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[Knigel]

Because they have a fixed body temperature, magma men and fire men will release heat into a colder environment as long as they are alive. You can see this in how putting them into a body of water causes it to boil without affecting them.

Has anyone, either in vanilla DF of mods, tried to utilize this as a power source before?

[Levi]

I'm not sure how you could use it for anything other than exploding booze barrels?

[Zidane]

you can use them as an FPS killing machine.

I had a FB in a water level before, it burned off two whole levels.

[Assassinfox]

Doesn't trapping one in a cage heat up the cage?  What if you trapped one in a cage and designated a garbage dump over it and had the dwarves toss some graphite and booze barrels down there?  It'd be a great deterrant for enemies. 

[Knigel]

Doesn't trapping one in a cage heat up the cage?  What if you trapped one in a cage and designated a garbage dump over it and had the dwarves toss some graphite and booze barrels down there?  It'd be a great deterrant for enemies. 

I thought cages kept things from release heat.

Also, can boiling water kill someone, because you could use them to infinitely boil a pool that has a waterfall flowing into (to replace the boiled water) it and throw prisoners into it.

[Eugenitor]

Dig a pit, put magma man into pit, build waterwheels near pit, connect pit to ocean.

[Knigel]

Oh wait, here's another one: dig a large cavity into the ground with a small hole at the top, fill most of the way with water, place magma man inside, seal hole.

You now have a geyser/steam mine.

[Hans Lemurson]

Chain him inside a glacier and then collect the water that flows out from the melt/re-freeze cycles.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Doesn't trapping one in a cage heat up the cage?  What if you trapped one in a cage and designated a garbage dump over it and had the dwarves toss some graphite and booze barrels down there?  It'd be a great deterrant for enemies. 

Yes, I've caged a forgotten beast that was made of flame, and it kept its -steel cage- permanently hot enough to boil water and dwarves.

If you drop said hot cage at the bottom of a shaft, you can use the shaft as a drain for a water wheel farm. Dwarven Steam Plants are cooler, and more realistic, than Dwarven Perpetual Motion Water Reactors.

You could also use an iron bin full of flaming lignite as a heat source for the steam plant.

[Knigel]

^Well I stand corrected.

So there is a way to get steam power.

Admittedly, they're both giving an enormous middle finger to conservation of energy, so they're equally unrealistic, but you're right that monster-fueled steam plants are way cooler than water wheels feeding each other.

[akinzle]

How does one utilize steam to create power?

[Knigel]

How does one utilize steam to create power?

Actually I read that wrong. He's not "really" using steam power, he's just using it to get rid of water.