calamarain
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Has anyone else noticed the behaviour can get rather unusual when combining these three elements together? I've just made a rather cool brain room with a goblin and orthosquares (needing you to keep the brains alive for other reasons)... and I've noticed that often the brain cannot guide the goblin through the squares. It seems to get stuck halfway through in some cases, as it's trying to move diagonally but can't, it refuses to move at all.

However, this is not symmetric - I've noticed that a goblin can get through a certain arrangement of tiles going *upwards* trivially that he doesn't seem to be able to get through going downwards.

Is it OK to design a room around this quirk? (I've confirmed my room is possible, you just have to lead the goblin up to the top and push him down to the bottom rather than having him follow you to the bottom)

Is this a known behaviour quirk that brains cannot necessarily get a goblin through orthosquares? I'm using the most modern version of JtRH

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It's normal. Brains ignore orthosquares.

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calamarain
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Jeff_Ray... wrote:
It's normal. Brains ignore orthosquares.

...is it normal that I am now doing an evil mad scientist laugh and plotting out various rooms that take advantage of this? (with a warning scroll of course)

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calamarain wrote:

Jeff_Ray... wrote:
It's normal. Brains ignore orthosquares.

...is it normal that I am now doing an evil mad scientist laugh and plotting out various rooms that take advantage of this? (with a warning scroll of course)

Yeah, pretty normal. Most people forgo the warning scroll however.

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NiroZ wrote:

calamarain wrote:
...is it normal that I am now doing an evil mad scientist laugh and plotting out various rooms that take advantage of this? (with a warning scroll of course)

Yeah, pretty normal. Most people forgo the warning scroll however.

But what's the fun in torturing your victims unless they know they're being tortured?

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