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Fenrir

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Living Corpses
« on: December 16, 2007, 06:18:00 pm »
I think this question has been asked before, but I don't remember the answer. Is it possible to make creatures that leave other creatures when they die?
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penguinofhonor

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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #1 on: December 16, 2007, 07:22:00 pm »
No.
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Slappy Moose

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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #2 on: December 16, 2007, 10:38:00 pm »
Too bad.
Zombies would be awesome.
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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2007, 02:26:00 pm »
What about using a creature's corpse as an "ingredient" at a workshop, for use in the process of creating a zombie version of that creature?
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Akroma

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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2007, 02:44:00 pm »
that would imply you can creature creatures at workshops...

oh that would be awesome

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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2007, 04:16:00 pm »
Actually it is probobly TECHNICALLY possible to spawn a creature, it is limited to a  object form whiteout AI that naturally only occurs in certain vermin, in another technical view these are not creatures at all but objects defined from creature raws, I think this at least, this might be what Toady refers to as "vermin events".

This is however not useful for zombies or in any other obvious way, it's most likely a but and this post serves only to confuse you.

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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2007, 05:55:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Akroma:
<STRONG>that would imply you can creature creatures at workshops...

oh that would be awesome</STRONG>

Third post down.

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Re: Living Corpses
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2007, 05:57:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Fenrir:
<STRONG>I think this question has been asked before, but I don't remember the answer. Is it possible to make creatures that leave other creatures when they die?</STRONG>

Yeah, I asked that question before; it would be cool to have a demonically possessed dwarf/human/elf that dropped a live version when you "exorcised" it.

Or headcrab zombies that drop their headcrabs sometimes on death.

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