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Caravel Forum : DROD Boards : Feature Requests : Failed Raft Movement "Bumps" Heavy Entities/Tiles (UI indication when something is weighing down a raft)
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Chaco
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Sometimes the player (or a mimic, NPC, etc.) tries to move a platform or raft, and there's no terrain in the way of the raft, but the raft still can't move because there is something heavy on it (tarstuff, a serpent, a rock giant, a gentryii head, etc.)

It could be nice to add an animation for this to highlight the heavy tiles/enemies - I'm thinking the "bump" effect in the same direction as the player tried to move might work for this. So e.g. the player tries to move a raft northeast, a Rock Giant is holding down the raft with some or all of its tiles, and the tiles all get bumped to the northeast.

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02-01-2025 at 10:15 PM
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I really like this idea. A short, hundreds of ms tile move in the attempted direction would really drive it home.

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PR (thanks, hyperme!)
02-15-2025 at 07:56 PM
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