averagemoe
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Yeah, it turns out that when floor spikes or a fire trap destroy something, it's prosessed in a specific order. And I was able to figure out this order through checking the movement order of Tar Babies spawned when they destroy blobs.

The rules are remarkably simple. First every firetrap emits it's flame in a wave that starts in the lower right corner of the room, and travels upward in a vertical line until it reaches the top. Then the process is repeated for every column going from right to left. After this, if the threat clock is right, all the spikes spring with the exact same pattern.

So now I have to ask, why this order? It would have seemed more natural to start at the top and go horizontally from left to right first, then move down the rows as if reading a book.

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skell
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I've got bad news for you - tar stabs are queued and processed all at once at the end of the turn:

1. CDbRooms:rocessActiveFiretraps() calls ActivateFiretrap for every active firetrap
2. CDbRoom::ActivateFiretrap() calls CCurrentGame->StabRoomTile()
3. CCurrentGame::StabRoomTile() calls CDbRooms::StabTar() passing "false" as the fourth argument.
4. CDbRooms::StabTar(), when the fourth argument is false the tar is queued for later removal, which happens...
5. Here

Check steps 16, 20 and 23 in Deadly Rules of Death.

Note: I talked about firetraps here but the same thing happens with spikes. They are actually processed in insertion order, which will be row-by-row from top-left. When new spikes are built/firetraps area activated I am not entirely sure if they are added at the end of the list or not.

You can most likely verify that with a simple setup: one door, two orbs (one set to close, another to open), build the traps/spikes with scripting and see if the door is opened or closed at the end of the turn to know which orb was hit first.

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averagemoe
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Well, at any rate, this pattern determines the order that the tar stabs happen in.

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