Desert

	Threat: Moderate (Tier 2)	Weather
	Star types: Gentle, Temperate, Radioactive, Frozen
	EPP Required: None
	Mini Biomes: Oasis, Tar, Colourful, Bones
	Secondary Biomes: Barren, Savannah

Sun rising over a desert biome.

Desert is a primary biome type characterized by sand, clear weather, cacti, and palm trees. Desert planets are a 'moderate' threat level, geared toward tier 2 in progression.

Desert biomes can be created and expanded using a Sandy Terraformer, and a planet will convert to a Desert planet once half of the planet's surface has been terraformed into Desert biome.

Desert planets can be found orbiting gentle (white), temperate (orange) and radioactive (yellow) star types. They also have a rare chance of being found around frozen (blue) stars as satellites of gas giants. There are no environmental hazards in desert biomes which require use of an environmental protection pack.

Possible mini biomes inside deserts are oasis, tar, colourful, and bones. In addition to wood gathered from trees, deserts have cacti which can be harvested and replanted which produce cactus.

Batong, Bobot, Crustoise, Fennix, Ignome, Iguarmor, and Peblit all have a chance of being found in desert biomes.

Deserts are one of the best places to gather sand, which is used as an ingredient in a number of crafting recipes.

Navigation Console

• There is limited flora here, but the location does support life. There is also an abundance of sand. Simply put, it is a desert.
• A desert area populated by cacti, as well as various animal life. A relatively safe landing site, so long as you avoid the sandstorms.
• Sand. Readings indicate sand. Also some cacti... but predominantly sand. Given the available information I speculate that the landing site is situated in a desert.

Materials

The surface layer of deserts is primarily made up of sand, along with loose silt, sandstone and cobblestone. There's gatherable wood from palm trees and cactus from cacti. The planet's primary color in the navigation console and while orbiting above is the primary color of the sand found there.

Most common early game ores are found in desert biomes, with of copper, silver ore, gold, iron and tungsten available near the surface.

Primary material	Sub material	Geological materials
Sand	Loose Silt Sandstone Cobblestone	Copper Ore Silver Ore Gold Ore	Iron Ore Tungsten Ore

Music Tracks

Desert biomes use the Day Tracks during the day and the Night Tracks during the night.

Day Epsilon Indi Hymn to the Stars Procyon Stellar Formation Vast Immortal Suns Atlas Blue Straggler Cygnus X1 Europa Haiku M54 On the Beach at Night

Night Jupiter Arctic Constellation 1 Arctic Constellation 2 Mercury Mira Procyon Tranquility Base Psyche Accretion Disc Cygnus X1 Eridanus Supervoid Horsehead Nebula Large Magellanic Cloud M54 Nomads On the Beach at Night

Sub Biomes

A tar mini biome inside a desert.

There are sub biomes which can be found on desert planets in addition to their unique mini biomes. Barren or savannah have a chance to appear as smaller biomes on desert planets. These biomes will include things like their associated blocks, trees, and crops when they appear. Mini biomes for each of these secondary biome types can appear inside them as well.

Deserts can also be found on a number of different planet types as sub biomes. They have a chance of being found as sub biomes on savannah, midnight, and volcanic planets.

Mini Biomes

Oasis, tar, colourful, and bones are mini biomes found inside desert biomes. These mini biomes can be found on desert planets or inside desert sub biomes on other planet types. These mini biomes each have their own creatures and items outside what's available in desert biomes.

• Oasis - Water in the desert! There are reeds and pools of healing water found here.
• Tar - Sticky thick tar will slow players down here.
• Colourful - The palm trees here are very colorful, and drop rainbow wood.
• Bones - Dry bones cover the ground in this biome, which often has small settlements of hostile enemies.

Layers

Desert planets stick to the defaults for most layers. However, Desert planets have a unique subsurface layer that always appears.

• Space: Asteroids
• Atmosphere: Atmosphere
• Surface: Desert (Primary Biome); Barren, Savannah (Secondary Biomes)
• Subsurface: Desert Subsurface
• 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 in desert biomes is mostly clear, with occasional sandstorms. These storms, in addition to slowing down living things caught inside them, will often lay a layer of loose silt over the surface.

The probability for weather types on desert planets is as follows:

Clear	0.98	(98%)
Sandstorm	0.02	(2%)

Wild Crops

Beakseed can be found growing wild in deserts. 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.

In addition to palm trees which drop wood desert biomes also have cacti which can be replanted. These drop saplings instead of seeds and function just like trees except they drop cactus.

Beakseed	Beakseed Seed
Cactus

Wildlife

In addition to procedurally generated creatures, there are a variety of unique monsters, bugs and critters found in desert biomes. Some of these are also found in other biomes, while others are unique only to desert biomes. While these unique creatures have a chance to appear on desert 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 Batong Bobot Crustoise Fennix Ignome Iguarmor Peblit Voltip

Critters Armadillo Mouse Groop Raven Wurm

Bugs Goldbuck Sandclown Sunskipper

Unique Drops

There are a variety of items which are specific to Pod Chests and Old Chests found in desert 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 desert biomes.

Chests in deserts also commonly contain Cactus Juice and Mining Lanterns.

Decorative Objects Apex Sandstone Statue Avian Sandstone Statue Floran Sandstone Statue Glitch Sandstone Statue Human Sandstone Statue Hylotl Sandstone Statue

Costume Armor Desert Head Scarf Desert Cloak Desert Pants Lantern Stick Desert Set

Settlements

Deserts can have a large variety of settlement types found on them. These include small microdungeons and NPC camps, larger racial villages and hostile dungeons. Smaller desert planets usually contain only one dungeon or village, while larger desert planets can contain as many as three.

VILLAGES (FRIENDLY) DUNGEONS (HOSTILE) Apex Rebel Camp Apex City Apartments Avian Grounded Village Avian Native Village Avian Airship Floran Treetop Village Floran Hut Village Glitch Castle Glitch Village Human Campsite Hylotl Surface City Apex Miniknog Base Apex Test Facility Avian Temple Avian Tomb Floran Canyon Floran Hunting Grounds Glitch Dungeon Crawler Glitch Evil Fortress Human Prison Hylotl Ruined Castle Old Sewer

Screenshots

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Objects/Items

Object	Category	Blocks	Description	Tags
Barred Vent	Decorative	40	A small barred vent.
Bone Pile	Breakable	80	A pile of bones, prime for smashing.
Bone Pile (ribs)	Breakable	80	Part of a ribcage. It won't be intact for long.
Bone Pile (tall)	Breakable	80	A pile of bones, prime for smashing.
Bricks	Block	0	Small but perfectly formed bricks made from clay.
Cabin Roofing	Block	0	Simple roofing for a cabin.
Cactus Pot	Decorative	50	An exotic-looking cactus in a flower pot.
Crude Pot	Breakable	40	This looks like something I made in pottery class. Crude. I should smash it.
Embossed Tombstone	Decorative	50	The words honour a fallen Avian.
Flickering Lightbulb	Light Source	60	A bare lightbulb hanging from a metal rod in the ceiling.
Full-Size Fridge	Refrigerated Storage	180	Perfect for storing a lot of food and keeping it fresh.
Iron Chest	Storage	70	A basic iron chest.
Iron Lantern	Light Source	20	A handy oil lantern. Careful not to spill it.
Large Wooden Crate	Storage	110	A wooden crate.
Large Wooden Crate (open)	Storage	25	A mysterious wooden crate.
Medium Bongo	Decorative	75	A bongo drum fashioned out of leather and wood.
Metal Barrel	Decorative	50	A generic metal barrel. It's sealed.
Old Pot	Breakable	50	A crumbling old pot with patterned markings. It looks smashable.
Open Cardboard Box	Storage	45	An opened cardboard box.
Ornate Wood	Block	0	Expertly treated ornate wood.
Painted Brick	Block	0	Nicely painted brickwork.
Poop	Decorative	0	A revolting pile of poop. The stench is foul!
Primitive Furnace	Crafting Station	50	Used to turn ores and other materials into crafting ingredients.
Sandstone Bed	Furniture	85	A sandstone bed. Make sure you dust it off before use.
Sandstone Bricks	Block	0	Bricks made from smoothed sandstone.
Sandstone Chair	Furniture	50	A sandstone chair. Crumbly.
Sandstone Chest	Storage	40	A chest of roughly hewn sandstone.
Sandstone Door	Door	60	A rough sandstone door.
Sandstone Table	Furniture	65	A sandstone table. Don't spill water on it.
Sandstone Torch	Light Source	35	This torch flickers softly.
Simple Temple Blocks	Block	0	Old and poorly crafted blocks, crude drawings are scratched into the stone.
Skull on a Pike	Decorative	50	A skull on a pike. A Floran favourite.
Small Fancy Vase	Breakable	40	A decorative vase. Looks pretty smashable.
Small Pot	Breakable	30	A small, brittle-looking pot. It looks smashable...
Small Urn	Breakable	30	A fragile small urn made from clay.
Small Wooden Crate	Storage	75	A wooden crate.
Smooth Tomb Brick	Block	0	Old bricks, polished to perfection.
Stepladder	Decorative	60	A stepladder.
Stone Platform	Platform	0	A platform carved from stone.
Tacky Wallpaper	Block	0	Cheap, tacky wallpaper.
Tall Pot	Breakable	40	A tall, dusty pot that smells of bird poop. Maybe it's smashable.
Temple Platform	Platform	0	Platforms build from solid temple bricks.
Tomb Brick	Block	0	Dusty and ancient bricks.
Torch	Light Source	5	This torch flickers softly.
Wall Bookshelf	Storage	75	A sturdy suspended bookshelf.
Wide Urn	Breakable	50	A fragile wide urn made from clay.
Wide Wicker Basket	Breakable	25	A wicker basket. Maybe it's got cool stuff inside!
Wood Platform	Platform	0	A nondescript wood platform.
Wooden Ceiling Lamp	Light Source	25	A homely ceiling lamp.
Wooden Chair	Furniture	10	An uncomfortable-looking wooden chair.
Wooden Chest	Storage	70	A basic wooden chest.
Wooden Crate (small)	Storage	15	A mysterious wooden crate.
Wooden Door	Door	15	A crude wooden door. Not very secure.
Wooden End Table	Storage	85	A cute wooden end table.
Wooden Fence	Block	0	A sturdy wooden fence.
Wooden Gate	Door	10	A crude wooden gate. Not very secure.
Wooden Log	Block	0	A wooden log. Good for building simple structures.
Wooden Sink	Decorative	85	A wooden cabinet with a sink installed.
Wooden Support	Decorative	5	A worn wooden support.
Wooden Table	Furniture	15	A basic wooden table.
Wooden Toilet	Furniture	35	A wooden toilet.
Wooden Window	Block	0	A window with wooden panes.
Wrecked Boiler	Decorative	80	An old boiler. A dripping echoes from inside.
Wrecked Crate	Storage	75	A antique crate, I wonder what's inside..

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Biomes
Main Biomes Planets Arctic • Barren • Decayed • Desert • Forest • Garden • Jungle • Magma • Midnight • Moon • Mutated • Outpost • Ocean • Savannah • Snow • Tentacle • Toxic • Tundra • Volcanic Space Ancient Gateway • Anomaly • Asteroid Field Mini Biomes Surface Asteroids • Alpine • Bioluminescence • Bones • Colourful • Crystalline • Eyepatch • Flesh • Foundry • Giantflowers • Hive • Ice • Mushroom Patch • Oasis • Prism • Spring • Steamspring • Swamp • Tar Underground Bone Caves • Cell Caves • Flesh Caves • Ice Caves • Luminous Caves • Mini Village • Mushrooms • Slime Caves • Stone Caves • Tarpit • Wilderness