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Planets generation Overhaul - Bigger Planets, more satellites around gas giants, more dungeons and microdungeons spawn
   
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Planets generation Overhaul - Bigger Planets, more satellites around gas giants, more dungeons and microdungeons spawn

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Description
This mod is a slight overhaul of planets generation.

Built-in support for the following modded biomes mods:
here

While nothing happen if you use this mod with a modded planet type that is not listed, that biome will have the same number of dungeons that would have in vanilla. Planet size will still be modded.

Not compatible with Frackin Universe

Compatible with More Planets Mod

Lite version here (same but with vanilla orbitals around gas giants and microdungeons spawn intact)

Same mod but with vanilla planet size here

Patch for vanilla dungeon rates: here

  • It changes the planet size as follows, making them larger:
    Vanilla
    Modded
    Size
    Dungeons
    Regions
    Size
    Dungeons
    Regions
    Tiny
    1000x2000
    1-1
    0-0
    2000x2000
    1-2
    0-0
    Small
    3000x2000
    1-1
    1-1
    4000x3000
    3-4
    1-2
    Medium
    4000x3000
    1-2
    1-2
    8000x4000
    5-6
    1-3
    Large
    6000x3000
    2-3
    1-2
    16000x4000
    7-8
    2-4

    Vanilla
    Modded
    Size of moons around planets
    Medium
    Tiny and Small
    Size of moons around Gas Giants
    Small
    Tiny and Small

    Vanilla
    Modded
    Size of Planets (Tier1)
    Small and Medium
    Tiny and Small
    Size of Planets (Tier2+)
    Medium and Large
    Medium and Large
    Size of Planets around Gas Giants(Tier1)
    Small
    Tiny
    Size of Planets around Gas Giants(Tier2+)
    Small and Medium
    Small and Medium

    The Navigation console will refer to small planets as medium, medium planets as large and large planets as huge. This seems to be hardcoded and determined by the size of the planets in blocks.
    Tiny planet size is defined in celestial.config in vanilla Starbound but it seems it's unused as no planet or moon will spawn of that size. This mod makes use of the tiny size as well.

  • Makes the gas giants in the sky backdrop bigger when you visit a planet
  • Gas giants have a 80% probability of having each orbital filled with a satellite (versus 50% in vanilla)
  • Gas giants have a maximum 6 orbitals of satellite around them (versus 3 in vanilla)
  • Change the probability of microdungeons to 65% (30% is the vanilla value) and of rare microdungeons to 18% (from 8% in vanilla)
  • Spawns more dungeons around planets, including Ocean planets.
  • Dungeons number on Desert planets are capped at [2,4] (2 minimum 4 max) for all planet sizes.
  • Dungeons number on Scorched City planets are capped at [1,2] (1 minimum 2 max) for all planet sizes.

It's helpful having Starmap Zoom Slider to zoom in and out the navigation console otherwise some planets around gas giants won't be reachable

Fully Compatibile with Truespace
The only difference you will find with this mod is the fact that with TrueSpace you will find satellites of any kind orbiting a planet, not only Moons, and they will spawn of the Small and Medium size but when a Moon is spawned it will be Tiny and Small.
In Vanilla you will find planets as satellites only around Gas Giants

Meant to be used as a Overhaul of Vanilla Starbound

As I made this mod for myself but decided to share it with everyone it supports just the planet types I play, contact me in the discussion above to request compatibility for other planet biomes mods.


Ideally it works best to have a fresh universe from the start as this mod change the seed of generation of stars, but you can install this mod anyway if you don't want to start over, just be sure to backup your whole storage/universe folder, especially universe.chunks file inside storage/universe before installing this mod.

To see the changes this mod make travel to a unexplored region of the map.

If you lose universe.chunks or it gets corrupted as stars generation is different with this mod installed you won't lose your planets and builds but they might be shown differently on the navigation console (like you will be shown a volcano planet instead of your old lush planet but when you will beam down it's still the old lush planet) and/or you could be in an invalid coordinate of space (meaning you are in a place where there used to be a star system and now there's nothing in it and the game crashes)


Screenshots show a Navigation Console modded with More Planets info a great mod that I recommend.

Gas Giants Screenshot are made with the Celestial- Cosmos mod installed, another mod that I recommend. Without it gas giants will be still bigger than vanilla-sized gas giants but they will have the usual vanilla look.


Yes...I'm a human and I drive a Novakid ship.... u.u
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Meteora  [author] 29 Jun, 2024 @ 11:07am 
@StarLordPro there is the LITE version which leaves the orbitals and microdungeons spawns intact, you could try if it works, get it here: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2897026918
the only thing that alters about gas giants is it's appearance in the sky when you land on a satellite orbiting a gas giants but this is purely aesthetic, won't touch the actual gas giant size.
Get back to me tell me if the lite version works, if not a simple patch will solve it.
StarLordPro 29 Jun, 2024 @ 3:17am 
can we get a version of this mod that leave the gass giants alone? as the landable gas giants mod is not working together with this version of this mod.. and i still want the changes this mod makes to the other planets... or maybe you could just make a patch for that....
odes 24 Jun, 2024 @ 1:23pm 
if i have to i did
odes 24 Jun, 2024 @ 1:18pm 
do i have to search the planet first
Meteora  [author] 24 Jun, 2024 @ 6:15am 
@odies

Sorry had to split the comment in 2 post, reached character limit

Try to subscribe to more planets info and afterwards move the map to a place very far from where you are and click to a star system to see its info to see if the mod works fine, please do not hesitate to contact me if you still have issues.

More planet info: https://steamproxy.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1117007107
Meteora  [author] 24 Jun, 2024 @ 6:14am 
@odies sorry for the delay in answer I had a busy week.

The screenshot was made with More Planets info mod installed, which adds more information to the planet screen, I used this mod for the screenshot to show the way this mod alter a planet's parameter, vanilla does not show those info, it may not be apparent if you don't have more planets info installed but the planets are bigger and there are more dungeons, because you would have to actually explore the planets to find out.

Also if you subscribed to this mod with an already existing universe save you would need to travel to an unexplored region of the map as it won't change the already visited planets, or planets in the same sectors of the planets you visited.
odes 19 Jun, 2024 @ 12:16pm 
nothing works for me its just the bigger planets
odes 19 Jun, 2024 @ 12:15pm 
when i find the people on the planet and i look in the spaceship it does not show the people there and the gravity, day length, and more does not show
odes 19 Jun, 2024 @ 12:10pm 
i don't see the people that are there on the planet
Hyper Bakana! (stranger1-5) 19 Jun, 2024 @ 2:17am 
Hi, I was wondering if this mod is compatible with Universe Generation Overhaul Reborn? (My English is not good, so I used a translation software to translate this sentence into English)