[Suggestion] Auto shut off fuel

18 votes

allow campfires and forges to automatically turn off when there is no more meat to cook or ores to smelt. This way it can save your precious coal and wood fuel.

Under consideration Suggested by: Fate (11 Sep, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Dec, '21 • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

12 Sep, '21
Hermes
Since they dont have any arduino to do it, I must say NO.
Primitive tech must be controlled only by player.
13 Sep, '21
Paul Cousins
Too unrealistic. You are working with sticks and stones here. There is no electric timer to know when to switch off. Perhaps the electric furnace could do this, but not the base stuff
13 Sep, '21
Drakyn_Ral
I'd be against this. Managing resources includes not wasting any. Players can know how much wood to place in there so the fire 'burns out' around the time the items are done crafting if they want to leave them burning, or they can pay attention and turn them off manually. Players should learn that placing a whole stack of wood in a fire to cook 10 meat then walking away is not a good idea.

Also keep in mind fires also provide heat, which I am sure will be a useful aspect in the future cold biomes, so they need to keep burning even when not crafting.
26 Sep, '21
Adam
Totally support this suggestion. If the only answer people can come up with against such an idea is "too unrealistic", honestly. Have you looked at the complete lack of internal consistency in the narrative of the "lore". I'm not going to open the can of worms that is 'spacesuit cavemen' again, because I am happy to just enjoy the game and ignore the ludicrousness. But a furnace that shuts down magically makes just as much sense as a perfectly sealed suit that allows you to stay underwater indefinitely but permits you to catch pneumonia in a cave!
23 Oct, '21
Gray Merged
Currently the Gas Stove consumes incredible amounts of biofuel to use. To counter this the stove should turn off automatically when not cooking anything to preserve fuel, especially with how time and resource consuming it is to create more fuel.
26 Oct, '21
Diamonds Merged
That makes no sense. I'm sorry but I know it's a video game, but there are a lot of game systems in place in Icarus that make it feel very immersive and realistic. This would really break the immersion unless it was explained with some kind of scientific advancement or something as to why a gas powered stove would turn itself off when it just happens to know the food is done cooking.
13 Jun, '23
Elissa - Producer Admin
"[Suggestion] Gas Stove should turn off automatically when finished cooking" (suggested by Gray on 2021-10-23), including upvotes (12) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.