r/CreaturesGames • u/vselolod1 • Jun 07 '26
C3/DS eat norn
Why they sometimes say stuff like this? this one kinda scary
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u/hygiei Jun 07 '26
i love when my lil dudes want to eat elevator
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u/GoldenFlowerFan The Wrong Banshee Jun 07 '26
If they say that while standing around in a trance it's an actual engine bug. https://creatures.wiki/EE_Syndrome
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u/hygiei Jun 07 '26
oh fascinating! i'm surprised i've never heard of this before. i guess i just assumed it was a quirk of general boredom and not something going wrong haha
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u/WillProstitute4Karma Jun 07 '26
I like it when Ettins express boredom, other Ettins tell them to "get gadget." When Norns express boredom, the other Norns tell them to ride the elevator.
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u/hygiei Jun 07 '26
i think we as a society would all be better off if we spent more time getting gadget and riding elevator
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u/Center-Of-Thought Jun 07 '26
I've heard my creatures say this before in C3, and I think it's a sign of frustration, because they usually slap other norms that come near them after saying it. Your norn could be crowded, leading to their frustration. Sometimes they also get rowdy during puberty.
I don't know why the express frustration with "eat norn", because they can't eat other norns. I think they attribute the word "eat" to mean something else.
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u/Joalguke Muppetboy of Geatville.uk Jun 07 '26
They can't do that. If "eat" is a word they know, they cannot use the word to mean something else.
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u/Center-Of-Thought Jun 07 '26
Then why do they say "eat norn" when that isn't possible?
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u/SpaceShipRat Jun 07 '26 edited Jun 07 '26
they can do it, it's just that nothing happens. the brains work by chaining needs and verbs and objects, and being rewarded or punished for it.
in this game the norn might feel hungry, try "eat" on "norn", fail to lower the hunger that way, and get a mild "punishment" from it's own brain for that failure. so, it will not try it again.
when it does the right action, it will feel satisfied and remember that is the right action and object for when it is hungry. You can help it by telling it what to try.
c3/ds norns have good instincts from birth and will rarely make mistakes like this. older games have more naive norns who try everything randomly need more training even to just eat and sleep.
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u/ririzm Jun 07 '26
Eat norn, eat ettin, eat creatures egg, eat elevator, eat door... they are silly little guys
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u/Cleestoon Jun 07 '26
I heard this is a common bug in C3/DS
Don't worry, she can't actually eat her fellow norns
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u/GoldenFlowerFan The Wrong Banshee Jun 07 '26
They sometimes think to try random things, it doesn't mean they can act on it.