Heat and outer rim buildings

[Mudtowner]

Do I need heaters for non-residential buildings? I have some water/fish production buildings on a frozen lake.. not sure if they stay warm without a separate building to do that for them.

Thanks

[Eventide]

Yes, work buildings should be heated. This considerably slows the rate/speed at which Colonists get too cold, quit working, and have to go home to warm up. That's if it didn't get so bad that they have to detour to a medical tent, first ;)

[Mudtowner]

Awesome. Thanks for the reply. Just to be safe, I built a burner near my water and fish-gathering area and it seemed to improve their work conditions. Perhaps I haven't looked far enough down the research line, but the ability to have a stove in a building would be a good upgrade idea instead of relying on giant burn pits outside of the building.

[iceflake_joanna]

Heya! Sorry for the late reply, only now had the chance to go through the posts here :)

So indeed, having the burners close by will decrease the speed at which the colonists become cold and need to go home to warm up!

There are also some buildings that _must_ be heated for them to work. The Water Collector and the Fishing Pier (tier 1) are these types of buildings - if they do not have heating, they will stop working. The Fishing Pier does have an upgrade that doesn't need this, available from the Tech Tree :)

Hope this information helps, thanks for your post and of course, thanks both for playing!

[Mudtowner]

Cool. Yeah, I eventually figured it out. It's a cool mechanic (the freeze). I would like to see more things you can upgrade in buildings, such as stoves. Seems like a logical thing one would do a building in the apocalypse.

Thanks for your reply though! Always awesome to hear something from the dev(s).

Cheers!