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[mport2004]

is there any way to make explosives or something of the sort
could this be done with makeing an item VERY hot or somthing else?

[Hague]

You could make a trap component that deals fire damage. Then litter the ground around it with bituminous coal. If the trap kills the creature, the burning critter will light up the coal.

EDIT:

[ITEM_TRAPCOMP:ITEM_TRAPCOMP_FLAMETHROWER]
[NAME:flamethrower:flamethrowers]
[ADJECTIVE:dwarven]
[DAMAGE:10:HEAT]
[WEIGHT:250]
[HITS:20]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:5]
[METAL]

[ December 27, 2007: Message edited by: Hague ]

[BurnedToast]

supposedly booze will explode if it lights on fire. I've never seen it happen myself, but then I rarely have problems with fiery death or anything. So a flamethrower trap plus a booze stockpile might work.

I suppose you might be able to mod a material to have a burning temp that is hotter then inside the cave, then make barrels out of it and use them for brewing. When enemies come, drop the barrels out onto them and hopefully they light on fire and explode. This will, of course, only work on maps that are not frozen all the time.

It might be possible to just make a material with a very high fixed temp, then drop it into a booze stockpile and have it explode. I did a bit of testing with this and I could not get it to work, but I didn't try real hard.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Make a weapon that deals fire damage, and make a material that instantly explodes (boils) when heated. Make the said weapon out of said material. Once the weapon hits the enemy, the released heat will make the weapon explode. If the weapon is a bolt, you got your rocket launcher.  

[Greiger]

Remember the dwarven rate of fire.  It would probably be more like the autocannon loaded with explosive rounds from x-com.

Sorry bout the obscure reference but I find that to be the closest thing I can think of.

[mport2004]

x-com autos dont fire quite that fast  
also thanks for the help ill try to see if i can get it to work

[Fenrir]

This didn't work for me. I set the boiling point of a metal to freezing and then kept adding temp until it stopped boiling away the instant I spawned, and made bolts do HEAT damage, but no dice.

[ January 01, 2008: Message edited by: Fenrir ]

[Hesitris]

Try replacing it with BURN damage, though I'm not expecting much from that either. As I posted in the thread about the 'temperature' damage types, it seems like the HEAT and BURN damage types are identical, in that they generate nasty damage messages (in Adventure mode) but don't actually catch anything on fire.

[Torak]

quote:Originally posted by Hesitris:
<STRONG>Try replacing it with BURN damage, though I'm not expecting much from that either. As I posted in the thread about the 'temperature' damage types, it seems like the HEAT and BURN damage types are identical, in that they generate nasty damage messages (in Adventure mode) but don't actually catch anything on fire.</STRONG>

Heat does light things on fire.

[Kagus]

The only thing I could think to do would be to make the bolts themselves have a high temp setting.  However, that would mean the bolts made from that material would instantly vaporize as the kill themselves.

Hey, what would happen if you did that to the launcher instead?  It's still probably be set alight while you were holding it, but it's worth a try.

For, if nothing else, the death message.

[Fenrir]

Are crossbow bolts destroyed on impact if they don't get stuck?

[Sector 7]

I'm not entirely familiar with DF's engine capabilities, so bear with me - but would it be possible to make an explosive, when detonated, destroy or blow back everything within a radius around? Rock walls could be turned to rubble and dwarves would be thrown back and wounded much in the same manner that the colossus throws dwarves.

[BurnedToast]

quote:Originally posted by Sector 7:
<STRONG>I'm not entirely familiar with DF's engine capabilities, so bear with me - but would it be possible to make an explosive, when detonated, destroy or blow back everything within a radius around? Rock walls could be turned to rubble and dwarves would be thrown back and wounded much in the same manner that the colossus throws dwarves.</STRONG>

Not with anything we can currently mod, no.

[MyBeardIsOnFire]

Toady One should really include explosives when he gets to doing alchemical formulas and whatnot.

These days we're building things out of soap. Imagine building them out of gunpowder.

[Asehujiko]

Booze stockpile + magma generator a few floors up.

Drop a single 7 of magma on the booze when the invaders show up and watch the carnage.