Sleep and heat

[Vi7ER]

So is the campfire and the fireplace the only effective sources of heat for sleeping?

I've figured out a furnace doesn't work.

What do people do to sleep indoors when you aren't building a mansion with a fireplace?

Seems a bit odd you can't sleep without a fire inside a shelter.

[Small]

i put down a 2x1 wooden structure, fireplace outside, bed along the inside wall closest to the fire, and slept fine

[stb155]

Anyone tried if the the potbelly stove is good for sleeping ?

Furnace should be changed to work for this imo.
Should also be able to do same cooking as campfire, at higher speed even.

Edit:
Never had a problem with using campfire inside.
Just put it in corner, so you don’t walk into it.
And be careful to place all benches/stations in a way, so they don’t put you in/next to fire when working on them.

[stb155]

Originally posted by Small:

i put down a 2x1 wooden structure, fireplace outside, bed along the inside wall closest to the fire, and slept fine

Big downside of this is that it will go out during rain, and you can’t sleep, won’t get food, and in arctic or desert night you may freeze.

[Windwalker]

As long as you build wood or higher buildings you can have a fire and sleep in a single squire building (floor, 4 walls, another floor for ceiling)

[Propwash50]

yeah my main base 3x2 i use a fireplace since it cooks much faster. for my outposts 2x1 I use a bag and a campfire.

edited for typing looking like I have rabies

[stb155]

To answer my own question:
NO, you can not use the potbelly stove/Kanonenofen for sleeping.

It can’t be permanently activated like campfire/fireplace.
Therefore the text in blueprint is wrong, it says it is used for heating, while actually it is only useful for crafting advanced food.
You put fuel and raw food in it to craft some food, then it turns off.
It can’t do the basic cooking that campfire/fireplace can do.

Also placement is very weird.
It’s chimney pipe is slightly taller than 1 wall height.
So it would stick out of a flat roof, which would make sense.
(Don’t want the smoke inside, right ?)
But you can’t place it that way, has to be placed under angled roof or in 2 high room.
Then the pipe is awkwardly ending inside the house.
Another “wtf where they smoking” moment.

[Vi7ER]

Thanks for the tips!

I've discovered that you can use a thatch single floor with a peaked that roof over it and a peaked roof wall to create a small tent. If you place your sleeproll down before the roof piece you end up with a usable and very basic "tent" outside which you can place a fire.

This kind of feels authentic too.

I say that because the whole campfire inside a wooden box just feels wrong. Although that's exactly what I do with larger buildings.

Guess I'll just start using fireplaces.

[croAussie]

I accidentally stepped on my campfire, and then went inside my wooden base, without realising I was on fire.
Burnt my base to the ground..