# Blood Stains from misses

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [September 19, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122 "2013-09-19T22:17:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Nasrudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@Nasrudith](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nasrudith)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122/1 "2013-09-19T22:17:00Z")

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I noticed this most often when using bows and unfletched arrows against squirrels - blood stains are generated when I have never even hit the target.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122/2 "2013-09-19T22:42:43Z")

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Are you sure it’s a miss, not a grazing hit?

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**Author:** ![phaethon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/phaethon/32/981_2.png) [@phaethon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/phaethon)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122/3 "2013-09-20T01:57:18Z")

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I can confirm getting a “barely miss” message and still having blood on the ground. This applies to guns as well as arrows.

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**Author:** ![Master\_Darius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Master\_Darius](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Master_Darius)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122/4 "2013-09-20T03:25:36Z")

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Yeah, it’s a very old bug. I remember me noticing it when I played vanilla cataclysm.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122/5 "2013-09-20T12:41:06Z")

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I’ve always seen this as just grazing the thing, not hitting it. That’s why blood is there.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/blood-stains-from-misses/3122/6 "2013-09-20T13:59:38Z")

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Nah it’s a bug, that happenes when you “hit”, but the target “dodges”, it’s something like:

```auto
if(hit) {
 if(monster->dodge) {
  print("you barely miss!");
 } else {
  damage(monster);
 }
 draw_blood_trail();
}
```

In reality it’s a LITTLE more complicated than that, but that’s the bug in a nutshell.