Fall Damage

People are probably going to be split on this (maybe), but I think that fall damage is actually pretty annoying now and needs to be toned down. Sometimes fall damage isn't an issue at all but eventually you run into those pits or cliffs. Or even a 20 block height difference pretty often. I enjoy the momentum I get when I breeze through the land, but this fall damage is like a bonerkill haha.
You take 1 health of damage for just falling around 20 blocks (which increases a lot after that), which might seem like a good balance but that adds up pretty fast, so now I need to take my time with every slightly long fall >.<

 

I think there are some issues with it, like taking damage after pulse jump of a small ledge etc...

 

Before fall damage was pretty binary, you either took almost no damage or suddenly broke every bone in your body.

Now they've scaled it, but I think there needs to be more leeway because I'm sick of taking constant damage just jumping across the landscape.

 

Take 50-100 Bandages with you at all times, there REALLY easy to make now, there only 1 Plant fibre for 1 bandage, and those huge "Plant" trees drop about 10-20, lol and you can EASILY get over 100 in no time, even vines and some crops drop Plant Fibre, even chests sometimes have it lol, so you will always end up with some, and having even 50 lasts you a while, and they heal about 3 bars, after a second or two, since they add a "Regen" effect to you, not instantly heal you, they REALLY help me with travels, fall damage, mobs, nothing can stop me! lol

 

The ol' immortal mummy strategy.

 

Definitely not 1 fibre/bandaid or else I'd have 60 of them. 4:1 ratio amigo.

 

Fall damage is definitely too fiddly for my taste.

 

agree

i found rocket jump just now , use it > land > dead
i guess its April joke of game developer , but we have winter now

 

I have to agree. It seems really excessive now given the amount of traversing I do. I don't want to have to carry a ton of bandages just to make up for the amount of health I lose from falling. It should get toned down a bit.

 

Yeah I think they are using your initial co-od on take off without considering techs at all. Needs some kind of fix.

 

Boots should come with a fall damage reduction stat.

 

Or be built into Techs like pulse jump.

 

I think we should all start with a tech that reduces fall damage by 75%. You'll still learn what distances damage you but it'll be lessened, and you'll also learn about tech.

 

Fall damage is ridiculous, agreed. It needs to do less, or scale better. Some small heights are instantly fatal, where one that looks the same might do nothing at all.

 

Yeah the distance for minimum fall damage could definitely use an increase.

I like that it's scaled now, but I feel they could really bring the bottom end up a few more blocks. Taking damage constantly when exploring from what seem like small drops is pretty annoying.

 

Lol, I'm waiting to see if the implement gravity differences. Can we say 3-block fall deaths?

 

having another tech for damage reduction is absurd , u can use only 1 out of 4 tech
going to inventory mouse pointing to change the tech while in the mid air.... show me that if u have the ballz to do that , only real pros can do that

here is example

 

I actually really hope they do that, and have it affect jump height, arrow arcing, maybe even gun range. It'd be pretty fantastic, and make different worlds feel more different.

 

It is actually based on total air-time, not any sort of vertical differential. This is why you can get knocked for a long horizontal distance but descend only a few blocks in height and still die.

(Fall damage is a stupid anachronism that needs to go, but hey.)

 

I agree so much with this. I expect people to give reasons why fall damage needs to stay and say i am wrong but fall damage only effects the player not monsters and what "fun" does it add? Who here jumps around, hurting their character and finds that to be entertaining? Oh but hellevators you say, you can still build those with enough wooden planks anyway so it doesn't stop that. Even Terraria which has fall damage has many ways to prevent it or remove it entirely.

Even more annoying is the cheap shots that happen as a result of fall damage. Everyone has had this at least once right? Jumping up a steep cliff like hill then SUDDENLY monster appears! It has some kind of charge attack or hits you so hard you go careening backwards either killing you outright or leaving you with so little health that even as you do mash the bandage button, it comes flying at you all piss & vinegar and finishes the job.