Imateo452 Posted May 17 Report Posted May 17 My first few playthroughs were a wild ride and i wanted to post about how i found out that pit kilns are far to dangerous to build close to anything flammable. In the picture below you can see the dirt blocks in which i foolishly hung my tool rack..... ..... as you can imagine they burned alongside with what was inside and, to my surprise even my copper chisel, prospecting pick and freshly made copper tongs. Just gone, poof! I doubt that this may be a bug, it only set me back the time i needed to forge new tools anyways. Let this be a warning to new players as even the grass around you pit kilns can turn into a runaway wild fire! 1 1
LadyWYT Posted May 18 Report Posted May 18 7 hours ago, Imateo452 said: ..... as you can imagine they burned alongside with what was inside and, to my surprise even my copper chisel, prospecting pick and freshly made copper tongs. Well on the brightside...at least it wasn't your house, with you in it. I'm pretty sure most every player has managed to set something on fire with a pit kiln when they first started playing the game. 2 1
HalfAxd Posted May 18 Report Posted May 18 18 hours ago, Imateo452 said: i foolishly hung my tool rack..... Have done exactly the same thing, twice... Thought I'd found a bug at first. Enjoy
BurgerDaddy Posted May 18 Report Posted May 18 Does it actually destroy the tools in the rack, or does it just drop them and then they despawn? Seems like somewhat buggy/unintended behavior if the non flammable dropped items do burn.
Imateo452 Posted May 18 Author Report Posted May 18 6 hours ago, BurgerDaddy said: Does it actually destroy the tools in the rack, or does it just drop them and then they despawn? Seems like somewhat buggy/unintended behavior if the non flammable dropped items do burn. it did for me and i agree that metal tools should not be destroyed with the container (in this case the tool rack), at least not full metal ones like the chisel or tongs. Though i was in version 1.19 at the time but a lession is a lession and i keep my tool racks far from pit kilns since then. 1
Imateo452 Posted May 18 Author Report Posted May 18 18 hours ago, LadyWYT said: I'm pretty sure most every player has managed to set something on fire with a pit kiln when they first started playing the game. me: but sire we have nothing to fuel the furnaces. pit kilns : The forest of Flanghorn lies in our doorstep. 2
ChadVintage Posted May 19 Report Posted May 19 I have lost many tools in an accident before because I had barrels too close and it spread to my tool racks lmao. Def be aware of the fire spread haha.
Maelstrom Posted May 19 Report Posted May 19 On 5/17/2026 at 9:52 PM, LadyWYT said: Well on the brightside...at least it wasn't your house, with you in it. I'm pretty sure most every player has managed to set something on fire with a pit kiln when they first started playing the game. Yep. Back in 1.15 when pit kilns were introduced set my fencing ablaze multiple times. Then switched to stone walls. Also torched myself a couple times and had to run to my water source in the kitchen to put myself out. I'd love to see a streamer or Utoober watch as another player runs by trailing smoke and screaming bloody murder, "OMG! I'm gonna DIE!" I think I've just recalled another tale for a certain thread... PS - To my shame I've torched tool racks multiple times in 1.19 and even in 1.22, forgetting that the one block buffer applies vertically as well as horizontally.
Zane Mordien Posted May 19 Report Posted May 19 On 5/17/2026 at 4:00 PM, Imateo452 said: Let this be a warning to new players as even the grass around you pit kilns can turn into a runaway wild fire! Yeah, packed earth is your friend. I always try to surround my pit kilns with it or something else that doens't grow grass. I got lazy and just cut the grass on my current playthrough and almost burned everything around me. My house is never flammable so that isn't a problem for me.
Nick Salt Posted May 21 Report Posted May 21 On 5/18/2026 at 4:52 AM, LadyWYT said: Well on the brightside...at least it wasn't your house, with you in it. I'm pretty sure most every player has managed to set something on fire with a pit kiln when they first started playing the game. I did this, set my pit-kilns, ran off adventuring for a day, and came back to an immaculate lawn where my carefully trapped animal enclosures had once stood. for some reason one cockerel survived and I was able to re-capture him. 1
Farmore Posted May 26 Report Posted May 26 On 5/17/2026 at 9:52 PM, LadyWYT said: Well on the brightside...at least it wasn't your house, with you in it. I'm pretty sure most every player has managed to set something on fire with a pit kiln when they first started playing the game. I still somehow manage to do this despite having well over 100+ hours on two separate files. Usually, grass.
scr3wballl Posted May 29 Report Posted May 29 Any grass the grows nearby will allow the fire to spread. Any wood object nearby to. Tool racks, doors, anything wood.
321BoltsOfLightning Posted Saturday at 05:39 PM Report Posted Saturday at 05:39 PM I once didn't realize there was grass close enough to burn, ended up starting a HUGE fire spreading all throughout the plain, multiple peat piles torched, and starting into the nearby forest. I didn't have buckets or watering cans yet, so I rushed around trying to destroy flammable blocks so the fire would put itself out. Everywhere I looked was fire. Didn't help that after I thought I put it all out, there was still a little left that spread back up again haha 1
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