Hey bob. Of course! Good luck with the server.

Hey @Elindis is it alright if i used this planet on a public server?

Oh thanks, but I already created my gameplay map for now. x3 I'd prefer you get all the praise though of making a hell world. So if by the next time I decide to start things up you've made a new version, I'll use that.

I was thinking it'd be a truly hellish world if it were more like Venus in its settings. You could knock its O2 down to 0.05 or even just make it zero and rely on ice to survive.

Dense heavy winds would make atmo thrusters work great and wind turbines too, solar power would be extremely low due to the density of the atmosphere.

Even nicer if there was occasional damage to equipment that contains computers that is exposed directly outside but that might be a more difficult thing to set up. Heat damage to equipment basically. I know there's a way to check if something is outdoors I'm just not sure how. :P

Hi Vas. You can use the planet's assets if you want to :)

I attempted to make a mod that mods this planet's values without me using your assets but apparently its impossible. I used just your SBC file and the planet became a single texture perfect sphere ball with no mountains of any kind...

I tried to set oxygen to 0.05, wind to 240 (4x), and was considering making the atmosphere 3x denser like Venus of sorts and was gonna increase gravity. But meh. Failed.

@Vas, there are ways to engineer around nearly everything. Are you able to build a large ore detector at least?

If you do an alt version sometime, certainly make it harder. Deadly lava, meteorite storms (even if player has disabled meteors in settings), toxic atmosphere with next to no oxygen at all so that the only way to breathe is ice or O2 Farms.

I've been streaming as I play, so if you wanted I could show you a little of what I've done. But yea, its a rather safe planet. Nothing but Ashfall so far.

I find myself having trouble finding Silver. Which is desperately needed for medical bays. Starting with a survival kit means you can't really upgrade to a large grid because you won't be able to find silver. At least I couldn't and I had traveled a fair bit. I thought some of the meteor rocks would have been silver but they weren't.

I still haven't noticed any real weather, but annoyingly oxygen is too easy to get on a hellish world like this. I really believe it should be a very low volume and a toxic atmosphere. Vents can extract even low volumes of O2, so you could still breathe if you use vents to pull air in. I kinda wish it required a filtration system but eh.

It has been a while since I looked at the files :). The cloud errors are normal - I haven't seen any way to get rid of them, even with other creators' planets.

The voxels not doing damage was a tough choice. Adding a script like that would be cool, but it would also reduce game performance and compatibility a bit. If I were to revisit this, I would be tempted to have that as an alternate version, at least.

I've so far encountered ashfall, but nothing more. If the others have happened, I haven't been able to tell the difference. :P

It also seems like every planet mod is causing errors in the log files due to cloud layers that don't exist.

Shame the magma voxels don't do damage though, that'd be interesting. I believe the oxygen percent should be lower though in a poison atmosphere. You can still suck small amounts of it out of the air with a vent and fill your tanks that way, after all.

I spawned this planet in at about 500km in size. Seems fine so far. Used it as my starting planet on a difficult start.

still works with latest version?

Wow! That's a fun coincidence. I haven't played many 90s-era PC games unfortunately.

@Elindis, there's a planet Pyke in the old game Gazillionaire. I thought for sure it was the inspiration behind this planet. https://lparchive.org/Gazillionaire-Deluxe/Update%2007/1-pyke.png

I appreciate that, Archon :)

@Gary: I don't know what that means D:

one of my favorite playthroughs so far a friend and I started on Pyke completely blind with some jetpack nerfs and other challenging mods. That orange hue really does a great job of making it look more intimidating it was a genuinely scary playthrough, do recommend.

Where can I locate the L-Tech engine factory on this planet? I am looking for a new 8 kuarp engine for my Mantagon.

I was originally considering having the lava do damage, honestly. I decided against it in the end because the environment damage script could be prone to worse performance or bugginess, but let's just say the engineer's materials are durable enough to withstand Pyke's heat :)

Shame the 'lava' doesn't do damage. Would've been very cool.

Cloud layer errors are normal; please enjoy as usual. :)

MOD_ERROR: Planet Pyke, in file: I:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\3028738424\Data\PlanetPyke.sbc
Resource not found, setting to null. Resource path: I:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\3028738424\Textures/Models/Environment/Sky/PykeClouds.dds
MOD_ERROR: Planet Pyke, in file: I:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\3028738424\Data\PlanetPyke.sbc
Resource not found, setting to null. Resource path: I:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\3028738424\Textures/Models/Environment/Sky/MartianSky.dds

@idiot It doesn't have to be very far. It depends entirely on the type of terrain - so, the lava and the black rock near lava shouldn't have any ice rocks, but rocks should contain ice if the ground is cool enough to be more like sand, or soil. The distance might only be 10-20m or so, depending on the geography. Ideally, you want to find areas without much lava, but it's possible to find rocks that are nearby.

Out of curiosity, what exactly counts as a plains on pyke? And additionally, how far from lava does ice-rocks need to be able to spawn?

love the magma texture it should be in the base game imo

But how cheap are the engine upgrades?

good pfp and a cool planet

Hey, feel free to PM me.

If youd rather i can comment on it here

@Elindis i sent you a friend req to discuss a project

@Tiberius It's not something I've done before, but I would probably start by looking at how it was done on a different planet. Caldera has a voxel damage script, I believe. I'm not sure that appropriating it would be okay, but referencing it should be fine.

There is a performance cost, and apparently this sort of thing can occasionally have buggy behaviour, but perhaps it's not so bad.

@Elindis you'd be surprised how popular it would be, honestly. If you could explain to me how to do it myself, that'd be great. I would love to add it to my community PVE survival server.

@Rumata Those errors are normal, and as far as I know every modded planet has them. If you find one that doesn't, let me know!

@Blix Thanks!

@Tiberius It's possible, but I'm working on other projects, and I am not sure that many people would be interested in it.

@Elindis I have a question, in logs on load i have errors like that:
MOD_ERROR: Planet Pyke
2023-09-18 02:01:16.828 - Thread: 1 -> in file: E:\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\3028738424\Data\PlanetPyke.sbc
2023-09-18 02:01:16.828 - Thread: 1 -> Resource not found, setting to null. Resource path: E:\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\244850\3028738424\Textures/Models/Environment/Sky/PykeClouds.dds

For every custom texture as i can see, planet looks fine, but i'm not sure is it miss something or it's just log spam bug, i'm not sure which textures he want and where it try to find them, cause in workshop planet folder i can't find something custom for cloud layer of planet, also it's not vanilla textures.

What i'm missing?

It looks so awesome when flying by in orbit! It almost looks like chocolate, which almost makes it seem cozy? It's a pretty interesting take on a magma planet, and I'm all here for it.

Would it be possible to get an alternate Planet Pyke mod where the Lava does damage players and grids?

@Elindis - Will keep that in mind, thanks. Ended up solving that problem by accident, now it's just fine-tuning and trying to get rid of the gross yellow sunsets I got in exchange and the gap between the planet's atmosphere and the surface - Pertam has them too so I'm less annoyed, but I'm no quitter.

@PleiadesXI - When you subscribe to this mod, you can check its files for its settings and then tweak from there. The atmosphere colour works off of rayleigh scattering, and it's influence by mie scattering, and it can be a little tricky to get the right colours at first. If you have in-depth planet-making questions, PM me.

Love me a hostile planet, gonna throw this into a multiplayer to torture my friends lmao.

Trying to make one myself but somehow editing the color of the atmosphere has been a nightmare - followed the guides to make it orange similar to this one but there's still a blue layer and I have no idea what's causing it. Mind if I ask how you set your planet's atmosphere up? Google and the guide sections haven't helped whatsoever

It's pretty rare, but if you can find it, it's your ticket offworld!

so this planet secritly has ice?

Thanks :D I appreciate it.

These clouds are phenomenal. Absolutely awesome job.

and from from a distance too

yo this planet looks sick

Hot ; )

how to create a spawn point at the beginning of the game in this world?

Thanks :D

Fair enough :) It's a lovely planet

That was intentional, actually! The voxel doesn't look very destructive, since it's not flowing lava, but just subsurface magma. And second, implementing that has a performance cost, and my planets try to be closer to vanilla than others.

In the end, I didn't want to do it, at least not for myself and friends.

Looks very nice. Really is a shame you didn't go the full nine and make lava destroy grids. Without that, it's just a planet with lots of uranium.

@Drunkchey It should! Maybe you forgot to enable the mod.