For whatever reason this mod doesn't work anymore.

I remember when they added touch damage, I was mad, I complained in the forums, but sadly, they shat their bed and wanted to lie in it, instead of having every monster need to use an attack animation to damage you, they simply needed to intersect you. That was the beginning of the end really.

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thanks

In exactly 2 more days, it will have been 3 years since the last Starbound update which was the 1.4 Bounty Hunter update on 14th June 2019

Given that starbound hasn't updated in god knows how long, I'm not quite sure what would break it aside from other mods that may overwrite the vanilla mob code I've already overwritten. I may give a look into a more complicated solution than my little hacky fix, the problem is that certain mobs only have touch damage, and if I broadly cut out touch damage, it would be detrimental to certain enemies, like the Erchius ghost. However if I don't have a broader solution that affects the entire game, enough enemies are unaffected whether due to being sourced by mods, or affected by mods that this may as well be obsolete. I can consider doing a set of compatibility mods that would edit the most popular set, but that would be more maintenance than I'm invested in. To be quite honest, I just gave in to letting touch damage go on years ago after getting into FU, when I even play the game.

its not working anymore :c

Yo, I just noticed that this got updated! Gonna try it out tomorrow.

alright

Only affects base game mobs and does not affect frackin universe mobs, unfortunately.

this work with FU?

Combo move is possible thanks to this MOD

I've uploaded a revised version. Please test and let me know how it works and if there is any new issues. I've added touch damage to mobs that only have attacks that involve charging or swooping, etc. I can't find where baseSkills is defined yet, so I can't tell if certain attacks are able to deal damage on their own, or if they're just a movement that attempts to make you take touch damage.

I'm going to be honest, I haven't touched this mod since I made it three years ago- and the rare times I played starbound again it wasn't functioning with my mods so I just wrote it off as broken and dropped it. Since I've got a few people asking for changes to this, I'll take a look at it and have a revised version out in a few days. I honestly didn't expect anyone to use this aside from me and people I played with but if it's out there I might as well take care of it. Expect an update soon, thank you for reporting the issues

This mod disables attacks of mobs that require touch damage, such as the batongs as a quick example...
https://starbounder.org/Batong

In addition, please enable contact damage on monsters that really do have no attack. Examples of such monsters include the cyclops cat guy, the rock thing that hides in the ground, or flying enemies that merely float towards the target such as ghosts.

This mod carries the potential to change the game for the better, and I feel that with a little bit of work, this potential can be unlocked. Don't give up!

I love the idea of taking contact damage off of poptops, those ice ghosts, those robot things, etc. that have their own ways of dealing damage like biting, punching, projectiles, etc.
This gives the player the option to be a little more aggressive, makes daggers not utterly useless, and prevents melee pets from killing theirselves simply by landing attacks.

HOWEVER, this mod causes many monster with more 'primitive' attacks completely harmless, including all procedural mobs and most airborne and aquatic monsters.
To remedy this, please allow monsters that attack with their body (by ramming, jumping on, swooping upon or swimming into) to deal contact damage as they are jumping/swooping/charging/swimming at their targets. (Continued)

that don't require it as a basic attack my ass
NOTHING hurts except projectiles and jumping

^^; damn forgot to test brb

cool

I really like it

Dont Effing touch em then!

my prayers have been answered...

Been tested, it works perfectly with other mods that are affecting hostile mobs.
Single player is guaranteed to work, great mod!