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:

• Beguile
• Confusion
• Domination
• Shaken
• Shamed
• Stunned and stunned by gas
• Terrified

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. 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
• 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
• 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

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.71.