What if fall damage only did %dmg? Unable to kill

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If the most damage a fall could do is like 90% hp then no matter how many times a builder fell they wouldn’t die.

Would that be an improvement?

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IMO if it can’t kill you there’s no reason for fall damage at all.

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Yeah, I am personally ok with it killing me… if I fall from a decent height. What annoys me, and I assume others, it the massive % hit you take to health (especially if you have a lot of it) just by doing something as mundane as running off 1 step.

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Ugh if I had an Oort shard for every time a step or a jump from 2 blocks high have killed me I would run a portal network all by myself

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Then I would be immortal :frowning:

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But see there’s still the critters that can finish you off before you regen health. Then also the people who forgot they had a pesky quirk when at low health will be more likely to see it as well. That is if people still have quirks on their items.

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jumping 2 blocks down from a refined meta rock deals 1 damage per hit. lol

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There’s other things that could kill you at low hp, like enemies, lava, water, meteors, environmental damage.

The point is to make it easier for builders.

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Yes but it will also affect hunters, explorers, miners, gatherers, etc…

There is currently a builders buff to help with this in certain beacons. If this was to be implemented it with helping builders specifically in mind it would need to be something like a beacon feature I suppose.

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Sometimes it’ll do more though. I think your velocity plays into it a lot

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Seems like a decent idea then. Would people really object to reduced fall damage while in a beacon I wonder… would that be too weird or confusing for new players?

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It definitely does.

If you move fast enough horizontally, you can die by slamming into a wall.
Trust me, I’ve done it before.

A lot.

It turns out Destiny 2 fall damage works the same way, which I guess makes both games more realistic in terms of the “I shouldn’t slam into a wall at 75m/s if I want to have bones” factor.

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Having some kind of fall immunity within your own plots might be nice. I would love to just jump down np without having to switch to a grapple every time.

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I’ve asked for this numerous times. Plenty of other games that don’t kill you after falling from great heights. Some games take you to 1 hp at the lowest and some games don’t have fall dmg at all. And they’re definitely way more combat/exploration intensive than boundless.

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What about a defense item but it makes your attack power useless like construction outfit and we add a grapple that works as a fall savety you attach it to an ankor and go to work when you fall you lift yourself back up

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That’d be nice. A passive tether system? Maybe as an epic that also reduced attack?

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I think this is a good place to suggest scaffolding again. I’ve never played Minecraft but I have seen the scaffolding blocks in videos. You build whatever you need to support yourself while building but when you break it the whole thing breaks. I think something like this would fit perfectly in boundless and also prevent many fall deaths while building.

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Are these suggestion in addition to the skill you can get to reduce the damage on falling and the guild buff? cause i dont use either of those and with high health you can fall from pretty far up…

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I mentioned this because I’ve seen multiple people complain about fall damage still for builders.

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Building Safety Helix - "The Buff Machine for Guilds who like to Build and Build high. When active reduces Falling Damage whilst also increasing Block Placement range for Guild or Faction Members. "

It calls out builders and fall damage together, the very thing being asked to change…:thinking:

So its important for clarification because if people are simply not using the skill and not using the guild buff but still complaining about damage it kinda makes there point moot.

I guess really some one should ask:

  • Do you invest in the fall damage reduction skill?
  • Do you invest in vitality to increase your health pool to help buffer the amount of damage you can take?
  • Do you have a guild/faction that can provide the builder safety buff that helps mitigate the fall damage?
  • With the above is fall damage still too much?
  • Are any of the mitigating factors too expensive or simply not worthwhile?

These are all important points that a developer would need to know versus “fall damage sucks remove it”.