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I've been playing around with briar quite a bit recently, and discovered some interesting things. Searching the forums led me to a fantastic discussion by TFMurphy, but I thought it was time to give the briar discussion a bit of an update.

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This is really cool :D Maybe I found the thing you forgot?

Gentryii and Gentryii chains behave exactly like walls/obstacles to Briar, which means an orthogonally oriented length of Gentryii will block off Briar while a diagonal one will see Briar growing straight across its chains on the diagonal. Lots of things can't move diagonally across Gentryii chains, so it's worth noting.

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Good call. I've edited the part about gentryii to include that, since things going across chains is pretty weird.

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mauvebutterfly wrote:
Good call. I've edited the part about gentryii to include that, since things going across chains is pretty weird.

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Briar's mechanics have also been covered pretty thoroughly in the Advanced Concepts 2 briar level, but it's good to get a refresher and especially see how briar interacts with DROD 5.0 elements. So thanks for putting in the hard work!

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