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Talk:Dragonfire
I just had a dragon's fire breath span z-levels. In the attached pic, the dragon was coming down from the north and and used her fire breath to take out a fisherdwarf by the river. Both the dragon and the dwarf were on the same z-level, and as you can see the fire spread to the z-level above. There were no targets on that z-level. Does the wiki article need to be updated now? I'm not sure what the procedure is for that.
--Frewfrux
- Yes. Any accurate info should be added to the wiki at any time, including that image. As long as the information is factual and is written in a way that fits the wiki, it's fine. Also, in talk pages, remember to sign your posts with
~~~~--Zippy (talk) 21:40, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
Four times hotter[edit]
What does it mean to be four times hotter in the worlds of Dwarf Fortress?
- 20°C is not four times hotter than 5°C.
- 20°F is not four times hotter than 5°F.
- 20 K is four times hotter than 5 K.
- 20°R is four times hotter than 5°R.
But is 20°U four times hotter than 5°U? Are 5°U and 20°U real temperatures? The Urist temperature scale is not a player-facing scale. Its inflated numbers are likely due to Toady wanting to ensure he never has to deal with values with negative numbers. The coldest-recorded temperatures in the raws are the melting points of Animal- and Plant-based Alcohols, which are both 9850°U (-83.3°C). The 0 point on the only player-facing temperature units (found in advanced world generation) is equivalent to 0°C. The coldest temperature described in Adventure Mode is "Deathly cold" which represents an unknown value range somewhere below 0°C. There is also an "Absolute zero" in the strings, but I don't know what it's used for. While a bug or modification to the game may be able to bring the temperature down to 0°U, I don't think it's intended to get below absolute zero in a game that uses so much real-world values for physics calculations. If absolute zero in Dwarf Fortress is the same as in the real world, then Dragonfire is four times hotter than the surface of the Sun. Jecowa (talk) 14:01, 12 February 2025 (UTC)
