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[HailFire]

In the noble pursuit of SCIENCE!, I've attempted mad botany; making an evil tree that emits clouds of poison gas that, while not being immediately lethal, drive dwarves insane over the course of months and years.

Unfortunately, my initial test was... disappointing. Namely, the tree doesn't seem to be poisoning people, or, if it is, I haven't been able to detect it's effects.

The raw file, for your pursual:

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[PLANT:SPINE_SHADOW]
[NAME:shadow spine][NAME_PLURAL:shadow spines][ADJ:shadow spine]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STRUCTURAL:STRUCTURAL_PLANT_TEMPLATE]
[BASIC_MAT:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:STRUCTURAL]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:WOOD:WOOD_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:shadow wood]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:shadow wood]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:DARK_INDIGO]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[DISPLAY_COLOR:1:0:0]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:10000]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:POISON:CREATURE_EXTRACT_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME:ALL_SOLID:frozen haze]
[STATE_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:frozen haze]
[STATE_NAME:LIQUID:liquid haze]
[STATE_ADJ:LIQUID:liquid haze]
[STATE_NAME:GAS:haze]
[STATE_ADJ:GAS:haze]
[MAT_FIXED_TEMP:10060]
[BOILING_POINT:9900]
[PREFIX:NONE]
[SYNDROME]
[SYN_NAME:delirium]
[SYN_AFFECTED_CLASS:GENERAL_POISON]
[SYN_INHALED]
[CE_DIZZINESS:SEV:50:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:5:PEAK:1000:END:1500]
[CE_DROWSINESS:SEV:50:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:5:PEAK:1000:END:1500]
[CE_FEVER:SEV:50:PROB:100:RESISTABLE:SIZE_DILUTES:START:5:PEAK:1000:END:1500]
[MATERIAL_BREATH_ATTACK:LOCAL_CREATURE_MAT:HAZE:UNDIRECTED_GAS]
[TREE:LOCAL_PLANT_MAT:WOOD][TREE_TILE:181]
[TREE_COLOR:1:0:0]
[DEAD_TREE_COLOR:0:0:1]
[PREFSTRING:unearthly chill]
[PREFSTRING:gaunt appearance]
[WET][DRY][EVIL]
[BIOME:NOT_FREEZING]
[SOLID_DENSITY:150]
[SAPLING]
[SAPLING_COLOR:1:0:0]
[DEAD_SAPLING_COLOR:0:0:1]

I theorize that it's not working either because plants are incompatible with breath weapons, or the symptoms were either too weak to be noticed, or were being universally resisted by my dwarves.

However, a second opinion would be much appreciated.

[Knight Otu]

Yeah, I'm certain that material breathes do not work for plants. Check your error log, there'll likely be an error about an unrecognized plant token. You could turn the wood into the material with the syndrome, so that it generates a cloud when cut down, but then you'd run the risk that wagons might be made out of that wood and disintegrate immediately (not that wagons arrive currently anyway).

[HailFire]

Yeah, I'm certain that material breathes do not work for plants. Check your error log, there'll likely be an error about an unrecognized plant token. You could turn the wood into the material with the syndrome, so that it generates a cloud when cut down, but then you'd run the risk that wagons might be made out of that wood and disintegrate immediately (not that wagons arrive currently anyway).

Well, feg.

Alas, it was not meant to be. Maybe next version.

In the meantime, perhaps poisonous moths...

SCIENCE!

[Nihilist]

If my understanding of the syndrome system is right, You should be able to link a contact based syndrome to the tree's wood. That should make it affect any dwarves hauling the wood.

[Shaostoul]

Is it possible to give the tree a secretion? If you do that, you might be able to do what (i think it was) the mushroom man. He secreted something and when it hit air it boiled or whatever.

[Tiler]

If my understanding of the syndrome system is right, You should be able to link a contact based syndrome to the tree's wood. That should make it affect any dwarves hauling the wood.

Nope. Contact currently only works with contaminants (splatter). Object-to-object contact does diddly squat.

[FreakyCheeseMan]

We need to get a decent Syndrome Wishlist together... there's so much cool stuff we can *almost* do, yet, but could with a little more code...

[Rumrusher]

try getting the tree to ooze.