Firepit

[Alad]

Is firepit safe to place inside a house made of wood? It was ok when i built it but when i launched the game a day after my whole base was on fire

[Wonko486]

The big square stone one? Yeah, perfectly safe, never caused me a problem.

[**Asa**]

Safest is the fireplace, but yes you can.

[Spaceminnow]

Just remember to extinguish fires before leaving a session...
If you don't...
There is a risk...

[Rekal]

All of the cook fires and torches are safe indoors with wood structures. As long as your wall torches are not too close to the ceiling (or another wall) and your standing torches or camp fires too close to a wall.

Most house fires are started by the occupants - either you or a tamed critter walking through a cook fire and getting lit on fire, then subsequently lighting the rest of the place on fire. It's also possible that something spawned in your base and trampled through the fire when you loaded in.

Torches are perfectly safe against that kind of accident so you always want to make sure your cook fires (campfire, cooking pit, fireplace) are put out when not cooking or sleeping. Don't use them for lighting, setup standing torches for that.

I always used the firepit on my mission runs through all of Olympus and Styx. Setup a 3x3 wood shelter with a firepit dead center. Then setup standing torches on either end of it longways. The two torches lit up the 3x3 brightly and a quarter stack of wood burned much longer than any mission would last. Bedroll along the side and the lip of the firepit held all my mortar and pestles easily. Only lit the fire to cook and sleep, never set my place on fire a single time -- in fact I don't think I have that achievement yet. Of course I didn't run missions with any tamed animals and I always built my base elevated or overhanging locations that didn't have any critter traffic.

If you run your cook fires for charcoal, don't. Just clear the brush away from the base of a tree and then light the tree on fire with your torch. No brush around the base means the fire won't spread. After it burns out cut it down for your charcoal needs. Also don't use charcoal for steel - stick to coal unless you're swimming in the stuff.

[Natjur]

Any fire that you can walk into and catch fire yourself (which then transfers to any other nearby item is not safe.)

Fireplace is the only one that can not catch you on fire but its very hard to get yourself on fire with the firepit...but not impossible

[Kiele]

Stone stockpile underneath the firepit is best (I've found). I can't run into it and neither can tames.