Rekindling Fires

[triggertrey]

I think one should be able to rekindle a past fire so long as it was long and hot enough at least several hours after it goes out. I realize you want fire to be a choice and an expensive one, but there needs to be more ways of starting fires. Perhaps you can craft a bow drill out of cured saplings and gut. Takes longer, a higher skill level to be effective, and uses more calories, but can be used over and over and can be repaired and/or crafted over and over.

However, back to my original point, say something like a five hour fire can be rekindled in 10-20 min and 250 calories with a tinder and/or small fuel like sticks no more than 3.5 hours after going out. Obviously it can be tuned depending on the difficulty setting. If you need more convincing, just remember that it is more realistic.

[AmericanSteel]

Unless we insulate the coals from a fire, they are going to get cold pretty fast in these conditions. I don't have an experience in rekindling a fire in conditions like these. It actually goes against the grain of most modern teaching as a fire could spread from a hearth left to its own accord. I don't think a wildfire is going to start in the snow but I was never going to take that chance.

However, I think we should be able to rekindle a stove if, IF, you had a large coal bed to work with. Maybe some sort of equation, like 3 min per every hour of burn time. So if you had a fire going for 8 hours, you would have a coal bed that could be rekindled up to 24 minutes later. If you only had a fire going for 2 hours, your window drops to 6 minutes

[triggertrey]

that's what I meant, sorry. Not a camp fire, but one in a fireplace or a stove. The ashes from a long fire will insulate coals well enough for a long time, even overnight; but I see your point, for purposes of making the game more challenging, minutes as opposed to hours. Still, 24 minutes in game is not long enough to leave the coals so as to do anything else that wants being done.

[Rusty_Old_F250]

On a sort of related note, I was wondering why the fires in stoves and fireplaces don't go into the "embers" stage, like a campfire.

Sam

[AmericanSteel]

On a sort of related note, I was wondering why the fires in stoves and fireplaces don't go into the "embers" stage, like a campfire.

Sam

That and the residual heat held by the metal stove is not in place either. It is like out metal cook stove has been replaced by a 55 gal drum stove.