animal
itemmonsterpages 11, 20
animal
Arguments
Takes no arguments.
What it does
Classifies the monster, or the wearer of the item, as an animal: it can be harmed by weapons and spells restricted to affecting animals, and it leaves an animal carcass behind when it dies.
— toolbox note, written from base-game usage
From the base game data
animal
Interacts with
affecthuman commandaffectundead commandaffectanimal commandaffectmale commandaffectfemale commandhuman commandundead commandfemale command
A weapon with an affect… restriction only harms matching targets: affectundead requires the undead flag, affectanimal the animal flag, and affectmale / affectfemale check the being's sex (female marks a monster or item wearer as female). affecthuman is the odd one out — the manual says it keys on the res_convert attribute rather than the human flag.
— manual
Spell interactions
Combat spells that only affect animals:
Befriend AnimalBefriend AnimalBefriend AnimalCommand BeastsCommand BeastsCommand BeastsDomesticationDomesticationLord of the Wild
— targeting flags on the spells' weapon records; wording per the manual