exterminate

Kills any individual unit, or all undead, or all units of a given race. Caged and chained creatures are ignored.

Usage

exterminate [list]
exterminate this [<options>]
exterminate undead [<options>]
exterminate all[:<caste>] [<options>]
exterminate <race>[:<caste>] [<options>]

Race and caste names are case insensitive.

Examples

exterminate

List the targets on your map.

exterminate this

Kill the selected unit.

exterminate BIRD_RAVEN:MALE

Kill the ravens flying around the map (but only the male ones).

exterminate goblin --method magma --only-visible

Kill all visible, hostile goblins on the map by boiling them in magma.

exterminate all

Kill all non-friendly creatures.

exterminate all:MALE

Kill all non-friendly male creatures.

Options

-m, --method <method>

Specifies the “method” of killing units. See below for details.

-o, --only-visible

Specifies the tool should only kill units visible to the player on the map.

-f, --include-friendly

Specifies the tool should also kill units friendly to the player.

-l, --limit <num>

Set the maximum number of units to exterminate.

Methods

exterminate can kill units using any of the following methods:

instant:

Kill by blood loss, and if this is ineffective, then kill by vaporization (default).

vaporize:

Make the unit disappear in a puff of smoke. Note that units killed this way will not leave a corpse behind, but any items they were carrying will still drop.

disintegrate:

Vaporize the unit and destroy any items they were carrying.

drown:

Drown the unit in water.

magma:

Boil the unit in magma (not recommended for magma-safe creatures).

butcher:

Will mark the units for butchering instead of killing them. This is useful for pets and not useful for armed enemies.

knockout:

Will put units into an unconscious state for 30k ticks (about a month in fort mode).

traumatize:

Traumatizes units, forcing them to stare off into space (catatonic state).

Technical details

For the instant method, this tool kills by setting a unit’s blood_count to 0, which means immediate death at the next game tick. For creatures where this is not enough, such as vampires, it also sets animal.vanish_countdown, allowing the unit to vanish in a puff of smoke if the blood loss doesn’t kill them.

If the method of choice involves liquids, the tile is filled with a liquid level of 7 every tick. If the target unit moves, the liquid moves along with it, leaving the vacated tiles clean (though possibly scorched).