Ripple quotes seem to be misleading

[Terser]

Characters say stuff like "I need something stronger!" when trying to hit ripple and failing, but there's nothing stronger that can hit ripple if it isn't stunned currently. Maybe the quotes could hint at needing to stun it with an obstacle instead?

[Semind]

While true, I'm sort of holding onto hope that the early speculation pans out and that a theoretical shadow-side counterpart to W.A.R.B.O.T winds up dropping a tool that can harvest from Ripple without requiring toppling. It would also answer the question of "What are we supposed to do if Ripple destroys every Boulderbough, since he's currently destroying their seeds as well"

In fact, if it winds up true that you can bypass the need to topple Ripple with some kind of ultimate final shadow tool™, it would make it seem intentional that Ripple deletes Boulderboughs, since we currently see a lot of instances of "this resource is limited by design, unless you cross a world progression milestone at which point it becomes more readily accessible"

If this wild, fantastical delusion bears out in reality, it'll turn out that the quotes are only momentarily incorrect.

[Terser]

33 minutes ago, Semind said:

It would also answer the question of "What are we supposed to do if Ripple destroys every Boulderbough, since he's currently destroying their seeds as well"

pretty sure they changed that in a patch soon after release and it doesn't do that anymore, you get the seed back

[Schry]

Now Ripple hitting Boulderbough will not destroy the seed.

[-Variant]

5 hours ago, Semind said:

While true, I'm sort of holding onto hope that the early speculation pans out and that a theoretical shadow-side counterpart to W.A.R.B.O.T winds up dropping a tool that can harvest from Ripple without requiring toppling. It would also answer the question of "What are we supposed to do if Ripple destroys every Boulderbough, since he's currently destroying their seeds as well"

Ripple checks for a 'toughfighter' tag, something supposedly attached to a tool or weapon that simply doesn't exist right now.
I assume the quotes are in reference to that, be it cut/scrapped content, or something upcoming.

Quote

    if self.tough and
        not (attacker ~= nil and attacker:HasTag("toughfighter")) and --TODO reuse toughworker?
        not (weapon ~= nil and weapon.components.weapon ~= nil and weapon.components.weapon:CanDoToughFight())
        then
        return true, nil
    end

 

[ZeRoboButler]

Do we have any way at present to lure ripple? I Imagine the thurible would be great for it, or having some sort of interaction that makes it suck up some of the miasma. 

[-Variant]

13 hours ago, ZeRoboButler said:

Do we have any way at present to lure ripple? I Imagine the thurible would be great for it, or having some sort of interaction that makes it suck up some of the miasma. 

Not currently, no, but there is a "Run away" brain priority and a dev note suggesting it could be scared of Lunar material. Something for the future?

Quote

local PRIORITY_BEHAVIOURS = {
    RUN_AWAY    = 3, --Scared of lunar stuff?
    CHARGING    = 2,
    EATING      = 1,
    WANDERING   = 0,
    STUCK       = -1, --For when we can't even find a good spot to wander to, set ourselves lower and pray the other head can find a way out
}

 

[Hungry French]

On 10/5/2025 at 2:29 PM, Terser said:

Characters say stuff like "I need something stronger!" when trying to hit ripple and failing, but there's nothing stronger that can hit ripple if it isn't stunned currently. Maybe the quotes could hint at needing to stun it with an obstacle instead?

They should say "This weapon will be added in the next update"