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Great! Now if only there was an undo function...

Ooh, I just realised that the new "fill" function allows for the creation of multiple unique tiles: http://castledraft.com/editor/RsuuRz

I've been interested in Jason's games for a while now ever since my brother introduced me to Passage and Gravitation. I found out about the game when I was checking his site to see what new things he had come up with (months after the game was released).

One other game of Jason's that might interest people here is Primrose, a game I got into after most players had left. It is a free coloured tile based puzzle game that allows you to watch the games of other players including the top scoring games. It should appeal to those who enjoy the emergent trap building in this game as you can come up with strategies and designs beyond anything that Jason envisioned. If you do play, don't look straight at the top scoring games, instead try to figure things out for yourself first.

Otherwise, I think anyone who enjoys the electronics building in this game would really like SpaceChem if you haven't played it already.

Ok, I've done some experimenting and figured out a fast way to reproduce it. Start with the default house, pick a non-unique object from the palette and replace one of the family members or the vault with the object. Now use the tear-dropper on the same tile and try drawing with it. For me this always causes the error.

You can make that house a bit cheaper by getting rid of most of the power supplies:
http://castledraft.com/editor/2ZV0ey
Now at least you'll have some money to lure robbers with.

Because steal walls are no longer conductive. It's written in the OP under the first question:

"Steel walls no longer transmit power, use wired wooden walls instead."

You forgot to mention the fact that for my $14k I also got 4 nice paintings .Well, I did spend a fair bit more than $14k overall though - I accidentally went into Mr "Gibson"'s house instead once with a full set of tools and found that my lack of wire cutter meant I couldn't safely do anything.

Sadly I'm too paranoid to trust that "solving" a house won't get me killed - especially when there is a cat running loose through a house. Anyway, I might give it a go now...

I'll have to return at some point and see if I can figure out the cat herding puzzle...

Transmitter and receiver tiles would be way overpowered: image a house that  has a button connected to a receiver out the front and otherwise there is a wall of electric doors. The electric doors over the map in modular compartments with a receiver in the middle. If you input the right code on the button an electronic system in the corner sends a signal which opens all the doors. Inside one of the modules is the vault.

Well you can run power through the wall to an inverted switch that cuts power to the electric floors. Using wired floors the brute forcing cost will be fairly cheap though. One ladder costs as much as 18 water, so even if you have only one trapdoor and less than 17 electric floors it is better for it to default to "off" when cut.

The most simple way to do this is have it so that the alternating power from the clock runs through wooden walls in a similar way to the example I gave. As long the clock power is needed for the robber to pass trapdoors to get to the vault then cutting the wire should make the house "unsolvable" without brute-forcing.

Clocks are made using the games wiring. You can learn about how to use them from the guide on the wiki: http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/Clocks_Guide

The trick to avoiding clocks is to make sure you wait a few steps before stepping over wired floor. Clocks tend to act in cycles meaning that the trick to this house is to wait until the floors depower and move across them while they are off. You can learn the cycle lengths by visiting the house and watching them. Or, you can come in with water and take out the electric floor whenever it is powered.

I took out a few top 8 houses recently and a number had alive wives - making it a lot easier for them to rebuild after my robbery. As Mr Price I kept my children alive. And now that there is less excess money floating around keeping your family alive is much easier.

My advice is to just give it a serious go. Start your house with at least one dog guarding the family. Buy a shotgun and a second dog soon after so that you are safe from $2000 murderers. Every time you update add a few more pitbulls. You will be quite grateful next time your vault is robbed and you still have $1k + left over to rebuild.