Ok, I think that a desert planet option should be able for a new colony.
I think a desert planet should be an option because.
-There is already desert props you can use in the game, and you can use these for the desert planet's ground
-It adds another challenge to the game (challenges is always fun for me)
What the desert planet offers.
-Instead of rovers harvesting water from lakes and ice deposits ,there can be a Rover that can get water from an oasis or from cactuses
- There will be "sandstone deposits" that can be harvest with a rover and a upgraded rover is going to be called a desert Rover. (like the ore miner)
-With sandstone you can make a mini drill to start to get that lovely ore. (Can be upgraded later on with aluminum, steel, gold, and ore)
-The atmosphere will start out to be very high (like 100mil)
-To get the atmosphere levels down you have to build a Guilimugator (idk I made that up) which slowly zaps the atmosphere away (there will be small, medium, and large ones)
-For the colonists to cool down there will be a building for colonists to go in to cool down ( like a sauna but the other way around)
-To get food you have to make a desert amaranth farm (yes that is a food) and can be built with sand stone and water.
-If you run out of water just made a well made out of sand stone
-Houses will be made out of sand stone
-To make more sandstone just make a sandstone quarry.
That is what all I have to say if you do pick up on my idea you can adjust it if you want to. Please tell me what you think!
- A desert planet could have the red planet as a base without the ice deposits.
- No water extraction buildings, but there would be cactus-like plants that can be harvested for water.
- No regolith compactors (no regolith at all). You'll need to be able to build a mine to get ore once any surface deposits are used up.
Commonwealth of Groddle
Groddle | Bell's Pyramid | Glitch
Maybe glass could be a resource produced there. Maybe the water has a base loss that exists independent of colonists. Ice might even become a commodity there shipped from ice worlds.
Love the idea! Might design a few buildings and develop some building ideas later