[Weapon suggestion] Monster Hambat

[Nicolews]

I was thinking about the Hambat and it's use of Pig Skins, since I usually don't enjoy killing neutral/friendly mobs like Pigmen, when the idea of a Monster Hambat hit me. Made of 2 Monster Meat, 2 Twigs and 1 Spider Silk; carbon copy of a hambat, but with a slight Sanity drain since it's a Monster item and it's a little easier to get.

Just thought I'd pop the idea here, in cas I wasn't alone in not wanting to kill pigs as much as possible :o)

[Sinister_Fang]

So you're saying you don't kill rabbits or birds for morsels? Or koalafants for meat? Or those pesky gobblers that eat all your berries? Sometimes you gotta do things you don't like if you want to survive. 

Also, you could just give a pig 4 monster meat. Werepigs are considered hostile monsters plus you get all you need for a hambat minus the sticks.

[ScootyPuffJr]

First of all, let me say congratulations on retaining your morality.   I remember back when I was horrified by people murdering and eating butterflies, catcoons, etc.

If there were to be a monster version of the hambat it would probably need to be either more costly or not as good as the regular one, the reason I say that is because the regular one represents a trade-off in resources that monster meat and a silk just don't.  Overall though, nice idea!

[Nicolews]

On 10/11/2016 at 3:01 AM, Sinister_Fang said:

So you're saying you don't kill rabbits or birds for morsels? Or koalafants for meat? Or those pesky gobblers that eat all your berries? Sometimes you gotta do things you don't like if you want to survive. 

Also, you could just give a pig 4 monster meat. Werepigs are considered hostile monsters plus you get all you need for a hambat minus the sticks.

@Sinister_Fang I don't call rabbits, koalefants or (especially) gobblers neutral/friendly :p. Pigs, Catcoons, Rabbits, Rock Lobsters and Beefalos are the ones you can actually befriend

And yup, I do kill the occasional pig when needed, and I use the 4 Monster Meat trick to make sur his death is worth it... But seriously, poisoning the pig with Monster Meat (with his guilt-tripping "I love friend !" barks) until he flips out and I can whack him ?

I don't really have a problem with it but I'd just love to hit my enemies with the bodies of my former enemies rather than with my former friend's

@ScootyPuffJr Maybe a really quicker decay period ?

 

 

 

 

[Ecu]

This wouldn't be balanced really.  Pigs have a 3 day respawn time and Koalefants have to be tracked and hunted.  However, monster meat can be acquired at a massive rate (especially in the case of Webber).  It would just be too easy to acquire to  be an alternative to the ham bat.  Monster meat already kind of breaks the starving aspect of the game quite easily (as it can be made as eggs or used with other meats in cooking).  I don't really see a good reason to give it even more benefits.

[Sinister_Fang]

8 hours ago, Nicolews said:

 I don't call rabbits, koalefants or (especially) gobblers neutral/friendly

So you don't consider these completely innocent creatures to be neutral or friendly? Sorry, I'm not seeing your reasoning here.

8 hours ago, Nicolews said:

I don't really have a problem with it but I'd just love to hit my enemies with the bodies of my former enemies rather than with my former friend's

If you want that feeling then try using a dark sword. You'd literally be killing things with the remains of Them.