Talk:Spotted jelly

Spotted Jelly damage

Every time I get splashed by a spotted jelly it does around 30 damage. Should this be 6d6 acid damage?

76.10.24.2 22:45, 22 June 2008 (UTC)Wolfgang

Good question. The answer is complex. In monst.c, the spotted jelly is listed as doing 0d6 damage; however, the zero in this case is special; monsters with a zero there do (monster level +1) dice damage; uhitm.c, line 2149. This is particular to passive attacks.

For a basic spotted jelly, this would indeed be 6d6 (an average of 21 damage). If you are getting an average of 30 damage, the jelly must be of higher level.

You might find ranged attacks more comfortable.

--Rogerb-on-NAO 12:21, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Petrification Resistance

It appears the proactive nature of the Stoning Resistance from spotted jellies isn't documented here. Should it be?

Messages:

You finish eating the spotted jelly corpse. You feel less concerned about becoming petrified. ... [some number of turns later] ... You no longer feel secure from petrification.

--A1 (talk) 05:08, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

That's temporary intrinsic stoning resistance, an upcoming feature in 3.7, documented at stoning resistance; annoyingly, spotted jellies etc have been marked as conveying stoning resistance for decades, but because that property of their corpses - "conveys stoning resistance" - didn't do anything, the monster templates don't have it. Looks like whatever script populated those templates was special cased to ignore the MR_STONE flag, even though it might have been better to have it in the template but not display it. In any case, once 3.7 comes out, we'll have to manually update all those monsters to reflect that they convey temporary stoning resistance. -Ion frigate (talk) 06:21, 9 September 2024 (UTC)