Clean fire

[Necroghost]

Hi all.

Suddenly a fire has sterted in a forest near my capital, and it then went into surrounding forests as well.

Is there any solution to clean it? Workers cannot enter there, and I haven't seen any conjure in adepts to clean it. I hope it won't last forever...

If you have any ideas, please tell me.

Thanks

 

[Marksman77]

If you haven't got any adepts yet, it seems that chopping the surrounding forests might be the only solution. But that's not easy - fire spreads much faster than you chop...
Destroy any burnt forests, otherwise they'll soon regrow to new forests and again catch on fire. The process of burning->regrowing->burning etc. can never end if the forested area is big enough.

 

[Draconian]

You can use the spring spell (adept with water 1) to extinguish fires.

 

[Brokenbone]

On a related point, I sometimes take advantage of Open Borders with tree-infested FoL civilizations controlled by the AI, having all sorts of Fire 1 adepts wander around attempting to set their forests on fire. Lots seem to sputter out (stay as just "smoke"), but sometimes you can get a pretty pleasant conflagration, hurting health, happiness (if following "Guardian of Nature"), production, impacting ability to move units around in cases, etc.

Probably more than a little exploity *shrugs*

 

[orlanth]

Yeah, if even one puff of smoke breaks out before you have any way of getting Water I adepts (as just happened to me with an early Pyre Zombie attack..) it can really spread and re-burn neverendingly like Marksman said.

I think Workers should be able to contain/extinguish a fire, though it could take them a long time & let it destroy nearby improvements so fires would still be a menace (maybe this could work only near water or Irrigation).

Alternatively, you could just have Burnt and New Forests take a little longer to grow, to allow a big blaze but prevent constant re-burning.

A cool rare random event would be to have a slight extra chance for a Mushroom to appear in New Forest:


Mushrooms
A cluster of rare Mushrooms has appeared in the young forest near **, drawing nourishment from the ashes of the recent blaze.

 

[cyther]

I thought that offensive fires were the reason that ancient forests don't burn.

 

[Grand Seeker]

Wrong thread...