MMMiracles wrote:
Over numerous rounds, I have tested it, with lavatiles, chasm tiles, bars of soap, bananas peels, and bear traps. All of them are triggered by jump booting over them. I was told by coderbus that they are supposed to let you avoid tile hazards, and that simply is not the case. They would see a great deal more use by miners if they actually did what they are supposed to do.
Jump boots just throw your character, so anything that checks for throwing when crossed makes you safe. They originally had a lava-proofing upgrade via vendor that let you cross lava but my method was too snowflake-y (even though jaunters did the same for chasms), and my only other choice was to make all things thrown lava-safe. I did not want to force such a huge balance change into a simple content PR, so I scraped it.
Also I couldn't reproduce the issue with chasms, they worked just fine on the latest branch.
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I don't see why having something that is thrown over the lava not start to combust be... snowflakey. Seriously, you are being thrown OVER the lava. Yeah, if you try to jump too far a gap you are going to be fucked, but seriously, I don't see why throw items should get damage, since they are not actually touching the flesh melting lava at any point during the trip. Only "balance issue" I see with that is miners throwing one another over the lava to quickly let one of them bypass it. That'd be really useful. And it could also royally fuck over a miner, because suddenly they are seperated from their squad by a river of lava that they others need to find a way to ford across.