SELF TEST SADNESS. Take a look inside my home

Nakula · 2014-04-18 13:41:00

My front page house, in all its glory, fell today by my own hands. i still cant figure out how it happend to be honest. i made some very slight changes before i did the self test, but none that messed with any wiring or positioning of animals (not on purpose at least). im heartbroken. ive decided to share my house with everyone here. i figure theres nothing to lose. people who are much better at the game have shared their houses, whats the danger in sharing mine. hopefully i can learn a thing or 2 from feedback. http://castledraft.com/editor/4obfu6 now i understand theres tons of wasted space here. i was getting around to doing a lot of rebuilding and putting the wife in a place that didnt take up so much room. anyway. please let me know what i can improve here CD community. THX

ill give a tiny walkthrough.

the idea here is to immediately walk to the door down, walk 1 space forward to get the dog in LOF (leap of faith) position, and swing all the way around and into the series of doors, and then to the last fire floor passage. theres a little trick here though. theres a 2nd dog that commits you exactly 14 steps into the house if you just go straight. this dog is also in position for a LOF, but the cat that turns off the fire floor switch also has a toggle switch next to him which must be OFF in order to complete the LOF. if you do the puzzle as intended, with the first dog, the cat will switch the toggle off. if you do it with the 2nd dog, it will be switched on and the LOF will work, but the powered door will stay closed. sort of a magic cat defense dance. this is actually right where i died. somehow electricity leaked into the toggle switch line, but i have no idea how because i didnt change them! grrr.

so once youve passed the LOF powered door, you just have to run down the path, and up so you can see the chihuahua and commence the magic dance down to the bottom. the whole fire floor here is a paradox circuit. enter past the last trap door commit, walk through the magically opened powered door, and thats it.

a lot more could have been done to this house, but i already was on the front page and i had about 50 saws. i was excited to get started with some high end robberies. the WOES of this fucking game i swear

Last edited by Nakula (2014-04-18 13:58:50)

HardKor · 2014-04-18 20:49:50

I made it far into this house, but have never completed a single doggy dance properly. If only 2k could buy me a crowbar I might have cracked it, but I am unable to complete dog dances properly. Good luck on your next life!

In case you were curious, I made it this far: http://castledraft.com/editor/rUzAip

Last edited by HardKor (2014-04-18 20:51:13)

mala · 2014-04-18 20:53:35

it's too late to take a good look at the house right now, but at first sight i've noticed an error in the upper cat trap

http://castledraft.com/editor/jGiwBk

the paradox here is useless since will transfer power from the front, thus cutting the electric floor in front of you is perfectly safe.
actually since the rear electric floor is not involved in the paradox you can safely cut it too and get out unharmed.

you want the cat to transfer power from the front and the paradox from behind, as a back up plan if someone try to cut the power between himself and the cat

here's a brief explanation:

http://castledraft.com/editor/LaRk49

the power will always flow from the side of the inverted trigger, never from the top.

so on your trap you'll need something like that

http://castledraft.com/editor/xuAXwY

still he can get out by cutting the rear electric floor now, but there are also ways to make the power to flow in both direction.

hope it's clear

edit.... i've just thought that maybe it's not a mistake, yet a good way to trick robbers aware of the paradox. But the wiring is too obvious, there's none on the rear electric floor so power cannot come from there.

Last edited by mala (2014-04-18 21:04:23)

Nakula · 2014-04-18 21:39:52

The paradox circuit with the cat was meant to only trigger if they sawed the wall to go up. My paradox with the chihuahua is more of a proper paradox. The cat one was made to mislead. Although speaking of paradox circuits, I've yet to figure out how to make one that kills you if cut in either direction

mala · 2014-04-19 05:30:31

Nakula wrote:

The paradox circuit with the cat was meant to only trigger if they sawed the wall to go up. My paradox with the chihuahua is more of a proper paradox. The cat one was made to mislead. Although speaking of paradox circuits, I've yet to figure out how to make one that kills you if cut in either direction

http://castledraft.com/editor/foVNCy

here you go, that should work

Last edited by mala (2014-04-19 05:30:55)

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