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Please can someone go over how exactly the gentryii chain moves with it's priorities and logic? That would be much appreciated.

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Nuntar
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This is just what I've worked out from observation, so I've probably missed a lot of details

First, the head moves like a roach, except that a move is treated as blocked if it can't find a valid move for the entire chain. Then, if the head is moving so it's no longer adjacent to the first chain square, that square will move to follow the head, and so on. This usually leads to the gentryii gradually straightening itself and evening out kinks.

If the head doesn't move, sometimes kinks will straighten by themselves, sometimes not. For instance, suppose these two gentryii have their heads blocked by wall to the east, and Beethro is directly east. The first will straighten itself out, the second will not.

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Nuntar wrote:
If the head doesn't move, sometimes kinks will straighten by themselves, sometimes not. For instance, suppose these two gentryii have their heads blocked by wall to the east, and Beethro is directly east. The first will straighten itself out, the second will not.

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The reason for that is in the first case the Gentryii is already at its full length, so it is blocked not by the wall but by the chain, in which case it pulls the chain and it straightens (bless the non-euclidean space).

In the second case the chain is not completely unrolled so it is the wall which blocks the Gentryii.

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Als, to really simplify the mechanics: the chain tries to move as little as possible. When Gentryii pulls the chain, it checks from the head till the tip of the tail and tries to move as few links as possible.

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