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Superbiome - Caves Of Ice - BERT

Makes the Frigid biome even colder and icier, with functional changes to terrain types, features and buildings.

**Requires Rising Tide**

New Terrain Types and Features
The default terrain types and features have been replaced with new, colder ones.

Ice Sheet - no yield (replaces Snow and Tundra)
Permafrost - 1 Production (replaces Plains)
Tundra - 1 Prod, 1 Food (replaces Grassland)
Scrubland - 2 Food (replaces Desert)

Glacier (replaces forest): has no yield but is a source of fresh water to adjacent tiles. Costs Energy for workers to remove.

Miasmic Frost (replaces marsh): reduces food, energy and production yields by 1. Costs energy for workers to remove, and spreads miasma into all adjacent tiles when they do so.

Sea Ice (replaces ice): Is present in all coastal tiles excepts those containing a resource or at the mouth of a river. Is passable by naval units (though not aquatic cities), but slows movement and counts as rough terrain. Passible to embarked units once Planetary Survey is researched.

Meltwater (replaces river): adds +1 Food to adjacent tiles, instead of Energy.

Lake: yields 3 Food, but no Energy.

Crevasse (replaces canyon) has no yield, but Rock Outcrop (replaces mountain) yields 2 Production.

New Orbital Unit

Thermal Mirror: Removes glaciers and miasmic frost from the area of effect. Costs Titanium to build.

Modified Buildings

Vivarium: Costs 1 Geothermal. Gives +1 Food from Ice Sheet.

Mass Digester: Costs 1 Petroleum. Gives +1 Production from Permafrost.

Cryolab (replaces Cytonursery): Costs 1 Geothermal. Gives +1 Science from Glaciers and Miasmic Frost

Water Refinery: Costs 1 Geothermal. Allows tiles with Sea Ice to be worked.

Geyser Hypocaust (Wonder): Costs 5 Geothermal. Removes all Glaciers and Miasmic Frost within 3 tiles, and gives +1 Energy from all land terrain worked by the city.

Compatability and Known Issues

Works with all map types, but only with the Frigid biome (graphics will look wrong on other biomes)

This mod uses a modified version of "LoadScreen.lua", so will conflict with any other mod which also overrides that file (which is unlikely to be many).

***The unit action panel will not display properly the first time you load the mod. To work around this: load the mod, exit back the the mods menu, then load the mod a second time before starting/loading your game.***