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GnomeKnight

Information about climate and how it works. And biomes that are in the climates

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How does climate work in TFC? does it depend on the coordinates and if so, what is the coordinate of the tropical climate? And if so does climate effect the biomes? and the natural resources on it? Like sequoia trees spawning and the color of the grass.

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Yes, the further you are from z=0, in either the negative or postitive direction, the colder it gets.  Around z+-8k, snow and ice will rarely form.  And somewhere between 7 and 8k z, temperatures will never get low enough to kill any crop except sugarcane and jute.  Climate does not affect 'biome'.  Think of biome as geography.  Plains, hills, mountains.  You can have forested plains, or empty plains.  You can have very wet, or very dry plains.  Extremely dry, high temperature plains will be deserts.  But there are no biomes as such.  There is only geography, rainfall, and temperature (I think EVT is directly related to tempearture and rainfall, but I may be wrong there).  Rainfall is what affects the color of grass.  The lusher the green the more rainfall.  Trees will show up in areas with rainfall and temperature suitable to them.  Sequoias have a narrow set of requirements that mean they only seem to show up around 10-12k from the equator.  Also be aware that ALL saplings must have a minimum temperature of 20 degrees to generate.  So even in a given forest, such as sequoia, new saplings won't show up when current temperature is below 20.

Climate also affects directly what animals will show up, along with terrain.  Iirc, somewhere around 5 or 6k it gets too warm for cows and horses to show.  Sheep stop showing up a bit further out than that.  Temperature also affects whether berry bushes will fruit - none of them will bear fruit at the equator.  The equator is also too hot for many fruit trees to fruit.  Note that ALL fruit trees only bear fruit between 0 and 38, but depending on the time of year a particular type bears fruit, and where you are, it may be too hot at harvest time.  So generally the further from "summer" the fruit tree's harvest is, the more likely it is to actually work near the equator.  Your water bar will also deplete faster at extremely high temperatures. 

All these factors combined means that the 'sweet spot' to me is right around 7k from equator.  You can find cows and horses (and maybe sheep), your fruit producers will work, your crops will never die.  You won't see snow though, so if you love snow it's not for you.  You also can't build an effective sky freezer, but with immortal crops it's not that big a deal.

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