vittro
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This snake's weak point is the tail.

Beethro : "Huh? Isn't it similar to the blue snake?"

Great observation, Beethro! But your sword can't cut it's tail! S

Beethro : "How to kill it then?"

Well, you know how to manipulate snakes, right? Let it eat his own tail. Istant kill.

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Basically, the snake must eat his tail to die istantanly.

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Would it shrink if it gets caught in its body, like an adder? What if it gets caught in a permanent dead end?

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He shouldn't shrink, and if he's caught in a dead end, good work, you lose the room. It gives ideas to a lot of puzzles.

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One thing I've gotta say... What's going to be yellow tar? If your wondering why I'm saying this it's because,

(blue) Tar, Rattlesnake.
(red) Mud, Serpent.
(green)Gel, Adder.
And so on, and so on.
But my opinion I really like new ideas!

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Okay, but could one eat another's tail?

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roach strangler wrote:
One thing I've gotta say... What's going to be yellow tar? If your wondering why I'm saying this it's because,

(blue) Tar, Rattlesnake.
(red) Mud, Serpent.
(green)Gel, Adder.
And so on, and so on.
But my opinion I really like new ideas!

But the first DROD game had only a red snake and blue tar.


And @ Someone Else, not to speak for the TC, but I think there would be more potential if they could eat eachother's tail. Let's see what vittro says.

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And how exactly do you propose killing this thing?

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The snake can't ever eat its own tail once it shrinks down to length 3, unless it can move over itself or something non-serpent/rattleserpent/adderserpent-like.

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vittro
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@Someone Else : Sure he could, and it will add other puzzle potential.

@Chaco : That form should be illegal in the editor. That's why I thought they should kill instantanely.

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Ah, I get it. You don't need it to keep eating its own tail over and over again until it gets down to length 1 before it dies, it just needs to eat its own tail once (or get its tail eaten by another) and it dies all at once. That's much better.

The 3-length and 2-length snakes should still be preserved, however, as they are long monsters that can only be killed by bomb or by bridge-dropping.

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Yeah. You're right, it would be cool to have a snake only killable by bombs. And I had some ideas for puzzles :

*Guide the snake in a labyrinth without makeing it stuck or without makeing it eat his tail.
*Use horde control to don't let snake eat his tail...

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Chaco wrote:
The 3-length and 2-length snakes should still be preserved, however, as they are long monsters that can only be killed by bomb or by bridge-dropping.

Or perhaps each other -- what happens when one of them chews another's tail? Does one die, and which one?

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I already said that a Tail-Eater can kill another Tail-Eater biting his tail.

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