Paradise Planets

[MoonshineBandit]

Ok, I'm not trying to beat a dead horse here but I'm having issue with Paradise Planets. I do not understand what Paradise is I guess. I restarted a new game and found two planets that are Paradise from space but something els on land like Humid. I don't get it.

[Xerxes86]

Don't waste time with "Paradise" planets. Even if you do find one (which I have done a few times), if you set up on one it will turn into a hellscape planet after awhile. Don't look for them, ignore them if you find them.

[gNg]

Paradise is just one of about a dozen different names for worlds with a Lush biome. It doesn't necessarily mean a planet is a literal paradise, as you might expect.

You don't need to use hazard protection on Lush worlds unless there's a storm and though Lush worlds without storms do exist, they can be pretty hard to find.

[Kauldwin]

So planetary type and weather are two different things. Paradise, or lush, would be the planet type, and humid would be the weather, which is what will give you the boiling rainstorms.

If you're looking for lush/paradise type planets with gentle/no storms, what you actually want to look for is a particular subset of exotic weather planets. Basically, the easiest way to find them is to hop with your freighter through systems and use the onboard scanner. You're checking for two things. First off is planet type; these all indicate a lush/paradise planet:
- Rainy
- Verdant
- Tropical
- Viridescent
- Paradise
- Temperate
- Humid
- Overgrown
- Flourishing
- Grassy
- Bountiful

Then, if it's one of those types, check the weather. What you want is an exotic weather pattern, one of the following (these are normally associated with the exotic type planets):
- Bilious Storms
- Echoes of Acid
- Deadly Pressure Variations
- Harsh Toxic Wind
- Corrupted Blood
- Inescapable Toxins
- Clouds of Haunted Green
- Invisible Jade Winds
- Infinite Toxic Mist
- Poison Cyclones

They all sound dramatic but they're really not. You will get some weather, but it won't drain hazard protection. It will occasionally do wonky things like alter the gravity. You'll also find these planets can have exotic flora, bubbles, bio-luminescence, or other signs of an exotic planet.

Lush galaxies have the highest occurrence of paradise planets, which is why Eissentam is really popular. Yellow stars have a higher chance to contain lush planets.

[caseyas435943]

No sure why people care what planet.

The only planet I don't settle on is aggressive sentinel ones. They are too much of a pain in the butt.

I just find a planet with power source and large (hopefully) somewhat flat area to build. I even built main bases on lifeless moons.

Your base is inside anyway when you are there what does it matter. If it storms every 5 seconds so what you are inside.

My bases are the same build I find that covers what I need in a base. A place for the plants I grow, landing pad, storage, trade terminal, a ground power source, And the quest guys. Anything more seems like a waste of time. That add nothing to game play. You don't need to sleep or eat so why build huge areas for it at a base.

[The Dweller]

Originally posted by Kauldwin:

- Rainy
- Verdant
- Tropical
- Viridescent
- Paradise
- Temperate
- Humid
- Overgrown
- Flourishing
- Grassy
- Bountiful

And nothing like a 150 °C torrent to follow right after having installed your unworthy wooden shack.

[Xerxes86]

Originally posted by gNg:

Paradise is just one of about a dozen different names for worlds with a Lush biome. It doesn't necessarily mean a planet is a literal paradise, as you might expect.

You don't need to use hazard protection on Lush worlds unless there's a storm and though Lush worlds without storms do exist, they can be pretty hard to find.

They don't stay Lush biome's, that's the hellscape part. I would rather setup on a radiated planet.

[Rexxer]

I wrote a guide that answers this and related questions:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3722818378191638158/
Basically, it belongs to the "lush biome" type of planets (has paraffnium and star brambles), there are no landscape sentinel spawns (but they can occur normally at secure sites), they have CLEAR weather. To understand weather, I also go into depth about how to determine if the weather on the planet is "clear", because you can't look at the biome name, like "rainy planet" and assume it doesn't have clear weather. Paradise planets have no storms.

You often will hear someone post about how paradise planets DO have storms, but that is not true. These players have fallen victim unknowingly to the glitch in the discovery system. The Discovery ID system (used by your exosuit scanner as well as your freighter scanner) can give false positives AND negatives for paradise planets...saying they are or are not. The reason it's not exact probably is wrapped up in the difficulty leveling which can turn the identical planet that is paradise in a normal game into a non-paradise planet in another. The Discovery algorithm they use probably just estimates what the planet should be for a difficulty level within a margin of error.

[Rexxer]

Originally posted by Xerxes86:

Don't waste time with "Paradise" planets. Even if you do find one (which I have done a few times), if you set up on one it will turn into a hellscape planet after awhile. Don't look for them, ignore them if you find them.

That's only if:
(1) there's a major change in planets types for a major update
(2) you up the difficulty.
Otherwise, the planets remain the same.