Grass Tufts/Saplings Regeneration And Fire Fuel

[Ispin69]

So as I understand, these do not regenerate and are finite in the world. Once you use them all, you're out of luck.

I have a farm of over 80-100 of each (divided into 3 separate sections) so I am good on grass/twigs and berries (i make tons of fists full of jam). The thing is I saw someone using grass tufts and saplings for fuel for fires and they burn 10x longer and hotter than if you were just to use twigs/grass and you would have to keep feeding twigs and grass while a tuft/sapling can burn all dusk/night pretty much. I had like 30 tufts and saplings and have been exclusively been using those at dusk/nights. Even though there are still lots left for me to gather, I just wonder if this is a bad idea since I am burning a resource that won't regenerate.

I refuse to use logs because it's something I am usually low on. I will get pigs to help punch trees but then the birch monster comes out and I hate those. I spawn treeguards often and I can always kite a treeguard for living logs but lately I've been spawning a big and small one at the same time and while kiting they eventually be right next to each other and it's kind of hard to fight two at the same time since the swing pattern will be different for each of them. I planted a small row of trees where I plan to take bearger next time so I will get logs that way in the future.

I can always burn down a forest and use charcoal but even that takes time to ignite and chop and collect.

So what would be the best thing to use for fuel?

[Mobbstar]

For starters, its only bad to destroy finite resources if they would have been needed now or in future. In your case, it is not bad, unless you clumped all remaining plants into one area that could burn down.

As for best fuel for normal fire, I suggest beefalo or koalefant dung. It might sound disgusting, and the flies may be annoying, but it's freely regenerating fuel.

If you go to the deep caves sometimes, you could use nightmarefuel to power a nightlight or use a lantern and regularly harvest lightbulbs.

[Trojan.exe]

     I usually never waste non-renewable resources on my world. In your case, I think you over-harvest turfs and they are annoyingly eating up space in your base, be it on ground or chests. Feel free to use them as fire fuel but I’d rather put them for flingomatic if there are so many excess. Manure is always the most reliable fuel. For log shortage, drop bigfoot on any dense pinetrees, loot the log and pinecone drops, replant pinecones tightly close together and drop bigfoot again if they grow. Make sure to stockpile enough logs before summer because these type of farm has a chance to turn to charcoals. Old bell is pretty easy to acquire even early on the game. Also glommer’s goop has a high fuel output. You can also have a chance to loot krampus’ sack if you kill krampi, one of the best items in the game. They spawn if you kill glommer personally.

[Ispin69]

I soley use manure for all my plants which is a lot, mainly on grass  that go brown and berry bushes. I think I over estimated, I only have like 60 of each planted but I have tons and tons of grass/sticks that I use to fuel the flingomatics as well as for crafting things like rope for toothtraps and sticks inside recipes like dragonpie and taffy. But using sticks/grass in a fire just take lots of effort as well as the fire not being hot enough to heat my thermal stone or freeze them in the endothermic fire. I have about 30 tufts and saplings on hand for me to burn for nights and such. I burned down a far away forest and now I have a few stacks of charcoal I will use but I know that can't be good either. I do have tightly planted pine trees outside of my base that I should use an old bell on.

At first I tried to avoid killing glommer and let the beefalo or pigs kill him so I wouldn't have to deal with the krampus. I can never kite them even if I wear log suit and helmet, I get some minimal damage. Then a few times I accidentally killed him and it wasn't too bad. I have a couple of old bells from that and always try to have him killed before full moon so I can get a new one and keep on making old bells.

[Altehaus]

16 minutes ago, Ispin69 said:

At first I tried to avoid killing glommer and let the beefalo or pigs kill him so I wouldn't have to deal with the krampus. I can never kite them even if I wear log suit and helmet, I get some minimal damage.

The Krampus attacks three times before it does its tongue... thing, which is when you should attack it. You can get about two [or three] hits in when it does this. With a Tentacle Spike, you could attack until it died and not get hit, landing the last blow right on the verge of it starting the attack animation [once again I'm not completely sure of this information, I'll try it out if you don't before me].

About the Tufts business, I'd say that if you have enough planted on your base already, and also a backup supply in case anything burns, use away any remaining ones as fuel! Yeah, they're non-renewable, but you've already got enough and also a backup stack or two, right? Can't go wrong after that.