Exobiology - fields/forests of mixed species

rootsrat

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I found it! It's more of a "coppice" than a "forest" ;) but still! It's a proof they do exist! Video (timestamped) https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1191427338?ab_channel=roots_rat&t=02h37m23s

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I've spend about 30 hours exploring and going after exobiology recently, but I've not come across any mixed species growing together on a large field/forest on any planet, apart from bacteria being mixed with some other stuff here and there. Even the single species are quite scarse and a field or a forest of a given specimen are very rare.

In the Alpha I came across stuff like in this footage I took in Alpha (timestamped, watch from 4:11 to 5:11). I've seen a planet in Alpha that had 3 different species mixed up in a massive field and it looked absolutely amazing. Like a proper vegetation - with a layer of grass and then a mixture of 2 other plants, all covering a massive field.

In the current version of EDO I've only ever come across fields or forests of just a single species (sometimes with bacteria mixed in, but also very rarely). It just looks poor compared to what I was finding in Alpha :(

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CURRENT (the largest I've found so far - still just 1 species :( )

Did anyone see anything similar?

I have seen many similar, but that's probably because I concentrate on bodies with large numbers of signals, which are usually quite small. The problem between now and the Alpha is the "it's not a heat map" heat map. In the Alpha it was, and would lead you to areas with very dense bio, these days that a matter of both luck and practice. The last body with 10 bio signals I found had similar patches where I landed first and less when I went to look for the Osseus which were more spread out.
 
No - but then would it make sense for it for it to be dense is the question.

FDev say they have scienced this out... Would you go to a desert and expect fields of green, for example? These are not you average life giving earth-like planets. They are balls of rock or ice where life is eeking out it's survival!

I agree, but I do like it when something goes a little off. (Took this earlier this week.)

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