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Bohandas

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Small creatures are harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate than large ones
« on: October 30, 2012, 05:28:28 pm »
I recently noticed that very small creatures seem to be drastically harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate, etc than larger, normal-sized ones. Does anybody know a way around this odd phenomenon, to restore the potential for decapitation etc.?

I have a custom race of mouse people that are the size of rats in the core game, but they are strangely resistant to having limbs, heads, etc chopped off compared to larger creatures. Does anybody know how to reverse this effect. I already tried making their heads, upper arms, upper legs, etc [SOCKET] body parts and drastically reducing the resilience of their bones, but it hasn't helped much.

Spoiler: Mousefolk Raws (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Modified Body Parts (click to show/hide)

Any thoughts.
« Last Edit: October 30, 2012, 06:27:06 pm by Bohandas »
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Re: Small creatures are harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate than large ones
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2012, 05:57:33 pm »
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[code] tags instead of spoiler tags so that your bodies aren't fucked up (when posting them).
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Re: Small creatures are harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate than large ones
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2012, 06:27:37 pm »
Quote from: Putnam on October 30, 2012, 05:57:33 pm
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Ok, added the
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Re: Small creatures are harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate than large ones
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2012, 07:56:29 pm »
Quote from: Bohandas on October 30, 2012, 05:28:28 pm
I recently noticed that very small creatures seem to be drastically harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate, etc than larger, normal-sized ones. Does anybody know a way around this odd phenomenon, to restore the potential for decapitation etc.?

I have a custom race of mouse people that are the size of rats in the core game, but they are strangely resistant to having limbs, heads, etc chopped off compared to larger creatures. Does anybody know how to reverse this effect. I already tried making their heads, upper arms, upper legs, etc [SOCKET] body parts and drastically reducing the resilience of their bones, but it hasn't helped much.

Spoiler: Mousefolk Raws (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Modified Body Parts (click to show/hide)

Any thoughts.
Are you testing against similar size creatures and weaponry? Because otherwise they'll be fighting a creature too small to get any solid hits on and they'll be effectively invincible to many attacks, like weasels are in adventure mode. Imagine trying to cut off a rats paw with a broadsword and (because this is DF) the swing hits the side of the paw "glancing off".
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Re: Small creatures are harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate than large ones
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2012, 08:04:52 pm »
Quote from: Putnam on October 30, 2012, 05:57:33 pm
Use
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[code] tags instead of spoiler tags so that your bodies aren't fucked up (when posting them).


well, that would have been nice to know earlier (stupid TAB key not being recognized normally)
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Re: Small creatures are harder to cut in half, amputate, decapitate than large ones
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2012, 09:24:07 pm »
Remove [CONNECTOR] from the upper spine. Otherwise, you specifically have to hit the upper spine and not just anywhere on the head in order to decapitate.

Quote from: file changes.txt
   new bp tag
      CONNECTOR -- child part with CONNECTOR keeps parent unsevered until receiving severing damage itself
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