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Poison on certain mobs needs to be changed

Spiders shouldn't be poison resistant because spiders IRL aren't resistant to their own venom. In fact, the only mobs that should be poison resistant are the undead mobs. Poison and regeneration should have the same effect on undead as instant health and instant damage have. In short, poison should heal undead for x amount of time and regeneration should hurt undead for x amount of time but leaves them with half a heart.

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    Fixed the subject line typo.

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    I agree, these would be very nice changes. Thanks for posting!

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    Sounds cool! 

    I'm on board for this!

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    I actually agree with you mostly because it would be a great game mechanic, but here is a devil's advocate for the current setup:

    The reason healing harms is because healing someone who is dead makes them alive, which means healing undead makes them unalive, or dead. Poison, however, works in the real world by paralyzing tissue, especially muscles and lungs. Seeing as skeletons have neither, they should remain unaffected. If we were to apply poison to zombies, however, in keeping with reality, they'd just become paralyzed, which is simply a confusing mechanic to non-scientists.