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 April 14 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 April 14 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.

[xiaoziyu]

I’ve noticed most players turn off wildfires in their world settings, so I’m in the minority here.

Even with wildfires disabled, fire hounds and the Star Caller Staff can still ignite seeds, which puts your base at risk of burning down.

[FluffyBun]

On 4/23/2026 at 5:19 AM, xiaoziyu said:

 

是不是狗完蛋了，还是【你】完蛋了

On 4/15/2026 at 4:36 AM, Well-met said:

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.

I respectfully disagree, because this change will incentivize new players to actually fight dragonfly.

[Reddddd]

I hard agree. Most of the time i skip dragonfly because she's certainly time consuming and her drops are negligible like toadstool, only giving scaled furnace (which klaus can give) scaled flooring and the chest. Its all very ignorable, and if she disabled wildfires altogether, i would actually prepare for summer, its an annoying gimmick and most of the time spending 45 minutes on caves or at sea is very very boring lategame. If summer was just the overheat instead of having your base be destroyed or simply making the entire base an certain grid to fit ice flingos i would be more interest to be honest. Of course, caves would probably still the go to early game, but after a while caves are just a boring overworld with constant sanity loss and less things to do.