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matchhead bullets should be using potassium chlorate and not red phosphorus #74771

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anoobindisguise opened this issue Jun 24, 2024 · 2 comments
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

the source for "matchhead bullets" shows them being made using ground and sieved powder from the heads of safety matches (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMGYUmYLhAo). when I implemented them in #74489 I used red phosphorus because that was what matchheads ground into (which was incorrect) but now that the yields of matches are properly differentiated such that red phosphorus can only be obtained from the striker strip on the box itself there is an incongruity.

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We currently have potassium chloride in game, but match head powder itself is (mostly) potassium chlorate. It's not 100% pure, so the proper solution is probably to just introduce actual matchhead powder again, enable that to be used as an explosive for bombs, and a source of handloading for the incredibly shitty bullets.

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Remove matchhead bullets. no skin off my back, i guess.

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ADekema commented Jun 25, 2024

Interesting addition could be armstrongs mixuture. Basically it is a mixture of red phosporus and potassium chlorate. It is senditive to friction so it can be used to make shitty primers for shitty matchhead bullets and for impact fuses.

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