Why do stone floors burn?

[Edelgris]

In an attempt to fire proof my electrical generators, I built a two-tile wide perimiter around them consisting of stone flooring. Now, much to my dismay I see flames merrily devouring my rock floors ..and boom goes the generators.

Unless there's some hiherto unknown phenomena that allows fire to consume stone, isn't this both counter intuitive as well as unrealistic?

Is there some rational explanation as to why this is a game mechanic?

[Admiral Obvious]

The better question is, why don't wooden floors burn?

[Edelgris]

Well, that certainly adds to the mystery...

[itssirtou]

Maybe its a bug? Values got swapped or something...

[Edelgris]

After reloading and testing again, I see that the outline width of the wind turbine is 2x5 tiles when you click on it. So, even though it's possible to cover it with stone tiles, it might be that it catches fire due to this. So I might just have to make my floor tiling even wider.

Can anyone confirm/deny whether stone tiles actually catch fire?

If it indeed does not, that would explain why wooden floors do not. Because it could be assumed that anything with the designation 'floor' is simply flagged as fire proof.

[radkid10]

if you're doing like I'm doing living in the tropical forest I recommend not living in there anymore every colony I have made basically burned to death

you cannot defeat a ring of fire from a flashstorm with only three colonists

[Edelgris]

I'm in a temperate zone. But there's still plenty of opportunities to get the colony burned down. This particular fire happened during winter, with the ground covered in snow.

What happened was that a Boomalo decided to tame itself and hang around my colony. Of course, I wasn't keen on having a walking bomb around, so I tried butchering it... BOOM! Ok, so that happened... Experiment unsuccessful, I guess. Reloaded my savegame. Then I tried designating an animal area in what I thought was a safe area and just let it starve to death. Guess what? BOOM! I guess they just won't go quietly. So then I had a huge fire on my hands - heading towards my colony.

Fire burns just fine during winter btw. It just melts the snow first and then burns whatever is underneath.

Oh, and this was just weeks after a whole herd of mad Boomalos decided to go on a crazy manhunt and hang around outside my front door.

I just closed the door and had everyone wait it out inside for a few days. No problem. Or so I thought... All kinds of idiots started showing up on my doorstep. First a few traders. They promptly got attacked by the Boomalos. Luckily they were killed before they managed to kill any Boomalos. Although, some Boomalos were bleeding like ticking time bombs.

But, before they died to bleeding out, the local idiot tribes decided to send a "rescue party" consisting of two guys with a shoddy short bow and a poor steel club. Their opposition were a herd of 6 Boomalos with an appetite for destruction. They managed to kill one, and a chain reaction started. Needless to say, a whole lot of booms ensued. Luckily, none of my equipment exploded and the rain stopped the fire that time. But I wasn't as lucky with that last overly friendly Boomalo.

Also, before that. Maniacs with molotovs. But that's another story.


TL;DR: Fire! Fire everywhere!