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40d:Climate
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- (For creatures or items "being wet" when covered with water, see Template:L.)
Climate in Dwarf Fortress is a temperature rating only; actual ground cover is called a biome. In order from hottest to coldest, they are:
Scorching
- Stagnant ponds dry up immediately. Template:Ls are unaffected.
Hot
- In dry biomes, stagnant ponds may evaporate during dry Template:Ls (usually Template:L); be sure to dig out a Template:L before then if you lack a Template:L. As of 39a, ponds can now refill with the Template:L, allowing more diverse climates to be settled.
Warm
- (no effect)
Temperate
- Surface pools and rivers will freeze for part of the year. The length of freeze varies: They may start out frozen, thaw sometime during Template:L, and remain liquid until Template:L, or they may start out liquid and freeze for only a month or so in winter. If temperature is turned off, water cannot freeze or thaw.
Cold
- Surface pools and rivers are usually frozen but usually thaw for a few months in each year.
Freezing
- Surface pools and rivers remain frozen throughout the year in a majority of maps; you must use a source of heat (such as Template:L) to obtain liquid Template:L.
- If temperature is turned on, exposed Template:L and livestock may quickly freeze to death.