

RC dozers have the benefit of not being limited to a specific area like dronesĪvailable only with the Below and Beyond DLC enabled.Įach map will contain a number of underground entrances. Your drones or RC dozers will mine or give waste rock according to need. The landscaping option can be used to flatten an area or make a slope. Many maps have areas which you can't build on, due to the fact of uneven terrain. Buildings cannot be constructed over a dust geyser. Geyser eruptions cover nearby buildings with dust (about as much as a Rocket) and decrease the Sanity of nearby colonists that don't have the Martianborn trait (Martianborn Strength tech also required). Every few Sols a dust geyser will erupt and create 1 or 2 Polymers surface deposits. It starts melting once Temperature terraforming reaches 50%, loses its effects on buildings at 70% and disappears completely at 100%.Ī few maps will feature dust geysers. In Green Planet DLC the permafrost can be removed by Temperature terraforming. If the threat level for Cold Waves is set to "Max" as a result of the Winter is Coming Game Rule each map will have permafrost areas. Advanced Stirling Generators (only when open).The following buildings melt the permafrost around them and thaw frozen buildings: Frozen buildings break down and maintenance can only be given once the building is thawed. Water Towers and Large Water Tanks will freeze instantly.


Unpowered or unused buildings placed on permafrost will slowly freeze within a Sol. Maps that have a high threat level for Cold Waves will feature permafrost.

Having Research Sites in the working area of a Dome or Low-G Lab provides a Research boost between 10% and 20%. Once every sector has been deep scanned any remaining Orbital Probes will be removed and new ones will not be available anymore.Īll map features will have Research Sites around them. Deep deposits are the only deposits which may have the Very High Grade. Deep scanning can reveal deep Metals, Rare Metals or Water deposits. In Space Race this is especially quick with the USA Sponsor its Probes can scan 5 sectors at once.īuilding in unexplored sectors carries the risk of building on top of undiscovered resource deposits and anomalies.Įach sector can be deep scanned regularly via the Deep Scanning technology or instantly with probes via the Adapted Probes technology. Sensor Towers and stationary RC Seekers drastically increase the scanning speed of nearby sectors and provide a small overall bonus to scanning.Ī fast but expensive way to explore the map is to buy Orbital Probes from Earth which instantly scan a chosen Sector. Sectors can be queued for scanning from the map overview. Hovering over a sector which was not scanned reveals what resources it is rich in, if any. The starting sector always has its resources revealed but any other sector needs to be scanned. They're labeled from 0-9 bottom to top, and A-J from left to right. Each map is divided into a 10x10 grid, creating a total of 100 sectors per map.
