I think it would involve some rewriting, but this would definitely be desirable. Particularly so weapons like Minigun can reach fruition.

Oh ok, so will it be implemented anytime soon, if at all, or is it some where further down the list?

I think nemo plans to implement it, but I wouldn't expect it to be soon. Maybe for .17.

Ah ok, I look forward to it.

Moving hogs collide with *some* weapons.

Right now, the difference is basically "AmmoShove" which checks the "solid" items list in collisions, and "doMakeExplosion" which checks gear proximity.

If we wanted firepunch to have that behaviour, we would simply need to create a new AmmoShove that has doMakeExplosion behaviour but without linking damage to area of effect.

Right now AmmoShove is used when you want damage to be decoupled from radius.

Explosions have that direct association for a consistent game experience.

But nemo, why not just make that all weapons collide with the hogs? imo it would be more realistic, make many weapons more versatile, and just make it more fun...

From how you described it it seems like it would only benefit firepunch, baseball bat, and whip. Perhaps I'm missing something though.

it would allow weapons like machine guns to be made, or (imo) it would be fun to do stuff like bazooka'ing a falling hog to boost him into a hole, or maybe have an airplane accidentally hit a hog which was falling or something like that.
But, thats my opinion, and if others dont want to have it implemented its alright.

Machinegun could already be implemented as a trail of explosions.
Just no one has done it yet. Has been discussed a bit, and we have a fair idea of how to handle it.
Main issue is plenty of people with ideas for stuff and a very small number of people actually implementing things :-p.

Having a plane or bazooka hit a falling hog is kind of an edge case, and the extra inefficiency in continually scanning for hog positions instead of just doing land array tests doesn't exactly make it worthwhile to do.