How do I make Piranha Plants take multiple hits to be defeated?

[mariobrigade2018]

I discovered that the modern iteration of the Giant Piranha Plants makes them die on 3 hits. How would I add that to the Piranha Plants?

[Cat king]

I'm fairly certain that you can use NPC Config to change the number of hits it takes to defeat. But that might be just for bosses, I've never tried otherwise. in that case then you'll just have to make a script.

[mariobrigade2018]

I'm fairly certain that you can use NPC Config to change the number of hits it takes to defeat. But that might be just for bosses, I've never tried otherwise. in that case then you'll just have to make a script.

That’s the problem. Health only works with boss enemies and CNPCs with that sort of code written in it. And I don’t know what to put there so that it works.

[Emral]

"Modern iteration" of giant piranha plants? SMBX2 uses Redigit's Big Piranha Plants which take6 hits from fireballs, 2 hits from other npcs and 3 hits from link's stab, so this code which roughly translates to this in a npc-n.lua:

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local multihit = {}

function multihit.onNPCHarm(e, v, r, c)
	if v.id == NPC_ID then
		if r ~= 1 and r ~= 2 and r ~= 6 then
			v.data.hits = v.data.hits or 0
               		if v.ai3 <= lunatime.tick() then -- invulnerability frames
                    		if r == 3 then -- npc hit
                        		if c and c.isValid and type(c) == "NPC" and c.id == 13 then
                            			SFX.play(39)
                            			v.data.hits = v.data.hits + 1
                           			v.ai3 = lunatime.tick() + 10
                           			if v.ai2 == 2 then v.ai1 = 50 end -- this is for retracting into the pipe. the current basegame plants might use a different variable for this
                        		else
                            			v.data.hits = v.data.hits + 3
                            			SFX.play(39)
                           			v.ai3 = lunatime.tick() + 30
                           			if v.ai2 == 2 then v.ai1 = 50 end -- this is for retracting into the pipe. the current basegame plants might use a different variable for this
                        		end
                   		elseif r == 10 then -- link stab
                        		v.data.hits = v.data.hits + 2
                           		v.ai3 = lunatime.tick() + 10
                           		if v.ai2 == 2 then v.ai1 = 50 end -- this is for retracting into the pipe. the current basegame plants might use a different variable for this
                    		end
               		end
                	If v.data.hits < 6 then e.cancelled = true end
		end
	end
end

registerEvent(multihit, "onNPCHarm")

return multihit

[mariobrigade2018]

"Modern iteration" of giant piranha plants? SMBX2 uses Redigit's Big Piranha Plants which take 6 hits from fireballs, 2 hits from other npcs and 3 hits from link's stab, so this code which roughly translates to this in a npc-n.lua:

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local multihit = {}

function multihit.onNPCHarm(e, v, r, c)
	if v.id == NPC_ID then
		if r ~= 1 and r ~= 2 and r ~= 6 then
			v.data.hits = v.data.hits or 0
               		if v.ai3 <= lunatime.tick() then -- invulnerability frames
                    		if r == 3 then -- npc hit
                        		if c and c.isValid and type(c) == "NPC" and c.id == 13 then
                            			SFX.play(39)
                            			v.data.hits = v.data.hits + 1
                           			v.ai3 = lunatime.tick() + 10
                           			if v.ai2 == 2 then v.ai1 = 50 end -- this is for retracting into the pipe. the current basegame plants might use a different variable for this
                        		else
                            			v.data.hits = v.data.hits + 3
                            			SFX.play(39)
                           			v.ai3 = lunatime.tick() + 30
                           			if v.ai2 == 2 then v.ai1 = 50 end -- this is for retracting into the pipe. the current basegame plants might use a different variable for this
                        		end
                   		elseif r == 10 then -- link stab
                        		v.data.hits = v.data.hits + 2
                           		v.ai3 = lunatime.tick() + 10
                           		if v.ai2 == 2 then v.ai1 = 50 end -- this is for retracting into the pipe. the current basegame plants might use a different variable for this
                    		end
               		end
                	If v.data.hits < 6 then e.cancelled = true end
		end
	end
end

registerEvent(multihit, "onNPCHarm")

return multihit

I was referring to the ones that showed up in NSMBU, where they would take 3 fireballs to be defeated, but die in one to everything else that they can die to. They were shown in NSMBU. (Can't find the video at the moment) I can work with this though, and it can be used to Lua-fy the Redigit Plants. Thanks!

Also the code that you linked gave me a heart attack. Damn you, Redigit.