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[Matoro]

I can totally see where this is going.

Bad puns incoming!

[Vid_the_Impaler]

I wonder if now it'll take longer for trees to grow back.

[KingBacon]

I hope so, imagine immediate tree growth. Adventurers being impaled by trees shooting up, dorfs being lauched into space by weird physics bugs. I bet Toady has taken this into account, but modders will push the system's limits for !SCIENCE!.

[Matoro]

Adventurers being impaled by trees shooting up, dorfs being lauched into space by weird physics bugs

Hell yes.

DWARVEN SPACE PROGRAM 2: FUCK THE MINECARTS, WE'RE FLYING WITH TREES

[Maul_Junior]

Adventurers being impaled by trees shooting up, dorfs being lauched into space by weird physics bugs

Hell yes.

DWARVEN SPACE PROGRAM 2: FUCK THE MINECARTS, WE'RE FLYING WITH TREES

Oooooh yeaaaaah!

Is there a mod around that has Kerbals, by any chance? Say, a crash-landed rocket, and the hardy little buggers decided to try living in DF world? DF is harsh, but Kerbals can survive flaming explosions of nuclear death with a smile.

Well, Jeb smiles. The others freak out.

[ResMar]

Not that I know of. Dwarven Science will forever be revolutionized by this release, clearly 

[Gargomaxthalus]

Oooooooo geysers of a normal variety could be fun, burrow a Dwarf on one.......

[InfinityOrNone]

What I really want to see is the implementation of an actual space for us to travel to, with simulated gravity and an actual moon. Or 3.

[ResMar]

What I really want to see is the implementation of an actual space for us to travel to, with simulated gravity and an actual moon. Or 3.

Version .93.45 Changelog:
Procedurally generated moons now properly implemented; may be reached and colonized by dwarven impulse minecart rockets, with some finagling and some number crunching in an orbital calculator.

[Ruhn]

Not that I know of. Dwarven Science will forever be revolutionized by this release, clearly 

!!SCIENCE!! Would also be revolutionized. We just need to find a way to make growing trees shoot magma up in the air.

I could see it working if you shave the limbs off and use the 'piston' method.
Plan B would be to hollow out the center of a 3x3 tree and run a magma pipe over there.  When an attack comes: pressurize magma and watch it shoot out of the tree.

[Solon64]

This. This right here, to me, screams "Cave ins every three seconds." Bugs. Delicious, dwarf murdering bugs. Leaves freaking out and being treated like falling objects, braining passers-by. Heck, falling fruit will probably do that too. One tree provides enough charcoal for three years of smelting. Enemies eventually climbing trees and shooting your dwarves (bloody elves!).

This update is going to shatter the game. And I'm going to love every second of it.

[wierd]

You are forgetting the CLEARLY obvious method to make trees "spray" magma.

Make the tree's leaves and fruits be composed of magma.

Toady is implementing new item spray/drop mechanics for trees, so that they drop leaves, fruits, and nuts.  Having them drop globs comprised of magma sounds perfectly feasible.

[BoredVirulence]

I look forward to modding underground mushrooms to have fruits that are gems and ores. I might even make fruit that "boil" into wonderful gas syndromes of death.
That will be fun.

[Randy Gnoman]

Some of us might be forgetting that trees in the next version will burn.  I think they might not be suitable containers for magma.  I hope they won't.  I hope that constructed materials in general will be more burnable in the next release, now that I've read about the forest fires.  It would be wonderful to see the invading dragon actually burn down all the little wooden cottages I have built outside, instead of just singing the grass and melting my warriors. 

But yarr:  crazy mist trees!  You could have giant fungi whose fruits boil into clouds of syndrome gas that turn entities into crazy fungus-beasts.  I want that.

[KingBacon]

I think most of us would be satisfied with just more unfortunate logging accidents (or chopping down elven tree towns.)