Killing Dragonfly should disable wildfires

[ArcAngela]

Title says it all, killing Dragonfly should disable wildfires during Summer until the boss respawns.

Dragonfly takes 20 days to respawn and Summer under default settings lasts for 15 days, so this gives players a brief window during Spring to prepare and defeat her if they wish to, which results in an entire summer without wildfires. Obviously fighting dragonfly is not exclusive to any season, so even during summer players can go defeat her, and wildfires should return once she respawns.

Many players, specially experienced ones, currently disable wildfires entirely because of its impact on the world. I'm sure many of those players wouldn't mind settling for this middle ground where they could be avoidable but tied to a boss.

Dragonfly was the summer boss in Reign of Giants, so giving her an interaction with Summer season would also feel fitting while remaining an optional boss.

Edited Tuesday at 03:01 PM by ArcAngela

[Well-met]

Tying it to a unrelated independant boss is not a good idea.

A real fix to wildfires would be so it can't trigger on player-made structures, and maybe decrease the ignite distance so people can always see smolders from the default camera distance.

Edited Tuesday at 08:40 PM by Well-met

[ArcAngela]

This wasn't a fix suggestion because wildfires are not an unintentional problem.

This is just a suggestion for an extra option to fight back against wildfires.

[Swiyss]

A supposed way to fight against wildfires was the ice crystaleyezer, but it is so annoying to use and badly implemented that no one uses it anyways. Better they fix that than add a completely new way of getting rid of it.