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Staff of change transforms simple mobs into braindead humanoids #9963

Open Hoshi-chan opened 8 years ago

Hoshi-chan commented 8 years ago

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, really, but last night, a scientist got his hands on a staff of change and rendered a wizard's zombies and skeletons totally helpless by transforming them all into docile catbeasts.

I guess it seemed weird since it was turning a simple mob into something other than a simple mob, thereby removing its AI entirely. It makes me wonder if it'd work on objects animated by the staff of change.

Maybe instead of working as intended, or just not working, it could just randomly cycle them through other simple mobs? So it wouldn't be entirely useless, since it could render something incredibly dangerous into something relatively harmless, but it wouldn't be predictable, either.

ComicIronic commented 8 years ago

One of the many things caused by AI being on the mob level rather than any kind of mind-level

Probe1 commented 8 years ago

Like Comic said. If say, an admin takes control of a cat then leaves it then the little cat AI will never restart. It's an issue that applies in a lot of instances.

Shadowmech88 commented 8 years ago

Would probably require a complete rework of mob code to remedy, right?

ComicIronic commented 8 years ago

takes work

Literally never happening. We're getting new hats from cargo instead.

Shadowmech88 commented 8 years ago

Law of Triviality and all that.