Savannah the hottest biome?

[Evolutionsgemüse]

Just wondering. I know that deserts can get very cold, but I usually find the deserts around the equator to be colder than the savannahs. Extreme deserts are even colder.

Is that a thing? Are savannahs actually hotter?

[Slye_Fox]

Sand has very poor heat retention.

[terracotta]

wait savannahs are in the game?

[Emmote]

You mean Arid Shrubland?

[Evolutionsgemüse]

Originally posted by Slye_Fox:

Sand has very poor heat retention.

It's just weird that people are dying in the savannah within a day, while they are doing better in a dry desert. I just can't picture it.

Originally posted by Gooeyoogey:

wait savannahs are in the game?

Originally posted by Emmote:

You mean Arid Shrubland?

Could be. I'm using the german translation, so things might get confusing.

[Cultist]

I assume Savannah is Arid Shrubland. It's more or less what it is, large plains with some spots of dense vegetation and lots of animal diversity.

I think extreme desert is the hottest biome in general, but it depends where on the globe the biome is placed. Since the spherical world was introduced, there seems to a lot more variety in biome conditions.

Remember there's a heat filter on the world screen so you can judge how hot/cold an area is in relation to the rest of the planet.

[Emmote]

Originally posted by Cultist:

Remember there's a heat filter on the world screen so you can judge how hot/cold an area is in relation to the rest of the planet.

There is?
I thought there was only the info on the terrain for each tile when you click it.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Originally posted by Cultist:

Remember there's a heat filter on the world screen so you can judge how hot/cold an area is in relation to the rest of the planet.

There is?
I thought there was only the info on the terrain for each tile when you click it.

There used to be a bunch of filters for things like that. If they are still there I had not noticed.

[Emmote]

Yeah, from what I know, they were removed with the introduction of the globe, rather than map. Still think the temperature overlay should have remained. It's a pain to find really cold or really hot locations without it.

[Syndicake ☠]

Originally posted by Emmote:

Yeah, from what I know, they were removed with the introduction of the globe, rather than map. Still think the temperature overlay should have remained. It's a pain to find really cold or really hot locations without it.

Hot locations are around the equator, cold are at the extremes of the hemispheres.

[Emmote]

You'd think so, wouldn't you. But I've found the hottest locations on some maps nearly half way between the pole and the equator.
Last map I tried, 0N 0W was about 60C, but around 35N 13E was 80C.