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From what I know this person had been getting in some good scouts on two accounts per day.
He/she ended up getting half way through the dog wall in the center of the map and found one of the vault locations in a last ditch panic run. Grats to whoever this was.

House will be in a broken state until I get time to move the vault to a new location.

Is there a reason you aren't on the house directory listing?

Ah. I hope you weren't dying to the entrance. But yeah, you've gotten decently far in. I'm not sure which runners are you so I'm not sure on how many branches you've explored yet. Your last run should set you up to explore more though

Last person to come with wirecutters and a lot of walking up and down.

Ouch

Back in my robbery days in the lives before Jensen, I played with that southern Cat for a bit. Nice house.

My line is $4k. Stay above $4k and you should have a stream of visitors until $10k. Then spend $6k on upgrades.

Pros can hit you any time. Although not having a set of paintings helps deter them. And even if they do, it's not like your starter place can't be easily rebuilt off the back of lower tier robbery.

Guess he's still using the powered door maze. You bring excess crowbars again?

Welcome to the forums Yoda.

You'll learn more and faster if you visit everyone, record their designs and figure out how they work by mimicking solving them in self test. It order to understand how to stop a robber, you must at least know how they think and being one is the best way. If you haven't used castledraft and robbed a house through multiple visits over a few days, then you really haven't robbed yet.

When you finally have learned what you needed to get past one house by visiting and figuring out small parts of many, you'll have the knowledge and the bankroll to start your own.

So... Come rob us.

As I stated in the guide I wrote, I not fond of combo locks or clock because of the space they take up. Leaps of faith are so compact, require a pet, and are based on timing. For all these reasons, they are my bread and butter.

At the core it's a "magic dance." I really dislike the term "magic dance" though. Both leap of faith, and magic dances use pets to push buttons for a robber to advance. I'd rather call it pet manipulation, but no need to rework an established term. I think it was only referred to as "magic" because people couldn't understand how it was done.

You are just missing the knowledge of pet movement. If you don't understand how pets move in relation to the robber, you should really play around in self test using windows. Then try to figure out pet movement priority, causes some pets to stay in place or move apart depending on the direction. This is all something you can play around in self test with. Once you understand how to move them, you can then use them to be required to push buttons for you that you can't when going through an area.

Along with understanding power flow that you already know, you pretty much have everything you need to create something similar. Just place your trapdoor and electric floor somewhere, then put a power button somewhere unreachable but reachable for a pet and viola, instant trap.

From a robbers perspective, you have know when buttons trigger to figure out the no tool solution.

Hopefully I've inspired you to play around in self test. Even if you have an already established house, you can still play around in self test. I usually clear my front, then surround it with panic buttons so stray dogs can't chase me, then setup lights to test things out. Good Luck

I'm with ya. I feel like some of the electronics are over my head.

EDIT, cleaned up the images and used a slice tool to get it evenly spaced.
Note about images. There are 6 rows and 6 columns and I'll be referring to each image by RowCol

Revealed 5x5 squares to start off: Row1Col1  and Row1Col2

Revealed 5x5 square for 10 kills: Row2Col1