Enemy Types (Taxa) - dredmor-com/dungeons-of-dredmor GitHub Wiki

Taxa is the notation of an enemy's "species" within the game system, for spell and skill-related purposes. The current taxa include both "conventional" or common monsters, special taxa for some entities and customs.

1. Conventional Taxa
2. Unconventional Taxa
3. Custom Taxa
4. See Also

Taxa	Example Monster	Notes
Animal	The humble Diggle	Vampires drain blood from animals, Big Game Hunters butcher and gain extra XP from animals, Vegans get debuffs from killing animals, and animals are friendly towards Vegans.
Vegetable	A fearsome Pumpkinn	Vegans get food and extra XP from killing vegetables.
Construct	An Unfriendly AI	Clockwork Knights get metal salvage from killing Constructs.
Other	A slimy Blobby	Rogue Scientists get Alchemical Ooze from killing Others. Vampires drain blood from Others (poorly).
Demon	The fiendish Swarmy	Demonologists have several minor advantages when fighting demons. Vampires drain blood from Demons (poorly).
Undead	A fancy Zomby	Thus far, no core content interacts interestingly with Undead.

Taxa	Notes
Diggle Prince	This taxa is used on Vlad Digula.
Gas Canister	This taxa is used on Gas Canister, and is used to target the canister in the Gas Canister Set.

For modding purposes, you may create your own taxa, and they work as you'd expect: If you assign a taxa to a mod-created creature and then use that taxa in mod-created spells, the spells will only affect that creature.

The player and inanimate targets such as destructible walls match ALL Taxa, so you cannot use Taxa to prevent a spell from affecting the player.

List of Monsters by Damage