making a permanent fire disappear

[faylen]

So, I decided to take advantage of the fires in the halls of justice to do some cooking, but I discovered that none of the permanent fires could be used to roast beans. Therefore, I went into the common room and used produce flame to create a second fire which could roast the beans. When I finished, I wanted to extinguish the produced flame, so I pulled out a flask and cooked it. Unfortunately, the result was that the hearth fire disappeared and the temporary fire remained. It wasn't that the fire just went out, but the entire hearth object disappeared, which means I had no way to put the fire back. I don't know if it will reset itself at some point or not, but it seems like the object should be more forgiving than that. On another note I do love the ability to extinguish created fires with flasks of water. Perhaps that should be in a help file somewhere.

[Harroghty]

This is a couple of issues, one of which will be resolved with the next code update. The cocoa beans were looking for the standard fire object (i30) instead of fire type objects (otype 34); I believe that they were the only food object with this problem. I have updated them now.

Yes, water can douse any fire object, including things like hearths or forges. If you would please, tell me exactly how you doused the hearth and I will try to put measures into place on all hearths so that they will not be destroyed entirely by dousing. Thanks!

(Any of these objects will just return with the reset of the area if they are supposed to return.)

[Lirith]

As a follow-up to this, I recently (last couple of weeks) tried to extinguish a fire by emptying a skin of water onto it. Suffice to say it took about 10 to 15 skins of water before the fire went out. I kept going more to see if it would eventually extinguish or not. The fire was lit with ordinary charcoal.