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[Igfig]

I've been trying to make a creature that will explode upon its death.  This is proving to be difficult.

Ideally, it would spread organs and blood all over the place and burn the world, something like a catsplosion.  My idea was to use an ITEM_CORPSE tag to spawn a creature with a ridiculously high HOMEOTHERM value, which would immediately explode in an enormous fireball.  Too late, I learned that large creatures can't be created this way.  Supposedly one can make vermin, but I'm only getting their remains, which are around room temperature.

So far, the closest I've gotten to my goal is this:

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(add this to the creature that will explode)
[ITEMCORPSE:BONES:NO_SUBTYPE:BONE:EXPLODING_BASTARD]

(put this creature in the appropriate raw file)
[CREATURE:EXPLODING_BASTARD]
   [NAME:gory:gory:gory]
   [BODY:BASIC_2PARTBODY]
   [STANDARD_FLESH]
   [BONE_FIXED_TEMP:11450]
   [BONE_SPEC_HEAT:409]
   [BONE_IGNITE_POINT:11440]
   [BONE_MELTING_POINT:NONE]
   [BONE_BOILING_POINT:16708]

Instead of a proper exploding corpse, we get a bone that catches on fire and burns for a while.  It's kind of cool--I had fun adding this to dwarves in Adventure Mode--but it doesn't last very long, and it doesn't cover a very big area.  The temperature numbers are the same as a block of lignite, but they don't seem to work the same way.

So, your thoughts?  Is there any way I can get the effect I'm looking for?  Is there a way to make the burning bones last longer, at least?

[Techhead]

Make it boil.

[Guy Montag]

I was planning something like this, I wanted a creature that would explode on impact like a bomb.

The bomb itself would be stable, but its bits, chunks and remains would be explosive and have a high temp.

Buuut, it doesn't work that way. Maybe in a later version.

[Blakmane]

if you are willing to slightly suspend your disbelief, make the itemcorpse an invalid item (like turtle bone) which has a fixed temp/spec heat of 0. This should make a nice freezing explosion which will kill anyone within a square or two.

But yes. Freezing.

[budthespud]

This would be full of awesome. Could run into a town in a suicide run and get killed in melee and watch the world burn.

[Igfig]

Yeah, that's what happens right now.  I get a bunch of boiling bone (not burning, I miswrote), and anybody caught in the steam starts to freeze to death.  It's really weird.

Why is it boiling instead of burning?

[Keilden]

They are not on fire?

[Blakmane]

Yeah, that's what happens right now.  I get a bunch of boiling bone (not burning, I miswrote), and anybody caught in the steam starts to freeze to death.  It's really weird.

Why is it boiling instead of burning?

Because it has a boiling point (and fixed temp) of zero. So it instantly boils in a cloud of freezing gas. I know bone is bugged like this generally- your bones will only be hot if the creature is butchered. Try making it drop a non-bone item, like a statue or rock with a huge fixed temperature.

[Heron TSG]

make it drop something crazy, like wooden flutes, as you never use those. and the elves carry them. yeah.

[Jakkarra]

what other community would ask for semtex corpses?

THIS is why i love DF.

Love, jakkarra

[Igfig]

Hmm, not bad.  I didn't know you could specify FIXED_TEMP for rocks--the wiki didn't mention it--but we have fire now, at least.  Thanks for the heads-up.

I just had an idea, though I'm not sure how to implement it.  Is there a way to modify chunks to have a higher temperature than the base creature?  That is, when you tear a piece off of the creature, the chunk explodes?  Raising bone temperature doesn't work quite right, since you only get bone at a butcher's or after the corpse has decayed for a bit.  The corpse would only explode if you leave it lying around for a while.

...Actually, that sounds pretty cool.  I should try that.

[Akigagak]

What about [SEVERONBREAKS]?

would that be usefull.

[Creamcorn]

Anyone know if it's possible to change standardflesh to fire?

[Duke 2.0]

 Hopefully, in the next version that will be possible.

[Heron TSG]

the corpse would only explode if you leave it lying around for a while.

Maybe increase the decay rate as well...?

Or somehow make it random!