Talk:Thermal Stone/@comment-26224968-20150320212341

Quoting a forum reply about thermal stones:

QUOTE STARTS "There are 2 things I really hate about thermal stones.



First one, the thermal stone it's NOT actually what it is supposed to be.

The way they work is very flawed. Thermal stones have their own temperature, and do not delay player's temperature loss, they actually set player's temperature according to their own temperature, meaning that if you try to use warming clothing, let's say beefalo hat, it will basically overwrite thermal stone's temperature effect on the player by delaying it, just like it does with the environment. In simple words, wearing clothing and thermal stones makes no sense, cause only clothing will delay your body temperature loss, both from the thermal stone and the environment.



That's not only it. Frozen thermal stones, either you are or are not wearing, will increase negative delta temperature power, meaning that it will take for you a longer amount of time to start gaining heat from heat sources as long as you have a frozen thermal stone in your inventory. So even though thermal stone's insulation points are equal to a winter hat insulation points, thermal stone is actually worse.



Where it starts to get really flawed is when you try stacking multiple thermal stones, also changing them from player's inventory to backpack's inventory. They bug out pretty hard, and have a very weird behavior. Basically, with 2 or more thermal stones in your backpack, your temperature will constantly increase till it reaches game's maximum temperature of 90 C as long as no environmental temperature conflicts them (you can try it yourself in DST, type in console c_select while hovering yourself with the mouse, and put 2 thermal stones in your backpack in summer, your temperature will max out even if the thermal stones are frozen), and if environmental temperature does conflict them, all you need to do is to stay near a fire while doing this, it will allow thermal stones to max out your temp without obstacles.



That being said, even if your temperature increases/decreases faster with thermal stones in your backpack, they still start cooling off if you try to explore using them, meaning that in about 4 ticks of the clock, you'll have to go near a heat source again, to not suffer from freezing damage. Also, thermal stones take longer to gain/lose temperature than the player, so you'll have to wait more for thermal stones to get hot than you'll have to wait for your character to do the exact same thing, using clothing instead. So it's pretty clear that using thermal stones it's not very efficient, and it's not as good as clothing at keeping you warm in winter." QUOTE ENDS



Does this just refute thermal stones? These seem like important details for the wiki to overlook.