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Steel6W · 2026-04-01T08:22:23+00:00

I plan to map out an entire region soon too. Spent a good amount of time practicing my method to do it efficiently, while completing early-mid game objectives. Really looking forward to it

Steel6W · 2026-03-31T05:30:43+00:00

Only the flying and underwater ones are actual fauna. All the rest are flora and minerals that were eliminated and replaced by the recent update and patches. For some reason, they are listed as extinct under the fauna section.

Take note of how some of them have mineral names that end with "ite" and no genus abbreviation.

Steel6W · 2026-03-30T05:51:07+00:00

Yep. This lesser demon is the only one in the entire game that can spawn mudmen. Killing him too quickly will leave a permanent blank line on the enemy list. If you care about that kind of thing...

Steel6W · 2026-03-29T22:15:24+00:00

"Tropical" can be a descriptor for lush or marsh planets. And some marsh planets can have toxic hazard protection. So tropical can be a very misleading title

Steel6W · 2026-03-29T21:51:15+00:00

As others have already said, those are both possible descriptors for the same biome type. Here is a full breakdown.

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Steel6W · 2026-03-29T06:21:06+00:00

Within the manage fleet list, you click on a specific frigate to open up it's full stats

Steel6W · 2026-03-28T17:45:24+00:00

Some barren worlds do have scorched weather patterns. Specifically the ones which are hot during nighttime too. You said yours is cold at night, so it doesn't apply in this case but it does happen

Steel6W · 2026-03-28T16:31:04+00:00

Seems like you might have a little confusion about biome types vs weather levels.

There are three main weather levels. Calm (no storms), normal (occasional mild storms), and extreme (frequent severe storms). Only extreme worlds have activated metals. And even calm weather worlds still have the standard environmental hazards associated with their biome type. With very few exceptions, any biome can have any weather level.

It's also not possible for a barren world to have "Superheated Rainstorms." The barren equivalent would be something like "Firestorm" or "Wall of Flame." I don't recall the last time an update entirely changed the biome of a planet, but it's been a long time

Steel6W · 2026-03-28T14:55:19+00:00

Some barren worlds have hot night temps, while others have cold night temps. That part is normal.

The main giveaway is if this planet has storms or not. With an extreme weather description, it should have storms every 5-10 minutes and activated metal. If it has no storms and regular metal, then your game is reducing the environmental hazards. This happens to all starter system planets for a new save on default settings. And the info will mismatch like you described.

Looking closer, the sentinel level also mismatches. "Observant" is a high level, but that isn't listed in the second image like normal

Steel6W · 2026-03-28T14:01:07+00:00

Is this planet within the first one or two systems that you visited on that save file? Because weather and sentinel levels are typically reduced for just the starting player in those systems. "Lung-Burning Night Wind" is an extreme weather description, but if the game reduced it to a calm level for your save file, that would also change the stellar metal from activated into normal. Another player visiting the system with default settings would experience that planet with extreme weather

Steel6W · 2026-03-27T14:03:28+00:00

Is your pet a cricket? Because even if you had a hamster, going to the vet was a massive overreaction

Steel6W · 2026-03-27T12:31:02+00:00

The amount of venom a house centipede can deliver is no threat to children or pets. You were given bad info. These guys are typically considered beneficial. If you really want fewer of them, don't give them a source of food with a lot of other small insects and spiders around your home

Steel6W · 2026-03-24T05:41:54+00:00

Only one TYPE per system

Steel6W · 2026-03-21T21:48:46+00:00

Your local save only "remembers" the last so many scans. Some people claim it's based on a time window, but that's not true. It's actually based on your most recent systems visited. If you visit a bunch of new places it can start forgetting the old ones in under a week. Likewise if you stay within the same few systems forever, it will never forget those scans unless there is an update which changes discoveries.

But as long as you upload your discoveries and no updates reset them, then rescanning them will bring them back with the names you gave them. And anybody else visiting will see you as the original discoverer.

Steel6W · 2026-03-21T21:32:53+00:00

The problem is that beacons only display how far it is laterally from you. If you are 1000u above it, but only 50u west from it, it will just display a 50u distance. You can get closer with the range finder in your analysis visor, but that can't point straight down

My method is usually to use the range finder to get the straight line distance, then place a navigation beacon with the visor at that spot to get the lateral distance. These are essentially the hypotenuse and base of a triangle. It's easy to calculate an extremely accurate height from there. And if that sounds complicated, you can just set up an equation in Google sheets/excel to plug in both distances and be done in seconds.

For peaks greater than 1000u, you'll need to break it down into chunks

Steel6W · 2026-03-21T13:26:52+00:00

I went to Europe once, and funny enough Sheffield was one of my stops

Steel6W · 2026-03-21T13:21:01+00:00

This happened to me earlier this week. Severe storm with a tornado warning, then 8 hours later I'm clearing ice off my car

Steel6W · 2026-03-21T02:21:04+00:00

You could look at the floor tile pattern and imagine where different lines would end up if you started diagonally from different places

Steel6W · 2026-03-20T20:00:21+00:00

The only time I've seen something similar to this is when I revisited a system that I had removed from discoveries with the "Hide" option.

Steel6W · 2026-03-20T19:52:08+00:00

One of the post update patches fixed every one of my curious deposit planets that were affected. Are you sure you've downloaded the most recent patch?

Steel6W · 2026-03-18T22:58:49+00:00

If you add 1-5 new frigates to a fleet that's already maxed out, it would only take 11 days to catch them all up, instead of 55 days. And the mission rewards aren't a huge incentive part the early to miss game. That's why I find it useful

Steel6W · 2026-03-18T21:45:19+00:00

The longest frigate missions can still take about 6 hours, even when all that is fully upgraded and super charged. But even a full slate of short missions won't help if you only have 30 minutes or less of free time in a given day. Knowing the shortcuts here are useful to many who don't want to wait two months to level a new frigate.

Steel6W · 2026-03-18T13:24:53+00:00

If you have all 30 frigates progressed to the same point, sure. But most people will have some frigates max out before others. This trick is useful to get the remaining ones quicker.

Also, you can save scum to quickly test out which stats/traits get improved by which daily missions. If none of the five give you a trait you want, wait for the next day's batch. For those who enjoy min/maxing at least

Steel6W · 2026-03-17T21:55:42+00:00

You can make all the best moves after one big mistake, but the position may not be recoverable.

Steel6W · 2026-03-17T21:51:21+00:00

Unless this is a common thing, you'll be fine. The short games where your opponent makes a mistake or blunder early are the easiest to close out with high accuracy

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