What adaptations would allow standard fantasy dwarves to survive in the desert?

Recently I was talking with a friend of mine on fantasy stuffens. I brought up that its interesting that dwarves are rarely in the desert and he immediately listed reasons why the dwarf build is bad for the desert: Short stumpy legs are bad for the desert and horrible heat dispersion made worse by the massive beards.

But how could the common fantasy dwarf (short stocky and with a big beard) adapt to a desert environment? What kind of physical changes would be necessary for this change in environment?

Note:

I don't want to lose too much dwarfiness so if possible I'd like to retain at least being stocky (although thinner then the usual dwarf) and having big beards.

The social and architecture changes will be a later post.

This is a slow gradual change from the proto dwarfs that wandered into this desert so you have a large time scale to work with.

posted about 5 years ago

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