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[wierd]

Instead, you should have set a vital body material as a custom one, then set the vapor point of that material at 0 urists.

This way they turn into harmless clouds of nasty creature, instead of nuclear fireballs.

[KodKod]

(haven't read the last two pages or so, but...) Oh KodKod...... You forgot to mention that when the modded civs arrived, after I increased the homeotherm value, they'd set everything on fire.

I totally did almost mention it.

The best way is to edit the HOMEOTHERM tag to be more along the lines of 40000, which will cause them all to set on fire and burn everything to death the moment they enter the map.

[Talvieno]

Ahaha, I thought you were kidding about the strikethrough part... I've never tried to blow up creatures before, so. And you did suggest it as a solution, I thought you were trying to help.

Thanks, Wierd, I owe you. I mod that in and try again.

[Loud Whispers]

Instead, you should have set a vital body material as a custom one, then set the vapor point of that material at 0 urists.

This way they turn into harmless clouds of nasty creature, instead of nuclear fireballs.

Or better yet, set them to be homeotherm : 1000. Wait for it to rain.

[Talvieno]

Okay... Well, it works differently with each...

The scythod work great in arena mode. They spawn on the map and instantly turn to smoke - no fire, no mess, no heat. _{(just for future reference, they vaguely resemble a praying mantis. "A medium-sized creature from a distant star. It has four arching legs with a long spike at each tip instead of a foot. It has four arms -- one pair ending in sharp claws, and the upper set resembling scythes ending in a suction pit that can be closed to form a spike. It has no head, but a stalk with its mouth at the end.")}

The manamaids work great too, except for one problem - they get a split second to use their ability on any enemies nearby: They "bust a sexy move" and everyone nearby loses consciousness and bleeds from their eyes.

The holistic spawn ignore everything I did and still catch fire - and take a freakishly long time to burn to death, too.

[Talvieno]

Actually, I'm not all that sure if tissues can be changed without a world regen.

[KodKod]

Well if you really don’t want everyone to die in a horrible fire I suppose you could add the [IMMOBILE] and [AQUATIC] tags so that they drown on land.

Making sure, of course, that they have no [AMPHIBIOUS] or [NOBREATHE] tags in the process.

[Splint]

I vote for the poofing into creature vapor one.

[Talvieno]

Thank you, KodKod. That'll work. I hadn't thought of that. It's a bit long, and they'll still destroy anyone who comes close, but it'll work.

Splint - I tried it - they weren't actually poofing into vapor. They were poofing into smoke - therefore, burning. I did a little test and anything in the same tile with them still caught fire, even though they were only around for a single frame. As for the Holistic Spawn - they're tenacious little buzzards... They can survive magma, it seems, almost indefinitely - slowly, slowly burning. They airdrown before they have anything past minor bruises. Homeotherm 40000 does almost nothing except set them on fire.

Moral of the story: double check what folder you're in before you start a community fortress.


EDIT: As I'm giving people migrant dwarves now... Won't it be fun if one of us turns out to be a vampire?

[WillowLuman]

*Several pages back* Hey, I'm already the theoretical physicist here!

Also, as long as the creatures haven't showed up on the map yet, you can change almost anything about them. Just remove the ability to do interactions, and set all materials to have a boiling point of 0.

[Corai]

Im gonna put out my kobold two cents.



I LIKE THE NUKES!


But if we cant, I vote for something that involves fire.

[WillowLuman]

BTW, the 0 Urist evaporation is only slightly less dangerous. If someone walked through the vapor, it would actually be at 0 temperature, several thousand degrees below absolute zero. While I am eager to experiment with the properties of the "negative heat" that this universe seems to possess, I hope no one is harmed in collecting samples of it.

[Loud Whispers]

Sadly extremely low temperatures rarely cause damage to living things. Extreme item degradation (even things like corpses), but otherwise nothing.

Unless it rains.

[Splint]

things freezevaporating WILL hurt living things if they happen to be holding them at the time. To the extent of frostbitten spines.

[Corai]

Make a nega-zero FB extract, get it on someone, send them out to collect elf-plants in the rain.


Pain from being forced to do hippy-work, and pain from the FB extract. Win-Win!