[0.9.060-PUBLIC#3518] Uveto: Bitterly Cold Doesn't Damage

[Theron]

Uveto's surface doesn't cause damage, no matter how little Freezing Resist Steele has. Even a full inventory of Lucinite (-1000%) doesn't make a difference.

Credit to RandomPLayer and frcwngs on the Blog.

 

[lowercase_donkey]

This took a while to figure out. The code that cause damage to a player is actually quite complex, and at some point for "safety's sake" someone set it up to silently fail if there was no attacker doing the damage. IMHO it's better to fail loud in those cases so we can fix it.

In this case, it's environmental damage, so there's no creature to blame.

I remove the silent failure code, and uveto now does cold damage again. However, it's possible that this may expose more crashes elsewhere.

 

[Shade177]

I know this is a fairly recent post but I'm still getting this on 0.9.061-PUBLIC #3553. I couldn't find where to post the bug report other than here. Is there anything that I can do to fix this or do I have to wait till it gets patched out?

 

[Theron]

Is there anything that I can do to fix this or do I have to wait till it gets patched out?

If you look at lowercase_donkey's reply, it's after the 0.9.061 hotfix was released (Saturday). They've been consistently updating on Thursdays recently, so we're a bit late. Not by too much, I hope.