Call of Duty - Black Ops 7 - Ashes of the Damned

Call of Duty - Black Ops 7 - Ashes of the Damned

6 min read - 19 Nov, 2025

The latest installment of Treyarch's Zombies released on Friday 14th November and it has taken the Zombies community by storm. As of writing this there have only been 0.01% of xBox gamers whom have unlocked the easter egg, and it involves a new addition into the Ashes of the Damned called a wonder vehicle.

The steps to unlocking the Easter egg are:

  1. At spawn investigate the server room, there is a headphones on top of the server at the back, and melee the crate on the floor to collect Tedd's head.
  2. Take the large door to the right and head to Blackwater Lake and restore the power. Don't forget to get the spores from the kitchen.
  3. Follow the road past the ship to the town of Ashwood and restore power.
  4. If you have 2500 points get juggernug from the first floor of one of the buildings
  5. Go down to the garage and apply the pack-a-punch machine to the vehicle
  6. Drive to Vandorn Farm and Restore the Power
  7. There are a few extra things to do here, put the spores in the cow/horse carcass outside, it will have red spots on it.
  8. Use a throwing axe on the hanging zombie in the barn, once you hit it's right foot it will fall onto the ground. Then butn it with a molotov.
  9. Use the Saw Trap Outside the Barn to Kill a Ravager and collect the ravager Eyes
  10. Get the free wisp tea perk
  11. Drive to Exit 115 and Enter Reba's Diner, kill zombies until one drops a key, collect the Abomination carcass from the freezer and drive to the Ashwood and fit it.
  12. If you didn't get the free wisp tea perk then buy it via Cosmodrone.
  13. Drive to Janus Towers Plaza and Defeat the Uber Klaus, ensure you have at leeast a pap-1 weapon and Juggernog, collect the chip that he drops
  14. Go back to Ashwood up the right hand side Ascender, go through the door on the left enable Klaus by putting in the chip and use 2 stuns to wake him up. 
  15. On your way to Cosmodrone ensure you use the newly equipped heads on the car to lighning strike purple orbs in the fog to collect more chunks
  16. Go to Cosmodrone, and get Klause to unluck the wall panel to get the Aether Barrel buy doing a short lock down challenge.
  17. The next is time so do this route: Ashwood / Blackwater Lake / Vandorn farm, put the aether barrel in the statue in the basement in the barn.
  18. Get the symbols from the farm roofs
  19. Enter the symbols into the statue in the farm basement to start the wonder weapon lockdown
  20. Once you have the WW ensure you have Wisp Tea goto Ashwood, shoot the mirror and pull the box with the wonder weapon to get powder
  21. Take all these components to Cosmodrone, and take note of the symbols in the potion room. 
  22. Use this website to help with the cypher: https://codzombiessolver.com/ashes-of-the-damned/
  23. If you need limbs you will need to kill a bear with the laser beam using the vehicle.
  24. Complete the lockdown sequence, if on solo PAP the WW before going in.
  25. Obtain the Yellow, Red, and Green Keys from 3 different spawn points in 3 different areas in the fog
  26. TIPS: Stay in the vehicle as much as possible keep the vehicle close, and train zombies until you find the keys, they are well hidden but should glow.
  27. Go to Ashwood with each key and put them in the locked cuboid near the workbecnh to enable a cutscene after key 3
  28. On a lightning round, goto the diner (Exit 115) and revive all 3 zombies and place them in the lightning of their color.
  29. Launch the rocket using this site to solve the cipher: https://codzombiessolver.com/ashes-of-the-damned/
  30. Goto Blackwater lake and complete the reels step
  31. Get Boss Ready
  32. Interact with Klaus on the dock of the bay to enable the boss fight
  33. Drive ole Tessie from Blackwater to janus Towers, through the farm, through the ship, right at Ashwood to finish to step
  34. Simply beat the boss buy staying alive and using the vehicle to kill him, he's a beast.
  35. "When" you beat the boss, ensure you continue to respawn at black water lake, and collect the relic in the pond at end of the dock
  36. Well done, you have now unlocked Cursed mode.

Free Perks

Wisp Tea at The farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LumFNalul7Y

  1. Interact with TV until 2 twins show
  2. Interact with TV until 1 show
  3. Go into basement and interact with 1 twin
  4. Interact with TV until no twins show
  5. Interact with twins near the shed and get loot

Stamina Up Perk

  1. Bag of potatoes in the cellar/basement at farm
  2. Bag of beans in Hargroves Ashwood
  3. Jerry Can at the Workshop at the back at Exit 115
  4. Goto the diner and interact with the drinks machine to make the drink
  5. Drink it to get the perk

Juggernog

  1. collect plant from spawn
  2. milk bottle in the farmat spawn
  3. eggs on shelf at the diner
  4. make the drinks at the drinks machine

What is Zombies Cursed Mode?

Zombies Cursed mode is a more challenging Zombies experience, it has less guidance, and less indicators like zombie health and is meant to be an "old school" zombies challenge. Ther are 12 relics to collect, and at the moment, only 3 have been confirmed these are:

Dragon Wings

Shoot the purple glowing symbols by using launch pad from farm to janus Towers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg4EMvy5AWE

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cYevWxPsUUs

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w97oRBYdw18

 

Lawyers Pen

Found via reaching round 20 and above in Cursed.

You then have to shoot 3 candles around the map with napalm burst equipped

  1. Next to juggernog
  2. In the bedrrom at Farm
  3. In the house in the fog with the chess set in

Upon shooting all 3 return to farm and on the side of the barn a Relic Trial will be available Defeat 4 waves of mimics and HVT mimics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wb2m812bOM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyCAEpzqnaQ

Teddy Relic 

Find 10 Peeks around the map and shoot them with the WW while in Aether Shroud:
-On the first utility tower in Cosmodrome next to the Ashwood gate
-On the freeway sign on the Exit 115 bridge (ONLY SPAWNS STARTING IN ROUND 20)
-On the broken-down side of a church in Ashwood (image)
-On the right-side of "Support Systems" in Cosmodrome inside a barrier ontop of a machine
-On a ladder platform of the grain silo on the Farm
-In a toilet behind a barrier in the Cabin
-On the left-side of the archway in Janus Towers Plaza leading to the Monolith Forest
-Right top of cabin storage in the Lost Cabins
-On the underside of the shipwreck (image)
-On an unaccessible staircase right outside of Rabbit Alley in Ashwood (image)
2. Complete the trial at the Farm. Each weapon shot costs you 100 essence.

Blood Vials

Meteor rock

Vril sphere

Dragon Head

Samanthas Drawing

Tranzit Bus

 

 

 

 

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All about Ashes of the Damned and how to complete the easter egg plus cursed mode
Published Wednesday, 19 November 2025


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