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Korgus

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Nether-cap freezing trap.
« on: November 30, 2010, 04:37:47 pm »

If nether-cap wood is permanently at the freezing point of water, is it possible to make a freezing trap by making a nether-cap floor and dumping water on it?
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2010, 04:50:55 pm »

You have my blessing do it in the name of !!science!!  ;D
My hypothesis is that since it has temperature only equal but not below the freezing point the environment will prevent water from freezing
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2010, 04:51:56 pm »

Unfortunately, it does not appear that the constant freezing temperature of nethercaps translates into any sort of usable refrigerative techniques.

I don't know if it's been tested whether a dwarf dressed in full nethercap armor can survive being immersed in lava, but no constructions made of nethercap, at least, appear to freeze their surroundings.
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2010, 04:54:11 pm »

Aww :( Kinda had a feeling it wouldn't work though.
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #4 on: November 30, 2010, 05:09:28 pm »

Apparently, someone mentioned that having multiple nether-cap logs on one tile lowers the temperature of the tile geometrically, so perhaps 2, 3 or even 4 logs per tile would be suitable for a freezing trap?
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #5 on: November 30, 2010, 06:16:51 pm »

Nether-caps don't work like that. :(

You can, however, use a freezing trap on a freezing biome, such as a glacier. Use magma to turn the trap from water to ice on demand. A retracted bridge below the layer of water will keep the water liquid. Pull the lever to retract the bridge, magma falls away, and you now have goblins encased in ice. You can then either dig out the ice or extend the bridge and pump the magma back up to thaw out the goblinite ore.
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2010, 01:25:48 pm »

Would it be possible to do this using nether-cap upright spikes or something? Although if that worked, they'd be destroyed by the ice, I think.
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2010, 02:19:19 pm »

Nether-caps don't work like that. :(

You can, however, use a freezing trap on a freezing biome, such as a glacier. Use magma to turn the trap from water to ice on demand. A retracted bridge below the layer of water will keep the water liquid. Pull the lever to retract the bridge, magma falls away, and you now have goblins encased in ice. You can then either dig out the ice or extend the bridge and pump the magma back up to thaw out the goblinite ore.
Better that he digs it out. Thawed ice will mean that the goblinite is at the bottom of Davy Jone's locker.
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2010, 03:14:13 pm »

ChairmanPoo is correct as I found with my Orcsicle maker, although it does deal with all the annoying clothing along with the armour.
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2010, 03:22:32 pm »

Nether-caps don't work like that. :(

You can, however, use a freezing trap on a freezing biome, such as a glacier. Use magma to turn the trap from water to ice on demand. A retracted bridge below the layer of water will keep the water liquid. Pull the lever to retract the bridge, magma falls away, and you now have goblins encased in ice. You can then either dig out the ice or extend the bridge and pump the magma back up to thaw out the goblinite ore.
Better that he digs it out. Thawed ice will mean that the goblinite is at the bottom of Davy Jone's locker.
Or thaw it out for rapid reload and only actually mine it out once every few sieges.  Whatever you prefer ;)
(be sure to make a way for your dwarfs to mine it out in complete safety between waves of a siege.)
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Re: Nether-cap freezing trap.
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2010, 04:21:32 pm »

How deep does water need to be for it to form ice, and is it possible to iceify flaming creatures? This repeater method looks a lot simpler than my current plan of several obsidian crush corridors, less maintenance and less magma fun.
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