Putting Out Fires

[SvenSvensson]

Title. Currently, afaik, the only way to stop a fire from spreading along a fence or a wall is to deconstruct any wooden structures in the fire's path.

We should be able to put out fires by standing next to the fire with a container full of water, "a"->apply the tub/skin/etc. and have this either reduce the fire's size or put it out entirely, depending on how much water was in the container.

[JP_Finn]

You can kick fences down faster than you can deconstruct them.
Walls, no luck.
Zooming out, walking away and hoping for best works ok-ish too.

But yes, dousing with water would be nice. Applying shovel to cover low fires with sand (or wet dirt) would be welcome too.

[raredragon]

yes please, AND add confirmation before setting fire to a stack of items that contain non-burnable items. I lost a good lot of my stash because I accidentally set fire to it, I'm sure this has happened to more veteran players as well

[ineedcords]

You can kick fences down faster than you can deconstruct them.
Walls, no luck.
Zooming out, walking away and hoping for best works ok-ish too.

But yes, dousing with water would be nice. Applying shovel to cover low fires with sand (or wet dirt) would be welcome too.

I think I saw this in game NEWS.TXT earlier, and checking the file I see this:

- removed: possibility to kick down fences
        Old mechanism that wasn't needed nor working properly anymore since we've already got deconstruct option.

I have not tried it recently and do not know if it actually works or not. Have you kicked down any fence recently? Does it still work (despite NEWS.TXT entry)?

[JP_Finn]

The post was on old version, back in February. Kicking fences doesn’t work anymore.