Can create fire without wood 1.5.8.4

[Guiteau 0]

Date/Time: N/A

What happened: Able to create a fire without using wood.

Where you were: Anywhere where a fire can be placed

What you were doing: After you find matches, you can use the scroll wheel to select an invisible option of "Create fire place". This appears to be using the old system for creating a fire.

Scroll down to last visible option on the list. Scroll down one more time and hit enter or primary click on mouse.

*Current installed version: 1.5.8.4

*Server(s) you were on: Any

[Kuro1n 1]

Sounds like a bug but is more realistic than the current "correct" ways of doing it as finding wood and starting a fire literally takes me 2 minutes if I'm out in a forest myself so I doubt a survivor would have more problem.

[narco_jones 104]

This glitch was also in 1.5.8.2

I attempted it twice and each time I made a fire. Have yet to test it on 1.5.8.4 though.

Basically the old method is still there just that the text is not showing on the contextual menu.

[RSF TheCapulet 45]

Was just coming to report this when I find it here already.

Repro is exactly as OP says. I do notice that it doesn't let me place it nearly as easily as the new fireplace though. So perhaps even delete the old fireplace entirely?

[NobodieCro 11]

Im pretty sure Rocket is gonna remeber your names and grant you life time of his gratitud for this. You just saved DayZ .

[TheCaptn (DayZ) 12]

Tried this yesterday on ANZ2, which was running 1.5.8.4 with beta build 93040. It worked exactly like described in the OP. I had wood in my pack but not in my active kit, and that wood was still present after the fire was set.