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0004058Dwarf FortressCreaturespublic2011-02-22 20:222011-03-02 09:13
ReporterGauHelldragon 
Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
StatusnewResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version
Product Version0.31.19 
Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0004058: Forgotten Beasts/Demons of certain materials are far too weak.
DescriptionCreatures made of things like snow and mud seem way too weak, both in attack and defense. A couple of war dogs were able to defeat a forgotten beast made of snow quickly and without taking any damage. The Forgotten beast's pushes glanced away from the war dogs, and they were able to break off it's tissue easily.

Now I suppose getting hit by a bunch of snow wouldn't do too much damage, nor should it be terribly hard to take one down, so this much makes sense. If snow is supposed to be such a terrible material for a creature to be made of, then Forgotten Beasts probably shouldn't be made of it. They are supposed to be terrifying and hard to kill.. right?
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Tagscombat, forgotten beast, material, snow
Relationships
related to 0003071resolved Toady One All hardcoded materials (glass etc) have uninitialized MAX_EDGE and ABSORPTION and crappy yield/fracture/strain values 
related to 0000033resolved Toady One Bronze colossus, skeletal creatures, fleshballs, and others are impossible to kill 
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Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-02-22 20:22GauHelldragonNew Issue
2011-02-22 20:22GauHelldragonTag Attached: forgotten beast
2011-02-22 20:22GauHelldragonTag Attached: material
2011-02-22 20:22GauHelldragonTag Attached: snow
2011-02-22 20:23GauHelldragonTag Attached: combat
2011-02-22 23:54KogutNote Added: 0015409
2011-02-23 05:48QuietustNote Added: 0015415
2011-02-23 07:19FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0003071
2011-03-02 09:13FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000033

Notes
(0015409)
Kogut   
2011-02-22 23:54   
Cold damage? Maybe it is planned.
(0015415)
Quietust   
2011-02-23 05:48   
Forgotten beasts made of the hardcoded materials (amber, coral, glass, water, coal, ash, etc.) are pathetically weak because said materials have placeholders for all their physical properties (as mentioned in a side note of 0003071, the FRACTURE and YIELD values are 10000 and the STRAIN_AT_YIELD values are 0).