# Make a monster ract to being damaged?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-a-monster-ract-to-being-damaged/13818
**Category:** The Toolbox
**Created:** [June 2, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-a-monster-ract-to-being-damaged/13818 "2017-06-02T00:26:25Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-a-monster-ract-to-being-damaged/13818/1 "2017-06-02T00:26:25Z")
I’m halfway through making a moster whose gimmick is teleporting randomly and frequently. I would want for this same ability to have a higher chance to trigger after the monster has taken damage.
Problem is that Im not entirely sure about the proper wat to do that.
I was thinking to add a new monster exclusive effect “efffect\_monster\_was\_hit” and then make void monster::apply\_damage() add the effect everytime a monster is damaged. Maybe limit the aplication of said effect if the monster has a certain flag.
Then make the monattack check if the monster has said effect and up the chances to teleport based on it.
Is this a decent way of implementing this behavior?
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### Author:  [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-a-monster-ract-to-being-damaged/13818/2 "2017-06-02T04:02:13Z")
The effect doesn’t need to be monster exclusive - could be just “took\_damage” (not “was\_hit”, because not all damage comes from hits).
But yes, the idea for implementation from the code side sounds good.
Not so sure about the whole teleportation part, though.
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### Author:  [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-a-monster-ract-to-being-damaged/13818/3 "2017-06-02T07:13:47Z")
There is an on\_hurt function in player class:
```auto
/** Handles effects that happen when the player is damaged and aware of the fact. */
void on_hurt( Creature *source, bool disturb = true );
```
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### Author:  [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2017, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/make-a-monster-ract-to-being-damaged/13818/4 "2017-06-02T22:22:51Z")
Thanks!
I’ll go forth with it then.