0004058: Forgotten Beasts/Demons of certain materials are far too weak.

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0004058

Dwarf Fortress

Creatures

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2011-02-22 20:22

2011-03-02 09:13

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GauHelldragon

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normal

Severity

minor

Reproducibility

always

Status

new

Resolution

open

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Product Version

0.31.19

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0004058: Forgotten Beasts/Demons of certain materials are far too weak.

Description

Creatures 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?

Tags

combat, forgotten beast, material, snow

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related to	0003071	resolved	Toady One	All hardcoded materials (glass etc) have uninitialized MAX_EDGE and ABSORPTION and crappy yield/fracture/strain values
related to	0000033	resolved	Toady One	Bronze colossus, skeletal creatures, fleshballs, and others are impossible to kill

Notes
(0015409) Kogut (reporter) 2011-02-22 23:54	Cold damage? Maybe it is planned.

(0015415) Quietust (reporter) 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).

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-02-22 20:22	GauHelldragon	New Issue
2011-02-22 20:22	GauHelldragon	Tag Attached: forgotten beast
2011-02-22 20:22	GauHelldragon	Tag Attached: material
2011-02-22 20:22	GauHelldragon	Tag Attached: snow
2011-02-22 20:23	GauHelldragon	Tag Attached: combat
2011-02-22 23:54	Kogut	Note Added: 0015409
2011-02-23 05:48	Quietust	Note Added: 0015415
2011-02-23 07:19	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0003071
2011-03-02 09:13	Footkerchief	Relationship added	related to 0000033