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As you are checking out changes to a room, that moment when an AI stretches, knocks a candle off the desk, and it lands in the trash bucket filled with scrolls, then extinguishes itself.

"The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out."

- Baron Thomas Babington Macauley

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Too bad there is no way to make scrolls or wood burn. It would give completely new gameplay options to really place a fire somewhere to do something. Imagine you can't get a chest open and instead just burn it to get to the gold inside... But I guess that wouldn't be possible without a major engine rewrite.

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Too bad there is no way to make scrolls or wood burn. It would give completely new gameplay options to really place a fire somewhere to do something. Imagine you can't get a chest open and instead just burn it to get to the gold inside... But I guess that wouldn't be possible without a major engine rewrite.

 

Could you attach a hidden flame to a func_static paper, which is triggered (and thus made visible) by touching a fire source, which then activates a timed trigger that after a while triggers both the flame and the scroll (func_static) to hide them (and maybe makes an ash pile entity visible instead).

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Yes, as Kyyrma points out, mappers can do it now, the engine already has the ability to make stuff burn (we ignite fires, torches, candles and hurt/kill AIs with fire obviously), just add a fire stim to turn on fire particles when any fire source hits it, smoke, illumination and burning sound too; just like we can set up breakable chests that you can hack to pieces with your sword, or smash by dropping objects on them with the physics system.

 

However it supplants thief-like gameplay (no need to steal/find keys or lockpick), so I'd only enable it for story reasons.

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