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[malvado]

So again one of my adventurers was encased in Ice while swimming from one side of the river to the other , you get no visual or contextual warning that the water is going to turn to ice ( If you where swimming in water that is almost freezing I can assure you that you would feel how cold it is, at least here in Norway we can) so I would like to propose that if the water is going to freeze soon you get a text warning so you can try to avoid getting encased.

Example :
*The water is almost freezing
*The water is so cold it almost paralyzes you.

Edit : I did do a search but nothing turned up, if this was brought up beforehand I apologize for my poor use of search tool.

[Icefire2314]

Dunno if it's been suggested before, but I +1 this, for certain.

[Celerian]

it'd be better to just implement a temperature notification system; "The water feels mild. The water is hot! The water is freezing!" etc. But I definitely +1 this.

[malvado]

Thanks guys.
True, there's several ways to do this, but getting a warning before the water freezes ( so you can attempt to get away) should be usefull , perhaps you could dive 1 tile down and then break the ice to get out of the water once you get the warning?

I do agree that a better weather notification system could be implemented and I like the above idea as well , it would probably be usefull as well for when the temperature is really hot.

[GoblinCookie]

We need the same thing in Fortress mode.

[Two]

+1

Just died with my adventure after pushing skills for 2 hours because I thought I wash off all that blood. One step into a pond, instantly freezes and kills me. -.-

[Findulidas]

If you press W in adventuremode it tells you the weather and if its a hot weather or cold. I guess if you have a general idea of the biome and the month you could figure it out from there.

[Findulidas]

Just found that P literally tells you how hot/cold it is.

[Deboche]

It doesn't make sense to have a lake suddenly freeze anyway. How often does it happen really that a person or animal that happens to be in the water becomes encased in ice?

Not to mention, in fortress mode at least, you can have dwarves encased in less that 7/7 water so even if the water magically flash froze, it probably wouldn't cover their heads

[Icefire2314]

It doesn't make sense to have a lake suddenly freeze anyway. How often does it happen really that a person or animal that happens to be in the water becomes encased in ice?

Not to mention, in fortress mode at least, you can have dwarves encased in less that 7/7 water so even if the water magically flash froze, it probably wouldn't cover their heads

Doesn't make sense but does much else in DF typically?

[pisskop]

If we could die of hypothermia as a result of swimming through 40^of water I would agree to your request for a warning of freezing.  Beside the (P) button. Or the (W) button.  Or the snow on the ground.

[§k]

I heard of temperature caused FPS loss frequently. If tempereture is modelled in such detail, why is there simultaneous freezing anyway? I expected it to be a spectacular scene like obsidianizing ocean.

[Deboche]

Doesn't make sense but does much else in DF typically?

It wouldn't bother me as much if only we could encase the dwarves but the game respected the water level so that we could still feed them and talk to them.

Also, if a dwarf is having a drink from a river or lake and it freezes, it should encase his/her beard in ice, so that he'd be faced with a dillema. Without this level of detail, what's the point of the game anyway?

[Two]

Temperature is not so much modeled in detail at all. Just build a campfire on a frozen river, it will melt the snow but not the ice.

[Findulidas]

Temperature is not so much modeled in detail at all. Just build a campfire on a frozen river, it will melt the snow but not the ice.

To be fair some things are very much modeled in detail whereas water in oceans, lakes and rivers seem to be dependent more on the temperature of the weather. Probably because its actually pretty stupid performance wise to have everything modeled.