Are standing fires worth it?

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

I put a few down and it's difficult to light them as you have to look at them at a very specific spot which is not easy.

They also cannot have any leaves, money, or firewood put on them to keep the flames up. Meanwhile, wall torch for example seems to last forever and they also provide warmth. Standing fires also can't cook anything and need 2 sticks with a piece of cloth.

EDIT: I just realize you can put leaves and money on then. Sorry about that.

[Ataxio]

I was a little disappointed by them. They don't cast enough light or last long enough.

Looks exactly like the standing torches from the first game, which were kinda useless. Esp since we lack incendiary arrows.

I haven't tried since the last update but I was able to add leaves and money, but it diddnt really make it last much longer.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

I was a little disappointed by them. They don't cast enough light or last long enough.

Looks exactly like the standing torches from the first game, which were kinda useless. Esp since we lack incendiary arrows.

Same, and it's what I was thinking too. I couldn't bother with standing fires in the first game either now that I remember.

Sure, standing fires don't need a wall to be placed on but at that point, you might as well put down a campfire (especially now it's patched so it lasts longer) and you can cook things and add leaves.

Maybe incendiary arrows will return, alongside with poison arrows. We have the resources to craft them but not the recipes yet.

[Buckshot]

The only real use for fires is to stay warm and keep Kelvin warm. You can eat as many raw fish as you like without getting sick. Since fires with firewood are impossible to start, at least for me, I dont even bother.

[threethreethree]

i like how standing fires look, aesthetically, so I'd like for their function to be different...like burning longer. As with other things that just take cloth, I also don't like that something with just cloth burns a long time or i wish that it did, like the standing fire...so what I'd really like is to have sap in the game - it would be a way to make something burn much longer or justify it for something that already does.

[<I^_^]I_1C3Qu33n_X33_I[^_^]>]

The only thing i can recommend are skull lamps(hanging/standing), they work in every weather and provide a small light source with unlimited fuel just like in the forest, great if you dont want to lose your orientation in large caves.

[grinsekeatzchen]

So cannibals no longer can run into them and take fire?
That was the only use in the Old Game for these Standing torches. You would put it in front of a windows, stand behind it and cannibals run in it xD. Was always super funny.

[Noetic]

The standing torches are kinda useless, i tried putting them along a zipline run so i could see the next tree in the dark next time i come by.... Yea that didn't work cus they go out.

BUT!!!!!! you can put torches on the standing torches, which still looks cool and does not go out. So there's that fix.

[threethreethree]

Originally posted by Noetic:

The standing torches are kinda useless, i tried putting them along a zipline run so i could see the next tree in the dark next time i come by.... Yea that didn't work cus they go out.

BUT!!!!!! you can put torches on the standing torches, which still looks cool and does not go out. So there's that fix.

torches go on standing fires?

[theshadowsniper503]

Originally posted by Ataxio:

I was a little disappointed by them. They don't cast enough light or last long enough.

Looks exactly like the standing torches from the first game, which were kinda useless. Esp since we lack incendiary arrows.

I haven't tried since the last update but I was able to add leaves and money, but it diddnt really make it last much longer.

damn we dont even have incendiary arrows

[Noetic]

Originally posted by threethreethree:

Originally posted by Noetic:

The standing torches are kinda useless, i tried putting them along a zipline run so i could see the next tree in the dark next time i come by.... Yea that didn't work cus they go out.

BUT!!!!!! you can put torches on the standing torches, which still looks cool and does not go out. So there's that fix.

torches go on standing fires?

I don't know if they're suppose to but they most certainly do. You can even put 1 torch on all 3 sides so it looks like it was suppose to be that way.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

Originally posted by grinsekeatzchen:

So cannibals no longer can run into them and take fire?
That was the only use in the Old Game for these Standing torches. You would put it in front of a windows, stand behind it and cannibals run in it xD. Was always super funny.

They actually did before? I wish I knew that for base defense.

[{FU}TheForgeryTTV]

Originally posted by I Kawaii_Sheep I:

The only thing i can recommend are skull lamps(hanging/standing), they work in every weather and provide a small light source with unlimited fuel just like in the forest, great if you dont want to lose your orientation in large caves.

True, skull lamps and wall torches provide illumination without the need for fuel, and the latter provides warmth just as well.

So far, the only place I had to put standing torches was on an open platform in which putting a wall or ceiling would get in the way of defending my walls.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Not really worth it. I use wall toches instead, they burn forever.

[threethreethree]

Originally posted by Noetic:

Originally posted by threethreethree:

torches go on standing fires?

I don't know if they're suppose to but they most certainly do. You can even put 1 torch on all 3 sides so it looks like it was suppose to be that way.

Oh heck. Can just make our own standing fires, which stay burning. A stick, then torches on that. DER! That's my solution haha.

[Kydyrium]

Originally posted by threethreethree:

Originally posted by Noetic:

I don't know if they're suppose to but they most certainly do. You can even put 1 torch on all 3 sides so it looks like it was suppose to be that way.

Oh heck. Can just make our own standing fires, which stay burning. A stick, then torches on that. DER! That's my solution haha.

Oooooh I'll have to try that. Thanks the that idea.