Safecracking

Safecracking
File:Safecracking skill.png Expertise in opening safes, vaults, and other physical barriers.
Skill Type:	Other Skill
Max Level:	50
Requirements:	N/A
Skill Trainers:	N/A

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Fortunately, Minotaurs' love of puzzles means that the answer is hidden right in the war cache!

— Practice chest in Amulna

In-Game Description

Expertise in opening safes, vaults, and other physical barriers.

Training Safecracking

• Safecracking is automatically learned on a character when a War Cache chest is first opened. After the first chest, 100 experience is gained for every vault opened.

Connected Skills

Sub-Skills:

• None

Secondary Skills:

• None

Related Skills:

• None

Synergy Levels:

Bonus Synergy Levels for Safecracking can be obtained from the following skills and levels:

There are no Synergy Levels for Safecracking.

Safecracking Mechanics

Opening Chests with The Sand Seer's Advice

Overview

With some help from Gremix, the local blacksmith-type, I've managed to get this vault opened and examined the mechanism.

The basics are very simple: each vault can be unlocked by entering a combination of 4 symbols in order. If you make 12 wrong guesses, though, the vault becomes jammed.

Each time you guess, you can see how many symbols in your guess are correct, and further how many symbols are in the answer but are not in the right order. An example notation is '1,2', which would mean 1 of the symbols in your guess is correct, and 2 more of the symbols are part of the answer, but are in the wrong spot.

From these clues it's possible to figure out the answer... but given how many symbols there are, 12 guesses is hardly enough! That's what led me to my biggest discovery...

Rune Symbols

There are 12 symbol buttons on the vault lock, but only six of them are actually connected to the mechanism! The other six symbols can't possibly be part of the solution and are just decoys. So the first task is figuring out which six symbols could be part of the solution.

Fortunately, minotaurs' love of puzzles means that the answer is hidden right in the war cache: there are six rune pictures hidden on the walls of each cache. If you find all six, you've narrowed down the solution tremendously. This is imperative!

For this practice vault, I've connected the top six symbols. The bottom six symbols are never used.

Solving Technique

I haven't had time to figure out a complete solution to unlocking these vaults, but here's my system so far:

1. Figure out the six symbols which could possibly be part of the answer by searching the vault for six corresponding images. (On my practice vault, it's the top row of six symbols).

2. Use your first guesses to figure out which of those six symbols are actually part of the solution. For instance, if the possible runes were A,B,C,D,E, and F, my first guess would be 'AABB' then 'CCDD' and 'EEFF.' These three guesses will give me many pieces of information. After that I just make educated guesses.

3. Carry some lockpicks! The mechanism will jam after 12 tries, but a lockpick can reset it. Unfortunately that will also change the combination, but the new combination will still be comprised of only the six symbols you already found.

4. Practice! I've set up this vault to let me practice my lockbreaking skill. Pity I don't have time to actually get much practicing in...

Player Solving Technique

Click Expand to view the algorithm

You don't need any hints when using this guessing/logic technique.

1. Check combinations of 2 symbols until you have found 4 hits or checked all symbols. Use an AABB pattern. If you found the hints in the dungeon, you only have to check those 6 symbols instead of 12. Tries 1-6 in the image.

2. Now you have up to 6 symbols that could be part of the solution, tries 2, 4 and 6 in the image. Eliminate those using one of the symbols that does not match.

2a. Try 7 uses one symbol from try 1 which is no match and one symbol from try 2 which could be a match. Try 7 is no match so you know that the other symbol from try 2 is a match!

2b. Repeat this for the symbol from try 6 (in try 8, no match so the other symbol from try 6 is a match) and other symbols.

3. Use logic: you now know the C symbol from try 2 is correct and in slot 1 or 2, also the hourglass symbol from try 6 is correct in slot 1 or 2. That means one of the runes in slot 3 or 4 is already correct and the other will be from try 4 but slot 1 or 2.

3a. Put all the symbols in place, both of those in slots 1, 2 and 3, 4. Try 9 in the image.

3b. It was not correct, the result is (2, 2) so we have to switch 1, 2 or 3, 4 but not between those groups. Try 10 in the image.

3c. Try 10 was not correct but (0, 4) means you can switch 1, 2 and 3, 4 and be finished. Final solution at the top, ready to open the vault.

Safecracking Level Up Rewards

Level	Reward
5	+1 to Gaming
10	+1 to Sigil Scripting
20	+1 to Calligraphy
25	+1 to Gaming
30	+1 to Toolcrafting
35	+1 to Alchemy
40	+1 to Hoplology
45	+1 to Sigil Scripting
50	+1 to Psychology

Safecracking Experience Table

Click Expand to view the Experience Table for Safecracking

Level	Experience	Total Experience
1	30	30
2	60	90
3	100	190
4	150	340
5	200	540
6	250	790
7	300	1090
8	350	1440
9	400	1840
10	500	2340
11	500	2840
12	500	3340
13	500	3840
14	500	4340
15	500	4840
16	500	5340
17	500	5840
18	500	6340
19	500	6840
20	600	7440
21	600	8040
22	600	8640
23	600	9240
24	600	9840
25	600	10440
26	600	11040
27	600	11640
28	600	12240
29	600	12840
30	600	13440
31	700	14140
32	700	14840
33	700	15540
34	700	16240
35	700	16940
36	700	17640
37	700	18340
38	700	19040
39	700	19740
40	700	20440
41	800	21240
42	800	22040
43	800	22840
44	800	23640
45	800	24440
46	800	25240
47	800	26040
48	800	26840
49	800	27640
50	800	28440

Gallery

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  A practice chest found in Amulna.