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[Laserhead]

I was just thinking, if you embarked in a scorching environement, and catapulted something that
vaporizes somewhere between scorching and cave temperature, would it explode when it touched
"Outside Above Ground" air?

[miauw62]

I was just thinking, if you embarked in a scorching environement, and catapulted something that
vaporizes somewhere between scorching and cave temperature, would it explode when it touched
"Outside Above Ground" air?

1. i dont think such a thing exists
2. It would vaporize. explode? not so much.
3. catapults only shoot stone, you must certainly be talking about modding

[SRD]

Hm, how about getting an fb to cover a rock in poisonous splatter, then smacking it at a gobbo, (or a ballista arrow) then seal up the fort, they would group around and start a campfire and slowly die due to the poison.

[Sphalerite]

Objects thrown by catapults do not interact with the environment while they are flying through the air.  I have performed experiments involving throwing graphite boulders and wooden ballista arrows through curtains of magma and not had them catch on fire or be otherwise affected.

[Loud Whispers]

Of course, you could create a boulder catching zone which would allow the boulder to safely drop onto the ground below and vaporize.

[SRD]

What about... putting a !!lignite boulder!! onto the catapult and launch it into booze.

[Garath]

Of course, you could create a boulder catching zone which would allow the boulder to safely drop onto the ground below and vaporize.

not for one thing or another, but how do you prevent it from vaporizing before you launch it? would a roof lower the temperature enough?

[Sphalerite]

What about... putting a !!lignite boulder!! onto the catapult and launch it into booze.

I haven't tried that.  You'd have to set the boulder on fire, then get a dwarf to load and fire it before melting or catching on fire themselves

[SRD]

You could make a small room next to the catapult completely out of bauxite(just to be safe) and flood it with magma, then drain it. The lignite should stay alight for ages, just get some dwarf to rush it over to the catapult and he shouldn't catch on fire himself.

Or just setup some kind of GCS system except with a dragon, send in the kitty, place goes alight with the lignite, block the dragon, arm the catapult.

[Loud Whispers]

@Sphalerite Or the catapult catching on fire. I suppose a fire immune race loading boulders with a high fixed mat_dam and heat temperature alongside a nether cap catapult would be able to test it. My guess is the boulder won't spread the fire unless it lands without getting destroyed.

[SRD]

It's all about aiming now.

[Tharwen]

Could you fire the boulders through a lava fall?

[Broseph Stalin]

A liquid with a contact syndrome that is vaporous at scorching is stored in a barrel which is launched from a bridge inside the cave. When the barrel lands the liquid vaporizes inflicting the syndrome. 

[Girlinhat]

Could you fire the boulders through a lava fall?

You didn't score well on your reading comprehension tests, did you?

Objects thrown by catapults do not interact with the environment while they are flying through the air.

[cerevox]

As far as I am aware, there are no explosions in dwarf fortress. It is possible for liquid to vaporize and spray off as a cloud, but that does not function as an explosion. This includes alcohol. You could probably mod your way into some pretty impressive dust shock waves that could perhaps imitate an explosion's shock wave, but I don't think the physics rules are in place to actually create real explosions.