Talk:Purple worm

I was playing around with being a purple worm, and as I killed a creature, I picked up the items it dropped. As a long worm though, i could not pick up anything. WTF? Can someone explain this and post it on here so more people don't freak out? Elven2006 21:40, March 9, 2010 (UTC)

Some monsters, mostly snakelike ones such as snakes and nagas, have the M1_NOTAKE flag which means that they cannot pick up items, and thus, you cannot pick up items if you are polymorphed into one. Somewhat counter-intuitively, long worms have that flag but purple worms don't; sometimes, the devs work in mysterious ways. But, the behavior is consistent with the source code. As soon as you revert to your normal form, or change into something else that doesn't have that flag, you will be able to pick up items again. -Ion frigate 22:42, March 9, 2010 (UTC)