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Can the room be solved with 2 decoy, 1 decoy, or 0 decoys?



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Dragon Fogel
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Well, if you want to use the exit to the south, you'll need to do it without any decoys.

kevlinnn
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Okay, this is the last room I need on this level and I can't figure it out. Here's what I figure so far:

1) The left three tarstuff masses cannot be allowed to reach the 1x1 corridors.
2) The top three pressure plates must be pressed (by decoys or briar) and I must go light the fuse to the lower left bomb and destroy the tarstuff on the left side.
3) You can choose one of three "helper" packages on the bottom right. You can pick two decoys, decoy + fegundo, or fegundo + bomb + closing the briar off from the top pits.

The problem is the briar grows very slowly, with only one root. (Far slower than the tarstuffs on the left).
As the previous post suggested, I tried to activate yellow/red doors, and use the fegundo to speed briar growth, to no avail.

I am not trying to reach the southern exit.
I'm not sure what the Aumtlich/mirror can be useful for. (I just kill him).
The Fegundo doesn't seem that helpful, as you can't reach anything beyond the horizontal wall of south-facing arrows.
I also don't see any use for the three bombs north of the force arrow wall.

What can I do? Thanks!!

Red-XIII
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kevlinnn wrote:
I'm not sure what the Aumtlich/mirror can be useful for. (I just kill him).
The Fegundo doesn't seem that helpful, as you can't reach anything beyond the horizontal wall of south-facing arrows.
I also don't see any use for the three bombs north of the force arrow wall.

What can I do? Thanks!!

First of all, there are several solutions to this room, but the main point is to speed up the briar growth.
- You could use the fegundo to burn the "red briar", which is accessible after the first growth.
- You could use the aumtlich to lite the fuses, or you could use the decoy for that. The bombs destroy the red briar (see screen attached) such that the turns needed for the briar to grow are lowered.
- Also, when the red briar reaches the open doors, you can close them to speed up the growth.
- In addition, you can prevent briar to connect with other briar, such that there are less roots in the following cycle.
- Finally, you could even place two decoys in the northern plates, so that you have more time.

I intentionally put all of these things to let the player choose the strategy he prefers.

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kevlinnn
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Red-XIII wrote:
I intentionally put all of these things to let the player choose the strategy he prefers.

Finally got it. Thanks for the response!
Ended up using two decoys, one for the center bomb and one to the top pressure plate.