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My Published Holds
Smitemasters' Selection - Finding the First Truth
Smitemasters' Selection - Treacle Stew
My YouTube Channel - Leylite

Holds I contributed levels to

Advanced Concepts
Advanced Concepts 2
Blind Race #1: On Your Marks
The Custom Element Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Contest Compilation
DROD Flash Project Audition
DROD History Month
Elemental Showcase
Elemental Showcase 5.0
Good, Bad and Ugly Contest Compilation
King Dugan's Alternate Reality
Labyrinth of Mellenfral (unpublished contest compilation)
Lunchbreak Special
Lunchbreak Special 2 (unpublished contest compilation)
Take Five
The Mining Business
Twelve Days of Christmas
Way Forward

Holds in the Making

...MYSTERY PROJECT

Styles

Workshop - DROD 5.0
Voids - DROD 3.0
Cavern Redux - DROD 2.0
Laboratory - DROD AE
Snakepit - DROD AE
Twenty-Sixth Level - DROD AE

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My Published Holds
Smitemasters' Selection - Finding the First Truth
Smitemasters' Selection - Treacle Stew
My YouTube Channel - Leylite

Holds I contributed levels to

Advanced Concepts
Advanced Concepts 2
Blind Race #1: On Your Marks
The Custom Element Contest Compilation
Doorless Hold Contest Compilation
DROD Flash Project Audition
DROD History Month
Elemental Showcase
Elemental Showcase 5.0
Good, Bad and Ugly Contest Compilation
King Dugan's Alternate Reality
Labyrinth of Mellenfral (unpublished contest compilation)
Lunchbreak Special
Lunchbreak Special 2 (unpublished contest compilation)
Take Five
The Mining Business
Twelve Days of Christmas
Way Forward

Holds in the Making

...MYSTERY PROJECT

Styles

Workshop - DROD 5.0
Voids - DROD 3.0
Cavern Redux - DROD 2.0
Laboratory - DROD AE
Snakepit - DROD AE
Twenty-Sixth Level - DROD AE

×1N: The orbs now activate the arrows leading to the secret room.

1N1E: A green door now blocks the exit, preventing people from passing through the room without completing it and thus getting high scores in that way.

×1W: I changed the fegundo order, but I'm not sure that I like the new version. It's now much easier to trigger the first explosion, but you can still end up with an ordering problem later on during execution anyway. I may change it back. If people find it unfair, I could put a hint scroll telling people that the middle fegundo needs to be blown up first due to movement order.

1N: I removed a lot of hot tiles from this room, making it slightly less trivial. It's still probably the easiest room in the hold, but at least it requires figuring out something now.

I will check the scripting for the challenges in 1S and 1S1E after reviewing the demos, but I'm not at all surprised that there are some bugs there. 1S1E in particular was more complicated to set up than any other scripting I have ever done.

×2S2E: I replaced this room entirely. The new room facilitates backtracking and is much less cluttered visually. Hopefully it makes for a better puzzle overall.

1S2E: I agree that this room is significantly harder than the others on this level. I have temporarily copied it to 2E as an unrequired room in case testers want to play the original version, and I have replaced the room at 1S2E with a similar puzzle that should demand much less precision.

×I started adding a new room at 3S1W, but since I wanted to get this update out tonight, the room is still unfinished. I left a scroll there saying as much, but if people want to play around with it I guess they can. It should be pretty easy at the moment, but is completely untested so I could be wrong and I haven't tested a solution for it yet.

×step on the plate on the 9th turn of the construct's regeneration cycle

×and found that if you start at the north entrance and hit the plate as quickly as possible, and then correct for a single timing issue during execution, you get the right turn to start from. It takes one additional pass to get to the correct starting time from the east entrance. However, starting from zero and trying to work it out from there leads to a dead end after 4 corrections.

I guess I made some bad assumptions when initially testing the room.

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1N: Added a force arrow to prevent unintended use of mimic to kill rattlesnakes.

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1W: Reverted fegundo movement order to original pattern.

1S: Removed debugging speech from challenge and modified western exit so that hitting the beacon and then clearing the room won't allow you to enter the room from the west and then kill all the guards with your sword.

2S: Fixed the builders so that you can now no longer turn your sword twice on one of the pressure plates. I believe that the issue was that there was a path through a relay station and the citizen hadn't "timed-out" his pathfinding yet. I could no longer replicate this issue after adding some walls to the structure, so hopefully it is fixed now.

1S1E: No changes, but I haven't forgotten about this. Still looking into the challenge bug.

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2S1E: Modified this room so that no matter when you step on the pressure plate the fuse and construct still start at the intended time. No hint scroll required.

3S4E: Added a checkpoint on the island with the decoy potions.

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Moved 1S1E to 1S1W, flipped the room, and made a few modifications to simplify the adder movement since it isn't intended to be the point of the puzzle. Also added a green gate to prevent hitting the beacon and then getting stuck after taking the secret entrance.

Moved 1S1W to 1S2W and marked the room as secret.

3S1W: Completed this room and added a challenge.

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l4:
looks like this is about remote manipulation of mimics and stalwarts. Personally I think this sort of theme could be slightly annoying (but that might just be me).
1N,2N didn't really need the stalwart, probably did something wrong.
3N1E: didn't try non-challenge. Solution to reach secret entrance seems very fiddly, but I guess it's ok for a secret.
2N1E: very chaotic, not sure if challenge is done in intended way.
1N1E: Saved a mimic potion. Didn't even realize it was going to happen until the stalwart started doing funny stalwart turning things.
2N1W: A neat little room. Looked like i'd need three mimics, but done in a way so I wouldn't.

L5:
1E neat room, it's pretty fun to try minimizing the number of trips you need.
2S1E: pretty simple room. I think it might be interesting to have more fail states, since you can use some cool snake tricks to get very fine control over the snake's movements.
3S1W: not too hard, didn't try it without the challenge, but I suppose the room is probably possible without stepping on any tokens.
2S1W: I'm pretty sure I was supposed to drop that one trapdoor, but I didn't need to.
1S: this is reachable and exitable without the western broken wall passage, not sure if you actually need or want that passage at all since I like the platform based approach more.
1S1W: pretty clear which plate I couldn't touch. also not sure if I did the secret access the correct way, I'm guessing not. It's pretty hard to pull off what I did, so it wouldn't really hurt to ignore it.
1S2W: I doubt this is intended, but it was the first thing that I managed to get working.

×Level 2:
1S1E: Fixed the challenge (again, hopefully for real this time.)

Level 4:
1E: Added a pressure plate to enforce using a mimic to deal with the southern mud baby when attempting the challenge.
1N1E: Added a force arrow under the mud baby. Hopefully this will enforce the intended mimic and stalwart interaction for this room.
2N: Added force arrows to hopefully make the stalwart’s help necessary.
2N1E: Added a mechanism to enforce keeping all the builders alive for the challenge.
3N2E: Added mechanisms to enforce hitting certain pairs of pressure plates simultaneously.
4N: Added an unreachable pressure plate and a door at the entrance, to enforce allowing the mud to grow at least once before clearing the room.

Level 5:
2S1E: Added a lot more platforms to require the player to exercise better adder control.

General:
Added checkpoints to the entrances of all levels that didn’t have them.

×Skell's idea generator: http://forum.caravelgames.com/ideasGenerator/view
Challenges Scoreboard: http://forum.caravelgames.com/challenges.php
Level map viewer: http://forum.caravelgames.com/map.php
Tactical DROD game: http://forum.caravelgames.com/tsspreview.php
(Note: Requires Flash)
Room Element Search tool http://forum.caravelgames.com/roomsearch.php
(Search through all published holds for rooms with various elements.)
Room position Heat Map http://forum.caravelgames.com/heatmap.php
DROD has a wiki! http://drod.wikia.com/wiki/Deadly_Rooms_Of_Death_Wiki
Skell's super cool list of turn sequence stuff https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QS9Vk3xsd4jlGF23J8p7c2IM5cmhwmoe6eCEaaAn8jY/edit#heading=h.ocovx14zokm4

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I found a lot of the rooms in this level to be of the "guess and check" variety, which is okay I guess. A couple felt on the verge of magic move sequences, but mostly they were short enough to not be too annoying. There were some really nice linchpin rooms mixed in though. Unfortunately I think the elements here tend to lend themselves to fiddlier rooms.

2N: I mostly just brute force/guess & checked my way through this one since the possibility space was so small. Not a terrible room though.

1N1W: I liked this one a lot. There are a couple of pieces you need to put together. I figured how to block the guard with the fegundo pretty early on, but forgot that unbraining a guard was a thing so it took me a bit to figure that bit out. Neat room.

1N: This one also felt like it was mostly guess and check. It wasn't too long at least, but it definitely contributed to the feeling that this level had a lot of rooms that just involved random dancing.

1N1E: My experience with 1N didn't incline me to want to try this one. I'd encourage you to think about weather you really want both versions of this room. I haven't really tried it yet, and it may actually be significantly different from 1N, but my suspicion is that it's another heavy execution room that's just more of the same. Note: if you really like the harder version and want to leave it in, there's nothing wrong with just replacing 1N with 1N1E and leaving it marked as a secret.

2W: This was an outstanding room. My favorite on the level probably. I love the way you essentially have to work out a different technique for each of the guards, and how some of them are linked in ways that isn't immediately obvious when you first enter the room. Really nice room with an enjoyable level of complexity.

1W: Fairly straightforward room, but quite fun nonetheless. It's nice to have some rooms like this mixed in.

1E: I applaud you for making a room about citizens and fegundos that's somehow not horrible. I actually liked this one a lot. It helps that the execution wasn't too bad and that the paths of the citizens were fairly constrained.

2E: A decent monster maze that's fairly open ended. Again, I like the emphasis on fun and not excessive execution difficulty here.

1S1W: Got to this room from 1S and couldn't do anything. Looks like I'm supposed to get here from 1S by either saving two fegundos or saving one and making the last kill while exiting to the west. Neither of those looked particularly fun so I skipped this. Speaking of which.

1S: This wasn't too hard at least, but I feel like my solution was a bit of a mess. There was a little bit of strategy involved I guess, but I definitely wasn't motivated to try the challenge or secret room access.

1S1E: This was another guess and check room for me. The challenge felt like it wasn't that much harder than the normal solve. One thing I should point out is that the challenge does not require being able to exit the room in order to fire. It's not a huge deal, but in theory it makes it slightly easier than it could otherwise be.

2S: This room seemed okay. It went pretty quickly once I figured out what my options were.

×I generally liked this level a lot. Even though one of the themes was "race against construct regeneration", most of the rooms didn't actually feel that fiddly or execution heavy.

1E: Fairly straightforward room, but the similarity to 1S is a nice red herring.

2E: I'm close to a solution here, but I'm not quite there yet.

1S: Dancing the construct (or other flexible be lining monster) is an established trick at this point, but it was a nice application here with the tunnels that Beethro can walk on but the construct can't.

1S1E: The tunnels for navigating past this room are all pointing the wrong way, making navigation a bit of a pain since I have to move south on to a tunnel, then hit north to move south past it just to get through the room.

1S2E: Fun room. Not too heavy on the execution. I also didn't need the bombs in the end. I guess they were there more as obstacles.

2S1E: Still working on this one.

2S2E: The only room on this level that felt like it was all about execution and timing. It wasn't too bad though, I ended up enjoying this one, perhaps because it was left pretty open ended.

2S3E: This one felt on the easier side for the level. I mostly just guessed my way through. I imagine the challenge requires a bit more careful planning.

3S2E: Really nice room. I enjoyed this one a lot. Finding the right setup is an interesting puzzle, then figuring out how to exit is another nice one. Great room. Why the tar gate instead of wall at (21,7)?

3S3E: Took me a minute to parse what was going on. Not the simplest way to put in a room constraint of "don't bump north", nut I guess it is in keeping with the random roll you got for the level's theme.

3S4E: Yep, I know exactly how to do the challenge. I usually love the decoy dance that flexible be-lining monsters do and look forward to trying this one out as soon as the challenge scroll is put in a reasonable place instead of locked behind a green door for no reason. Other than that, as the other scroll implies this room is hard to parse but not too bad to actually do. I wonder if there's a way to clean things up a bit. For example, (16,8) has a pressure plate, force arrow, and power token all on the same tile.

4S3E: Really nice room, both the normal and secret exit version. (15,7) has a disarm token, force arrow, and green door. That's a lot for one tile and is going to be hard to read.

3S4E: This secret room is one of the least difficult rooms of the level. I liked the secret room access, and wouldn't want to lose that. I guess there's nothing wrong with having an easier secret room every once in a while.

×Skell's idea generator: http://forum.caravelgames.com/ideasGenerator/view
Challenges Scoreboard: http://forum.caravelgames.com/challenges.php
Level map viewer: http://forum.caravelgames.com/map.php
Tactical DROD game: http://forum.caravelgames.com/tsspreview.php
(Note: Requires Flash)
Room Element Search tool http://forum.caravelgames.com/roomsearch.php
(Search through all published holds for rooms with various elements.)
Room position Heat Map http://forum.caravelgames.com/heatmap.php
DROD has a wiki! http://drod.wikia.com/wiki/Deadly_Rooms_Of_Death_Wiki
Skell's super cool list of turn sequence stuff https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QS9Vk3xsd4jlGF23J8p7c2IM5cmhwmoe6eCEaaAn8jY/edit#heading=h.ocovx14zokm4

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×Fourth Level:
1N: replaced with a much more interesting room
1N1W: new room
1W: aesthetic modifications to accommodate 1N1W

Fifth Level:
3S1E: new room

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2N: To start this room, I cut at (4,12) and don't kill the baby that spawns at (4,11) with the mimic. This gets the stalwart into a safe position.

2N1W: You didn't specifically ask for a hint here, so I'm putting another secret tag.


3N2E: I can't really say too much about this one without providing a step-by-step solution. The first pair of pressure plates is a "gimme" since you can place the mimics where stepping on them is trivial. Check the connections for the other two pairs and then get the mimics to step on them simultaneously in sequence. This is a puzzle I actually designed outside of DROD for something else, so it's probably going to feel a bit weird.

2N1E: The mud baby is on a force arrow that will never be deactivated. Since it's impossible to get a mimic up there, the only thing that can kill the mud baby is...

3N1W: This secret is accessed by using a mimic multi-push. Firetraps only kill things at the end of the round, so if a mimic steps on to an active firetrap and another mimic pushes it off in the same turn, the mimic will survive.

To access the secret room, you need to

I think that the secret at 3N1W might be the hardest room in the hold at the moment though, and if you aren't good at mimic multi-pushing it might be a bit much. You're definitely welcome to try it though.

×I could clear tar without the switch, by pressing (19,10) and (15,14).

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Fifth Level:
1W: added a vision token
Entrance: cosmetic changes
1S1E: new room (from NaDRODArchMo)
2S: new room (from NaDRODArchMo)
3S: new room (from NaDRODArchMo)

Sixth Level:
Entrance: new level!
1N: new room (from NaDRODArchMo)

×November 17th, 2018:

First Level:
2N1E: Moved vision token so that optimisers can still use it.

Third Level:
3S4E: Moved challenge scroll to make it easily accessible from the start.

Fifth Level:
2S: Added regular ground to show room status on minimap.
3S1E: Added regular ground to show room status on minimap.
1S: Removed hint. This is a secret room, so it’s okay if it’s cruel and unusual.

Sixth Level:
Entrance: Added a seeding beacon and an explanatory scroll. Also added ice to the weapon swap widget.
1N: Fixed US and tweaked slayer scripting.
1N1W: new room

×September 4th, 2022:

Sixth Level:
Level Completed!
1N: Fixed a break.
According to my notes, all rooms here aside from 1N1W are new to this update.

Seventh Level:
New rooms at 1N, 1NW, 1W, 1S1W, 1S1E

×November 3rd, 2022:

Zeroth Level:
Added everything past the roach door. Eight new puzzle rooms in total.
Added stairs to Mastery Level.
Modified roach door room to only require 6 levels instead of 10.

Third Level:
Moved 2E to Mastery.

Fourth Level:
Deleted 1W; this room no longer exists.

Sixth Level:
Modified stairs down to send you back to Zeroth Level for convenience.

Mastery Level:
Imported from another version of the hold.
Alternate room at 2E on Third Level moved to 1N of Mastery Level.
Added commentary on a Fourth Level secret room.

Seventh Level:
Stairs now connect to and from Mastery Level.

×quite amused finding the secret through stairs !

×November 20th, 2022:

Zeroth Level:
2N1W: Fixed a break.
3W: Fixed an enforcement mechanism to make it possible to clear the room.
2W: Fixed a break.

Fourth Level:
3N1E: Removed the challenge. The level is about mimics and stalwarts, so a challenge to not use either goes against the theme of the level.

×This room involves an interaction that I don't see too often. The puff is essential here. The interaction is