Cold/heat Trap

[Canute]

With the new temp. feature of A8 i thought about a new nasty thing for the attackers.

Instead to kill them one by one why not freeze or boil them to dead ?
Build a big room before your main entrance, or use your killbox for it.
Add serveral cooler and adjust them to -100'C at last.

Now the problem, the room need to be closed to work as climatic trap.
I didn't manage it yet to jam a door so it say open, sure it happen alot that some corpse stay at the door. But how do you force it.
Serveral mod alow you to lock the doors but i didn't saw one yet that let a door allways be open.

The only idea i got so far, to create a small room with a stockpile of building material and place for a builder at the area you want close the room.

And does someone got expierence how fast extreme cold or heat would disable/kill the attacker ?

[Klitri]

There's been multiple topics on this already. Please use the "search" feature before you make new ones.

It's a good idea, but it's probably impossible.

[milon]

Looking for a way to weaponize temperature, eh?  So are we.

The major problem is that land-based attacks will always be 'Outdoors' because they break down doors/walls as they go.  And to reliably reach extreme temperatures, we definitely need 'Indoors'.

The fastest way to create a temperature extreme is by burning things.  And gardens are pretty flammable & doesn't cost anything to renew.

I think the best idea so far is a room with a single door facing the raiders and full of flammable things (a garden of cotton or roses, maybe).  Designate the raider door as a dumping stock pile and haul a rock chunk to the door to prop it open.  The raiders will walk right in.  The hard part is that you need a colonist to remove the rock chunk and walk through the doorway to make it close.  Then use some other colonists at the other end with molotovs to light the place on fire.  End result is a contained room full of pirates and fire.  But then you don't really get any loot or survivors if it works.  And if it doesn't work, you've got several potential disasters.