Release Notes - FIRE ARROWS

[Riev]

-Arrows can now be lit off of torches and campfires, increasing their damage nominally for a short period of time.  When the first goes out the arrow will be blackened, resulting in it doing slightly less damage, and preventing it from being lit again.


This is a really cool tweak. My assumption is this doesn't work to LEGIT shoot fire BOLTS out of crossbows, so I can pretend to be a krathi all day erryday?

If a lit arrow landing on the ground can act as a light source? I may have just 'gasmed.

Also the other stuff was really good too, like the age-old "This is too large/This is too large". Nice work, coders!

[Majikal]

Nessalin, 166 posts in a decade! Who is this badass who asks for no recognition? Is Nessalin real? Is Nessalin ACTUALLY just ginka self-aware?

I can't wait to fire-arrow your faces off ig. 

[whitt]

Is this all arrows?  Or only wooden-shafted arrows?  Not sure how you light a bone arrow without wrapping it with something first.

[Molten Heart]

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[WanderingOoze]

So, If you shoot a firey arrow at a tent, Will it catch the tent on fire?

I'm only asking because reasons. 

[Riev]

Is this all arrows?  Or only wooden-shafted arrows?  Not sure how you light a bone arrow without wrapping it with something first.

Uh. CLEARLY all obsidian, flint, and agate is actually moderately flammable. How else do flint-strike kits work? DUHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[Delirium]

You could dip the tip it in oil, or wrap the shaft it in a bit of oil-soaked cloth, or both.

I say don't think about it too hard, it's perfectly feasible but some parts should stay virtual for playability's sake.

[Yam]

I'd play it like the arrows are virtually covered in pitch or something similar.

[Jingo]

Seems like this is part of a larger project. I can't think of any reason archery needed to be more dangerous.

[BadSkeelz]

I hope setting swords on fire is next.

[Synthesis]

Nessalin, 166 posts in a decade! Who is this badass who asks for no recognition? Is Nessalin real? Is Nessalin ACTUALLY just ginka self-aware?

Nessalin's Final Resting Place
You are standing in a dark chamber which is chilly and a bit damp giving
you reason to think it is located beneath the ground.  The walls are made
of solid stone, and there are no exits that you can see. 
   In the center of this circular room there is a large stone sarcophogus
with a lid that bears the image of a humanoid.  Judging from the length of
this stone coffin, and the form of the figure on the lid, you would guess
an elf's body is contained within.
The Shade of Nessalin is standing here.

[Pale Horse]

Seems like this is part of a larger project. I can't think of any reason archery needed to be more dangerous.

If the wagon code ever gets polished up and re-implemented..this could lead to some great caravan/raider interactions.

[yousuff]

Do people still carry around torches? The only one my characters ever bother with is the one they start with. Maybe I'll have reason to start carrying them around now

What's the syntax?

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Light arrow torch

[nessalin]

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> ep arrow
You brandish your immortal arrow.
> light arrow campfire
You hold an immortal arrow in a dome-shaped campfire's flame, causing it to ignite.
> eq
You are using:
<primary hand>           a flaming immortal arrow

(Time passes)

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>
The smoking tip of your arrow goes out, leaving behind a brittle, charred surface.
> eq
<primary hand>           a burned immortal arrow
> light arrow campfire
An immortal arrow is too burned to catch fire again.


[AdamBlue]

I am super freaking pleased by this change. Giving people mundane ways to do special kinds of attacks is absolutely rad. Though the only thing I'd like to say is that if you're going to have fire arrows, I hope it burns off any poisons on said arrow. I don't want to be set on fire AND poisoned by those tricksy elven assholes.

[Dar]

Nessalin. Is there any what so ever way to have those arrows light up the room while they're burning?

[hyzhenhok]

...really?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTd_0FRAwOQ

[HavokBlue]

...really?

A quick google reveals that flaming arrows could be fired from a bow without extinguishing by reducing the tension of the bow string (at the cost of accuracy), and were on occasion used in open combat as a morale weapon, or as a rangefinding tool in low-light situations.

We have bone swords and obsidian armor. Fire arrows are fine.

[BadSkeelz]

Archery's really just a lame cousin of magick anyway. Both involve doing nefarious things with sticks.

[Evilone]

I think the idea is great but to me it seems a little too easy to use, and will be used way too much to make archery even more scary. Torches can be lit in a second, with no downside? Should they require a strike kit now to be lit? Should there be a 30 second crafter delay or something similar?


Gosh I hope the chances for shields to block arrows has gone up... my experience with it previous with a 30'ish day old warrior I never blocked one or even parry'd one out of the air.

[Pale Horse]

I like seeing how the worries over this change reflect some of the similar real-life feelings and "moral" questions that arose about the introduction and use of archery in battle and warfare.

[BrokenRomance]

If it boosted morale, I am so going to do 'feel motivated, motivated, down right motivated, HOORAH!'.

I like this change, even though it now compounds two things I rarely have. Arrows, and things that make fire.

[Riev]

... Isn't this how the Copper War ended

[gotdamnmiracle]

I really hope this results in some huge fires while staff are overseeing. I really want to see shit get out of hand.

[BrokenRomance]

I really hope this results in some huge fires while staff are overseeing. I really want to see shit get out of hand.

"Pa, what made this giant plain of sand and ash?" "Some freaking idiot shot a fire arrow in the middle of the scrub, and wasn't a good shot."