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Thermometer

Always-working surface temperature probe: no calibration needed. Reads the planet’s current surface temperature in °C directly.

Access: get_component("thermometer") · Like every component, exposes .id and .name.

Methods

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.get_value()

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Current surface temperature in °C as a number. Safe to call from any script; no repair step needed. This is the display °C; for the heat-units progression metric that research thresholds compare against, read get_component("atmosphere").get_heat().

Returns: Number (°C)

Command mailbox

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peek_command() · next_command() · command_count() · clear_commands() (SELF ONLY): identical on every scriptable machine, see Script Commands.

Example

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component = get_component("thermometer")
value = component.get_value()
print(value)

See also

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