<![CDATA[Negative damage on some hits]]><quote>> Continued with a different bug - When shooting arrows, I hit him with 3. Out of them, 2 did the normal damage, however, 1 did NEGATIVE damage, and actually healed him. So, just a thought on why that happened?</quote>

OK this happens VERY rarely, but for some reason in the calculation for damage, every once in a long while you actually hit for negative damage. Very weird. I put some tracking in the logfiles that looks like this:

damage right before hurting: negative dam, ch a black kitten, damage -12, dt 217, dam_type 20, victim Thorin

I ran th rough the code about a million times and can't see what is causing it. We could put in a hack to set the damage to positive, but I would rather resolve the problem. Areo, can you have a look at this section of the code and see if you can spot anything that I didn't?

]]>https://forum.v2.sentiencemud.net/topic/366/negative-damage-on-some-hitsRSS for NodeWed, 15 Apr 2026 22:48:20 GMTSat, 29 Apr 2006 19:30:08 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Negative damage on some hits on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 23:23:07 GMT]]>While on the topic of DAMAGE… you might want to check into the problem with having negative DAMROLL. The code (according to what I've seen on stat mob) performs a log() on the damroll and massages it to get the effective damroll. Well, if you have negative damrolls, that causes log() to go undefined, reading as infinite. I assume the code puts a cap on this as I've only seen reports of the damage being ~5k damage per HIT.

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