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40d Talk:Evaporation
Some questions: If you have a fort in a cold climate, will water never evaporate (i.e., no hot season=no evaporation)? Will outdoor lakes and ponds refill over time with rainwater? Schm0 10:09, 4 November 2007 (EST)
- I personally have yet to find a map with both rain and a hot season. My first fort had a hot season and it lost all its lakes (depth 7) in a single season, while all the rest of my forts so far have had neither hot seasons, nor rain. I can say that "murky pools" will not refill durring winter when things freeze.--Draco18s 10:37, 4 November 2007 (EST)
Magma also appears to evaporate if at depth 1. It leaves no residue. --Doctorlucky 02:51, 23 March 2008 (EDT)
- It's probably handwaved with the magma eating into the rock floor and fusing with it, so any residue is indistinguishable from said floor. --Alfador 12:18, 24 March 2008 (EDT)
- Shouldn't that turn the floor into obsidian? Random832 10:03, 13 October 2008 (EDT)
- Not all cooled magma is obsidian, most isn't. Greep 09:02, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
Molecule evaporation?[edit]
I don't think it is correct to say that "molecule" become gaseous. Matter, such as a liquid, can change state.
No outdoor evaporation while raining?[edit]
While casting a large (47x47) obsidian tower, I realized that I'd have to switch the layer order in order to finish the top layer with water rather than magma, so I decided to let the current one dry up. When it started raining, I noticed that the water, all at depth 1 or 2, entirely stopped evaporating. Once I was notified that the weather had cleared, it started evaporating quite rapidly. I'm in a tropical moist broadleaf forest (which never has any "dry seasons"), if that turns out to make any difference. --Quietust 01:08, 13 November 2009 (UTC)