Flamethrower Overhaul

by NOiZE

Complete flamethrower overhaul with fuel system, enhanced ammunition, and configurable damage/consumption settings. Adds fuel progression from basic thickened petroleum to advanced enhanced fuel.

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7 days ago
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Combat Fluids

Changelog

Version: 1.0.0
Date: 2026-01-02
  Features:
    - Initial release
    - Complete flamethrower fuel system overhaul
    - Added basic flamethrower fuel (thickened-petroleum): Crafted from petroleum-gas + coal + water
    - Basic fuel unlocked with vanilla flamethrower technology
    - Flamethrower turrets no longer accept crude-oil, heavy-oil, light-oil, or petroleum-gas
    - Turrets now only accept: thickened-petroleum (basic), enhanced fuel, and puff-gas (if mod present)
    - Reduced turret damage to 10% of vanilla (configurable)
    - Increased fluid consumption to 10x vanilla (configurable)
    - Increased stream speed to 1.5x vanilla (configurable)
    - Enabled target leading (configurable) (causes buildings in front of flamethrowers to be burned)
    - Updated vanilla flamethrower ammo recipe to use thickened-petroleum instead of crude-oil
    - Added enhanced flamethrower fuel (5 times the damage of basic fuel damage, 50% of vanilla)
    - Added enhanced flamethrower ammo (2x damage, 1.5x area for handheld flamethrower)
    - Added "enhanced-flamethrower-ammo" technology unlocking enhanced fuel and ammo
    - Technology requires utility + military sciences (+ agricultural + metallurgic with Space Age)
    - Space Age: Enhanced fuel uses thickened-petroleum + calcite + jelly
    - Without Space Age: Enhanced fuel uses thickened-petroleum + sulfur + light-oil
    - Boompuff Agriculture support: Puff-gas accepted as fuel (150% of basic fuel damage, 15% of vanilla)
    - Crushing Industry support: Uses crushed-coal instead of coal when mod is present
    - All flamethrower parameters fully configurable via mod settings
  Credits:
    - Thumbnail by Osmo
    - Inspired by "Flamethrower Rework" by dreamshift26
    - Flamethrower-fuel implementation inspired by "Flamethrower Fluid" by Schmendrick