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Damn! What a profoundly dickish thing to do! I would have hoped for better from the VS community. Hope your problem got sorted out, OP.

Thanks for the tips!

Sounds fun: I look forward to my own iron age! Can I just ask, OP, when you are deleting those forests to make all the necessary charcoal, what kind of axe are you using to chop down the trees? Are you so rich in iron now that you can afford an iron axe? Presumably they're faster as well as more durable? I saw some discussion from long-term players suggesting that one should use a metal axe for tree-chopping but switch to an old-fashioned flint axe for the splitting-logs-into-firewood step as speed doesn't matter for that crafting step. Do you do this, or are you so extravagant that you use the new iron axes for everything?

Michael, thanks for those numbers. Really interesting! Can I just ask, do those calculations assume the standard pole-to-equator distance? I'm guessing so. The default is 100,000 isn't it? I don't doubt your observations, but I was thinking that one degree warmer per 1000 blocks south seems like pretty rapid warming! If we assume that a temperate start is about midway between the pole and the equator (is it? anyone?) then that suggests that if you walked all the way to the equator from a normal starting position you'd get temperatures 50 degrees warmer than your starting point. I haven't spent a lot of time in the VS tropics but I don't think they're that warm are they? Perhaps the warming function per kilometre south or north is a sigmoid: steep and linear around the temperate zone, and then levels off as you go north or south? For anyone who has walked all the way to the poles or the equator, what sort of spring temperatures did you observe?