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> In this example, the message would spell "Hello there!" > In this example, the message would spell "Hello there!"
> Due to a limitation of mythic's placeholder parser, using the same placeholder both "on its own" *and* inside another placeholder as a nested value is very dangerous, and will most likely result in the nested placeholder not being correctly parsed!
> For instance, this
> ```yaml
> - message{m=<skill.var.test> <skill.var.<skill.var.test>>} # Don't do this!
> ```
> Will have an uncertain outcome! To fix this, it is needed to change the variable name or to parse it beforehand
> ```yaml
> - setvariable{var=skill.segment;type=STRING;val=<skill.var.<skill.var.test>>}
> - message{m=<skill.var.test> <skill.var.segment>} # Do this instead!
> ```
# [Mob Variables](/Mobs/Mobs#variables) # [Mob Variables](/Mobs/Mobs#variables)
Mobs can have some variable be already set once they spawn thanks to the [Mob Variables](/Mobs/Mobs#variables) field. Mobs can have some variable be already set once they spawn thanks to the [Mob Variables](/Mobs/Mobs#variables) field.
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