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=== Snitch curtain ===
A snitch curtain, or snitch grid, is a series of snitches surrounding a vault that make it impossible for someone to pass through without hitting a snitch and notifying the vault owners of an attackers presence. These should ideally be surrounded in Stone reinforced obsidian, to prevent the snitches from being broken by a TNT cannon.
=== Exotic features ===
There are several vault characteristics that have been tried in the past or theorized but aren't present on any major vault on CivClassic.
==== Sky vault ====
Instead of placing the vault pyramid at bedrock, it is instead placed at skylimit.
This however causes several issues: the pyramid is not a pyramid anymore but rather a diamond. This doubles its cost. It is also now vulnerable to acid blocking.
==== Tanks ====
Some early post-bastions vault were immersed in water to slow down mining. In order to clear the water, players had to break the bastions first.
This design is now uncommon because it provides little benefit: the bastions that cover the pyramid will be broken anyway. Moreoever, when attackers who can start breaking the pyramid have usually secured the surrounding area. This means that increasing the break time of the pyramid would help defenders reclaim it.
==== Composite vaults ====
Composites vault have several pyramids. This means that the owner can distribute pearls in these and that attackers will have to break all pyramids in order to free everyone.
This can increase the break time without making the cost skyrockets as it is cheaper to build 2 10-layers pyramids than 1 20-layers one.
Distributing the pearls also means that if a ground bunker falls then the defenders can retreat to another other one and continue the defense.
==== Elder Guardians ====
Elder guardians used to inflict the mining fatigue effect on CivClassic. This would have multiplied the time required to break a pyramid or at least required a significant effort to have attackers drink milk every 30 seconds.
The Hallow vault was known to use this mechanics until mining fatigue was disabled by the administration team.
== Resources ==
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