All the habitable planets look the same?

[Jesus Christ]

With earthling trees and dinosaurs? I only visited 2 planets till now and I didn't notice much of an alien flora, I hate being in a so distant world and having palm trees around, I want to see different types of plants and trees, like different colors and forms, alien like. Will I find stuff like that in this game or it's just a Garry's Mod sandbox with generic assets?

[Jalore]

lots of alien worlds out there, won't see hardly anything in the starter newb system of eyllon.

[CursedXistence]

Unity store asset packs, so the variety in the game is extremely limited to what's in the packs they bought.

[Pembroke]

The game has a limited amount of planet types. The terrain of the planets is random so the maps differ from planet to planet. POIs are also random (if outside the starting system), and "combination effects" can make the solar systems play differently, but in general the "look and feel" is the same for planets of the same type.

Off my head the types are, assuming I don't forget some:
- Temperate (i.e. those palm trees and dinosaurs...)
- Desert
- Oceanic
- Ice
- Lava
- Barren
- (Gas Giant)

The flora and fauna are different for the different types.

To actually code 40,000+ different planets with their own plants and animals is way beyond our current game technology...

Though, you *could* apply some "tricks" like have different random colors, or even have some different minor body-part and plant-part variants the game then randomly joined to create "unique" animals and plants. Can't be *too* different, though, because otherwise you'll end up with movement animations that don't work...

[Luke]

not counting starter planets, story planets, and faction homeworlds, it looks like there are about 23 different planet and moon types.

Some of these will seem similar like Forest Moon looks a lot like a Temperate Planet and there are two different Snow Planet definitions that are subtly different.. and things like Scorched/Barren/BarrenMetal/Desert all look vaguely similar so even though there are 23 maybe it seems more like six or seven but there are some differences.

I think the more interesting stuff is in making the journey to faction homeworlds, otherwise you can try out RE which has more exotic planet types.

[Luke]

Here, this is a good post with all the ones that you can get explorer tokens for. It is a couple versions old, but probably mostly correct. https://steamcommunity.com/app/383120/discussions/0/3191368095150208389/#c3191368254797849960

There are more in the playfield definitions, but the linked list is a good reference.

[RoY]

I was hoping they would make the different plant types unique. Snow and Ice planets with snow and ice creatures, Hot desert planets with desert creatures, Jungle tropical with jungle tropical creatures and same of the other planet types. There should be Wolves, Tigers, Bears, Giant lizards, snakes, Mammoths, Apes, buffalo, wild dogs, Elephants and much more.