Snow Biome
Threat: Risky (Tier 3) | Weather | |
Star types: Temperate, Radioactive, Frozen, Fiery | ||
EPP Required: None | ||
Mini Biomes: Alpine, Bioluminescence, Steamspring, Prism | ||
Secondary Biomes: Garden, Forest | ||
Snow is a planetary biome type. It's characterized by snow, trees and lower temperature. Not to be confused with the more dangerous Tundra planetary biome, which happens to have the same selection of minor biomes but a different selection of secondary biomes when it is the primary biome of a planet.
Snow biomes can be created and expanded using a Snowy Terraformer, and a planet will convert to a Snow planet once half of the planet's surface has been terraformed into Snow biome.
Snow planets can be found orbiting temperate (orange), radioactive (yellow) and frozen (blue) star types. They also have a rare chance of being found around fiery (red) stars as satellites of gas giants. There are no environmental hazards in Snow biomes which require use of an environmental protection pack. Natively-generated Snow planets have a Risky threat level and a planetary Tier of 3.
- The landing site is cold, but not perilously so. Snow covers the area and blizzards are a possibility. A hat and gloves may be advisable.
- This chilly landing site is laden with snow. Sundry trees grow here and various animals also thrive in the cold conditions. An excellent place to make snowballs.
- This location is relatively chill, and snow lies thickly on the ground. My sensors indicate that there are critters scampering through the soft blanket of white.
Materials
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Music Tracks
Snow biomes use the Day Tracks plus both Arctic Exploration tracks during the day and the Night Tracks during the night.
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Layers
Snow planets stick to the standards for planetary layer composition.
- Space: Asteroids
- Atmosphere: Atmosphere
- Surface: Snow (Primary Biome); Garden, Forest (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 in snow biomes is either snowy or clear.
The probability for weather types on snow planets is as follows:
Clear | 0.45 | (50%) |
Snow | 0.4 | (~44.4%) |
Snowstorm | 0.05 | (~5.6%) |
Wild Crops
Wildlife
In addition to procedurally generated creatures, there are a variety of unique monsters, bugs and critters found in snow biomes. Some of these are also found in other biomes, while others are unique only to snow biomes. While these unique creatures have a chance to appear on snow 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.
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Unique Drops
Treasure tends be found in Ice Chests in Microdungeons and Pod Chests elsewhere
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Structures
Snow infantry huts, along with other microdungeons may spawn here. Several of these other microdungeons have large diamond rocks and other ore rocks, making the Snow biome the best place to look for Diamonds.
Smaller planets usually contain only one dungeon or village, while larger planets can contain as many as three.
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Screenshots
Objects/Items
Object | Category | Blocks | Description | Tags |
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Bricks | Block | 0 | Small but perfectly formed bricks made from clay. | |
Cabin Roofing | Block | 0 | Simple roofing for a cabin. | |
Cheap Light | Light Source | 60 | A cheap fluorescent light. | |
Hazard Block | Block | 0 | This pattern suggests caution. | |
Hi-tech Block | Block | 0 | This looks hi-tech! | |
Ice Block | Block | 0 | Solid ice, cut into block shape. | |
Iron Block | Block | 0 | A solid iron block. | |
Iron Lantern | Light Source | 20 | A handy oil lantern. Careful not to spill it. | |
Medieval Plate | Decorative | 30 | A plate. It's gathering dust here. | |
Metal Bars | Block | 0 | Closely spaced thick metal bars. | |
Old Television | Decorative | 55 | A television! I don't think this has worked for a long time. | |
Ornate Wood | Block | 0 | Expertly treated ornate wood. | |
Security Door | Door | 125 | This door is made of some sort of bulletproof material. | |
Timber | Block | 0 | Wood that has been prepared for building and crafting. | |
Tungsten Platform | Platform | 0 | Strong platforms made from tungsten. | |
Wireless Generator | Decorative | 60 | A wireless energy supply. | |
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 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 Log | Block | 0 | A wooden log. Good for building simple structures. | |
Wooden Table | Furniture | 15 | A basic wooden table. | |
Wooden Window | Block | 0 | A window with wooden panes. | |
Wrecked Crate | Storage | 75 | A antique crate, I wonder what's inside.. |
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