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[Sit_Rom.exe]

Why do the bite/injection attacks of snake-people seem so ludicrously underpowered?

The DF wiki (http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Syndrome) says that all variants of black mamba venom cause complete paralysis and unconsciousness, along with a bunch of other fun symptoms, with a quick onset, yet somehow this turkey that I've been stalking can take 20+ bites worth of Black Mamba man venom without even slowing down...

Do you guys know why this is happening?

[FakerFangirl]

It is a turkey king, and as royalty, as been gradually fed increasing doses of black mamba venom ever since childhood in order to raise its immunity to possible assassination attempts?

[IndigoFenix]

Adventure mode syndromes work 72 times slower than in fortress mode.  This can have some odd effects, the most relevant being that even though that turkey will die from the venom eventually you will have to stalk it for a very long time before it does.

To make combat-relevant syndromes work properly in both modes you can mod their timing for adventure mode (by dividing all their timers by 72) and then add DWF_STRETCH:72 after them to slow down the effect in fort mode so they don't take effect instantly.  However vanilla mode does not do this, so all poisons are broken for adventurers.

[Sit_Rom.exe]

Adventure mode syndromes work 72 times slower than in fortress mode.  This can have some odd effects, the most relevant being that even though that turkey will die from the venom eventually you will have to stalk it for a very long time before it does.

To make combat-relevant syndromes work properly in both modes you can mod their timing for adventure mode (by dividing all their timers by 72) and then add DWF_STRETCH:72 after them to slow down the effect in fort mode so they don't take effect instantly.  However vanilla mode does not do this, so all poisons are broken for adventurers.

I see, well that sounds easy enough to fix...

Thanks for the answer stranger...