Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

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Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Cyprianus » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:58 pm

I observed someone burying corpses at a rapid rate and noticed that they did not have a shovel. These were medium sized bodies. It appears the code does not stop you any longer to remind you to use a shovel.
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Raona » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:37 pm

Confirmed: I've observed this as well.

To check: does this become the case with a sufficient skill level in dig, or is it true no matter what skill one has in dig. Does it make sense at any level of dig skill?
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Namic » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:07 am

I have ran some tests and from what I have found is that it uses the characters str score the higher the strength the larger bodys that can be buried without a shovel.

to repeat fight a larger creature that you cant normally bury without a shovel and then cast bulls strength and then you can bury the corpse with the higher str score.
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Lysha » Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:43 am

Tested with a character that has no training in dig and can still bury corpses at rapid speed with STA cost, of course.
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Moloch » Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:25 am

Resolved.

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Burying a fire with a shovel will now burn you

Post by Gwain » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:14 am

If you try to bury a fire with a shovel, it will now burn you. It only used to burn you if you buried a fire with your bare hands.
You hold a foldable steel shovel in your left hand.
You hear the sound of footsteps from the north-west.
You begin digging...
You burn yourself burying a fire...
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Raona » Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:33 pm

Confirmed: Moloch, could you please reopen this bad boy and report the new problem it seems to have induced? (Er...was there a bugzilla entry? I can't find it!)
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Althasizor » Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:14 pm

This all seems to be working properly now for the most part; However, when using a shovel to bury a fire, there is no echo for it being buried.
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Re: Shovels not needed to bury medium and large corpse

Post by Raona » Mon Jun 18, 2012 11:16 am

I'm guessing the fix to not getting burnt when using a shovel was to simply skip the relevant portion of the bury code that applies when you use your hands. So it is buried instantly, but there is no echo. Moving back to suggestions for a fix to that, though I don't foresee this making the priority cutoff any time soon.

Suggestion: When a fire is buried using a shovel, provide an echo along the lines of
"You quickly extinguish the fire."
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