0000289: *Qurik* Heat from magma cooks wet creatures up to two tiles away)

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0000289

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarf Mode -- Flows

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2010-04-03 12:01

2010-06-09 06:46

Reporter

Djohaal

Assigned To

Toady One

Priority

low

Severity

trivial

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

Platform

Windows XP

OS Version

SP 2

Product Version

0.31.01

Target Version

Fixed in Version

0.31.04

Summary

0000289: *Qurik* Heat from magma cooks wet creatures up to two tiles away)

Description

I don't know if this is a proper bug or a new feature/quirk (it seems quite interesting for making goblin stew traps actually), but in a nutshell, any creature in a tile with at least 1/7 water and two tiles close to magma (or one tile above magma, with a floor in-between) gets wounds in its whole body until they die of blood loss after some time (goblins take about 10-20 seconds)

Steps To Reproduce

In arena mode you can easily re-create this by walling in a pool of magma and in the floor above adding 1 or 2/7 water and creatures and watch as they die spontaenously. Another way of doing this is having one wall tile between the magma and the creature, in the same Z-level.

Additional Information

This actually seems to be a quite interesting application of heat transfer in traps, it also makes sense since water conducts heat much more than air. I personally would vote for keeping this unless some more severe effects are observed (creatures getting damage from other warmed-up items in their inventory, such as clothing)

testing is needed to determine if it is the water _in_ the tile that kills the creature or the fact their inventories are full of water. If that is the case, perhaps clothing could damage them too?