alpha 11, how to remove ice?

[jaysun]

I covered an area and warmed it up by the ice doesn't melt.  how can I remove it?

[Jimyoda]

In RimWorld you can melt snow, but....You're trying to melt the ice? Stop doing that. You'll just make a big puddle and RimWorld doesn't have any water physics so you'll confuse the game until it smokes and it doesn't handle particle effects and that'll make your computer glow red hot and it won't run anything anymore, least of all RimWorld. It's the ICE SHEET, ice is the ground, stop trying to get rid of the ground. Without the ground your colonists will have nothing to walk on.
But seriously, you picked an ice biome, you now have ice, you can't get rid of it, so have an ice day.

[ZestyLemons]

Ice sheets are literal sheets of ice, meaning there probably is no soil under the ice or it's very, very far under the ice.

You can't melt ice. Like Jimyoda said, the ice is basically your ground there.

[RickyMartini]

Under the ice there is probably 1000 of meters of more ice.

[SSS]

There's actually tropical plants under all that ice.

[Adamiks]

Use OmniFloors mod for this

[jaysun]

ok thanks, i guess i was mistaken in thinking the ice formed over time.  the only part i can grow on is "gravel"

[Adamiks]

ok thanks, i guess i was mistaken in thinking the ice formed over time.  the only part i can grow on is "gravel"

Well... It's ice sheet. Be happy that you can grow something on something on ice sheet

[Devon_v]

There's a reason that biome wasn't playable.

Consider it ultra-hard mode.

[iame6162013]

There's a reason that biome wasn't playable.

Consider it ultra-hard mode.

ultra hard?
you're just supposed to get a decent researcher and get those hydroponics ASAP,
but then again I play ice sheet a lot so I know what I do.

[RickyMartini]

ultra hard?
you're just supposed to get a decent researcher and get those hydroponics ASAP,
but then again I play ice sheet a lot so I know what I do.

It all depends, first of the storyteller can be different, it obviously differs from phoebe basebuilder to cass extreme. Plus, Ice sheet is really the only biome where you have to know what you're doing the whole time before you have hydros.

For example, imagine transporting a colony from ice sheet directly to tundra, doesn't matter what storyteller. It instantly gets much much simpler.

[Devon_v]

There's a reason that biome wasn't playable.

Consider it ultra-hard mode.

ultra hard?
you're just supposed to get a decent researcher and get those hydroponics ASAP,
but then again I play ice sheet a lot so I know what I do.

Well, as far as biomes go, it's not doing you any favors.

[longbyte1]

"The ice is freezing faster than it's melting!"

[Blizz]

ultra hard?
you're just supposed to get a decent researcher and get those hydroponics ASAP,
but then again I play ice sheet a lot so I know what I do.

Unless you play fully random colonists and don't get that. Then it's a fun time.

However, playing Harsh Tundra using the Hot and Cold biomes mod? You pretty much had to do the exact same thing to survive, bum rush hydroponics and just hope that you don't run out of food.

[Snownova]

You can just build floors over the ice if you don't like the look of it.