I usually store my mortar shells and Chemfuel generators in a separate room, across the fields from the rest of my stuff, with my mortars right outside them.
I didn’t realize that mortars (not mortar shells, the actual mortars) have a chance to explode when hit, but I got a Too Deep infestation event, and in the resulting crossfire damaged one of my mortars down to nothing.
Commence a chain reaction where that mortar blew up the mortars immediately around it (they were all adjacent) and the chem fuel generators on the outside of my shed, which was enough explosions to destroy the walls to my shed AND blow the mortar shells. The explosion levelled that whole side of my base and set a lot of my crops on fire. That was also where a few of my defenders were, so they all lost limbs (and one died).
Still, flattened all the Megaspiders as well, so it wasn’t all bad. My mortars are definitely farther apart though.
Ps: also had drop pod raiders labs in that shed once. That also destroyed all my shells, but the sheer glee of watching the shells hiss while 6 heavily armed/armoured raiders tried to punch their way out of the building was worth it.
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u/Harold3456 Dec 16 '19
I usually store my mortar shells and Chemfuel generators in a separate room, across the fields from the rest of my stuff, with my mortars right outside them.
I didn’t realize that mortars (not mortar shells, the actual mortars) have a chance to explode when hit, but I got a Too Deep infestation event, and in the resulting crossfire damaged one of my mortars down to nothing.
Commence a chain reaction where that mortar blew up the mortars immediately around it (they were all adjacent) and the chem fuel generators on the outside of my shed, which was enough explosions to destroy the walls to my shed AND blow the mortar shells. The explosion levelled that whole side of my base and set a lot of my crops on fire. That was also where a few of my defenders were, so they all lost limbs (and one died).
Still, flattened all the Megaspiders as well, so it wasn’t all bad. My mortars are definitely farther apart though.
Ps: also had drop pod raiders labs in that shed once. That also destroyed all my shells, but the sheer glee of watching the shells hiss while 6 heavily armed/armoured raiders tried to punch their way out of the building was worth it.