Shift At Midnight Jack in the Box: Find and Rewind the Music Box

Find the Jack-in-the-Box Music Box, rewind it correctly, and avoid losing the event during a Hunt.

Quick answer

  • 1Search as soon as the Music Box song begins.
  • 2Check low spots by shelves, aisles, checkout, and trash.
  • 3Face the box and interact until it disappears.
  • 4Rewind it before the song finishes three times.

Find the Jack-in-the-Box Music Box

The Shift At Midnight jack in the box becomes urgent the moment its song starts. Stop your current work, find the small Music Box near the floor, and rewind it before the song completes three times. If you keep checking customers, restocking, cleaning, or working the pumps, you can lose valuable search time.

The box is easy to miss because it blends into clutter. Lower your view and scan deliberately rather than searching at normal eye level.

1Stop your current task
2Search the nearby floor
3Find the interaction prompt
4Rewind the box
5Wait for it to disappear

Start with the closest part of the store, then expand your route if you do not see it right away:

  • Look along aisle floors and at shelf bases.
  • Check shelf ends, corners, and the base of the checkout area.
  • Inspect trash bags, bins, meat, traps, and other clutter carefully.
  • If the front area is clear, search through the back-room and bathroom-side routes before looping through the main aisle again.

Shift At Midnight: Where Is the Music Box?

The Shift At Midnight music box sits low to the ground, so the best search method is a steady floor-level sweep. It has been seen in the main store or aisle area and among clutter beside trash bins. Treat those as places to check early, not as the only spots worth searching.

Do not rely on the song to lead you straight to it. The music tells you the event is active, but a full search route is safer than trying to judge its direction or distance by sound.

A good habit is to clear each section before moving on:

  1. Scan the open floor.
  2. Follow the shelf bases from one end to the other.
  3. Check clutter piles and blind corners.
  4. Move to the next area only after you have looked down around its edges.

How to Rewind the Music Box

Once you locate the Jack-in-the-Box Music Box, move in until the interaction prompt appears. Face it directly, interact, and stay in place while the rewind finishes.

The important check is simple: the box must disappear. An interaction prompt or input sound alone does not mean the mechanic is over.

If the box remains after you interact:

  • Stay beside it instead of backing away.
  • Keep facing it directly.
  • Interact again and wait for it to vanish.
  • Do not return to other duties until it disappears.

You do not need to buy an item to rewind the Music Box.

Rewinding the box resolves the Music Box problem, but it may not end the Hunt if another threat is active. Once the box disappears, stay alert and deal with anything else still affecting the shift.

In co-op, split the job cleanly. Have one player search and rewind while the others keep active threats away from the search route. That lets the searcher focus on low shelf corners and clutter instead of trying to handle everything at once.

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