Bill Tarling Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 Seems like an unusually long time to melt snow on a fire -- almost 70 minutes game time to melt 1 gallon of snow.Boiling 1 gallon of water took approx 40+ minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alan Lawrance Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 It takes a lot of snow to melt to 1 gallon. Raph can speak to the tuning, but I can confirm this is working as designed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted July 21, 2014 Share Posted July 21, 2014 :oops: Excellent -- forgot about that point... :oops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clell Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 Yes I go by liters and it has been about 15 min per liter which would give 70 min for a gallon. It has been this way since adding the boil water change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robdoar Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 It takes a lot of snow to melt to 1 gallon. Raph can speak to the tuning, but I can confirm this is working as designed.I love seeing my ideas in the game. Even if I had nothing to do with this, I'l gladly take credit. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hinterland Raphael van Lierop Posted July 24, 2014 Hinterland Share Posted July 24, 2014 It takes a lot of snow to melt to 1 gallon. Raph can speak to the tuning, but I can confirm this is working as designed.I love seeing my ideas in the game. Even if I had nothing to do with this, I'l gladly take credit. :-)Yes, you inspired us to actually finish this feature! It was always on the list (which is why we've always had Boiling and Melting in the fire interface).And yes, Clell is correct -- when we added the step of boiling to purify non-potable water, I did a tuning pass on the melting and boiling times, based on some figures I was able to dig up. Obviously there are normally a lot of variables here (altitude, ambient temp, warming implement, fuel type, etc.) so we've kind of abstracted based on using a pot on a fire or stove, at a fairly fixed altitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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