yes, they recently changed the amount of valuables each house has to counter people from trap stacking 1 valuable too much, so now you have 5 valuables but only need to destroy 4 of them
#objects are not broken after being destroyed
spiral cosmos
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yes, they recently changed the amount of valuables each house has to counter peo...
what Rhyme said 
This prevents turtling around 1 essential and makes it so you have to spread your defences between 2 areas
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i don't know if we need to make it more clear, but you should be able to deduce what house essentials you have left from the destroyed icons at the top of the screen