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I haven't been able to get enough of this game since it came out on Steam but I noticed that it seems like any robber who's rich enough can bring a house down with virtually no risks.

Here's a thought: When the game used to allow robbers only 8 tools, people would just put up 9-thick walls, right? But building space is limited, and even if your vault were placed in one of the far right corners, it would take at most 44 steps (unless I miscounted) to walk straight there from the (un)welcome mat. If there were a solid wall 44 steps in one direction between the robber and the vault, it would need to be 45 spaces thick to prevent brute force, which is 50% wider than what space the builder has.

With that in mind let's say a robber could only carry a maximum of 50 tools altogether per trip. They would need to have a pretty accurate idea of where your vault is and how many of each tool they'd need to bring in order to carve a path straight to it, but they could always reach it without knowing a code of some kind. Then there's the possibility of, say, a few well-placed pit bulls that make it impossible to escape if the robber's loadout was enough to get anywhere near the vault in the first place.

Since the damages are undone after every trip, this would put a much greater emphasis on scouting and being resourceful as a robber. You may up using bombs/ladders/crowbars in the same places multiple times, only to find out you were going the wrong way all along. A clever homeowner might bait a robber into using up all of a certain tool thinking they'll make it, only to have them not make it and end up needing that tool to get back out.

Most importantly, a robber wouldn't be able to just barge in with 100+ bombs/ladders and 50+ guns/cutters and safely take the whole house apart in one trip, no matter how much money they have.