A Planet With No Caves?

[AmberAnvil]

I found a beautiful planet, very Earth-like with blue water and blue skies. The proportion of land to water is roughly 50/50, large oceans and large continents. It has mountains and valleys, but just moderately rugged, There are no ground or underground fauna, just four flying fauna and three aquatic. I've found all but one plant and one rock and I cannot, for the life of me, find a cave anywhere! All the years I've explored in NMS, I've always made a point of finding caves in order to find a few more rocks and plants to scan. I thought all planets everywhere had caves. I've skimmed over the planet in my ship for half an hour looking for any kind of break in the terrain. I've been to a few dozen POIs and every time I land anywhere, I've scanned the ground for any sign of Humming Sacs or Subterranean Artifacts to no avail. This is something new with Worlds 1, but I don't recall any mention of it in the introduction or patch notes. Anyone else?

[Kosevich]

Just try to dig underground in random places using terrain manipulator.

[AmberAnvil]

Originally posted by Kosevich:

Just try to dig underground in random places using terrain manipulator.

Yeah, tried that quite a few times, all the way down to bedrock, but nothing.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Originally posted by Kosevich:

Just try to dig underground in random places using terrain manipulator.

Unless you see cave sign- the icons that should show up if there is a void, that would be pointless. I always look for the icons that show a pearl or cube thing is buried somewhere.

It would be surprising if a world had no caves, but I have been to a world that was almost completely covered in caves, and huge ones you could fly through- two abreast if you had a pal.

I really hope they give caves a love tap. I did run into one yesterday that seemed a lot better than typical. Hoping they may have touched them up a bit.

[AmberAnvil]

Originally posted by Mr. Bufferlow:

It would be surprising if a world had no caves, but I have been to a world that was almost completely covered in caves, and huge ones you could fly through- two abreast if you had a pal.

Yes, very surprising! I thought planets had to have caves! This planet has a new biome look to it with large, floating plants that sorta look like Lily Pads. Very beautiful. And, just to be clear, I know how to find caves. In this Save, I've discovered all fauna on 1,297 planets to date. Well, at least I used to know how to find caves....

[Prescient Stones]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3298144667

find a somewhat flat plot you don't care to foul up and use your TM to create every type of terrain in the largest Square possible. Looks like a layered cake and then save scum. Save / reload to find the what magically appears on each surface. Bore a smaller tunnel in Cave terrain before you save/reload

We use to have that flyin hint were the loading from space atmosphere would draw the hint pattern for underground cave terrain then disappear when you get real close with grass or default terrain.


Good luck

[AmberAnvil]

Originally posted by Prescient Stones:

We use to have that flyin hint were the loading from space atmosphere would draw the hint pattern for underground cave terrain then disappear when you get real close with grass or default terrain.

Yeah, I tried the flying hint/preview thing on this planet too and definitely no such luck. Seems likely there are no caves because I've discovered all but one rock and one plant. I know the Exploration Guide can get hosed sometimes, but I've exited and reloaded and verified the numbers. If there was a cave, I'd expect at least two more minerals to be undiscovered, stalactite and stalagmite and more than one Cave Marrow.

[M.V.Petra]

I've noticed that (thankfully) some planets don't have any "underground" type fauna, maybe because those planets don't have an "underground" I dunno.

[RustyNail]

Originally posted by M.V.Petra:

I've noticed that (thankfully) some planets don't have any "underground" type fauna, maybe because those planets don't have an "underground" I dunno.

Does feel like there are more planets, irrespective of whether or not caves are/are not present, which do not have any underground fauna than in the past. (Not that I have any objective data to prove it.)