Die Maschine Easter Egg Solver

Step 1: Activate Power and Pack-a-Punch

Follow the prompts to activate power.
Go into the Dark Aether to activate Pack-a-Punch by following the prompts.

Step 2: Build the Aetheroscope

Retrieve the antenna from the area.
Retrieve the middle section in the area.
Retrieve the bottom section in the area.
Build the Aetheroscope on the bottom floor of the Particle Accelerator room, on a special crafting table behind the Pack-a-Punch machine.

Step 3: The Diary And Ghosts

Head to the Med Bay, where the Speed Cola perk machine is located.
Interact with the Anomaly and head into the Dark Aether.
Head into the Viewing Deck on the side, and pick up the diary near the terminal.
Run around the room until you find a blue orb, and interact with it.
Give the diary to the ghost that spawns in from the orb.
Head to the Trials room, and run around until you find another blue orb, and interact with it.
Give the diary to the ghost that spawns in from the orb.
Head to the Aetheroscope work bench, and interact with the blue orb.
Give the diary to the ghost that spawns in from the orb.

Step 4: Input the password

Head back to the real world, and head to the Med Bay, where the Speed Cola perk machine is located.
In the viewing deck, the terminal now will ask for a password.
Interact with the terminal, and input the password written on the desk to the right of the terminal.

Step 5: Obtain the D.I.E. Machine

Obtain a keycard by killing a Megaton.
In the Weapons Lab, open the locked cabinet using the keycard and obtain the D.I.E. Remote, which will emit a signal when close to the D.I.E. Machine.
Inside the Living Room, in the derelict bunker, there will be a locked room with a hole from which the player can see the D.I.E. Machine.
Interact with the machine, which will activate an alternate fire.
Lead Zombies near the room, to charge the weapon. The D.I.E. Remote will notify players when enough Zombies have been killed.
Interact with the machine again, which will cause it to fire, destroying the door, making the weapon available to be picked up.

Prerequisites

The following four steps require the base D.I.E. Machine to be obtained. Do not upgrade the wonder weapon before completing each of the four steps up until the final sub-step of each step. You can do these steps in any order you prefer.

Step 6: Obtain the D.I.E. Electrobolt

Head to the Pack-a-Punch machine, and behind it, there will be an anomaly spawned in.
Interact with the anomaly and head into the Dark Aether.
Run upstairs into the outside area, and look for three yellow crystals.
- One crystal is in the area.
- One crystal is in the area.
- One crystal is in the area.
Use the D.I.E. Machine's alternate fire to pull one crystal in.
Head to the Particle Accelerator room, and shoot the with the D.I.E. Machine, while it is charged with the yellow energy from the crystal.
Repeat this process for the other two crystals, shooting the same box each time.
The box will now open and you can activate the D.I.E. Electrobolt upgrade.

Step 7: Obtain the D.I.E. NOVA-5

Head into the Dark Aether, and then head to the area.
There, you should see a canister outside the map.
Use the D.I.E. Machine's alternate fire to pull the canister in.
Head to the Weapons Lab, where the Deadshot Daiquiri perk machine is located.
Head to the and place the canister inside it.
Wait for a Plaguehound round, and kill Plaguehounds right in front of the machine to charge the canister.
Head to the box with the vines in the Crash Site area, and place the canister on top of it.
Shoot the canister with any weapon.
The canister will explode and now you can activate the D.I.E. NOVA-5 upgrade.

Step 8: Obtain the D.I.E. Thermophasic

Head to the plane cockpit in the Crash Site area, and underneath it, shoot with a bullet weapon until it flips open.
Head to the Pond area, and interact with the anomaly near Quick Revive to enter the Dark Aether.
Head to the cockpit in the Crash Site area, where the cockpit is now flying in the air, and pick up the fuse inside the metal box that is now open.
Inside the Dark Aether, head to the Weapons Lab, near the Deadshot Daiquiri perk machine, and place the fuse inside the .
In the Pond area, in the back of a truck, there is now a you can interact with to activate the D.I.E. Thermophasic upgrade.

Step 9: Obtain the D.I.E. Cryo-Emitter

Head into the Dark Aether, and then head to the Mezzanine area, where you will find a just outside the map.
Shoot the wooden box with the D.I.E. Machine until it breaks.
Below, where the box was, there is now an empty flask that you have to pick up.
Wait for a Megaton to spawn in.
Head to the Pond area, where a with a fungus growing on it is located.
Stand near the fungus, so that the Megaton shoots in that direction and hit the fungus.
In the Dark Aether, place the flask underneath the fungus, and wait a minute or two or flip the round so you can retrieve the flask.
Back in the real world, head to the Med Bay, near Speed Cola, and interact with the on the ground.
You can now activate the D.I.E. Cryo-Emitter upgrade.

Prerequisites

The following step requires all four of the D.I.E. Machine upgrades to be obtained. You can switch between upgrades as much as you want.

Step 10: Shoot the Med Bay Canister

With the D.I.E. Electrobolt upgrade equipped shoot the of the large canister in the Med Bay.
With the D.I.E. NOVA-5 upgrade equipped, shoot the of the large canister in the Med Bay.
With the D.I.E. Thermophasic upgrade equipped, shoot the of the large canister in the Med Bay.
With the D.I.E. Cryo-Emitter upgrade equipped, shoot the of the large canister in the Med Bay.

Step 11: Get the Wrench

Outside the viewing room in the med bay, there is now a glowing red machine.
Take the Dark Aether portal in the Med Bay, and head to that machine.
Interact with the blue orb next to the machine.
Let the little cutscene play, and you will get teleported back to the real world.
Pick up the wrench from the ground in front of the machine.

Step 12: Shoot the Tank

Head into the Yard area, and look for a tank.
Use the Wrench on the side of that tank multiple times until a Zombies pops out of the top of the tank.
Kill the Zombie.
Use an explosive on top of the tank until the tank fires its cannon.

Step 13: Decontamination Agent

Head to the Crash Site, and grab the Decontamination Agent from the ground.
Take the Decontamination Agent back to the red glowing machine in the Med Bay.
Place the Decontamination Agent inside the machine.
Wait for a Megaton to spawn in.
Split the Megaton in half.
Feed each half of the Megaton to the Large Canister in the Med Bay area.
Head into the Viewing Deck, and interact with the terminal to start the purification process.

Step 14: Boss Fight

Head to the Living Room, where a Dark Aether portal is located.
Run around the room, in the Dark Aether, and look for a blue orb.
Interact with the blue orb to spawn in the ghost.
Wait for the dialogue to play.
In the real world, pick up the picture from where the ghost was standing in the Dark Aether, which will start the Boss Fight.
In the Particle Accelerator Room, protect Orlov from hordes of Zombies trying to attack him, in a lockdown phase, which consists the boss fight.

Step 15: Exfil

Once the boss fight has been completed, run to the exfil, while avoiding the blue bolts around the map.
Interact with the exfil helicopter to exfil and complete the Easter Egg.