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[FleshForge]

Does this work?  Is steam this thoroughly implemented?  I just found a spectacular starting spot in which wouldn't be too hard to set this up, volcano with a river and the bulk of the map above ground is solid rock.  Guess I'll find out soon enough!

In case the pic isn't viewable, basically a shaft with magma at the bottom, a chute/floodgate that drops water on the magma as desired, and a grate over that into which you channel goblins.

[Agamemnon]

I doubt that you can get a goblin cannon out of this. They will either just burn up in the magma or splatter on impact on obsidian.

[lanceleoghauni]

Is steam pressurised? I don't think it is.

[pubby]

Make a steamroom and have the goblin's slowly turn to prunes.

[eclipsetail]

what would you plan to hit? It would take exact timing to get it to go straight up and hit something, if it's even possible.

[Astramancer]

It's not possible.  Unless it's changed recently, steam isn't even dangerous (except for sapping your FPS and obscuring everything)

[Spectre]

You all did not read properly. The goblins are keept on grates. No timing required, no splattering on obsidian.

[Alastar]

AFAIK, steam is purely ornamental at the moment. It never pushed things around, although it used to scald creatures in previous versions.

[Sphalerite]

It would be a single-shot weapon anyway, as the magma would turn into obsidian when the water hit it.

[Agamemnon]

Then it can't work. No steamed goblin.

[FleshForge]

No no, I have a volcano I can refil the magma on demand (in theory anyway).

[Thadius]

In theory, if you keep refreshing the magma, have a river of water, and a way to keep the goblin in there, you could steam it to death.

It would not, however, ever go shooting upwards.  He would slowly die in a very relaxed state, but never go launching upwards.  Your dreams of a steam-powered goblin firework will never pass.

I will give you points if you mod in Goblin Meat and steam the goblin to death, then eat it.

[pubby]

What if you made a water slide and sent goblins down it into a volcano?

[FleshForge]

Dang, I was hoping steam pressure would blow it into the air.  That's a pity.  Parboiled is just as dead as shot-out-of-a-cannon but not nearly as funny.  Maybe something to hope for in the future

[thijser]

what you can do is make a magma canon and a water canon next to it. that way obsidian will form on top off your enemies.
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w=wall
M=magma source
ps=pumpstack
x=hatch
that's a magma canon in the same way you can make a water cannon. Remember not to shut of the pumpstack if you want to keep the magma going.
If the volcano is above you you can also make it into
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