Bloody hell metal or stone walls shouldent BURN. Really what do they make he metal and stone out of?

[mqwiemer]

And if those thiings burn why the hell is the whole world not one gient burning to a crisp fireball?

[Wantoomany]

Stone does not burn.

[mqwiemer]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Stone does not burn.

really Damit I really need a crafter to make bricks.

[Wantoomany]

I know this will probably cause a huge debate, because there are a ton of folks who get angry at steel walls being flammable, but it helps to think of the material cost. You are not making huge steel wall slabs with a few KG of steel. You are making very thin walls similar to corrugated tin walls. A sufficienty hot fire will very easily eat those up.

[Tokogawa [GER]]

Fires would be pretty weak if they couldnt affect Walls. You could just make everything out of Stone (as you would anyway) and ignore every fire that doesnt reach your Fields or Trees.

The Bzzzt Event for example would be completly laughable if youre not running Wires throught Wodden walls

[mqwiemer]

Originally posted by Tokogawa GER:

Fires would be pretty weak if they couldnt affect Walls. You could just make everything out of Stone (as you would anyway) and ignore every fire that doesnt reach your Fields or Trees.

The Bzzzt Event for example would be completly laughable if youre not running Wires throught Wodden walls

I got no one with the skills to craft da bricks and SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much metal.

[The Yeen Queen]

Really the issue is balance. Steel isn't hard to get early on, so having early fireproof buildings would be too easy if steel wasn't flammable. It IS still better than wood as far as flammability, though.

[Steelfleece]

Anyone can cut stone blocks once you have the tech. It's unskilled work, doesn't require any skills, doesn't give any skills. Good for pawns who have little else to do, like soldiers with poor work skills, doctors who have no patients, so on.

[mqwiemer]

Originally posted by Night Foxx:

Really the issue is balance. Steel isn't hard to get early on, so having early fireproof buildings would be too easy if steel wasn't flammable. It IS still better than wood as far as flammability, though.

(Sigh) Fair point but it dont piss me off any less.

[Astasia]

It's just steel that is an outlier, because steel in the game represents a cheap/abundant early game material that is quick to build with, barely above wood. Stone, plasteel and uranium are all much better materials to make walls with (significantly more HP) and are also not flammable.

[MadArtillery]

Always found it a bit silly myself. They should remove one or 2 steel cost and replace it with wood then it'd make more sense and no one would be too surprised the wood frame caught fire.

[Astasia]

You basically only use steel for walls early on maps where there is little or no wood though. That's kind of why it exists in the state it does, because not all maps have wood. There's a lot of parity there, pretty much everything you would make out of wood can be made out of steel with similar results, steel walls, steel dining chairs, steel beds, steel work benches, that's the "tier 1" alternate on low wood maps.

[Vermillion Cardinal]

My walls' building material has almost always gone from wood to stone as soon as I can manage it (except when aesthetics demands it), so I'm usually bemused with regards complaints about flammable steel walls. To me, steel has better use elsewhere even if they are in abundance.

I only recently had a shack built with steel because my mechanitor couldn't chop trees quickly enough to save her life and the scenario didn't start her off with wood, but even then as soon as things stabilized I was quickly transitioning to stone walls.

[Aranador]

Most metals burn quite well. As someone pointed out above, your walls are not solid slabs of the stuff. Is why aircraft and ships are quite fussy about fire control. Still, metal in Rimworld is a little too flammable, but that is why the archotechs invented stone blocks. And death robots. Funny chaps, those archotechs.

[flintfakeer]

The walls are made of steel wool

[Jet]

Rimworld steel. Its like Damascus steel but the opposite