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How to create a habitable planet [No longer updated, read the description.]

By Starscream

Don't mind me coming back after about a year of forgetting this guide existed and deleting the SEVERAL PAGES of comments telling me to update it. I'm not going to. I even had a few people harassing me down there lmfao. Y'all need to grow up if someone not updating an extremely old guide is apparently worth attempting to harass someone [who isn't even paying attention to your comments, may I add,] over.

At least the rageballs in the comments gave me a good laugh.

I was debating on updating it, but if screaming and resorting to attempted cyber-bullying to get someone to update a post is how you are going to go about asking for an update, I'm not updating the post. I'm not going to feed that behavior lmao.

The reason I kept this up was in case it was still useful, the game may have been updated, but the basics here still apply. A lot of the tips can still be used, though due to updates, it may not work exactly the same.

While updating this, I also added a really stupid "branding image", because last I checked, that option wasn't there when I made this guide. Darth Pants is not mine, I found him on google.

Please note I have also UNSUBSCRIBED from the comments, so commenting is pointless because I won't even see the comments.
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Old Description
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After I got finished making a 100% ESI [Earth Similarity Index] with 99.9% for life, [proof in my screenshots,] and then turning it into a one milkyway mass black hole made purely of water, I decided to post a little how-to on recreating the "perfect planet [black hole]" I had created.

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Category: Gameplay Basics, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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7 Dec, 2022 @ 5:42am

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Guide Index

Overview

1: Location

2: Size

3: Materials and Atmosphere

4: Magnetosphere

Summary

Problems

Comments

1: Location

Turn on habitable zone view. Your planet should be in the green zone- the further from the star the colder, and the closer the warmer. [If you put your planet just inside the outer edge of the red zone and remove all water it becomes Tatooine, and life cannot exist there without moisture vaporators. Just saying.]
My prefered area is a little past the outer edge of the transition between the first zone [red] out from the star, and the green- about a Jupiter and a half out from Venus' orbit.

2: Size

Doesn't matter, as long as it's rocky and can hold an atmosphere. Anything from a little uner the size of Endor to four times the radius of Mandalore should work. And NO, a gas giant with a rocky core does not count as a good candidate. That's TOO MUCH atmosphere. Now that I think of it, size does matter. So, around 4,500 km to about 35000 km. Give or take. But not too much.

3: Materials and Atmosphere

For a nicely sized planet of near Earth mass, the perfect proportions of iron to silicate to water are 27.2% iron, 72.8% silicate, and 0.0226% water, give or take a bit on each. Same as Earth I believe, or staying very close.

Give your planet between 95 and 110 kPa surface pressure, and mess with the albedo until the surface temperature is between 12 and 21 degrees celsuis. Golden between 13 and 16.

4: Magnetosphere

One thing that significantly boosts the life likelyhood that I see so many guides overlook is the magnetic fields. Like, why? It's important to have one, as it keeps our atmosphere in place! Here's what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:
"The Earth's magnetic field serves to deflect most of the solar wind, whose charged particles would otherwise strip away the ozone layer that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation."
ADD. A. MAGNETIC. FIELD.
Way at the bottom of the Composition section, you'll find the magnetic field options. Set the field to somewhere between .300 and .400 Gauss, or more if you really want to. I've gotten away with ridiculously huge magnetic fields in previous versions, though I'm not sure if they changed that or not. Mine is currently set to .319, as I copied Earth's.

Summary

I hope this helped you in the creation of your very own alien solar system. Feel free to post your works in the comments below!

P.S. : Oh, and good luck making Tatooine, it's nearly impossible to have a binary system keep a planet :P

Problems

So far I [you guys] have run into one problem- you can't terraform planets with presets- AKA most of the Solar System's planets or moons. [meaning, if it has a preset texture, like Venus or Mars, the AI will try and revert it to its previous state, or something close to it.]

70 Comments

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oreta_ken 18 Jul @ 5:56pm

ok this make sense

2dogplc 9 Jan @ 5:04pm

NightWatchMaker 24 Nov, 2023 @ 1:47pm

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NightWatchMaker 24 Nov, 2023 @ 1:47pm

this man is correct

0ogWayAndIgie201 15 Aug, 2023 @ 3:42pm

Ay man Thanks for the Guide. Sorry that people Are Cyberbullying you. Teenagers are Prob who they Are. Teens nowadays Get so Offended. Offended over a Kid just Minding his Business Doing nothing on The Internet. Having a Opinion/Respecting Opinions. And other Stuff. Have a Great Guide Career. and Only Update this Guide if you Really Feel like Its the Right time and Place. Also. to The People who Cyberbullied. Take a Shower.