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Larger rooms have more thermal 'mass', and their temperature changes more slowly than smaller rooms, but temperature equalization with the outside is proportional with a room's perimeter. Gaps between each layer will decrease the insulation, but still have an effect. Adding another layer of walls increases insulation, but only up to 2 layers of wall. Open doors and open roofs will quickly 'equalize' temperature to whatever's on the other side. Thus the corners of rooms can be eliminated with minimal effect. Heat transfer from walls only occurs in cardinal directions. Heat travels through roofs, walls, and doors. Heat will also transfer from enclosed rooms to other rooms, and the outside. Temperature change within a room is instant. The exact flipover point between this and 'uses outdoor' is not static and seems to change with room size.

Removing roof tiles will cause temperatures to 'equalize' with the outside. Rooms that are fully roofed are entirely subject to heat changes. However, doors and vents do make heat transfer faster. Opening a door or vent is not enough for instant equalization. To do this, you must create a completely empty hole in the wall. By turning a place from Indoors to Outdoors, it will instantly become the outdoors temperature. Outdoors and unroofed areas will always have the outside temperature, no matter what. In addition, rooms that are Unroofed - no or minimal roof tiles - are considered fully outdoors for the purposes of temperature. If a place is not considered a room, it is considered 'Outdoors'. Passible objects like sculptures or sandbags will not create a room. Corners are not required to create a room. Otherwise, the outdoors is simply treated as another room, albeit a large one.Ī place completely enclosed in walls, doors, and other 'impassible' objects are considered a room, or 'Indoors'. No amount of added heat, even with development mode, will affect or change the outdoor temperature.

Be careful though, because unpredictable events like a cold snap, volcanic winter or heat wave can also change outdoor temperature unexpectedly. Outdoor temperature usually fluctuates slowly by day and season and is bounded by the climate of your biome. The minimum temperature is not encountered during normal gameplay, but fires in small enclosed spaces can reach the maximum temperature. The maximum temperature is 1,000 ☌ (1,832 ☏) and the minimum is -270 ☌ (-454 ☏), very close to absolute zero. But if you want reliable temperature values, and especially if you are modding, use Celsius or Kelvin. This inaccuracy normally isn't big, around 0.3☏. As the game always rounds temperature to an integer ('whole number'), you can get a misleading indicator while using Fahrenheit. Internally, the game uses Celsius (☌) for all temperature functions, such as 'too hot' or 'too cold'. Kelvin is the same as the Celsius scale, but shifted by +273.15° - if you have a desire to use Kelvin, you probably don't need help with it. This Wiki will list values in both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Players can switch the in game display to Celsius (☌), Fahrenheit (☏), or Kelvin (°K). Too hot or cold may lead to fatal conditions, even to animals. Temperature mostly affects pawn mood, food and corpse spoilage, and plant growth. Temperature management is an important part of a productive colony. You can help RimWorld Wiki by improving it.

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