Intelligent monster

An intelligent monster is, a non-animal, non-mindless monster that has hands. There is no actual flag for intelligence in the source code; however, certain behaviors such as monster item use are allowed only if a monster is non-animal, non-mindless and has hands.

Certain monsters could be considered "intelligent" based on their mental capacity (non-animals who have a mind). To an observer, though, they appear the same as an animal or mindless monster because they do not have hands and so they cannot use items or wear armor. Floating eyes and dragons are examples of such monsters. At the moment, this is only because no different monster behavior exists for intelligent but handless monsters.

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