
However, flight, both in Creative Mode and from Solid-Fuel Jump Jet or Hydrazine Jet Pack, will not operate until the player is below a certain height, just above the cloud layer.



Landing zones are locations on each planet that a player may land on using a Shuttle. Abundance of hazardous plantlife and lacking any primary or secondary resources. Toxic wastelands, with deep yellow canyons and tall, swiss cheese-like mountains. Sparsely forested, with canyons and craters marking the surface.Ĭold and icy, with small hot spots of life, surrounded with tall glaciers, with steep drops to the icy plains below. Mesas and flat plains mixed in with the dunes.ĭensely forested hills, heavy abundance of plantlife. The occasional slightly raised mountains spaced between the gray landscape.ĭry and dusty dunes, plantlife typical of a desert. Typical lush, Earth-like planet, with plains, mountains, forested hills and gray-blue canyons. Each type has varying differences, from the amount of sun to the types of resources that it may contain. The Planets in Astroneer each have a type associated with them. Secondary resources are found in mountainous biomes on the surface and the layers under the mantle to the outer core. Primary resources are found between the first underground layer and the mantle of the planet.Due to the generation of terrain, some caves can stretch from the surface to the outer core on certain planets, as well as some layers blending together without much distinction, such as on Desolo. Additionally, they have slightly lower gravity at their surface, due to the surface being closer to the core.Įach planet has the same basic layout of five main layers: the surface, caves, mantle, outer core and inner core. On the other hand, Desolo and Novus have 1/2 the diameter of a planet, meaning that they have 1/8th of the volume. The five planets (Atrox, Calidor, Glacio, Sylva, and Vesania) share the same size and gravity. Planets have unique day/night cycles and power generation, with some planets being better for solar power, and others for wind power. Research Items and Samples are also different per planet, with different colors, amounts of bytes, and research times. Atrox is unique in having four atmospheric resources, with one being unique to the planet, while Desolo, having no atmosphere, has no atmospheric resources. Planets share the same universal resources, while all but Atrox have a Primary and a Secondary resource, which each exists on only two planets. Planets are procedurally generated upon creation of a new save, each having unique characteristics, with different types of Flora, Biomes, and Resources. The moons, Desolo and Novus, orbit Sylva and Vesania, respectively. These are, starting from the one closest to the Sun, Atrox, Calidor, Sylva, Vesania, and Glacio.

There are currently five planets, with two moons. Moons exist as well, but they share the same characteristics as planets, and are treated as such. Planets are astronomical bodies in Astroneer that the player may travel to, explore and construct bases on.
