Talk:Traps/@comment-4689117-20111218035635

i had a really cool idea before i read anything on this page, The Rain Of Lava. Prototype 1 was wired stone blocks alternating so every other one was active and the rest were inactive and they were on a timer so they switched, and a strip of all active below it so it could be closed (i could turn the pump timer off but i put more lava than could fit in the drain.) I found out shortly after using it, the wired stone blocks eat the lava (which doesn't make sense to me because you could trap lava behind them so they are solid, but still burn things. you turn the inactive into active while there's lava in front of them.)

Prototype 2 almost worked, i liked how long it was because it was like a tank of lava and only every other block opened to release the lava. the lava went down a drain and got pumped back to the top. there were 2 downsides, well 3 if you count the item burning. the first one was the lava trapped behind the blocks, so when you try to jump to get up into my home, it burns you. lower level people would die on first contact. so you had to turn the pump timer off so the lava could fill up the lower tank and be out of the way of the wired stone. then you close it and start the timer again. the next downside was the lava multiplying (it did it in front of me, not just off screen)

with the glitch in prototype 2 forcing me to be the maintenance man and trowing some of the lava down my hellivator, i just decided to make the pool of lava that's thin enough to let items live and put some wired stone over it so it could be crossed.