# Is the electromagnetic unit supposed to be harmful now?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895 "2017-06-21T14:48:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Azrad](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Azrad)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/1 "2017-06-21T14:48:45Z")
Just noticed that the electromagnetic unit also damages the survivor using it, as a steel plating almost broke my survivor’s arm. Don’t recall that ever happening in old versions.
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/2 "2017-06-21T14:51:11Z")
Pretty sure that’s a bug, most likely caused by incorrect range calculations failing to terminate the projectile under owner’s feet/1 tile before, instead treating it as projectile all the way.
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### Author:  [@deadmerits](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deadmerits)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/3 "2017-06-21T16:21:11Z")
That’s so cool. Randomly hitting yourself with stuff. I can imagine after playing with the electromagnet thinking I know what I was doing and next I thing I know _ping_ a watch smacks my ear.
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### Author:  [@Azrad](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Azrad)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/4 "2017-06-21T18:14:52Z")
It’s lucky that there wasn’t a super-heavy object like an engine, at least. That would probably cave in whatever body part it hit, since those can one-shot shoggoths.
I noticed it earlier, but didn’t really think it was odd. Gathering nails and nothing heavier besides some pipes. Thought the messages of getting hit was something in old versions and I just forgot about them.
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### Author:  [@NFossil](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/NFossil)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/5 "2017-06-22T00:06:31Z")
I hope this becomes a feature.
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### Author:  [@TooDAMNMuch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TooDAMNMuch)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2017, 12:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/6 "2017-06-22T00:27:02Z")
this hurts after you disassemble a vehicle, i don’t remember it being too bad though.
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### Author:  [@nick0010](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/nick0010)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/7 "2017-06-22T11:51:15Z")
Tried to crowd control a group of secubots in a lab finale with this. All the scrap metal almost killed me.
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### Author:  [@leebash](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/leebash)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2017, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/8 "2017-06-22T13:20:20Z")
> [@NFossil](#):
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> I hope this becomes a feature.
+1
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### Author:  [@Alec\_White](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alec_White)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-the-electromagnetic-unit-supposed-to-be-harmful-now/13895/9 "2017-06-22T13:37:27Z")
I chuckle when I read it [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/21252](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/21252)