A temporary security measure

[theTrav]

You could just have a house in a house with the hearth fire infront of the door of the inside one.....

Except that that doesn't work. When you build a hearth fire in front of a door, you can still go around it to get in. Only once you exit the house does the fire accomplish anything; it traps the player to the tile immediately outside the door. All you need to do to unstick yourself is log out, which would teleport you back home with any stolen goods you have in your inventory. This would actually be dangerous for the character that spawns at that hearth fire, too. Say a thief goes around it to get in a house, and then lifts a chest. He walks out of the house and gets stuck on the hearth fire, still holding the chest. He logs out, to be teleported home, and the chest drops down on your hearth fire. Guess what? You're going to be stuck on that chest as soon as you log in, and unable to lift it.

You're not getting it... the hearth fire goes INSIDE the house

[Ferinex]

You could just have a house in a house with the hearth fire infront of the door of the inside one.....

Except that that doesn't work. When you build a hearth fire in front of a door, you can still go around it to get in. Only once you exit the house does the fire accomplish anything; it traps the player to the tile immediately outside the door. All you need to do to unstick yourself is log out, which would teleport you back home with any stolen goods you have in your inventory. This would actually be dangerous for the character that spawns at that hearth fire, too. Say a thief goes around it to get in a house, and then lifts a chest. He walks out of the house and gets stuck on the hearth fire, still holding the chest. He logs out, to be teleported home, and the chest drops down on your hearth fire. Guess what? You're going to be stuck on that chest as soon as you log in, and unable to lift it.

You're not getting it... the hearth fire goes INSIDE the house

Right inside the door? You can't.

[theTrav]

Right inside the door? You can't.

My shift key begs to differ