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Granny Annie Sep 16, 2016 @ 9:21am
set tree on fire?
I must be daft, I've tried various ways of setting a tree on fire to no avail.

Can someone tell me the easiest way to burn down a tree?
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A Spicy Meatball Sep 16, 2016 @ 9:50am 
ok, first

Be very careful when burning down trees

The fire can spred to adjacent trees and burn down a whole forest, causing the game and the server which also runs other worlds, to lag.

Second,

you should only set something on fire if it is your claim, which allows you to enable and disable fire at will

If you do not follow the above rules, you can cause your world to 'lag out' and not allow you to play on it.

Third; when you cause a world to lag out due to a forest fire, you are eating cpu cycles on the server which runs 700 worlds.

Don't do that. You ruin the game for other people if you do.
Last edited by A Spicy Meatball; Sep 16, 2016 @ 9:50am
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Granny Annie Sep 16, 2016 @ 10:16am 
Thanks mate. I worked out what I did wrong - hadn't enabled fire on my claim and when I did that I could throw a firebomb at the leaves and that burnt the tree down. It was a solitary tree in the savannah right in the way of my build.

Cheers for the prompt and informative response!
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alikhi Sep 21, 2016 @ 12:11am 
Originally posted by mehopkins1971:
Thanks mate. I worked out what I did wrong - hadn't enabled fire on my claim and when I did that I could throw a firebomb at the leaves and that burnt the tree down. It was a solitary tree in the savannah right in the way of my build.

Cheers for the prompt and informative response!
Myself I would have used a few excavators on that tree, even if you have no other use for the materials from it, you can always stuff wood and leaves into forges to smelt materials (I know its slow fuel, but I use it for fuel when I want to set the forges to work just before I log out, so my mats are ready the next time I log in) I have a few chests full of leaves for just this reason.
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Granny Annie Sep 21, 2016 @ 3:55am 
That's a good idea, but I cant get excavators to work - I set them, click on them and run away and they just vanish taking no blocks with them. I must be doing something wrong.
Cheers for the response!
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TheRemyD Sep 21, 2016 @ 7:19am 
If you are doing it inside of a claim then you probably have TNT disabled in the claim. Excavators are a part of the explosives crafting chain so are subject to all the rules of TNT
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Granny Annie Sep 21, 2016 @ 8:38pm 
Originally posted by TheRemyD:
If you are doing it inside of a claim then you probably have TNT disabled in the claim. Excavators are a part of the explosives crafting chain so are subject to all the rules of TNT

No, I've tried them in various places on the map and can't get them to work. I set them down, click on them and run, and the excavator just disappears and doesn't remove any blocks.

Don't know what I'm doing wrong.
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TheRemyD Sep 22, 2016 @ 4:09am 
Are the world settings set to have TNT enabled? Someone else just said they had to toggle the World setting to get it working again.
Last edited by TheRemyD; Sep 22, 2016 @ 4:12am
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Granny Annie Sep 22, 2016 @ 4:27am 
Originally posted by TheRemyD:
Are the world settings set to have TNT enabled? Someone else just said they had to toggle the World setting to get it working again.

Just tried again and it seems to be working now. Managed to clear an area of fossil layer with an excavator. It could be that I was using the wrong kind of excavator for the blocks around it perhaps...

thanks for the info!
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TheRemyD Sep 22, 2016 @ 5:50am 
Glad that you got it figured out. :steamhappy:
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