Slime Pits

[brendan]

I'd like to propose spicing up Slime by changing how monsters spawn. Rather than placing slimes on the level, I believe it would be flavorful and tactically interesting if slimes budded out of the walls. Wall color can be used to indicate if a slime is going to bud. With some chance, the wall itself will be replaced with an empty dungeon floor. Wandering slimes could merge into walls, possibly creating new slimy walls in the process.

I don't foresee a radical change in difficulty -- the walls of slime are already horrifying!

Praise be to Jiyva.

(Yeast reproduce by a budding process called shmooing.)

[Bim]

Good Idea, It could work well, but would they come out unaware of your presence? also, I suppose a cap would need to be placed on how many would come out, and I can't see how many you'd see 'bud' unless they came from your immediate area, and that might become difficult balance wise.

[XuaXua]

On the death of the Royal Jelly, either the schmoo rate increases or all walls on all levels schmoo.

[naivE]

How would this work in regards to digging or shatter or LRD? What do you see occurring when a 'pre-budded' wall is destroyed?

[brendan]

How would this work in regards to digging or shatter or LRD? What do you see occurring when a 'pre-budded' wall is destroyed?

Cancelling the spawn seems like the most straight forward approach. Otherwise it could force the spawn to occur immediately, dumping an injured slime into the dungeon. I believe the devteam's position is "fix the monsters we have before adding new ones", but those concerns aside, I can imagine a novel slime for shmooing/wall busting -- proto-slimes that aggregate Slime creature style whereupon they become a proper slime.

dpeg has suggested flagging shmoo slimes as summoned. I believe that this is unnecessarily cruel.