Replace Fire Pit with Campfire

[Trenix 14]

The current way of making a fire pit is pretty annoying. The idea is great, but that wanted realism just doesn't work well in the game. I can't tell you how many times I've dropped my sticks, attempted to light them, and had them return back to my inventory. It's very frustrating. The way we setup a kiln pit is way more fun and convenient so here's my idea.How to Build a CampfireShift clicking on the ground while holding a rock would begin the creation of a campfire. You would then have to continue placing down rocks until you form a circular pattern with them. Once that's finished, sticks could then start being placed which will begin forming a teepee in the middle of the circle. At the end, you put your straw in the campfire which will appear inside the stick teepee and then light the campfire to start it up.When the Fire DiesUnlike the fire pit where once a fire dies, you can simply add logs and relight them, once the campfire goes out, you're only left with rocks that are forming a circular pattern. That means you must redo the whole teepee process and add straw at the end to start it back up. This would make the idea of keeping a fire alive, more important. Any items within the campfire will still remain and the campfire would be an inventory as long as the stones haven't been removed.

[munin295 18]

Like.

It would have to be a sneak-right-click with rocks on the ground so as not to collide with the knapping mechanic.

Personally I build my fires log-cabin style (two pieces parallel, two pieces perpendicular on top, repeat) and I think that would be more in keeping with Minecraft's rendering style than the diagonals of a teepee. Four sticks enough?

It would be nice if there was a bed of coals that stayed lit for a while after the last log was consumed, gradually cooling.

[Hubertus 29]

If you make a hole in the ground for your sticks, you won't pick them up.

 

I have mixed feelings about this idea.

 

I like the idea of building a fire pit by adding the sticks and the straw. I also like your idea of making it so that you can't just add logs to a dead fire and expect them to light. I dislike your requirement for a rock circle. Barring fire safety, there is no rule that you can't make a fire without a circle of rocks. It's plenty easy to make a fire with no rocks at all, and they serve very little purpose.

[GreenLeaf 198]

If you make a hole in the ground for your sticks, you won't pick them up.

 

I have mixed feelings about this idea.

 

I like the idea of building a fire pit by adding the sticks and the straw. I also like your idea of making it so that you can't just add logs to a dead fire and expect them to light. I dislike your requirement for a rock circle. Barring fire safety, there is no rule that you can't make a fire without a circle of rocks. It's plenty easy to make a fire with no rocks at all, and they serve very little purpose.

yet the fire pit texture clearly shows rocks forming a circle around the fire.

it might be completely useless to do but picking up a few rocks (there are A LOOOOT of rocks laying about) and using them in the creation of a fire pit sounds like a nice addition!

 

Especially if building the thing would work the same way as pit kiln does.

 

It should be noted though that bioxx wants to keep highly detailed models to a minimum and this camp fire that OP talks about sounds pretty detailed. i think it's been said before that the fire pit won't change into a 3D model.

 

Having multible textures for each build stage of the fire pit would be well enough for me.

[Bunsan 323]

A big issue I can see is that the way I would see this being rendered would be like a detailed chiseled block, which are not a good idea in large numbers. The pit kiln uses a simpler renderer (8 stacked slices, rather then 512 cubes). I think this concept could be simplified by needing to have a certain number of stones in hand and shift-clicking ground to place unlit campfire (use current render and just suck it up that logs are there). Then to light you have to add sticks to one kindling slot (required) and straw or paper to second kindling slot (optional, but increases lighting %). Once it lights you can add logs. You would have limited time to add logs before kindling was used up, but kindling would produce negligible heat.

[TonyLiberatto 364]

Since we can not have two blocks in the same space, and I really want to have the stew pot over the fire, I propose changing the fire camp to work similar to the kiln or forge. So you have to dig a hole in the ground. You would them add rocks, logs sticks and on top some straw, and light it up. This way the fire pit would be flat with the ground and if you put a clay vessel on top it would look similar to what the crucible on top of the forge looks like.