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Effect
Whenever you draw DOVECOTE while drafting, you may rotate floorplans.
A towering loft serving home to many of the feathered locals of Mount Holly. As a devout bird-watcher and amateur ornithologist Mary had petitioned her uncle for years for this to be built on the estate.
― Room Directory
The Dovecote is a room in Blue Prince. One of the Room Directory's Studio Additions, the Dovecote is a tall, round room featuring walls with square holes. The floor of this room is covered with a small amount of hay, and features some crates and bags laying against one side. It has a central pillar which reaches to the ceiling where some open hatches can be seen, allowing the sky outside to be partially visible.
Drafting requirements
Dovecote can be permanently added to the draft pool in the Drafting Studio.
The Dovecote has some unique positional requirements for drafting. It is limited to locations where both of its possible orientations are valid, i.e. locations where its remaining door could be on the left side or the right side. This limits it to central tiles, and edge tiles which are drafted into from central tiles. The Dovecote cannot be drafted from one edge or corner tile to another.
Rotation effect
The Dovecote's associated drafting icon.
The Dovecote's effect is unusual in that it only applies while it is currently drawn as a selectable floorplan during drafting. Whenever the Dovecote is drawn, a drafting option is added which allows floorplans to be rotated. The coo of a dove can be heard when the option appears.
While the option is available, pressing the "rotate" option will spin each of those floorplans to into its next valid orientation. Each activation spins rooms into the next valid orientation in the clockwise direction, despite them appearing to spin anticlockwise visually. There is no limit to how many times this option can be used.
A small number of floorplans in Blue Prince, such as the Patio, cannot be rotated outside of their specific drafting requirements. As such, the Dovecote will not allow these rooms to be rotated. While the option in principle only has an effect when there is at least one drawn floorplan with multiple valid orientations in the current position, this is virtually always the case as the Dovecote itself is usually only ever drawn in positions where it can be rotated due to its own drafting requirements.
Discarding the Dovecote floorplan by redrawing floorplans will cause the drafting option to vanish.
Points of interest
The Dovecote can contain dig spots.
There is also a box that contains some letters, as seen below.
Letters transcript
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9/1/74
Dear Mother,
If you are reading this, that means Juni made it home safely! I imagine he's going to be quite tired after such a long flight, so make sure he gets some treats and rest. School is going well, though I do miss you terribly. Unfortunately, even though the dean gave me permission to keep my birds here on campus, I'm afraid it's getting a bit cold for them as the semester marches on, so I've made the decision to send them all home before the winter months arrive. All that is to say, expect some more letters soon!
Dotingly, Mary9/28/74
Dearest Mother,
This should be the fifth letter you've received from me this month. Though I know statistically, it is very unlikely that every single member of my flock has found their way home. And please, please don't tell me if they didn't arrive! It's going to be hard enough now that I am truly on my own.
In other news, my classes have been engaging and I am slowly making friends, so please ignore the dramatic despair of my previous letter. Things are indeed looking brighter, but I still maintain that three years is too long a time to be away from home.
- MaryHerbert,
Thank you so much for your gift of the wedding doves, whom I, of course, recognized immediately. And, yes, I got the hint. So here's your letter. I know it's long, long overdue.
The mahew life suits me I think. Not that I didn't love Mount Holly, of course, but after years of being confined in a tiny dormitory, the small place Daniel and I have picked out in Reddington feels more like a stately manor! Once we've finished unpacking and setting everything up, I'll insist on you making an exception to your reclusive lifestyle to come, share a meal and admire our somewhat less impressive but much more personal view of the town.
Thanks again for the card, MaryWe are returning east and should arrive on tuesday.
if coast is not clear, lower the SD to warn us.
Interactions
- Only one rotation drafting option can ever be available at any one time. If the Dovecote is drawn while any other rotation effect is active, the Dovecote suppresses those effects. These include:
- The Dovecote has a unique, unusual interaction with the experimental trigger which spreads dirt to the Grounds. While the Dovecote is on the estate, triggering this experimental effect also causes dig spots to be added to various birdbaths that can be found at certain locations in the Grounds. See Experiments#Dovecote for more information.
