Radioactive Planets

[SnickieX]

Are these the rarest planets or something? I've made probably a dozen games in the last few years (Took like a 2 year break/got bored, way before NEXT and all this new stuff.) and seen maybe 2. HOWEVER with that being said I don't wander too far from the starting point, get bored, new game, rinse repeat. :/ Really need to stop doing that, but on this new game, found a Bubble planet and 1 paradise planet (Paradisum) and another paradise planet that I think has storms, normally the planets are all either toxic or dead.

[knighttemplar1960]

On my permadeath save my start planet was radioactive. It was really nice. It had salt to mine so I made a small bank quickly and there was uranium so I didn't have to mess with making launch fuel.

To answer your question its random. There's a table towards to bottom of this wiki page that gives you the odds for each type planet based on the type of galaxy you are in.

https://nomanssky.gamepedia.com/Biome

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by SnickieX:

Are these the rarest planets or something? I've made probably a dozen games in the last few years (Took like a 2 year break/got bored, way before NEXT and all this new stuff.) and seen maybe 2. HOWEVER with that being said I don't wander too far from the starting point, get bored, new game, rinse repeat. :/ Really need to stop doing that, but on this new game, found a Bubble planet and 1 paradise planet (Paradisum) and another paradise planet that I think has storms, normally the planets are all either toxic or dead.

They are not very rare in my experience. The distribution of planet types is pretty random and have gone through periods where there was an abundance of radioactive planets.

As in real life, the type you need at any given moment seems to be the hardest to find. I usually go to my discovery list when I need something specific...like Cad or whatever.

[Chunk Norris ☯]

Maybe you're going to all the wrong type of starsystems, I usually pick red ones, I don't quite understand the differences in galaxies yet but I tend to get a higher volume of radioactive planets. Cadium star systems.

[Nightweaver20xx]

Almost every system I fly to has at least 1 radioactive, with some having 2, and even a radio source moon for good measure. Very common in my experience.

[SnickieX]

Haven't gotten into the game quite far enough to know the different star types, only gotten a little bit past the point where you get the Hyperdrive, thinking this is going to be my last save since I was lucky enough to find 2 paradise and a bubble planet.

[Chunk Norris ☯]

Recommendation.

Explore more, don't restart. Supposedly closer to the core, the stranger the planets become. What I'd suggest is to find a starsystem with a black-hole in it. Make your base there. That ways whenever you want to explore, you have a blackhole to take you randomly millions of lightyears away. It will be a new spot every time.

And if you have portals it will allow you to travel to your own bases so even if you get far away from your home-base you can teleport to your base or to the space station (and it will teleport your ship to you)

[SnickieX]

Good recommendation. That's what I'll do this time, is there a limit to how many bases you can have, or how spaced out they are? Really not wanting to lose the base I'm working on now even though it's the 2nd system I went to, 3rd system had a radioactive planet, finally.

And is there an easy way to get rid of the Horrors when you poke their eggs? -.-

[Chunk Norris ☯]

Originally posted by SnickieX:

Good recommendation. That's what I'll do this time, is there a limit to how many bases you can have, or how spaced out they are? Really not wanting to lose the base I'm working on now even though it's the 2nd system I went to, 3rd system had a radioactive planet, finally.

And is there an easy way to get rid of the Horrors when you poke their eggs? -.-

You can have an unlimited number of bases however, I think there's a limit to a total of 20,000 placed objects per save file, and each base can have a total of 3,000 placed objects. That's still pretty massive.

I'd recommend having at least 3 bases for material purposes. Atmosphere Harvesters will allow you to get various types of gases used in crafting, so you'll need a base in a hot/baren planet for sulphurine, irradiated/frozen planet for radon, and lust/toxic planet for nitrogen.

As for the Horrors, use the terrain manpulator to build tunnels sloping diagonally under the eggs. Shoot the eggs with the mining laser and the egg will role down to you. Probably best to do one at a time since they despawn fairly quickly. The Horrors 99% of the time won't go in the tunnels you create.

[rovaira2]

Originally posted by Clutch Nixon:

Originally posted by SnickieX:

Good recommendation. That's what I'll do this time, is there a limit to how many bases you can have, or how spaced out they are? Really not wanting to lose the base I'm working on now even though it's the 2nd system I went to, 3rd system had a radioactive planet, finally.

And is there an easy way to get rid of the Horrors when you poke their eggs? -.-

You can have an unlimited number of bases however, I think there's a limit to a total of 20,000 placed objects per save file, and each base can have a total of 3,000 placed objects. That's still pretty massive.

I'd recommend having at least 3 bases for material purposes. Atmosphere Harvesters will allow you to get various types of gases used in crafting, so you'll need a base in a hot/baren planet for sulphurine, irradiated/frozen planet for radon, and lust/toxic planet for nitrogen.

As for the Horrors, use the terrain manpulator to build tunnels sloping diagonally under the eggs. Shoot the eggs with the mining laser and the egg will role down to you. Probably best to do one at a time since they despawn fairly quickly. The Horrors 99% of the time won't go in the tunnels you create.

I didn't know about the black hole thing.. That's an awesome idea to build a base next to one.. I didn't know it was a random place it went to each time.

[SnickieX]

Originally posted by rovaira2:

Originally posted by Clutch Nixon:

You can have an unlimited number of bases however, I think there's a limit to a total of 20,000 placed objects per save file, and each base can have a total of 3,000 placed objects. That's still pretty massive.

I'd recommend having at least 3 bases for material purposes. Atmosphere Harvesters will allow you to get various types of gases used in crafting, so you'll need a base in a hot/baren planet for sulphurine, irradiated/frozen planet for radon, and lust/toxic planet for nitrogen.

As for the Horrors, use the terrain manpulator to build tunnels sloping diagonally under the eggs. Shoot the eggs with the mining laser and the egg will role down to you. Probably best to do one at a time since they despawn fairly quickly. The Horrors 99% of the time won't go in the tunnels you create.

I didn't know about the black hole thing.. That's an awesome idea to build a base next to one.. I didn't know it was a random place it went to each time.

Neither did I. You get a black hole location from a certain Korvax and Gek duo that's exploring in a very odd ship. ;) Working on building a small base/mine in my single planet black hole system as I type this. I got way lucky and it's a radioactive planet, so yeah, listen to him. :D