Rainfall theories

[Storm0267]

This is for us weather enthuists. So i been playing this game, much mpre mazy and difficult them my preferences.. anyway the weather has me thinking, the rain. How high do the rainfal rates get???? And how high would u guess the dewpoints may be to allow such intense rainfall. A suggestion to the devs, maybe add thunder when there are 5 circles left and lightning flashes fkr the last 2, thunder gets louder as the storm approaches like in real life. A good warning. Ps someone wanna ppst a video of the rain fall but in a safe...ish place? Wanna share it with a few friends

[Sabaithal]

Well, to scale I believe that humans (were they to exist) would be bigger than the raindeer. So the rain would be inconvenient for them, but not deadly.

But some advanced warning might be nice. I know once the tics reach about 3 or 4 predators start completely ignoring the slugcat, but the sky darkening or something wouldn't go amiss.

And in sections that are already dark (memory crypts) maybe have a flash or two of lightning 5 tics prior. Because in those locations you are going to need that time to GTFO.

[Wolfofdoom3]

The rain even kills leviathans, and we don't know the size of humans were they to exist in Rain world, so no they would be dead. Pressurized water can cut through steel, and the rain falls almost as fast as bullets.

[RCMidas]

Originally posted by Storm0267:

This is for us weather enthuists. So i been playing this game, much mpre mazy and difficult them my preferences.. anyway the weather has me thinking, the rain. How high do the rainfal rates get???? And how high would u guess the dewpoints may be to allow such intense rainfall. A suggestion to the devs, maybe add thunder when there are 5 circles left and lightning flashes fkr the last 2, thunder gets louder as the storm approaches like in real life. A good warning. Ps someone wanna ppst a video of the rain fall but in a safe...ish place? Wanna share it with a few friends

Technically it's artificial weather rather than natural. You can actually climb to a spot PAST where the rain exists at all and as seen below, very nearly reach that height elsewhere too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQoHXMUlBNo

Regarding how the structures and pearls survive - some of the structures probably haven't over the years, and are only not collapsing faster due to the unimaginable construction methods of their architects; whereas the pearls we discover may be more representative of their precise location - ie, found lodged inside a pipe rather than just lying around in the open.

We do, after all, have explicit confirmation from the devs that the shelters are representative of a safe space for the slugcats and other creatures, rather than actual mechanical shelters sealing the place off from the outside.

[108saimon]

Originally posted by Storm0267:

This is for us weather enthuists. So i been playing this game, much mpre mazy and difficult them my preferences.. anyway the weather has me thinking, the rain. How high do the rainfal rates get???? And how high would u guess the dewpoints may be to allow such intense rainfall. A suggestion to the devs, maybe add thunder when there are 5 circles left and lightning flashes fkr the last 2, thunder gets louder as the storm approaches like in real life. A good warning. Ps someone wanna ppst a video of the rain fall but in a safe...ish place? Wanna share it with a few friends

I think rain kill by suffacation.
Not so hevy to ruin structures.
And yes in irl rain like this can be exist.
I live in south of Russia sometimes summer rain so strong - you just can't breath if stay on open space.

But they 5 minutes or 10 no more.

Rain like ours 15-45+ minutes - and RAin World can be possible.

What i can understand - why rain kill lizrds and fishes

[Sabaithal]

What I can't understand is how rain gets into the memory crypts. They are supposed to be an underground enclosed space.

And for that matter, where are all the razorbirbs supposed to hide when it rains?

[108saimon]

Originally posted by Sabaithal (uh...super saiyan???):

What I can't understand is how rain gets into the memory crypts. They are supposed to be an underground enclosed space.

Or how creatures from memory crypts can survive rain.
They to dumb to hide from it.

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by 108saimon:

Originally posted by Sabaithal (uh...super saiyan???):

What I can't understand is how rain gets into the memory crypts. They are supposed to be an underground enclosed space.

Or how creatures from memory crypts can survive rain.
They to dumb to hide from it.

I've actually seen the razorbirbs running for cover. At least, I think they were, because they ran right past me out in the open without attempting to kill me. Completely ignored.

That was when the rain cycle was only like 4 tics away.

[108saimon]

Originally posted by Sabaithal (uh...super saiyan???):

Originally posted by 108saimon:

Or how creatures from memory crypts can survive rain.
They to dumb to hide from it.

I've actually seen the razorbirbs running for cover. At least, I think they were, because they ran right past me out in the open without attempting to kill me. Completely ignored.

That was when the rain cycle was only like 4 tics away.

Also good question - why all creatures except slugcat use different shelters and only SlugCat use save points shelters.
Also who create this shelters?
I not think elders be like slugcats and use it.

[Sabaithal]

I believe RCMidas answered that, though I don't know his source.

[RCMidas]

I believe it was from one of the interviews during early development - vastly easier to program a shelter in that way, especially for an admitted self-taught programmer who started out as an artist, rather than to code in rainproof places that made internal sense. I took a good long look for it, but unfortunately found nothing - so you may wish to consider what I said about shelters to be merely head-canon.

[108saimon]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Originally posted by Storm0267:

This is for us weather enthuists. So i been playing this game, much mpre mazy and difficult them my preferences.. anyway the weather has me thinking, the rain. How high do the rainfal rates get???? And how high would u guess the dewpoints may be to allow such intense rainfall. A suggestion to the devs, maybe add thunder when there are 5 circles left and lightning flashes fkr the last 2, thunder gets louder as the storm approaches like in real life. A good warning. Ps someone wanna ppst a video of the rain fall but in a safe...ish place? Wanna share it with a few friends

Technically it's artificial weather rather than natural. You can actually climb to a spot PAST where the rain exists at all and as seen below, very nearly reach that height elsewhere too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQoHXMUlBNo

Regarding how the structures and pearls survive - some of the structures probably haven't over the years, and are only not collapsing faster due to the unimaginable construction methods of their architects; whereas the pearls we discover may be more representative of their precise location - ie, found lodged inside a pipe rather than just lying around in the open.

We do, after all, have explicit confirmation from the devs that the shelters are representative of a safe space for the slugcats and other creatures, rather than actual mechanical shelters sealing the place off from the outside.

Place on video - you can wait end of rain, or you need climb down and dead anyway?

[RCMidas]

Dead anyway, as rain never ends. Originally there was going to be a shelter up there, but it was removed during development - mostly, anyway, modders have found that it still exists but that the entryway was taken out.

[Fliche]

I readed one time (don't remenber the detail and can be false) that the old civilization, was enought advanced to create new species. They create the slugcat for wash the pipes, do some carry mission,...The shelters was build for all the species they used. (Perhap it's false, i read that a long time).

[Sabaithal]

Originally posted by RCMidas:

Dead anyway, as rain never ends. Originally there was going to be a shelter up there, but it was removed during development - mostly, anyway, modders have found that it still exists but that the entryway was taken out.

That's a bit messed up. What if you find yourself in a location where you are isolated from a shelter? You should have the option to wait, even if it's a long time.

Or maybe have rain specific predators show up after a while.

[Xerc]

Like RCMidas said, the rain in this game is not a natural occurrence. It is actually due to (SPOILERS AHEAD; TREAD WITH CAUTION) giant bio-mechanical supercomputers exhausting enormous amounts of water vapor into the air. The majority belief is that the rainstorms we experience in game are due solely to the output of the local supercomputer. However, I theorize that hundreds of functioning supercomputers exist, covering the planet in a uniform grid formation. The resulting emissions fill the entire lower atmosphere with rain clouds, which quickly reach critical mass and cause the bone-crushing rain we all know and love. Honestly though, I don't think this scenario is very scientifically plausible. If the the sky was constantly being filled with water vapor, wouldn't that just cause a perpetual rainstorm of significant but not deadly strength.