Traps are really pointless if you think about it...

It would be more effective with downward plats

But that's true for all walls

 

This is a thread about traps not towers.

 

That is cancer and you know it

 

Towers are traps, from a certain perspective

poorly made towers are a waste of time/resources and can be turned against the builder

therefore not all traps are pointless

 

That looks hilarious

 

Why would anyone even fall for that trap? Knights will just destroy the platforms.

 

Made a super simple version with wood spikes - you could hop over it and I still got a few kills. people dumb, yo

 

Have to agree with most of this thread. Almost every trap is rather useless now in the game. While they work against the inexperienced, most end up being turned against you by smart players.

One use for traps, though, I feel does exist. If you're tunneling under the enemy base and enemy builder(s) and/or knights come at you, well placed spikes (on dirt/wood) can damage them or even kill them and allow you to continue on your way. The amount of kills I've gotten doing that is higher than with surface traps, and it only costs 30 stone (or a bit more if you place more spikes further back).

 

Small, easy-to-construct traps are useful in one specific context: To distract the enemy while they're fighting someone else (or, alternatively, to take advantage of this distraction.) Usually this amounts to just dropping some spikes in key places. Occasionally a sawmill with a trap block above it is also useful, provided you can put it someplace where the enemy won't be able to spare the time to think about it (like at the bottom of your wall.) The trap will never do anything on its own, but in a crowded map, if you can make the area nearly impossible for the enemy to fight in, it's worth devoting a few moments to dropping something there.

Another advantage to just dropping spikes in key places is that they can't be turned against you. Anything more elaborate than that is generally a waste, though.

 

you guys are just all bad at building traps

 

Daskew's Take on Traps

Most of the time it is better for a builder to do something else with his time and resources than making a trap.



However this ULTRA CHEAP one is efficient and can be applied very well in a competitive game:


(being made in this case by the user: @r0ber7)

Max cost:
Wood: 80
Stone: 44
Time to make: A few seconds

If a knight jumps into a fresh one, he can't escape before he dies even if he has a grenade to weaken it too.

• In fact I did a test where I went into the same trap twice as a knight and hacked away just one of the doors to escape and still knight number 2 was killed by it.

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SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Is it really not economical to potentially kill 2 (or more) knights and/or make the battlefield awkward for the enemy with just spending 80 wood and 44 stone?

 

I spammed them for a few days. I would spawn as builder, mine until I had 100 stone, and go. With a few seconds mining you can set up two of these. The wood tends to break the most, but if you have a tree farm the maintenance is negligible. If placed in high-traffic areas where a lot of falling happens, you can get a lot of cash quickly. They are also very good at causing ragequits. :-P

 

normally when i make traps i just lay a bunch of stone blocks everywhere then throw some spikes on them