How do I kill these bugs?!

[Glink]

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It's safe to say I'm in a pretty bad situation! My colony is pretty advanced so I do have incendiary launchers... how do I kill these stupid bugs?!

[RoboGerbil]

easy way, kick open the door and light ♥♥♥♥ on fire, then close and lock the doors behind you. unfortunately anything flamable will be destroyed.

less easy way, plant a few heaters in there and crank up the heat until they die of heatstroke.

hard way, frontal assault.

really hard way, ignore it until some freiendlies come to help and send them in to deal with the bulk of it. then you go in after to clean up and steal ♥♥♥♥.

[KalkiKrosah]

Wall them in (which you have done already) and jack up the heat to 320F. I say 320F because at 350F the bugs literally get set on fire. And they aggro when that happens. You do not want that.

Once you get the temperature up to 320F through fire bombing the rock walls inside the bug chamber, have your incendiary shooter leave the room and wait outside for about an hour. Then walk back in and jack the temperature back up to 320F and leave. This prolonged temperature will steam the bugs alive and cause them to die of heat stroke. Once most of them have died off send in melee and animals to beat down some of the hives.

Some bugs may still be alive to defend the hive. But not too many should be left standing. You should outnumber them and be able to wipe them out with few injuries.

[Glink]

Ok, thanks for all the suggestions! How would I fire bomb the rock walls inside the bug chamber?

[Humpbacked Angel]

Don't heat and frost burns aggro too? I would make new a new stockpile with critical priority (3x5) and haul some wood or chemfuel. Then just burn it and close doors behind you.

[Eviliari]

Furnace mod
Worked wonders for me
Also a really good way of getting rid of raider corpses too

[KalkiKrosah]

Originally posted by DiscoTurtle:

Ok, thanks for all the suggestions! How would I fire bomb the rock walls inside the bug chamber?

Draft your colonists and then click the icon that has their weapon. This will bring up the manual aim. You cannot attack the ground any more so you have to shoot a target. The rock wall is a viable target. Just choose a wall that isn't too close to a bug or hive. If you directly attack a bug they will aggro. But if a bug walks over your fire and gets lit on fire that way then no aggro.

You can see the internal temperature of a room by hovering your cursor over the room and the temperature will be at the bottom right.

[Glink]

Oh, thank you! Now I see why my fire bombing attempts haven't worked! I was always just fire bombing the bugs and hives, which made them aggro. :P

[KalkiKrosah]

I found out on accident. I gave my incendiary launcher to a colonist with a shooting skill of 1. She kept missing the hive I was aiming at and I noticed the temp kept ticking up and the bugs remained docile.

But just be aware that your launcher can break the walls. Either replace them with bricks walls of your own or reinforce the outside of the cave, if that's an option. Failing to do so can "unroof" the cave and prevent the oven effect from taking place.