Chapter 2: Old Site

Chapter 2: Old Site is the second chapter of Celeste. The chapter introduces several new objects, and is the first chapter to include a large amount of story content (detailed below). This chapter also introduces one character: Part of Madeline.

Start
The B-Side Cassette Tape for the chapter is located here.
 * Diamonds
 * Disappearing Platforms
 * Falling Platforms
 * Skull Binoculars
 * Smashable Walls
 * Spikes
 * Star Blocks
 * Strawberry fragments, small peg-like items that will form strawberries if the player collects all fragments on a screen without touching ground.

Intervention

 * Diamonds
 * Disappearing Platforms
 * Falling Platforms
 * Shields
 * Shield-Activated Platforms
 * Spikes
 * Springs
 * Star Blocks

Awake

 * Disappearing Platforms
 * Spikes
 * Springs

Crystal Heart
🇨🇱 The Crystal Heart is located in the first sub-chapter, Start.

Alternate Sides
The B-Side is divided into three sub-parts: Start, Combination Lock, and Dream Altar. The first sub-chapter, Start, includes three objects: Star Blocks, Spikes, and Diamonds. The second sub-chapter, Combination Lock, includes six objects: Star Blocks, Spikes, Shields, Shield-Activated Platforms, Diamonds, and Springs. The third sub-chapter, Dream Altar, includes five objects: Springs, Star Blocks, Spikes, Diamonds, and Skull Binoculars.

The C-Side includes seven objects: Star Blocks, Spikes, Springs, Shields, Shield-Activated Platforms, Skull Binoculars, and Diamonds. Note that this list of objects is nearly identical to the list of items in the B-Side sub-chapter Combination Lock, with the only difference in the objects list being that the C-Side has Skull Binoculars, which Combination Lock does not.

The B-Side and C-Side both place a heavy emphasis on the Star Block Jump maneuver, a maneuver where the player has to hit the jump key the moment that they touch the exiting edge of a Star Block, propelling the player both forwards and up. Most of the B-Side's screens (and all of the C-Side's screens) are impossible to navigate without using this maneuver.

Speedrunning Record Progression
Clear (2A):

B-Side (2B):

C-Side (2C):

Full Clear:

Major Strategies
The A-side version of the level contains the "cutscene warp" glitch, where, by being in a particular location at the moment a specific cutscene begins, then immediately skipping it, one can clip into the ceiling, saving about one second.

The B-side version contains an esoteric skip sometimes referred to as "altarskip", where 5-6 seconds can be saved with the use of a pixel-perfect diagonal demodash.