blorx1
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I have a new tarstuff Idea, it probably sucks and no one will use it but mabye a kind of tarstuff where you needed to have a sword on a flat part an outside and an inside part

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NiroZ
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You'll need to explain it a bit more, I'm not sure I understand.

And can you please get a different signature? There's children on this forum, and I don't think it's very appropriate.

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Proposals for new ideas for in-game features actually belong in "Feature Requests".

In this case, if what you're suggesting is a kind of tar/mud/gel hybrid which can only be cut if three different swords are on it in three different locations, I'm not sure that's a good idea. There aren't any game elements right now that require help for Beethro to kill (mimics, decoys, clones, stalwarts), and introducing one would run counter to the game's aesthetic, IMHO.

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It would also be extremely hard to introduce as a new element, since you couldn't make any puzzles with it that weren't fiendishly difficult. However, I'm sure that with intelligent use of pressure plates it's possible to make a puzzle where you have to get three swords in specific squares simultaneously with the current elements.

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Welcome to the forum blorx1!

Just because an idea is odd or unusual doesn't mean it sucks. Your idea there seems interesting but Nuntar said it would be fiendishly difficult to play around with. Maybe with some restrictions, it can be made into an easier-to-deal-with element that could be used in all difficulties of puzzles instead of just the hard ones.

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If that "flat, outside, inside" would destroy the entire tar blob, that could be kind of neat. Otherwise, I think that it would be quite unwieldy--especially with a mother.

If anything, as I don't like the whole "Beethro must have help" part of this idea either, I'd prefer to see tarstuff that can only be cut if it would make no babies, but be impenetrable on the corners. Combo tar/gel, but something (a sword/monster moving onto the position of the baby?) blocking the baby's production.

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