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[Dwarf4Explosives]

I want to mod minecarts so that they can use globs of magma as ammunition. Is this possible?

[milo christiansen]

People already do this in vanilla, to tell you the truth I am not exactly sure how it works (I know the theory, but have never tried it).

Look for minecart water cannons, magma versions are a little harder to build, but very possible.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

I know about minecart guns in that sense, I meant modding them to work like crossbows, only with magma instead of arrows.

[milo christiansen]

I don't think that is possible.

What EXACTLY do you want? The minecart to shoot magma balls at nearby enemies, or the cart to shotgun many little magma balls instead of one huge boulder?

[Dwarf4Explosives]

The first one. I didn't think it was possible, but I thought it was worth asking.

[milo christiansen]

With DFHack anything is possible! (disclaimer: not everything is possible)

It should be possible to track a cart as it moves searching for nearby enemies and launching fireball projectiles at them, each of these things can be done, so all you would need to do is write a bunch of Lua code to tie it all together.

Not sure exactly how to do all that (I could probably figure it out given enough time, but I am away from all my DF stuff), so you will have to ask one of the real DFHack wizards for more details.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

So not without very complicated DFHack stuff. I guess my plan of having a magma-proof adventurer take a minecart, fill it with lava, and then removing it unit by unit so as to fire it at elves using the minecart were never very realistic anyway, starting with the "magma-proof" part. So it's not a big loss.

[milo christiansen]

Sorry to crush your dreams... (Don't jump! It will get better!)

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Considering that I haven't even built a minecart shotgun yet, I still have more than enough minecart-related stuff to experiment with. That should keep me happy for a while.
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Kind of off-topic, but do you think a FB's toxic excretions could be washed into a minecart using water?

[milo christiansen]

I don't know, I have never messed around much with syndrome bearing secretions.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Thanks anyway!