Summer should affect the caves somehow

[aidankocherhans]

It seems weird and unbalanced that caves are affected by all the harsh seasons except summer, it lets you fully negate the challenge of the season. I think either overheating should still affect caves like in Rog, or there should be some other effect caused by the season. There also ought to be a bit more incentive to stay on the surface in summer, there's not much you gain by not staying in the caves.

[Well-met]

good point

[hoxi]

Yeah, even if overheating was a thing in the caves, DST thermal stones are a thing, and in both DS and DST, everyone (including thermal stones) automatically gets a night insulation bonus down there, because the day phase is always night (only the day cave phase changes down there).

Overheating and withering could just be a thing down there like in DS and it'd be mostly fine given the resources players have. If anything, you can make it less harsh than in the surface, but still above overheating and hot enough to cause withering (there's ponds down there too, to help against that).