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[Grendus]

Are there any safe (yet not terribly exploity) ways of dealing with zombie hulks? In a savescummed run I tried to throw a dynamite to it. It only removed a single health bar.

Traps, molotovs, and shotguns. If you can lure it into a house and light the house on fire that will usually kill it. Shotgun slugs at point blank range with burst will usually kill it even at zero shotgun skill. If you're insane, you can even try to tank it on the edge of a molotov's burn path, which will kill it (if you survive).

[Darkmere]

It's a little skill dependent, but what about the 40mm buckshot canisters? Those tore everything a new one last time I was playing.

[Tomcost]

Hmmm, maybe I will try with a combination of molotovs and dynamite (by the way, does dynamite explode instantly if you throw it towards a tile with fire?)

[Aseaheru]

I dont think they do.

Having a mininuke or a LAW might do well.

[Jacob/Lee]

LAWs are my go-to for killing different enemies I don't have the skill to fight in melee early on, like mi-gos. Dunno how they'll work against hulks, though. Packed LAWs are reasonably-sized, considering their power; I usually carry one or two at all times when I find them.

[KA101]

Hmmm, maybe I will try with a combination of molotovs and dynamite (by the way, does dynamite explode instantly if you throw it towards a tile with fire?)

Dynamite should cook off fairly instantly in a fire: if it doesn't, that's a bug.  C4 might not.

[WillowLuman]

Oh hey, there's a thread for this! Anyway:

Why did I do this.

Spoiler: json (click to show/hide)

    {
        "type" : "COMESTIBLE",
        "id" : "iv_mutagen",
        "category" : "mutagen",
        "name" : "peasant serum",
        "weight" : 250,
        "color" : "brown",
        "addiction_type" : "mutagen",
        "spoils_in" : 0,
        "use_action" : "MUT_IV",
        "flags" : "MUTAGEN_PEASANT",
        "stim" : -10,
        "container" : "flask_glass",
        "to_hit" : 0,
        "comestible_type" : "MED",
        "symbol" : "!",
        "quench" : 0,
        "healthy" : -10,
        "addiction_potential" : 12,
        "nutrition" : 0,
        "description" : "A super-concentrated mutagen with an odor of dung and poverty. You need a syringe to inject it...  if you really want to?",
        "price" : 200000,
        "material" : "null",
        "tool" : "syringe",
        "volume" : 1,
        "cutting" : 0,
        "phase" : "liquid",
        "charges" : 1,
        "bashing" : 0,
        "fun" : 0
    },

    {
        "type" : "dream",
        "messages" : [
            "You have a strange dream about dirt farming.",
            "Your dreams give you a strange oppressed feeling."
            ],
        "category" : "MUTCAT_PEASANT",
        "strength" : 1
    },{
        "type" : "dream",
        "messages" : [
            "You have a sad dream about barbarians setting fire to your house.",
            "In your dream, you see yourself in patches and rags."
            ],
        "category" : "MUTCAT_PEASANT",
        "strength" : 2
    },{
        "type" : "dream",
        "messages" : [
            "You dream of one day having potato, but there is no potato.",
            "After you wake up, you find it hard to shake the feeling that the Lord of the manor will have you flogged."
            ],
        "category" : "MUTCAT_PEASANT",
        "strength" : 3
    }

^{Note: this almost certainly doesn't actually work}

[Darkmere]

But what kinds of traits would it give you? Smelly? Strong back and tough skin I suppose, from all that oppression and toiling in the fields... Chronic depression?

[WillowLuman]

Probably. Starving, too, perhaps. Or would the hard peasant life reduce your need for food?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

,{
        "type" : "mutation",
        "id" : "CHICKEN_INFESTED",
        "name" : "chicken infestation",
        "points" : 2,
        "visibility" : 5,
        "ugliness" : 1,
        "mixed_effect" : true,
        "description" : "In addition to your other ailments, you are infested with chickens, and they seem to pop up wherever you go.",
        "prereqs" : ["LICE_INFESTATION","BOILS"],
        "threshreq" : ["THRESH_PEASANT"],
        "category" : ["MUTCAT_PEASANT"]
    }

[n9103]

C4 and other modern explosives actually *shouldn't* cook off. Even TNT shouldn't explode from an indirect flame (of reasonable temperature).

[Tawa]

That mutation should make you permanently on fire.

[WillowLuman]

"Boils" as in blemishes.

[Tawa]

I know.

I was making Peasant's Quest references.

[Pajama Knight]

I thought the entire thing was a Peasant's Quest reference.

[WillowLuman]

No, but now I know what that is. Also, now I kinda wish it was possible to mod mutations through json alone.