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[Truean]

I have a wonderful fort geography layout in .06, and I don't want to loose it.

The only issue for me is snow/ ice. I have temp turned off. I started in the area with snow and a frozen brook. I thought the area was temperate, and that it just started off with snow in winter....

It is now mid summer and the place is still snowy....

I don't think I embarked on a cold or frozen biome, but I could be wrong. Is there any way to check? Savescum and abandon?

Any help would be appreciated.

[PTTG??]

Well, you turned off temperature, so what did you expect?
 
Just turn temperature on again and it'll all melt.
 
Make sure "weather" is enabled too.

[Truean]

Well, you turned off temperature, so what did you expect?
 
Just turn temperature on again and it'll all melt.
 
Make sure "weather" is enabled too.

Agreed, and yet, this is the first time I've started with snow. I'm afraid of hypothermic Dwarves is all :).

[Samoorai]

I've had a similar problem with my fort. Started back in 31.01, mostly played in .03, and the map is just right apart from the ocean of blood sloshing around on the surface. Since I got .06, the map freezes over for half the year, when before it didn't at all. I'm many years in and don't want to start again, but with the massive temperature change it's really screwing over my constructed subterranean water supply and above ground power system. Anyone know how to raise the temperature without turning off weather or temperature?

[Asellus]

Magma. Magma can do ANYTHING!

[Samoorai]

Any actual solutions?

[Asellus]

Blasphemer! How dare you refute the almighty force that is magma?!

Seriously though, I'm pretty sure that magma melts nearby ice

[Patchy]

Still I think temperature would need to be turned on for the magma to melt the ice.

[Mordy]

Yeah turning temperature on is the solution.  I believe then if you turn it back off before winter, it will never freeze. 

[Flaede]

I've had a similar problem with my fort. Started back in 31.01, mostly played in .03, and the map is just right apart from the ocean of blood sloshing around on the surface. Since I got .06, the map freezes over for half the year, when before it didn't at all. I'm many years in and don't want to start again, but with the massive temperature change it's really screwing over my constructed subterranean water supply and above ground power system. Anyone know how to raise the temperature without turning off weather or temperature?

This was the problem for which magma is a solution. It is a good one. The other option is to light a coal block in a bin on fire, and then arrange to drop the bin where you want some more heat. Note: this may just evaporate all the water.

[Samoorai]

That's not going to put the the temperature back to what it was. I want to know how to STOP the river from freezing, the way it was before, without turning the temperature off.

[Snook]

Channel magma 1z under the river. It will warm up the riverbed, and temp stays on

[Jimmy]

Turn temperature on until the ice melts on your map in summer. Then save, exit, turn off temp, and for the rest of the game it will stay unfrozen.

If you want to play with temperature on all the time, bad luck. Your map will freeze.

[Samoorai]

Yes but for the 15 or so years I've played on this site, it DIDN'T freeze! I'm trying to rectify this problem without having to keep playing the older version.

[Jimmy]

It likely occurred when the temperature values were updated to prevent rain melting your dwarves. It's hardcoded behavior now; there's no workaround.