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[FearfulJesuit]

I wanted some time ago to make a mod that had 6 seasons, with a different caravan in each.
I would like seasons to be imported to the raws.

First, you would have the year raw itself. Let's suppose we wanted to have a 360 day year, with each day taking up 1500 frames of game time.

[YEAR:360:1500]
Next, you would have the months. Let's do 18 months of 20 days each. I'll just use random stone names with no bearing on the real calendar.

[GRANITE:1:20]
[DACITE:21:40]
[LIMESTONE:41:60]
[MICROCLINE:61:80]
[ORTHOCLASE:81:100]
[SANDSTONE:101:120]
[SILTSTONE:121:140]
[MUDSTONE:141:160]
[CLAYSTONE:161:180]
[GABBRO:181:200]
[SLATE:201:220]
[SHALE:221:240]
[OBSIDIAN:241:260]
[MARBLE:261:280]
[HEMATITE: 281:300]
[MALACHITE:301:320]
[TETRAHEDRITE:321:340]
[LIMONITE:341:360]

That rounds out the year.

Now we've got to do the seasons. Unfortunately, 18 isn't divisible by 4, so we're clearly not dealing with a temperate climate! I'll deal with how this relates to climate itself- freezing and evaporating-later, but for now:

[SEASON: SPRING]
[GRANITE]
[DACITE]
[LIMESTONE]
[MICROCLINE]
[ORTHOCLASE]
[SANDSTONE]

[SEASON: SUMMER]
[SILTSTONE]
[MUDSTONE]
[CLAYSTONE]
[GABBRO]
[SLATE]
[SHALE]

[SEASON: FALL]
[OBSIDIAN]
[MARBLE]
[HEMATITE]
[MALACHITE]
[TETRAHEDRITE]
[LIMONITE]



Note that if you change the season raws, you'll also have to go into the entity raws to change the way caravans work.

[NW_Kohaku]

Chalk this up as another crazy thing that Toady might one day be able to put into the raws, but which he's unlikely to make a very high priority for a very long time.

Having some sort of ability to change the amount of time in a day has come up before, but making your own calendar is kind of a new one on me.  Of course, since we already have people making up whole language raws, I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

One day, so much of this game will either be procedural or raw-moddable, that you won't be able to carry over an experience from one game into another game, as the laws of physics will be procedural or something.

[Lielac]

[...]the laws of physics will be procedural or something.

That would be AWESOME. -evil grin-

[Knight Otu]

That sounds a bit familiar. Here's what I posted quite a bit ago:

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[COSMOLOGY_CALENDAR]
   [MONTH:GRANITE:28]
   [MONTH:SLATE:28]
   [MONTH:FELSITE:28]
   [MONTH:HEMATITE:28]
      [SPHERE:FIRE]
   ...
[COSMOLOGY_SEASONS]
   [SEASON_START:GRANITE:1]
   [SPRING:84]
   [SUMMER:84]
Maybe a bit of a pipe dream, but a "cosmology" raw where you can define at least year length, month length, and month names, possibly with sphere links. I don't think they need identifiers unless different calendars can be chosen at random.

I don't think there's a much of a need to define year length when you already define all the months anyway (though it has its uses), and I think that months only need a length, not a start day and an end day - as long as the months are defined in the correct order. Then, the seasons also only need a start day and a length (opening the potential that seasons and months do have different start days) and defining in the correct order.

It's certainly something that would come later rather than sooner, but I, too, would like it see it happen.

[Granite26]

I like this idea.  I'm guessing seasons are defined as changes from the base temperature, so there's nothing stopping you from adding new types of seasons either.  (hard freeze, a single day every year where the temperature drops 40 degrees from the winter low).