Moon
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Threat: Unknown | Weather |
| Star types: All |   
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EPP Required:  Breathing EPP
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Moon is a primary biome type characterized by airless worlds with no plant or animal life. Due to their lack of an atmosphere moons lack a sky color, this allows for a clear view of the stars both day and night, as well as of any planets that may be neighboring it. This lack of air can be deadly to unprepared players; those not in a mech and without an EPP equipped in their back armor slot will quickly run out of air and eventually suffocate.
The primary reason to travel to moons is to gather fuel for interstellar travel as they are the only place crystal erchius fuel and liquid erchius fuel naturally spawn. Glowing crystal erchius fuel is located on the surface, with even greater veins of crystal and and liquid erchius fuel underground. However, moons feature an environmental hazard called Spooked, and when a player carries or picks up any type of erchius on a moon, they will begin to attract the attention of an Erchius Ghost, a monster that is "intractably deadly" regardless of the player's progression level. Aside from ghosts, there are no other monsters or NPCs to encounter, nor are there any secondary biomes, mini-biomes, or dungeons to be found.
Moons feature low gravity, which increases player jump height and slows fall acceleration. No music tracks play while the player is on a moon, though ambient noises still occur.
Moons can be found orbiting all star types. Most systems have at least one moon, orbiting either a planet or a gas giant. (See Stars for exact information on the chances of moons appearing in a given system.) Moons can be terraformed, and doing so will remove the Spooked environmental hazard, and therefore eliminate the threat of Erchius Ghosts.
Moons do not have any corresponding terraformer.
- This moon supports no life and has no atmosphere. However, fuel is abundant here - scans indicate that there is a wealth of it buried below the surface.
- This vacant moon has no breathable atmosphere, but there are caverns below ground that contain vast fuel deposits. In summation: useful, but not enticing.
- A lonely moon with no breathable atmosphere; the sky is open to the stars, there is fuel below the ground. Likelihood of feeling lonesome and desolate: 92%.
Materials
The surface layer of moons is primarily made up of moondust, moonrock, and moonstone. The color of the moon in the navigation console closely matches the hue the materials on the moon will have.
Moons do not have a lava core like other planets; instead, their cores are made of a unique, extremely hard material called dead core. Dead core is incredibly dense and takes a long time to mine, and upon doing so, drops nothing. Its primary purpose seems to be to discourage the player from dying by digging down far enough to touch the bottom of the moon.
Crystal Erchius Fuel and Liquid Erchius Fuel can be seen glowing faintly purple beneath the ground. Liquid Erchius Fuel is found in greater abundance in caves below ground, while ore can often be found near the surface.
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Sub Biomes
Moon planets do not have any sub biomes which appear, and moons do not appear as a sub biome on any other planet types.
Mini Biomes
There are no mini-biomes found on the surface or underground on moons.
Layers
Moons have a fairly boring layer composition, though unlike Barren planets, it's very hard to accidentally tunnel down to death at the bottom of the core.
- Space: Barren Asteroids (Copper, Silver and Gold ores appear here, but no monsters spawn here)
- Atmosphere: Void
- Surface: Moon
- Subsurface: Moon Underground
- Shallow Underground: Moon Underground
- Mid Underground: Moon Underground
- Deep Underground: Moon Underground
- Core: Moon Core Layer
Weather
Weather on moons is either clear, glowing rain, or meteor shower. 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 moons is as follows:
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0.7 | (87.5%) |
| Glowing Rain
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0.07 | (8.75%) |
| Meteor Shower
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0.03 | (3.75%) |
Wild Crops
There are no wild crops unique to moons.
Wildlife
Only one monster can be found on moons: the Erchius Ghost. Upon beaming to a moon it spawns and begins to pursue any player whose inventory contains either Liquid Erchius Fuel or Crystal Erchius. Coming into contact with the ghost will instantly kill the player under virtually all conditions. As the player collects more fuel in their inventory, the speed of the ghost increases. At approximately 3000 items of fuel in the player's inventory, the Erchius Ghost will move about as fast as the player running on foot.
There are no critters or bugs that spawn on moons.
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Unique Drops
There are no drops unique to moons.
Settlements
No settlements or dungeons can be found on moons.
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