User:Kaos

Things to try

• forbid the contents of the barrel and then dump the barrel to seperate out the liquid.
• Forbid the liquid inside the barrels and have the barrels taken off to the trade depot. The liquid will be dumped on the ground when the barrel is picked up
• boil liquid inside barrel
• freeze liquid inside barrel

• retractable bridge -> drop splatered liquid down???

• raising bridge -> throw fluids/items up??

• to separate the liquid contents of a barrel from the barrel itself is by first freezing them solid. They turn into "globs" which can be handled by dwarves without the need of bucket or barrel.

• The only way to effectively empty out a barrel (or bucket) is to forbid its contents and then order the container to be brought to the trade depot (assuming a caravan is present - if not, you'll have to wait until one arrives).

• loo[k] at the barrel, press enter, press enter to view the contents, hit [d]ump. The contents of the barrel are now marked for dumping, and will be splattered over your designated garbage dump.

Worked for dumping sand out of bags, I assumed it would work similarly for dumping stuff out of barrels, sue me.

• gnomes,

they would stay at your booze stockpile and drink one barrel after the other, until either the stockpile is empty, or they get successfully chased away/killed

• Gnomeblight comes in barrels? What happens if you lock a gnome in a room with 2 barrels, one with booze and the other with gnomeblight? Will he drink the booze only, or will he go for the gnomeblight also? I should have tried this in my last fort but didn't think to.

Also, it would explain how it's a sort of pesticide. Maybe gnomes can't read or recognize symbols that declare what is in the barrel is poison instead of alcohol, and maybe gnomeblight smells like alcohol to them or something.

• Trap gnomes in cages. Build the cages in an enclosed area with a door at the entrance. hook all of the cages to a lever. Store the gnomeblight barrels in the gnome room. Forbid the liquid inside the barrels and have the barrels taken off to the trade depot. The liquid will be dumped on the ground when the barrel is picked up. Lock the door before you let the gnomes out of their cages so they can't escape.

• Damp Traps/weapons with gnoblight???

Build weapon traps. Hide weapon traps. Dump gnomeblight where the weapon traps are. Hope gnomes come.

• freezed Gnomeblight works?

• Effects of boiling/freezing diferent liquids:
  • Gnomeblight
  • Alcohol
  • Milk
  • Blood
  • Ichor
  • ???

• on a cold map you can leave the barrel outside, and the contents will freeze. Then the Dwarves will dump the item inside if you order it. I found this out the hard way after embarking on a glacier with my food supplies consisting of 200 units of varied milk. Ordered them to dump everything underground so they would do it before freezing to death, and they dumped all the frozen milk in a nice big pile on the floor where it melted seconds later.

Once it is on the ground, and liquid, the Dwarves will only clean it up.

• Explosions

might be triggered only by fire and not temperature. Magma isn't actually on fire, it just has a tendency to ignite items whose ignition point is lower than the temperature of magma (i.e. most of 'em). If the booze boils first, it might not ignite. Though alcohol gas would create a pretty hefty explosion once you did have a spark... Great, now I have the urge to research how combustion actually works in the real world, given that certain materials might be heated to a temperature they'd burn at without igniting to oxidize. --Alfador 13:33, 28 December 2007 (EST) I think I know how to make a booze bomb. You need a single tile full of magma, on a remote hatch. Directly under that is a set of floor bars, over an empty pit. The barrels are set up on the tiles around the bars. When you open the hatch, the magma drops, making a one-shot lava waterfall. This creates magma mist, which is known to burn things. I haven't tried this yet. Can anyone verify?