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TWB genome, Winter Norn genome help   
Corbane

Corbane



  4/7/2026

After like 150 hours, I decided to give the TWB genome and the Winter Norn a try. So I got the Other Lone Shee Ark metaroom and installed a Hircine Norn in the lower left Section and a Winter Norn in the upper right section.

It took about a minute for my Winter Norn to get 50 units of cold in the Medical Monitor and for my Hircine Norn to get 80 units of hot. That's dangerous. So I placed the HN in the desert just above the furnace and the WN in the lake just below. The HN got to normal and the WN stayed too cold. I wanted to see if the problem was those two breeds specifically, so I put a 2017 edition Magma Norn in the furnace area. It got to 100 units of hot in a minute. (Links to visuals if it helps:1,2,3.)

So that got me wondering, how much is too much? Like, I've lost Magma Norns and Sphinx Norns to overheating before. (I wasn't using the MN TWB genome though.) How hot is too hot for a TWB genome and how cold is too cold for a Winter Norn?

P.S.: In case it's necessary info, for relevent mods I have the weather patch (non-TWB edition), Heat transfer in water, the heater, the heat-lamp and the sensory input lobe installed.

 
Dragoler
Wrong Banshee

Dragoler


 visit Dragoler's website: TWB Development Thread
  4/8/2026

I'm confused by this post, because the only breed you've mentioned here that uses the TWB genome are the Hircine norns, Winter Norns appear to be CFE. TWB/TCB creatures are the only ones that can feel environmental temperature, so the cold you're seeing is coming from somewhere else.

Hotness and coldness aren't really problems in themselves, they are drives that can indicate and compound problems. For TWBs, I'd recommend using the Heatlamp agent with heating switched off to check the temperature of rooms (between 4 and 6 is comfortable, extreme temperatures on either end can be dangerous) and the All in One Status Menu is a good way to check vitals. If no internal temperature is showing up on the left side, the creature you're looking at isn't TWB or TCB.

Once you have everything set up correctly, Visual Indicators becomes a more intuitive way to keep track of how a group of creatures are doing in their environment.


Creator of the TWB/TCB genome base.

 
Dragoler
Wrong Banshee

Dragoler


 visit Dragoler's website: TWB Development Thread
  4/8/2026

Other creatures have hotness and coldness scattered throughout their stimuli genes. For Magma norns, they mostly feel hot when they reach the ettin home (an invisible object they detect through smell), and for Frost/Winter norns (which are basically inverted magma norns) they feel cold once they reach the norn home. Being hot and cold respectively is good for their immune systems, but being hot for too long can deplete water and lead to suffocation.

Creator of the TWB/TCB genome base.

 


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