Decayed

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Scorched planet.png
Threat: Inconceivable (Tier 6) Weather
Star types: Fiery Sandstorm1.pngSmallmeteorstorm.pngMeteorstorm.png
EPP Required: Status Heat.png Cooling EPP Upgrade
Mini Biomes: None
Secondary Biomes: Volcanic, Midnight
Scorched planet surface.png

Scorched is a primary biome characterized by its burnt, post-apocalyptic look and urban garbage. It has dry weather, warm temperatures, little or no trees, and no other plant life. Scorched planets are notable by having ruined cities in the background suggesting that the planets were once populated and may still have some inhabitants. Scorched planets are a 'inconceivable' threat level, geared towards tier 6 in progression.

A varian of scorched biomes without the ruined cityscape can be created and expanded using a Scorched Terraformer, and a planet will convert to a scorched planet once half of the planet's surface has been terraformed into a scorched biome.

Scorched planets can only be found orbiting fiery (red) star types. Unless players have a Cooling EPP Upgrade equipped they'll take increasing damage while on the surface from deadly heat.

Navigation Console

Scorched planets can be identified by the keyword scorched in their navigation console description.

  • The landing location is a scorched wasteland. The atmospheric temperature is dangerously high. It is impressively brave of you to consider this destination.
  • The beam site is scorched and desolate. Little is capable of surviving here as the temperature is fatally high. People live in the area, but I cannot fathom why.
  • The landing site is scorched by the intense heat of the planet's surface. Only a few hardy individuals remain, possibly out of pure habit.

Materials

The surface layer of scorched planets is primarily made up of Dry Sand, Dry Dirt, Cobblestone, Stone Rubble, and Junk Pile.

All late-game ores are found in decayed biomes, with coal and copper available near the surface.

The surface of the ground is mostly covered in dirt and junk, and the topography is often hilly with small subterranean caves.

Primary material Sub material Geological materials

Music Tracks

Scorched biomes use their own sets of music tracks for day and night.

Day
  • Crystal Exploration 1
  • Drosera
  • Inviolate (Loop)
  • Lava Exploration 1
  • Ultramarine
  • Arctic Constellation 1
  • Body Electric (Loop)
  • Mercury
  • Nomads
  • Psyche
Night
  • Crystal Exploration 2
  • Desert Exploration 2
  • Lava Exploration 2
  • Mira
  • Tranquility Base
  • Arctic Constellation 1
  • Body Electric (Loop)
  • Mercury
  • Nomads
  • Casiopeia


Sub Biomes

Scorched is a planetary biome with dry conditions and abundant Wooden Telephone Poles and Wooden Utility Poles. Volcanic and Midnight biomes have a chance to appear as smaller biomes on scorched planets. Watch out for the landmines and explosive barrels that litter the surface.

Scorched biomes can be found as a sub-biome on Tundra and Volcanic planets.

Mini Biomes

Scorched biomes do not have any mini-biomes of their own, but scorched planets can have sub-biomes of Volcanic and Midnight which in turn can provide their own mini-biomes.

Layers

Scorched planets stick to the standards for planetary layer composition.

  • Space: Asteroids
  • Atmosphere: Atmosphere
  • Surface: Decayed (Primary Biome); Volcanic, Midnight (Secondary Biomes)
  • Subsurface: Underground 0a, Underground 0b, Underground 1a, or Underground 1b
  • Shallow Underground: Tarpit, Mushrooms, Wilderness, Mini Village, Underground 0a, Underground 0b, Underground 1a, or Underground 1b
  • Mid Underground: Luminous Caves, Stone Caves, Bone Caves, Ice Caves, Underground 0c, Underground 1c, Underground 1d, Underground 3a, Underground 3b, Underground 3c, or Underground 3d
  • Deep Underground: Cell Caves, Flesh Caves, Slime Caves, Underground 0d, Underground 5a, Underground 5b, Underground 5c, or Underground 5d
  • Core: Blaststone Core Layer, Magmarock Core Layer, or Obsidian Core Layer

Weather

Weather on scorched planets is mostly a perpetual storm of dust and loose junk with a chance of either sandstorms or a combination of meteor showers and large meteors. Each scorched planet has one of these two pools of weather, and it will not change. Scorched planets without a meteorite shower chance will never have meteor shower weather.

Weather happens for each planet based on the weights given to the weather types (probability is calculated by dividing a single weight by the sum of all weights); the probability for weather types on scorched planets is as follows:

Type 1
Junkstorm 0.98 (98%)
Sandstorm1.png Sandstorm 0.02 (2%)
Type 2
Junkstorm 0.86 (~95.6%)
Smallmeteorstorm.png Meteor Shower 0.03 (~3.3%)
Meteorstorm.png Large Meteor 0.01 (~1.1%)

Wild Crops

The only crop native to scorched biomes is Wartweed. These can be harvested by interacting with them or by digging them up. They'll drop produce and have a chance to drop a seed which can be replanted.

Wildlife

In addition to procedurally generated creatures, there are a variety of unique monsters, bugs and critters found in scorched biomes. Some of these are also found in other biomes, while others are unique only to scorched biomes. While these unique creatures have a chance to appear on scorched planets, they will not all appear on each one. In addition to unique creatures, each biome has multiple types of both procedural ground and flying creatures.

Unique monsters each have combat attacks, and they must first be weakened before capture. Once weakened players can attempt to capture using a capture pod. If successful they can then be released to battle alongside and follow the player.

Critters are smaller non-combat unique creatures which are not capturable using capture pods. They can be captured without weakening them first by using a relocator gun. After releasing a critter from the relocator it will stay in the area it was released into.

Bugs are very small unique creatures which can be captured using a bug net, and are then stored inside placeable jars. Bugs which are captured using a relocator will fly after release instead of being kept inside a jar.

Unique Monsters
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Crabcano
Crustoise.png
Crustoise
Fennix.png
Fennix
Ignome.png
Ignome
Peblit.png
Peblit
Pyromantle.png
Pyromantle
Scandroid.png
Scandroid
Smoglin.png
Smoglin
Critters
Appo Float.gif
Appo Float
Mouse.gif
Mouse
Raven.gif
Raven
Spider.gif
Spider
Squeek.gif
Squeek
Vulture.gif
Vulture
Bugs
Shadowmoth.png
Shadowmoth
Cinderfly.png
Cinderfly
Ashsprite.png
Ashsprite

Unique Drops

There are a variety of items which are specific to chests found in scorched biomes. Some of these may have a chance of being found in other places throughout the universe, but they've all been specifically allocated to chests within decayed biomes.

Decayed Chest is unique to this biome, and has a number of unique drops allocated to it.

Blueprints
Costume Armor

Scorched Tagged Objects

Scorched is an object tag associated with objects and furniture that are associated with decayed biomes. These objects are used for spawning Deadbeat Merchant tenants.

Tenants

Name Type Race Biome Required Object Types (Boxes) Rent Chances Rent Timeframe
Scorched Tenant.png
Deadbeat Merchant Merchant Deadbeat Decayed Scorched (18) Merchant 15 to 30 minutes

Expand to see a full list of tagged objects.

Object Category Blocks Description Tags
Shelter Shelf Icon.png Shelter Shelf storage 35 Everything you need to survive. Almost. scorchedstoragecommerce
Explosive Barrel Icon.png Explosive Barrel decorative An explosive metal barrel. It looks dangerous. scorched
Manhole Cover Icon.png Manhole Cover door A manhole cover. doorscorched
Metal Trap Door Icon.png Metal Trap Door door A trap door disguised as a metal platform. doorscorched
Scorched Bench Icon.png Scorched Bench furniture A scorched bench. scorched
Tire Arrow Sign Icon.png Tire Arrow Sign decorative An arrow sign. scorched
Stylish Bed Icon.png Stylish Bed furniture A clean and sturdy bed. scorched
Broken Stylish Bed Icon.png Broken Stylish Bed decorative A broken bed. scorched
Broken Stylish Chair Icon.png Broken Stylish Chair decorative A broken chair. scorched
Large Broken Drawers Icon.png Large Broken Drawers decorative A chest of drawers, minus a few drawers. scorched
Small Broken Drawers Icon.png Small Broken Drawers decorative A chest of drawers, minus a drawer. scorched
Grimy Stylish Counter Icon.png Grimy Stylish Counter decorative A counter with added grime. scorched
Broken Electric Box Icon.png Broken Electric Box decorative A broken electric box. scorched
Broken Utility Box Icon.png Broken Utility Box decorative A broken utility box. scorched
Rusty Stylish Fridge Icon.png Rusty Stylish Fridge decorative A broken fridge. scorched
Broken Register Icon.png Broken Register decorative A broken register. scorched
Neglected Rusty Sign Icon.png Neglected Rusty Sign decorative A road sign, it is bent and rusted. scorched
Rusty Metal Store Shelf Icon.png Rusty Metal Store Shelf storage 29 A rusty metal shelf, some store goods still remain on the shelves. scorchedstoragecommerce
Broken Round Table Icon.png Broken Round Table furniture A broken wooden table. scorched
Rusty Holding Tank Icon.png Rusty Holding Tank decorative A rusty holding tank. scorchedmechanical
Broken Traffic Lights Icon.png Broken Traffic Lights decorative A set of traffic lights, badly broken. scorched
Broken Stylish TV Icon.png Broken Stylish TV decorative A broken television set. scorched
Stylish Chair Icon.png Stylish Chair furniture A stylish but sturdy chair. scorched
Decayed Chest Icon.png Decayed Chest storage 4 A battered, decayed looking chest. scorchedstorage
Large Stylish Drawers Icon.png Large Stylish Drawers storage 6 A large contemporary chest of drawers. scorchedstorage
Small Stylish Drawers Icon.png Small Stylish Drawers storage A small contemporary chest of drawers. scorched
Stylish Counter Icon.png Stylish Counter storage 10 A clean looking counter. scorchedstorage
Rusty Crate Icon.png Rusty Crate storage 12 A rusty crate. scorchedstoragecommerce
Stylish Fridge Icon.png Stylish Fridge fridgeStorage 12 A contemprary style fridge, capable of extending the shelf life of food. scorchedstorage
Store Register Icon.png Store Register storage 3 Ka-ching! scorchedcommerce
Warning Sign Icon.png Warning Sign decorative A warning sign, but what is it warning of? scorched
Small Rusty Crate Icon.png Small Rusty Crate storage 6 A small rusty looking crate. scorchedstoragecommerce
Metal Store Shelf Icon.png Metal Store Shelf storage 29 A metal shelf packed with store goods. scorchedstoragecommerce
Round Table Icon.png Round Table furniture A rounded wooden table. scorched
Stylish TV Icon.png Stylish TV decorative A popular style of television set. scorched
Rusty Land Mine Icon.png Rusty Land Mine wire 2 An old, forgotten land mine. It may still be active! scorchedcombat
Wooden Utility Pole Icon.png Wooden Utility Pole decorative A wooden utility pole. scorched
Wooden Telephone Pole Icon.png Wooden Telephone Pole decorative A wooden utility pole. scorched

Settlements

Scorched biomes have a chance to have most settlement types appear. There aren't any settlement types which are more likely to be found on scorched planets.

VILLAGES (FRIENDLY) DUNGEONS (HOSTILE)

Microdungeons

  • A group of electric poles with a cluster of storage containers and explosive barrels nearby
  • Scorched city ruins consisting of 1 to 2 towers roughly 2 to 3 floors in height
  • Underground shelters filled with crates and storage lockers. Some shelters are buried and contain chests. However, these buried shelters are often booby-trapped with explosives
  • The remnants of an old road system. Digging underneath the road may sometimes reveal chests
  • The scorched and burnt remains of shops or other single story buildings
  • The burnt-out and partially destroyed remains of city towers. Watch out for explosive barrels and wall-mounted explosives. If you find a building filled with junk blocks look for a chest nearby or dig through the junk to find it
  • Observation towers containing 1 to 2 enemy NPCs
  • Underground tunnels with a treasure chest at the end. The tunnels are booby-trapped with explosives but the chest contains valuable treasure
  • Elevated platforms with storage containers. Beware of land mines

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