Hee hee hee. So, aside from the little luminosity bug mentioned elsewhere, I've got stoves working pretty well. They function just as any other container, except they may be "lit", which kindles a fire inside them... the fire then follows the normal fire rules, including consuming any fuel in its location (the stove) and adjusting its own luminosity according to its current fuel level. I just made the stove take on the luminosity of the fire, and that was all it took.

I haven't yet made any restrictions on lifting items, readying items in paws, or throwing items based on weight, though, so it's possible to pick up a lit stove and throw it, which is pretty funny to see... especially when one is thrown onto the M.C. Escher testing river during the dark of night. :P

I'm probably going to end up using Shadowdarke's dynamic area lighting library... I glanced at it earlier and ran the demo. It actually looks pretty cool. I gather it uses areas on the fly to do what it does... so unless I'm missing something, I'm probably going to have to make the areas I use for elevation pass their elevation info onto the turfs at initialization and then delete themselves... and I'll have to tweak how I handle underground burrows a little... but nothing major. I was already planning on clearing out the elevation areas.

Anyway, that's it for now. :P If somebody's strong enough to throw a stove after I put in limits for such things, it'd probably do a fair amount of damage... though I think I'm going to make picking up and moving a lit stove simply be a matter of "um, no."