# Advanced traps?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/advanced-traps/22464
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [January 12, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/advanced-traps/22464 "2020-01-12T23:52:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Everetti](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Robert_Everetti)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/advanced-traps/22464/1 "2020-01-12T23:52:22Z")
I think that having a new way of making traps would be neat, and increase the use of traps by making the process more fun.
I was thinking of having a separate menu a lot like the one used for vehicles, where you can link up different components that you place down manually, but on a limited grid. To link up a trigger to an object would require 1 rope per tile or something. Possibly making different components effect trigger chance too, having a wire linkage would be less likely to break than string and what-not.
Having higher trapping skill making the maximum number of parts in a tile seems fair, since you’d be more experienced in how much clearance X needs to work properly.
Allowing traps to “wield” weapons would be a nice use of all of the excess weapons that wind up being accumulated too, an M72 LAW hung above the door and rigged up to a tripwire isn’t all that bad of an idea in the cataclysm.
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### Author:  [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/advanced-traps/22464/2 "2020-01-13T16:21:19Z")
Nobody is interested in doing all this tremendous amount of work. You can try though.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Everetti](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Robert_Everetti)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2020, 10:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/advanced-traps/22464/3 "2020-01-13T22:16:08Z")
The more I’ve been on here the more I’ve seen references to tutorials, I’ll see what I can do, if I can do it!