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[Shadowclaimer]

Is it possible to make a workshop that creates/applies poisons to weaponry, which adds syndromes to them when they wound a foe?

Would be interesting to gather rare materials and parts of various creatures/plants to create poisons and would be a fun industry to add.

[scamtank]

That's one of the earliest DFHack-reliant components Masterwork ever adopted, if not outright "commissioned" in the suggestion thread. The "add-spatter" plugin comes standard with the package and connects to reactions and workshops with some predetermined token hooks.

Just wait for r5 to recalibrate itself and you're good to go.

[Shadowclaimer]

What if I'm not planning on using DFHack or anything of the sort, is this doable with base Vanilla?

[scamtank]

Oh, hell no. The problem is getting the poison stuff onto the blade itself.

The only way I could figure that could happen naturally if it was stabbed into a creature with naturally venomous blood, but then I'm pretty sure water would immediately wash it away or the next time it hit something "overwrote" it. There's a reason why people are jumping through hoops to get their way like this.

[Shadowclaimer]

Then let's try this, instead of poisoning weapons would it be possible to create new traps that eject gas of said syndrome on trigger?

[scamtank]

Can you find a way to spawn boulders made of stone that evaporates at room temperature? I can't think of one.

[Shadowclaimer]

Can you find a way to spawn boulders made of stone that evaporates at room temperature? I can't think of one.

Man modding this game requires far more workarounds than I imagined.

Is there a "downside" to implementing DFHack into a mod?

[Godlysockpuppet]

Can you find a way to spawn boulders made of stone that evaporates at room temperature? I can't think of one.

Man modding this game requires far more workarounds than I imagined.

Is there a "downside" to implementing DFHack into a mod?

None whatsoever! It's actually quite easy to use too, and only adds functionality to the game. It makes your mod bulkier though, and you'll have more files etc. with dfhack though. Also you'll find you'll be making alot of dummy/gas inorganics for reactions and syndromes and things, and they break randomly generated creatures who often choose these odd materials for their structure. In a mod like Meph's masterwork mod, where his syndromes/event inorganics outnumber just about every other material, forgotten beasts simply cease to function because they'll choose a boil away syndrome stone 9/10.

[Shadowclaimer]

Yea I wouldn't plan on using them frequently, I'm pretty sure there'd only be a small series of poisons anyway and then various materials can create the same final result to help cut down on amount of materials I'll need.

[fricy]

Also you'll find you'll be making alot of dummy/gas inorganics for reactions and syndromes and things, and they break randomly generated creatures who often choose these odd materials for their structure. In a mod like Meph's masterwork mod, where his syndromes/event inorganics outnumber just about every other material, forgotten beasts simply cease to function because they'll choose a boil away syndrome stone 9/10.

True, but new scripts work without fake inorganics, and dfhack-r6 will fix it for good.

[scamtank]

If you stick to creature venom and plant extracts with that "greasing workshop", the hardcoded bits of the game are happily left alone.

And if it's traps you're concerned about, you could always coat bolts, darts or axe blades...

[Shadowclaimer]

I prefer weapon poisoning, if it was easy to do trap poisoning like gas traps and I couldn't do weapon in vanilla, I was going to do that.

But if DFHack doesn't really screw up anything with my mod, I'm just going to use it.

[Roses]

DFHack is actually almost a must these days. Besides all of the features it lets you have it also provides several bug fixes and performance enhancements. I think all new mods should try and implement DFHack if they can.

[Shadowclaimer]

Sounds good, reminds me of Forge for Minecraft, effectively just a core API that fixed a lot of issues and added a ton of capabilities.