floating bug?

[Cocytus]

hey, i was wondering if it is intended to still trigger effects of puddles and deep water (drowning) while being floating via equipment that makes you float.
seems like some sort of oversight/bug tbh.

[unripe mango]

if you are riding a mount, the mount needs to have float, not you

[Cocytus]

well, in my case it's the other way around, i'm floating and my symbiont isn't.
yet my symbiont seems to trigger every puddle and i'm still getting wet/drown whenever i'm "floating" over deep water for a while.

oh and it works perfectly fine fror traps, just everything else seems to be at odds.

[Iyasenu]

What kind of "puddles" are you describing?
Like the little circular ones from thrown potions landing and shattering on the ground or the kind that get left behind while watering crops?
Or like puddles of actual water tiles (like 1-deep).

Because levitation and floating does not stop you from stepping into actual water tiles and getting wet and will not save you from deep water and suffocation.

It's only for traps/splashed liquids on solid ground.

You should be able to tell levitation is working because something like *float* will appear in the message log.

If you want to be able to go through deep water more safely, train the Swimming skill and/or bring objects that float on water to create temporary safe spots to catch your breath (some items, like those Palulu coconut-looking things float and you can stand on).
If you want to be able to go through deep water completely safely, you'll need a piece of equipment that lets you breathe underwater.

[Cocytus]

well, by puddles i mean the ones left behind by watering crops and thrown potions, since it simply doesn't make sense that you can savely float over traps but a thin layer of some water instantly hits you.

same for the actual water tiles in a way, i mean how could you get wet or even drown when you're supposedly floating above the surface?

[Iyasenu]

Levitation does work on the potion puddles, at least.
I just checked to be sure.

But yeah, whether it makes sense or not, it's intended that actual deep water is not bypassed using simple Levitation effects.

[Cocytus]

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Levitation does work on the potion puddles, at least.
I just checked to be sure.

well then i'd really want to know why my symbiont always get's afflicted by any and all of them, like i said, i'm floating and it's working fine on traps, as in neither i nor my symbiont trigger them, yet puddles always activate on my symbiont^^

[Iyasenu]

Originally posted by Cocytus:

Originally posted by Iyasenu:

Levitation does work on the potion puddles, at least.
I just checked to be sure.

well then i'd really want to know why my symbiont always get's afflicted by any and all of them, like i said, i'm floating and it's working fine on traps, as in neither i nor my symbiont trigger them, yet puddles always activate on my symbiont^^

Weird, I was Riding and Hosting when I checked.
None of us got affected.

What kind of levitation effect are you using?
I used a spell of Levitation.
Who is your Symbiote? They didn't have some sort of debuff that grounds them, like Gravity or something, do they?

[Cocytus]

i got a cloak and a belt that makes me float, my symbiont is a red drake and i'm pretty sure it wasn't afflicted by the gravity spell, at least not every time it triggered the puddles as the enemies that use the gravity spell are quite rare (i actually only remember big daddies casting it)

[Iyasenu]

Hmm, from equipment?

Maybe that is it?
When you cast a Levitation spell on yourself while Riding and Hosting, it also applies levitation to your Mount and Symbiote, for free.

Hm, yeah, I just tested again.
I unhosted, cast Levitation on myself and my mount and popped a potion puddle down.
I rehosted and, though me and my mount were Levitating, the Symbiote wasn't and triggered the puddle.

Then I did the opposite afterwards.
I dismounted, cast levitate on me and my symbiote, then remounted and stepped onto a potion puddle.
This time, the potion affected me, not my mount and not my symbiote.

Then finally I completely separated from everything and just levitated myself, before remounting/rehosting.
Same result, just I was affected.

As for why this whole time your non-levitating symbiote never triggered traps...
Maybe it was luck?
Or, you being on top of a trap and automatically attempting to disarm it took priority over it activating? I can't say for sure.

[Cocytus]

umm yea...
symbionts are basically riding you (even seen when removing them by their little texts like "give me a ride again some time"), so if you're levitating they should as well, just like with your mount, if it is levitating so are you.
so the traps definitely work as intended, while it keeps bugging out on puddles