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Author Topic: Magma Crabs, uses?  (Read 1226 times)

Kilroy the Grand

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Magma Crabs, uses?
« on: October 26, 2011, 08:06:18 am »
I caught one of these buggers, what can I use it more? Steam generator? Moble death turret?
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Re: Magma Crabs, uses?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2011, 08:08:09 am »
On a chain in a pit, to make some kind of steam zoo.
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Re: Magma Crabs, uses?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2011, 08:59:57 am »
Make them tameable and able to breed, then train them into war animals.
Who needs marksdwarves if you can have an army of magmacrabs shooting molten basalt at the enemy.
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Re: Magma Crabs, uses?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2011, 09:03:19 am »
They're kind of useless in vanilla, but fun with a little modding.  Make them tamable, and you have essentially self-propelled automatic catapults.  Not as great as you might think since catapults are nearly useless, but if you had a few dozen of them behind fortifications they might do something.  All of their tissues are magma-safe, so if you mod chitin to be tannable into leather you can make magma-safe leather with them.
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