Can someone explain Biome types to me.

[Pegisuee]

Hey this has probably been asked before. However when i try to search for anything that has types in it ill get billion results.

My question is, what do the types in biome's do?

For instance the dead Biome has these types.

1.Terraforming Catastrophe
2.Dead
3.Empty
4.Desolate
5.Lifeless
6.Forsaken
7.Life-Incompatible
8.Low Atmosphere
9.Airless
10.Abandoned

Are these indicators of HOW hot/cold/toxic/barren/dead these planets are? 1 being the least dead and 10 being the most dead?

Greetz Michael

[Pul Myfinger]

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Biome

To your questions, I would say no. Some correlation perhaps, but it tends to be mixed up afaik.

[Xuhybrid]

I believe most are just an alternative name for the same thing. Just like how economy types are actually just 3 tiers, even if each tier has multiple names. Basically, it's superficial.

[Suzaku]

From what I've seen, all 10 of those is basically the same thing. They give them different names to make you think they're different, but they're all the same.

Same thing with all of the other biome types. The only outlier is probably exotic planets, which have unique flora and fauna on them, but are often still empty with nothing of value on them except for maybe a "glitch" decoration you can loot and place at a base.

[Dirak2012]

The things that you mention are just flavor text, they all just means dead planets without atmosphere.

[MonkeyGamesVR]

It seem to me that there are some minor diverences in the way you might find something on the planets that are diverent in 'name'. The way they have construct 'behaviour' on the ones are olso minor. Yes some have less air or are toxic wich some are not.

[Dirak2012]

The biomes are

Cold
Desert
Volcanic
Toxic
Radioactive
Airless
Anomalous (with some subsets)
Earthlike

Any of those is described in many different ways but they en up being the same thing.

The ones you described applies to the airless planets, they have no life, no damaging weather, low gravity, and drain heavily your life supports if you move. No matter how they are called they share those characteristics.

[Gorla]

Originally posted by Pegisuee:

Hey this has probably been asked before. However when i try to search for anything that has types in it ill get billion results.

My question is, what do the types in biome's do?

For instance the dead Biome has these types.

1.Terraforming Catastrophe
2.Dead
3.Empty
4.Desolate
5.Lifeless
6.Forsaken
7.Life-Incompatible
8.Low Atmosphere
9.Airless
10.Abandoned

Are these indicators of HOW hot/cold/toxic/barren/dead these planets are? 1 being the least dead and 10 being the most dead?

Greetz Michael

I reworded all the biome pages on the wiki to clear this up. These term used in name generation as far as I know, and the sequence is taken from the game file. If I would take a wild guess the temperature/toxicity etc. values are also randomly chosen (aka procedurally generated) from a certain range, as most aspects of the game.