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Dwarf Fortress => DF Bug Reports => Topic started by: Mechanoid on December 02, 2006, 03:33:00 am

Title: Adventure - Holding more then you should [pic]
Post by: Mechanoid on December 02, 2006, 03:33:00 am

A very easilly reproducable bug.

By placing multiple objects in a container, and then emptying the container one item at a time by removing it's contents, you can hold several objects in each hand at once.

For instance:
The player can hold one water skin in each hand. However, if the player takes 3 water skins and stuffs them into a 4th, the player can remove the 3 water skins at a time and end up holding 2 in each hand.

Very likely, the player can hold several weapons in this manner, being able to attack for massive damage (three masterpeice weapons? in one hand?! made of adamantium!? rofl.)

A picture of the bug:
(http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/994/multigraspbughe0.png)

[ December 02, 2006: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

Title: Re: Adventure - Holding more then you should [pic]
Post by: Abyssal Squid on December 02, 2006, 01:37:00 pm

In my experience, you will only ever attack with one weapon at a time.  Although being able to hold two barrels with one hand is pretty silly, as is storing barrels in goblets, I don't have much trouble holding, say, two cans with one hand.  This seems to be more that objects don't have size than that you can hold more than one object in each hand.

Title: Re: Adventure - Holding more then you should [pic]
Post by: PvK on December 02, 2006, 03:02:00 pm

Won't there eventually be game reasons for holding items in hand that would have unpredictable results to allow multiple items held?

That is, although literally it might be quite possible to hold several small items in a hand, isn't the meaning of having an item in hand in the game, that that is the item selected for use?

Even if you only attack with one weapon at a time, having several in hand might make it so you only lose one weapon when you drop it or it gets stuck in a target.

What happens if you hold four shields at once?

In any event, it seems like a bug.

Title: Re: Adventure - Holding more then you should [pic]
Post by: Toady One on December 02, 2006, 07:41:00 pm

There are 4 reqs related to these things.  I don't want to deal with it until the combat arc.  You are definitely supposed to be able to hold multiple objects (like you can hold a handful of rings in real life), but it doesn't clearly handle wields or wields with multiple hands.  There's also the capacity issue of course.