Mental shield
A mental shield (not to be confused with the mutation Mental Mirror) is a property that makes creatures immune to mental damage and most mental effects, and blocks Telepathy. It is possessed by creatures without psionically accessible minds, whether because they are mindless (like most plants, fungi, and oozes), have artificial minds (i.e. robots), or are otherwise immune to psychic abilities.
The following effects cannot be applied to creatures with a mental shield:[1]
As esper hunters
If the player has a high enough glimmer and summons a psychic assassin, there is a chance for the hunter to be a creature that normally has a mental shield. The shield is removed, and thus is normally affected by mental attacks and effects.[2] Creatures with mental shields are unable to become psychic thralls.
List of creatures with a mental shield
anomaly extinguisher
arcwyrk
baetyl cherub
black jell
blast cannon tinker
blue jell
boosterbot
brooding azurepuff
brooding goldpuff
brooding jadepuff
brooding rosepuff
brown jell
CAP-N
chain laser emplacement
chaingun turret
chaingun turret tinker
chrome idol
chrome pyramid
chromeling
clockwork beetle
cloneling
conservator
crypt sitter
dawning ape
decarbonizer
diplomacy droid
dreamcrungle
drillbot
dynamic turret tinker
E-Ros
Ebenshabat
eigenturret tinker
feral lah
flower cherub
fractus cherub
Frondzie
fulcrete catapult
galgal
gelatinous antiprism
gelatinous cupola
gelatinous frustum
gelatinous prism
gelatinous wedge
giant amoeba
giant beetle nest
giant centipede nest
girshling cresh (burrowing)
girshling cresh (conjoined)
girshling cresh (cryptic)
girshling cresh (plasmatic)
girshling cresh (polarized)
girshling cresh (rank)
girshworm
glowpad
gorged growth
Graftek
green jell
gyrohumor
Herododicus
humor
important fish
infiltrator
interdictor
irritable palm
jilted lover
k-Goninon
laser turret
laser turret tinker
leering stalker
livid creeper
low-light laser turret tinker
Many Eyes
mechanical antelope cherub
mechanical ape cherub
mechanical baboon cherub
mechanical baetyl cherub
mechanical bat cherub
mechanical bear cherub
mechanical bird cherub
mechanical cannibal cherub
mechanical cat cherub
mechanical crab cherub
mechanical dog cherub
mechanical equine cherub
mechanical fish cherub
mechanical flower cherub
mechanical fractus cherub
mechanical frog cherub
mechanical grazing cherub
mechanical hermit cherub
mechanical insect cherub
mechanical mollusk cherub
mechanical mushroom cherub
mechanical ooze cherub
mechanical pottery cherub
mechanical reptile cherub
mechanical robot cherub
mechanical root cherub
mechanical spider cherub
mechanical stranger cherub
mechanical swine cherub
mechanical tortoise cherub
mechanical tree cherub
mechanical urchin cherub
mechanical vine cherub
mechanical worm cherub
mercurial
microturret
mindrone
miner Mk I
miner Mk II
miner Mk III
mushroom cherub
musket turret
NaN-N/A
ooze cherub
panhumor
phase cannon tinker
plasma jelly
plastronoid
plated chromeling
prickler
pulsed field magnet
purple jell
quartziferous mirror
qudzu
red death dacca
red jell
reprogrammed scrap shoveler
rifle turret
rifle turret tinker
robot cherub
rocket turret
rocket turret tinker
Rodanis Y
root cherub
saw-hander
scrap shoveler
seed-spitting vine
Shem -1
skittering sentry
soupy sludge
strip fly
temple mecha mk Ia
temple mecha mk Ib
temple mecha mk II
thirst thistle
tongue tyrant
traipsing mortar
tree cherub
trining lamprey
tumbling pod
twinning lamprey
unplanished godhed
urn duster
vine cherub
Vivira
Warden 1-FF, reprogrammed conservator
waydroid
widget
You, but mechanical
zero jell
Trivia
By default, robots, oozes, fungi, plants, and nests have mental shields. However, the mental shield is removed from sapient plants and fungi.
- The only creatures with mental shields outside of those categories are
girshworms,
twinning lampreys, and
trining lampreys.
Pax Klanq is the only fungus without a mental shield.
Euclid, and most of the members of the Consortium of Phyta (
Yurl,
Sixshrew,
Tillifergaewicz,
Asphodel, Earl of Omonporch,
asphodelytes, and the
oddly-hued glowpad) are sapient and thus do not have mental shields.
References
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This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.71. |
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