All sandworms died

[Person]

I'm a level 16 Dwarf Arcane Blade exploring the sandworm maze on level 5, when all of a sudden no more sandworm tunnels appear on my mini-map. I can't escape the small room I'm in so thank goodness the two staircases are next to eachother because I had to use several lucky chances with a phase door scroll to make it past the level and back. I think all the sandworms died because no matter how long I rest, no tunnels appear and using sense shows nothing. Perhaps this is allowed to happen from the sandworms getting poisoned from the traps, but it probably shouldn't or I might have been trapped forever!

[registeringislame]

I think they need to occasionally spawn if there aren't enough on the map.

[darkgod]

How long did you stay on the level ?

[PowerWyrm]

Is there something like immunities in the current code? If yes, the easiest way to avoid this should be to make sandworm burrowers immune to poison...

[darkgod]

Yeah I jsut made t hem invulnerable, but still they have over 10Khp, how long did you wait for them to die ?

[Polemarch]

The sandworms lose ~half their health when a tunnel collapses on them. I think this happens if they unluckily go into a "clear" spot that was tunneled by another worm a while ago, and then it collapses on them right after.

I think the most common scenario for their death is:
- 1 tunnel collapse -> 50% HP
- A bit of regen -> 52% HP
- 1 more tunnel collapse -> 2% HP
then die from another tunnel collapse or poison

[darkgod]

Ah yeah collapsing could kill them...
Ok they are invulnerable now

[Person]

Ya, I was training for a long time in anticipation for the boss, I just found it weird how they all died at around the same time, and none of them came back even after level decay.

[darkgod]

Yeah level decay wont regen them.
They are a precious ressource

[Gwai]

Hurrah for invulnerable to collapse (and poison?) sandworms. Now I will actually be able/willing to do the lair!

[darkgod]

[mirrizin]

What Gwai said.

[mirrizin]

Just saw a sandworm get killed by a collapsing tunnel. Here's the stdout:

AI took for target 52599 blue jelly :: 917 Boomer 52 < 400
[PROJECTOR] starting dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] after difficulty dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] res 0 1 on dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] final dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] starting dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] after difficulty dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] res 0 1 on dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] final dam 9.5
removeTempVal stunned 1 :=: 1
delTmpVal stunned 1
[PROJECTOR] starting dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] after difficulty dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] res 0 1 on dam 9.5
[PROJECTOR] final dam 9.5
207 ticks in 10.111 seconds = 20.4728 TPS
[LOG] The unstable sand tunnel collapses!
[PROJECTOR] starting dam 5071.5
[PROJECTOR] after difficulty dam 5071.5
[PROJECTOR] res 0 1 on dam 5071.5
[PROJECTOR] final dam 5071.5
[LOG] Unstable sand tunnel hits sandworm burrower for #aaaaaa#5071.50
[LOG] physical damage#LAST#.

[darkgod]

?? in beta6?

[Gwai]

Yes, that was beta6. They still get poisoned too, though I guess that's as big a deal.