Biome Subtype - Infested

The subject of this article is from the Frontiers update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 15 February, 2022.

An Infested Biome

Infested is a biome subtype.

Summary

Notice the strange flora not present on other planets.

Infested is a biome sub-type that can overlay the normal planetary biome types, creating flora not seen on other planets of the same variants.

These rare modified biomes are characterized by their twisted, infected flora. They come in six different planetary palettes with each seemingly having its own main flora type for each planetary variant. Whispering Eggs dot the landscape and Biological Horrors appear with them when broken, similar to Dead worlds.

Infested Biomes also display chromatic aberration filters as well as glitch music, similar to Mega Exotic and Exotic worlds.

From space, they look like any other planet and can be found in any star system.

Name generation

There are six types of Infested Biomes

An example of an Infested Biome with a natural Chromatic Aberration

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. There are exceptions indicated with ¹ which do not receive additional text indicating the type of the astronomical body.

Lush	Toxic	Scorched	Irradiated	Frozen	Barren
Infested Paradise1	Infested	Infested	Infested	Infested	Infested
Worm-ridden	Toxic Horror1	Boiling Doom1	Radioactive Abomination1	Icy Abhorrence1	Tainted
Xeno-Colony1	Caustic Nightmare1	Fiery Dreadworld1	Mutated	Frozen Hell1	Infected Dustbowl1
The Nest1		Corrupted			Terrorsphere1

Weather

The weather can be clear, normal, or extreme and shares the exact biome weather as Lush, Toxic, Scorched, Irradiated, Frozen and Barren. Weather here is posted in exact sequence.

Clear

Sequence	Lush	Toxic	Scorched	Irradiated	Frozen	Barren
1.	Temperate	Acid Rain	Dehydrated	Contaminated Puddles	Crisp	Baked
2.	Light Showers	Caustic Moisture	Direct Sunlight	Gamma Dust	Freezing	Clear
3.	Mild Rain	Choking Clouds	Heated Atmosphere	Irradiated Winds	Frost	Dry Gusts
4.	Refreshing Breeze	Corrosive Damp	Overly Warm	Nuclidic Atmosphere	Icy	Icy Nights
5.	Humid	Poison Rain	Parched	Radioactive Damp	Permafrost	Moistureless
6.	Pleasant	Poisonous Gas	Sunny	Radioactive Humidity	Powder Snow	Sterile
7.	Balmy	Stinging Atmosphere	Sweltering	Unstable Atmosphere	Snowy	Unclouded Skies
8.	Mellow	Stinging Puddles	Unending Sunlight	Volatile Winds	Wintry	Withered
9.	Beautiful	Toxic Clouds
10.	Blissful	Toxic Damp

Normal

Sequence	Lush	Toxic	Scorched	Irradiated	Frozen	Barren
1.	Boiling Puddles	Acidic Dust Pockets	Atmospheric Heat Instabilities	Energetic Storms	Drifting Snowstorms	Blasted Atmosphere
2.	Sweltering Damp	Alkaline Cloudbursts	Burning Air	Irradiated Downpours	Frozen Clouds	Ceaseless Drought
3.	Superheated Drizzle	Atmospheric Corruption	Dangerously Hot	Irradiated Storms	Harsh, Icy Winds	Dust-Choked Winds
4.	Dangerously Hot Fog	Caustic Winds	Direct Sunlight	Occasional Radiation Outbursts	Icy Blasts	Freezing Night Winds
5.	Choking Humidity	Corrosive Sleet Storms	Heated Atmosphere	Particulate Winds	Ice Storms	Highly Variable Temperatures
6.	Mostly Calm	Dangerously Toxic Rain	Infrequent Heat Storms	Radioactive Dust Storms	Infrequent Blizzards	Infrequent Dust Storms
7.	Occasional Scalding Cloudbursts	Infrequent Toxic Drizzle	Occasional Ash Storms	Reactive Rain	Migratory Blizzards	Intermittent Wind Blasting
8.	Usually Mild	Lethal Atmosphere	Rare Firestorms	Unstable Fog	Occasional Snowfall	Occasional Sandstorms
9.	Blistering Damp	Occasional Acid Storms	Superheated Gas Pockets	Volatile Windstorms	Outbreaks of Frozen Rain	Parched Sands
10.	Lethal Humidity Outbreaks	Passing Toxic Fronts	Wandering Hot Spots		Wandering Frosts	Sporadic Grit Storms
11.		Poison Flurries
12.		Toxic Outbreaks

Extreme

Sequence	Lush	Toxic	Scorched	Irradiated	Frozen	Barren
1.	Boiling Superstorms	Acidic Deluges	Burning Gas Clouds	Contaminated Squalls	Deep Freeze	Billowing Dust Storms
2.	Intense Heatbursts	Bone-Stripping Acid Storms	Combustible Dust	Enormous Nuclear Storms	Frequent Blizzards	Blasted Atmosphere
3.	Superheated Rain	Caustic Floods	Extreme Heat	Extreme Atmospheric Decay	Hazardous Whiteouts	Choking Sandstorms
4.	Boiling Monsoons	Corrosive Cyclones	Firestorms	Extreme Radioactivity	Howling Blizzards	Dead Wastes
5.	Broiling Humidity	Corrosive Rainstorms	Incendiary Dust	Extreme Thermonuclear Fog	Icy Tempests	Extreme Wind Blasting
6.	Painfully Hot Rain	Corrosive Storms	Inferno Winds	Frequent Particle Eruptions	Ice Storms	Hazardous Temperature Extremes
7.	Torrential Heat	Frequent Toxic Floods	Intense Heat	Gamma Cyclones	Intense Cold	Howling Gales
8.	Blistering Floods	Noxious Gas Storms	Scalding Heat	Irradiated Thunderstorms	Raging Snowstorms	Lung-Burning Night Wind
9.	Scalding Rainstorms	Pouring Toxic Rain	Self-Igniting Storms	Planet-Wide Radiation Storms	Roaring Ice Storms	Planetwide Desiccation
10.	Torrid Deluges	Torrential Acid	Superheated Air	Roaring Nuclear Wind	Supercooled Storms	Sand Blizzards
11.		Toxic Monsoons
12.		Toxic Superstorms

Flora

The flora as stated above is unique to this type of biome and does not generate on other planets. It generally is limited to the planetary pallet it is spawned on, however there are exceptions. Flora generation also includes Harvested Agricultural Substances appropriate to the base biome.

Floral Abundance Name Generation

Like other planets, Floral and Fauna Abundance is indicated upon exiting the ship. However, like Exotic worlds, the abundance name for Floral Abundance differs, but only sometimes.

• Infected
• Diseased
• Twisted
• Screaming
• Viral
• Invasive

Fauna

Possible native fauna found by Temmemes

Fauna does not appear to be unique to the biome itself, with the exception of Biological Horrors; Whispering Eggs spawn in the wild in the same manner as on Dead planets.

Additional information

• Most buildings will spawn but are abandoned and surrounded by Whispering Eggs, even if the planet is in a populated system; Trading Posts and Minor Settlements that spawn have no NPCs but retain all other features (trading network, weapon boxes, etc.)
• Boundary Failures can appear like on exotic biomes.
• The flora of the planets look similar to that of Void Eggs and Living Ships
• Flora names in files call it Alien, a nod to the Alien series by Sir Ridley Scott.
• The name generation and weather with their sequence are extracted from the 3.70 version of the NMS_LOC6_ENGLISH.MBIN game file.

Release history

• Origins - added as a new Biome subtype called Infected, replacing previously existing Abandoned planets.
• Prisms - renamed to Infested instead of Infected

Gallery

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  Infested Frozen planet

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  Infested Barren planet

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  A Living Ship Flightstick