Starting a Fire

[Glcbitj]

I've been trying to start a fire in my house to kill a sim and bring him back as a fire ghost. The problem is that no matter waht i do, cook at low level cooking skill, or lit a fireplace with lots of hugs and chairs in front of it, fire never starts, what should i do to start fire?
Also one of my sims have the Naturalist reward but i belive that only makes him immune to fire not the house.

[grimsoul]

Fires do seem to be harder to start. Sense playing the Sims 4 I've only had one fire on my home lot and it surprised me because it was while working on the mixology skill. My sim was practicing bar tricks to raise his skill and one of the tricks is to take a drink and then breath fire. He caught the bar on fire.
But I haven't had stove or fire place start a fire yet either.

[ladybug53]

I've had quite a few of my boys start a fire while using the grill . All of them were either low skill cooks or it was their first time cooking . I almost lost one during one of those fires . Scared me as this was my heir .

[Playalot]

I've tried the old 'shove everything flammable in front of the fire' trick too... it didn't work. What I found worked was to have someone warm their hands in front of the fire autonomously.... then kaboom! Instant combustion of that sim. Trouble is waiting for the 'right' sim to warm their hands. I found that if I directed them to warm their hands then they didn't catch fire!
So, I had a lit fire in the lounge area and just cancelled the action when one of my other sims went to warm their hands, eventually the targeted sim headed towards the fire and combusted!  Took a while though.

[Stormi71]

I think the low quality ovens etc are more likely to catch fire, too. All my households seemed to have a fire the first time someone cooked. I had my kid start a fire using that potion  table thing, too.  I did notice accidents tend to happen more if a sim is not in a good mood, or they are really tired. My sim who is level 10 in cooking and gourmet cooking, who always makes excellent quality meals, cooked something that was only "good" because she was uncomfortable from being so tired. So maybe making your sim really tired will be more likely to trigger a fire?

[imayu94]

Agreeing Stormi71. Somehow leaving cooking materials on the stove doesn't work anymore. Or does it?

Get low quality cooking items, make a clumsy sim, put in a fireplace to warm themselves. It's one of the things I hate when inviting people over that they just catch on fire.

[ManiSims]

I've had two/three fires from cooking so far, but none from anything else. Mostly it just happened when I wasn't paying attention and let a random sim cook something for the first time. Stove quality didn't have much to do with it for me, because two of the fires were on some pretty expensive stoves. I also got one when the sim got distracted and started chatting to someone else while cooking, but that may have been coincidence?

[Stormi71]

Agreeing Stormi71. Somehow leaving cooking materials on the stove doesn't work anymore. Or does it?

Get low quality cooking items, make a clumsy sim, put in a fireplace to warm themselves. It's one of the things I hate when inviting people over that they just catch on fire.

My sim that rarely cooks made something for dinner, then his wife came over to talk to him. He stopped cooking, and whatever it was stayed on the stove in the saucepan, until I clicked continue cooking. It didn't burn or catch fire.
I did have an oven catch fire once, the cooktop caught fire after a sim finished cooking. It didn't spread though, it was more like the burner wouldn't switch off.