Ok everyone, thanks for the replies, I get it. Working as intended and that intent is to be annoying as hell...

I'm experiencing what seems to be a bug with the Darkroom - it is not getting power when I draft it from an Electric Eel Aquarium. I see the blue power ducting activate but when I enter the Darkroom it trips the breaker just like it does when no power is applied.

I remember that this worked for me exactly once before in the game, where the power in the Darkroom stayed on when I entered from a powered room. But after that it has reverted to this behaviour.

Power passthrough is working, though as you can see in screenshot 3, I'm not able to see the room I'm drafting even though the power is going to it (so at least I cant tell it's a utility room that uses power).

This is a bug, right? Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding how powering the Darkroom is supposed to work?

blue paths is a lovely website that has just gotten me through the "XYZ-ABC" thing. (I was told my thinking was wrong by some people when I was right all along...) plotting the demise of filthy liars aside, I knew most of what to do from there. unscramble the book covers and figure out where to go from there.

I got all of them... except for the red prince. i thought it was exclusively library books.

then when decoding the message, I though the word for "the fixed stars" was "A" because I forgot to include the word "Preface" when figuring that out.

and I remembered seeing a sundial somewhere but for the life of me I couldn't remember where, so I continued, and it told me it was in the orchard (which I remember now)

as bad as I do feel about looking these up, I'd like to still say I figured it out myself. the sundial thing is something I *never* would've found a second time just given I haven't visited the orchard since turning on the gas there, and ruled it out as a place to ever return to.

so, would yall feel bad about using hints?

My game seems to be stuck and I don’t know how to fix it :(

DO NOT SCROLL IF YOU HAVE NOT FOUND THE ATTILLIER

So I was going over the 4 possible paths for the Attillier, being only following red, only following pink, only following orange, and the true path. These combined with the painting puzzles for each room they go through spell anagrams (I think thats the word) of the following words: Swansong (For blue) Oneself (For Purple), Mother (For orange), and Empty (For red). These words have the same number of letters as the gallery solutions, and I was wondering if anyone tried to put those words as the gallery solutions.

Outer Room?

Like, he could just go from Campsite > Private Drive > Grounds > West Gate Path.

Is he stupid?

so my boy just got a shelter in the outer room, set up an experiment to get +1 allowance when drafting a hallway from another hallway, he then got a westwing hall, above that a Foyer (which unlocks all hallway doors), and above that a tunnel, which led to 5 more tunnels. I didn't know you could draft a tunnel in a corner slot, but he did, and at the end of the tunnel was a blocked way, with 2 gems and an allowance Corarica Mora Jai Box! who knew?!

Unfortunately he's a numpty when it comes to drafting, so he managed to block up his entrances to the foundation, and then ran out of keys and only got to rank 6 elsewhere, so hasn't managed to open the antechamber to get a basement key whilst also being able to go down the foundation.... he's on day 39 and despite me helping him he's still not got into Rm 46...

My friend and I disagree on the pronunciation of Mora Jai. She pronounces the Jai with a hard J like “jive”. I’ve been pronouncing it like “hi”. I believe it’s pronounced “hi” because of how the sport Jai Alai is pronounced.
This is just for fun! I’m curious how other people pronounce it!

New player here, got around 6 hours in. Absolutely loved the game, it's borderline creepy at times yet also beautiful. Also i had this mental thought that despite the backroomish and creepy atmosphere at times, it won't go further than that.

Then i found the Rumpus Room. My first prophecy with Alzara is the one with the red cat with a flag. I thought "Hey this dude gives me clues in riddles, i should come here more often". Hell i even changes its rarity with the conservatory.

The second one is more helpful, i got the one with the car. At my first hour or two i found the car keys but didn't manage to find the garage so i got really excited when i eventually find it.

Then my third Rumpus Room came along. Inserted the coin, expecting my silhouette came up from the smoke

Instead it showed a guy with a hat? In front of the dark room? He opened a gate that i didn't open? Took an item that i didn't take?? Is the guy watching me rn in the room besides the Rumpus Room???

Alzara's monologue also didn't help, yessir i am very much afraid, panicking even

So can i encounter the mysterious person in real time or it's just something that's happening in the background?

I wasn't able to find this done through a basic search online, but I've been drafting Hallway after Hallway, and a thought occurred to me: is it possible to make an estate with nothing but orange rooms?

Of course, you'd have to allow for other orange rooms beyond the upgraded Hallway, but I really want to try to do this one day. Has anyone else done it/gotten close? This would require all possible rooms to be orange, which also requires a lot of Hallways, specifically the version that adds more Hallways to the draft.

I've reached room 46, but I'm still going through the late game content, so no spoilers please. I do have the Vestibule unlocked and know of the chess pieces' powers.

No spoilers for the holly door as I frankly haven't a clue and I'm enjoying that

I was on day three and knew I would be cutting it close. But by one minute is just cruel 😂 Back on the grind for the Trophy of Speed

WHERE is the foundation??

For context: I have found room 46. I have found an entrance to the underground/reservoir through the fountain, through the chamber of torches + Precipice, and through the Tomb. I can also get to the Basement through the sealed entrance.

Tonight I had a great run, where I almost filled my entire mansion with rooms, reached room 46 again, and I had a keycard + basement key. So I went back to the Basement, opened the second door, where I found an elevator button and a keycard pad. But after activating it... nothing happened.

I was so confused that I went to search about it, without spoiling too much. And apparently I need to first find the Foundation's elevator to be able to call it down. Thing is... I can not find any information on how to get to the Foundation.

I have 40+ hours on the game, ~30 runs, with almost every room found in the directory. But somehow I can't figure out how to get to this place.