# Minimum required to kill a Triffid heart?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/minimum-required-to-kill-a-triffid-heart/1444>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [May 25, 2013, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/minimum-required-to-kill-a-triffid-heart/1444 "2013-05-25T08:11:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![halberdsturgeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@halberdsturgeon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/halberdsturgeon)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/minimum-required-to-kill-a-triffid-heart/1444/4 "2013-05-25T12:21:12Z")

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> [@LazyCat](#):
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> Amazing. It would never occur to me to use tear gas, and that’s what I like about this game. How did you come up with that? What does tear gas do to them? Perhaps you could write a little guide for the wiki.

It stuns them so that they can’t move as soon as they come into contact with it, and inflicts heavy damage on them round by round until they die. It works on every kind of triffid in the game as far as I can tell, including the heart itself. I found triffid hearts to be the most challenging areas in the game before I started using teargas; now they’re no problem at all as long as I have a safe way of breaking down the root walls.

I definitely can’t take credit for thinking of trying teargas against triffids on my own, I must have read it somewhere at some point. Possibly here on the forum, I’m not sure.

> [@LazyCat](#):
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> My greatest problems were those spreading vines, and I found firearms and explosives to be useless there, even explosive slugs, the walls just close too fast when you explode them.

Teargas kills both the vines and creeper hubs. It kills the hubs, but not the vines. If you’re a good marksman you can shoot past the vines to the hub without too much difficulty, but it’s not ideal and the hub may be around a corner with vines flooding the only approach. I used to use guns against triffids. I found using melee against the vines tends to involve taking a lot of damage. I’d never go back to using bombs to clear out the heart, it’s too dangerous and imprecise.

> [@LazyCat](#):
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> Thanks for the tear-gas tip, I’m looking forward to try it out. Do you have more tips like that, where something rather useless in most case scenarios works well on some specific type of monster or in some particular situation?

Teargas is really the most situational weapon in the game that I can think of. Setting triffid queens on fire is also fun to watch, but fire is useful in a lot of situations.

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