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title: Destructible floors
summary: Breaking a floor creates an opening between elevations.
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- Destruction
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title: Destructible floor
description: Breaking a floor creates an opening between elevations.
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caption: A hole exposes the lower level
alt: 'Severed Steel: A hole exposes the lower level.'
markers:
- x: 47
'y': 77
label: Opening through the destroyed floor
tips:
- Account for changed routes and sightlines between floors.
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- title: Severed Steel
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Editorial reference index based on the 199 public Game Mechanics pattern pages
checked on 2026-10-20. Original concise RU/EN definitions by
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URLs retained from gamemechanics.org. The source gallery includes a film
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# Destructible floors
id: game-mechanics--gm-destructible-floors
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lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/game-mechanics--gm-destructible-floors/
Breaking a floor creates an opening between elevations.
## At a glance
[Severed Steel](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/destructible-floors) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Source host: GameMechanics.org. Visible source watermarks preserved. All rights reserved; excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.
[Source recording](https://cdn.gamemechanics.org/webm/severed_steel_destructible_floor.webm), 0.89 s
1. Opening through the destroyed floor
- Account for changed routes and sightlines between floors.
- [Severed Steel](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/destructible-floors)
## How it works
Breaking a floor creates an opening between elevations.
## Variants
### How the technique works
- Breaking a floor creates an opening between elevations.
## Context and limits
All 199 Game Mechanics entries at the check date: player actions, systems, presentation techniques and contested patterns. Entries are grouped by their first source-card category; all categories appear in their descriptions. Definitions use original wording. References link to game-specific galleries; images and videos remain at the source.
## Connected materials
## Sources and provenance
Editorial reference index based on the 199 public Game Mechanics pattern pages checked on 2026-10-20. Original concise RU/EN definitions by gamemechanics.pro; pattern names, category associations and game-reference URLs retained from gamemechanics.org. The source gallery includes a film analogy. Linked materials retain their original rights; references are upstream attributions, not independent verification.
- [Game Mechanics: Destructible floors](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/destructible-floors) (id: source-cc49cec2b84cc992)
- [Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001)](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/destructible-floors/game/return-to-castle-wolfenstein) (id: source-3a64e04e469638a2)
- [Severed Steel (2021)](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/destructible-floors/game/severed-steel) (id: source-62f984649ded66fe)
- [THE FINALS (2023)](https://gamemechanics.org/patterns/destructible-floors/game/the-finals) (id: source-5cf37cfc66a685a3)
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