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0000190Dwarf FortressDwarf Mode -- Environmentpublic2010-04-02 16:112010-06-09 06:45
ReporterKaelem Gaen 
Assigned ToToady One 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityrandom
StatusclosedResolutionfixed 
PlatformOSWindows Vista 64bit Home premiumOS VersionSP 2
Product Version 
Target VersionFixed in Version0.31.05 
Summary0000190: Adventurers and dwarves melt in rain/water
DescriptionWhat is says on the tin, but essentially I've had two (different race) Adventurers melt randomly, though I think I might have been in a scorching climate
Steps To ReproduceNot exactly sure but theory is
1) Make an Adventurer (Human and it happened when I set the animal man entities to indiv_controllable)
2) Go to a scorching climate and spend some time.
Additional InformationThe first time I melted was walking out of a town after sleeping at the inn and heading towards a brook.

the second time using the amphibian man character I slept in a river in a scorching climate and melted in my sleep.
Tagsadventure mode, Boiling Point, fat, melting, Rain, raw file, season, temperature
Relationships
related to 0000289closed Toady One *Qurik* Heat from magma cooks wet creatures up to two tiles away) 
parent of 0000416closed Toady One Rain kills everything it lands on 
parent of 0000704closed Toady One Melting when swimming in ocean 
has duplicate 0000939closed Footkerchief Adventuer melted in rain. 
has duplicate 0001356closed Footkerchief "You are melting!" 
has duplicate 0001834closed Logical2u Acid rain? 
has duplicate 0001820closed Logical2u Dwarfs and Pets randomly bleed to death 
has duplicate 0001933closed Footkerchief Farmer mysteriously died 
related to 0000587resolved Toady One Temperatures effects are not working properly. 
related to 0000945resolved Toady One Temperature Settings in world gen behaving strangely 
related to 0002605new  Creatures bleeding to death after water coverings evaporate from small body parts (toes, lips) 
Attached Files
Issue History
Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2010-04-02 16:11Kaelem GaenNew Issue
2010-04-02 16:53Kaelem GaenTag Attached: adventure mode
2010-04-02 16:53Kaelem GaenTag Attached: melting
2010-04-02 21:31Intelligent Shade of BlueNote Added: 0000423
2010-04-02 21:39Intelligent Shade of BlueTag Attached: fat
2010-04-02 23:10shinzirilNote Added: 0000434
2010-04-02 23:21DoctorZuberNote Added: 0000437
2010-04-02 23:31NimrodNote Added: 0000439
2010-04-02 23:59AmpersandNote Added: 0000440
2010-04-03 00:00AmpersandNote Edited: 0000440bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0000440#r123
2010-04-03 12:50DoctorZuberNote Added: 0000626
2010-04-03 13:46DjohaalNote Added: 0000647
2010-04-03 13:49DjohaalNote Edited: 0000647bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0000647#r153
2010-04-03 13:53DjohaalNote Edited: 0000647bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0000647#r156
2010-04-03 14:05Kaelem GaenTag Attached: Boiling Point
2010-04-03 14:08Kaelem GaenNote Added: 0000655
2010-04-03 14:11Kaelem GaenNote Edited: 0000655bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0000655#r162
2010-04-03 18:12Kaelem GaenNote Added: 0000734
2010-04-04 02:06DoctorZuberNote Added: 0000829
2010-04-04 02:17DoctorZuberNote Added: 0000832
2010-04-04 02:18DoctorZuberNote Edited: 0000626bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0000626#r254
2010-04-04 02:18DoctorZuberNote Deleted: 0000829
2010-04-04 03:58nichaeyNote Added: 0000842
2010-04-04 13:41DoctorZuberNote Edited: 0000626bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0000626#r291
2010-04-04 13:49FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000416
2010-04-04 13:49FootkerchiefRelationship addedparent of 0000289
2010-04-04 13:49FootkerchiefRelationship deletedrelated to 0000416
2010-04-04 13:50FootkerchiefRelationship addedparent of 0000416
2010-04-06 00:44FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000587
2010-04-06 10:39vinsNote Added: 0001518
2010-04-06 10:49HalconnenNote Added: 0001523
2010-04-06 18:47FootkerchiefSummaryAdventurers spontaneously melting. => Adventurers and dwarves melt in rain/water
2010-04-06 18:47FootkerchiefSticky IssueNo => Yes
2010-04-07 04:02FootkerchiefRelationship addedparent of 0000704
2010-04-07 16:17Tamara13Note Added: 0001880
2010-04-08 06:56MSevenTag Attached: temperature
2010-04-08 22:00shinzirilNote Added: 0002261
2010-04-09 02:18MSevenNote Added: 0002280
2010-04-09 08:32DoctorZuberNote Added: 0002327
2010-04-09 08:43DoctorZuberNote Added: 0002328
2010-04-09 08:57jarvollIssue Monitored: jarvoll
2010-04-09 09:22DoctorZuberNote Added: 0002333
2010-04-09 09:24DoctorZuberNote Edited: 0002333bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0002333#r720
2010-04-09 09:31DoctorZuberNote Added: 0002336
2010-04-09 19:23CreidiekiTag Attached: raw file
2010-04-09 19:54BaccIssue Monitored: Bacc
2010-04-10 06:26Kaelem GaenNote Added: 0002559
2010-04-10 08:09G-FlexNote Added: 0002573
2010-04-10 09:11HarrySNote Added: 0002586
2010-04-10 09:11HarrySIssue Monitored: HarryS
2010-04-10 11:10FootkerchiefRelationship addedhas duplicate 0000939
2010-04-10 13:17DoctorZuberNote Added: 0002632
2010-04-10 13:21DoctorZuberNote Edited: 0002632bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0002632#r862
2010-04-10 13:21DoctorZuberNote Edited: 0002632bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0002632#r863
2010-04-10 22:22simrobertIssue Monitored: simrobert
2010-04-10 22:40freakycheesemanNote Added: 0002731
2010-04-10 22:44freakycheesemanNote Edited: 0002731bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0002731#r886
2010-04-11 00:23FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0000945
2010-04-11 08:35AnotherTag Attached: Rain
2010-04-11 10:20Darkfire7777Issue Monitored: Darkfire7777
2010-04-11 15:15MaDeR LevapIssue Monitored: MaDeR Levap
2010-04-12 08:36toybasherNote Added: 0003048
2010-04-12 15:36cameronNote Added: 0003137
2010-04-12 16:05chuzzumIssue Monitored: chuzzum
2010-04-13 19:06Logical2uNote Added: 0003363
2010-04-13 22:38PigbusterIssue Monitored: Pigbuster
2010-04-13 22:39PigbusterIssue End Monitor: Pigbuster
2010-04-14 09:51FootkerchiefNote Added: 0003495
2010-04-15 13:07JustAnotherFoolIssue Monitored: JustAnotherFool
2010-04-15 14:25Logical2uNote Added: 0003751
2010-04-16 04:09wagawagaIssue Monitored: wagawaga
2010-04-16 19:28G-FlexNote Added: 0003930
2010-04-16 22:22FootkerchiefNote Added: 0003941
2010-04-17 05:55Toady OneRelationship replacedrelated to 0000289
2010-04-17 06:05Toady OneNote Added: 0003972
2010-04-17 06:05Toady OneStatusnew => resolved
2010-04-17 06:05Toady OneFixed in Version => 0.31.04
2010-04-17 06:05Toady OneResolutionopen => fixed
2010-04-17 06:05Toady OneAssigned To => Toady One
2010-04-17 07:18JustAnotherFoolIssue End Monitor: JustAnotherFool
2010-04-19 20:42FootkerchiefRelationship addedhas duplicate 0001356
2010-05-11 04:51Logical2uRelationship addedhas duplicate 0001834
2010-05-11 05:31Logical2uRelationship addedhas duplicate 0001820
2010-05-17 21:58FootkerchiefNote Added: 0006924
2010-05-17 21:58FootkerchiefStatusresolved => acknowledged
2010-05-17 23:21FootkerchiefRelationship addedparent of 0001933
2010-05-18 12:02FootkerchiefStatusacknowledged => resolved
2010-05-18 12:02FootkerchiefNote Deleted: 0006924
2010-05-18 12:03FootkerchiefNote Added: 0006964
2010-05-18 12:03FootkerchiefStatusresolved => assigned
2010-05-18 14:03FootkerchiefCategoryGeneral => Dwarf Mode -- Environment
2010-05-18 21:55FootkerchiefResolutionfixed => reopened
2010-05-20 01:38MilkbotNote Added: 0007051
2010-05-20 01:53FootkerchiefNote Added: 0007052
2010-05-20 02:22MilkbotNote Added: 0007055
2010-05-20 09:17KumquatNote Added: 0007073
2010-05-20 11:05KumquatNote Edited: 0007073bug_revision_view_page.php?bugnote_id=0007073#r2648
2010-05-21 06:29Toady OneNote Added: 0007125
2010-05-21 06:29Toady OneStatusassigned => resolved
2010-05-21 06:29Toady OneFixed in Version0.31.04 => 0.31.05
2010-05-21 06:29Toady OneResolutionreopened => fixed
2010-05-21 12:38quatchTag Attached: season
2010-05-23 21:08BeeskeeIssue Monitored: Beeskee
2010-05-31 00:23FootkerchiefRelationship replacedhas duplicate 0001933
2010-05-31 00:23FootkerchiefIssue Monitored: Footkerchief
2010-06-02 13:07FootkerchiefSticky IssueYes => No
2010-06-09 06:45Toady OneStatusresolved => closed
2010-07-12 10:04FootkerchiefRelationship addedrelated to 0002605

Notes
(0000423)
Intelligent Shade of Blue   
2010-04-02 21:31   
I also experienced this bug. Right after breaking my toe from a fall and passing out constantly, I awoke to find that I was melting. The health report said that all the fat in my arms/hands/legs/feet was melting. While I didn't know it at the time, I returned to the same area and and confirmed that the temperature was scorching.
(0000434)
shinziril   
2010-04-02 23:10   
I also experienced this bug. Interestingly, it seems that it can be triggered by rain or by being hit by a wave (adventurer melted after being hit by a wave, entire town including me melted when it started raining). Both cases were in Scorching / Burning biomes. However, the adventurers and townspeople had been fine before that. Perhaps the "water covering" increases the rate of heat transfer or something, causing melting?
(0000437)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-02 23:21   
melting from rain? acid rain? FUN!

I should ask if you're using create world now, or if either of you changed anything in world creation.
(0000439)
Nimrod   
2010-04-02 23:31   
confirmed

Temperature is always 'scorching' when it happens
then add water and you are hit by a boiling liquid -> melting

so either the temperature is way to high or the boiling point for fat is too low as i see it
(0000440)
Ampersand   
2010-04-02 23:59   
(edited on: 2010-04-03 00:00)
This appears to be an issue with boiling liquids as Nimrod suggests. In arena mode, a bronze colossus was not melted to death by dragons blood, but by boiling dwarf blood.

But really, this is an old issue. Heatdam from scorching temperature regions has been in a lot of versions. A quick fix is to change some world generation settings to keep the max possible temperature lower. In the init/world_gen.txt file, change the following line;

[TEMPERATURE:25:75:400:400] To
[TEMPERATURE:25:65:400:400]

Regenerate a world, head to a scorching region, see if the same problem still occurs.
(0000626)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-03 12:50   
(edited on: 2010-04-04 13:41)
0000289, 0000307, 0000417
(0000647)
Djohaal   
2010-04-03 13:46   
(edited on: 2010-04-03 13:53)
Actually it is indeed related to 0000289, I just played a human in the cooking tub in adventure mode (while in the arena), and it said he melted.
This means all tiles near to magma are potentially lethal to equipped creatures if they stay in them for too long
(0000655)
Kaelem Gaen   
2010-04-03 14:08   
(edited on: 2010-04-03 14:11)
I'll try the worldgen heat fix and see if it happens, it also seems to be related to water/water covering? I'll jump in a river with my an Amphibian man adventurer and get back to the tracker.

That's of course assuming a Pocket Island gets scorching climates
(0000734)
Kaelem Gaen   
2010-04-03 18:12   
Well they didn't melt in adventurer mode with the temperature change, but I didn't test that long.

I think on top of this if your dwarves in Fortress mode are out to long in the heat in a "scorching" climate they melt/bleed to death as well. Without water on them.

I noticed this in my first fortress, one of my guys bleed to death, then all the migrants did, not a big loss on the migrants but the carpenter was pretty useful.

Wish I could modify the issue but seems I can only add notes.
(0000832)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-04 02:17   
from what you've said it sounds like the water covering is a big factor in this. Did someone goof and make water flammable or something?
(0000842)
nichaey   
2010-04-04 03:58   
no, I think it might be general glitch in the new liquid system. I've been getting weird stuff, like scalding boiling blood after a dragon breathes on a crowd.
(0001518)
vins   
2010-04-06 10:39   
Same bug here.
(0001523)
Halconnen   
2010-04-06 10:49   
I mosty 'stopgap-fixed' this problem by raising the melting point of fat several degrees.

Curiously fat tissue has a melting point of 10096, but a heatdam point of 10250. It melts waaaaaaaaaay before it chars.

Out of curiosity, I just put some fatty sausage in the oven and watched. That's certainly not how it works in reality.
(0001880)
Tamara13   
2010-04-07 16:17   
Same bug here. Let's just hope Toady fixes this bug before dwarves get the ability to sweat. :(

Anyone know if vomit will boil you?
(0002261)
shinziril   
2010-04-08 22:00   
I think the main problem is that if you look in the raws for material_template_default, you find that the default FAT template has a melting point of 10078°U, or 110°F! That seems a little low, considering I know certain parts of the real world can be 110°F, and I haven't heard any tales of people's fat spontaneously melting in such climates.

The only other thing I noticed is that a *lot* of the in-game climates seemed to be Scorching, including at least one underground cavern. I'm not sure why, or if that's even a bug or just coincidence on my part.
(0002280)
MSeven   
2010-04-09 02:18   
Has dupe/related to 0000264
(0002327)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-09 08:32   
Okay, on the subject of world gen numbers...

in 0.31.01 and .02 the numbers used for world gen in all the default settings are 25:75:x:y. The variance numbers do scale up some from pocket 26:26 up to large 400:400. This is all very normal.

The difference is quite simple. Using these exact same settings in 40d generates a world with temperatures ranging from "Hot" to "Cold" with both being fairly uncommon. That is clearly not the case now.

So there is a change here in how the world gen settings behave. How much is somewhat hard to say. Freezing and Scorching are the strongest words the game uses. Temperature ranges from -1000 to 1000 also generate temperatures from Scorching to Freezing. We can narrow this down some by recognizing that dwarves do not instantly freeze into blocks of ice nor do they instantly burst into flame (at least not without adding water first).
(0002328)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-09 08:43   
Rofl! Okay, I had to do it. Having looked over this I had to do the old comedy routine of embarking on a -1000,+1000 temperature world. choosing the farthest north scorching place I could find I embarked.

the effect was dramatically more visual than I remember. EVERYTHING caught fire, and the map was quickly enveloped in smoke. we all died within seconds as expected, it was just a bit more fun than I remember.
(0002333)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-09 09:22   
(edited on: 2010-04-09 09:24)
Okay, trying to understand why the temperature ranges are more extreme I run a series of world gens on a pocket region looking for patterns.

pocket region, default settings except for temperature

25:75:26:26 -- this is the default
- Freezing terrain in this case covers 20 tiles of a southern ocean
- scorching terrain covers only one tile of a northern mountain range

35:65:26:26 -- freezing to Hot
- Freezing terrain found on 17 tiles in a combination of flat/hilly terrain in the SW corner.
- No scorching terrain, hottest is the northern sea.

45:55:26:26 -- Freezing to Hot
- A whopping 52 Freezing tiles, mostly all landing on a large southern mountain range.
- No scorching tiles, only two hot tiles in the NW in a flat forested area.

Doing some quick tests and aborting world gen, I scaled this the rest of the way down to through 46:54 47:53 ... down to 50:50. I was looking for the visible frozen tiles on the main map. They were observable in every single world.

Okay, this is officially weird, but I do have a theory. I do remember seeing a note saying that elevation effects temperature now. This may be what we're seeing here which is generating our wider temperature ranges. Whatever is going on here it seems to be badly overpowering the temperature settings in world gen. Since my comical -1000,+1000 test still generated a result, the settings are not completely useless, but they do seem to be unable to generate a steady temperate environment now.

Of course, this is only 3 detailed world gens and a few quick glances at aborted world gens trying to see a pattern. To get a clearer picture, we need more data.
(0002336)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-09 09:31   
Let me know if you want to branch the world gen side of this issue into a separate topic.
(0002559)
Kaelem Gaen   
2010-04-10 06:26   
It might get looked at better, the world gen thing I mean, if it's a seperate topic, but they seem pretty related, as one leads to the other.
(0002573)
G-Flex   
2010-04-10 08:09   
"I think the main problem is that if you look in the raws for material_template_default, you find that the default FAT template has a melting point of 10078°U, or 110°F! That seems a little low, considering I know certain parts of the real world can be 110°F, and I haven't heard any tales of people's fat spontaneously melting in such climates. "

The game probably isn't making a distinction here between fat and *fatty tissue*.

Beef tallow, for instance, will melt at around that temperature, so obviously there's something going on.

Three possibilities for why fat inside a body shouldn't melt so easily (not mutually exclusive): The fatty tissue has a higher melting point than the pure fat does, the pure fat is distributed such that its phase state doesn't matter a lot within the tissue (less likely), or warm-blooded animals simply control their internal temperature enough that the temperature inside doesn't get that high (extremely unlikely, since then people with high fevers would have their insides melting).
(0002586)
HarryS   
2010-04-10 09:11   
Fat can and should be able to melt at 110°F or 44°C. However, anyone who has gone to a sauna knows that temperatures of 110°F or 44°C and higher are perfectly survivable, for a while. But if a human being (or dwarf) has his body temperature rise to a level like that, he'll likely die from other causes before his fat melts.

# 37 °C (99 °F) - Normal body temperature (which varies between about 36.12–37.5 °C (97–100 °F))
# 38 °C (100 °F) - Sweating, feeling very uncomfortable, slightly hungry.
# 39 °C (102 °F) - Severe sweating, flushed and very red. Fast heart rate and breathlessness. There may be exhaustion accompanying this. Children and people with epilepsy may be very likely to get convulsions at this point.
# 40 °C (104 °F) - Fainting, dehydration, weakness, vomiting, headache and dizziness may occur as well as profuse sweating. Starts to be life- threatening.
# 41 °C (106 °F) - (Medical emergency) - Fainting, vomiting, severe headache, dizziness, confusion, hallucinations, delirium and drowsiness can occur. There may also be palpitations and breathlessness.
# 42 °C (108 °F) - Subject may turn pale or remain flushed and red. They may become comatose, be in severe delirium, vomiting, and convulsions can occur. Blood pressure may be high or low and heart rate will be very fast.
# 43 °C (109 °F) - Normally death, or there may be serious brain damage, continuous convulsions and shock. Cardio-respiratory collapse will likely occur.
# 44 °C (111 °F) or more - Almost certainly death will occur; however, patients have been known to survive up to 46.5 °C (115.7 °F).

Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_thermoregulation#Thermoregulation_in_humans [^]

 So the problem isn't the temperature in itself, it's the creatures warming up to the surrounding temperature too easily, and not suffering other symptoms before melting.
(0002632)
DoctorZuber   
2010-04-10 13:17   
(edited on: 2010-04-10 13:21)
I'm still playing with some variables in worldgen, trying to generate a mostly-flat map and see if this neutralizes the more extreme temperature ranges we are seeing, unfortunately it seems to be having very little effect.

I'm still seeing freezing and scorching temperatures on most every map, which is unheard of in 40d using the same temperature ranges.

Even generating with a completely flat temperature of 50:50:0:0 generates anywhere from freezing to hot. This test was done with pocket region and all other world gen settings were unchanged.

It doesn't really seem to be elevation based either, since I've seen scorching mountain tops and freezing oceans. This just doesn't make much sense.
(0002731)
freakycheeseman   
2010-04-10 22:40   
(edited on: 2010-04-10 22:44)
So, it certainly seems like the fat melting at those temperatures isn't the problem- that's actually just DF being, once again, awesomely realistic. The problem is that water so quickly brings an individual up to the surounding temperature- which is also accurate (feel the difference between dry 100 degree weather and the same weather only humid), but taken to an extreme degree.

Does anyone else feel this needs to be grouped with that thing about dwarves surviving in hot lava?

edit: I'd also like to put in my hope that, once this bug is officially "fixed", and once medical matters are likewise, it will still be possible to build a dwarven liposuction clinic.
(0003048)
toybasher   
2010-04-12 08:36   
This has happened to me too, my human melted to death in the rain, Right before he died I made myself some bacon with the liquid grease dripping on the floor.
(0003137)
cameron   
2010-04-12 15:36   
Ive had this happen kind of slowly where first my head fat melted then my upper body then my lower body each time this happend i lost more blood, until during my lower body melting i died from bleeding out. There was also a short break between each melt.

I dont think I was wet but the temperature was described as burning and my world has a very large max temperature so it could have been rather high.
(0003363)
Logical2u   
2010-04-13 19:06   
I wonder if this could be alleviated or fixed by assigned an [INSULATION] value to the skin?
(0003495)
Footkerchief   
2010-04-14 09:51   
^^^ This might be what you meant, but the game already has an INSULATION tissue tag, it's just not used for most creatures' tissues (so they get the default insulation of 100 or whatever).
(0003751)
Logical2u   
2010-04-15 14:25   
From looking at the RAWs, only the fat layer itself has an [INSULATION] tag, and it's specifically [INSULATION:100] as you mentioned.

If you put that on the skin layer too, would that reduce heat transfer through to the fat layer and thus reduce the chance of melting?
(0003930)
G-Flex   
2010-04-16 19:28   
"So the problem isn't the temperature in itself, it's the creatures warming up to the surrounding temperature too easily, and not suffering other symptoms before melting. "

Melting point itself is still an issue, as the raws currently have an extremely naive value there.


Let me put it to you this way: Plenty of the fats inside the human body melt well below body temperature. Many melt below the melting point of water, even. But the tissue itself isn't liquefied and seeping out of your body.
(0003941)
Footkerchief   
2010-04-16 22:22   
@Logical2u from what I remember, Toady said that, even though tissues have separate insulatory properties, the temperature is still tracked at the body part level, not the tissue level. I don't know how the temp transfer calculation works -- maybe it does a weighted average of the tissues to compute overall insulation, or something. It might not matter whether the tissue is internal or external, so raising the insulation for muscle could possibly have a greater effect, I don't know.
(0003972)
Toady One   
2010-04-17 06:05   
As far as I can tell from the numbers I'm seeing, the fish fix has fixed this as well, since that involved controlling local maximum daylight temperatures. The fat/tissue issue has been sidestepped by just not making places quite that hot right now. It's more realistic to have temperatures get up into those high levels, but I have to make the overall tissue system support that first, which isn't an issue for the bug tracker.
(0006964)
Footkerchief   
2010-05-18 12:03   
Reopening due to reports that this is still present in 31.04 -- see 0001933.
(0007051)
Milkbot   
2010-05-20 01:38   
I can confirm that this is still active in 31.04, was just alerted that my best mason and only doctor have bled to death in a down pour. Accursed watery rain!

Can upload save if necessary. Mason and Diagnoser are the latest events in [a].
(0007052)
Footkerchief   
2010-05-20 01:53   
The save may well be helpful, yeah.
(0007055)
Milkbot   
2010-05-20 02:22   
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=2381 [^]

There we go, I started uploading it anyhow, it takes ages on my slow cable.

Even with me immediately assigning a burrow, there were plenty of deaths from the point I saved at, and all the dwarves are in a good area and tightly packed to watch them melt.
(0007073)
Kumquat   
2010-05-20 09:17   
(edited on: 2010-05-20 11:05)
I wonder if the melting/boiling system is taking into account the energy required for phase transitions. Evaporating off 1% of a volume of water should cool it down by 20K. (Someone else can work out what it makes in Urist.) Now, the question is how much water there is in a dwarf, and how much alcohol is needed to replace what was lost by sweating...

Quick hack-fix: I modded tissue fat to have [MELTING_POINT:NONE] same as muscle. Now I have fish and camels alive in the world.
(0007125)
Toady One   
2010-05-21 06:29   
I found a seasonal variation that was screwing it up. It's fixed now in the save there (a dwarf that was dying still dies). I can't rule additional causes out, but from what I can see it should be fine.