also the room at the top right of the basement won't let me interreact with the machines i've killed all the monster i could see in the room unless there are more behind the orange crystals
There are four enemies in that room, three iron knights and the pale one. There are none behind those crystals, I wonder if something went wrong when they were killed. Did you loot the enemies after you killed them? I'll test this myself to see if I can get I run into the same problem.
Those are red crystals not orange ones. The red crystal to destroy those is in the same room when all four enemies are killed and you go through that sequence.
