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Title: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: Jonofwrath on May 09, 2016, 08:17:29 AM
If it burns it can be used for fuel instead of just wood.

This would be a more productive way of disposing of poor quality clothes (for example) than just incinerating them (I'm assuming the incinerator doesn't generate power - haven't used one!)
Title: Re: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: blub01 on May 12, 2016, 09:51:40 AM
it actually uses power. nice idea, I second this.
Title: Re: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: Hyena on May 12, 2016, 02:06:45 PM
There would need to be a way for the game to determine how much fuel-value each item would use. Preferably it would need to be formulaic based on its intrinsic qualities rather than a new tag, otherwise modded in objects wouldn't work.

Perhaps based on its weight and remaining hit points.
Title: Re: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: Jonofwrath on May 12, 2016, 05:57:20 PM
Sounds good.
Title: Re: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: keylocke on May 12, 2016, 10:47:31 PM
+1
Title: Re: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: blub01 on May 13, 2016, 08:05:05 AM
Quote from: Hyena on May 12, 2016, 02:06:45 PM
There would need to be a way for the game to determine how much fuel-value each item would use. Preferably it would need to be formulaic based on its intrinsic qualities rather than a new tag, otherwise modded in objects wouldn't work.

Perhaps based on its weight and remaining hit points.

and its material. I'm fairly certain that the way wool burns is different from the way cloth burns, for example. or, for that matter, that steel and wood burn differently.
Title: Re: Allow flammable items to be used as fuel
Post by: Jonofwrath on May 13, 2016, 08:43:45 AM
Steel's not flammable but I take your point; wood would burn differently than cotton - however - this is covered by weight - if you burned the same weight of cotton and wood (assuming your form the cotton into a dense brick) then they'll probably burn similarly.