Oasis wildfire protection is incompatible with the Ice Crystaleyezer

sucks in general to have the chance of something INSIDE a sandstorm burning because you hung out right outside it for a few moments

"The alternative of making eg. the ice crystaleyezer based on player's position would be very surprising behavior if one were to exit the radius and things start on fire inside."

Klei Please do not do this one it would be bad, this creates a way bigger problem just to try and fix a small, niche problem.

I agree that Oasis sandstorm should be fixed to protect everything built on Oasis terrain and not depending if a player is currently standing in the sandstorm. Clearly it's possible to assign certain terrain tiles certain properties (for example, Lunar Island/Lunar Grotto terrain has the property of changing your sanity to lunacy). The Oasis desert tiles then should be assigned with the property of wildfires not starting. If it absolutely has to be tied to the sandstorm then again, it could be temporary as long as the storm overlay exists, no matter if player sees it or not. Just like Lunar Rift tiles get a temporary property of changing your sanity to lunacy but only for the duration of Lunar Rift cycle and only for the tiles of Lunar Rift terrain. 

Edited October 14, 2023 by Lovens

Mechanics of the crystallizer completely aside, the wildfire protection of the sandstorm being contingent on the players position seems unnecessary and perhaps unintended. My only concern with making the wildfire protection tile-specific is that it will make stuff outside of the oasis more vulnerable to wildfires. Perhaps that protection can extend a few tiles into the water so boats parked at the Oasis don’t burn during Summer.

2 hours ago, JazzyGames said:

Mechanics of the crystallizer completely aside, the wildfire protection of the sandstorm being contingent on the players position seems unnecessary and perhaps unintended. My only concern with making the wildfire protection tile-specific is that it will make stuff outside of the oasis more vulnerable to wildfires. Perhaps that protection can extend a few tiles into the water so boats parked at the Oasis don’t burn during Summer.

It should be possible to keep both behaviors, though now that we have waterlogged trees, I could imagine them removing the "in sandstorm" check for wildfires.

7 hours ago, JazzyGames said:

Mechanics of the crystallizer completely aside, the wildfire protection of the sandstorm being contingent on the players position seems unnecessary and perhaps unintended. My only concern with making the wildfire protection tile-specific is that it will make stuff outside of the oasis more vulnerable to wildfires. Perhaps that protection can extend a few tiles into the water so boats parked at the Oasis don’t burn during Summer.

Maybe if desert tile checks will be added on top of existing sandstorm system it would solve this problem. This way everything inside the Oasis will never smolder even if you stand outside the sandstorm, and stuff outside the Oasis won't smolder as long as you are inside the storm just like it works now.

I'd be open to submitting a patch to fix items in the sandstorm area smoldering if there's a chance it would be accepted. It would be really nice to see this bug fixed.