And that's just in one vertical slice of a single planet.

It's fully possible to land on a frozen world and drill down to a liquid ocean, beneath which is a temple made of bones, which in turn hides a steampunk mineshaft leading even deeper to a lava-filled mini dungeon. I wasn’t fully prepared for some of the downright disturbing (in a good way!) buried biomes I came across, and I’d rather not spoil them for you here other than to say to expect the unexpected. Each also contains several different biomes, both above and below ground, so you can travel from one side of a forest moon to the other and see three or more types of arboreal environments. There are over a dozen interesting planet types to discover, from temperate to jungle to roiling seas of magma, and procedural generation guarantees an endless supply of them to explore. Randomized locations, hidden ruins, resources, and quests round out these worlds.Įach planet I visited had me breaking blocks, exploring caves, and hunting for resources to combine and craft into items, but each one is unique.

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