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Lagslayer

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Spontaneous fire?
« on: January 28, 2011, 01:09:17 am »
A fire sprung up on the surface of my map. Everything that would have been hostile is dead, and none of them could breathe fire anyways. No dragon, no demons, nothing at all recently except a goblin/troll siege, and there hasn't been any magma on that part of the map in months. It's a temperate biome on a volcano where water freezes for about half the year. I'm pretty sure the human traders from about 3 months prior were all human. Where did this fire come from?
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2011, 01:21:50 am »
the volcano?
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2011, 02:18:35 am »
fire imps from the volcano?
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Toady typically doesn't do things by half measures.  As evidenced by turning "make hauling work better" into "implement mine carts with physics".
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2011, 03:17:27 am »
No imps on my unit list, dead or alive.
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2011, 04:11:15 am »
Quote from: Lagslayer on January 28, 2011, 01:09:17 am
...and there hasn't been any magma on that part of the map in months ...

What was the previous magma incident?

Have you used the dfhack toolset's dfliquids to erase magma?
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #5 on: January 28, 2011, 04:57:31 am »
Quote from: Urist Da Vinci on January 28, 2011, 04:11:15 am
Quote from: Lagslayer on January 28, 2011, 01:09:17 am
...and there hasn't been any magma on that part of the map in months ...

What was the previous magma incident?

Have you used the dfhack toolset's dfliquids to erase magma?

Hmm. It's a long shot, but I don't suppose you dumped a cage (with an animal in it) into the magma? I hear that the caged creature will spontaneously teleports (on fire) to the spot they were captured. The only other thing I can think of is fireballs from magma creatures.
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Quote from: Rockphed on May 02, 2012, 02:01:16 am
Toady typically doesn't do things by half measures.  As evidenced by turning "make hauling work better" into "implement mine carts with physics".
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #6 on: January 28, 2011, 05:12:39 am »
Are there any remaining "hot spots" where the warm-stone designation never got taken off of the ground?  Maybe if a sapling sprouted there it might have burst into flames?  I'm just grasping at straws here.
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #7 on: January 28, 2011, 09:10:58 am »
Why are you complaining?  I want spontaneous fire!  Apparently my dwarves have mastered magma forges but not flint and steel firestarters.
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #8 on: January 28, 2011, 09:37:22 am »
Try adventure mode (press g).
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2011, 10:52:05 am »
Is it summer in a very hot biome? That might do it.
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2011, 11:09:48 am »
Are you using any mods? One that comes to mind is Genesis (I think..) Mod that has dwarves that throw fireballs..

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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #11 on: January 28, 2011, 12:43:29 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on January 28, 2011, 09:10:58 am
Why are you complaining?  I want spontaneous fire!  Apparently my dwarves have mastered magma forges but not flint and steel firestarters.

Someone else made a bonfire mod last year. It is slightly buggy, and can result in spontaneous fires. It also allows you to have dwarves set fires wherever you want. http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58806.0

IIRC Toady eventually plans to allow a "set fire" designation similar to mining designations.
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2011, 02:08:16 pm »
Quote from: Urist Da Vinci on January 28, 2011, 12:43:29 pm
IIRC Toady eventually plans to allow a "set fire" designation similar to mining designations.

sounds like a great way to suffocate your dwarves.
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Re: Spontaneous fire?
« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2011, 04:16:33 pm »
I did spawn some magma to burn useless junk, but that disappeared a long time ago.
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« Reply #14 on: January 28, 2011, 04:18:44 pm »
So, there was just a massive fire for no reason and you're COMPLAINING?!
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