the are some three letter elements on the menu e.g. gas,air

Ash should be product of wood and gun powder.

there should be a 1 in 5 chance of producing ash to prevent overload

we already have smoke

maybe not always float up but be a dark powder that falls!

yes

yea now we need a dev or lolzy to tell what they think :D

Well, I can tell you this. If it does ruin many simulations. Anyone is free to commit the change and it will be included in next version(depending on how the code looks like and such).

It is just that there are some other parts that currently needs attention.