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[Max White]

Why do you want to poison an elf?
I find there bazaar reaction to lava to be comical enough for me!

[Argonnek]

I have had some...disagreements... with the elves recently, culminating in the destruction of one of my outposts. I take revenge VERY seriously.

[Squeegy]

http://df.magmawiki.COM/index.php/Syndrome

[MTJ]

If I may ask a continuation question;

Would it be possible to poison a water source? -> do creatures on the map need water ever?

[Deon]

How are you going to "inject" it? You cannot just take it out of the flask and inject with something.

[Argonnek]

That's a good question. My plan was to put a few holes into them with arrows and try and get it into their bloodstream. Is there a better way?

[Deon]

You cannot do it how you said. You have to somehow make your arrows covered with it, but I don't know a way to do it. If the poison was some creature's blood then you could stab that creature with your arrow, but I don't know a different way to do it.

[Axecleaver]

Interesting thread.
I was wondering... since using "inject" with a weapon or ammo seems impossible, what about other methods of delivery? The DF2010:Syndrome wiki page mentions other methods: contact and inhalation. Would either of these be applicable to making a poisoned weapon/ammo? I saw Keuran talk about "poison arrows that are made in a low fixed temp quiver and explode into gas when fired" in the [MOD] Magic Mod thread.

Another thought: Would setting the BOILING_POINT and MAT_FIXED_TEMP to just below body temperature allow the material to explosively evaporate on contact with an enemy's body? I was thinking that if you could somehow throw a glass vial of a poison liquid that it would break on impact or something...? Perhaps using something like the Longarm weapon in Civilization Forge might work to throw it? (I'm not sure if a container could be set as custom ammo, though.)

Finally, what about creating a living poison weapon? Perhaps there's a way to create a small creature that would poison attack after being thrown? Or maybe we could just throw a body part to do this, like a creature's stinger?