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1 water, two bricks.

This is the heart of the thing:

http://castledraft.com/editor/KoHbmW

This is called a D flip-flop. To use it, you connect a clock signal (http://castledraft.com/editor/iUYnu7) to the wire marked with a door. The vault marks the input wire. The shotgun marks the output wire. This circuit will copy the input level to the output at each clock pulse.

Hippasus has 8 of these set up in a loop, all connected to the same clock signal. So each of them copies the level the one behind had last turn.

In the bottom left of the picture you see one of these: http://castledraft.com/editor/ZRjDXK. This will generate a single 1-cycle pulse the first turn and activate one of the D flip-flops through its output side.

That won't work the way you want. Cutting the grates won't make the power activate because the inner oscillators (which everyone around here calls paradox circuits for some reason) are still connected to each others' inverted voltage gates. The outer oscillators don't do anything either.

Here's an example of the kind of thing you wanted to make: http://castledraft.com/editor/4S3pqM

When the current through the indicator lights is cut, the string of lights becomes powered from both sides. The switch is there so you can play with it in the house editor.

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joshwithguitar Today 10:09:03
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I think it's a win if you compare the sell value of the saws to the buy value of the gun.

Since I've died and had to start over three times this week (this may seem low until you consider I haven't been robbing), I've gotten a restart routine going. First, I build my starter house, which costs about $1400. I camp it for about 30 minutes while doing other things and reset the kill count to zero after every death. Once I have about $500 in bounties I add in a backup dog and some luxury walls and leave the house alone to do other things for ~8 hours. It accumulated $10k while I slept last night. It was at $30k yesterday after I got home from work (this must be a fluke; the design isn't that robust), but I lost the money to a testing death.

While I won't share the design I'm using, I will tell you the principles I follow when designing a house for this purpose.

- I use one dog for the family, placed so that they have to shoot it to pass.

- I only use one trap, but I make it as opaque as possible. I don't want any visitors to learn how the trap works, even if they die to it. My current one revolves around manipulating off screen cat movement.

- Expect people who figure out your traps to visit again. Every time someone figures out a way to pass my trap without tools, I change my starter house design.

- I try to make the house resistant to $2k of tools as soon as possible. For reference, with $2k a robber might have 5 saws, 20 dog treats, 20 water, 5 wire cutters, 13 bricks, 1 gun, 10 clubs,  10 doorstops, 1 ladder. The tools they are most likely to bring are dog treats, water, saws, and bricks.

- Until I can afford to make my walls saw resistant, I bluff. I make every accessible wall at least 2 thick so that they know there's more wood behind it.

Also, based on how confident you are in the design, you can deliberately make the house grow in value slower or faster. If you want the value to grow slower, put an intimidating commit gate right at the entrance. This will scare away the more cautious high bounties looking for an easy score, and keep the value growth slow until you start attracting suicide robbers. If you want the value to grow faster, make the starting screen as inviting as possible; make everything appear safe and predictable to lure people to their death.

If the feature is missing from the game, you can pull this off pretty easily using autohotkey.

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What if the robber could bring fewer stacks of tools? Say.. 6.

Then trap diversity would become much more punishing to wealthy robbers, but houses that pile tons of resources onto the same mechanic would be just as vulnerable as before.