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[SpiralDimentia]

So I was dealing with an ambush and saving the dwarven caravan because we're bros and they aren't elves, and after checking my military's skills I decided to see if anything interesting was going on in my fortress.



Lo and behold, my fortress is for some reason on fire.  You can't see it well in the picture, but shit is burning and I have no idea why. There was a dragon, but he never made it within 100 tiles of this part of ym base, and what's more is he didn't breath any fire before a speardwarf skewered his brainpan.

So tell me, why the hell is my base on fire? Does this happen randomly with corpses or something? Cause it looks like it spread from the refuse stockpile.



Edit; Uhhh. no joke. Screw how it started, how do I stop it? It just waltzed through my finished goods stockpile, and I fear for ym huge cloth stockpile.

[xl 4ndre lx]

It must be karma you did say you could never use up all that cloth

[SpiralDimentia]

Karma can eat me. I don't appreciate random fires starting in my base. >.>

[kardwill]

I'd forbid everything in the burning zone, then wall it off to avoid it spreading to your whole base. Once the fire's nice and quarantined, you can let it starve and choke, or you can try to flood it from above.

[Jelle]

I wouldn't know what could set that off.
Infact I've never had a fire ever. Could anyone explain me how a fire starts to begin with?

[ShinWalks]

Fires start when something flammable is exposed to magma or fire breath from a FB/dragon/etc. Fire spreads when a dorf who doesn't have the brain power to perceive when a barrel is on fire carries it back to the stockpile.

Haulers don't notice when objects are on fire, so they frequently spread a fire by restocking. If you lock the fire in, it will burn everything behind the firewall and then go out.

[Damien White]

Maybe the dragon did breathe fire once, set one finished god item on fire and a dwarf carried it to the stockpile.

[Psieye]

Chances are it's the dragon's corpse or blood which probably was superheated.

[Damien White]

but he wont be carried to the finished gods stockpile and I bet my Ass he placed his refuse Stockpile outside of his fortress.

[Psieye]

A Dwarf Touched It. That's all it takes. Who cares if the corpse or blood itself never touches his finished goods stockpile?

[SpiralDimentia]

I have two refuse piles, one inside and one outside. The dragon was carted outside to be stored. And he never breathed fire. He popped out of my pit and my speardwarf skewered his brain in two hits.

[elpizo]

if you want to stop the fire build walls around the area so it does'nt spread

[SpiralDimentia]

well it's died out on it's own by now. I still have a small problem with it.. it set a tretrahedrite bracelet on fire, which is now continuously burning.

[elpizo]

how can metal catch fire? does'nt maker any sense, maybe you could try to get some water on it

[Davichococat]

how can metal catch fire? does'nt maker any sense, maybe you could try to get some water on it

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            -Tetrahedrite-

    *Material value : 3
    *Melting point : 11111 (x)
    *Boiling point : 14000 (m)
    *Ignition point : none (m)
    *Solid density : 2670
    *Specific heat : 800
Seems like its not magma safe. Do non-magma safe objects catch on fire even if it has no ignition point?

Otherwise, I think it's strange too. I can remember I heard somewhere small objects(like rings or other crafts) can catch on fire (and melt?) even if it's magma safe and/or fire safe. I may be wrong.