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[The King of Eggs]

I would like a material that would burn/vaporise anything it comes into contact with (other than my dwarves of course). Flavour wise, a sword made from a fragment of a star.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you. 

[RysanMarquise]

I would like a material that would burn/vaporise anything it comes into contact with (other than my dwarves of course). Flavour wise, a sword made from a fragment of a star.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you. 

Trivial. Just add MATFIXEDTEMP:20000

[i2amroy]

Its easy to create something that burns anything, all you have to do is increased the fixed temperature of the material that you are making it out of. However to create something that burns anything but your dwarves the only real ways are modding dwarves to be able to ignore the intense heats that the material would create or to fashion another material that could and make gloves out of it or something.

[The King of Eggs]

fashion another material that could and make gloves out of it or something.

*FACEPALM*!!! of course. Thanks mate

[Iburnaga]

This makes me wish for targeted radiation.

[The King of Eggs]

Wait will my haulers need the gloves?

[krisslanza]

Wait will my haulers need the gloves?

They probably will as the material will probably incinerate them otherwise. I don't think it's possible to make a material only give off the extreme heat once its forged, even when its raw it'll be at that high temperature.

You should probably give everyone those gloves just to be safe, or forbid the stuff so random jobs don't select it and burn up your dorfs.

[The King of Eggs]

Therefore would it melt my miners? If it was a minable material

[krisslanza]

Therefore would it melt my miners? If it was a minable material

I don't think it will unless they touch it. I don't believe the act of mining it counts as touching it, but don't quote me on this one.
I'm not sure if you can make a METAL with a high fixedtemp and make the actual STONE have a low one.

[The King of Eggs]

I was gonna alloy the non hot metal with junk stone to make the hot metal. That works. But then my only damn non gloved dwarf thought it would be !!Fun!! To carry it to the stockpile.  Needless to say. He didn't get far.

[PTTG??]

This is good. I approve.

I also like the idea of mass-producing aspestos gloves and distributing them through the fortress. And of having stubborn dwarves that won't wear them bursting into flame.

And, for that matter, impertinent adventurers that wander in and try to steal one without bothering to read the engravings of dwarves bursting into flame all over the place and ignoring the perfectly intact gloves on many of the charred skeletons.

[The King of Eggs]

And, for that matter, impertinent adventurers that wander in and try to steal one without bothering to read the engravings of dwarves bursting into flame all over the place and ignoring the perfectly intact gloves on many of the charred skeletons.

OMFG. Take that Kobold thieves!!!

[Askot Bokbondeler]

using burrows could limit the handling of said metal to specialists wearing proper equipment, no?

[roflgar]

inactive military dwarfs with special gloves as the uniform could help

[The King of Eggs]

Note To Self:

Don't make helms out of it

*Facepalm*