FIZZAMUN'S PROFILE

author=Travio
Please read the whole post, you don't need to make both changes - either will work, but I personally recommend the second one.For VX Ace, it's a change in the scripting for it...

From what I can see, as I haven't had a lot of experience playing around with VX Ace's scripting engine yet, it should be the make_damage_value function in Game_Battler (starts at line 351 in my copy). This should work...

  def make_damage_value(user, item)

    value = item.damage.eval(user, self, $game_variables)

    value *= item_element_rate(user, item)

    value *= pdr if item.physical?

    value *= mdr if item.magical?

    value *= rec if item.damage.recover?

    value = apply_critical(value) if @result.critical

    value = apply_variance(value, item.damage.variance)

    value = apply_guard(value)

    value = 1 if value == 0

    @result.make_damage(value.to_i, item)

  end

This change should make it so that the damage value passed to "make_damage" will never be smaller than 1. Again, this should work, but the commenting on VX Ace is pretty terrible, so it's a little difficult to tell what particular segments of code are actually used for on first glance. This should be the right changes, based on the my search in the scripts.

The reason for the need of the change in the script, and not the formula, is due to how the formula evaluates. As the script shows, it alters the amount of damage in value after the formula has already been evaluated, so it can set it to 0 damage after that point - if it gets set to zero (or lower), it needs to be set to 1 before being passed forward.

Actually, the better place MIGHT be in Game_ActionResult, in make_damage on line 65.

  def make_damage(value, item)

    @critical = false if value == 0

    value = 1 if value == 0

    @hp_damage = value if item.damage.to_hp?

    @mp_damage = value if item.damage.to_mp?

    @mp_damage = [@battler.mp, @mp_damage].min

    @hp_drain = @hp_damage if item.damage.drain?

    @mp_drain = @mp_damage if item.damage.drain?

    @hp_drain = [@battler.hp, @hp_drain].min

    @success = true if item.damage.to_hp? || @mp_damage != 0

  end

Either way works. Be aware that this also sets MP drain's lowest value to 1 as well; if you use the second method, changing

value = 1 if value == 0

to

value = 1 if value == 0 and item.damage.is_hp?

will make it apply only to HP damage.

Thank you very much Travio, the first suggestion you gave, works perfectly!
(The "Game_Battler" one.)

Hey guys. Sorry in advance if I've put this topic in the wrong place.

I was just wondering, is there a way to make it so the lowest damage you can deal
in battle is 1, instead of "Dealt No Damage"?

e.g. Dragon Quest, with their Metal Slime, they have 999 DEF and MDF. However,
instead of the characters dealing 0 damage, it's either 1 damage or, the Metal Slime "Smoothly Dodged" the attack.

If I'm wrong, sorry. But I hope you know what I mean.

Thanks in advance, Fizzamun.