HomShaBom Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 So what am I doing wrong? I've never lasted over a year in DST because every summer my base burns down and it just makes me want to give up and start over. Yes, I know all about Ice Flingomatic. The last time my base burned down I had 4 of them built. Everything in my base was covered by them except for my fire pit and my endothermic fire pit. I tested it out early on. I intentionally tried to burn my base to the ground to make sure the flingos could handle it. I couldn't burn my base down no matter how hard I tried. The flingos were on point. Summer rolls around, I have 1 chest full of boards, 90 boards in it, to keep the flingomatics fueled. I'm more than half way through summer there has been no sign of fire anywhere. I top off the fuel in all of my flingomatics and head over to my spider farm. the next day I head back to my base to find the entire thing has burnt to the ground. All that was left was my fire pit, endothermic fire pit, and 4 flingomatics still fueled. How does this even happen? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainDeadpools Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 hmmm would you mind uploading some screenshots of the base ? I've never had a issue with my bases burning down ever whilst using flingos I'm sorry to hear this has happened to you! Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prakhar Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Hate to be someone who assumes people are dumb, but did you turn on the switch? Also, as it happens in singleplayer ds, if a fire lights near you and you ignore it and go far away, the fire spreads as far it can and flingos don't work. Happened to my fire farm. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomShaBom Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 I do not have a screenshot. I already restarted that world. But here's rough sketch of the layout. The only things not covered by flingomatics were the firepit (circle), endothermic fire pit (square), and lightning rod (not pictured, but directly above the fire pit) Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mochilo Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Aw, that feels so bad. Must sound dumb, but as @Prakhar said, flingos have an off/on switch . If they are on and that kind of "bug" happened to you more than once it sounds crazy. Also, only things on your screen should go on fire during summer, which also gives you the option to have a summer base into the caves. See here Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiddoBams Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 When a flingo is "Off" It's put in "Emergency mode" Which from what I've seen isn't reliable at all and just means you'll come back to a base half burnt down with lots of annoying beeping flingos. If it wasn't that then the only thing I could of been was a glitch. Granted I've never seen anything like it... Maybe the flingos were offscreen and not loaded in but the fire was..? I have no idea. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fimmatek Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 This is really strange, I have also never experienced that. I hope this problem will be solved! Are you alone on that server? It could have been a griefer, maybe... (although I can't imagine why would someone wait till sommer...) 3 hours ago, Prakhar said: Hate to be someone who assumes people are dumb, but did you turn on the switch? I'm almost sure the flingomatics were on, but if not, every time you fuel them (even if only a twig), they will turn on. Except if he turned them off intentionally, which I highly doubt, as he said he knew know all about Ice Flingomatic. An other possibility: do you use any mods? They can also cause trouble ,escpecially some mods together. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rellimarual Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 First day of summer, head for the nearest cave, with crockpot, chest, fridge and birdcage prebuilt (bring a bird too). Don't come back until day 71. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848315 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowDuelist Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 25 minutes ago, Rellimarual said: First day of summer, head for the nearest cave, with crockpot, chest, fridge and birdcage prebuilt (bring a bird too). Don't come back until day 71. ^ this is your safest bet. If you are in a private server all alone, or with trusty friends, just avoid the surface entirely during all summer. Your surface camp should be there unchanged, on early autumn. The whole summer mechanic, having to cool down thermal stones, run to endothermic fires, getting farms withered, etc feels boring and annoying to me, so I just skip it. Living in the caves is much more fun, even if its one season a year. Also, I usually make as many farms as I can in my cave base, wherever there is natural sunlight (from caveholes, not lightbulbs), and grow whatever crops you like there. Even if you leave the cave for the whole year, when you come back next summer your crops will still be there ready to use. With enough farms with, lets say dragonfruit, you don't even have to bother to get food during summer. (Wigfrid excluded of course) Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomShaBom Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 What is even the point of having summer in the game if you're supposed to just hide underground the entire time? Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKingDedede Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 1 minute ago, HomShaBom said: What is even the point of having summer in the game if you're supposed to just hide underground the entire time? In DST, the D-Fly was turned into a raid boss and not something that can spawn and destroy a base. The only plus that I think Summer has is the ability to get a decent amount of Red Gems from Fire Hounds, but other than that, you'll just spend your time sweating on the surface. Spend time in the caves and mine everything in sight. Get a lot of rocks for projects. Make Moggles. Get creative. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiddoBams Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 21 minutes ago, HomShaBom said: What is even the point of having summer in the game if you're supposed to just hide underground the entire time? I like to think as "Caves" as their own season that replace summer. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousKoala Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 7 hours ago, TheKingDedede said: In DST, the D-Fly was turned into a raid boss and not something that can spawn and destroy a base. The only plus that I think Summer has is the ability to get a decent amount of Red Gems from Fire Hounds, but other than that, you'll just spend your time sweating on the surface. Spend time in the caves and mine everything in sight. Get a lot of rocks for projects. Make Moggles. Get creative. Autumn also has fire hounds. Or just Varg farming. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKingDedede Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 25 minutes ago, AnonymousKoala said: Autumn also has fire hounds. Or just Varg farming. Still, Autumn doesn't feel like the season where some bored, unseen God uses their outrageously large magnifying glass to burn everything down to the ground. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
yisishoujo Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 It seems that the flingo wont work offscreen. Once i used a star caller's staff in a bunch of bee boxes then i came home and back, all the flowers and some of the bee boxes were burnt. And sometimes your dragonfruit turn into grasses even if covered by a flingo. so weird that it still costs your fuel. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pofil Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Well, sometimes plants do wither while in their range (same with farms) but other than that I have a huge base with 5 flingos that do not overlap. Every inch of space has something flamable on it and our Drying racks for instance are on the edge of the range which is a bit risky .Our world is now nearing 1.7k days and nothing in our base has ever burned down. I just recently figured out that there is no overheating in caves during summer so we've spent summers on the overworld up to this point. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rellimarual Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Mechanics like overheating and disease seem designed to encourage players to keep roaming the map instead of just hunkering down at their base. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousKoala Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 1 hour ago, Rellimarual said: Mechanics like overheating and disease seem designed to encourage players to keep roaming the map instead of just hunkering down at their base. *Smoldering, not overheating. And overheating actually has a few pretty neat solutions. 5 hours ago, yisishoujo said: It seems that the flingo wont work offscreen. Once i used a star caller's staff in a bunch of bee boxes then i came home and back, all the flowers and some of the bee boxes were burnt. And sometimes your dragonfruit turn into grasses even if covered by a flingo. so weird that it still costs your fuel. The part in bold is actually not that weird, because their fuel drains based on time/days they're active for, and I believe that when they're reloaded, they catch up to the lost time, like Spider Dens and co. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848508 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fimmatek Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 23 hours ago, TheKingDedede said: The only plus that I think Summer has is the ability to get a decent amount of Red Gems from Fire Hounds And a fantastic music! I've spent my last few summers almost just chopping trees, because the Summer Jobs soundtrack is just so awesome. I usually leave all big chopping projects to summer so that I can listen to it. At the beginnig of autumn I had 3 new chests full of logs... (and count to it the materials for the chests and the fuel of fires and 5 flingos... ) Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiddoBams Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 2 minutes ago, fimmatek said: And a fantastic music! I've spent my last few summers almost just chopping trees, because the Summer Jobs soundtrack is just so awesome. I usually leave all big chopping projects to summer so that I can listen to it. At the beginnig of autumn I had 3 new chests full of logs... (and count to it the materials for the chests and the fuel of fires and 5 flingos... ) Oh man the summer soundtrack is hands down the best. It just feels so darn summery! Speaking of music... Will we ever get the ruins soundtrack back? I missed that :c Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousKoala Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 13 hours ago, Ashkain said: Oh man the summer soundtrack is hands down the best. It just feels so darn summery! Speaking of music... Will we ever get the ruins soundtrack back? I missed that :c PLEASEEEEEEEEE Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-848851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DST_LSJ Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 My base Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-849099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DST_LSJ Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 On Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 3:09 PM, yisishoujo said: It seems that the flingo wont work offscreen. Once i used a star caller's staff in a bunch of bee boxes then i came home and back, all the flowers and some of the bee boxes were burnt. And sometimes your dragonfruit turn into grasses even if covered by a flingo. so weird that it still costs your fuel. Mybe our server just stored the firing beebox as we going awy.Then when we got back,the server loaded it burned.I mean it will only loud iteams burned when we quitted out as they were in fire. There also be a bug:We could get a burned tree when we load in after we fire the stump then quitted out. Link to comment https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/72491-base-burns-down-every-summer/#findComment-849110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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