In Rimworld, will a fire always destroy your base? Or is there some better way to put fires out in the game

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I have been playing the game quite a bit lately and every new colony I create basically ends due to an out of control fire. Is there any way to prevent this or at least an effective means of putting the fires out?

Best Answer

  1. Always set firefighting to priority 1.

  2. Use the tool to define your home area to cover everything you want to protect, or else your colonists won't even bother.

  3. Build stone walls (I used granite, use whatever is most available and not flammable) all around your base.

  4. Add a several meters layer of stone floor around your wall can help too.

  5. Kill boomrats when it's raining. Kill 'em all.

  6. Don't rely too much on batteries, the more you have, the biggest explosion/fire it creates.

  7. Firefoam poppers are great too, but costly and need some advanced research. I didn't bother to much with it (except in my boomrat farm of firedeath, for obvious security reasons), the above tips should largely suffice.

Now, depending on the source of your fires, some more techniques can be useful. So what causes fires in the first place ?

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EDIT : So, it looks like lightning is your main source of fire.

Lightning mostly occurs when it's raining, but sometimes the rain stops a bit early. You can even have dry thunderstorms, and these are a real pain. For the latter, these is not much to do, and the best defense are stone walls (but expect to lose some vegetation around).

However, when you have only one fire still going on after the rain stops, you can deal with it : just follow rule 1 and 2, and expand temporarily your home area on and around the fire. Then select all of your colonists and draft then undraft them to make them stop immediately their job. If you don't, some may finish what they were doing instead of putting out the fire.