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Planet Aquaras (uses water mod)
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Type: Mod
Mod category: Planet
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1 Sep, 2020 @ 10:07pm
26 Nov, 2020 @ 6:48pm
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Planet Aquaras (uses water mod)

Description
"This planet is a perfect destination for christmas, since its always snowy and calm, I am never going to get close to the ocean though, the idea of knowing theres an abyss more than 2 kilometers below me filled with alien creatures is something I do not like to remember". -Deep space traveler

I loved the (not so new anymore lol) water mod by Jakaria and so I decided to make a planet for it! May I welcome to you Aquaras, a planet that has snow, ice, and an ocean that can go deeper than 1000m (deepest point is 2793m) perfect for making ships, submarines and anything you want while still having land for bases and rovers.

Aquaras: 1G, basic resources, habitable if you have something to warm you up due to cold surface temperatures, spawn size is 120km.

Steps to spawn it (Important to read the bug steps below this one)
1. In creative mode with admin permissions press shift f10, go to planets and select "Aquaras"
2. Set the size to 120km and click on "Spawn" and place the planet where you wish it to be.
3. The planet should now spawn with water set automatically to the correct radius, Aquaras is now ready!

If Aquaras has glitches like invisible water or weird values (which is a posiblity in future water mod updates) do the following:
1. Go to the planet´s surface, press enter and type "/wremove" and then "/wcreate"
2. Then type "/wradius 1.048")
3. Water will now spawn at the correct radius.

Weather: Aquaras is not the best when it comes to wind with a wind speed of only 0.6, when it comes to weather it also doesn´t have much to offer, it can start snowing with a small chance of a blizzard that will cover the surface in darkness.

Lore:Aquaras started off like Sonos (my previous planet mod) with a huge impact from another planetary body a billion years ago, leaving a crater that is not easily visible on its surface due to it being distorted by geological processes and covered in water. Aquaras used to have a moon much like Europa, taking material from the early solar system it was 30 kilometers long, it eventually got too close and was torn apart into a ring that is visible today, this ring started to fade away and rain material and heavy elements into Aquaras and the entire planet started to flood. The mountains started to become islands and life started to adapt to live in the water, today Aquaras is still expected to continue flooding and the snowball is probably going to become a water-world in the future, Volcana, a huge volcano in Aquaras with a supervoid surrounding it (a supervoid is a region of the map where the sea level goes all the way down to 2793m) (I now just realized that this was also the word used in subnautica below zero since I just started playing it :v) contains the only part of the planet where green vegetation can be seen due to magma heating the ground like a stove, many expeditions have been made to map supervoids but many came back or did not return. Many reported hearing "A sort of demonic growl" the deeper they went. The brave ones that did get to the bottom eventually found a sort of city sunken underwater with a small volcano at its center, it is thought that it was made by an ancient civilization that died off due to the flood and temperatures lowering. It is thought that there probably are more hidden in the supervoids but that is yet to be confirmed.

------------------------Update!------------------------------------
Now Aquaras has quite a few easter eggs, below are all of the current easter eggs, hover with your mouse over the black box to see them or don´t and try to find them yourself if you want some adventure.

Volcana Sunken city: Located near volcana on the volcana supervoid is a complex of buildings made by an ancient civilization with a small volcano at its center.

Ancient Space technologies experiment center: Located near the end of the volcana supervoid is an island where you can find a few tall buildings next to a coastline, this coastline used to be a mountain with a launch site for rockets in the past, we do not know what happened to the civilization that made them.

The message : On the volcana supervoid there is a big message that used to be visible from low Aquaras orbit, the purpose is unknown.

Aquaras Supervoid: A part of the ocean on almost the exact other side of the planet as Volcana where there is a HUGE supervoid that goes all the way to 2973m.

Supervoid volcano and spikefield: A volcano on almost the exact center of the Aquaras supervoid surrounded by ice spike formations.

Refuge: Near the aquaras supervoid on an island is a fairly big city that was made as a last hope by the ancient civilization that used to inhabit it.

Ravine: a huge underwater ravine that goes all the way to max depth, it is very narrow and extends for multiple kilometers, located near the exact opposite side of the planet as the Aquaras Supervoid


38 Comments
amis2 8 Jul @ 6:09pm 
no joke thought the last preview photo was barotrauma for a sec
echoMateria 26 Feb @ 4:18am 
The usual texture errors are something most people recommends ignoring, but aslide from those I spotted a:"Warning: PERFORMANCE WARNING: Postprocessing voxel triangle decimation steps not defined for MyObjectBuilder_PlanetGeneratorDefinition/Aquaras"
Jamesy Jack 11 Nov, 2023 @ 4:25pm 
This has to be ONE OF THE BEST MODS IN SPACE ENGINEERS!!! Very well done! While it is true that the growling sounds at the bottom are scary enough to make a grown man cry, this planet is beautiful! (Btw, what makes the growling? I'm really curious!)
Sargonnas 1 Aug, 2023 @ 7:08pm 
Hello Captain. Do you mind if I use your planet in a mod pack i am building for my set of servers on STC. I would credit you and put a link to the original mod in the mod packs description. Thank you and AWESOME planet!
Dec the Box 31 Jul, 2023 @ 10:23am 
why is there roaring at the bottem?
BisonBiter 16 Apr, 2023 @ 6:30pm 
Update - bottom of the supervoid being blank/shiny was just a skybox mod issue. Texture issue for facility remains
BisonBiter 16 Apr, 2023 @ 12:45pm 
Confirmed - all of the buildings are missing a texture (unless it's supposed to be black and white triangles? looks like a stand-in missing texture). There's also maybe a missing texture at the bottom of the supervoids, doesn't look like any material at all and just totally reflective (although maybe that's intentional)?
BisonBiter 16 Apr, 2023 @ 12:05pm 
Ok, update - I removed the water which made finding things a lot easier, altough those relative position tips would still be helpful.

Found what I think is a bug - The buildings in the sunken city are missing a texture/material it seems, showing up as a blank texture
BisonBiter 16 Apr, 2023 @ 11:38am 
Hi capitan, this planet is awesome! I was curious if there was any way to easily grab the "relative positions" of the easter egg features assuming I spawn Aquaras at 120km. Even zooming around in spectator mode I'm struggling to find much beyond the Volcana. I'm trying to grab the easter egg GPS coordinates in my custom world so I can place some campaign content there
SkyKing_74 18 Apr, 2022 @ 3:40pm 
Can you make it so water 3.0 is the default