Biome - Marsh

The subject of this article is from the Waypoint update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 21 February, 2023.

A typical marsh landscape.

Marsh is one of the Biome varieties.

Summary

A mix of lush biome and toxic biome flora can be found here.

Worlds with marsh biomes are characterized by stump-like, mangrove-inspired non-scannable trees and toxic-like fungi. Sometimes, seemingly artificial dwellings can be found. Marsh planets often feature long subterranean tunnels which open up horizontally to the planet's surface (unlike caves in other biomes, which usually require vertical descent). Some of those worlds have conditions typical to lush planets while others can be toxic-like. When viewed from space, they look either misty, or like any other planet. The resources are inconsistent and there is no specific plant resource, which leads to uncommon resources appearing (e.g. Star Bulb). Sometimes Faecium or Mordite can be found in mineral deposits.

Name generation

Seemingly artificial dwellings unique to this biome.

The biome type is indicated in the information panel when the player exits their starship. This is procedurally generated by adding one of the following prefixes to the Planet or Moon text.

The sequence is taken from the game file.

1. Marshy
2. Swamp
3. Tropical
4. Foggy
5. Misty
6. Boggy
7. Endless Morass
8. Quagmire
9. Hazy
10. Cloudy
11. Vapour
12. Reeking
13. Murky
14. Damp

Conditions

Marsh planets look quite bleak.

• On lush-like marsh planets the weather is the most ideal, as day and night temperatures don't enable hazard protection.
• Toxic-like marsh worlds require toxic hazard protection.
• Superheated (or toxic) storms can occur. Hazard Protection drain is similar to being in a storm on a hot/toxic biome.
• Extreme weather marsh worlds have seemingly everlasting rain, with superheated rainstorms occurring frequently. These storms are significantly more powerful, draining Hazard Protection in a similar rate as extreme heat storms in hot biomes.

Weather

Extreme marsh planets are rainy and have scalding hot rain storms.

Sequence	Clear (No storms)	Normal	Extreme
1.	Gentle Mist	Tropical Storms	Death Fog
2.	Humid	Occasional Boiling Fog	Sultry Disaster
3.	Tropical Winds	Superheated Mists	Cataclysmic Monsoons
4.	Warm Fog	Painful Mist	Mists of Annihilation
5.	Temperate Murk	Infrequent Torrents	All-Consuming Fog
6.	Mild Damp	Oppressive	Liquid Hell
7.	Warm Dewdrops	Soggy Danger	Storms of Desolation
8.	Tepid Damp	Sticky Heat	Melting Deluges
9.	Sweaty Drizzle	Clammy Menace	Boiling Catastrophe
10.	Muggy Haze	Hazardous Moisture	Damp Misery
11.		Poison Flurries

If the Marsh biome has toxic storms, the weather descriptor may be taken from the Toxic biome list.

Additional Information

• The name generation and weather with their sequence are extracted from the 3.60 version of NMS_LOC6_ENGLISH.MBIN game file.

Related Articles

• Atmosphere

Release history

• Origins - Added as a new biome type.