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[Skorpion]

So. I had an accident with the obsidian farm. And a dyer caught fire.

I think I contained it in a room, but how long until I can reclaim it?

[Stormrage]

If it has a bin full of lignite... YEARS

[Jim Groovester]

Clothes and flesh should burn out pretty quickly. As above, lignite, charcoal, coke, graphite, and other materials like that will burn for a long time.

[XSI]

Is the dwarf still alive? Drop some booze in to check.

I've found a dead dwarf's clothes burned for 3 seasons, but some of the clothes went out before that. Different materials seem to have different burn times.(He had a run-in with a fire imp, and he was exceptionally weak)

It might help to reroute the river into that room, make sure to lock the door.

[Skorpion]

I added a door and locked it, and the leather and flesh went out before I finished containing the magma flow.

On a sidenote, are fire imp corpses magma-proof? I just deployed the marksdorfs to take out the last one, and it's a listed fatality, but NO BODY.

[TKTom]

It might help to reroute the river into that room, make sure to lock the door.

 I thought water (annoyingly) had no effect on fire in the current version?

[XSI]

From what I know, water +fire = less fire.

Even if it has no effect, a drowned dwarf probably burns faster then a life one.

I think fire imp corpses are not magma/fire proof, but have no proof as I changed all of mine into decorations for mugs.

[Derakon]

To my knowledge, the only things that water cannot extinguish are Spirits of Fire and burning items contained within bins.

[Skorpion]

That's because a SoF is so hot it vapourises water a few tiles away.

The ever-burning bin o' lignite blocks is magic, though.

[TKTom]

To my knowledge, the only things that water cannot extinguish are Spirits of Fire and burning items contained within bins.

 So dousing dwarfs works? I read somewhere that it doesn't work, so I've never tried .

[XSI]

It doesn't work to douse them with magma, which is the default liquid if people talk about anything liquid for dwarves when not mentioning what liquid.

Water only helps a little, but a little can sometimes fix a lot...Like how 1/7 magma in the same enclosed area as a noble will solve something, slowly.

[Skorpion]

1/7 magma is what caused my problem in the first place.

Thankfully, the flow is now contained. On the other hand, I lost the huge pile o' crafts in the workshop, and two dwarves getting them. One instantly torched, the other dragged back where he bled to death from mangled feet, and then caught fire.
Oh, and the bed. And all his non-silk stuff.
And the workshop.
And the obsidian farm is full of 2-3/7 water.

But on the third hand, a certain lye maker turned guard turned long-term invalid turned lye maker now has the profession of 'savior', because he not only finished both the pumps that stopped the magma flow, but operated them as well.
His name shall be remembered, and he will be given a fancy bedroom once I train him to legendary in something.
Possibly pump operating.

[Shrike]

To my knowledge, the only things that water cannot extinguish are Spirits of Fire and burning items contained within bins.

 So dousing dwarfs works? I read somewhere that it doesn't work, so I've never tried .

I assure you, it does.
You just need to give them a nice, long soak.

[Elvang]

On a sidenote, are fire imp corpses magma-proof? I just deployed the marksdorfs to take out the last one, and it's a listed fatality, but NO BODY.

Their corpses and everything that comes from them resist temperatures above that of magma. If they killed it while it was still in the pipe the body probably fell through the bottom of it.