Firepit

Based on game build 714004 | Last updated: 2026-03-05

Overview

The firepit prefab represents a placed structure that functions as a central fire-based cooking and heating device. It uses the fueled, burnable, workable, cooker, and hauntable components to manage fuel consumption, fire state, hammering response, cooking behavior, and hauntable mechanics. It supports charcoal production when fully fueled and integrates with DST’s quagmire game mode via custom networked overrides and physics.

Usage example

local firepit = SpawnPrefab("firepit")
firepit.Transform:SetPosition(x, y, z)
firepit.components.fueled:DoDelta(TUNING.FIREPIT_FUEL_START) -- initialize fuel
firepit.components.fueled.accepting = true
firepit.components.burnable:Ignite() -- ignite the fire

Dependencies & tags

Components used: burnable, fueled, workable, cooker, hauntable, inspectable, lootdropper, storytellingprop, rainimmunity
Tags: campfire, structure, wildfireprotected, cooker, storytellingprop (quagmire: installations, quagmire_stewer, quagmire_cookwaretrader)

Properties

Property	Type	Default Value	Description
queued_charcoal	boolean	false	Internal flag indicating whether charcoal should be dropped upon fuel depletion (only when fuel reaches max section).
disable_charcoal	boolean	false (quagmire mode sets to true)	Prevents charcoal production when set.
curradius	number	0.6 (quagmire) or nil	Physics obstacle radius override used only in quagmire game mode.

Main functions

restart_firepit(inst)

• Description: Utility function to reset the firepit’s fuel state without affecting charcoal queue status or animation frames; used during reskin operations.
• Parameters: inst (Entity) — the firepit instance.
• Returns: Nothing.

Events & listeners

• Listens to:
  • onextinguish — triggers fuel reset (InitializeFuelLevel(0)) when fire is extinguished.
  • onbuilt — plays build animation and sound.
  • prefaboverridedirty (quagmire) — updates prefab name and network widget setup.
  • radiusdirty (quagmire) — updates physics obstacle radius.
• Pushes:
  • None directly; relies on component-emitted events via inst:PushEvent(...) calls.