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This puzzle comes from the novylen minecraft server. The word “novylen” itself might be a clue or a key.

The puzzle itself is:

I am a word of six letters,
The start pull wagons,
My last two letters are the opposite of out,
Put me all together, and I'm what you can't live without.

Y ko o hwpn ix uzkfjrpi
Lk jtwddr uk gur oqf djimlq
Mj pbzz gfwfotdsjqi vt yjg
Jkx qtj yqq jcu vjg crrn yjqtkpi Yjcvcp dn

TDAE AE AN FY ABLPGY

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eUhzWEd1YzhLRURUZ3VkVnVtR3NnZlVlMSs4ZXViSkp6YW10UVhiUDRxST06OjU5d3S9mu93CTj9MHoIl8A=

The answer to the first section is “oxygen”. This has been confirmed by the creator of the puzzle.

We have not been able to progress further. One hypothesis is that each section needs to use the answer of the previous section to be solved. As such we tried various ciphers like caesar, vigener on the next section but with no luck. Oxygen having the atomic number 8 might help, but we were unable to use that information to decipher the second part.

The last line looks like base64 but it doesn’t seem to be.

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    $\begingroup$ oxygen, where the last two letters being "en", which is not the opposite of out... $\endgroup$
    – Stevo
    Commented Jul 27 at 8:37
  • $\begingroup$ The start pull wagons: ox; My last two letters are the opposite of out: in; I am a word of six letters: oxygin; Put me all together, and I'm what you can't live without: oxygen. $\endgroup$
    – anakojm
    Commented Jul 27 at 13:53
  • $\begingroup$ Well, the opposite of "out" in English is "in" in French, I guess. $\endgroup$
    – M Oehm
    Commented Jul 27 at 15:35
  • $\begingroup$ I don’t understand what you mean. $\endgroup$
    – anakojm
    Commented Jul 27 at 17:54
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    $\begingroup$ Based on the ambiguity of the first riddle, (in vs en, and the middle part not being clued), I worry that there is similar "fuzziness" in the remaining sections that will make them extremely difficult if not impossible to solve. $\endgroup$
    – GentlePurpleRain
    Commented Jul 29 at 15:59

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