Temperature is a bit of a fussy subject in game design. As I see it the ultimate goal of any game design is: fun! Which is a complicated subject, too easy is no fun, hyper-realistic if often no fun at all, and so on. Temperature systems are usually added for a bit realism and a bit of progression, but usually end up doing one or two things that I don't like:
1. Forcing you to wear certain types of armor
2. Making you swap equipment as you walk around in different biomes
Thinking of how to avoid those two main problems, as I see them, I've come up with a simple yet still "progression" based system of magic underwear!

In this patch there are two levels of temperature for both cold and hot:
Cold 1: Snow biome
Cold 2: Floating Islands
Hot 1: Lava Caves (upper half)
Hot 2: Lava Caves (lower half)

In order to mitigate the effects of hot and cold you need to craft and wear underwear, a new type of equipment. A pair of underwear mitigates both hot and cold. Basic underwear is made with thread, where "rank" 2 underwear is made with silken thread.

This way, it's more of a progression step you only need to clear once or twice (for now) rather than something you need to carry around different versions of for different scenarios. Over time I do plan to add Hot 3 and more, with more advanced underwear to go with them.

This patch also enables the harvesting of Aetherstone in the floating islands with a steel pickaxe, as well as Emberstone which can now be found on the lower islands of lava caves.

There are a couple of know "bugs" I'm hoping to tackle tomorrow with some software updates:
1. Clicking "Male" in the character creator causing a long pause
2. The cursor leaving the game window on Linux

v 0.6.0.4 2019.11.07
- Added underwear for temperature mitigation
- Added a UI Scaling option to the in-game video settings
- Added /resetuiscale as a console command
- Added temperature zones: Cold 1 (snow biome), Cold 2(floating island), Hot 1(upper lava caves), and Hot 2(lower lava caves)
- Added Emberstone to lava caves
- Plugged in the latest crowdin translation files
- Changed solace travel menu tier readouts to round down to the nearest integer
- Enlarged the main interface
- Fixed cave solaces sometimes repositioning themselves incorrectly
- Fixed cave town portals sometimes respawning when returning to them forcing an instant recall
- Fixed Earrings default to silver instead of copper
- Fixed Villages printing as "Town" and towns printing as "Village"
- Fixed a number of material related crafting bugs

You may need to restart Steam for the update to begin.

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