Talk:Biome

Projects:Biome Maintenance

Project established to help ensure a common style and to provide a checklist of content for the pages. Blackwood (talk) 19:01, 25 August 2016 (EDT)

Biome Image Layout

I'm down for the titles of biomes not being on the image!

The screenshots would probably look better if we cropped them to be pixel perfect, instead of using lanczos or bilinear scaling. That's my only issue with them. The ones I took are cropped to maintain 2x scaling, but any screenshot used could be made to be 2x or 1x scaling to preserve the features!

Examples of scaling where it preserves the pixel art's detail I feel like cropping it while at 2x scale looks better, because the other seems kinda difficult to make out.

--Lyyti

We kinda trampled on each other's toes there, sorry!

What bothered me most about the old images is that they made all the biomes look so similar and indistinct when this is very much not the case! I want to emphasise the key details of the biome and the awesome background parallax as much as realistically possible, without forcing everyone to view giant screenshots as thumbnails, which is why I went for this.

The screenshots were all gathered around the vicinity of [17784,64853]. The moon I used - because it's absolutely perfect for the biome thumb - is Syrma Strand IIa.

--Velotican

Biome Generation

Biome associations: Planet/Sub-Biome Spreadsheet

I want to point out either an error or a confusion in this spreadsheet. Take a look at Desert for example. Desert is only a Tier 2 planet and yet it can have a Tier 3 biome as it's sub-biome. Does this mean that a Desert Planet will never have a Savannah subbiome unless it orbits a Temperate Star? If so, where is defined?

Blackwood (talk) 00:28, 27 August 2016 (EDT)

This is a break from the existing tradition so I'm going to explain my reasoning here.

It looks like in the current 1.0 planetgen code, every planet-defining biome is able to trigger the spawning of its associated secondary biome, allowing for really weird stuff like Springs to show up on Volcanic worlds because Volcanic worlds will sometimes generate Gardens (aka Lush worlds).

In other words, Volcanic --allows--> Garden --allows--> Spring.

That being the case, I refer to the biomes in play on a planet like this:

• Dominant - the "supermajor"; the one that shows up on the nav console, the one that sets the background parallax, the one that authorises the spawning of any additional major biomes
• Major - any biome that can define a whole planet but not the master biome on this particular world
• Minor - a biome dependent on, and overwriting, a parent major biome

--Velotican

Other possibilities biome, sub-biome, mini-biome? I've also seen primary biome, secondary biome, mini biome on the forums/reddit. Blackwood (talk) 13:11, 16 August 2016 (EDT)

Page Layout

This is more for the pages this page links to, e.g., Garden, Desert, Ocean, et cetera. The current layout sometimes uses {{FoundInList}}. However, should that be used for biomes, surface mini-biomes, and underground mini-biomes? Aren't such objects actually attached to the dungeons and microdungeons (which can include changes to just terrain + a chest)?

On the other hand a person seeking to find a particular object would like to know which world to search to have the best odds of finding them and most microdungeons are tied to specific biome. Thought? Blackwood (talk) 13:15, 16 August 2016 (EDT)

Cave Name

Since the official names all have caves in them then should it say caves instead of removing it despite being organized under a cave section? Blackwood (talk) 15:46, 25 August 2016 (EDT)

My argument here is simple - it looked really stupid until I changed it. Also, referring to them as Underground Caves distinguishes them from surface Biomes as they seem to have little, if any, connection. Velotican (talk) 20:48, 25 August 2016 (BST)

Official Biome names

Here's the list of 'official' names for each biomes direct from Chucklefish. Note, some of these aren't referenced by these names anywhere in game - but these are the names that have been confirmed they'll be using for any publications or marketing materials. Katzeus (talk) 16:28, 25 August 2016 (EDT)

Primary Biomes

Filename	Nav console Name	Wiki Page	Final Name (as per CF)	Notes
alien	alien	Mutated	Mutated	Redesign complete (needs a little format cleanup)
arctic	frigid ocean	Arctic	Arctic	Redesign complete
savannah	dry grassland	Savannah	Savannah	Redesign Pending
asteroidfield	asteroids	Asteroid Field	Asteroid Field	Redesign complete
barren	barren	Barren	Barren	Redesign complete
desert	desert	Desert	Desert	Redesign complete
forest	forest	Forest	Forest	Redesign complete
tundra	frozen	Tundra	Tundra	WIP Redesign right now
moon	airless	Moon	Moon	Redesign complete
jungle	jungle	Jungle	Jungle	Redesign complete
garden	lush	Garden	Garden	Redesign complete
magma	magma	Magma	Magma	Redesign complete
midnight	dark	Midnight	Midnight	Redesign complete
ocean	ocean	Ocean	Ocean	Redesign complete
scorchedcity	scorched	Decayed	Decayed	Redesign complete (Needs Screenshots)
snow	snow	Snow Biome	Snow	Redesign Pending
toxic	toxic	Toxic	Toxic	Redesign complete
volcanic	volcanic	Volcanic	Volcanic	Redesign complete
tentacle	N/A	Tentacle	Tentacle	Redesign complete (Needs Screenshots)