This War of Mine: Semi-Detached House Trader Guide - Katia Shovel Only

TL:DR and detailed explanation/guide written below.
Disposing of everyone in the Semi-Detached House Trader scenario.

Any character that can instant-kill with a melee weapon from a hiding spot can do this.

As is the case with all NPCs and maps in this game: There is huge variability. Almost all NPCs have a pool of different paths they take, including literal different paths to just different timings. You always need to be able to think on your feet in This War of Mine.

The female dweller is unarmed and not technically necessary to kill, both males are armed.
A general rule of thumb for this map is to run to the sewers as fast as you can and clear all the rubble with a shovel, lock-pick the door, go up the ladder and to the right, lock-pick that door, hide in the hiding spot and from here on out wait for opportunities for you to lure nearby NPCs into the room. All 3 NPCs that dwell inside the house have paths that walk either directly above you or next to the door up the stairs, whenever this happens leave the hiding spot, make noise in front of the hiding spot, hide again, wait for the NPC to come to investigate the noise, stealth kill, rinse & repeat. Then go outside and either backstab the trader or use a gun looted from one of the bodies.


1. Start running as soon as the map has loaded making sure to not click far away because this will make you just drop down into the first room that has an inaccessible door so you have to spend some time getting back up again.

2. Run down to the sewer area and clear the rubble, a shovel is needed for the timings to work.

3. Run to the door and lock-pick it. There is a small chance that 1 of the 3 NPCs that spend most of their time inside spawns outside next to the trader, if he does he will hear you running and start walking down to investigate, this isn't a problem as you will have moved on by then.

4. After lock-picking the door climb up the ladder and walk through the door to the right that leads further into the house making sure to close the door behind you otherwise NPCs that you might want to come to your hiding spot will instead notice the door, close it, then forget about you.

5. During this moment where you are walking from the first door over to the next door to lock-pick there is a chance there is an NPC in the room directly above the ladder that decides to now walk down the stairs to go outside. If this happens simply turn around, go down the ladder and go back into the sewers, wait for them to go outside and then try again. As already mentioned this game is RNG-heavy with NPC paths.

6. Lock-pick the next door, close it, and now you must wait till an NPC either walks past the door you just lock-picked or walks directly above you. Once this happens run around in the room close to the hiding spot so they hear you and come down to investigate, hide in the hiding spot and stealth kill them when they walk in front of your hiding spot.

7. After killing the first NPC there is a chance another NPC is close enough to hear what happened which will make them run to the room, you should see if this is the case, and if it is the case just hide in the hiding spot again, making sure to do this fast so they do not see you enter the hiding spot, and wait for them to walk in front of you and stealth kill them.

8. If this doesn't happen, after killing the first NPC open the door to the room and enter the hiding spot and now you must wait for 1 of 2 things to happen: 1) an NPC with line of sight to the dead body will see it and run to your room, ideally directly in front of where you are hiding for you to stealth kill them or 2) an NPC will walk into the room above you, in which case leave the hiding spot, run around in the room you're in, enter the hiding spot and wait for them to come down to investigate the noise.

9. Now for the 3rd kill. This again is variable. In my video the 3rd NPC was taking a smoke on a balcony all the way upstairs in the building. If this happens take your weapon out, run up to them so they notice you and your weapon, run all the way back down and enter the same hiding spot, wait for them to enter the room and kill them.
They may be sleeping in their bed, if this is the case walk into the room directly below them, make noise, hide in the hiding spot in that room, kill them when they walk past.
They may be actively walking somewhere in the house in which case they are likely to see the dead bodies, in this case you simply wait for them to go in front of the hiding spot for you to easily take them out, if they dont see the dead bodies they will walk within hearing distance for you to make noise to lure them down.

10. Now you must take care of the trader. You have 2 options: Using melee or using guns looted from the bodies, up to you.


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