Temple is as Temple does...

You don’t have to do it over and over. Just beat the arc and atziri at the same time and it will delete almost everything in one go. You might need one more arc clear but at most that should do it. If you can’t get to atziri just aim for the arc and run him 2-3 times.

TLDR; Yes, have to kill stuff to clear it but the bosses are the most efficient

Kill the architect enough times to free the rooms either to the left or to the right from starting point. Then you can start building a snake there and work on it while you loose 2-4 rooms elsewhere from each time temple closes. You don't need a completely clean room to start a chain.

I think even if you can undo it it is really time consuming and a slog to do it. Up to you if you want to go through that, personally I would wait til next league

YouTube advise was pretty much correct, there is no quick easy reset. You have to path to restricted rooms and complete them to make them go away and the rest of the rooms are removed from destabilization (happens when you close the temple). The amount of rooms deleted depends on how many rooms you have and defeating architect/atziri causes a bigger destabilization.

I enjoyed farming atz for the regalia more than trying to build an optimized temple. I made pretty good divs doing it as well. Plus that was more view time of her ass and 4 tiddies

The advice to just beat the temple over and over again is actually correct. You can hold ctrl in the room placement interface and it'll allow you to run the temple without placing a room, so you won't be constantly replacing the rooms that get deleted.

Even better though is running your Temple and beating The Architect, Atziri, or both, since that will lead to a bunch of rooms getting deleted all at once.

Before you delete everything and start over, are you able to hold 6 medallions and 60 crystals? Increased medallion and crystal capacity comes from defeating the Architect, and you definitely want to be at max capacity for both before you start seriously building.

The other thing to be aware of before you start building seriously (but after you've deleted most of the rooms you want to delete) is that for most/all of the more complex temple layouts you want the Architect in a specific spot which requires you to strategically place rooms/roads in such a way that he's forced to spawn in the spot you want. Basically, the architect wants to spawn in an open space that has at least one other space between the Architect and your next closest room.

What I did was delete almost all of my rooms until all I had was a road going up four squares from the entrance, and then placed rooms/roads in a square starting at that fourth road tile so that there was a 9X9 empty space in their center. Then you fight the architect and hope he spawns in the dead center of the square, and if he does, you can start building your first chain, otherwise rebuild the square and try again.

I know it sounds super daunting, and I was completely overwhelmed at first too, but watching LLYD's videos (zero to hero giga Temple and reconstructing the temple) helped me get the hang of it, and then just playing got me the rest of the way there.

Good luck!

It seems complex but its actually trivial, just run atziri and architect a ton of times since they will wipe majority of the non restricted stuff away, as for the restricted stuff just finish the rooms once to make them go poof, for architect make sure its about 2x tiles away from any edge and u should be fine for starters and start doing russian tech snake around the outer edge.

The strat is maxing out the medalion that locks the room from destab so u just minmax spy masters and russian tech allows u to chain them a to b to a to b by using an armory into legion into spy master and then abusing locks or sacrificial chambers.

If u have a solid spymaster snake going, never beat the architect or atziri unless u have locked the snakes tip and it isnt looping as otherwise u might loose days worth of progress.

Tryhards saying early temple isnt worth are bunch of bozos, mine isnt even 1/8 finished and i m already starting to drop some divs per run and getting some super op building bases and un id uniques from atziri.

It doesn’t take long to reset a temple. Just run architect to destabilize as much as possible. The restricted rooms aren’t important. Just run them as needed once you start your actual temple and path to them. Initially you’ll want a semi large area in the middle to take the destabilizations. Just try not to create additional chains because that defeats the purpose.

I think you actually have to run the reward rooms to delete them, most people seem to be missing that….