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So it would be like the dart gun from Fo3?

Does anyone have any suggestions regarding tin? Is it best used to make bronze or pewter or just used by itself to make bins?

Yes, it would be like the dart gun, in Fo:E canon Littlepip makes a needle gun, equivalent to the dart gun.
I don't mind using excess tin for bins, but I make most of it into bullets if I lack a lot of steel.

I noticed that there aren't SMGs yet. I could make some using small ammo and the same skill as miniguns, since, for one, there isn't a real way to train miniguns well, and secondly, another kind of gun would always be nice. And I was thinking of coding a needle pistol, the ones that shoot paralyzing needles, the needles could be bone, and be able to be fired without gunpowder. Maybe barrels of venom along with bone would make the needles, and wire, a wood block and some sort of metal for the gun. Is it possible to add a syndrome to ammo using the [ENTERS_BLOOD] tag? Would work well on creatures who have weak or no armor.

EDIT: An SMG would be too much like a pistol, wouldn't it?

There's probably a fight between a ghoul and something else in the cavern layer.

Okay, never had a fight between non-visible creatures. Sorry, even playing for a long time I still miss things.
And it would have to be a friggin powerful enemy to kill all 20 of the ghouls.

EDIT: Now there is a Military Protectapony listed as dead, must have been in the caves fighting ghoul hordes. I applaud it for killing a butt ton of them, and making so that I did not.

Quote from: Zioko345 on April 20, 2013, 09:57:52 pm

Okay, got a bug. My Protectapony was shooting at some bighorners wandering a bit too close to my ponies, and my ponies are picking up some of his laser bolts he fired. Instead of disappearing, the bolts are on the ground, and my ponies are taking them to stockpiles. I know that it works for bolts and such, but it doesn't seem right to farm bolts. I will look at the laser bolt RAWs and see if I can find a fix.

EDIT: Oddly enough, the laser bolt items go into a food stockpile. I will forbid them until I can find the error, if it can be fixed, of course.

Laser Bolts are a known bug that has been plaguing us for a long while.  They are supposed to evaporate if you have temperature on, or something like that.  If I remember correctly, exiting the game and reloading it should evaporate the stuff on load.
Of course, noone would mind if you find an alternative/better fix for it...

Okay. Seems that occasionally, the laser bolt will land, it normally seems when it crosses Z-Levels, like bolts, and will not disappear. I have deduced that it would easily be fixed by them acting like non-broken bolts, just forbid them on landing, as to keep suicidals from grabbing a dropped laser bolt in the middle of a firefight between a 12 protectaponies and a Unity Alicorn. What tag is it in a bolt that does that? I will have to check, then test it on my fortress.

EDIT: Can't find any tag which happens to forbid things on drop, I know it happens to ammo like bolts and items off of corpses, and I soon must go for the night.

I figured it would be. Just trying to figure out something that needs to be added. Hm... I might just add some more guns, and ammo. A shotgun basically just fires several small projectiles from one unit of ammunition, and with varying kinds and such. Maybe a reaction to saw off the end of a double barrel, which just decreases size. Wouldn't a combat shotgun just have a shorter wait time on shooting to account for the larger clips and it being semi-auto? A scrap shotgun could also be a cheap but crude gun, with low fire speed and damage, but doesn't require any blueprints. The ammo could be a mixture of gunpowder and scrap metal, or a bar of any grade metal. Technically, just about anything could be broken down to little bits to fire out of it, even stone or glass. Maybe add a reaction to the Gunsmith for a block of wood, and a bar of any semi strong metal, maybe copper plus. Ammo could be a special 'scrap shotgun shot' with a tag before it like 'Glass shard scrap shotgun shot', because of the variability of the ammo it would be good for those early on with little metal. I may work on this now... Even if it isn't accepted I'll mess with it.

What would the aliens be like? They couldn't be the humanoid like things from Fallout 3. Maybe a four pegged variant? Or at least something different than the original, it is Equestrian, after all. Maybe a way to research their weapons to use, though they would be like bows in original DaF in they way that you can't manufacture them or the ammunition, you would have to rely on their loot or probably RARELY a group having a few cells to trade.

Well, it appeared with the classic titan redbox, so I thought it was a titan. I was just shocked about getting attacked so early, though they didn't hurt me, my a pet turtle (wow), some war dogs, and a untrained fisherman beat it to death slowly, it was odd because it didn't use it's fliers abilities in combat, and it didn't scare civilians as is usual.