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FF1?

I don't think that is appropriate for the game's theme.

I would join the idea that magic dances are probably the most effective form of trapping. The way I see it:
Pitbull-maze-window combo: cheap, but takes up lot's of space, and cheap to break too
Clocks: Cheap, but humongous, complicated and can be figured out (unless ofc it's made by an electricity nerd, lol)
Combination locks: Only effective at the middle of the house, as people will usually walk away from them given a chance. With some luck and a lot of saws, can be broken too
Commit gates: Can be broken, unless you make breaking them to be penalising.

Magic dances, however, can be effective from a 6x10 size. I usually make them to be inverted, so breaking them is actually bad for you. For example, they may disable a cat that would zap you at screenchange, or...something even better I would not tell .

I would say that the less complex your electricity system is, the better. If you have a long wire system that runs through your entire house that also means that that can be sawn through. I usually make "blocks" with different challenges, and try to keep electricity integral to those.

none. Since I'm alive on 79, and I have a new house on 81, than I must be dead on 80, but as you can see for yourself, that tape does not show me dying.

It shows the red ! in the top right corner, and nothing else until 93,5. the last thing you see is that I click on the "back to house" button.

I did not walk away, I was scared sh*tless testing a house that killed about 50 people .

I sent you my last 5 recordings, I think 80 or 81 should be the guilty ones.

edit: 6 recordings

Thanks boss! I love that idea with the powered trapdoor! It's soooo tempting to brick that chihuahua

I have my new house already, I'll make sure to implement some of your ideas. Many thanks!

I had this too, I know how you feel. I died when having a house that was worth 10k, and already had some lovely concrete and steel walls around, kept killing people like magic, as most of them had no idea what was coming for them

The following rules are to be adopted while testing your house:

1. If you don't touch your vault, and walk away, as you would do in a normal robbery, the game will take you back straight to the construction window, and your costs are NOT deducted from your funds yet. So you could build a house with 10443451423525 money, walk all the way to your vault, decide that you don't like it, and walk back to the entrance, redo the whole thing. (Of course, if your house lets you do that ). In other words: FUNDS ARE ONLY DEDUCTED AFTER A SUCCESSFUL SELF-TEST. This is a very nice feature of the game.

2. Use chihuahuas instead of pit bulls, red indicator lights instead of electric floors, green indicator lights instead of powered trapdoors AND powered doors, windows instead of pits, and don't give your wife a shotgun. Do a test-run with these safety precautions , and if you reach the vault (again, don't touch it!), walk all the way back, and redo your home, making ABSOLUTELY sure that you only exchange the aforementioned things with their lethal counterpart, and that you do the EXACT same things as last time. Do that every single time when your modify your home, you never know if you accidentally cut a circuit somewhere, or one of your wall circuits are touching the electric floor they shouldn't be touching. It won't cost you a penny.

3. Be paranoid. Seriously, I died so many times in this game, I don't take the slightest risk any more unless I'm DAMN sure I'm doing the right thing. If you have some nervousness as you walk up to your commitment trap, leave, check everything again, and than give it a go.

4. Test for all traps. Test if they would have killed you (obviously, with safe substitutes). Dying of your own traps is awkward, but robbers NOT dying of your own traps is even worse. Than finally, do a "solution" test run, doing the counting/magic dancing/pit bull mazing, or whatever you have in place, to see if you can reach your vault.

Hope that helps, enjoy your game!
J