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[Icarus]

First post:
During Year 5 of my needlessly complicated fortress I was moving goods to trade with the Humans when I see one of my haulers run by the trade depot with his ass on fire making a beeline for the entrance of the fort. Quickly I forbid passage on all the entrances and let him burn to death but looking around, I saw no forest fires or any fires at all. There is no magma on the map so I have no idea why my hauler would suddenly burst into flames. Any help?
Also, does smoke have negative effects?

[Dakk]

Hmmm, your map could have a underground source of magma, this can cause fire imps to spawn on the map aswell, sometimes on the surface, though this is rather rare, try digging around a bit.

Apart from that, i don't know what could possibly have cause that, maybe he was a legendary stripper and his legendary ass was too hot for his clothes?

[LordDemon]

Do you know for fact that there is no magma, or have you just not found any? Is it possible that you have a tunnel going near a magma vent (not necessarily so close that the walls are hot), and a fire snake spawned into the tunnel? They can spawn some squares outside the magma, so I guess that would be one posibility.

[Lord Dullard]

Hmmm, your map could have a underground source of magma, this can cause fire imps to spawn on the map aswell, sometimes on the surface, though this is rather rare, try digging around a bit.

Apart from that, i don't know what could possibly have cause that, maybe he was a legendary stripper and his legendary ass was too hot for his clothes?

Urist 'Fabio' McDwarf cancels Store Item in Bin: Too sexy for his shirt, so sexy it hurts.

[Icarus]

No, I embarked on this map with NO to both magma pipes and pools. Now there's a forest fire and my dwarven liaison is trying to follow my trader back to the fort.
Can warm walls set fire to things?

[Albedo]

Urist 'Fabio' McDwarf cancels Store Item in Bin: Too sexy for his shirt, so sexy it hurts.

Urist 'Fabio' McDwarf Dance on Catwalk

[Wild Goose]

Humans don't trade fire snakes, but wasn't there some bug making leather boil/explode?
Do you know what he was hauling?

[Icarus]

My hauler was running towards the depot, towards the fort so I don't think it was something at the depot. He was on fire well before reaching it.
Also, I set a small booze stockpile outside so it would explode because I have over 1k drinks.
Fun.

[LordChess]

What is the highest temperature of the biomes composing your fort? It is possible, though quite unlikely since it requires editing the temperature limits during worldgen, that some tiles in your map are that hot enough to combust anything in them.

Pretty unlikely, though...

[Wild Goose]

"Wait, don't go over th-" !!whoosh!!

I just like the idea that certain areas of your world can get so hot things burst into flames.  I may have to do some modding.
What kinda temperature range should I be looking for, and do you think there's a way to make it a somewhat survivable world?

[Icarus]

Another forest fire. This time I caught it just when it started. It was generated on a grassy tile near my outer wall defense. I don't know what caused it. There is nothing underneath it because I have most of the area mined out.

[Zaranthan]

Armageddon. Your world is being purified by fire.

[Karadan]

The answer is obvious.  Armok took up smoking, and your fortress has been designated his ashtray.

[Icarus]

Update:
All of my legendaries and my first 7 dwarves are all dead. My novice woodcutter died from bleeding to death (wasn't on fire), then everyone made a mad dash for his corpse and I mean EVERYONE. Only my pump operators who just pumped and nothing else. Since I didn't think he was on fire, I didn't see any cause for alarm but for some reason his corpse decided to ignite into flames leaving me with about 20 messages of
X has died in the heat
The burning dwarves (nice band name) that somehow found a way into my main fort proceeded to go directly to one of my largest booze stockpiles while 30% of my workforce paused to drink and take a break at the same time.
There were about 90 barrels in the first stockpile.
And for some reason someone's cat got killed by a drawbridge, which is odd.
An elven caravan just showed up and if my prediction is right, a goblin siege is right behind them.
I love this game so much.

[Jim Groovester]

That sounds like a fun map. No mods, vanilla DF? Regular world-gen, or tweaked settings? Inquiring minds want to know.

Want to know how they can get spontaneous fires outside, that is.