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Variety is the spice of the Universe REBORN

Variety is the spice of the Universe is a mod which is designed to add well, variety to your universe. It adds new weather types, new biomes, more biome music, all that fun stuff.

In vanilla, certain biomes are restricted to later sectors for no apparent reason.
Instead, restrictions in this mod are based upon how exotic a biome is.

You can now find volcanic biomes in the Alpha sector, for example.
But you won't see some of my mods more exotic biomes, like the Living biome.

Also in vanilla, the distance between a planet and it's star doesn't matter. You can find snow biomes next to a star.
This mod also changes that, too.

Sick of hearing happy music in a lava filled world? No longer!
The unused exploration songs have been made used, and songs which don't fit in a biome have been removed.
Biomes with more songs: Desert, Snow, Tundra, Arctic, Snow Forest, Ocean
Biomes with specific songs: Magma, Volcanic, Frostfire, Tarball, Tentacles, Living, Deep Ocean

You can find over ten new weather types with this mod in the current version.
Sandstorms and strong sandstorms
Blizzards
Diamond dust
Crystal dust
Ash
Volcanic eruption
Tar rain, drizzle and storms
Tentacle juice rain, drizzle and storms
Acid drizzle and storms
Sulfuric eruption
Ash/Snow mix
Eruption/Ice cube storm mix

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
Cold but hot, icy yet covered with lava. Mining here is high risk, high reward as crystals grow in the caverns below. Even with lava can get cold on the surface, it will even snow instead of rain.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet without Dungeons/Villages
A murky, wet biome. Exactly how you'd expect a swamp to look like.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
Just as the name says, it's a living planet.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A boring, desolate biome. Not much more to it.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A giant planet of tar, slime, sewage and bones. Mostly tar, though.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A biome where mountains peak high into the sky. Trees are rare and the biome is very rocky.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A forest of crystals, loosely based upon some Starbound concept art.

Type: Lightless Planet
There is no natural light in this biome. And the blocks are made of darkness.
Good luck.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A very, very hot biome. Poor forest.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
Don't touch the needles!

Type: Twilight Terrestrial Planet
Twilight in the day, pitch black at night.

Type: Permanight Terrestrial Planet
Eternal night, no music and overall typical horror forest stuff awaits you here.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
No, I didn't name it! Chucklefish did. Blame them! I just made it a planetary biome and not just an underground biome.

Type: Permanight Moon
Eternal night... Cold... No atmosphere... Lava... Yeah. It's dangerous.

Type: Moon
Covered in crystals, this moon biome is great incase you want them.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
Oooh, pretty!

Type: Permanight Terrestrial Planet
It's always night in this biome for an unknown reason, but it's littered in glowing mushrooms.

Type: Dungeonless Terrestrial Planet
Inspired by Dire Dire Docks & Jolly Roger Bay from Super Mario 64, this biome shares a similar atmosphere.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
The perfect place to get ice crystals. Ice spikes are everywhere, making it slightly hard to traverse.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A planet covered in flowers, both giant, small and modestly sized.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A uncommon forest biome variation.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A different look to the typical volcanic biomes you see everywhere.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
It's like a snow biome, but with the amount of flora a forest would have. More dirty then the snow biome.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet
A snowy variant of the mountainous biome.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet without Dungeons/Villages
Wide open waters and islands. It's also very deep. Waters are infinite here.

Type: Normal Terrestrial Planet without Dungeons/Villages
A cold, frozen ocean. The water is freezing cold... don't stay in it for long at all.

The Variety is the spice of the Universe Reborn is a functional version of a very old mod (11 years) without updates. Since it's a working version and not open-source, the goal is solely to create a playable version, respecting the author's rights. To be clear:
The mod adds 83 new planets containing 83 new biomes. 23 subbiomes are found attached to only a few different planets. All files for each biome have been repaired, including the parallax, biome, and terrain files, which have all been redone. The only thing I haven't changed because I'm not sure it's valid is the cockpit icons for each planet. They now all have the same cockpit identification icon, making it easier to locate VITSOU planets. It's also worth noting that all planets end with "VITSOU" at the end of their descriptions. I also added the use of the BETABOUND mod, as it features elements from the Starbound beta, such as monsters and liquids. All item and metal recipes have been removed. I decided to release the mod now, with limited testing, as I'm very busy with work this month. Testing each planet, and the many biomes and subbiomes, can take a long time to hunt down bugs. By releasing it now, I hope that bugs will be more easily found with mod subscribers. And I'll highlight this here:


I hope you enjoy this reborn version, it took me a long time to recreate it and all because of a damn SPACE, but okay I guess it wasn't the time back then. kkk

Note: Incompatible for Frackin Universe, as it is already added!!

Mod Original: https://community.playstarbound.com/resources/variety-is-the-spice-of-the-universe.199/ (the nexus version was removed for some reason..)
Autor original: Dracyoshi