Heads on a Pike

[aadek 5]

it seems like on a unbutchered body they could easly add if you use a saw on it you can collect the head and combine it with a shaft and then insert it into the ground the decay rate could be high all i care but simple fact of having it would be an amazing thing.

[Deathangel 427]

Suggested before and +1!

[Morrowen 428]

+1 been wanting this for a year.

[Nmenth 83]

After a head decays, it should become a skull on a spike with a much slower decay rate.

[silakka 2,360]

Shouldn't decay after its a skull =)

+1, hope people even start to auction them haha, because of the history behind them.

[Nmenth 83]

Everything should decay

Shouldn't decay after its a skull =)

Everything needs a decay rate, keeps the place clean.

And if you're implying skulls don't decay, they do - just really slowly. If completely exposed to air and weather above ground, bone could decompose in under ten years. Additionally, the wooden spike it was skewered on would decay. Ten Wurm years would be about fourteen Earth months.

[Etherdrifter 2,518]

+1

Sadly this is unlikely to be added.

[Firestarter 1,210]

+1

[Argustin 249]

+1

[Stik 453]

+1

[Army 1,126]

+1

[KanePT 699]

Could use the same mechanic as graves, but use a pike done with carving knife on a shaft, high decay, but you can remember the enemies you've slain.

[silakka 2,360]

Everything should decayEverything needs a decay rate, keeps the place clean.

And if you're implying skulls don't decay, they do - just really slowly. If completely exposed to air and weather above ground, bone could decompose in under ten years. Additionally, the wooden spike it was skewered on would decay. Ten Wurm years would be about fourteen Earth months.

 

Decay is ok if it's like lamp decay, but not the skull vanishing suddenly.

btw it's a game, why always compare to real life haha

[Nmenth 83]

btw it's a game, why always compare to real life haha

Because real life is the best place to acquire information about how worlds and laws of nature actually work. Since Wurm looks and behaves mostly like you'd expect a world to behave, then it is apparent this game is not intended to be a parody of reality. If not intended as a joke on physics, then it should adhere to the concept of suspension of disbelief, which is based on reality as we perceive it.

Real life should be used as a foundation for any game that wants to be taken seriously. This foundation can be tweaked to form a new world, but the farther you get from the place of origin, the more ridiculous you become and people will start inventing stupid words like 'wogic' to describe the absurdity. It is shameful, in my opinion, to want Wurm to embrace 'wogic' rather than attempt to avoid invoking it as much as possible, unless you want Wurm to become a game nobody will ever take seriously.

If real bone takes ten years to decay, then that seems like a perfect starting place. Game mechanics, balance, or other such issues can then move that time frame in either direction. If there is no reason to not make bone decay at a rate consistent with reality, why not make it decay at a rate consistent with reality?

[Valdor 1,426]

Hehe, this is actually a neat suggestion. I am in!

 

+1

[Steveleeb 1,067]

bump

 

[Mclovin 2,591]

+1...But can you keep the name if you mouse over or examine xD 

[Aeryck 862]

I don't pvp yet but pvp trophies seem like a great idea. Ears, scalps, fingers, skulls +1

[Makarus 458]

Realism: brown bear wasn't interested in seal corpse.

Irl i would be dead, bear would have two meals.

Realism is a footnote in wurm.

[nicedreams 1,035]

+1  Chaos/Epic only.

[Andromas 76]

+1 (Something to do with dead guards )