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[Johnny Chthonic]

It bothers me that maces and hammers are, for all intents and purposes, the same. I wanted to see if I could mod hammers to deal less damage and have a higher chance of flinging enemies around. Does that use the weight property or what?

[Untelligent]

Changing the damage is simply a matter of altering the DAMAGE value in the raws.

As for flingchance... I think I've seen axes knock goblins around, but not swords too often, so I THINK the weight might affect that. Not entirely sure.

[LegoLord]

I've seen swords knock people around.  I think it's the weight, but low weight doesn't make flinging impossible.

[Johnny Chthonic]

Hmm. I think I'll need to test this, then. I figure I'll make an incredibly heavy hammer and a really light one, take both adventuring, see how it goes and then report back.

[LegoLord]

Make sure you play as something with [DAMBLOCK:5000].  It'll make it easier.

[Johnny Chthonic]

Good idea. I've created two separate weapons - one with 10 damage and 400 weight, one with 10 damage and 40 weight. I'm going to take my damblock 1000 dwarf adventurer out and see if he sends wolves flying more easily with the heavy one.

Barring that, is there any way I could edit these in the raws to make flinging easier?

[Johnny Chthonic]

Okay, I just bashed a bunch of wolves with a weight 400 mace and not a single one went flying. Any other ideas?

[LegoLord]

Aside from damage, nope.  I think the next version will handle that differently, though, so it's really a matter of waiting.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Perhaps strength of the wealder is the determining factor.

[Blakmane]

There was a formula posted up a while ago looking at how far bludgeoning weapons flung enemies. I think it worked out to be a function of the damage of the weapon and the strength/skill of the wielder. You can probably still find it with the search function.

So in short: Weight has nothing to do with it.

[LegoLord]

Next version it will though, so good luck with the next version, Johny.

[Deon]

Where did you find that the next version changes the flinging formula? I'd like to see (modding purposes),
I find it amuzing how people treat the next version as a panacea for all "wrong" things .

[LegoLord]

Well, hammer damage will be based on weight, partially. 

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Adamantine by itself won't be good for hammers.

  It's stuff in the new raws that Toady posted.

[Johnny Chthonic]

I sort of wish that fling worked as a crit for blunt weapons, so that you could give them crit bonus and have a Sauron Mace that sends tons of guys flying everywhere.

Do weapons have any properties in exposed code other than damage, weight, how big you have to be to use them, and crit bonus? Are there other tokens, such as fire damage or something, that can be added to them?

[Blakmane]

I sort of wish that fling worked as a crit for blunt weapons, so that you could give them crit bonus and have a Sauron Mace that sends tons of guys flying everywhere.

Do weapons have any properties in exposed code other than damage, weight, how big you have to be to use them, and crit bonus? Are there other tokens, such as fire damage or something, that can be added to them?

there aren't many more, but you *can* change the damage type. there are three damage types (HEAT, BURN and COLD) not used by any weapon (but by some creatures) that can be used to approximate magical weapons.