If you’ve ever wanted to play with fire you might be wondering how to start a fire in Sims 3. Whether you need to burn things because your sim is a pyromaniac, you are completing a challenge, or you like to watch things go up in flames, there are many options for how you can go about this. By the end of this article, we will have the fire department visiting your sim’s home.
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What are the Best Methods on How to Start a Fire in Sims 3?
There are many techniques you can learn for how to start a fire in Sims 3, many of which are extremely easy to accomplish. Take a look at each and see what best fits your sim’s situation. The following methods are the easiest ways to set a sim lot ablaze:
Low Cooking Skill and Cheap Stove
The most common way for how to start a fire in Sims 3 is to cook food while having low cooking skills and a cheap stove. The lower your cooking skill is, the more likely your sim will burn their food or start a fire in their kitchen. Additionally, using a cheap stove gives you a higher probability that it will catch on fire due to its poor quality. If you combine these two aspects, you will raise your sim’s chance of starting a fire significantly.
Leave Food Cooking
An easy and surefire way to light a fire in your kitchen is to have a sim begin cooking a meal and cancel the action. Make the sim do something else to keep them from returning to the food while it is cooking. They will walk away, leaving the item to continue cooking unattended. The food item will eventually burn and proceed to start a fire. The fire can get large and out of control if you do not have a fire alarm in your kitchen and your sim doesn’t call for help.
Fireworks
Using fireworks is a really fun method for how to start a fire in Sims 3. This is an easy method to set fire to any building, including your own house or someone else’s home. During the summer, you can head over to the grocery store and purchase fireworks for a small price. Take the fireworks to your desired indoor location and light them. The fireworks will go off and, inevitably, start a fire indoors. This will cause a panic as the fire begins growing in the location of your choice.
Clumsy, Unlucky, or Pyromaniac Traits
The clumsy and unlucky traits will make your sim more likely to have unfortunate events happen to them. Luckily for the unlucky sim, they will not die from starting any fires around their home because the Grim Reaper won’t take them. The pyromaniac trait will make the sim more likely to set things on fire because they enjoy it, especially if something is burning in the home. These traits in combination with the other methods on this list will make your chances of starting a fire much more likely.
Fireplace
If you have placed a fireplace in your sim’s home before, you probably know that this is a common cause of house fires. This can even become annoying if you don’t want a fire to start. If you start a sim fireplace and leave it running, it will eventually cause a fire if given enough time. If you place flammable items near the fireplace, you will be even more likely to ignite a blaze.
Eating Spicy Food or Magic Jelly Bean
Sims will find spicy foods to be extremely hot to the point that smoke comes out of their ears and fire comes out of their mouth. Some particularly spicy recipes can cause this to happen such as Hot and Sour soup, as well as consuming a ghost pepper whole. Occasionally, this will cause a fire and can catch you off guard if you are not expecting it.
Eating a jelly bean may seem like an innocent thing to do. However, consuming magic jelly beans will cause various moodlets or events to happen to the sim. Consuming this food has roughly a 2-3% chance of setting your sim on fire. If this happens, it will be very likely that your sim will die. To find magic jelly beans, you will need to have the Supernatural expansion added to your game and look for a jelly bean bush. You can head on over to the elixir consignment store for easy access to a grown jelly bean bush.
Fire Blast Spell
If you have a sim that is a witch, you will have access to the fire blast spell. You will need to purchase a wand for your sim to use in their inventory. Leveling up their magic skill to level 2 is essential to unlock this type of spell. You can gain levels by practicing the magic skill in your spare time. To do this, click on your sim and select “Practice Magic”. The fire blast spell will cause an immediate blast of fire to come out of your sim’s wand that will begin a fire. This is a great option to set any location ablaze quickly and cause panic.
Stomping on Pumpkins
There is a 25% chance of your sim catching fire when your sim stomps on carved and lit pumpkins. To carve a pumpkin, you must either buy a pumpkin or grow your own. Once the pumpkin is in your sim’s inventory, click on it and select “Carve Jack-o-lantern”. Next, tell the sim to stomp on the carved pumpkin. You will either make a mess destroying your Halloween decoration or you will set the sim on fire!
Blowing Out Candles on a Birthday Cake
Blowing out candles on a birthday cake and causing a fire during your party can be shocking when you first experience it. This method for how to start a fire in Sims 3 only has a 2% chance of occurring, making it quite a rare happening. However, when it does happen it is quite a hilarious moment to witness. Hopefully, the birthday girl or boy doesn’t end up dying in the process!
Taming a Unicorn
If you have the Pets expansion installed, there will be wild unicorns in your game. Once you find and successfully tame a unicorn, you will be able to utilize its magic abilities. The unicorn has an ability called Ignite, which will set fire to a desired location. This is an easy method of starting a fire once you have this mythical animal, however, finding and taming a unicorn can be a bit time-consuming.
More Intense Fire Mod
If you want more out-of-control fires that are capable of truly burning houses down, there is a perfect mod for you. The More Intense Fire Mod will make it so that fires spread significantly more quickly. This will cause the chance of death from a house fire to be more likely, as well as causing your house to get destroyed. You will need to call the fire department to put the fires out to avoid catastrophe. The addition of this mod adds quite a bit of realism to the game when it comes to setting stuff ablaze.