Landing half on a haystack and half on stone: how much does it hurt?

Soft landings are a great survival trick, but bodies are wider than one block. Check only the spot under the middle and a player on the very edge of a hay bale is saved or hurt for no visible reason. Here is how to weigh what the feet actually touch.

Why this works

A body has width, so a landing is not decided by one point. Weighing each surface by how much of the feet rests on it gives a result that changes smoothly with position, so two nearly identical landings never end in very different harm.

When not to use it

Skip it in a game with a coarse grid where the character always stands in exactly one cell. Weighing overlaps adds work and nobody sees the difference, so one simple lookup is better.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• 21 lines of example code with 5 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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