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GauHelldragon

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River Creatures die from cold
« on: February 13, 2007, 03:32:00 pm »
As soon as creatures like antmen and lizardmen appear, they start taking cold damage ( or maybe it's fire damage? i can't tell ). All their body parts and organs start out light grey and get worse and worse.
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Gakidou

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Re: River Creatures die from cold
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2007, 03:39:00 pm »
Well, antmen are chasm creatures, but your point remains. Are you on an exeedingly hot/cold map? Have you flooded the world with lava, perhaps? I don't really know what could cause the cave interiors to become dangerously hot or cold, really...
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GauHelldragon

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Re: River Creatures die from cold
« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2007, 03:54:00 pm »
The world is not of an unusual temperature, the dwarves like it just fine. I believe the problem is just that some of the creatures in the creature_subterranean.txt file do not have a [HOMEOTHERM] set.

When i tried making an antman fortress, all my antmen immediately died. I added a [HOMETHERM] to their creature entry, and they worked fine.


Another lil temperature related note, horses have the same temperature properties as iron apparently. hehe!

[ February 13, 2007: Message edited by: GauHelldragon ]

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Pnx

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Re: River Creatures die from cold
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2007, 05:41:00 pm »
Yeah they don't have a homeotherm for a reason... They're cold blooded they don't produce much heat. It might be a bug but I remember when I messed around with the fixedtemp 0 stuff all the coldblooded creatures were incapacitated in only a few turns. :D  So yeah they arn't producing heat so your fortress is probably at a weird temp.
Now I wonder what could cause that? You said that when you created an antman fortress they all died? That means it's not just that fortress. Maybe it's the creatures themselves...
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Gakidou

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Re: River Creatures die from cold
« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2007, 07:52:00 pm »
Creatures that aren't warm-blooded should still produce heat, they just can't burn energy to keep themselves at an optimal temperature...
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Re: River Creatures die from cold
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2007, 09:12:00 pm »
The cave varieties of reptiles and so on just need to be modified.  The subterranean environment is ~47F-52F in the game I think, so  the non-homeotherms get down in a dangerous range.  There are all sorts of solutions.  I just haven't gotten there.
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