Guide to Planets
Space has planets and so does FTL13, and some of them you can even land on to spite Engineering by making their coldloop useless! Some planets are habitable, others not so much, some are just giant balls of gas, and others are lava planets that can be mined. Here's what you can expect to see on your adventures.
Info about a planet can be accessed by clicking on the planet on the nav console. The most important information is it's type, atmosphere, and whether or not it has rings. Everything else you'll just have to find out about once you land the ship.
Planets
Exo Planet
FLORA: COMMON
FAUNA: COMMON
ATMOSPHERE: VARIES
ORES: UNCOMMON
A planet supporting various biomes, some of which are:
- Grass plains
- Snow plains
- Deserts
- Jungles
- Mountain passes
- Lakes
Most of these biomes are easy to traverse, though some of the fauna may not really appreciate your presence. The mountain biomes have a few ores that the miners can get their hands on in a pinch if there's really nothing else to mine.
Lava Planet
FLORA: RARE
FAUNA: UNCOMMON
ATMOSPHERE: NO AIR, LOW PRESSURE
ORES: COMMON
Hot planets usually in stage 3 of development, these planets are rich in ore, and are the optimal place for miners to work. That's not to say, however, that these planets are danger-free; while the lava can usually be avoided, the fauna are a little more tricky to go around. It's not recommended to keep the ship landed here for too long, since the coldloop of the engine will no doubt lose it's efficiency up to the point where the engine stops generating power all together.
Ice Planet
FLORA: RARE
FAUNA: RARE
ATMOSPHERE: SAFE
ORES: NONE
Nothing really noteworthy about these types, since they're all covered in ice and doesn't serve much as a utility for the ship.
Gas Giant
FLORA: N/A
FAUNA: POSSIBLY?
ATMOSPHERE: IT'S LITERALLY ALL ATMOSPHERE YOU DINGUS
ORES: NONE
Very large celestial bodies that have trapped gas in their gravitational pull, and supposedly where Plasmamen originated from, these planets are useless will soon have a purpose once Nanotrasen finishes up their research on harvesting gases on a smaller scale (a scale befitting your ship, for instance). For now, though, entering their atmosphere is dangerous and cannot be done anyway due to the safeguards on the navigation console.
Characteristics
Rings
This phenomenon is an interesting occurrence where a film of debris in space, usually asteroids, continuously orbits around a celestial body, forming a ring of sorts. Planets with these rings usually means they only have one or two different ores, though the reason for this is unknown. You can mine the asteroids in the ring by orbiting a planet that has them, which is good for quick mining operations.