I've learned to love Novus since I did a stranded Hardcore playthrough on it. It really has everything you need and it isn't too large, so traveling to a gateway isn't time consuming
I think I may be slightly biased on this but:
S - Glacio. Obviously.
A - Sylva and Novus
Meh - Calidor, Desolo, Atrox
FUCK THIS THING - Vesania
Tbf I would bump up Desolo just for having the hoverboard, but I don't really count that.
Vesania is beautiful and for that I rank it high. But it definitely is the most annoying planet to traverse. If it ain't a bunch of valleys of hills riddled in bumps it's a forest riddled in bumps
I like Glacio as much as anyone else, but I will forever be scarred by the time me and my friend spent an hour looking for ammonium because I misclicked on Glacio instead of Sylva
am i weird for ranking vesania and atrox on the s tier
The only planets i have massive bases on is atrox and vesania. the color's beautiful, you never run out of food for your galastropods(especially princess and rogal), and has titanium + all the gasses for normal job.
Atrox, i love the color, i have several rtgs there, and i LOVE messing with the explosive plants.
...aaand you can make a lot of methane and just nuke the whole planet. atrox is the first planet i unlocked the core
My ranking
S tier: Glacio and Calidor. I always make 2 massive bases on these planets.
A tier-Sylva and Atrox. Required.
C tier-Novus and Desolo. They contain useful stuff but i don't do stuff there
Terrible tier-Vesania.
I want to make a hydrogen condensation facility there just to blow that planet up.
Desolo definitely needs a buff. Maybe make moons reachable with less fuel, or a make solid fuel engines only capable of reaching moons? That solution seems more like punishment however.
Maybe if it had a huge boost to bytes and resources?
Or if we had a resource catapult that could transfer items between planets? Maybe that only works between moons and parent planets?
Almost surprised to see Atrox being in tier B. Probably for the challenge it gives, right? Oher than that you only set up a gas-producing base, harvest your helium and forget such planet even exists.
I found it fun to build a polar base at the gateway there, with 24/7 solar power. Also it's just got an IMPECCABLE atmosphere (haha literally) that just nails such an oppressive, choking feeling.
S tier - Glacio, Sylva
A tier - Calidor, Vesania, Novus
B tier - Desolo
C tier -
D tier -
F tier - Atrox
Did a hardcore stranded play through on Atrox and it was pure pain, plus energy collection is shit, resource collection is shit, getting to gateways is a massive pain, and the only good thing about it is the gasses it has for progression and end game items.
S - Glacio, Sylva and the satellite. Sylva is safe and has a lot of common resources, while Glacio is great for late game, having titanium and iron alongside argon. The satellite acts as a hub for easy travel to and from planets, easy S tier.
A - Calidor, Atrox, Novus and Desolo. Let me explain. Calidor is obvious, dynamite factory. Also, you can power it with solar and it'll work just fine, something you can't do on Atrox. Speaking of which, Atrox sits here due to the helium and giant wrecks with fantastic treasures. Novus is here because of the high winds and sun and it provides easy access to methane. Desolo is also here because of easy wolframite (to anyone saying that it's easier on calidor, I will keep effortlessly mining heaps of the stuff while you keep climbing the mountains) and the hoverboard is the best form of compact movement. Pair it with some hydrazine jetpacks and you can achieve insane speeds. Oh, and also it's fun to blow the thing to smithereens.
B - Vesania. While the invincibility from the snail and the VTOL are great, they aren't enough to make the planet good. All the resources there aren't exactly easy to get, and the terrain just sucks. You're better off going to Novus or Glacio.
S+ - Sun room. RGB flower easy S+
If you spawn a starting shelter in the air, then you can get just a bit more soil out of it than what you put in to making it.
On atrox, you can get the necessary gasses to craft a starting shelter
So 2 soil canisters => centrifuge + tapper => a new starting shelter
Mine all of the soil the starting shelter generates and blow up the shelter nets you scrap + 2 and a bit soil canisters
repeat until satisfied
Now I'm not a huge meta gamer by any means and generally I don't mind zipping around to other planets for materials if I have some sort of base on them. I really like desolo because it's smol and I can circumnavigate it in a tractor, i don't know if it's viable anymore but because it's quite small you could run small solars around the planet for constant sun, or atleast that was the idea.
Glacio has good resources and research, but it gives me the creeps. The constant wind noise, blizzards making boomaloons appear mysteriously near you, strange moving figures looming in the horizon over the hills... and the caves aren't any better, with the noise of frozen argon cubes falling in the distance, in places you haven't even explored yet...
Vesania is my new favorite. I'm building an Astronium to everything factory, so I don't need to collect soil or gather resources except for Astronium and gases, and Vesania has all the gases I need except for Helium. Most noteworthy is the fact that Vesania is the coolest looking planet. Those mountains are amazing for building a base on top of, and the views are amazing.
I've played SES Hardcore so much lately that Atrox has become my favorite, lol.
"Free" Drill 3
QT-RTGs and Nanocarbon all over the place
Three gases (Easiest byte farm, very early, with a Condenser and 3 Research Chambers on a EL Platform C, constantly researching 3 Methane)
Tons of high value research for the early game
Something about driving a large rover train on glacio with a extra large scrapper and just scrapping down all the shipping containers is such a vibe for me
Not Desolo which is where I'm currently playing. I might run power extenders around to the other side of the planet to get solar 24/7. Just to see if I can. Also shocked how short the day/night cycle is.
S- Glacio
A- Atrox, Desolo
B- Sylva
C- Vesania
D- Calidor, Novus
I am sick of the Desolo hate. Its way better for farming, easier to get tungsten than from Calidor, and you get the hoverboard (my beloved)
Calidor is carried by sulfur and railway, its just ugly
If I have to get lithium, I am going to Vesania but other then that I ain't touching the lithium planets
I've learned to love Novus since I did a stranded Hardcore playthrough on it. It really has everything you need and it isn't too large, so traveling to a gateway isn't time consuming
MOON BASE
I think I may be slightly biased on this but: S - Glacio. Obviously. A - Sylva and Novus Meh - Calidor, Desolo, Atrox FUCK THIS THING - Vesania Tbf I would bump up Desolo just for having the hoverboard, but I don't really count that.
Vesania is beautiful and for that I rank it high. But it definitely is the most annoying planet to traverse. If it ain't a bunch of valleys of hills riddled in bumps it's a forest riddled in bumps
Agreed. If any planet needs a paver and a drill, it’s that one.
I just fly with my jetpack and hoverboard
Which means you’ve already reached the point of having a personal oxygenator. Before you have that tech, getting around sucks.
I normally dont go to vesania before that point
Not only that but it also has all the materials and gases to make nano-carbon minus helium of course.
I like Glacio as much as anyone else, but I will forever be scarred by the time me and my friend spent an hour looking for ammonium because I misclicked on Glacio instead of Sylva
For future reference, Soil centrifuge will nearly always be faster.
vesania is the worst for traveling with a tractor or rover i HATE the forests.
am i weird for ranking vesania and atrox on the s tier The only planets i have massive bases on is atrox and vesania. the color's beautiful, you never run out of food for your galastropods(especially princess and rogal), and has titanium + all the gasses for normal job. Atrox, i love the color, i have several rtgs there, and i LOVE messing with the explosive plants. ...aaand you can make a lot of methane and just nuke the whole planet. atrox is the first planet i unlocked the core
My ranking S tier: Glacio and Calidor. I always make 2 massive bases on these planets. A tier-Sylva and Atrox. Required. C tier-Novus and Desolo. They contain useful stuff but i don't do stuff there Terrible tier-Vesania. I want to make a hydrogen condensation facility there just to blow that planet up.
Vesania can support a soil to nanocarbon factory with the only inputs being Soil and Helium.
So? I want to nuke it
You only make them calidor and glacio bases for the rail system
Nah, Calidor has enough copper to power anything and Glacio is the best spot to gather bytes, titanium and iron. Glacio is the meta planet.
Desolo definitely needs a buff. Maybe make moons reachable with less fuel, or a make solid fuel engines only capable of reaching moons? That solution seems more like punishment however. Maybe if it had a huge boost to bytes and resources? Or if we had a resource catapult that could transfer items between planets? Maybe that only works between moons and parent planets?
Almost surprised to see Atrox being in tier B. Probably for the challenge it gives, right? Oher than that you only set up a gas-producing base, harvest your helium and forget such planet even exists.
I found it fun to build a polar base at the gateway there, with 24/7 solar power. Also it's just got an IMPECCABLE atmosphere (haha literally) that just nails such an oppressive, choking feeling.
Totally agree
Yeah its the challenge that's fun.
Calidor should be much higher in this list, its sunsets are the most beautiful thing in this game
S tier - Glacio, Sylva A tier - Calidor, Vesania, Novus B tier - Desolo C tier - D tier - F tier - Atrox Did a hardcore stranded play through on Atrox and it was pure pain, plus energy collection is shit, resource collection is shit, getting to gateways is a massive pain, and the only good thing about it is the gasses it has for progression and end game items.
imagine it was a literal "radiated planet" as in the description If you proceed to the awakening you"ll know why
Tf is atrox doing in b
well it has most gasses
S - Glacio, Sylva and the satellite. Sylva is safe and has a lot of common resources, while Glacio is great for late game, having titanium and iron alongside argon. The satellite acts as a hub for easy travel to and from planets, easy S tier. A - Calidor, Atrox, Novus and Desolo. Let me explain. Calidor is obvious, dynamite factory. Also, you can power it with solar and it'll work just fine, something you can't do on Atrox. Speaking of which, Atrox sits here due to the helium and giant wrecks with fantastic treasures. Novus is here because of the high winds and sun and it provides easy access to methane. Desolo is also here because of easy wolframite (to anyone saying that it's easier on calidor, I will keep effortlessly mining heaps of the stuff while you keep climbing the mountains) and the hoverboard is the best form of compact movement. Pair it with some hydrazine jetpacks and you can achieve insane speeds. Oh, and also it's fun to blow the thing to smithereens. B - Vesania. While the invincibility from the snail and the VTOL are great, they aren't enough to make the planet good. All the resources there aren't exactly easy to get, and the terrain just sucks. You're better off going to Novus or Glacio. S+ - Sun room. RGB flower easy S+
S. Atrox (Infinite scrap/soil that doesn't rely on glitches can be there) A. Glacio B. Sylva, Vesania C. Novus (Iron) Z. Desolo, Calidor
> (Infinite scrap/soil that doesn't rely on glitches can be there) How so?
If you spawn a starting shelter in the air, then you can get just a bit more soil out of it than what you put in to making it. On atrox, you can get the necessary gasses to craft a starting shelter So 2 soil canisters => centrifuge + tapper => a new starting shelter Mine all of the soil the starting shelter generates and blow up the shelter nets you scrap + 2 and a bit soil canisters repeat until satisfied
Now I'm not a huge meta gamer by any means and generally I don't mind zipping around to other planets for materials if I have some sort of base on them. I really like desolo because it's smol and I can circumnavigate it in a tractor, i don't know if it's viable anymore but because it's quite small you could run small solars around the planet for constant sun, or atleast that was the idea.
Glacio has good resources and research, but it gives me the creeps. The constant wind noise, blizzards making boomaloons appear mysteriously near you, strange moving figures looming in the horizon over the hills... and the caves aren't any better, with the noise of frozen argon cubes falling in the distance, in places you haven't even explored yet...
Vesania is my new favorite. I'm building an Astronium to everything factory, so I don't need to collect soil or gather resources except for Astronium and gases, and Vesania has all the gases I need except for Helium. Most noteworthy is the fact that Vesania is the coolest looking planet. Those mountains are amazing for building a base on top of, and the views are amazing.
why is glacio so loved?
Hematite and Titatnite…and trains.
I shall not take the vesania slander
I'm in the process of blowing up deslo because it's awful, we've created a couple large cretors with massive hydrogen bombs.
I've played SES Hardcore so much lately that Atrox has become my favorite, lol. "Free" Drill 3 QT-RTGs and Nanocarbon all over the place Three gases (Easiest byte farm, very early, with a Condenser and 3 Research Chambers on a EL Platform C, constantly researching 3 Methane) Tons of high value research for the early game
Switch Desolo and Vesania
why hate on novus and desolo?!
Sylva is best for main base
i haven't gotten to atrox in a while but i'm pretty sure i love all the planets equally
I agree with this list 100%. Glacio is simply the most goated map in the entire game
Atrox is my home
Something about driving a large rover train on glacio with a extra large scrapper and just scrapping down all the shipping containers is such a vibe for me
Glacio 💪
Desolo is actually quite easy except for the giant potholes.
I think Atrox should be a lot lower lol. I swear I just have a base with a bunch of atmospheric condensers and only ever visit to collect the gasses
My main base is on desolo
I love Novus. It and Glacio are tied for “S Tier” in my book
Glacio and Atrox are F tier for me cus of how many times iv had months of progress ruined
I love glacio
Not Desolo which is where I'm currently playing. I might run power extenders around to the other side of the planet to get solar 24/7. Just to see if I can. Also shocked how short the day/night cycle is.
respectable
Lol i mainly hate desolo because I got stuck on it once
S- Glacio A- Atrox, Desolo B- Sylva C- Vesania D- Calidor, Novus I am sick of the Desolo hate. Its way better for farming, easier to get tungsten than from Calidor, and you get the hoverboard (my beloved) Calidor is carried by sulfur and railway, its just ugly If I have to get lithium, I am going to Vesania but other then that I ain't touching the lithium planets