swann_88
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is there any way to change a room from entrance to another position?

eytanz
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Just place Beethro (from the monster tab) in the new entrance room. You'll get a dialog asking you to confirm moving the entrance.

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swann_88
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thanks
this really helps with testing (debugging? )

TripleM
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Did you know that in the editor, if you push F5 then click a square you can playtest that level with beethro starting on that square?

(I didn't know that for a while, and was playing through all my rooms to get through to the one I wanted to test).

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I didn't know that for quite a while too. However, it's probably better to test things in the real game, because in the editor, sometimes you can miss an impossible room.

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eytanz
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I find it best in the editor, to test rooms by using F5 to place Beethro near the exit of the previous room. That way, I can test the room coming in, just like in a normal game, and can't accidently spoil timing puzzles by putting Beethro on the wrong square or something.

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DiMono
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Something I've been doing recently is putting Beethro where he'll be in one or two turns, and then waiting the number of turns it would take him to get there. For some of my rooms, where it's just not reasonable for me to start from the previous room without defeating it first, this saves me some frustration.

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eytanz
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That doesn't always work (since monsters might end up in different places if you aren't positioned the same way relative to their starting positions).

In rooms where I really can't place Beethro at the exit, I normally copy the room to be tested and place a blank room near it. In fact, when I build most of my rooms (not the interlocking ones, obviously), I tend to build them apart from other rooms and then copy and past them to their final position as necessary.

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The_Red_Hawk
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eytanz wrote:
That doesn't always work (since monsters might end up in different places if you aren't positioned the same way relative to their starting positions).

Yes, I agree. This has broken one or two rooms in Deep Hold. It also can disrupt the spawn cycle, which can be important in some rooms.

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