# Fire goes out too quickly

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fire-goes-out-too-quickly/25271>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [November 14, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fire-goes-out-too-quickly/25271 "2020-11-14T17:29:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2020, 10:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fire-goes-out-too-quickly/25271/10 "2020-11-14T22:58:11Z")

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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:

> [@Fires no longer stay lit, even in the presence of fuel (Experimental 11154)](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fires-no-longer-stay-lit-even-in-the-presence-of-fuel-experimental-11154/25218/2):
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> Yeah I’ve also been having this problem. There’s a big tracker for it: [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/45318](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/45318) I really hope someone fixes it soon, but I’ve already switched over to a solar powered kitchen unit in my main base.

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