Why won't rain extinguish fires?

[PotatoBasket]

So, i re-modded for version .19 with a very similar modset from .18 (fewer mods now). For some reason rain no longer extinguishes fire, and any fire not in the home area will eventually burn through the entire map. Is this a flaw in the game or a mod that i should delete?

[CrunchyDuck]

Rain in the base game still does put out fires. Are you sure the fires aren't under a roof?

[ハリアー]

i have the same problem. Even when it raining, the fire doesn't get put out. n Im sure that the fire is NOT under the roof.

[CrunchyDuck]

I'd suggest loading up a quick map (You get smaller world/map size choices with dev mode on) and testing a bit further. Disable all of your mods for this test map, start some fires, then make it rain.

[ハリアー]

small map made, removed all the mod, let fire spread a bit, then turn on the rain. it doesn't make fire smaller. althought the fire disapper cause of the hit point of thing that was burning was 0, but at 10k% hit point, it doesn't remove fire at all.

[crgzero]

Fires extinguish with rain in my game both vanilla and my usual crap ton of mods. B19.

Are you SURE you've disabled all mods?
Have you altered ANY files?

Go into steam and verify all files and see what happens after starting up again.

[climbingeastofwinter]

Does the fire have fuel to burn? That may factor in to whether or not it will be extinguished by rain. A fire creeping through a chemfuel stockpile may not go out easily, I wouldn't think.

[Bullwinkle]

19 seems to be working same as 18 for me and my 7 mods

[tiberiansun371alexw]

It can for me, except for chemfuel fires. Annoyingly, for every fire put out by the rain, about 30% of them spread to something else burnable. So it generally takes a few rounds for it to fully go away. Or never in the case of chemfuel since 19 seems to messed with putting it out.

[CellNav]

Originally posted by PotatoBasket:

Why won't rain extinguish fires?

Because it appears the rain isn't extinguishing the fire as quickly as before b19. Which means large flames win the battle and will mostly likely destroy it's fuel source (the burning object) before going out.

Water won't put out a chem fire IRL, you need to remove the oxygen. Water soaks and cools wood fires (for instance) and will not help chem fires and it actually makes them worse (spreads the fire by spreading the chemical). I would think that a large fire is burning so hot that it vaporizes any bit of rainfall before it ever reaches the fuel source (burning object).

EDIT : .... Know your A, B, C's for fire extiguishing (perhaps).

[KrysisMode]

Yell at Tynan then. Makes fires actually dangerous and gives a reason to make fire breaks again, used to be the rain instantly shutdown fires to the point people ignored it unless it was burning critical stuff.

[hedge]

I just tested this on a rainforest biome with a huge fire, got it to rain and it all went out as usual. Heavily modded w/ nothing that effects weather

[CellNav]

Originally posted by Hedge Enemy:

I just tested this on a rainforest biome with a huge fire, got it to rain and it all went out as usual. Heavily modded w/ nothing that effects weather

I'm in a temperate forest unmodded ... I think the op is looking at the lightning strikes and mentioning that the rain isn't putting that "strike" out as fast as it should (being in a rain forest) causing frequent ... ahem ... discomfort.

I watched a lightning strike just now in the game, it was raining and the rain didn't put the fire out where the strike hit. However, the rain slowed the flames growth rate so it remained a "small to medium" fire that didn't spread and eventually put it self out (leaving burnt ash).

Again, I think the op wants the fire to go out and never "grow" (step up to next fire level). Frankly, the fires look OK to me, since the rain prevented further spreading, which is more important than burning out something that is aleady on fire (that's the pawn's job).