Navigate the claustrophobic corridors of House of The Locust. Learn key navigation zones, door systems, randomized loot distributions, and the perimeter EXIT structure.
House of The Locust takes place inside a dark, multi-room residential building surrounded by security perimeter fencing. There is no official mini-map HUD. The house consists of four core navigational zones: the Starting Foyer (Flashlight pickup & ceiling drop), Interior Corridors & Living Quarters (cabinet search & 3-color cube pads), the Central Choke Points (patrolled by The Locust), and the Green EXIT Gate (wire fence & electronic terminal). Items randomize per round, meaning survival relies on landmark navigation rather than memorized room coordinates.
Initial player spawn area. Features the credenza table with the Flashlight and the ceiling release point for the Wire Cutter: solve the house puzzle and the tool appears here — a shape-matching room in the runs observed on 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-19, the older red, yellow and blue cube-and-pad puzzle before that.
Bedrooms, hallways, and kitchen spaces containing randomized cupboards and cabinets where the Key spawns, plus the puzzle area: shaped sockets for the transparent balls in the 2026-09 runs, colored floor pads in the older cube variant.
Central hallway nexus frequently patrolled by The Locust. High visual sightlines where players must crouch to dampen footsteps and break line-of-sight around door frames.
The perimeter security gate marked with prominent green EXIT signage. Blocked by a chain-link wire fence and card reader terminal leading to the escape cutscene.
Because House of The Locust provides no mini-map or compass interface, spatial orientation is maintained using environmental cues. The house interior is deliberately cloaked in shadow, requiring players to navigate via architectural anchors:
| System / Barrier | Required Tool / Action | Location on Map | Observed Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wire Fence Barrier | Wire Cutter | Perimeter EXIT Gate | Severing fence mesh removes physical collision block |
| Electronic Card Terminal | Electronic Keycard | Perimeter EXIT Gate | Swiping card unlocks the security gate door mechanism. Where the card sits depends on the house: newer house table, older builds on The Locust |
| Interior / Exit Door Locks | Physical Key | Cabinets / Storage (Disputed Role) | Disputed across community guides: unlocks interior rooms vs final lock |
| House Puzzle (Wire Cutter Release) | Triangle, Square & Circle Balls (2026-09) / Red, Yellow, Blue Cubes (older) | Multiple Residential Rooms | Placing all 3 pieces on their matching sockets releases the Wire Cutter |
Surviving the map relies on mastering the house's ambient detection systems:
Players must recognize whether they are in the default house mode or the alternate Lights Out variation:
Objective: Solve the house puzzle (a shape-matching room in the 2026-09 runs, colored cube-and-pad in older builds), search cabinets for Key, collect the Keycard (on a table in the newer house, on The Locust in older builds), and breach the green EXIT gate.
Check where the Keycard is this build →View Escape Walkthrough →Objective: Zero ambient illumination. Scavenge fuel cans across dark rooms and activate 5 electrical generators to restore exit power.
View Lights Out Guide →The house is not the only space in the game. Between runs the lobby decides which space you load into, and the current build's lobby is more explicit about that than earlier builds were. Roblox's own place record lists the current version as updated 2026-10-09 (read through the public games API on 2026-10-14, after the 2026-10-04 and 2026-09-19 builds this page previously recorded), and a current-build (BOILED ONE) recording from September 2026 shows four lobby entry points in that build:
That is the concrete answer to "is there a new map?": a second house is offered in the free-roam rotation, which is why videos and searches about a new or Boiled One map keep appearing even though the escape route documented on this site has not changed. The build history behind that September push is tracked on the Boiled One update page.
What stays unknown is what most of those searches are really asking: whether the NEW HOUSE is the Boiled One map, how many rooms it has, whether it keeps the same three-unlock EXIT chain, and whether any redeem code grants free-roam access. None of that is documented, and no room-by-room layout can be reproduced from outside the game. The lobby arches in your own server and the mode's own HUD are the authority — walk through the arch and read the objective the game prints.
The house perimeter walls, spawn foyer, and exit threshold are consistent architectural landmarks, but item placements (the puzzle pieces, cabinet keys) and the rooms holding the puzzle sockets randomize each round across candidate furniture and floor locations.
The green illuminated EXIT gate is located along the perimeter boundary of the house compound, blocked by a wire fence barrier and locked security terminal. It requires the Wire Cutter, Keycard, and Key (with disputed exit/interior role across builds) to breach.
No room is completely immune to The Locust. While dark storage alcoves and rooms out of visual line-of-sight offer temporary cover when crouching, The Locust patrols corridors dynamically. Hiding requires active audio monitoring rather than sitting permanently in one room.
The physical house geometry remains similar, but ambient illumination is removed, visibility is restricted to flashlight beam distance, and the primary objective shifts from tool scavenging to finding and fueling five electrical generators.
The game runs on the Boiled One build — Roblox's own place record lists the current version as updated 2026-10-09 (read through the public games API on 2026-10-14) — and the lobby offers two free-roam archways side by side: FREE ROAM MODE and FREE ROAM MODE [NEW HOUSE]. A current-build (BOILED ONE) recording from September 2026 shows both arches standing next to the PLAY and VIP areas, so a second house does exist in the free-roam rotation. What that house contains — whether it is the Boiled One map, whether its room count and puzzle match the original, whether the objective chain is the same — is not documented, and room-by-room layouts cannot be reproduced from outside the game. Walk through the lobby arches in your own server to see what that server offers.
Free Roam is the lobby mode family that sits beside the normal Play entry: the current build's lobby presents FREE ROAM MODE and FREE ROAM MODE [NEW HOUSE] as separate archways you walk through, with a PLAY area and a VIP purchase area on the same floor. It is chosen in the lobby rather than typed in as a redeem code — search autocomplete pairs 'free roam' with 'code', but a redeem code for free roam is not documented. The escape objectives described on this site (the three EXIT unlocks, or the generators in Lights Out) are written for Play runs; whether free roam keeps the same objective chain has not been shown.
