If anyone finds a seed that produces a class 4 or 5 planet with water passageway that can be navigated all around the sphere, please let me know. With a few boats made now i am looking to host a 1 planet sailing server If anybody know's how to create a planet with such a water passageway, and is willing to do so, please let me know <3
A server I play on has a planet that sounds like what you are looking for. Not sure if its custom made or vanilla though. It's pretty much a water planet with islands dotted everywhere. With 3 or 4 huge islands at the north and south regions. I considered building a boat hv just for this planet. If you are interested, come check it out, and if its custom I'm sure our admins could help you out in making one yourself or giving a copy of the yaml file. PM me if you are interested and I'll give you the server info.
It's really easy to make a ocean planet. Just change the water ratio in the playfield_dynamic.yaml and set it to something like 95 or 97%.
Hi @Furious Hellfire! Proper water planets seem to be a bit tricky right now - No mountains on them except the smallest ones, and those only on a few islands... Sorry- SSG settings for 'Ocean' world: Use 'Temperate' or 'TemperateStarter' - Template - Land/water 80%+ - >Lots of water - Sea Level one tick lower than TerrainLvl -> Beaches Example: Temperate (I changed only the bottom left 'Basic settings') --- Link to Solar Sytem Generator FAQ and user manual (if you don't know/ have it already) https://empyriononline.com/threads/alpha-8-solar-system-generator.38168/
Ya the big problem with water planets is HVs can't seem to go over anything but shallow water anymore... so if it isn't deep enough to stand in, you're probably gonna sink
I was able to make a planet that is completely water except for the poles. If anyone knows how to do the poles too I'd love to hear how.
Interesting I had no notifications of anything being posted in this thread... I never had this issue happen to my server but after sticking this new water planet on yesterday you can tell the boat is trying to sink every 10 seconds or so, but its barely noticeable, the front just drops a couple degrees for a split second and the boat continues, almost looks like hitting a wave haha I have seen on HWS that is is impossible to traverse water with HV as this sinking effect is really bad. Will look into this quick and see if any reason this one planet does it, even though its not loaded, has only a drone base and trading station and my docks, no poi, no resources and no fawna. I have made a collection of 15 speedboats and yachts in the last week they works so well in fact that i forget I am on empyrion and keep thinking I am on ship simulator ahhah. [ I found a planet on workshop full of water with a couple fo random islands dotted about like what you said, awesome, i also increased it from size 4 to 5 and now I have ridiculous ocean planet with nothing to see for miles between these little islands Thank you for that, water worlds are lovely, I just have to add some poi to this size 5 I have now. If anyone wants to see my class 5 water planet with water so deep the damn spotlights dont reach the seabed anymore you can start at the docks on my server surrounded by all my boats. It is called "The sea of Manhar" and i am looking to turn it into a yacht buying game where you have to farm plant protein from under water to earn money to buy better boats with better facilities for under water diving or for general expensive luxury No resources no blueprints player cant do anything until I have given him or her a starter jetski, kinda sucks but thats how it is, wont be a busy server so wont be much problem. I will be in there most of the day and willing to allow test drives of any of the boats there and even tuition on riding boats in empyrion and how to recover a sunken boat. So if anyone wants to come and play on the water for a bit or just to learn more about what is possible with the water,come and join.
I did some tests on my server between 2 size 5 planets just now The new mostly water planet i tried last night, gave me the issue where a hover vessel traversing water at full speed would sometimes dip at the front, but it was never strong enough to cause issue. I just went back to the other size 5 planet i had previously which is loaded with poi, fawna and junk, and the waters are smooth 100% not a blemish in the hoverstate of vessels. Therefore I will just drown this planet instead to make more water and see what we will see haha back soon !
After some tests, the planet from the workshop was old and missing certain stuff so probably contributed to the HV issue. I placed manha back on the server but this time changed the water ratio to 80% What I got was a beautiful ocean planet loaded with poi goodies on little islands scattered everywhere, there are 1 or 2 larger chunks but mostly water, excellent ! This is the first water planet I ever generated and the seas are smooth, there are no issues with hv dipping of any kind )))) Also thank you to @Needleship your pointers there showed me the water ratio option Now I am back on manhar the water is not over over deep anymore so my spotlights can light up the sea bed xD This planet is now running live on server "The sea of Manhar" if it asks for pass just hit enter, You start on docks surrounded by lovely boats and water
Is this planet playable on an existing MP server, and if so which one? I'd be interested in trying it out.
