Is it possible for one region on a planet to rain more than others?

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Not sure if anyone might know this. On the test worlds currently, one region seemed to have no rain ever, but as I’ve gone to a few regions over and sat idly for a while, it seems to rain constantly. Has anyone ever noticed that? Or is it usually the entire planet rains?

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There is definitely areas where it rains more than others. Not sure if its planet based or biome based though. The swamps of kada make it rain alot. Deserts get very little rain, though I have seen it snow there :thinking:.

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Yes. idk if it’s a region thing tho. But my brother built on the other side of a small lake from me, and it snows on him ALL the time…

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My guess is it’s a biome thing. Temperature probably determines rain vs. snow and humidity probably controls how frequently it rains…if I had to take a guess anyway.

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Yep, compared to the volcano example above, this “water swamp” biome has it’s humidity scale way higher so it’s probably biome based.

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Wow awesome information, thanks for digging in to that. That makes a lot of sense.

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Yep biome. It snows and rains a lot on tana :confused:

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It Snows 95% of the time on Houches I :laughing:

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It only snows where you are tho!

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There’s some really cool visualisations of the weather simulation here :slight_smile:

Snow ❄️

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i noticed :smiley:
cant see my white concrete under all that snow lool

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@Clexarews - That graph you are showing - How does one access that info? Considering biomes for creative/sovereign world, and would like to identify what alt/temp/etc. levels have more rain and such to avoid lol.

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That is a screen capture from the world builder which was part of some of the early-access bundels of the game. So it isn’t something you’ll have access to unless you can get early-access key that has that perk.

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Since this is ready necro’d… What biome qualities get the little floaty critters?

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I’m assuming you’re talking about the atmospheric effect and not cuttletrunks? Unfortunately I’m not sure :frowning: .

@xieth101, Tuudi is correct. It’s from world builder.

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Haha, yeah, the atmospheric effect. Ty for responding.