Excellent Arnul, more or less what I would expect, if I can find 5 sites while only scanning the daylight side of a body ten or more is a very likely possibility, I just don't want to be to optimistic
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Excellent Arnul, more or less what I would expect, if I can find 5 sites while only scanning the daylight side of a body ten or more is a very likely possibility, I just don't want to be to optimistic
Excellent finds. I'm currently looking for more bark mounds out in the Clown nebula and my search strategy lines up with your own. One question though: do the bark mounds you found live on bodies with "major" silicate vapour volcanism, "minor", or is it left unremarked? The one field I found is on a moon with "major" volcanism. Happy future hunting.
System: Orion Sector WE-Z c7 - rocky magma volcanism
System: Running Man Sector EB-X c1-11 - major silicate vapour geysers volcanism
I had small trip around known systems with Bark Mounds (Cone Fungus or Bark Mounds is correct?) before I started search for them on my own. I made table which could help You more.
So, is there any guidelines to how to find these? Are they even tied to some geological parameters, perhaps vaguely realistic or just spawn at random spots?
I'm still failing to find anything. Yesterday I've landed on a tiny tiny moon 300km diameter or so, with water magma volcanism. Spent about 3 hours flying around at about 4km altitude and found absolutely nothing :/
I'm still failing to find anything. Yesterday I've landed on a tiny tiny moon 300km diameter or so, with water magma volcanism. Spent about 3 hours flying around at about 4km altitude and found absolutely nothing :/
As my trip around galaxy comes to an end, and I will be slowing down, here is the movie I made. I decided to record stuff half way through my journey, so unfortunately quite a few great sites exist only on photos, but what can you do, maybe I will come back one day
[video=youtube_share;O54dggYMpDM]https://youtu.be/O54dggYMpDM[/video]
[video=youtube_share;O54dggYMpDM]https://youtu.be/O54dggYMpDM[/video]
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Cold body vulcanism is the hardest to find, I am assuming this is an ice world?
90% or more of my finds have been in canyons on hot bodies, rocky or iron moons, on ice moons all in canyons, but ice moons usually have far more canyons to search than hot moons and are far harder due to the larger number of search targets. Start with small rocky and metallic bodies. Also as far as I know there have been no finds of life on cold moons.
Thanks Arnul! Interesting that they appear on metallic and rocky magma volcanic worlds. I've limited my searches to silicate vapour geysers. I find that iron magma volcanism is often on bodies that are too hot for life -- but of course this isn't universally true.
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Alright, got a couple new one for you tonight. Coming from the Trifid of the North Sector:
System:Trifid of the North Sector HR-W D1-8
Body:F 1
Lat:37.60°
Long:-161.61°
Iron Magma Fumarole
System:Trifid of the North Sector IR-W D1-3
Body:C 3
Lat:3.79°
Long:-26.49°
Iron Magma Lava Spout
System:Trifid of the North Sector HR-W D1-8
Body:F 1
Lat:37.60°
Long:-161.61°
Iron Magma Fumarole
System:Trifid of the North Sector IR-W D1-3
Body:C 3
Lat:3.79°
Long:-26.49°
Iron Magma Lava Spout
Do these sites show up as POI at all, or can be located only by eyes from small distance?
They show small POI - scroll to around 2:20 on this movie and you will see, the quickest method to find them is to use glide as shown here as well https://youtu.be/H8HtIPtuNVs?t=144
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Right, that's neat. Didn't know POI could show up while in glide. That ought to make process easier, especially on very small planets.
Actually very small (400km) are not good either, because typically glide is too short, for me ideal are 700-900 km radius.
Thanks Arnul! Interesting that they appear on metallic and rocky magma volcanic worlds. I've limited my searches to silicate vapour geysers. I find that iron magma volcanism is often on bodies that are too hot for life -- but of course this isn't universally true.
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If I may suggest:
- volcanic type doesn't matter, pay attention on temperature: min: 227K max:423K
- try to start searching around or inside nebulas
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Methane Magma
Arapi 11 A
Coordinates : 4.59 | -87.18
(never seen Methane Magma before... and of course the way my luck goes, my find is in a dark spot so I hardly get good shots out of it )
Methane Magma
Arapi 11 A
Coordinates : 3.96 | -108.71
(2nd site found - but this one is extremely passive)
Arapi 11 A
Coordinates : 4.59 | -87.18
(never seen Methane Magma before... and of course the way my luck goes, my find is in a dark spot so I hardly get good shots out of it
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Methane Magma
Arapi 11 A
Coordinates : 3.96 | -108.71
(2nd site found - but this one is extremely passive)
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There's a lot to do with density as well as radius in glide height, typically glide height will start a lot lower on icy less dense moons than on the same size denser rocky/metallic moons. I can glide a long way on small bodies, but sometimes it just exits glide way up for apparently no reason.
I just do not like small bodies, because the surface is not even on short distances, the tick can have dramatic effect, I had one when I entered the glide at 22 km and then I had the tick straight away dropping me to 12 km, and then I had to keep it at fairly steep -10 degrees angle, so my glide distance was minimal, and after that I avoid them. But of course experiences will vary, If I want to search one then I do, I just prefer slightly bigger ones.
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On rough Planet Surfaces where the Glide is prematurely terminated frequently at low but valid Glide angles, my Rule of Thumb :
Minimum Glide Angle = Altitude / 2
Works for me.
Minimum Glide Angle = Altitude / 2
Works for me.
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And if you go the correct direction around a small body you can glide 2 or 3 times as far, I have had my height getting all the way down to 11 or so kms then suddenly jump up to around 30 and just keep gliding
And if you go the correct direction around a small body you can glide 2 or 3 times as far, I have had my height getting all the way down to 11 or so kms then suddenly jump up to around 30 and just keep gliding
Yes that true, I typically hunt for background views, so another reason I need bigger bodies, on small one like 400km it is quite difficult to get the right view for longer than short glide
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Silicate Vapour Geysers
53 Virginis B 4 A
Coordinates : -6.69 | -19.65
Silicate Vapour Geysers
53 Virginis B 4 C A
Coordinates : 11.97 | -32.58
53 Virginis B 4 A
Coordinates : -6.69 | -19.65
Silicate Vapour Geysers
53 Virginis B 4 C A
Coordinates : 11.97 | -32.58
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