krammer
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In the editor, wherever you place Beethro, he appears in the same position in every room on that level. This doesn't affect playing at all, but it is very confusing when Beethro is sitting in the middle of every room.

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Mattcrampy
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It DOES, however, affect monster placement. You can't delete these Beethros, and it's not possible to place monsters there. It doesn't affect play, but it does limit somewhat what can be dome with the room.

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eytanz
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It's possible to work around this by placing Beethro somewhere else, and returning him there (in the actual entrance room), later.

The entire beethro placement thing is weird, though - it's only really meaningful in the entrance room. Ideally, I think, you could turn any room into the entrance room by placing beethro there, but I'm assuming that the way dungeons are designed that's unfeasible - I think the second best solution would be only having the beethro tool show up when editing the entrance. But that's a feature request... The bug should be fixed regardless, of course.

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Schik
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In versions before this bug was introduced, you *could* change the entrance room by placing Beethro there. It would ask if that's what you wanted to do.

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eytanz
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Really? Cool - were those pre-beta versions? Or is my memory just faulty?

In any case, if the bug is disabling this behavior, it's a bigger bug than I thought.

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I could swear it was in a public beta. But then again, I could very well be mistaken.


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eytanz wrote:
Ideally, I think, you could turn any room into the entrance room by placing beethro there, but I'm assuming that the way dungeons are designed that's unfeasible - I think the second best solution would be only having the beethro tool show up when editing the entrance.

That's exactly how it works, except for the screwy duplicate Beethro bug, which will be entered shortly.

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It'll be fixed in build 26. That should fix all of this stuff.

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