PixARK Biome Center Guide

A guide to PixARK's various biome "Centers", or what this guide author would call Sub-Biomes. This guide will help you learn how to spot them and tell you what you can expect when you find them.

Introduction

This guide was made to help identify all the special regions that some biomes hide. Many creatures, when scanned, describe being found in a biome's "Outer Ring" or "Center" but those have never been explained by the game. It is this guide author's belief that the Center is meant to describe special sub-biomes that can be found in many of PixARK's biomes.

Please note that not all biomes have sub-biomes. They seem to be absent from the Grassland and Novice Grassland biomes. Also please note that this author is not including the various mines that can be found in the different biomes, especially given they have unique biome names that completely set them apart from whichever biome surrounds them.

These sub-biomes have no official names and will always share the name of their parent biome on the players' HUD. The names picked in this guide have been selected by the guide author arbitrarily, but are mostly based off of the names of the rare trees found within them, or other in-game references to them.

The names of each sub-biome's rare trees can be seen in-game when using your scanner on the base of their trunk.

If you've been looking for the rare berries, learning how to spot the biomes' centers will be a huge asset. All of the rare berries found so far can only be seen in particular biome's centers.

Doomlands Center: The Lava Fields

Easy to spot from the large fields of lava surrounded by volcanic rock. It will also be littered with dark pillars of rock which can be mined for fire stone powder (powdered flint).

Special Tree: Lava Tree
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Dark Tree Seed
Rare Berry: None

Dark Forest Center: The Rotten Forest

Marked by sickly-looking trees, scattered spots of Soul Sand and frequent Sporeshrooms. Reapers frequently patrol this region.

Special Tree: Rotten Dark Forest Tree
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Dark Tree Seed
Rare Berry: Grey Berry
Rare Resource: Soul Sand

A Grey Berry bush.

Frozen Land Center: The Snowy Plateau

Eye catching due to its high-reaching, icy crags and the unique appearance of its snow-covered trees. Ice Elementals seem to patrol this region with great frequency.

Special Tree: Plateau Snow Tree
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Frigid Tree Seed
Rare Berry: None

Note that this sub-biome's unique vegetation looks similiar to the variety of mushroom-like plants from the Dark Swamp, only they are snow-covered. While none have been found yet, like the green berries of the Dark Swamp, they may provide a rare drop.

Could these bushes provide a rare drop?

Golden Realm Center: The Mysterious Valley

This sub-biome is easiest to spot when it is covered with its unique trees as their glowing fruit really stands out.

Special Tree: Mysterious Valley Tree
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Plateau Tree Seed
Rare Berry: Orange Berry
Rare Resource: Flash Rock can often be found in open patches.

This region will often have the Golden Realm's normal Golden Maples but is still easy to spot due to its berry bushes which look like golden daisies. Its particularly easy to find on snowy days, as the snow will not cover its grassy patches. Its frequently dotted with patches of Flash Rock which also give the region away.

Orange Berry bushes and golden daisies under the Golden Realm's normal gold maple trees.

Magic Forest Center: The Mageweave Forest

This sub-biome stands out from a distance due to its various glowing trees and berry bushes.

Special Tree: Magic Tree and Elemental Tree (variant appearance from normal Elemental Tree)
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Mageweave Tree Seeds
Rare Berry: None known


Note that one of this sub-region's berries, the one with the box-shapped fruit that has a single circle per side, looks just like the plant grown from the admin-spawned Moonlight Berry Seeds. While it only seems to drop normal magic berries, it may have other rare drops.

This berry bush only seems to give magic berries, but looks just like those grown from admin-spawned Moonlight Berry Seeds.

Swamp Center: The Dark Swamp

Easily spotted by its gigantic trees and numerous types of mushroom-like plants. Sarcos are especially common in this region.

Special Tree: Dark Swamp Tree
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Swamp Tree Seed or Tropical Tree Seed
Rare Berry: Green Berry


The unique trees of this sub-biome seem to be one of the few that drops a unique seed, but they only have a chance to do so. Often, they will instead drop the parent biome's normal Tropical Tree Seeds.

Unlike the orange and grey berries, the green berries are a rare drop that can be gathered from any of this sub-biome's many different mushroom-like plants. These unique plants will normally drop regular berries but have a varied drop table which also includes fiber, carrion, and rarely green berries. Using a sickle on these plants will usually only provide fiber, and harvesting them with a trike only provides a very small chance of getting green berry seeds.

Each of these different mushroom-like plants has a small chance to drop green berries.

Desert Center: The Badlands

This region is easily marked by its tall pillars of rock which can be harvested for flint. Ankylos seem more common here.

Special Tree: None, but dead stumps can still be found here.
Rare Berry: None

Mountain Forest Center: The Mist Forest

Easily spotted by its swift elevation in height and its unique trees and flowers. The bamboo of the surrounding biome is no longer present.

Special Tree: Mist Tree
Special Tree's Seed Drop: Mist Tree Seed
Rare Berry: Pink Berry; rare drop


The special trees in this region are one of the few that drop a unique seed. The plants that give pink berries only do so as a rare drop.

The plant towards the pic's center is the one that provides pink berries, but only as a rare drop.

Deep Ocean Outer Ring: The Shallows

Ocean shallows are included in this guide, despite being more equatable to the biome's outer ring, due to the rare Coral Rock and Sea Crystal which can be found in great abundance here.

Special Tree: None
Rare Berry: None
Rare Resource: Coral Rock and Sea Crystal

Coral Rock can be found in the center of many of the circles that dot the seabed of the shallows. Each of these patches of Coral Rock hides a layer Sea Crystal beneath it. Note that not every circle on the sea bed will have these two resources, as many will soley be clay instead, but they will be immediately apparent by whichever resource is on the top layer.

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