I was really bored on TPT today. I was messing around when I got a nice idea. Most people have spent their time searching for the highest (or sometimes lowest) pressure. Most of those saves give you 1 bajillion or something for 1 frame. In the old days you could glitch the game and get "nan" pressure (inf and -inf are still possible with the console). Has anyone found the limit? Maybe. Do I want to look for it? No. What should I do instead? Temperature!

Let's start with the basics. 22.00°C/295.15K is the base temperature for the game. Nearly all elements have it as the starting temperature. Now Plasma achieves the 2 hottest element records: Hottest during gameplay (9725.85°C) and hottest starting temperature (10,000°C). The coldest element is sub-zero flame. It hits -273-15°C, which is absolute zero.

Now why go hotter or colder? Anything greater than this range will only be shown for 1 frame when the game is paused. Well I'm here for limits, not for gameplay. The next step in searching for limits would be the console. You see, the console is bad when it comes to temperature. The hottest possible is 2,147,483,392°C, while the coldest is 2,147,483,904°C. These are very close to the 32-bit integer limit, with differences of 255 and 257 respectively.

Since those were boring, let's move to the properties tool. Using it will give you either a nice toasty temperature of 100,000,001,504,746,621,987,668,885,504.00°C, or about 100 nonillion degrees. The coldest you can get is -9,999,999,442,119,689,768,320,106,496.00°C, or about -10 nonillion degrees. Theoretically, -100 nonillion degrees would be possible if the minus sign did not take up a character space.

So that's it, right? That's as far as the numbers would take us, so we can call it a day and go home? No. I have discovered a 2 more temperatures.
How did I find them?

With mods.
Why mods?

Because mods are fun.

The two temperatures are very basic but very interesting. The first one is straightforward, inf. An educated guess makes me think that it means "infinite", which is pretty much does. The only problem I have with this one is that I haven't been able to isolate a particle with it, so it's a mystery beyond the name and temperature area.

The cold temperature is much more exciting. It's called "-nan(ind)" and I'm not quite sure what the name means, but it's cold and fun to play with. It's pretty much the virus of temperature. You still can't save it, but it's much easier to isolate. With ambient heat on, it'll fill up the screen within a second. It'll freeze anything that touches it within that time with ambient heat off. With it on, everything will hit -nan(ind) instantly. And there's no cooling down or transformation. One frame it's 22.00°C, next frame it's -nan(ind), similar to that of how the virus element works.

So that's it. I made a scale/chart/graph with this info, which has a slightly incorrect name, but I'm not planning on posting it.

Yeah I was thinking that too, but it didn't seem like "indefinite" would fit, not sure why I thought that.