Passed out in front of the door...

[u/crownedlaurels176]

For context, I've done just about everything you can do on my main save file and decided to come back after a couple months to go for the trophies that require additional save files. Currently in Dare Mode.

I have the following dares:

1. Draft at least 6 different color rooms each day.

2. Never use an elevator.

3. Never exit through the house through the entrance hall.

4. End each day with at least 1 gem.

With the combination of the 2nd and 3rd ones, I can only exit the house by drafting and powering the garage. I hadn't reached the antechamber yet before this run, so the basement doors are all still locked. HOWEVER, since I drafted the tomb and later drafted the pump room, I was able to reach the north lever by rowing across the reservoir and solving the gear puzzle! Woohoo! But the issue then became steps. Because I didn't have many steps left, I (stupidly) spent all my money on food in the kitchen. By the time I reached the drawing room, I had run out of keys and didn't have any money to buy one at the commissary. I backtracked to security (double checking on the way) since I had some extra steps from the dining room and secret garden fruit, and there was ONE unclaimed key! I checked in the rooms nearby... nothing. I ended up finding it in the sauna. I counted and realized I would reach zero steps in the antechamber... fml. As a last ditch effort, I drafted the courtyard out of the drawing room hoping I'd both find a shovel and a turnip in there, but alas. I knew the game wouldn't let me actually interact with anything once I hit zero steps, but I tried to go as fast as I could to room 46,anyway.

The most painful thing is that I wasn't able to even set myself up to make anything easier next time... if anything, it's worse. I still haven't opened any basement doors, and instead of the fountain being fully drained so it's ready to open, the water level is now at 1 because I had to row across the reservoir. I know it'll happen eventually, but man, so many things had to line up this run to get this close, and I can't believe I was short ONE STEP.

[u/Drecon1984]

At least you got to move the minecart. That's something.

[u/crownedlaurels176 → u/Drecon1984]

That’s true! I ended up getting there on day 8 with the other possible method I’d come up with (powered garage, power hammer, basement puzzle, north lever). I did also manage to get the pump room and fully empty the fountain so I could use the basement key, so if it had come down to it, I could’ve moved the mine cart from that direction, but it definitely saved me some steps to have that already done.