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[Meph]

Catapult ammo works when shot from a catapult. That easy.

Mead reaction can be added to brewery. I only used plants, so I never noticed that honey-drinks were missing.

Manual seems to be outdated on the topic of poison, it is indeed the bane spider (the little cyan spider colonies that you can farm in hives) that you need.

Drow spider venom is just a random creature venom, like any other spider or snake venom. I cant say how good or bad it is from memory, but all venoms you can buy, you can use in the imported venom reaction. Coral snake venom is deadly, I can tell you that much. ^^

[jimboo]

Coral snake venom is deadly, I can tell you that much. ^^

Which is why it costs more from the caravans.  But with a high priority on the Wish List, it can be obtained in quantity.  Early in the now-locked thread, a half-dozen times or so you were asked about stacking runes: “so, I can stack the same rune over and over?”  No, but each different rune can be used grouped together on a single stack of weapons/armor.  I can’t find in the raws the reaction mechanism you used to do that; can you (meaning, anybody) point it out to me?  The reason being, I want to know if it’s possible to stack poisons in the same way: different effects stacking together.  Most of the syndromes overlap, just varying in intensity/duration but, not all of them.  What if my toxicologist is some super-Sadi-ist who wants to combine coral snake venom with toad milk – is that possible?

[Meph]

Runes and poisons use exactly the same mechanic, which is a keyword in the raws that grabs the attention of dfhack SPATTER_ADD script, which is why you cant really find it in the raws.

To answer the question: You can stack as many different poisons as you like on the same weapon/trap/ammo, and even add every type of rune to it, just to make sure.

[silentdeth]

Runes and poisons use exactly the same mechanic, which is a keyword in the raws that grabs the attention of dfhack SPATTER_ADD script, which is why you cant really find it in the raws.

To answer the question: You can stack as many different poisons as you like on the same weapon/trap/ammo, and even add every type of rune to it, just to make sure.

Does that mean that DFhack's "clean all" will destroy poisons?

[jimboo]

Runes and poisons use exactly the same mechanic, which is a keyword in the raws that grabs the attention of dfhack SPATTER_ADD script, which is why you cant really find it in the raws.

To answer the question: You can stack as many different poisons as you like on the same weapon/trap/ammo, and even add every type of rune to it, just to make sure.

Ah.  Cool.  Way cool.  Thanks. 

[Meph]

Ehm.. I dont know. Testing has to be done.

I know rain doesnt matter, and they clean blood and stuff of their weapons, but the "improvements" stay, but I dont know about specific dfhack scripts. Why dont you try and let me know?

[Z1000000m]

So runedwarf won't just grab the nearest weapon (including those already enchanted with specific rune), wasting your resources?

[Brilliand]

So runedwarf won't just grab the nearest weapon (including those already enchanted with specific rune), wasting your resources?

Nope.  I was afraid of this at first, but in 3a, the dwarf will grab any weapon not already adorned with the particular rune he's about to add.

[Putnam]

Runes and poisons use exactly the same mechanic, which is a keyword in the raws that grabs the attention of dfhack SPATTER_ADD script, which is why you cant really find it in the raws.

To answer the question: You can stack as many different poisons as you like on the same weapon/trap/ammo, and even add every type of rune to it, just to make sure.

Does that mean that DFhack's "clean all" will destroy poisons?

Yes.

[Z1000000m]

Thats cool.

But do enchanting or poisoning change the weapon itself?

What i mean is would enchanting a named weapon turn it into a mundane one?
Or perhaps named weapons cant be used at all(they are lsited in the artifacts screen after all)?

[Putnam]

No. Enchanting is, like Meph said, just putting a spatter on top of the stuff. It doesn't change the weapon in any way.

[Z1000000m]

So, mines work by triggering a dust effect right?

Can they target creatures on diffrent z levels?

I'm thinking of putting some mines on walls for more durable fun.

[Putnam]

Yes, probably, on walls? They're creatures.

[silentdeth]

So, mines work by triggering a dust effect right?

Can they target creatures on diffrent z levels?

I'm thinking of putting some mines on walls for more durable fun.

You can stick them in cages and shoot them from a catapult. It is also a good use for all those warlock spies.

[jimboo]

You've actually done this, and it works?
Probably everyone remembers that scene of the siege on Gondor in LOTR where the commanding Orc calmly watched the big rock coming at him and just stepped to one side.  But if a catapult can toss a cage that breaks open on impact, a syndrome-producing mine would effectively be a ballistic, AoE biological WMD.