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[Untrustedlife]

So I was searching reddit and came about to this neat post, someone else mentioned using leaves to kill bogeymen aswell, I am going to test it and see how it works out wish me luck.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/2bes9n/i_must_leaf_how_to_kill_bogeymen_quickly_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/5cr58u/my_greatest_achievement_so_far/


It seems outlandish, yes, but its dwarf fortress, so anything can happen.



And so the !SCIENCE! begins:






Test1:
Attacking farmer with cucumber leaf:

Works better than punching I think.

Bonus:
Me burning the poor sods corpse to get rid of the evidence of my wrong doings so I can play the character without consequence after my tests.



There we go, only the ashes are left now 


*makes sign of armok*

[Untrustedlife]

The moment of truth has begun:




So, I was attacked by like 12 bogeymen, so even with an effective weapon, I was doomed I also didn't put any points into observer, (I would have survived longer), but it appears that leaves are very effective against bogeymen when they do  hit, chipping bones, breaking spines in some cases, lots of stuff I still died, but it warrants more testing for sure.






I think ill test with a new character later, or tomorrow.

[Rumrusher]

load a bunch of leaves into a minecart and push the kart into someone. best results of seeing someone get shredded by leaves.

[Max™]

Oh leaf them alone, what did they do to make you deciduous that their fate should fall like some blood-soaked myth about why trees turn red in autumn?

[SebasMarolo]

Just to be fair, you should test with branches and logs, maybe even fruits. Could there be a secret coded in weakness for bogeyman, like there is a randomly generated one for werebeasts and metals?

Or what if misc. object user is the new throwing? (because apparently throwing was and some will claim it still is OP)

I can't say I'll try this, because I have no idea how I could make a story out of it.

[Rumrusher]

Just to be fair, you should test with branches and logs, maybe even fruits. Could there be a secret coded in weakness for bogeyman, like there is a randomly generated one for werebeasts and metals?

Or what if misc. object user is the new throwing? (because apparently throwing was and some will claim it still is OP)

I can't say I'll try this, because I have no idea how I could make a story out of it.

uhh this is coming from studying bogeymen being weak to ... folks with no fear. the whole leaves and stuff just work on everyone due to their being really really flat.
also I haven't seen a werebeast react violently to special metals considering that they can die to just about anything else.

[mikekchar]

It's interesting, though.  Can you throw leaves?  They are pretty light so you can carry a lot of them...

[pikachu17]

It's interesting, though.  Can you throw leaves?  They are pretty light so you can carry a lot of them...

You can throw anything that can be picked up, although heavier things don't go that far. leaves should go pretty far, though.

[Untrustedlife]

Just to be fair, you should test with branches and logs, maybe even fruits. Could there be a secret coded in weakness for bogeyman, like there is a randomly generated one for werebeasts and metals?

Or what if misc. object user is the new throwing? (because apparently throwing was and some will claim it still is OP)

I can't say I'll try this, because I have no idea how I could make a story out of it.

uhh this is coming from studying bogeymen being weak to ... folks with no fear. the whole leaves and stuff just work on everyone due to their being really really flat.
also I haven't seen a werebeast react violently to special metals considering that they can die to just about anything else.

They have hardcoded material weaknesses (were beasts, they will tell you about it when you get a quest to kill one). It just makes them especially weak to that metal and its different for every werebeast type. (in other words it doesnt come up much)

[kingsableye]

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Just to be fair, you should test with branches and logs, maybe even fruits. Could there be a secret coded in weakness for bogeyman, like there is a randomly generated one for werebeasts and metals?

Or what if misc. object user is the new throwing? (because apparently throwing was and some will claim it still is OP)

I can't say I'll try this, because I have no idea how I could make a story out of it.

uhh this is coming from studying bogeymen being weak to ... folks with no fear. the whole leaves and stuff just work on everyone due to their being really really flat.
also I haven't seen a werebeast react violently to special metals considering that they can die to just about anything else.

The game simuates misc. objects as cubes. So if a leaf weighs<1 and its density is 600 we get a very small cube. Not sure if F=ma is being applied here, but it would make sense (leaves can be swung quickly, no? So the a in the impulse of impact would be pretty large). Even if not, the relatively small small surface of one face of the cube would allow the pressure to be fairly high, high enough it would seem to chip bone on unclothed foes.

[Fleeting Frames]

Yeah, leaves have volume 5 going by wiki - which would have impact point of 1 (I guess, unless it gets rounded down to 0), equal to whip.

On a similar note, perhaps slade earrings or rings/large gems(weirdly, 25% the size of normal gems) would be effective weapons? Volume 3 and 5/5, for expected weight of 6 and 10 urists, concentrated into impact point. For comparison, a gold warhammer weights 7 urists.

[SkeleBret]

I've also had success using a piece of cotton thread as a weapon. I didn't have any Misc. Object User skill when I started and it still fractured bones, messed up internal organs, and jammed skulls through brains.

[Remuluson]

The leaves can one shoot dragons
*The more you know*

[tonnot98]

Fancy slap-fights are plenty more dangerous now.