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A worm being on '''fire''', as the name would imply, is a worm engulfed in flames. A worm in this state will appear with a red hue and have flames covering its body and the worm's name tag will flash orange. This effect works somewhat similar to [[poison]], in that health is lost every turn, which randomizes between 5 and 10 per turn. In addition to losing health per turn, health is also randomly lost ''during'' a worm's turn (whether it's a different worm or the one that's burned). This occurs between 1 to 4 times with the damage ranging from 1 to 3. The effect lasts 3 turns.

A worm on fire can set other worms on fire by simply touching them, though only 3 worms can be engulfed, and there is a 30% chance per turn that a worm can do this. This makes the effect useful for damaging enemy worms with lower health. This effect will disappear upon collecting a health crate or using a [[medibuff]] syringe. Using a medibuff syringe however, will only remove the fire and not grant the [[buffed]] effect. Using [[freeze]] will also cancel out the fire.

Worms on fire will sometimes leave fire trails as it walks across terrain, and will explode oil drums and sometimes crates when touching them.