Does heat really matter?

[Arash70]

This one is more of a philosophical question than a regular one 

 

Here is my base:

 

Refrigerators are in a vacuum, and berry farm is at ~10-20 degrees (surrounded by abyssalite tiles),

The question is will there be a "heat death" when you isolate the berry farm/refrigerators?

Does heat really matter at this stage?

I guess if it doesn't we can just put electrolyzers at the bottom of the base and not worry about the heat.

[Neotuck]

Heat and cold increase stress, and too much can cause heat stroke or hypothermia

[MorsDux]

you can get away with a lot on easy settings. Play on hardest difficulty, and every aspect of the game becomes important

[FullMetalArthur]

Yeah, try a colony with 20 dupes! that is more fun since their needs will make you improvise. I have 3 electrolizers and it makes even ammount of oxygen.

But its a nice base, very organized. Although its a lot of berries for only 9 dupes. I mean, it's A LOT.

[Kabrute]

between piping in hot water and hot air I had to compensate a little XD

I only just cooled the geyser down by dumping the last of my starting water into it....

[Arash70]

1 hour ago, MorsDux said:

you can get away with a lot on easy settings. Play on hardest difficulty, and every aspect of the game becomes important

I don't play custom settings, it's just the regular default settings.

 

The question still remains, is it really important to cool the whole base? or cooling is only needed for food production/storage?

@Neotuck how does it affect stress? 

@FullMetalArthur food source usually stays at 80-100k calories, it's not really that much considering power down time & harvest delays.

 

[Neotuck]

 

10 minutes ago, Arash70 said:

@Neotuck how does it affect stress?

If your base is too hot your dupes gets "toasty surroundings"  +10% stress per cycle

If your base is too cold your dupes gets "chilly surroundings"  +10% stress per cycle

 

[Arash70]

2 minutes ago, Neotuck said:

 

If your base is too hot your dupes gets "toasty surroundings"  +10% stress per cycle

If your base is too cold your dupes gets "chilly surroundings"  +10% stress per cycle

 

Fair enough, and what exactly are those?

I mean at what temperature its toasty or chilly?

[Neotuck]

Just now, Arash70 said:

And what exactly are those?

they are debuffs, you can spot them when they show the blue or red thermometers 

you can check thermal comfort zone with the thermal comfort overlay red is hot, blue is cold, grey is comfortable for your dupes

16 minutes ago, Arash70 said:

I mean at what temperature its toasty or chilly?

I'm not too sure, it's listed on the Wiki here:

https://oxygennotincluded.gamepedia.com/Duplicant#Stress_Responses

but the info might be outdated