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[KodKod]

Why sunberries?

Sunshine, in all its explosive glory, would be much more entertaining. I would very much like to see bits of unicorn scattered across the landscape like one of those exploding beached whales.

Memo to self: Make whales explosive.

[khearn]

I suppose it would be amusing to see unicorns being scalded to death by "boiling sunshine".

[Blizzlord]

Memo to self: Make whales explosive.

Let me guess... change the ignition- and boiling point to the temperature of fire and then watch the sparks fly?

This would be the perfect !!rampaging unicorn!! defense!

I suppose it would be amusing to see unicorns being scalded to death by "boiling sunshine".

Memo to Toady and every modder in existance: add an ignition point to alcohol!

[KodKod]

Does being immersed in water actually cool something down?

Because if that was the case I could possibly get whales to explode whenever the beached themselves, which would be completely horrific hilarious.

[Sphalerite]

Does being immersed in water actually cool something down?

Because if that was the case I could possibly get whales to explode whenever the beached themselves, which would be completely horrific hilarious.

Just give them an ITEMCORPSE line causing them to drop a boulder of some material that boils or burns at ambient temperature.

[KodKod]

Just give them an ITEMCORPSE line causing them to drop a boulder of some material that boils or burns at ambient temperature.

Would that add something to their corpse when they died, or would it actually fully replace it? I've not had much experience with that tag.

Ideally I'd like to have large bits of mutilated whale all over the place, but if SEVERONBREAKS doesn't work right now that might be impossible anyway.

[Girlinhat]

ITEMCORPSE fully replaces the body, so no gibs would be produced.

I wonder if you could actually include a syndrome though... Is it possible to apply SEVER_ON_BREAK as well as fast-acting rot?  If so, you could make a creature physically explode by exposing them to the syndrome.

[KodKod]

But how would one go about injecting syndromes into beached whales and only beached whales? That seems like a hell of a difficult task to what I thought would be a simple problem.

I was just hoping that I could set it so that they'd ignite when they got to room temperature should water cool them down below that point. But if it doesn't then it may well be insurmountable, at least within reason.

[Girlinhat]

My only solution would be to slather this liquid over the entire shoreline, so that any time they beach, they get infected and explode.

Alternatively, if the biome is a cool one, you could set their ignition point at "the temperature of a floor above magma".  Then line the shore with subterranean magma, and any time they beached they'd warm up and explode.  Of course if the biome is slightly warmer than this, you might get them exploding during the summer...

[KodKod]

Magma floor, hmm? That's a very good approach, if slightly convoluted.

And if they explode in the summer... well no great progress was made without sacrifice. Or maybe I could simply give them TISSUELEAKS and infect them with a syndrome that way. They wouldn't explode of their own accord, but the moment someone pokes them with a sharp stick... kaboom.

It would make harpooning twice as fun.