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Temperature change when changing levels (higher is colder and lower is hotter) #26

Open Taranchuk opened 4 years ago

fnattee commented 4 years ago

I don't know if I agree with having it become hotter when deeper into the ground. At least if we're going for real life accuracy a couple of levels underground usually just brings the temperature closer to like 10 degrees Celsius depending on where on the planet one is. As far as I know, you have to be kilometers deep into the earth for it to actually start to become hot, which I feel is outside of the scope of this mod

“The temperature of the Earth down 20 or 30 feet is a relatively constant number year-round, somewhere between 50 and 60 degrees (fahrenheit)” - https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/going-underground_o

IsaacSherman commented 4 years ago

I think that should be a setting- I can imagine different tectonic events which would cause it to get noticeably hotter at the surface. Maybe let the changes default to colder the further you are away from Z-Level 0, but let the user customize a gradient and we just implement that?