Ice-cold

Synopsis

Have you ever walked on a frozen lake and heard this ominuous sound of the ice cracking under your feet and thought:
"Can it actually break under me in this game?"

 

Well now it can! Be careful where you run around, or you might take a surprise ice bath. Speaking of which... other than becoming wet (which slightly speeds up your body temperature falling) our characters don't really mind swimming through water at -20°C. This is now a thing of the past!

Do so much as touch freezing cold water for a second and you will start to take freezing damage. A few seconds more and your body temperature will be down for good.

So be careful in unkown territory in the winter, you never know whether that layer of snow hides a dangerously thin-iced lake underneath! 

Details

I really thought this would be part of the base game for a while, because of that ill-omened sound of walking on ice. I hope to bring a bit more realism, depth and sense of danger into the wilderness, without breaking the balance or becoming too annoying with it. 

Lake Ice (Glaciers are unaffected) now has a chance to break when you walk or stand on it. It now also makes a sound when it breaks. 
The break chance is drastically increased by running and jumping and strongly influenced by the temperature (at -20°C the ice becomes quite strong but beware at temperatures around zero). 

SnowLayer now forward collisions with them to the block below them, so that a lake does not become safe just because theres snow on it. Please inform me of any unwanted side effects this may have on your game or other mods. 

Touching water outside of closed rooms at freezing temperatures will apply freezing damage, similarily to the damage taken when below 34°C body temperature for too long. The damage can become quite noticeable when temperatures go really low, but should only be able to kill you if you somehow end up in a flooded cave system at night. The greater danger comes from the very fast drainage of body temperature that comes with each damage tick. 

Compatibility / To-Do

This is my first mod for VS and I only tested it locally so far, so please inform me of any bugs you might encounter.

Next on the To-Do list would be a config file to adjust the chances, timings and damage values.

The mod changes LakeIce and SnowLayer quite deeply and might encounter incompatibilities with other mods there. Otherwise its a rather small code-only mod that should not make too much trouble.