Freezing desert

[Evolutionsgemüse]

Yes, I admit, I'm a bit butthurt right now. In my current colony I lost two people to hypothermia since I was playing as a tribe and didn't start researching electricity and sogar panels as fast as I could (in the end I still had two people researching at the same time, a futile attempt). The rest will likely follow them soon.
Also, no wood to chop, so no torches.
Anyway, the temperature outside was -27 degrees Celsius and -15 inside my shelter inside a mountain. I'm aware that deserts get cold at night, but -27 degrees, that's colder than most places on earth, and certainly not the deserts.

Is that even realistic? And even if, if I wanted to play in a cold biome I'd have choosen the tundra or the ice. This is just odd.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

-27 is average for winter in the Gobi, and -40 isn't uncommon.

[Evolutionsgemüse]

Originally posted by =яενєηąŋŧ=:

-27 is average for winter in the Gobi, and -40 isn't uncommon.

H**y s***! Wikipedia even says -65 degrees Celsius!
Okay, I take back what I said.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Yeah, deserts suck for that. Nothing to hold the heat when the sun goes down. Even in summer in the Middle East you can get huge temperature shifts and freezing nights, especially far from the coast.

[Ozymandias]

I like boreal forests which are quiet cold, and sometimes I start at the beginning of spring, meaning it's still freezing. Anyway in that case, I'll find a nice steam geyser and build around it. With a roof over it, it'll keep the house warm. When it's too hot, just remove a couple roof tiles.

[Bryan=0101]

Big mistake also catus=wood you should build around a gyser

[Lantantan]

Yeah those thermal vents help loads. They can keep a big 15x15 indoor area 10C warmer than outside.

[Evolutionsgemüse]

Thanks for the tipps. There're almost no cacti around, but I didn't know that you could properly use geysiers for heating. I read they would heat up indoors up to several hundred degrees.

[Ozymandias]

But you can create an unroofed area to let go of the excess heat. Just a couple tiles at times when the temperature's stabilised.

[=яενєηąŋŧ=]

Depends on the size of the room. A 1x1 room, sure.

[ministrog]

Originally posted by =яενєηąŋŧ=:

Yeah, deserts suck for that. Nothing to hold the heat when the sun goes down. Even in summer in the Middle East you can get huge temperature shifts and freezing nights, especially far from the coast.

I've always knew deserts can go below freezing but never understood why. So I googled for more information after reading this and found even deserts can get snow lol. I thought the game was bugging out but turns out even that is accurate.

[Diarmuhnd]

hahaha. Nature Wins !!!! >".'<

[Ragnar]

Antartica is considered a desert.

[cbd]

The thing that defines a desert is lack of precipitation, not anything to do with temperature.