Problem with Vaal Temple Building Rules

You might say, I was a bit late to the party, but I am trying to build a temple.

What I have seen over and over are guides telling me to alternate between smithy and golem works. I have seen the guides write about it, I have completed a lot of runs with people having long chains of alternating smithy and golem works, but for some reason I cannot build such a chain.

I can put down a smithy, then a golem works, then a smithy and the will be it. THe next golem works cannot be placed down. Is there something I am missing? A patch note I have not read, a guide I am supposed to know?

I tried some online temple planners, but have found their rules to deviate from what I can and cannot place.

The same is tue for so called spymaster chains, which I have also found impossible to put down.

I get the feeling this is a nerf locking out people who did not build their temple early.


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