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[Patarak]

Does playing as a creature with NOTHOUGHT mean that instakill head wounds do not apply?

[Cthulhu]

I doubt it, there's a difference between having no thoughts and having no nervous system.

[Patarak]

Actually, a creature with NOTHOUGHT doesn't need a brain to function.

[Kagus]

Yeah, they don't need a brain.  But your head still has the [HEAD] tag on it, which means you gon' die if it gets lopped off.

No brain to worry about, though.  I'm not sure about spinal wounds and the like, however.

[Patarak]

Ah well. At least that makes the bronze colossus a whole lot less intimidating. So smashing a head into its body counts as lopping off? Hmm. I wonder why you can't punch peoples arms off and such.

[Deon]

There're shard golems in the martial mod, and they still live even when you cut their head off. I don't know which tag gives this...

[Fishersalwaysdie]

Maybe the [HEAD] tag is somewhere else?

[a1s]

I believe you only need one head (unless you have some sort of NOHEAD tag), so if you had a hydra with 5 heads, it could lose 4 and live.

edit: no... it's most likely the structure of golem bodies: their lower bodies have the attribute [NERVOUS], while their heads only have [SIGHT] instead of the more common [HEAD].

[ February 16, 2008: Message edited by: a1s ]

[ February 16, 2008: Message edited by: a1s ]

[Sean Mirrsen]

Lower bodies have NERVOUS, and the head has SIGHT just so the game actually identifies the parts as targets for attack. The [HEAD] tag is not required. Also, that way smashing the head leaves the golem without sight.

I'm trying to balance a new system now where I have several THOUGHT-tagged items on the body that can be destroyed individually. So far so good, at least they don't die at once when spawning.