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[Schilcote]

Explain this:



I decided to swim across the ocean as a normal, unmodded dwarf, in a normal, unmodded game. Suddenly, I get spammed with "You are melting!" and die. What caused this?

[Dave Mongoose]

Some people have had problems with rain melting them: the popular theory seems to be that the water is heating up high enough to be deadly. Likely to be a bug.

[Schilcote]

Some people have had problems with rain melting them: the popular theory seems to be that the water is heating up high enough to be deadly. Likely to be a bug.

But why would a dwarf melt?

[Ichythus]

I think it is because everything has a melting point and however hot that ocean was it was high enough to melt a dwarf! Think: end of Indiana Jones at the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Very epic end for your adventurer I'd think

[Schilcote]

I think it is because everything has a melting point and however hot that ocean was it was high enough to melt a dwarf! Think: end of Indiana Jones at the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Very epic end for your adventurer I'd think

It would have been, if he had been doing anything interesting at the time. Unfortunately, he was just some nameless axedwarf who decided to go for a swim.

[E-l337]

You know, maybe it's *not* a bug, like we keep thinking. Maybe it is possible that, somewhere underwater, there is a pocket of magma that is heating up the water to a boiling temperature?

Regardless, I think this should be looked at, particularly in regards to the rain. I haven't experienced it yet, but I expect it might wipe out my fort soon enough...

[webadict]

Some people have had problems with rain melting them: the popular theory seems to be that the water is heating up high enough to be deadly. Likely to be a bug.

Acid rain?

[DamnedChoir]

Definitely a bug, happened to me while in a desert town in the rain. Oddly enough all the humans including myself were melting but the elves in the town didn't seem to be at all perturbed and were doing fine.

[Grumman]

Definitely a bug, happened to me while in a desert town in the rain. Oddly enough all the humans including myself were melting but the elves in the town didn't seem to be at all perturbed and were doing fine.

The explanation becomes clear: the elves, realising their wooden swords are no match for dwarven adamantine, have started using bioweapons.

[Doomshifter]

I reckon this is yet another reason we should never leave the safety of our underground fortresses. As long as you avoid the caverns, there's nothing that can get you under there!

[Todestool]

It's like Armok's own sweat falls from the sky!  Just ran into this bug as four migrants showed up to join my seven.  I'm down to one of my miners, a migrant cheese maker, and a horse that's covered in water and yet suffers no ill effects.  If only my war dogs had been so blessed...

Edit:  This area was considered "warm," if that matters.  And the miner is now melancholy.  Good thing the cheese maker didn't have any friends.  Guess I'll go for a hermit fortress.  I know what I'm calling my "civvies stay inside" alert now.

[nenjin]

I've had rain that causes bleeding, not melting, as well. There's just something screwy with rain period. I think a bunch of effects are supposed to be applied to it now...but all of them are working over kill.

Because in my last fort, rain was effectively missles raining from the sky.

[plenum]

I've had rain that causes bleeding, not melting, as well.

rain of spikes... wow that's terrifying!

[Firehound]

death from melting is recorded as bleeding to death. drop something...say a fish... in magma, and it'll die of blood loss real quick.

but, once I mod in supah dwarves, I'll start looking for underground magma pools boiling the ocean. I think the best explination is that there is there might be a error somewhere that makes the bottom magma pockets heat the highest z-levels as if they were touching... the other explination is magma rain.

[plenum]

magma rain

The cosmos emptiness tuned into chaos
The boiling magma was now delimiting the planets
First magma-rain drop hit like a bullet, piercing soil deeply
Thus started era of Hell...