User blog comment:Blanzer/Suggestions/@comment-4293824-20110825222852

I think this is a great idea. On a blood-moon, regular cave bats turn into vampires when they are within a certain distance from the player and have a valid place to land (but not teleport to) The vampires would drop several things: - coins (amount depends on how much health they would have) - small chance to drop fangs.

I had two ideas for what fangs could be used for.

1) They could be used to craft a type of life leeching arrow that would give the player life every time they hit an enemy (the health gained by the player would depend on how much damage was done, seeing as different bows grant different amounts of damage)

2) They could be used (in quantity) along with other difficult things to get, to craft "Count Dracula's Suit." This suit would grant the player the ability to transform themselves into a bat ( but not the same sprite as a cave bat) and allow them to fly and hover.  Flying would be activated by pressing the up key (in most cases "W") and using the movement keys to navigate.  Jumping would deactivate it.                - Note: flying would either use a huge starting amount of mana and some health, or progressively use mana (hopefully this would be slower rate than that of the old rocket boots)

While flying, the player could not use weapons or tools, which would be gray while in flight mode (not sure about blocks, as the player can float in the air, this could be useful for building large structures). Potions could still be used, and the inventory still accessed and manipulated.

I am also uncertain about whether the player could craft while flying, although if the inventory is accessible, crafting should be possible.

There is the problem with light. My idea is that torches and glow sticks have no effect while being held. Because you are a bat of course, all surfaces and enemies have a white-blue outline (ultrasonic-perception)

Last thing, whether or not the suit granted any defense while not in bat-mode, I'm not sure, although for the trouble, it might be equivalent to copper or iron.