Any ELi5 for temples?

Surely you can give 15 minutes of your time to watch a couple of videos then try out like 5 runs. Then ask questions.  Rather than asking the community to just hold your hand because you don't wanna learn the mechanics yourself

Its actually quite simple at its core.

Theres a temple. You can build rooms in it. Rooms connect to each other. Some rooms don't connect to each other. You can look up rooms details online.The more rooms you have, the more multipicative bonuses your temple gets - it becomes harder and more rewarding.

Rooms tend to destabilise (get destroyed) after every run. If you kill architect or Atziri on the run, they destabilise way more. You can get medallions in temple - one of them lets you lock the room so it cant destabilise onthat run. That gets us to the key technique: if you build rooms in a "snake" pattern - meaning you chain them one after another without looping, then the temple cant really destabilise any room "in" the chain - only the last one, because otherwise it would make some rooms not connected to anything. So uf you build a chain and lock the last room, the chain will stay.

Garrisons and spymasters have a high chance to drop lock medallions - you chain a lot of them and that allows you to consistently sustain locks for a giant temple. Thats it.

You can find an online tool to plan your temple. I dont recommend Fubgun's youtube video because it has a lot of mistakes.

I think the best way to eli5 a temple is to start with small questions and go from there. So...

What do you want to do in temple? Rush atziri or juice temple to increase the drops in it

jus do the russian tech bro

Unfortunately you have to "read several pages of jargon" unless you're willing to just wing it. If you're wanting to build it to be useful then prepare for that long journey, because it's long AF.

I've spent the last week or so letting my temple destabilize (reset) so that I can build a proper chain. Figured I'd build the Spymaster chain on the side while hoping the main chain would get culled. I'm about 20-25 trips in (120-150 crystals) and haven't seen a single Spymaster yet. 

A good temple is super helpful regarding currency acquisition but it's not fun to get there. Feels like actual work.

Just build it and run it and have fun.

If you want to optimize it just start from the point that the random room removal after a run cannot completely disconnect rooms from the entrance.

TLDR: Make snakes. Lock them.

Because theres no way to eli5 this mess of a mechanic. I think the best way to go about is to decide what you want to build a temple for and how long do u want to invest, then follow a guide that fits your needs