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Author Topic: Forest fires make charcoal/ashes?  (Read 696 times)

Id Utalrisen

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Forest fires make charcoal/ashes?
« on: April 16, 2013, 09:05:27 am »

It's be super neat if forest-fires sometimes make charcoal/ashes that can be collected?

They could turn the trees to "charred trees" which can be cut down by woodcutters, and it turns them into ashes, with a small chance for some kind of coal?
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Re: Forest fires make charcoal/ashes?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2013, 09:41:44 am »

Charcoal is created when wood is burned very slowly with very little oxygen. It's a very delicate and labor-intensive process. You can't just burn something and expect to get more burnable material out of it.

Collecting the ashes would be neat though. It might work in the next release with the reworked trees.
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Id Utalrisen

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Re: Forest fires make charcoal/ashes?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2013, 10:19:31 am »

Charcoal is created when wood is burned very slowly with very little oxygen. It's a very delicate and labor-intensive process. You can't just burn something and expect to get more burnable material out of it.

Collecting the ashes would be neat though. It might work in the next release with the reworked trees.

Charcoal can be created in some rare circumstances during wildfires (so it'd have to be kinda rare-ish)
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3545580?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102044007801

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Re: Forest fires make charcoal/ashes?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2013, 02:08:52 pm »

Wild fires as a natural disaster would be kind of cool. Then you could add ash and charcoal to them.

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Re: Forest fires make charcoal/ashes?
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2013, 09:56:16 am »

Wild fires as a natural disaster would be kind of cool. Then you could add ash and charcoal to them.

They already have them, they are usually called "dragon attacks" though.
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