Suggested by <email deleted> a month ago when he
reported that attempting to unlock a door which was actually a mimic
simply told the player that the door was not locked or that there was
no door. He thought that mimic should take the key/pick/card away from
the hero. This gives a 50% chance for the unlocking tool to be stolen
and become part of the mimic's inventory; it will be dropped when mimic
is killed.
The theft routine has groundwork to be able to be used to take the
hero's wielded or thrown weapon when hitting, but the attack code doesn't
call it so that won't happen (and the theft code hasn't been tested under
that circumstance). I'm not sure whether mimics should be able to grab
weapons, but g.cubes perhaps should, and if puddings could then "pudding
farming" [using a low damage iron weapon to split puddings, yielding tons
of experience, death drops, and #offer fodder when they're killed and
repeatable for as long as at least one pudding is kept healthy enough to
be split again] would become tougher to accomplish. [The item drop and
corpse aspects have been toned down quite a bit since 3.4.3, but with
sufficient patience it is still possible to abuse.]
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