Temple Console: room palette, Tablet Research bar, Run Temple

About this game

Developer: Grinding Gear Games · Publisher: Grinding Gear Games · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

The Fate of the Vaal league turns dungeon design into a board game played before the run. The Temple Console is a rotated stone diamond: you spend the left-hand palette (Halls, Guardhouse, Dynamo, Prosthetic Research) onto green-lit tiles, gold paths stitch the placed rooms into one connected temple, red Xs strike the branches that lead nowhere, and tier numerals under each room icon price what you have built. The selected room introduces itself in a single bar, 'TABLET RESEARCH / TABLETS VAULT TIER 1', so the grid never needs a separate inspector panel. Nothing here is a menu over the game; the console IS the game for this league, and its one commit button, 'RUN TEMPLE', waits at the bottom the whole time you plan. Frame at 0:48.0 in the Fate of the Vaal League Trailer (manual extraction; the scene-change pass extracted zero frames from this trailer).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

grid-overlay deployment-zone side-panel action-list

Components

Parts on screen.

Toolbar Grid List

Screen inventory

• header plaque 'TEMPLE CONSOLE' centred at the top of the screen, with a red X close button at its right end
• a diamond (45-degree rotated) stone grid: dark empty tiles, gold path tiles linking the rooms already placed, and green glowing tiles marking where a new room can go
• room palette sliding in from the left edge: HALLS, GUARDHOUSE, DYNAMO and PROSTHETIC RESEARCH (highlighted in gold), each row ending in a diamond room icon; a back-arrow tab sits above the list
• an info bar across the top of the grid naming the selected room: 'TABLET RESEARCH' with the sub-line 'TABLETS VAULT TIER 1'
• placed room icons carry tier numerals (II, III) beneath them, and red X marks cross out dead-end branches of the gold path network
• a white cursor arrow rests on the grid; an ornate 'RUN TEMPLE' button is centred at the bottom, the whole plan commits in one verb

Top 3 colors

#10100e 22%#040403 21%#0b0b09 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Grinding Gear Games, Path of Exile 2 screenshot: Return of the Ancients Official Trailer and Fate of the Vaal League Trailer (Steam), Grinding Gear Games, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Grinding Gear Games.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: manual extraction (manual-temple-tablet-48_0.png @ 48.0s, MD5 3b00c322a21a1be3d36ca300413c99ac) from the verified-clean curl-shim download of the Fate of the Vaal League Trailer (Steam), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); Temple Console header, room palette (Halls / Guardhouse / Dynamo / Prosthetic Research), 'TABLET RESEARCH, TABLETS VAULT TIER 1' bar, green placement tiles, tier II/III room icons and RUN TEMPLE button all legible; no trailer caption, watermark or logo overlays the frame

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