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Leonidas

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Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« on: December 23, 2009, 04:01:28 pm »
I have some flaming HFS charcoal producing smoke that's killing my frame rate.  How long will it take the charcoal to burn itself out?  I'm trying to figure out if it's worth the time and effort to pipe some water out there to extinguish it.
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2009, 04:45:07 pm »
In the two forts I've run with HFS, both ended up with burning charcoal. After about 9-10 months or so, it burned out.
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2009, 06:05:09 pm »
If it is really affecting your FPS bad enough that it would take too long to solve the problem naturally, just edit the raws for charcoal to give it an extremely low boiling point or something (though this would remove ALL your charcoal).
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2009, 06:46:46 pm »
It'll take a few years. I tossed a nickel bin full of the stuff into magma once, and it smoked for years. You can, however, douse burning things with water and put them out.

So, get to diverting the rivers into Hell itself.
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2009, 08:17:12 pm »
"We shall flood hell itself!"
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2009, 08:36:01 pm »
I usually divert water into my clown cars to douse the smoke, however on my last fort where I had revealed the car with fortifications and then sent water through there was an annoying clowin standing right by the fortifications causing all the water to instantly turn to steam which only caused more FPS trouble  :D
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2009, 08:52:57 pm »
Charcoal and coal (bitmunous and lignite) will take at least a year to burn out definetly. I had accidentially let magma into a dug out lignite (or was it the other one?) vein once. Nobody died, but the smoke spewed out of the magma pipe for quite a while.

I don't think it hurt my framerate though, but it wasn't HFS related.
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Re: Time for Charcoal to Burn Itself Out
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2009, 04:02:53 am »
How long does wood logs burn for?
Do they even burn?
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