Help looking for Barren Planets

[Throstle]

I cannot find a Barren Planet to harvest Cactus Flesh from. I have been to over 10 systems. Is there a trick to finding theses planets? I have been scanning them and looking for any planets that come back as Abandoned, barron, bleak, desert,desolate, parched, Rocky, or Wind Swept. Thanks for the help.

[taibevazaha]

Well the mode you are in will affect prevelance of certain planets. which one are you playing in?

[Throstle]

Normal level

[swingline]

I think it will help to look at the resources that scan also. Cactus Flesh should show over in the area that you see things like gold, iridium, etc when you scan from space (or when you look at resources available on your discovery screen). Not all planets that could have it will have it.

I know of no tricks to finding them. Just kindof random when I run into particular planet types.

[Veran]

Cactus flesh will *always* show up on a system scan. Not on barren planets either - they grow on the hot ones (like cactus would here on ol' Terra Firma.

[Throstle]

I finally found a desolate planet with cactus flesh, but it seriously took like 25 jumps before I found it. Is this planet type really that hard to find or do I just have bad luck? Thanks for the help.

[swingline]

25 jumps would be unlucky I think. Cactus flesh would normally not be that hard to find.

[Galactic Starman]

When you land in a new system always do a scan of each planet from a distance. On screen info should immediately tell what is available to each planet.

Usually radiated, nuclear, hot planets and similar (anything nearer the sun) are very likely to have cactus plants. So scan the planets nearest the star generally first. Scanning though should be very quick to scan all planets in a system. At least you won't have to land on them all to see.

[Ket]

When you scan a planet from space the farmable plant type will always show up in the list, it's a quick way of recognising the biomes as they are exclusive and each plant is linked to a particular biome, while reading the planet names might not always be obvious at first glance. The only biomes without a linked plant is dead and exotic/weird biome.

Cactus flesh = barren.
Star bulb = lush.
Frost crystal = frozen.
Solanium = scorched.
Gamma root = radioactive.
Fungal mould = toxic.

If the plant is not listed its either a dead or exotic planet, and should be fairly obvious from the name.

Which planet spawns is almost completely random. Lush and dead planets being slightly more common, and exotic planets not normally spawning in yellow systems. Other than those 3 all the others got equal chance of spawning in any system