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[Umune]

Dabbling Modder here
Is it possible to make weapons out of pure, unadulterated fire?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Dabbling Modder here
Is it possible to make weapons out of pure, unadulterated fire?

You could make a material and call it fire, but you can't actually create weapons out of real !!Fire!!

[Sphalerite]

It should be possibly to create a custom reaction that makes a weapon out of graphite or a similar long-burning material.  You could then set it on fire and wield it until it burns away completely.  I don't know if it will do any extra damage to the target.  It will burn the wielder, unless they're fireproof to begin with.

[Necro910]

Yes, but not exactly.

There is a material called "Fire" in the raws, but it's basically plasma. So you'd have an energy sword

[Anathema]

The Civilization Forge mod tried something similar once - it has weapon materials based on the four classic elements, "incendium" being the fiery one with a naturally high temperature, it used to melt enemies or make them burst into flames or somesuch. The problem with that is dwarf fortress treats weapons as if they're all a single material; the handle is the same material as the blade, so if a weapon can melt your enemies, it'll melt your hand off first.

By the way, although incendium has since been changed to simply be a high quality weapon material, the old fiery/melty/Fun-inducing material is still in the mod renamed as "Blazing Incendium," supposedly it's good for traps but not much else (it's rare as hell, never tried it myself).

[Jeoshua]

The only thing that would have made Incendium usable would be some kind of Asbestos Gauntlets.

But anyone coming in from off-map, or in adventure mode, would not have been smart enough to use them.

[InsanityPrelude]

A caravan tried to bring either dangerous flarestone or Blazing Incendium once in one of my forts, I think, because a forest fire started when they entered the map.

[Troas]

The only thing that would have made Incendium usable would be some kind of Asbestos Gauntlets.

But anyone coming in from off-map, or in adventure mode, would not have been smart enough to use them.

Or perhaps nether-cap gauntlets?

[Necro910]

The only thing that would have made Incendium usable would be some kind of Asbestos Gauntlets.

But anyone coming in from off-map, or in adventure mode, would not have been smart enough to use them.

Or perhaps nether-cap gauntlets?

Nether-caps use coldtanium 

[BurnedToast]

There used to be damage tags in the raws that told which type of damage a weapon did, one of the options was heat. It would sometimes light things on fire. Of course, that's all long gone with the new combat system.

I experimented with making bolts out a metal with a very high temperature. They didn't seem to do any extra damage, however stuck-ins would usually ignite the creature pretty quickly and the results were fairly satisfying (they would run around in a cloud of smoke till they (quickly) died, then burn down till only bones and metal armor were left)

Unfortunately, they would also ignite the creature firing the bolts and I never found a good way around it. This was quite some time ago, with the new custom reactions you might be able to make a reaction that generated a special quiver (with a low set temperature) containing the bolts... I'm not sure if you can specify quivers as a container or not and I'm not sure if that would protect the dwarf anyway.

As for swords and such, yeah I don't think that's really possible since it would just burn up the dwarf and not do any extra damage anyway (unless maybe the weapon got stuck-in, I don't know if the dwarf would pull it out before it had time to ignite the enemy or not).

[Necro910]

There used to be damage tags in the raws that told which type of damage a weapon did, one of the options was heat. It would sometimes light things on fire. Of course, that's all long gone with the new combat system.

I experimented with making bolts out a metal with a very high temperature. They didn't seem to do any extra damage, however stuck-ins would usually ignite the creature pretty quickly and the results were fairly satisfying (they would run around in a cloud of smoke till they (quickly) died, then burn down till only bones and metal armor were left)

Unfortunately, they would also ignite the creature firing the bolts and I never found a good way around it. This was quite some time ago, with the new custom reactions you might be able to make a reaction that generated a special quiver (with a low set temperature) containing the bolts... I'm not sure if you can specify quivers as a container or not and I'm not sure if that would protect the dwarf anyway.

As for swords and such, yeah I don't think that's really possible since it would just burn up the dwarf and not do any extra damage anyway (unless maybe the weapon got stuck-in, I don't know if the dwarf would pull it out before it had time to ignite the enemy or not).

Maybe a heat/fire-immune creature that can use the fire bolts?

[Umune]

Mod Dwarves' hands to be heat resistant?

[Necro910]

Mod Dwarves' hands to be heat resistant?

Giggity.

lol.

[Deon]

There used to be damage tags in the raws that told which type of damage a weapon did, one of the options was heat. It would sometimes light things on fire. Of course, that's all long gone with the new combat system.

I experimented with making bolts out a metal with a very high temperature. They didn't seem to do any extra damage, however stuck-ins would usually ignite the creature pretty quickly and the results were fairly satisfying (they would run around in a cloud of smoke till they (quickly) died, then burn down till only bones and metal armor were left)

Unfortunately, they would also ignite the creature firing the bolts and I never found a good way around it. This was quite some time ago, with the new custom reactions you might be able to make a reaction that generated a special quiver (with a low set temperature) containing the bolts... I'm not sure if you can specify quivers as a container or not and I'm not sure if that would protect the dwarf anyway.

As for swords and such, yeah I don't think that's really possible since it would just burn up the dwarf and not do any extra damage anyway (unless maybe the weapon got stuck-in, I don't know if the dwarf would pull it out before it had time to ignite the enemy or not).

I call bullshit . The old HEAT damage was only a matter of wording of the attack (as well as BURN), it didn't actually set anything on fire at all.