Exotic (Old)

The Exotic Planet is perhaps one of the most distinct Planets in Astroneer, with its violet atmosphere and dense forests teeming with Artifacts. It has the lowest gravity before Barren. Caves are scattered around the whole planet, and every type of resource is present in them. The resources are not far from the surface, but they are distributed slightly more sparsely than in other planets. It is the best source of coal, and hence the natural location for medium generators.

Exotic has a wild terrain generation and, as a result, the player might land at areas with certain resources appearing more commonly than others, and the remaining resources appearing further away from the landing zone. Hazards like Exploders and Spikers can be also found on the surface outside of caves.

The average time it takes for a day/night cycle to pass is 13.5 minutes.

Exotic is unique in the way that surface Research Item's are very abundant, but since they take up a lot of space, and are therefore hard to transport between planets, this would be a good planet to establish a research outpost on.

Resources
Exotic has a unique resource generation in which it chooses which resources become common, while others become rare. In other words, exotic has random resource rarity.
 * Common
 * Coal
 * Organic
 * Malachite or Laterite
 * Lithium or Titanium
 * Uncommon
 * Compound
 * Ammonium
 * Resin
 * Sphalerite
 * Hematite
 * Rare
 * Malachite or Laterite
 * Lithium or Titanium
 * Astronium
 * Wolframite
 * Atmospheric
 * Hydrogen
 * Argon
 * Methane
 * Nitrogen

Biomes

 * Hollow Hills: An erratically-generated zone with large spans of hills and giant caverns.
 * Mushroom Forest: A forest of tall mushrooms, a great place to start exploiting massive amounts of Research Items.
 * Exotic Savanna: An expanse of gigantic Ferns. Also a great place to start exploiting massive amounts of Research Items.

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