wow fire is now scary

[Xenomorph]

my house burnt down lol

[Val Heimershmidt]

Originally posted by Faceplant8:

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

You left out the easiest source...burning food.

All those high quality fish yield a few pieces. It aint too hard putting two iron racks on the hearth to burn 10 at a time.

Then you have all that other excess meat you stop using like wolf meat, lizard tails, deer meat, etc.

Why do you have all that excess fish/meat? If I burned all my excess meat I'd have... well, nothing because I don't have any excess meat.

Honestly, I don't see the benefit in burning wood to make coal either, except in the field when you don't have a kiln. If I'm needing coal, I likely am feeding it in my smelter, which is next to the kiln.

I will take coal if I create it in the course of event, though, of course...

Burning food is hardly the easiest source.

One hit with a torch on a stack of cord wood and you get 50 coal. If you got 10 stacks of cord wood, and a torch (1 resin + 1 wood) 10 swings later you now have 500 coal. If you would rather hand feed a kiln 25 wood, one at a time (and wait for it to process) or load up spits with deer/neck/boar or Wolf meat and wait for that to burn I guess that's your call.

[blprice61]

Burning wood for coal early on has a lower startup cost.

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by Val Heimershmidt:

One hit with a torch on a stack of cord wood and you get 50 coal. If you got 10 stacks of cord wood, and a torch (1 resin + 1 wood) 10 swings later you now have 500 coal. If you would rather hand feed a kilt 25 wood one at a time (and wait for it to process) or load up spits with deer meat and wait for that to burn I guess that's your call.

My point is that I'm already there waiting for my smelter to process, so there is no more waiting.

Not having to cut down the trees would be very nice, but burning them down is very inefficient.

[Val Heimershmidt]

I love that there are now many different ways to obtain coal. From firing fire arrows blindly into the forest, setting campfires down next to or inside derelict structures (shooting those same structures with fire arrows), Building stacks of wood or building pieces on top of fires, to destroying wood objects with a torch... I for one haven't bothered with Kilns since the Ashland's update and to the Kilns I say "Good riddance"