Tips to colonize lava planet?

[ThePower]

I just sent a group there and they all died. I didn't even get something built lol. Maybe I need to wait to go there with immortal nuggets or only send robots? Also, the water meter before I colonized the planet showed full. I don't see any water here though. Again, just looking for some tips, I'm having fun in the space age so far :)

[Tyrax]

Send robots first, you can either have them terraform if you want to bring nuggets later, or just have them work in buildings, fully robotic outpost. With the unobtainium you find on the moon you can build at least 30 robots and one robot equals 3 nuggets in terms of work slots, so you can literally have a full city just with them, that doesn't even need water or food xD

[CaptainRAVE]

Originally posted by Tyrax:

Send robots first, you can either have them terraform if you want to bring nuggets later, or just have them work in buildings, fully robotic outpost. With the unobtainium you find on the moon you can build at least 30 robots and one robot equals 3 nuggets in terms of work slots, so you can literally have a full city just with them, that doesn't even need water or food xD

Smart.

[SuperSxyNerd]

Yes for ice, fire and toxic planets you need to always send all robots otherwise your nuggets die asap. For ice you just need to terraform the planet till it gets warm enough to support life.

For lava is harder. You have to essentially terraform the entire planet as well and remove the lava from lakes before you can place actual water. You can do this with constant sources of water being used on the lava lakes via hydrogen collider or rain clouds. It takes ALOT of water to remove the lava then fill it with actual water. Cloud generators will work also but take much longer as the rain clouds are random. Do not try to fill the lake or remove the lava until you terraform to lower the temps first or it will just evaporate.

I haven't tried a toxic planet but I would assume if the same concept only you have to terraform it as well as spam Air purifiers to lower the toxic levels.

[Miritar, Kell of OOB]

Honestly, I had this problem, but just don't go to one of those planets, I found a planet that didn't need any terraforming. try to find one of those, also save before sending nuggets to planets.

[Kerdh]

But terraforming is cool, with nice effects. When you have finished your home planet, terraforming others (moons, lava, ice, toxic) is the last cool stuff the game still have.

[Jenenser]

Just in case anyone in the future will be looking for this:

1. I think two cloud makers work best because one gas mine can nearly feed two of them.
2. Hydro colider also is nice for big lakes.
3. Water pump is needed for the buildings, I used a small lake with 2.000 lava/water because it took just 4 casts to fill it with water.
4. Terraformer is needed.
5. I used four solar collectors.
6. 1.000 CP are 25 rain casts and will reduce a lava lake of 35k to about 20k. It is useless to cast it, if you have no hydro colider working on that lake, because lava will refill. Only use it if you colider is in full work.

Building list:
- 2x Cloud maker
- Gas mine
- Hydro colider
- Water Pump (no reservoir, because we use bots)
- Terraformer
- 2-4 solar collectors

This leaves you with 6 Nuggetdroids plus the bots that can transform into buildings.