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There seems to be some persistent belief that fish heal cats or that they regenerate or something. I don't know about anyone else, but my cats keep doing dumb stuff and dying. If there was a way to heal them I want to know.

So I tested it.

Per the MC Wiki, Ocelots/Cats have 10 Health Points (5 Hearts.)

Per the MC Wiki, Fists do 1 HP of damage (half a Heart) unless it's a critical hit which is accompanied by particle effects, which I did not see during this test.

2 brave cats gave their lives to confirm that they had 10 HP and 10 punches killed them.

1 brave cat took 9 punches (1 remaining LP) was given 4 Raw Fish, I even waited for the heart particles to stop bubbling up before giving each additional Raw Fish, in case it was "healing over time." 1 additional punch still killed it.

The test cats would not accept anything but Raw Fish, they only toggle sit/stand state when right clicked with Cooked Fish, Raw or Cooked Pork, Raw or Cooked Beef. (I didn't try Rotten Meat or Spider Eyes but those aren't exactly supposed to be healthy.)

As a final test of all tests, I took a final freshly tamed cat and punched it 9 times (leaving 1 HP,) and:

1.) Gave it 4 Raw Fish, waiting for the particle effect to finish between them,
2.) Had it mate with another cat and produce a kitten, in case that had some restorative effect;
3.) Had it sit there for 25 minutes (2.5 game days, long enough for any reasonable natural regeneration to happen certainly for *at least* 1 HP one would think;

AAAnnnndddd....the cat still died with one additional punch. After all that time and method, the initial 9 HP damage and the final 1 HP damage still offed it.

Conclusions:

1. Fish don't heal cats, they just tame them and make them fertile.

2. Fish neither heal instantly or over the duration of the particle effect.

3. Mating doesn't have a restorative effect on an injured cat.

4. Cats don't appear to heal naturally over time, unless it's a very long cycle (less than 1 HP in 2.5 game days.)

Now I need to watch some cartoons or something because I killed a bunch of cats in a video game.
Of course I felt the same when I tested healing of meat on dogs and I guess I'm just an evil scientist.

Can anyone else think of something to test? Should I go for longer time to test for regen? I can't picture them regenerating slower than 1 HP in 2.5 game days, I mean at that point why bother to have a regen.

put links to your threads in your sig, so wherever your posts are, there are links to the topics you care about?

Pfft I've had these symptoms ever since I started playing Bard's Tale on my Commodore 64 before quite a few of you were born. My addiction moved to the internet when I signed up for Everquest in the 90's.

You get used to the symptoms eventually. Sleep is overrated.

Internet addiction is also overhyped. I spend a lot of time online. I also have a fulltime job, pay my taxes and vote. I don't have a marriage to wreck and I don't have children to neglect.

One of the benefits of being an adult is being able to do whatever the (ahem) you want with your free time.

also you might note that game is BETA.

because...when swimming up a waterfall you have buoyancy?

if they are missing any health at all, right clicking with a cooked or raw pork chop heals them.
if they are full health, right click makes them sit regardless of if you are holding a pork chop.

See the picture in the thread in my sig to tell what their tail is saying about their health. If it's above horizontal, they are full health.

What the topic says. Lowest health before death is at the left end, 6 different tail angles, right end is full health. You cannot waste raw pork, if they are full health, trying to right click them with pork just makes them sit like any other generic right click on a tame wolf.

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It probably would have been better to just have a 40+ and split up the lower demographics. Not many people are going to be 40+. I voted anyway.

Yeah I was back and forth on the ranges, but I'm old, so I went with "really young, young, older....really older. Kind of zero to early teen, teen to the generic age of majority, then by tens.

You only get 10 poll choices.

Also, there are actually old game players. I went to a few game conventions and you'd be surprised who plays MMORPGs.

Been looking into coming up with and putting on a new player skin, how do people take pics of their characters like I see in the board icons? I checked what I could find about the camera controls in the Minecraft wiki, is there any way ingame to see yourself from the front, aside from the little image on the inventory screen?

Thanks!

(guess I'll probably wind up trying to modify the armor too since normally, you can't see much of yourself, skinned or not, while wearing it.)

is this a problem? A few torches keep the Creeper away, that's what me mum used to say.