Guide

Crossing a room with mines and lasers

How to get through a trapped room in R.E.P.O., given that the game ships more than one kind of mine, a trap whose activation level follows how rare its valuable is, and museum lasers kept as a system of their own.

Applies to

0.4.0, read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

• A crew that can keep clear of each other
• Something that can be thrown
• A way back out of the room

Steps

1. Find out which kind of mine you are looking at before you touch it.
   the game ships more than one kind, with a plain mine, a stun mine and a trigger of their own
2. Expect the trap near the best valuable to be the worst one.
   a trap's activation level follows how rare the valuable it guards is
3. Set a mine off with something thrown rather than with a body.
   a mine can be set off by rigid bodies and by forces
4. Listen for the arming and disarming beeps rather than watching for a light.
   a mine names its arming, armed and disarming sounds separately
5. Treat the museum's lasers as one system rather than as separate beams.
   the museum keeps its security lasers as a system with a state and logic of their own

Common mistakes

• Walking into a room before reading which mines are in it.
• Throwing the valuable straight at the trap that guards it.
• Assuming the lasers stop when a single beam is broken.

Related entries

Hazards and eventsThe mines, traps and lasers in a levelMines come in kinds, including one that stuns and one that is triggered.ValuablesThe valuables you can findValuables are sorted into a set of size kinds from tiny to very tall.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.