Worlds · How worlds work

Planet Classes

A one-letter label for what a world is like to stand on: temperate, frozen, arid, scorched, ocean or barren.

A world's class is never stored. It's worked out from what the world already is: whether it has air, what its water is doing, and whether it's trying to freeze or cook you. You can work out a planet's class just by standing on it and looking around.

ClassNameHow you know
MTemperateAir, liquid water, no hazard
PFrozenAir, and it's cold
HAridAir, warm or dry but not deadly hot
YScorchedAir, and the heat does 3+ damage a second
OOceanNo air, but liquid water
DBarrenNo air and no water. Nothing lives here.

Why it matters

Class decides which Crops and wild plants can live on a world, and which kind of sand its beaches are made of. See Sand.

See also