Camwoodstock
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How would I make an NPC be immune to briar?

In the sense that, I can put it on Briar, or Briar wouldn't grow on the tile it occupies. Beethro could, of course, grab a Pickaxe and cut the briar, and then destroy the NPC. Destroying them would be necessary for clearing the room.

I want to make an NPC for a level I'm making that works like this. How'd I do that?

P.S. If this can't be done with current scripting... Well, it should totally be added someday. Possibly in an update to DROD's engine.

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Nuntar
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There's only one way to do this, and it's a clumsy hack: Invisible + Ghost Display.

This won't prevent briar occupying its tile. If you want that too, you have to check every turn for briar on the tile, and remove it if it appears.

Invisible will also make Beethro able to step on, or put his sword on, the character with no effects. To make the character act "solid", you have to: (1) Have another character that, every turn, stores Beethro's position in custom variables. Your NPC should then "Wait for player to touch me" followed by returning Beethro to the tile he just occupied.
(2) Also have your character check, every turn, whether Beethro's sword is on his tile, and if so, use Imperative Die. (3) Don't use any mimics / other sworded entities / other weapons together with this character, unless you're prepared to do a lot more scripting.

Yeah, I agree it would be nice to have a simple "Imperative Invulnerable to briar" to avoid all this. Maybe we'll get it in a future version.

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blorx1
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An alternative hack that might be more restrictive is to build hot tile underneath the character. I think there might be a way to restore most tiles that the character steps off, but it means that you wouldn't be able to use said character with things like doors.

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Chaco
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It might be simpler to just make the NPC invulnerable, but then, on its turn, have it check to see whether the player is stabbing it (is adjacent to it and is facing the appropriate direction to have their weapon on top of it), and if so, kill themselves off appropriately.

Note that invulnerable NPCs can't be required targets, and this wouldn't take into account things like doubles, guards/slayers/adders, bombs/hot tiles/fire traps, etc. which wouldn't be able to kill the NPC, so it would have to be designed around by not including those elements. But, it might be easier to script.

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Xindaris
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The problem to begin with is that "invulnerable" to the DROD engine really means "invulnerable, but not to briar". It's why the blocks in Blockerture die to briar. If for some reason the proposed creature doesn't ever need to move then a hot tile or cracked wall under it (depending on what it's supposed to behave like) would be best for not screwing with briar growth timing mechanics.

Feel free to put up a feature request for "Imperative: isn't hurt by briar" if you'd like.

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