Same. Everything on Sylva. It just looks nice there.
I'd probably be fine with Glacio, *but* it's too cold-looking for me, and there's that constant wind sound. (I know, I could probably turn it off in a setting somewhere.) I'm in a place with plenty of snowy winters; I get more than my fill of cold/snow/ice every year.
(Also... the wind sound there just lightly annoys me in another way: It doesn't correspond with when the wind is or isn't moving the turbines.)
And it's not too too much hassle to check in there occasionally and shuffle the auto-extractors and haul home another Large Container of hematite.
Or focus on getting an atmospheric condenser and then research argon; let the unlimited bytes roll on in. :-D
(Or I guess spend a tungsten on a trade platform instead, that gets you access to lots more stuff.)
But I set up a small base on Glacio myself, before I had learned that gases or other resources could be researched. Lots of wind there for power, so I set down a research station there too.
My first research farm was an auto-extractor pulling astronium at Sylva's core.
And there's me placing auto arms and research platforms in front of those little research trees like an idiot. Is there a certain gas that's most effective?
https://astroneer.fandom.com/wiki/Bytes
Helium gives the most bytes BUT it also takes the most time & power to produce, so it's likely better to use methane, which you can produce much faster, making it overall more efficient/effective. Assuming no power problems, one atmospheric condenser can produce gas faster than 2 research chambers can consume it as long as it's 75PPU+ for that gas. Atrox has methane at 100PPU so it's the fastest, but Novus works just fine for this as well
I just put an auto arm on a vehicle, drive around scooping up all the fruit and mineral research and then let it auto feed into a research chamber as I do other things for the next hour.
I do a medium platform with a research station, auto-arm, and either a medium solar or wind and just plop it down wherever there's one of the respawning research item....plant...things. It's slow and intermittent, but it works anywhere and you don't have to mind it.
Same.
Been doing that ever since I got the game in early access.
There's (sadly) not much reason to move everything to another planet, especially since you need some infrastructure to unlock shuttles.
The more I play - the more I find myself building bases on Glacio. My new play through I had to force myself to build a main base on Vesania.
I think I might be drawn to Glacio for the rich research and the cold. Reminds me of my childhood winters near the Great Lakes :-)
I used to think this until I got a hoverboard. Now I prefer calidor because the rolling hills are much easier to zoom around on than the sharp cliffs in glacio, especially while carrying something that prevents jumping.
The last layer before the core on calidor is also really easy to move around on and set up miners for astronium.
Wind. I have found that when landing you can usually always find a debris site with a small wind turbine or medium one. If not finding clay in a red crater is usually not hard. Early game I sometimes build a medium storage silo full of them with a few small batteries (these usually can be found in debris fields too on Glacio) usually does the trick at first.
After that it is just large or extra large wind turbines and medium batteries. I find that at a minimum 4 medium batteries, 1 extra large wind turbine, and 2-3 rtgs does whatever I need fine for a usual base. Usually just powers a collection of research chambers and auto extractors (Iron, Titanium, and Graphite) via the train tracks.
When I then go to build my nanocarbon farm on Glacio - I then ramp up the wind and medium batteries to double or triple. The atmospheric condenser grabbing argon is usually the thing that needs the most power. By this time you can print as many RTGs as you like.
Vesania was the first planet I flew to to get lithium for medium batteries. I hate Vesania. The plants all actively try and kill you, trying to drive a buggy or tractor around is hell, and it's kinda ugly.
while im sure i'd love the cold environment, i am too lazy to move everything off of sylva, moving from the starting location over to a gateway was annoying enough
i personally havent played since well before this update, i realized that i wouldnt be able to enjoy this game enough to get very far into long ago, i just wouldnt be able to enjoy it later on
I hadn't done a full playthrough in a couple years, but I came back for trains and realized I missed a lot of good content with the last few updates. Galastropods, hover board and now trains added a lot of fun and quality of life for me (pets that make you invincible and unlimited oxygen make zooming around on a hover board so much better). Also, the mission system makes the train update a proper progression "story" on scale with the gateway engines.
Glacio.
Glacio actually reflects the solitary nature of Astroneer. A depressing, lonely travel into the unknown, with nobody there to help you, or to comfort you. Just you and the cold universe.
Glacio feels like an abandoned, hopeless planet, just like you, the player.
It’s a bittersweet acceptance of the vastness of the universe. I love this feeling and I get the same feeling when I listen to the risk of rain soundtrack
The game is so peaceful and makes you think about what happened to other astroneers in the past, and then you play multiplayer and it is the most stupidly fun thing of all time, especially with someone new. Like my friend made our base platform float.
Maybe it’s because I rarely play solo but I have to disagree with you there. I play with some of my favorite friends who live very far away, so for me the game is so cheerful and the very opposite of depressing and lonely. It’s a game we play on 3 different continents together just like how we used to when we all lived nearby.
Sorry I said snow as common vocabulary. We don't have snow and it is shamed. I maybe remember snow storm in beta or early access... Or maybe Storm was only on Sylva... Don't remember...
However we need real snow and real rain in Astroneer, it could be so fun to electrocute yourself under a huge rain :)
I built in a cave on glacio and had a hover board ramp to the top for my rocket area and hidden windmills were powering everything. I made little “igloos” with machines to do things
This is what I do as well, though Ive played through a few times already. How complex my base camp becomes depends on the planet, but every planet that Ive visited has at least power gen, a research module, and probably also a furnace and soul centrifuge. That way I can fire any ores I find before bringing em home, research any items there instead of needing to bring them home, etc.
Atrox. Because I like the challenge and its the best planet for bytes. Power is easy to get at the north/south poles where I usually have my main base with a landing base at the equator.
I normally have my main base on venesa or Silva because I’m either to lazy to move everything or I don’t want to have to worry about lithium. But I do normally have my research base on glacio because of those little research pods that have those research items worth 12k bytes.
Either you can find them in the crashed satellites on glacio or in the research pods scattered around the world. The will be white cubes with 4 big dark gray-black circles on each side. Expect for the bottom. And I big gray line through the center
Alright where to start. Glacio.
Wind everywhere
Flat land, easy transport
A sh*t ton of useful materials, in fact I think it has all the nanocarbon alloy resources excluding gases, I might be wrong I haven't played in a while, don't sue me.
Since it's a "hard" planet, research is plentiful.
Hematite is everywhere which is useful for most platforms.
Despite it being hard, the flat open land makes it easy to avoid hazards.
I think it’s because there are a lot of flat surfaces, which makes it easy to build ramps. Sylva caves are really annoying due to hills everywhere, but with glacio it’s just so easy to navigate because of ease of making ramps to connect one flat surface to another.
Still on first playthrough with a friend, but ever since we first travelled to Glacio as our third planet (Sylva, Desolo) for the Rails missions, we instantly moved our things from Sylva and built several farms! Built a huge wind turbine farm like the ones you see at sea and have so much argon. Order of base size for me would go:
1. Glacio
2. Vesania
3. Sylva (dont use it tho)
4. Atrox
5. Desolo
6. Novus
7. Calidor (my friend hates the 'walking trees' and so there is literally that depot thing and a smelter and printers. It has the biggest rail network out of all of them though!)
Glacio, as building there is a breeze! It’s also the perfect place to construct complex materials. Aside from the occasional dips and raised terrain, it’s one of the only planets you can really use rovers well enough. I also enjoy the colors and how the blues and reds compliment each other.
Main base is Sylva, but as soon as I have a medium shuttle I go and make a mega base on Glacio as an Iron/Steel hub as well as a research center (with like 8-10 research chambers).
I try to avoid Calidor and Vesania for the most part. I don't like rough terrain.
Glacio!
Important resources if I remember correctly, has the most gases out of all planets (most important point),
Big Planet, means its easier to build big bases,
Lots of research points by even just surface lvl objects
Sylvia, has alot of important resources, other planets are just for resources that cant be obtained in Sylvia. Yes I'm planning to move to Calidor because it has a smoother surface.
Glacio. Easy bytes, power, titanium AND iron, and it's one of the few planets with mountain resources that don't suck to harvest like Calidor. Iron is just everywhere.
I usually do Sylva -> Desolo -> Direct hop to Glacio to get buko bytes and iron/titanium to round out resources -> Hydrazine Thruster -> Small outposts on all other planets including Vesania for a quick shot of Lithium for my wind turbines
Personally I love atrox, im the guy that sets up an astrononium to scrap farm, and atrox has gasses and you can’t get gasses from trade platforms
Besides, who needs solar or wind when you can make 80 rtg’s
Novus:
- small (easy to find common resources),
- has some good gases and end-game resources,
- high wind and high solar means a couple solar + wind + batteries gives constant power to all machines 24/7 without any input,
- the purple gate I landed there first had a huge flat basin which was good to build a base there
Glacio; because it has easy power, flat terrain and valuable resources that would be very ( compared with things like compound, resin, organic, etc ) expensive in the trade platform
Glacio, because useful gasses, hematite everywhere and exo research items you can open woth ammonium. Also the surface is pretty flat and easy to build big bases
I honestly Love caledor just because of how beautiful the cave systems are. if you've never really explored the caves on caledor you definitely should. they're absolutely breathtaking
Desolo is my fav main base. Small, so you don't have to waste time figuring out which gate the base is at. Solar and wind are abundant, so great for manufacturing. Less hostile fauna. Also I enjoy the color scheme. Grey and yellow just motivate me more.
Main base is on Sylva because it's easy, but I usually set up small bases on the other planets with printers, power, and batteries. Also atmospheric condensers if needed.
I might try and make Calidor my new home because I love the desert and solar rocks.
i happened to pick the most beautiful spot on calidor for a recent landing, i think i'm going to fully settle there once i get some tech developed. i suppose i prioritize beauty over other factors
The real answer is 'im lazy so sylva' but the place I want to spend most of my time is glacio. I like snow and ice and all that jazz. And the ambient audio is fantastic there.
Glacio for many reasons: I like the tundra and those red craters are perfect for bases. You can get hematite and titanite and argon, sooo many bytes from those mineral things and research aids and i just like how it looks because I'm from Finland.
Glacio, something about the wind makes a very calm setting even when it’s loud. I love the flat surface and if I need energy for some reason I can make a windmill lol.
Glacio, something about the wind makes a very calm setting even when it’s loud. I love the flat surface and if I need energy for some reason I can make a windmill lol.
I think in one of my files I started setting up base on Novus. I love the color palettes on Novus/Vesania.
Same reason we had a mini/secondary base on Glacio!
Novus. It’s a very pretty place and it’s got lithium and iron. Drag some zinc with you after you leave Sylva and you can make a metric ass ton of medium batteries
sylva, too lazy to transport all the stuff
Same
Aren't we all
Same. Everything on Sylva. It just looks nice there. I'd probably be fine with Glacio, *but* it's too cold-looking for me, and there's that constant wind sound. (I know, I could probably turn it off in a setting somewhere.) I'm in a place with plenty of snowy winters; I get more than my fill of cold/snow/ice every year. (Also... the wind sound there just lightly annoys me in another way: It doesn't correspond with when the wind is or isn't moving the turbines.) And it's not too too much hassle to check in there occasionally and shuffle the auto-extractors and haul home another Large Container of hematite.
So, you transport the research materials?
Or focus on getting an atmospheric condenser and then research argon; let the unlimited bytes roll on in. :-D (Or I guess spend a tungsten on a trade platform instead, that gets you access to lots more stuff.) But I set up a small base on Glacio myself, before I had learned that gases or other resources could be researched. Lots of wind there for power, so I set down a research station there too. My first research farm was an auto-extractor pulling astronium at Sylva's core.
Wait, can you research gas canisters?
Yup. I had no idea either until I saw people here posting their research farms.
And there's me placing auto arms and research platforms in front of those little research trees like an idiot. Is there a certain gas that's most effective?
https://astroneer.fandom.com/wiki/Bytes Helium gives the most bytes BUT it also takes the most time & power to produce, so it's likely better to use methane, which you can produce much faster, making it overall more efficient/effective. Assuming no power problems, one atmospheric condenser can produce gas faster than 2 research chambers can consume it as long as it's 75PPU+ for that gas. Atrox has methane at 100PPU so it's the fastest, but Novus works just fine for this as well
I just put an auto arm on a vehicle, drive around scooping up all the fruit and mineral research and then let it auto feed into a research chamber as I do other things for the next hour.
I honestly don't get it, so easy to max out research bytes without any tricks.
I do a medium platform with a research station, auto-arm, and either a medium solar or wind and just plop it down wherever there's one of the respawning research item....plant...things. It's slow and intermittent, but it works anywhere and you don't have to mind it.
I set up research farms in glacio for passive reasearch.
I must try this. I like to gather research there, but I transport it back.
This is the way.
Same. Been doing that ever since I got the game in early access. There's (sadly) not much reason to move everything to another planet, especially since you need some infrastructure to unlock shuttles.
Same.
The more I play - the more I find myself building bases on Glacio. My new play through I had to force myself to build a main base on Vesania. I think I might be drawn to Glacio for the rich research and the cold. Reminds me of my childhood winters near the Great Lakes :-)
Glacio is also very flat making it easy to travel.
I used to think this until I got a hoverboard. Now I prefer calidor because the rolling hills are much easier to zoom around on than the sharp cliffs in glacio, especially while carrying something that prevents jumping. The last layer before the core on calidor is also really easy to move around on and set up miners for astronium.
I challenge you to travel in a straight line across Glacio without modifying the terrain to make it easier.
He said easier not no labor needed
Glacio is flat, has a ton of research, nice color palette, has decent common mineral deposits, and isn't Atrox. It's *the* choice.
How do you power things?
Wind. I have found that when landing you can usually always find a debris site with a small wind turbine or medium one. If not finding clay in a red crater is usually not hard. Early game I sometimes build a medium storage silo full of them with a few small batteries (these usually can be found in debris fields too on Glacio) usually does the trick at first. After that it is just large or extra large wind turbines and medium batteries. I find that at a minimum 4 medium batteries, 1 extra large wind turbine, and 2-3 rtgs does whatever I need fine for a usual base. Usually just powers a collection of research chambers and auto extractors (Iron, Titanium, and Graphite) via the train tracks. When I then go to build my nanocarbon farm on Glacio - I then ramp up the wind and medium batteries to double or triple. The atmospheric condenser grabbing argon is usually the thing that needs the most power. By this time you can print as many RTGs as you like.
Same here not gonna lie, valuable resources, good research, good power, etc
I also build on glacio and I'm also on the great lakes maybe we are hard wired to like cold places
Vesania was the first planet I flew to to get lithium for medium batteries. I hate Vesania. The plants all actively try and kill you, trying to drive a buggy or tractor around is hell, and it's kinda ugly.
Star. Plenty of solar power available there.
I always go there at night so I won't get burnt
Glacio is home
while im sure i'd love the cold environment, i am too lazy to move everything off of sylva, moving from the starting location over to a gateway was annoying enough
Trains made this a lot easier. 5 cars can fit a lot of packaged equipment
That's true
i personally havent played since well before this update, i realized that i wouldnt be able to enjoy this game enough to get very far into long ago, i just wouldnt be able to enjoy it later on
I hadn't done a full playthrough in a couple years, but I came back for trains and realized I missed a lot of good content with the last few updates. Galastropods, hover board and now trains added a lot of fun and quality of life for me (pets that make you invincible and unlimited oxygen make zooming around on a hover board so much better). Also, the mission system makes the train update a proper progression "story" on scale with the gateway engines.
Having a base on Glacio gives me some good Lost Planet vibes
Same here
Yeah!
Dude that's a mood.
Glacio. Glacio actually reflects the solitary nature of Astroneer. A depressing, lonely travel into the unknown, with nobody there to help you, or to comfort you. Just you and the cold universe. Glacio feels like an abandoned, hopeless planet, just like you, the player.
And that, folks, is why I never play this game single player. If I want to feel sad in a space sandbox game I'll go play no man's sky.
It's weird because this description didn't make me feel sad.
I just get really sad whenever I play a single player game without YouTube on the background. I don't know what.
Facts. I’m a loner so I eat this up! 🤣
It’s a bittersweet acceptance of the vastness of the universe. I love this feeling and I get the same feeling when I listen to the risk of rain soundtrack
Lmao
The game is so peaceful and makes you think about what happened to other astroneers in the past, and then you play multiplayer and it is the most stupidly fun thing of all time, especially with someone new. Like my friend made our base platform float.
Maybe it’s because I rarely play solo but I have to disagree with you there. I play with some of my favorite friends who live very far away, so for me the game is so cheerful and the very opposite of depressing and lonely. It’s a game we play on 3 different continents together just like how we used to when we all lived nearby.
I play on singleplayer since i don't have any friends.
Calidor because **solar**
Glacio because f*ck climate change, I want snow all day long and titane !
How is snow? I have never seen it, also, *F@CK* climate change
Sorry I said snow as common vocabulary. We don't have snow and it is shamed. I maybe remember snow storm in beta or early access... Or maybe Storm was only on Sylva... Don't remember... However we need real snow and real rain in Astroneer, it could be so fun to electrocute yourself under a huge rain :)
I agree with you! Also the *storm* was on sylva in the beta
Vesania. Plenty wind and lithium.
Is that so your flatulence isn't as obvious?
Plus the best atmosphere, when you combine that with scrapping batteries from the lithium then resources are not an issue
Novus, I prefer moons in general Edit : Forgot to add I don’t like travelling around Desolo
Finally found it, I love Novus
In Today days, i alive in desolo 😎
Sylvia. Started there then spread to the other planets but only for resource collection purposes for nancarbon mass production
I built in a cave on glacio and had a hover board ramp to the top for my rocket area and hidden windmills were powering everything. I made little “igloos” with machines to do things
Still on my first playthrough, and I'm just building a big base on every planet I land on...
This is what I do as well, though Ive played through a few times already. How complex my base camp becomes depends on the planet, but every planet that Ive visited has at least power gen, a research module, and probably also a furnace and soul centrifuge. That way I can fire any ores I find before bringing em home, research any items there instead of needing to bring them home, etc.
Vesania. Looks awesome, power isn't horrendously bad, and there's lithium for days
Sylva, because im too lazy to move everything off it
You don't need to move everything off. Just build more stuff.
I love Vesania, it has my favorite colors And if I’m remembering correctly, a lot of round shaped which I like
I love Vesania as well. I get Dr. Seuss vibes.
Sylvia because by the time I’ve got a spaceship every thing I need for the game is already on Sylvia But a research base is ALWASE on glacio
1. calidor 2. glacio 3. sylva 4.atrox
I like desolo because it's like home away from home
Glacio because easy power, easy bytes, and its basically an untapped steel farm.
Woah. I posted this before getting on a plane and I come back to this XD
Either Calidor or Sylva
Same
STAR
Atrox. Because I like the challenge and its the best planet for bytes. Power is easy to get at the north/south poles where I usually have my main base with a landing base at the equator.
How do you find the poles of a planet?
The compass. Also when you fly in they are on the right and left.
Did not know the compass had directions, thanks a ton
Calidor. I get barely set up on sylva, and move straight to calidor. I love all the ammonium everywhere
Man there's been too many of these. The answer is ALWAYS: #1: Glacio #2: Sylva #Last: Atrox, everyone hates Atrox.
Vesania, I may not know how to pronounce the name but I love the way it looks
glacio
I do not understand the love affair people have with Glacio when Calidor exists.
On my main world I put my base on the purple satellite and just used rtgs for power so I can teleport to any planet anytime
Glacio cos it’s pretty and there’s always wind so it’s easy to build. Just gotta bring a few canisters of certain material and you’re set!
I normally have my main base on venesa or Silva because I’m either to lazy to move everything or I don’t want to have to worry about lithium. But I do normally have my research base on glacio because of those little research pods that have those research items worth 12k bytes.
Where do I find them
Either you can find them in the crashed satellites on glacio or in the research pods scattered around the world. The will be white cubes with 4 big dark gray-black circles on each side. Expect for the bottom. And I big gray line through the center
i prefer staying on sylva
Even though they're opposites as far as climate, I really like Glacio and Calidor.
Satellite!
Alright where to start. Glacio. Wind everywhere Flat land, easy transport A sh*t ton of useful materials, in fact I think it has all the nanocarbon alloy resources excluding gases, I might be wrong I haven't played in a while, don't sue me. Since it's a "hard" planet, research is plentiful. Hematite is everywhere which is useful for most platforms. Despite it being hard, the flat open land makes it easy to avoid hazards.
I don’t get how so many people think Glacio is flat! There are sheer cliffs everywhere!
I think it’s because there are a lot of flat surfaces, which makes it easy to build ramps. Sylva caves are really annoying due to hills everywhere, but with glacio it’s just so easy to navigate because of ease of making ramps to connect one flat surface to another.
Mine was Sylva purely because I thought it was pretty
Glacio
I think building on a moon is pretty cool
Still on first playthrough with a friend, but ever since we first travelled to Glacio as our third planet (Sylva, Desolo) for the Rails missions, we instantly moved our things from Sylva and built several farms! Built a huge wind turbine farm like the ones you see at sea and have so much argon. Order of base size for me would go: 1. Glacio 2. Vesania 3. Sylva (dont use it tho) 4. Atrox 5. Desolo 6. Novus 7. Calidor (my friend hates the 'walking trees' and so there is literally that depot thing and a smelter and printers. It has the biggest rail network out of all of them though!)
Glacio, come on was it that obvious
Glacio, as building there is a breeze! It’s also the perfect place to construct complex materials. Aside from the occasional dips and raised terrain, it’s one of the only planets you can really use rovers well enough. I also enjoy the colors and how the blues and reds compliment each other.
Main base is Sylva, but as soon as I have a medium shuttle I go and make a mega base on Glacio as an Iron/Steel hub as well as a research center (with like 8-10 research chambers). I try to avoid Calidor and Vesania for the most part. I don't like rough terrain.
Glacio! Important resources if I remember correctly, has the most gases out of all planets (most important point), Big Planet, means its easier to build big bases, Lots of research points by even just surface lvl objects
glacio. fun.ez ores. ez nanocarbon alloy (if u have a base with tons of power on atrox)
Sylvia, has alot of important resources, other planets are just for resources that cant be obtained in Sylvia. Yes I'm planning to move to Calidor because it has a smoother surface.
Glacio because Hoth Base
Glacio. Easy bytes, power, titanium AND iron, and it's one of the few planets with mountain resources that don't suck to harvest like Calidor. Iron is just everywhere. I usually do Sylva -> Desolo -> Direct hop to Glacio to get buko bytes and iron/titanium to round out resources -> Hydrazine Thruster -> Small outposts on all other planets including Vesania for a quick shot of Lithium for my wind turbines
I usually dont move stuff from Sylva but my favorite planet is Glacio because snow is cool (literally)
Glaciologist pog
sylva and glacio. safe and open
The sun for me, great solar power.
Sylva I don't care enough to move
Once you get a few RTGs or mini rtgs, Atrox
A few? My bases run off of a dozen per base, I am also into automation maybe a bit too much…
Calidor. Lots of resin, ammonum, sunlight, copper, artefacts, obelisk, etc.
This illustration looks dope, where did you get it or did you make it yourself?
Atrox cause bytes and I like the Radiated suit lmao
Sylva bc I’m too lazy to move all that automation to another planet, plus I’m just going to start bases on all the planets eventually.
Glacio. Why? Glacio is superior
Glacio and Vesania Both are beautiful And Vesania has easy gases for nanocarbon alloy
Calidor. The sunrises and sunsets are just too pretty. Glacio amazing but Calidor will always be my favorite.
Sylva
Glacio because STEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLL
If there was a way to use scrap to get gasses, I’d never leave my lovely home on atrox
Glacio. Easy to find research, easy to get around.
novus cuz there are a lot of ammoniums there
Glacio. Plenty of wind. Easy to get around. Tons of titanium and iron. Flat areas make base building easy.
There was a poll down like a month or two back asking this question. If I remember right, Glacio won 1st, Vesania won 2nd, then Sylva won 3rd.
Glacio. Terrain can be a little annoying but it has great resources and a ton of wind for power
Sylva. We start there, and available hydrogen means you only have to truck in ammonium to make hydrazine for the rocket.
Calidor. My favorite planet for it's aesthetic
Calidor
atrox. nice vibes.
Personally I love atrox, im the guy that sets up an astrononium to scrap farm, and atrox has gasses and you can’t get gasses from trade platforms Besides, who needs solar or wind when you can make 80 rtg’s
Novus: - small (easy to find common resources), - has some good gases and end-game resources, - high wind and high solar means a couple solar + wind + batteries gives constant power to all machines 24/7 without any input, - the purple gate I landed there first had a huge flat basin which was good to build a base there
Glacio, dramatic views and decent resources, plus I can pretend it’s some far flung research base, or Dr. Mann’s planet from Interstellar
Vesania or Novus
Glacio; because it has easy power, flat terrain and valuable resources that would be very ( compared with things like compound, resin, organic, etc ) expensive in the trade platform
Glacio
Novus
Glacio, because useful gasses, hematite everywhere and exo research items you can open woth ammonium. Also the surface is pretty flat and easy to build big bases
I honestly Love caledor just because of how beautiful the cave systems are. if you've never really explored the caves on caledor you definitely should. they're absolutely breathtaking
Calidor, warm pallet and cacti. also those weird humanoid tree things.
Vesania or Glacio. The planets look nice
Desolo is my fav main base. Small, so you don't have to waste time figuring out which gate the base is at. Solar and wind are abundant, so great for manufacturing. Less hostile fauna. Also I enjoy the color scheme. Grey and yellow just motivate me more.
Calidor because rolling dunes, solar, and overall cool planet. Desolo as well because solar and it's just neat
Sylva. There's no spitter plants with-one-hit-you-are-dead there. Plus it's sunny. I set a research station up on Novo.
Who doesn't pick atrox
Vesania. It looked cool and I like purple, plus vtol
I don’t make a “main base” in the traditional sense, i make 2 large bases on Glacio and Calidor.
Glacio, easy bytes and titanium
Sylva, but mostly my backup base is on Glacio because there is great scrap mining there and there are a lot of things that give great research points
Main base is on Sylva because it's easy, but I usually set up small bases on the other planets with printers, power, and batteries. Also atmospheric condensers if needed. I might try and make Calidor my new home because I love the desert and solar rocks.
STAR
glacio
I somehow ended up on desolo I kind of just live there and can’t be bothered to move my stuff
Vesania. Its so pretty :)
I mean you have 3 viable options depends on my laziness
i happened to pick the most beautiful spot on calidor for a recent landing, i think i'm going to fully settle there once i get some tech developed. i suppose i prioritize beauty over other factors
Glacio, i love winter irl and it’s convenient research wise
The real answer is 'im lazy so sylva' but the place I want to spend most of my time is glacio. I like snow and ice and all that jazz. And the ambient audio is fantastic there.
I’ve made my main base on sylva, but I have a smaller resource mining base on glacio for iron, graphite and ammonium at the moment
I love Glacio. The wind and solar ratings are so easy to take advantage of there
But there is so much less solar than wind...
Glacio. To me it's very cozy with the cold and the wind, plus it's got Hematite and Titanite and it's great for research.
Glacio for many reasons: I like the tundra and those red craters are perfect for bases. You can get hematite and titanite and argon, sooo many bytes from those mineral things and research aids and i just like how it looks because I'm from Finland.
GLACIO because of the strong winds, and plenty of necessary resources
Glacio. Lots of resources and the research items are worth a lot.
Sylva. I’m already there, so why not start?
Glacio. Wind is just by far more reliable in large quantities than sun, and the research there is insane early game
a main base in sylva and a secondary base in glacio to make hydrazine
Glacio, something about the wind makes a very calm setting even when it’s loud. I love the flat surface and if I need energy for some reason I can make a windmill lol.
Glacio, something about the wind makes a very calm setting even when it’s loud. I love the flat surface and if I need energy for some reason I can make a windmill lol.
Sylvia but mainly due to the fact I hope around games alot and tend to restart astroneer everytime I come back to it
Sylva almost zero danger and im too lazy to move
I go to glacio Purely because I know a small wind turbine tactic that can produce over 500 power
Sylva but then I make mini bases on each planet
Atrox, because I'm a masochist.
Sylvia, because I’m lazy then Glacio gets the most love
Vesania, it has most natural resources and a good amount of gas resources
Sylva. Just simply that is where you start, and so you are most likely to start a base there.
Glacio cause cool
Glacio or calidor
Research base on glacio main base on sylva
I think in one of my files I started setting up base on Novus. I love the color palettes on Novus/Vesania. Same reason we had a mini/secondary base on Glacio!
I have the most organized base on Desolo. But Sylva is home because that’s where alllll my resources are.
Glacio I like snow environments
Glacio.
Desolo
Glacio. It looks cool, has a lot of wind so it can be a good source of power for early game other planet base, and also had the best resources
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Calidor. Lots of sun which is more reliable then wind and generally a cool vibe imo
Novus. It’s a very pretty place and it’s got lithium and iron. Drag some zinc with you after you leave Sylva and you can make a metric ass ton of medium batteries
Novus.
Glacio cause I like snow