Heat Update 21 - Seasons, Temperature, and Weather

Seasons and temperature have arrived in Heat! Enjoy the crisp colors of fall, or the long snowy days of winter. Prepare your homestead for the winter time by keeping ample food supply as you cannot farm during this season. Wear some insulated clothes, keep them dry, and light some furnaces to keep warm. The Newspaper now reports the weekly weather forecast, as its important to know when the rains will come. We also improved the weather effects.

Be careful not to freeze to death when the temperature dips below zero. Stay warm by placing Heaters, Campfires, and Stoves. You will also want to keep your clothes dry and spend some time in Shelter to warm up. Holding a torch can also warm you up, although at a reduced rate.

When its too hot, and you are dehydrated, you will take Heat related damage. Stay Hydrated and wet your clothing during hot summer days in order to prevent overheating, especially when you visit the desert or tropics.

We added a new Resistance stat in the game. Increasing this will allow your character to last longer in hot or cold weather conditions. Seeds can no longer be planted in the winter, and crops will slowly die in the winter as they cannot retain water.

Night time has also been extended, and a Miners Hat has been added which allows you to have a powerful light attached to your hat. This makes it easier to travel or work at night.

You can now change your Homestead experience before starting a new game, by changing the clock speed, how much energy you have, and many other conditions. Alongside these changes, the update contains many fixes and changes based on community feedback.

We are taking the servers down and rolling them back up in order to process the update. We will also be wiping Official servers for this update.

If you experience a crash or freeze, please follow these steps, especially after an update as it seems Steam sometimes requires a file integrity check after an update to work properly - https://steamcommunity.com/app/656240/discussions/0/1777136225016630475/

Here are the changes for Update 21:

• Changed weather patterns (Wind, Rain, Clouds) to be predictable in the newspaper. - Separated cloudy skies from rain, allowing overcast days. - The newspaper's weather tab now reports a precise overview of the week in your current location. - Extended night, now lasting ~3 hours of the day, instead of sunrise beginning immediately after sunset. - Added air temperature that changes by location, season, and day / night cycle. - Added the "/temperature" command, adding a positive or negative offset to the global temperature. - Added a body temperature stat to player characters. If the body temperature gets too high or low, the character takes damage. - Added a thermometer icon to the HUD to indicate when world temperatures leave the character's comfort zone. - Clothing that appears light and shady gives 'heat armor', increasing your character's comfort zone in hot weather. Wet clothing increases 'heat armor'. - Clothing that appears insulated gives 'cold armor', increasing your character's comfort zone in cold weather. Wet clothing reduces 'cold armor'. - Characters approaching heatstroke body temperatures will spend hydration to resist heatstroke. - Added radial heating to Campfires, Bonfires, Fireplaces, Heaters, Stoves, and the handheld Torch. - Added a range indicator to stations that provide heat while placing their hologram. - Added the 'Resistance' stat to the character sheet. Points added to this stat increase your character's resistance to hot and cold weather. - Reduced the required level for Heater research to lv5, down from lv30. - Added the Mining Helmet as a hands-free light source. - Added "enableTemperature" to the server settings. This enables the fluctuating world temperature. - Added "rainMultiplier" to the server settings. This reduces rain when set between 0 and 1, or increases rain when above 1. - Improved the visibility of rain and snow particles. - Leaves now change colour during autumn and winter seasons. - Temperatures below 0 now cover the world in snow. - Campfire, Bonfire, Fireplace, and Heater stations now provide radial warmth while lit. - The hand Torch now provides warmth while lit. - Seeds can no longer be planted in winter. - Crops can no longer retain water in winter. - Grain can now be planted in Spring. - In Homestead mode, months have been removed and replaced with 28 day seasons. The year is now 112 days, down from 336. - Added Coffee as a new liquid type. - Added Coffee to the Shipping Bin and Washington General Store. - In Homestead mode, Coffee temporarily reduces the energy-draining effect from 2:00am to 6:00am. - Added options while creating a new Homestead file, allowing customized clock speed, movement speed, resource multipliers, and starting stats. Existing games can adjust a few of these options with a database browser. (eg. Open the 'Server.db' save file and edit the ScenarioModifier table.) - Fixed a rounding error that placed Homestead items in the air when starting a new game, depending on computer hardware. - Fixed volume multipliers that were potentially muting music and reducing other sound categories. - Fixed more blurry textures and oddities found around merchants. - Fixed seasonal availability for the Shipping Bin. (Though in-game seasons start on the 1st of the month, the Shipping Bin was waiting to the 21st.) - Fixed the garbled date HUD in Homestead mode. - Fixed vendors that ignored your Homestead bank account when buying items. - NPCs can no longer deal collateral damage / wake to sleeping NPCs. - NPCs will now attempt to snap above the terrain if they are below it. - The "Downloading Characters..." loading step has been split into 'selecting' and 'downloading' steps with fixes to reduce the chance of failure.

Thanks for everyone's continued feedback and support.

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