Campfire

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Campfire
Examine

A nice and cosy campfire.
Creation
Activate steel and flint or a wood scrap Right-click kindling (1.50 kg) Open submenu "Create > Furnaces"
Result
Campfire
Skill and improvement
Uses firemaking skill Cannot be improved

Description

A campfire is a firemaking fire source used to heat items, cook food, smelt ore, and create ash.

The quality of the kindling determines the maximum quality of the campfire.
Examine the campfire to see its quality.
Higher quality campfires heat items faster.
The quality of the campfire also determines the quality of the ash it leaves behind.
If you do not have a steel and flint, you can use kindling on a wood scrap to create a crude campfire with lower quality.
Only one campfire can be created per tile. Creating another campfire on the same tile will fuel the existing campfire instead.
Campfires cannot be started within a structure.

Campfires can be used to heat items, cook food, and smelt ore.
A campfire may hold up to 18 ore.
The quality of ore smelted in a campfire will be reduced by 20%. For example, 50 QL ore will yield a 40 QL lump.
A campfire adds 5 difficulty to cooking items compared to an oven, but 5 less than a forge.
To extend the life of a fire, activate a fuel item, such as a log or wood scrap, right-click the campfire, and select Burn.
Fuel can also be left inside the campfire, allowing fire damage to burn it.
The campfire caps out at 20 kg worth of fuel, so adding more than that is wasteful.
The quality of the fuel does not affect heating speed or lifespan. Only the weight matters.
You can examine a campfire to get an event message telling how long it will burn.
If the event message says, The fire burns steadily and will still burn for a long time, it has more than 10 real life minutes worth of fuel.
Once all fuel has been used up, the campfire will turn into 0.10 kg of ash, and all items inside are dropped on the tile where the campfire was.

A lit campfire can be snuffed by right-clicking the campfire and selecting Snuff.
This can be done with steel and flint activated, or with nothing activated.
Snuffing creates an unlit campfire, which does not disappear for a long time even if empty.
If a rare or supreme campfire is snuffed, it will keep its special status when relit.
An unlit campfire can be lit again by carrying kindling, activating steel and flint, right-clicking the campfire, and selecting Light.
Creating a new campfire on a tile with an unlit campfire will light the existing one.
A relit campfire will appear glowing, but does not show fire animation or smoke, in order to reduce strain on the graphics card.

Creating a campfire will slightly damage the steel and flint, unlike when lighting an oven or forge.
It is best to keep a campfire in a "will burn for a long time" state, because it loses heating power when fuel begins to run low.
In its final stages, a campfire may become weak enough that items inside cool faster than they heat.
It is said that a birchwood campfire burns the longest.
To gather ash, create campfires on separate tiles and let them burn out.