Please spin ProxyHeat off into a standalone mod again. I'm not interested in installing an entire central heating mod for it.

I remember a long time a mod that allowed you to pipe hot and cold air. I want to pipe hot air from a room on the warm side of a food freezer to the rest of the colony to use the already heated air instead of constantly spending electricity to warm and heat air no matter it's current state.

The base is that Celsius is fantastic and VE is beautiful bloat

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725863762

I just want to say I do love both this mod and Bad Hygiene and end up using both.

I like Dub's for the easier heating via radiators especially in colder areas, and the idea of needing to create bathrooms and hot water for comfort. But the radiators take up a floor slot and not capacity not meeting demand isn't always clear.

But I also love the various temperature control options this mod brings in, such as the AC unit controlling both hot and cold as well as floor AC units and the standing cooler. However researching to that point takes quite much more research and having radiators already unlocked in a crash landed scenario feels better.

Just found a fix to my issue. Someone made a mod patch to fix the problem with objects blocking temperatures outside. This should allow objects to not block temperature outside anymore: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3439148119&searchtext=ProxyHeat+

With that said, there seems to be an issue where we can't combine multiple heat sources outside. Before we could place multiple campfires next to each other to combine their heat areas, enhancing how hot the tiles between them become. However, now that is no longer possible. Would be nice to be able to do that during cold emergency situations.

Found an alt mod for folks who don't want 101 bloat added to their game and just want something like the original proxy heat.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2725863762

Seems a recent update (no idea how recent) broke how temperature zones interact with tiles already occupied by other objects. Any furniture or building object will completely block proxy temperatures from working at all, meaning we can't place emergency sleeping zones near thermal vents to avoid hypothermia because the sleeping spots disable the proxy heat for the tiles they occupy. This likely also affects coolers.

@ColinOreo Water Is Cold does exactly that (by modifying comfortable temperature ranges when wet)

Can you create a cooler area on water like river and lake?Or just give pawns a buff to change their temperature range.It will be cool if getting wet can cool pawns down and very useful against heat wave.

Hmm maybe I am mistaken

Doesn't one of helixien's mods add proxy heat?

I just made a patch, nerfing the standing coolers. Their efficiency has been reduced, and the temperature they cool to has been increased from 14C to 18C (colonists no longer cry about sleeping in the cold)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3436986205

Do standing coolers seem way too powerful to anybody else? I have colonists complaining of sleeping in the cold with one standing cooler being enough to chill an entire building with multiple rooms down to 12c. I can't even change their temperature setting.

@Born Of Birch

Well the dev of ProxyHeat turned off comments and "forbid" anyone from updating their mod to 1.5.

So that speaks volumes.

It's pretty unfortunate we can't just use proxy heat anymore.

Anyone have alts to the old ProxyHeat? I don't want all this extra garbage instead of just having campfires and stuff giving off heat.

The industrial cooler and heaters are OP, there's no reason to build the vanilla versions anymore.

Why doesn't rain influence the temperature to decrease? I live in a hot place and depending on the level and duration of rain the temperature drops a lot.

I doubt that ceiling fans are anything but industrial+ tech levels lol.

Why is the standing cooler set to 14C when "Slept in the cold" debuff happens at 16C?

Huh, you'd think a geothermal generator would have proxy heat, guess not though!

okay so, just so I know I understand this: if I go into the settings and turn down the temperature output for say, the wall torch, down to about 1C, it will only produce that much heat? So if I have 12 torches it altogether produces 12C for that room? Am I getting that correct?

Is there any way to make a radius larger than 10?

Bug reports shouldn't be reported in comments.

You can't close mod setting, if you open it, you can only exit game.

@KadlubekS I'm playing wild man start as well. I just use god mode to create a small room the size of the steam geyser radius with the door permanently open and let my pawn live in there. Until I researched construction, I won't close the door. Otherwise, I'll have to wait until the issue is fixed.

@somkeang So i think i need to wait for my wild man start

@KadlubekS I have the same problem, it won't effect any structure or furniture within. Only empty space is affected by proximity heat.

Nevermind Oskar / Arquebus / Taranchuk.
I found a way by editing the corresponding XML, sending the designators to another category and disabling it through RIMMsqol.
I guess I'll make my own mod to patch that when I'll share the modpack !

Anyone have problem with proximity heat on sleeping spot? Everything works on 1.4 but when i switch to 1.5 version in only works when there is no building on heating distance.

Hi Oskar !
Would there be any workarounds for me to disable designators like pipe removers from the architect menu?
I've tried RIMMsqol, Cherry Picker and I ain't building that, but all 3 failed to find the right DesignationDef

@guyincloset you can go into the mod options to see what produces a heated area, because anything that does is adjustable. I personally like to use the chemboilers from VFE: Settlers and max out its heating radius in the Vanilla Temperature Expanded mod options, because it feels like a big unit that could have heat pipes laid all throughout your gardens.

Well those are fixed to a location, I'd like something that's buildable

@guyincloset - steam geysers?

Are there any sources besides campfires that work outdoors for heating? I have some scanners outdoors but the temperature gets as low as like -60F I wasn't sure if the vanilla heaters would work or other sources of heating in this mod

It'd be cool if there was a way to set up vents that work between walls that are multiple blocks thick using the air ducts or something. I was hoping it might already work that way but then realized that you can't place vents against a wall in the first place

what name of tech to research in tree tech?

Not sure what's going on.
I have a control unit with 2 lg compressors, controlling 12 units - efficiency is 45%.
I built 2 more lg compressors, connected by ducts - still 45%.
I deconstructed ALL compressors - 45%.

Torches from other mods that do not give proximity heat: rustic torch from Medieval Overhaul, the wall torch from Vanilla Factions Expanded - Medieval.

Is there a resource anywhere that shows the relationship between an A/C unit and its ability to regulate the temperature of an area at various differences in temperature?

e.g. Assuming I always want to maintain 70F(21.1C): If I have a 100x100 room and it is 50F(10C) outside, how many units? What if it's 32F(0C)? etc.

Even just a shorthand estimate would be useful. I don't want to massively overbuild capacity, but I also don't want to get caught with everyone freezing to death in a cold snap when it is -10F(-23.3C) outside.

all I know is that fans feel good shlawngalongadungus

We don't check or respond to bugs reported in the comment section.

I'm not sure what's causing it but when the compressors break down pawns cannot fix them, right clicking them with a pawn selected does not bring up the menu either.

We cannot be expected to provide compatibility for all third party mods out there. Did you also report it to that mod?

Is incompatibility issue with [Ling]Move Steam Geyser being looked at? I reported it on 17th this month on google forum and discussion page.

Is it possible to grow plants in the heat proximity of campfires?

Yeah you're probably right, just spitballing some ideas, keep up the good work

There is no such thing as heat distribution in RimWorld. The entire room has the same temperature. I made fans specifically to cool the rooms to safe temperature if it's too warm, I think adding a 'cool slightly less' mechanic is a bit too much in the context of the game.

A fan that has an upward draft would probably do the opposite of what current fans do now, where instead of cooling the room, they slightly heat the room up or better distribute heat throughout a room

How would that translate to ingame mechanics?