Making a post at the behest of the chief janitor 😉

I found the solution by realizing that the duplicate invisible elevators are offset in space by a few meters (towards the lobby) and are rotated 180 degrees from their correct facing. The fix involves finding the console of the invisible duplicate and sending it away from its current location in the lobby. This will make the elevator visible again and allow access to the lobby. My thinking is that this process moves a duplicate out of the way and puts it back into a “queue” of functional elevators. I’ve tested this around a dozen times, and it has always fixed the problem.

Assuming you headed for the lobby and are now stuck, do the following:

(1) Walk through the door so you can see outside the elevator.

(2) Center yourself in the middle of the doorway, look straight ahead and a little down and to the right. You’re aiming for the invisible elevator console.

(3) Hold “F” and left click until the elevator moves. You should be able to hear a soft sound when you go over the console options (as you would in any other elevator console/ASOP terminal).

(4) Once you hit any of the options, you’ll hear the elevator engage and should see yourself moving and the space outside the station (because the walls are invisible…).

(5) You will now find yourself arriving on whatever floor you selected (on the invisible console) but will now be in a visible elevator.

(6) Take this elevator back to the lobby.

(7) You should be able to leave now, though you might need to repeat this process a few times in the event that there are multiple duplicates (my personal record is two duplicates).

Video for this process is attached below. Please note that since the first button I hit on the invisible console was for the lobby, I opted to send it to a different floor first just in case before heading back up. Then the process then repeated for the second duplicate.

The best thing about this is that you are fixing this for the entire server, at least until another duplicate is created.

Welcome back to Grim HEX!

P.S. As of 09/22 it seems that the duplicate elevators may occasionally be visible. The solution is identical (and slightly easier now that you can see what's going on). Head to the console past the doors and send it to a different floor before heading back up. Video for the visible version below.

Invisible version:

Visible version: