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[CaptainBadwheel]

I've got a zombie giant mole stuck in my trash burner that burns continuously but will not die and a Vomit FB in my Experimental Megabeast Trap/kill chamber (version 2.4) that gets burns from magma but is not dying from magma. Angst! Magma that doesn't kill! Animated magma-safe vomit with a vapor attack! Continuously flaming giant undead moles!
I suppose if I drained the trash pit and let the thing burn a while it might die, but the Magma-safeness of the puke monster is really puzzling.  It burns but it doesn't burn all the way.

[Prologue]

If a creature (or item) has an IGNITE_POINT but no HEATDAM_POINT it'll burn forever. So it's not possible to kill them with lava, what you did is just make it more dangerous with it on fire as it can burn your Dwarfs also. Good luck.

[CaptainBadwheel]

I can still obsidianize the bastard.

[imperium3]

Just don't dig out the obsidian again. I've heard that some creatures can still be alive when you do that. Not sure which ones though.

[Tiruin]

Woah, that must surely be a bug then. Obsidianizing kills anything it comes in contact to, as like cave-ins. Unless you really edited the raws.

[Urist McGyver]

Killing through burning usually means you melted the victim's fat, causing bleedling AFAIK

There was a strategy to melt your own fat while trying not to die in Adventure Mode that rendered you imune to high temperatures.

[CaptainBadwheel]

The thing has burns in its injury list, it just won't burn completely, or catch on fire.

[Oliolli]

Cave-ins kill things, just like obsidian. Obsidian killing anything is what Aussie's checkerboard is based on, after all.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Relevant science:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=92258.msg2578852#msg2578852
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=99822.msg2943362#msg2943362

TLDR: it has no fat, blood, breathing, or internal organs so it can't die in magma. It does have a heatdam point, hence the burn damage.

[Logen910]

Killing through burning usually means you melted the victim's fat, causing bleedling AFAIK

There was a strategy to melt your own fat while trying not to die in Adventure Mode that rendered you imune to high temperatures.

Do you remember how this strategy works? I tried it several times in adventure mode but it did not work yet.

[Urist McGyver]

Killing through burning usually means you melted the victim's fat, causing bleedling AFAIK

There was a strategy to melt your own fat while trying not to die in Adventure Mode that rendered you imune to high temperatures.

Do you remember how this strategy works? I tried it several times in adventure mode but it did not work yet.

Ok, here's what I remember. Have a companion and PLENTY of food so that you don't starve (same for water) and so that boogeymen don't come chomp on you. Light a shrub on fire. Sit on it ('s' for "On Ground") Wait until you start melting (bleeding damage). Get off the shrub and wait to heal. You have lost some fat. Repeat until there's no fat left on you. I think you also lose some natural armor, since there will be no fat cushioning blows.

[Logen910]

Thanks, you just gave me another tool to create a new generation of super-soldiers 

[miauw62]

Angst!

Are you dutch?
Because that means fear in dutch.

[agatharchides]

As it does in German, but angst is a pretty common loanword in English for sort of a nagging, persistent worry.

[albatross]

Well, damn. I just happened to have recently an FB that I magma'd. A giant tick, or a mite I think. The magma managed to burn away all its fat but its limbs just kept recovering. I just thought some of them heal pretty fast. Hell, it ran away from my magma gauntlet three times before I managed to obsidianize it.