Quick tip: If you're on fire, don't jump into water

[Adrius]

The steam damage will end you.

Lost my most successful character so far to this, seems kinda non-inutitive since jumping into water when on fire seemed like the best idea.

Ah well, die and learn, live and drink.

[My name can't be thirtytwo chara]

It will cool you down faster, but I can't tell if that's the liquid, or the extra turns elapsed...

Pouring water on yourself on the other hand, does wonders. 4 drams is usually enough.

[Alugere]

It actually can help you, the main trick is you have to keep moving (i.e., don't wait a few turns while in the water). The reason for this is that as a burning thing, you raise the temperature in the area. While you sometimes don't raise it enough to boil water, you often do. As a result, if you don't move away during your next turn, your flaming carcass can raise the temperature enough to boil the water in that square.

Other fun temperature highjinks do to burning things affecting temperature is to ignite the spore mushrooms in a canyon. They burn for a long time before dying. As a result, they raise the temperature far enough to permanently convert portions of the rock wall to lava.

[davidb11]

What we have learned here is fire is bad, :P, and does not care about you. :)

That said, this game's temperature mechanics are actually extremely fun even when they kill you, now if only we could convience Alphabeard to stop letting your temperature drop to -1000 Celsius.
Because nearly 700 degrees below Absolute Zero is a bit silly.
Also, -1000 degrees Celsius is the theoretical flashpoint for actual temperature roll over in the real world. :)
Yes, literally there's this theory that if you could cool an object to -1000 Celsius, the temperature of the object wraps around and becomes Absolute Hot, which lives up to it's name, since matter can't exist at that temperature. :)

But yeah, in this game, pour water on yourself, it works wonders, even if your body temperature is around 5000 degrees. :)
Don't ask me how that works, but it does.
Stupid extended battles with fire ants.
Oh, and there's a point where you just instantly vaporize, but considering I've handinuked myself before, for 30,000 damage, it apparently is a bit higher than what that puts off.