Watching a raider set my steel benches/walls on fire with friggin' matches and molotovs filled me with an indescribable rage. Thank you for creating this essential mod.

Once the devs give enemies a weapon that puts the power of the sun at their fingertips, only then do they have permission to melt my buildings made of STEEL.

@truecore Might need a second house as well to verify results.

So if I crash my new spaceship into a metal house that's a few hundred stories tall, there will be no fire? I need a mod to test this completely original idea.

erm actually metals, such as titanium, do burn! and when they burn, its impossible to stop them from burning for the most part!

In all seriousness thank you for uploading this, I appreciate it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubop-51dJjg

You have surpassed the original in literally every way (visitors/Subscribers/favorites etc)

At this point I don't think this should be called "Unofficial patch" anymore

lol

@MeteorJunk congratulations on being the 100th comment xD

always gotta love the subgroup of furries that are confidently wrong about everything and identify as a 'protogen'

@Professional Dumbass the name checks out. Go back to school. Metals don't burn because of carbon, in fact carbon has nothing to do with it. Metals can oxidize (burn) at extremely high temperatures if there are very high levels of oxygen. Neither of which happens in-game.

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I still feel it's kinda stupid to lose metal resources to a house fire. Even if the atmosphere was rich in oxygen I'd imagine it'd have to be so potent that humans couldn't survive to see steel igniting.

It's true — and because of the giant insectoids, we can say that RimWorld's atmosphere is likely rich in oxygen. This would enhance the flammability of steel.
What you could do is make metal more resistant to fire: for example, it would only catch fire if exposed to an intense heat source nearby, but not if it's just surrounded by flames — in that case, there wouldn't be enough oxygen left for it to ignite properly.

Fun fact: Steel can burn IRL due to it being ~2 carbon (Thats basically coal for non chemists) Its just really fucking hard to light it.

I know this from personal experience and basic chemistry class.

Chemfuel can’t melt steel

be aware this mod ALSO DOUBLES the health of all steel objects (walls/doors/turrets/adv research benches etc)

@RedMattis agree!

@Chris_ I got reading the comments, to check on the mod status, and I noticed my posts from Dec 2023. So yeah....

I am sorry I created a theme of comments here. Just got back after some work stuff, trying to now play with Anomaly Expansion.

I dont like tweaks Galore for a few reasons, not a bad mod, but I think I will stick with this one.

Thank you sir!

Does this extend to the flammability of turrets?

can i add it to a save or will it break?

Is it safe to remove from a save?

bruh. . .

Man I love these discussions in here

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, but it can weaken their integrity so they can no longer support the thousands of tons of weight above them

Why does this double the max hit points of everything made out of steel?

At least mention that in the description, it is kind of an enormous balancing change.

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, but art students can.

thanks for updating this! i cant play rimworld without it. so dumb that trees and steel walls catch fire exactly the same way. metal dont burn!

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams

Idk but its in Tweaks Galore so this isnt really needed anymore

How this isn't vanilla yet it wild.

It's basically Metal Don't Burn (Continued) at this point

Honestly, at this point this is your mod now. It's been updated through several versions, I dont think you really need to call it unofficial anymore lol

Thanks for keeping this mod updated <3

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams

yehhh

Really a needed mod. Thanks!

I mean yes metals do burn.....but not to just regular ass fire XD. Natural metals require extreme temps to melt, and tempered alloys and metals require even more. So yea this mod is valid. Open flames even at wildfire levels never reach the temp needed to actually melt metal. That is why things like kilns are needed to make the flames more intense.

thank you for the update!! c:

Just updated to 1.5

@Steagle Thanks! :D

actual gigachad for linking the original owner's patreon and stuff, nice job

Thank you thank you, I love this mod and was disappointed the original never got updated. I was always frustrated a stray lightning bolt's fire would burn down my steel walls.

zaiden and Dev never graduated high school

why are people bothering about realism, its fucking rimworld

bunch of fuckin scientists in the comments section lmao nerds

OK never mine they are made with titianium alloys, and other alloys which include Tungsten for low thermal conductiviity.

Since the Height, and pressure of the combustion chamber that burns the fuel is so concentrated. It can reach up to 3000'F in there.
NOTE: Atmospheric pressue is low up there, its a Contained system, and heat cant escape normally with the controlled system.

aka open flame jet fuel will never reach above 1500'F

In many cases of open heat affecting Steel, it will get soft (at the worse) but NOT melt or such. People Please look up the hottest temp Jet fuel burns at, and the Reforging temp needed to melt steel... jet fuel burns at 1500'F and steel MELTS at 2500'F.

Seriously why is no one even fact checking themselves, or at least asking the questions and they themselves go and find the answers.

Heck if Jet fuel burned that hot, why would Jet Engines stay intact? They would have to be made of Tungsten I believe at that point.
Actually are they made of that? Now look what you have done, i got to stay up late and research this.

@Revixtre Probably, but this guy didn't write the mod, he just ported it, so if you want to make that happen you're going to have to get help elsewhere.

Jet fuel can't *melt* steel beams but it sure can weaken them and ruin their tempering.

Please ignore prior comment, I have since realized that this is a ported mod and that Chris_ is not the original author.