Less repetitive mansions

[dessometrics]

how hard would it be to overhaul mansions to be way less repetitive. I feel that options for like locked panic rooms, rooms hidden behind book cases, a garage with sports cars, BDSM room/drug room, bowling alley, ironman style power armor lab, etc would be awesome to stumble across compared to the house made of 6 bathrooms/kitchens/ empty bedrooms.

[Noctifer]

The mansions are made of 9 sections connected to each other. If many versions of each section are made then it might be as simple as adding it to their respective .json file.

[Dragometh]

Maybe something underground, just like the houses have, but with a hidden trigger and on a different level. Something about being able to find armories, labs and the sort with mid-to-end game gear. Or just make the hidden trigger ridiculously hard to find/make it not appear 100% of the time/make difficult(but reasonable) requirements for it to work, like a stat check or skill check(example: calling in a perception check while examining a bookcase to find a book or button that opens the way underground.)

Also, some kind of theme for the mansion would be sweet. I would love to barge in a mansion that actually have vampires living in it.

[Coolthulhu]

The problem with mansions is that they are hardcoded and can’t be directly ported to json because of “corrections”.
It’s the same problem as with labs: mansions and labs have rooms that are puzzle pieces (jsonable), but the connections between the pieces need hardcoded addition of doors or walls.

It is not trivial to design a “puzzle piece connector interface” for json mapgens. It’s not a hard problem either, but it’s just hard enough to keep the whole thing locked down.

[StopSignal]

There was someone making awesome mansions in the forum. Wasn’t it egomassive? How did that end up?