FIre/Fireplaces

[Valase]

See here:

Fires immediately go out after being lit

Or search the forum, there are some topics about it:

Fire goes out too quickly

Hi everyone, While I was playing Cataclysm recently, I noticed a bug in the game. When I started in the Wizard Retreat scenario (Magiclysm) every fire I started seemed to go out within a few minutes. I don’t think this is normal, as one time I even got a message that said the fire looked like it would go out in thirty minutes or so… then it went out in three. At this point, my character is almost dead of dehydration due to not being able to cook anything. Only mod I am running other than Magicl…

Fires no longer stay lit, even in the presence of fuel (Experimental 11154)

This is encountered immediately after updating from 11144 to 11154 on an existing character. The fire I’m trying to light is indoors, in a brazier, has plenty of fuel, is being lit with a butane lighter, and no fire suppressing items or materials are present on the tile. Most of the attempts, the fire starts, exists for >10 ticks, then goes out, not even changing the fuel to ‘burnt’ before going out. On some of the attempts, the fire doesn’t even exist for an entire tick, the lighter fuel is use…

A temporary solution to that:

Fire goes out too quickly

As a workaround if you want/need a normal fire; you can use fuel like lamp oil, diesel or gasoline, as well as ethanol and strong alcoholic beverages (and more) as a long lasting fuel for a fire. Other than in real life, just one drop (1 cl) will burn a very, very long time (about a day for diesel and ethanol, a (few) hours for vodka). Also, you can find the other discussion on this topic as well as the link to the GitHub issue here:

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Then…

@Sabre

Now, I just switched to 11181 and I’ve noticed that if I’m not crafting something that actually uses the fire, it won’t add more fuel from the firewood source (which might be in 11157 to, haven’t tested).

As far as I know, that’s in the game for… forever. It will only draw material from the firewood source if you’re using the fire.