Planet Nivis

Nivis is a treacherous, rocky planet covered in a thick layer of permafrost and snow. It features custom ambience, particle effects, weather events, fauna, voxel materials, and cloud textures.

Planet Details

• Recommended size: 120km.

• Weather: Dangerous. Custom snowstorms, hailstorms, and ash storms are frequent.

• Sun radiation protection: High.

• Surface radiation: None.

• Meteor showers: Disabled.

• Default surface temperature: 🧊

• Game stage: Endgame.
  
  

Available Ores

• Iron

• Nickel

• Silicon

• Cobalt

• Silver

• Magnesium

• Ice

• Gold

• Uranium (located deep within the permafrost around canyons and inside ice clusters within the canyons)

• Platinum (volcanic boulders at the North Pole)
  
  

Fauna

Petrified Sabiroids: more dangerous and resilient than the base game ones, rocking a custom texture. Their spawn rates remain similar to vanilla. They have a chance to drop uranium ore as well as Sabiroid flesh.

Custom Ambience & Effects

This planet project features custom ambience and effects, including:

• Hailstorm FX (granular synthesis + me throwing pebbles at an old window)

• Lightning FX (mostly Keen's lightning sounds, but cleaned up by me with added convolvers and filters on top)

• Wind FX (synthesized almost completely; gusts were sampled from royalty-free sources)

• Ice canyon ambience (synthesized wind and low rumbles)

• Snowstorm and ash storm ambience (synthesized wind and gusts, as mentioned before)
  
  

Boulders

• Ice spike pits

• Ice urchins

• Ice clusters - some containing uranium

• Volcanic boulders - containing platinum ore and located at the North Pole
  
  

Steam workshop link: 

If you want to make edits and wish to reupload it ANYWHERE, contact me first. You may not publish my work anywhere else or use the contents of the mod, such as heightmaps or texture maps, without permission—especially not for commercial use.

For licensing, refer to the readme-license.txt. If there is any confusion regarding the license, contact me via comments or Steam chat. Feel free to post bug reports in the comments. Please note that sometimes a bad download can occur, making the mod seem corrupt. Try redownloading the mod first before reporting an issue. Comments regarding playability that lack context or make no sense will be deleted, as they contribute nothing.

P.S. The videos showcasing some of the particle effects might display performance drops; this has since been fixed by reducing the amount of particles and instances of "smoke". If any issues arise on less powerful PCs, please leave a comment. I can release a version of the planet using vanilla weather events if need be. Same goes for consoles.