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Jeoshua

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Hell Pepper
« on: March 23, 2011, 01:57:04 pm »
So I'm trying to make a plant.. a pepper.  A really, really HOT pepper.  I already got a little bit of something out of the random plant generator program (*love* it), but I need a bit of help spicing it up, so to speak.

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I know I need to add some temperature info.  I want this stuff to be flamable.  I'm cool with it growing too near to lava pools and exploding. Actually if it released seeds in that manner, that would be ideal... but they probably wouldn't sprout where they fall, would they? But what kind of temperatures sholuld I make that at to give a nice satisfying boom not an extended burn.
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 02:56:57 pm »
First of all, syndromes cannot be contracted via ingestion - right now, the only possible methods are injection into the bloodstream, inhalation, or skin contact (in the form of contaminants, so it has to be either a powder or a liquid).

Quote from: Jeoshua on March 23, 2011, 01:57:04 pm
I'm cool with it growing too near to lava pools and exploding. Actually if it released seeds in that manner, that would be ideal... but they probably wouldn't sprout where they fall, would they?
Seeds do not work that way in Dwarf Fortress. Also, the only thing in DF that's "explosive" is a cave-in - when things catch fire, they just burn away slowly and leave nothing behind.
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 02:58:14 pm »
technically, I don't think any plants actually "drop seeds" to reproduce. Isn't it all by spore or something right now?
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2011, 03:20:10 pm »
Wild plants are composed entirely of mud, which is why they grow on mud and muddy farms.  Domestic plants have been trained to seed.

Also, a contact syndrome could be fun to cause injury during picking.
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2011, 03:29:32 pm »
If you'll note, I've already made a milling product out of this plant.  I suppose one could flood a stockpile full of this stuff with water, making all the "pepper" come out of the barrels, and coating the walls and floors with !HOT! pepper.
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2011, 03:49:57 pm »
You can also make a stockpile of bags, forbid the powder inside the bag, and then dump the bag itself.  This causes the dwarves to upturn the bag, leaving the contents on the ground, and place the bag in the dump zone.  This can be used for various purposes, really.  Emptying a bag of sand so you can store seeds, dying your road by hand, etc...
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Jeoshua

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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2011, 04:00:03 pm »
If only stuff fell through grates, I could make a stockpile of this stuff over top of my entrance hallway, then "dump" the bags, having the pepper fall as mist through the grates onto the seiging gobbo's... Dwarven pepper spray.  Accept no substitutes.
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2011, 04:46:01 pm »
Are you sure it won't?  What if the grate retracts via lever?
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Jeoshua

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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2011, 05:03:54 pm »
Brilliant, and I may have to try it... didn't consider linking them to a lever, but it all seems so simple now.
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2011, 05:11:49 pm »
For that matter, a hatch might work.  It depends on if the contaminant sticks to the hatch, or falls through.  Either way, a retracting bridge should drop a contaminant regardless, so a 2x1 retracting bridge (it has to be anchored, after all) with the powder dumped on the overhanging tile.  Do inform us of the results of this!
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Re: Hell Pepper
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2011, 05:52:55 pm »
I do love !!science!!.

Try to get a video of it, if you can.
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