Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[wrytalin]

Hi, newbie here. Since everybody else is out to conquer the underground, I thought I'd take my long-nosed, thin-faced elven adventurer on a detour through the antarctic in an attempt to reach one of my old fortresses on an island in her world's deep south.

The first thing I noticed was that the ice is almost totally smooth and flat everywhere you go. I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I'd think there would be all sorts of rises and valleys everywhere, especially near the coast where the ice does most of its melting and refreezing. Suddenly -



Behind me an ice wall heaved itself up, blocking my adventurer from returning the way they had come. Not long after another wall rose into the air, blocking the path ahead. So I turned north, eventually coming to a bend I could circumnavigate. I also met some walruses, and found a deep canyon in the ice that apparently led to a shallow pool below, though I was spread all over the floor before I could make any observations.

Has anyone else bothered to explore their world's cold nether regions?

[LordSlowpoke]

First off, check the temperature. Ten dwarfbucks that it's "warm" at the very least.
Second off, the glacier hates you it seems. Go back there and kill it's walruses.
And thirdly, try and not melt in any ice that suddenly melts under you.

[wrytalin]

First off, check the temperature. Ten dwarfbucks that it's "warm" at the very least.
Second off, the glacier hates you it seems. Go back there and kill it's walruses.
And thirdly, try and not melt in any ice that suddenly melts under you.

Interestingly enough, it is "warm." This is something I've noticed in Fortress mode as well at the fort I mentioned; even in the summer, when all the snow was melted, the ocean remained ice. I don't mean just the surface was ice, although I was expecting it to be only on the surface (since I embarked in the subpolar south.) No, the entire ocean was ice. And it never, ever melted.

Unfortunately, the walruses are so far away now that I'm afraid I'll be walled in by ice before I can get near them.

I'll try.

[Dave Mongoose]

Sounds pretty awesome! I noticed the polar areas when I last genned a world, but I've not tried exploring them yet.

[wrytalin]

Okay, now I've got a problem. I've reached the seaside, and I decided to take a dip just to see what happens. I checked the temperature in the immediate vicinity of the shore to check if it was "scorching" (it wasn't) and dove in, and then the game froze. I've tried this three times.

I also noticed that further out from the coastline, the waters were shifting. Boiling? I'm not sure. It ceased after a while.

Aaaand now the game's just frozen while I was simply walking. This is getting ridiculous.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Okay, now I've got a problem. I've reached the seaside, and I decided to take a dip just to see what happens. I checked the temperature in the immediate vicinity of the shore to check if it was "scorching" (it wasn't) and dove in, and then the game froze. I've tried this three times.
I also noticed that further out from the coastline, the waters were shifting. Boiling? I'm not sure. It ceased after a while.
Aaaand now the game's just frozen while I was simply walking. This is getting ridiculous.

Well, duh. You are trying to walk over the edge of the world, where the realty created by Armok ends. So obviously you couldn't travel there.

[The Eviscerator of Gods]

I'm going to explore the frozen north now, if I don't make it back please use my corpse as a sleigh.

[cowofdoom78963]

NO! Your not supposed to go there! Stay in the secret underground cavern like a good boy!

Also yeah it's going to be glitchy as hell in the arctic becuase of the new versions temperature crap.

[The Eviscerator of Gods]

The glacier started melting so I used travel mode to get the hell out of there. (My frame rate went to ****)

[Kagus]

Do note that the temperature readings you get in adventure mode are relative.  If you took your clothes off, you'd notice a distinct drop.

[wrytalin]

Do note that the temperature readings you get in adventure mode are relative.  If you took your clothes off, you'd notice a distinct drop.

Holy shit. Are you serious?

Well, now that I test it, it does seem to have some effect - traveling in tundra when it's snowing, for example, and stopping to check the temperature at night returns "it's freezing" while during the day the snow is "cool." Beyond that, however, it's still "hot," and outside the polar/subpolar regions the relative temperature remains a constant scorching degrees Urist.

The glacier started melting

I wish I could see that.