Ice-cold

<h2>Synopsis</h2> <p>Have you ever walked on a frozen lake and heard this ominuous sound of the ice cracking under your feet and thought: <br />"<em>Can it actually break under me in this game?</em>"</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Well now it can!</strong> 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&deg;C. This is now a thing of the past!</p> <p>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.</p> <p>So be careful in unkown territory in the winter, you never know whether that layer of snow hides a dangerously thin-iced lake underneath!&nbsp;</p> <h2>Details</h2> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp;<br />The break chance is drastically increased by running and jumping and strongly influenced by the temperature (at -20&deg;C the ice becomes quite strong but beware at temperatures around zero).&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>Touching water outside of closed rooms at freezing temperatures will apply freezing damage, similarily to the damage taken when below 34&deg;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.&nbsp;</p> <h2>Compatibility / To-Do</h2> <p>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.</p> <p>Next on the To-Do list would be a config file to adjust the chances, timings and damage values.</p> <p>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.</p>