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frodo0800

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Blood sucking creatures
« on: July 24, 2011, 01:20:44 pm »
i was messing arround in  in arena mode and i've noticed that the nightwing bite attack sucks blood from the prey can anyone explain what it causes on the creature wich sucks blood and on the prey?and the blood is stored in the creature?if so where and it can be consumed?
i've noticed that leechmen cannot suck blood is this a bug?
i'm on the newest version.
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2011, 03:45:38 pm »
As far as I know the suck blood thing drains extra blood from the target creature and gives it to the using creature.  Either replenishing their own blood supply or feeding them.  But It's not well documented, and very few creatures actually use it.
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 08:40:32 pm »
Yeah, nobody outside of Toady himself seems to know exactly what the hell it does.
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 01:02:34 am »
Maybe it puts the prey one step closer to death via loss of blood and vice versa for the blood sucker.
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 04:17:43 am »
I'm pretty sure it just removes a small amount of blood from the victim, reduces the attacker's hunger to 0, and adds the event to the combat log.  Those are the things that would make sense, but I don't know for certain. 
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 04:34:58 am »
I heard that the blooc sucking creature can lose horrid amounts of blood and not die if it can suck replacement blood from some poor guy.
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2011, 04:51:54 am »
I'm pretty sure it causes the attackee to lose energy and become progressively more tired. Never the point of dying, as far as I have seen.
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Re: Blood sucking creatures
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 05:35:08 am »
It's VERY possible that Toady has already factored exhaustion rate based on how much blood was lost, so the bloodsucking could just remove a quantity of blood and let things happen on their own.
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