If I remember correctly from when I asked (That is something like five pages ago), Tomi found the raws and sprout is basically a super-piercing blunt attack. I also think it uses the bite skill, not wrestle. It's an absurdly powerful skill sightly evened out by the Illithid's lack of armor.
Hey Deon, how did work out force fields again? If they're part of the body, why don't they show up on a list of body parts, or get injured? Is it possible to pierce through them? I recall saying you wanted to make them like tissue, but tissue get damaged, with repercussions to the character.
Right, I had forgotten about the earlier sprout question.
The sprout attack is a psionic "mind flaying", and it is supposed to go through armor as it's immaterial. Then the "injected toxin" causes dizziness, victim stunned from the mind blast.
(looks at raws) Force fields are a thin layer of steel tissue, like skin. Skin doesn't show up in body parts list.
And warped flesh is a iron tissue. Obviously those layers don't feel pain or cause bleeding or infected wounds. I guess those don't heal either.
Wonder if one should make a steel-skinned tiger or gorilla... or some demonic animal.
Ooh, now dwarves have [ARMOR:ITEM_ARMOR_BREASTPLATE:FORCED] didn't know FORCED was an option. One could create a new headwear-hat, and force civ X to always wear it.
black bronze, which is really heavy. This any good for warhammers/maces? I usually give up picking heavy blunt materials and just make everything outta steel since im fairly sure theres more to it than just density.
One can test 30 blackbronze-warhammer dwarves versus 30 iron-warhammer dwarves in the area, and see which team has survivors. But I think there won't be much advantage to the heavier hammers.