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[UltraValican]

After watching "Shaun of the Dead" i began to wonder the plausibility of making some sort of "Molotov cocktail in the geneses mod (you can brew in adventure mode in this mod), I created a Dwarf named "BoozeSplosion" manufactured several wonderful barrels of booze, placed the barrels in a human shop and lit the place up.  The fire and explosion killed several humans, I am planning to see the plausibility of "booze bombing" bandits and night creatures.
So, what do you think of the plausibility of using booze as a weapon?

[Supernerd]

It definitely can and has been done before. I am not an expert on traps, but I have an idea for you. You can start a fire somewhere in your fortress and set things up so that a barrel of booze will fall onto it when a pressure plate it stepped on, thus making a lovely explosive trap! I have never actually done this before however.

So yeah, its plausible. Whether or not its practical is another story altogether.

[ImBocaire]

I hate to break it to you, but at least in vanilla DF, booze doesn't explode, it just boils away in a red mist that is nonfatal to anyone caught in it. It was likely just the fire that killed the humans, unless Genesis allows explosions from booze.

[Supernerd]

In that case, your only option is to boil people alive in a pool of alcohol.

[ImBocaire]

This is why custom liquids need to hurry up and get here.

[UltraValican]

It definitely can and has been done before. I am not an expert on traps, but I have an idea for you. You can start a fire somewhere in your fortress and set things up so that a barrel of booze will fall onto it when a pressure plate it stepped on, thus making a lovely explosive trap! I have never actually done this before however.

So yeah, its plausible. Whether or not its practical is another story altogether.

This is df, being practical is for elves and wusses.

I hate to break it to you, but at least in vanilla DF, booze doesn't explode, it just boils away in a red mist that is nonfatal to anyone caught in it. It was likely just the fire that killed the humans, unless Genesis allows explosions from booze.

Oh I know that the fire killed them but I just like to imagine........

[ImBocaire]

Heh, all right. It's a common enough misconception that you never know. Personally I'd love the ability for a burning booze stockpile to be *that* much more dangerous than a burning, say, finished goods stockpile.

It seems like the code for creature breath attacks, namely [UNDIRECTED_DUST] (which creates a huge cloud of "deadly dust," which can and does fling dwarves around) combined with an innately high-temperature material might be somehow harnessed to create fiery explosions. That said, any sort of robust modeling of explosions would probably be rather difficult to add.

[Funk]

the hot boiling booze can by df rules kill stuff, if the booze boiled at a higher temp.

skin need to get to 10250 to take damage and 10508 to reach Ignition point

alcohol has a Boiling point 10150 and an Ignition point of 10800.
so if the booze is bruning and has the time it will set dweafs on fire.

[ImBocaire]

Except the way DF works, stuff either boils or burns. Vaporized booze doesn't hang around for the temperature to increase, and all booze will without fail boil instead of burn.

[Funk]

even with a low Specific heat?

[ImBocaire]

Yeah. There's a lot of fluff in the raws, actually; a lot of things that should have an impact on gameplay but don't seem to, or at least have one so small as to be invisible. Pretty much all the vapors in the game act the same, except the ones that give you syndromes, and even those don't deal with temperature much, and magma mist, which is very hard to create and probably hard-coded to be different from other vapors.