Fantastical Frontiers- a GRiNDTerra Fantasy Biome Overhaul

Explore a more fantastical Starfield! This is the GRiNDTerra Fantasy Biome Overhaul!

If you want a Vanilla version look for Vanilla Biomes Enhanced.

What does this do?

Lifeless Planets now means No Fauna. Life Planets mean Fauna. Vegetation can and will be everywhere. Biomes will not look the same or may not even make sense! But that's the point!

New Handmade Biomes!

Barren Biomes will not be common but become a more unique experience. (Coming Chapter 2, atm they are super rare almost nonexistent)

Randomizes the sizes of Trees and Shrubs.

Makes changes to the Proc Gen Rocks! (And only the basic ones!) Cleaned them up so there are less rocks, they are smaller, and they have a smaller footprint. This will help with driving and the appearance of too many rocks. This only affects the basic rock packages, not any unique rock packages or the rocks themselves!

Biome Fauna now have random scale sizing! See more diverse families of fauna! (Found a new way to achieve this and will be compatible with mods that edit fauna.)

Changed Preys' level scaling to very hard. They will now have a bit more health and be a little stronger than before. This is to help with the Predators one shotting prey. Now it is still rare but sometimes pack of prey can take down a predator.

Changed the pattern of Fauna spawning behavior.

Now the generation is split between Predators, Prey, Critters, and Lairs. They spawn farther apart.

Moved Lairs into their own branch and restricted the distance they can spawn from each other and lowering the chance they will appear. This is huge as in vanilla there are just too many rocks.

Added an extra chance for another placement of a critter/predator/prey to spawn randomly.

Edited the Fauna Placements so now when placing fauna won’t have mixed packs of critters and prey/predator spawning together. Fauna interaction markers have been added/moved around to help the fauna interact with the landscape better.

Predators won’t warn you before an attack, and prey warn only 1-2 times based on scenarios.

Increased Chance for fauna to "Graze" to 33%. (From 25)

Added 1 minute to Predator Attack Prey Cooldown

Cut Animal Curiosity Cooldown in half.

Fauna can now spawn at 400m away from man made POI. (Vanilla was 500)

What doesn’t change? The resources and the basic terrain patterns are vanilla to ensure maximum compatibility with all types of mods, as well as to help with crafting for users who look up resource guides. Fauna will be found on the same planets in the same locations. They are not tied to biomes themselves but the planets.

Compatibility:

Do not use with Rocks Fauna Vanilla Biomes Enhanced

This does not edit NPCs. Compatible with everything that does. The size scaling is done through other means.

This will make changes to your playing maps. It is possible when adding to a save that your outposts could be affected. You may just need to redeploy some items. If trying to add or remove, best to do while in space.

Immersion Killers and reasons not to use on a first playthrough! (I RECOMMEND USING Vanilla Biomes Enhanced IF ON A FIRST PLAYTHROUGH)

You will see biomes that don’t match the planets temperature or air quality etc. This isn’t meant to be lore accurate. Just fun new fantastical biomes!

Chapter 1 Lorebits (every update this will change with the current chapter.)

Barren biomes are rarely found here, creating more lucrative opportunities for the industrial minded citizen. Biomes once found on animal rich planets now seem to inhabit the biomes that may have been barren and full of resources in memories past. Sharing some similarities most biomes do not appear as they once did with many new unexplored frontiers.

(Chapter 1) Changelog Vanilla No Life biomes replaced with Vanilla Life biomes.

New biomes replace some Vanilla Life biomes, and the rest of the Vanilla Life biomes not replaced AtM with new ones were are all enhanced an extra layer over the Vanilla counterpart.

0% use of AI. 100% Human labor and ideals!

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