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More Sensible Secondary Biome Distribution

This is a module for the More Sensible Tweaks series of mods aiming to make the game more realistically plausible and less railroaded, with this instance in particular aiming for secondary planetary biomes.

Every planet in Starbound generates based on a "primary" biome encompassing most of the planet. Each primary biome has a list of other biomes that may generate as "secondary" biomes or "micro"-biomes. Unfortunately, because of Starbound's highly railroaded nature, the list of secondary biomes that may generate were also highly railroaded, resulting in some (micro)biomes that would perfectly suit certain biomes being nowhere to be found within them.

This mod seeks to amend this by giving the vanilla planets a more "sensible" array of secondary and microbiomes that may spawn in them, prioritizing realism whenever possible over progression.

Here is a full list of changes:

• "Strikethrough" means it's a vanilla biome that was removed from spawning by this mod;
  
• "Italic" means it's a biome that was added a chance to spawn by this mod;
  
• "*" means it's a mini-biome.

Because this mod prioritizes realism over progression, and was created specifically to be used with a mod that removes the game's railroaded progression (specifically, Story Disabler), naturally it may cause progression issues if not used alongside Story Disabler, doubly-so if used with a mod that adds onto the vanilla game's progression.

This mod is compatible with - and inspired by - TrueSpace, which I recommend to use with this mod. It is also compatible with mods that add their own planets (such as Maple32 and Ancient Cosmos), but they may override this mod's secondary biomes' spawn chances.

Not likely to be compatible with Frackin' Universe. At the very minimum it will break its progression.