your space

Sor­ry, I’m ter­ri­ble at draw­ing per­spec­tive

Wood Used

Type/Size

2x4

1x4

1x2

-

Ply­wood 2′ x 4′ x

23⁄32″ Sheet

-

-

Misc

Length

22¼”

18″ & 14″

14″ & 22¼”

20½” & 1½”

18⅜” x 17″

6″ x 17″

4½” x 10½”

4½” x 7⅝”

4½” x ¼”

Amount

x4

x4(18″); x2(14″)

x2(14″); x2(22¼”)

x1(20½”); x3(1½”)

x1

x2

x1

x1

x1

Total Length

89″ (7.42′)

100″ (8.33′)

-

97½” (8.125′)

-

-

-

33.375″ (2.78′)

Scrap

Sum­ma­ry

Wood Prod­uct

2′ x 4 ‘x 8’

1′ x 4′ x 8

1′ x 2′ x 8

2′ x 4′ x 23⁄32″ Ply­wood Sheet

Amount Need­ed

1

1 + 0.33″ *

1 + 0.125″ *

1

*NOTE: So, could buy more or use just a lit­tle less in the the under­body and any place nobody will notice

Process

Dis­claimer: I am NOT a pro­fes­sion­al, just an ama­teur DIY­er. This is chron­i­cling how I went about com­plet­ing this dreamed-up idea

Planning, Measuring, Gathering Materials

  • Con­sid­er mea­sure­ments, dimen­sions, over­all shape, and any sup­port pieces need­ed for the desired loca­tion
  • Gath­er nec­es­sary mate­ri­als and equip­ment
  • Decide if a secu­ri­ty cam­era is desired: where/how to mount it, pow­er source, abil­i­ty to rotate remote­ly, stor­age options, sub­scrip­tion options, cord length, etc.
  • Decide upon fin­ish: stain/paint, seal­er, water­proof­ing, etc

Dry Assemble

  • Since it was going to sit out­side in the ele­ments, I want­ed to ele­vate it off the ground as well as pro­vide air­flow and drain­ing since it’s wood after all. For the spac­ers, I used some ran­dom pieces of dou­ble reflec­tive insu­la­tion that hap­pened to be the right size
  • Test­ing out the sup­ports and try­ing to decide if I want­ed them on the ground of rest­ing on the bot­tom cross-pieces

Plywood Cutting

SAFETY FIRST! It is high­ly rec­om­mend­ed to use eye pro­tec­tion, gloves, shoes, and hear­ing pro­tec­tion when using pow­er tools. You can even wear an apron to pre­vent a mess on your clothes. Also, cut­ting wood makes a huge mess, so plan accord­ing­ly.

Roof Panels

  • Ooo, this part made me real­ly ner­vous. The tricky part was try­ing to mea­sure how much is need­ed to have a straight mansard style roof (at least I think that’s what it’s called) that I was plan­ning for the project. After a lot of uncer­tain­ty, I just went for it.
  • I decid­ed to cut the side pieces first before the main large mid­dle piece. You can see in the right­most image that I was try­ing to cal­cu­late how much I’d need for the mid­dle one.

This unfor­tu­nate Spot­ted Lantern­fly nymph was in the way of my cut mid­dle roof pan­el and got squished.

Miter (Angled) Cuts with a Circular Saw

  • I don’t have a miter saw any­more. When I moved, I got rid of my nice com­pound miter saw thanks to lack of space and use. With no desire to buy a new one ($200–500!!), I found out that you can actu­al­ly use a cir­cu­lar saw to make angled cuts!!
  • Just find the release, set the angle, and voila!

Check that angled cut!! This was 45 degrees

  • With boost­ed con­fi­dence, I went ahead and made all the cuts that I had mea­sured out before, angled includ­ed, with the help of a speed square
  • Mis­take #1: Spa­tial stuff is not my forte. As it turns out, two 45-degree sur­faces togeth­er make a square… Which is not what I was going for. What I want­ed was a 45-degree sur­face mat­ed with a 90-degree sur­face. Whoops.
45-degrees mat­ed with 45-degrees
45-degrees mat­ed with 90-degrees

This image shows how the side pan­els have 90-degree sides and the mid­dle pan­el has 45-degree cuts.

  • Let’s set that aside for a lit­tle bit

Assembling the Base

  • Lay out and ori­ent the base as planned, ensur­ing the spaces are cor­rect
  • Flip it upside down, care­ful­ly, and fix the spac­ers again, mak­ing sure every­thing is ori­ent­ed cor­rect­ly (use a pen­cil to mark the wood)
  • Dry-fit the rub­ber feet to desired ori­en­ta­tion. I chose the long way

Note: Giv­en the size of my struc­ture, if I were to do it again, I’d spring for anoth­er 2–4 rub­ber feet. As I only have 4, if you push back­wards on the struc­ture, it tilts until it hits wood instead of being as sta­ble as I’d like it to be

  • Secure every­thing with clamps so they don’t move around
  • Grab screws (I used #8 ‑1¼” wood screws for the wood which comes with a bit)
  • Get the dri­ver with drill bit and impact dri­ver
  • Mark holes, mak­ing sure to leave room for the rub­ber feet
  • Secure the base togeth­er by first drilling pilot holes, then dri­ving in the screw
  • Secure rub­ber feet using appro­pri­ate­ly sized screws (mine were #10, 1½” Truss head Wood Screws)
  • Option­al­ly, use a spring-loaded cen­ter punch to help mark the holes

Secure Supports

Time to add the roof sup­ports. This not only holds the roof, but also adds sta­bil­i­ty to the base

  • Clamp to work­space
  • Decide where screws will go, and mark them
  • Drill pilot holes, then dri­ve in the screws with the impact. Don’t sink them into the wood until every­thing is in place. Can’t stress the pilot hole enough here.

Note: you may need to get cre­ative with the clamp if you don’t have one long enough. I end­ed up drilling one hole, then insert­ing one screw to bet­ter hold the wood in place to dri­ve in anoth­er before doing the rest

Assembling the Roof

  • Mis­take #2: Mis­cal­cu­la­tion of roof pan­el sizes

Yeeaaaaah… It’s too short (at this point, I’d already secured the pan­els togeth­er. I did­n’t write that out yet, because the sizes are wrong)

  • Now that I’ve com­plet­ed the project, I can now tell you that for the 26⅜” span of the com­plet­ed roof, I need­ed 6″ side pan­els x2, and an 18⅜” pan­el for the mid­dle. That’s a total of 30⅜” length of ply­wood (so, 26⅜ : 30⅜ ratio, which is an increase of 4″ com­pared to the span)

My Fix

  • Instead of hav­ing to cut a dif­fer­ent piece alto­geth­er, I decid­ed to do a bit of a Franken­stein job. The cos­met­ics would­n’t mat­ter for the roof, as I already planned to cov­er the entire thing with a rub­ber water­proof­ing
  • So, I cut an addi­tion to the mid­dle roof­ing piece, angled to attach togeth­er into a flat plane
  • After mulling over how to secure any of the roof to the struc­ture, I decid­ed to use a tech­nique that you nev­er see used in con­struc­tion of a roof for a good rea­son. Basi­cal­ly, I used pock­et holes to secure the miter-cut pan­els togeth­er and used wood glue to improve adhe­sion. With my lack of wood work­ing expe­ri­ence and skill, my attempt at this was pret­ty bad, but hey, it worked. See for your­self:

Assembling the Rest of the Roof

  • After some dry-fit­ting, more cuts were made, uti­liz­ing scrap wood to help sta­bi­lize the clamped struc­ture for trim­ming

It looks sooo baaaad. And it was hard to line the holes up. Again, pilot holes are 100% a must!!

  • After I real­ized that I’d made an error in the mea­sure­ments, I had to back out some of the screws, and then screwed in only 1 of the side roof sec­tions to the struc­ture to facil­i­tate the addi­tion of the rest of the roof and mea­sure­ments
  • Some dry-fit­ting, more cuts, uti­lized scrap wood to help sta­bi­lize the clamped struc­ture for trim­ming
  • To secure the big, heavy piece to the rest of the struc­ture, I need­ed to get cre­ative with how I’d sta­bi­lize it all to drill into the sup­ports
I used a chair, a buck­et, and many pieces of scrap wood
  • I used the Glue-and-Screw method along with longer screws, know­ing full well that all the weight would be press­ing into these 4 sup­ports
Glue
Screw
Real­ly long screw. It’s super hard to dri­ve in straight, so I just used 1 per sup­port and tried my best

Tip: I used a method where I would drill pilot holes, then dri­ve a screw part­ly in just so the tip sticks out, which can there­fore be “caught by” a pilot hole, then impact­ed in the rest of the way. This is help­ful if you have dif­fi­cul­ty see­ing how the holes line up togeth­er. You can see this in the mid­dle image above

  • Roof com­plete! It ain’t pret­ty, but it works!
Very bad look­ing
But, hey!
Super messed up on this one and did­n’t want to redo it

More Supports

To help fur­ther sta­bi­lize the struc­ture, I added side and roof sup­ports

Side Supports

  • Total of 4, using 1″ x 2″ wood, but only 3 for now

Roof Support

  • Dry fit, cut, glue, and screw (from bot­tom-up and top-down)

Camera Support

Camera Setup and Design

  • For the cam­era, I chose a sta­t­ic, solar-pow­ered one for this. Look­ing back, I kind of wish I’d cho­sen one that could be rotat­ed remote­ly, but this was cheap­er.
  • Find the mount­ing plate for the cam­era, and decide how it should be mount­ed on the struc­ture, tak­ing the cord attach­ment, length, and pow­er source into con­sid­er­a­tion
  • Set up the cam­era first, charg­ing it, con­fig­ur­ing it, and iron out any stor­age stuff
  • Dry fit every­thing, and deter­mine what is need­ed to secure it to the struc­ture
  • At this point, I lugged the unit out­side to ful­ly test the cam­era place­ment and make the deter­mi­na­tion for fur­ther mod­i­fi­ca­tions

Assembling the Camera Supports

  • Mis­take #3: Using small 2x4 blocks, and too large of screws
  • I want­ed the cam­era to set a lit­tle fur­ther back in a small, cov­ered alcove, if you will, so the width of a 2x4 was per­fect
  • Mea­sured, cut, drilled pilot holes, marked place­ment, then drove in screws…
  • …Only to find that the wood screws I bought were too big, the 2x4 too small and frag­ile:

So much for that

  • H’OKAY, THEN… just ply­wood it is
  • Mea­sure, cut, drill, screw part­way, place, screw ful­ly
  • Cut a tee­ny tiny bit of scrap to fill the lit­tle space between the roof and what juts out the back, then drill, and screw (glue, too, if desired)

Install Camera Mount

Note: In ret­ro­spect, I should have wait­ed until after the staining/sealing to do this because I end­ed up get­ting stain and seal­er all over the mount

  • Using either any pro­vid­ed tem­plates, or just a pen­cil, mark the holes
  • Choose appro­pri­ate screws and screw­driv­er
  • Dou­ble-check pic­ture on cam­era and hand access
  • Drill pilot holes, then screw in the mount

I men­tion “hand access” because you want to be able to remove, adjust, main­tain the cam­era, so if you can’t eas­i­ly loosen/tighten the mount attach­ment, then life just got more dif­fi­cult

Preliminary Clean-Up

  • Good time to tidy up equip­ment, mate­ri­als, and mess
  • Used the shop vac to clean off every­thing, includ­ing the unit
  • From here on out the only equip­ment need­ed will be sand­ing mate­ri­als, wood filler, sealant, and paint/stain stuff

Wood Filler

  • Using either a tack cloth or a damp tow­el, wipe any excess dust/wood par­ti­cles from the unit
  • Using a mix­ture of your hand and a put­ty knife, fill in holes and gaps with the wood filler. I start­ed with the put­ty knife but just end­ed up using my fin­gers. Gloves could be help­ful

Note: Wood filler can come in dif­fer­ent col­ors. If you’re choos­ing to use just a clearcoat seal­er, take this into con­sid­er­a­tion

  • Vac­u­um again. Wood filler is messier than I thought it would be

Sanding

My least favorite part of wood­work­ing

  • Wait until the wood filler is dry (read the instruc­tions, usu­al­ly 2 hours)
  • Sand the unit using a mix­ture of pow­ered ran­dom orbital sander and sand­pa­per for the hard­er to reach places
  • This will not only sand the rough areas smooth, but it will remove any pen­cil marks

Safe­ty first! Use eye and res­pi­ra­to­ry pro­tec­tion

Stain/Paint and Sealers

Safe­ty!! Seal­ers and stain are inhala­tion and spon­ta­neous fire haz­ards. Wear appro­pri­ate pro­tec­tion (eye, skin, res­pi­ra­to­ry), work in well-ven­ti­lat­ed areas (e.g. out­side), and have good dis­pos­al set­up ready (I always have a tray of water to sub­merge any stain-soaked equip­ment in)

Roof — Waterproof Sealer

  • I decid­ed to use Goril­la Brand Water­proof Patch + Seal because I’ve used it before on gal­va­nized met­al for an out­door dec­o­ra­tive item. It worked real­ly well and still with­stands sun and weath­er

Note: This prod­uct makes a mas­sive mess and smells ter­ri­ble. I rec­om­mend an apron, gloves, card­board bar­ri­ers, painter’s tape, pro­tec­tive work­space cov­er­ings, and work­ing out­side

  • With every­thing cov­ered well, and using a piece of card­board, spray away!
piece of card­board to catch over­spray

Before and After:

This is what hap­pens when you don’t use gloves. Since it’s water­proof, it was a night­mare to clean off. Wear gloves!!

  • I used an entire can on the first round, so I had to buy anoth­er one for the sec­ond round the next day. That means that it was able to cure overnight.
Wear­ing gloves this time

Stain + Spar Urethane

  • As the 2nd coat of roof seal­er was dry­ing, I decid­ed to just go ahead with the stain before the day heat­ed up (I was under­neath the deck, so there was shade)
  • I had the water tray set up to put every­thing the stain touched to pre­vent any spon­ta­neous fires (YES, they can cause fires, espe­cial­ly if you ball them up!!)
  • Gloves were real­ly nice not just for clean-up rea­sons, but to get stain where the paint­brush would­n’t reach well. You can also use a rag to apply the stain.
  • I did 2 coats (2‑hour dry in between with light sand­ing), and made sure to get 1 coat on the bot­tom of the unit, too
  • Remem­ber: Stain gets dark­er when ful­ly cured. I orig­i­nal­ly thought that the col­or was a bit light, then when I came to look the next day, it was as adver­tised on the can
Did­n’t end up using near­ly as much as I thought I would
Douse any­thing that has stain on it!!

Attach Camera

  • All that’s left to do now it to install the cam­era!
Just screws right in!

ALL DONE!!!

Notice the solar pan­el on the ground… Maybe I should secure it to a dif­fer­ent piece of wood?

Notes

  • You can put flow­ers on top. This was my orig­i­nal plan, but I need­ed to find a shal­low bowl pot to look bet­ter on top. This has not been done yet because the one I found is over $20 and I already spent enough on this darn thing
  • I used rub­ber shims to square up the feet
  • So far deliv­ery peo­ple have used it maybe 20% of the time which I find obnox­ious. Like­ly, it’s because they’d rather chuck my stuff up the stairs than actu­al­ly go up. The first per­son to use it was FedEx who put my stuff on top. *sigh* I think I might need to put up a sign? Did­n’t want to make it look more tacky

1 week later — Cracking

  • Went out and saw that after a week of super high heat and spon­ta­neous pow­er­ful storms, the roof seal­er was crack­ing and peel­ing!! It’s inter­est­ing to note that the shady side looks com­plete­ly fine, while the side that gets all the sun is crack­ing. Was it applied to heav­i­ly? Did it cure prop­er­ly? Def­i­nite­ly sun dam­age, though, because any video door­bell there will have its lens destroyed by sun with­in 1.5 years. I was super dis­ap­point­ed that it only made it 1 week.
  • In response, I quick­ly bought anoth­er Water­proof Patch & Seal, except this time it was a tape. This is the stuff that’s sup­posed to work under­wa­ter to seal off a leak.
  • Peel­ing off the pro­tec­tive plas­tic is a demon, but this will def­i­nite­ly not crack. I hope.
More peeled off as I was adding the new tape…
  • It does look a lit­tle janky, but what­ev­er. If I cared enough, I’d get anoth­er rub­ber­ized seal­er and cov­er this with that. Per­haps I’d try the paint-on kind this time instead of the spray which is so messy and glob­by. Will update if I end up doing that. I’m going to see how well this prod­uct works, first.