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After playing a bunch of alpha 8 I'm starting to feel like the heat/cold system that currently exists in the game is almost too easy to manage. I also found it really limiting.

There wasn't really an ideal way to setup your bases to efficiently use/keep/reduce heat and cooling during the warmer and colder months. Once every room had a heater you'd lose near ridiculous levels of power simply maintaining the base's ideal temperature. So I dug around with the game files a bit to try to hack in some more interesting ways to heat/chill my bases.

Basically my only real idea was 'Vents'. A really cheap way for temperature to be shared between adjacent rooms. Yall probably noticed that you gain the "shared room" debuff if you simply punch holes in the ways the vents are an easy way to maintain privacy and individual rooms while only investing in a few centralized heaters.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.nexusmods.com/rimworld/mods/65/?





Version 0.9b (pre-release)
Revisions:
- Vents now have multi-texture support, and run more efficiently. Fixed PlaceWorkers.
- Industrial Heaters are much more powerful. Have additional functionality to work better with the vent system compared to normal heaters. New Graphics. New steam effects.


Version 0.9 (pre-release)
Additions:
- Vents: Allows heat to be shared between rooms while maintaining colonist privacy.
- Industrial Heather: A larger heater, can efficiently heat large rooms and bases.




WIP
Want to add:
- Research.
- Air ducts (not too sure where to start with this).
- Powered Vents, fans allow 1-way transfer of heat, can be locked.
- Smart Vents, a really low power "passive" heater/cooler. Opens at night too cool down, closes during day to stay cool.
- Water-cooled coolers/freezers, connect to a water source to efficiently cool down your bases
- Uranium powered/infinite heatsource



I've never made a Rimworld mod before, so if you have issues please don't hesitate to let me know.


Troubleshooting:
- Install like any other mod.
- Place vents in walls between rooms you want to split heat between. The vents will allow heat to freely pass between them.
- For best results keep heating/cool centralized. The more vents you need to force through the less heat will reach the destination.
- The industrial heaters are larger but more cost effective and have a better power->heat ratio.
- You can also use vents to cool your rooms during the summer, as outside temperatures tend to be cooler than indoor temperatures.