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[pisskop]

Okay, so I took up a scorching desert embark.  My first embark, in fact, where I lost a dwarve in the first season to melting.  which prompts serious questions on heat.

So, with the ambient temperature being so high, is 'underground' safe despite the 'hot' meeting area designation?

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I believe I set worldgen to vary between -100 and 300 degrees.


So, Will they melt under the mountain of sand?  How to stop this?

[Visus Draconis]

Nah, I think they'll probably be fine once underground.

Any migrants that arrive... not so much.

[Loud Whispers]

In the unlikely event that it's hot enough to burn, order Migrants to get naked - it could buy them enough time to reach the Fort in safety. This worked for people who embarked on my maps where it was hot enough to vaporize metal.

[Merendel]

In the unlikely event that it's hot enough to burn, order Migrants to get naked - it could buy them enough time to reach the Fort in safety. This worked for people who embarked on my maps where it was hot enough to vaporize metal.

I find the idea of forceing migrants to have a streaker party on the way in from the map edge rather amuseing   I tend to just build access tunnles along the map edge with entrances every 10 tiles or so if I'm embarked in a hostile area and want to get migrants inside.  Each entrance can be sealed individualy from a remote location and I just open the ones closest to where the migrants arive asumeing there is no zombie hord standing on top of it.

[FrankMcFuzz]

That's a pretty good way to get rid of elves. I was going to say goblins, but at the last minute I remembered that this was the Dwarf Fortress Forums and something kicked in.

[pisskop]

Aye, thank ya'll.
So pros and cons

Pros:

-Almost no wildlife.
-A generous sand layer on the mountain, and an aqueduct I literally dug under.
-No reason to go outside.
-4 of 6 children migrants I got wave 1 melted.

Cons:
-Crap outside.
-Melted two of my seven year 1.
-I wasn't prepared for this.
-ennh.

[GavJ]

Yes, underground seems to be safe, even just one layer underground (with only the ceiling above you). I can't guarantee safe forever just beneath the surface, but it is a dramatic difference, and certainly a few layers below is always safe forever.

I just made a world with 1000 temperature, which if I understand the way the worldgen parameter works, is hotter than magma? Anyway it was so hot that I had to mod out the dwarves' clothing, because otherwise it caught on fire and burned them before they could get inside (clothing burns faster than dwarves do despite needing a higher temperature to do so, because dwarves have a homeothermal buffer that resists change for awhile, unlike inanimate objects). Seas boil instantly, all forests burst into flames on the first tick forcing you to embark in badlands to not die in a forest fire immediately. All embark goods and the wagon burn/melt before being carried inside.

Not super fun or anything, but the point being: even in that world, one of the miners got a single tile underground, and then immediately was fine / stopped being injured (although he had already lost all the fat in his head, it didn't seem to matter much / maybe he went on to a successful professional modeling career).