Changes: Planets

Revision as of 06:57, 16 May 2020

In Astroneer, each of the planets are procedurally generated with unique Resources, Types, and Collectibles of their own.

Planets

Planet	Type	Primary	Secondary	Gases	Difficulty	Sun	Wind
Sylva	Terran	Sphalerite	Malachite	Hydrogen Nitrogen	Easy	Medium	Medium
Desolo	Terran Moon	Wolframite	Sphalerite	None	Easy	High	Low
Calidor	Arid	Malachite	Wolframite	Hydrogen Sulfur	Medium	Very High	Low
Vesania	Exotic	Lithium	Titanite	Hydrogen Nitrogen Argon	Medium	Low	High
Novus	Exotic Moon	Hematite	Lithium	Hydrogen Methane	Medium	High	High
Glacio	Tundra	Titanite	Hematite	Argon	Hard	Very Low	Very High
Atrox	Radiated	None	None	Helium Methane Nitrogen Sulfur	Very Hard	Low	Low

Primary resources are found between the first underground layer and the mantle of the planet. Secondary resources are found in mountainous biomes on the surface and the layers under the mantle to the core.

Planet Types

The Planets in Astroneer each have a type associated with them. Each type has varying differences, from the amount of sun to the types of resources that it may contain.

Type	Description	Planet
Terran	Typical lush, Earth-like planet, with plains, mountains, forested hills and gray-blue canyons.	Sylva
Terran Moon	Marked with craters, big and small. The occasional slightly raised mountains spaced between the gray landscape.	Desolo
Arid	Dry and dusty dunes, plantlife typical of a desert. Mesas and flat plains mixed in with the dunes.	Calidor
Exotic	Densely forested hills, heavy abundance of plantlife.	Vesania
Exotic Moon	Sparsely forested, with canyons and craters marking the surface.	Novus
Tundra	Cold and icy, with small hot spots of life, surrounded with tall glaciers, with steep drops to the icy plains below.	Glacio
Radiated	Toxic wastelands, with deep yellow canyons and tall, swiss cheese-like mountains. Abundance of hazardous plantlife and lacking any primary or secondary resources.	Atrox

Landing Zones

Landing Zones are locations on each planet that a player may land on using a Shuttle. Landing zones are marked with a sphere when viewed in orbit around the planet, allowing the player to select the zone to land in that location.

Landing Zones appear naturally at the start of the game, or from the use of a Landing Pad. If a Landing Pad is used in or near another landing zone, they may overlap and the player may have trouble selecting the proper zone to land in. Landing Pads do not have Beacons, so they may be hard to distinguish from naturally occuring Landing Zones.

Notes

Each planet has a maximum height that players can build or fly up to using the Hydrazine Jet Pack. This limit extends to the top of the cloud layer of each planet.

Trivia

Some of the Planets are based on the Solar System. Sylva and Desolo are both based on Earth and the Moon, Atrox is closely based on the toxicity of Venus, Calidor's red planet comes from Mars, and Glacio is based on Pluto, as they are both furthest away from the sun and they are both the coldest planets in the solar system and Astroneer system.

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Astroneer Solar System, not to scale
Planetary and Solar System Orientation Guide, not to scale.
Landing zones on Terran (Pre 1.0)

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 ==Trivia==
-*Some of the Planets are based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System Solar System]. Sylva and Desolo are both based on Earth and the Moon, Atrox is closely based on the toxicity of Venus, Calidor's red planet comes from Mars, and Glacio could be based on either Uranus or Neptune, as both have icy cores.
+*Some of the Planets are based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_System Solar System]. Sylva and Desolo are both based on Earth and the Moon, Atrox is closely based on the toxicity of Venus, Calidor's red planet comes from Mars, and Glacio is based on Pluto, as they are both furthest away from the sun and they are both the coldest planets in the solar system and Astroneer system.
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