NoahT
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Prior to JtRH, fuses for bombs were intended to be cuttable by Beethro's sword, but the idea was dropped due to complications. Here I am suggesting that this idea be implemented using a second form of fuse which is destroyed when stabbed by any armed player's or character's weapon. For the sake of simplicity, they would still connect to regular fuses as if they were all one kind of fuse, but would be distinguishable visually in some way. This could allow for puzzles based on cutting fuses in right places, preventing fuses from being cut, taking advantage of the weapons of other characters, etc.

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slimm tom
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This is cool, but I would propose them to be only cuttable like one breaks mirrors, to make things more interesting, and one coul still cross a fuse without breaking it.

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NoahT wrote:
Prior to JtRH, fuses for bombs were intended to be cuttable by Beethro's sword, but the idea was dropped due to complications. Here I am suggesting that this idea be implemented using a second form of fuse which is destroyed when stabbed by any armed player's or character's weapon. For the sake of simplicity, they would still connect to regular fuses as if they were all one kind of fuse, but would be distinguishable visually in some way. This could allow for puzzles based on cutting fuses in right places, preventing fuses from being cut, taking advantage of the weapons of other characters, etc.

-Noah

Not a bad idea, but I think using the fuses would be annoying. You'd need to "strafe" over them to light them. It would be particularly easy to cut them by accident while moving.

Maybe if the fuse were cuttable only at marked junctures, or else have it so you can only cut internal segments and have to do it with a stabbing forward motion perpendicular to the fuse. Something like that would make it usable without being annoying. I think you can pretty much do most fuse-cutting puzzles already with one-tile yellow doors, though.

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slimm tom wrote:
This is cool, but I would propose them to be only cuttable like one breaks mirrors, to make things more interesting, and one coul still cross a fuse without breaking it.

Derp. I should read before I type.

Yeah, what slimm tom said.

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It exists already. It's called "fuse with a door underneath it, with an adjacent orb that opens/closes the door". It will be cut whenever someone hits that orb.