I really AM peaking in through their studio windows, that’s how. 
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@Havok40k is like the devs favored child where as we are all the red headed step children.
!DISCLAMER! I have a hint of red in my hair so I can say that
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Woah now, don’t paint that target on my back like that! 
I’m just a fan who spends waaay to much time on the forums!
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joking of course
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Oh I know I took it as a joke 
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I suspect there’s one orb per resource type - given that he’s got a bunch of different ones all lined up on those shelves
The noise texture on each one is subtly different from the looks of it—not just intensity.
Might be both? The noise on those looks a hell of a lot like the resource distributions that were posted a while back (see below)
Agree that the masked areas make it seem unlikely that it’s a complete map (would suck if there were large areas of the world that spawned nothing). However, my hunch is that the masked areas represent the water level of the world, so that you can more easily orient the distribution with the terrain of the world
Also, mapping a square map to a sphere is mildly difficult if you want to avoid bizarre warping/seams - so if this is depicting resource distributions, it’s probably only showing some of it (centered on the player’s location, perhaps? That’d be a cool effect as you run around)
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From an old post: https://forum.playboundless.com/uploads/default/optimized/2X/0/0a44170c7bee794c258308895b5ab2b4dfbb3731_1_505x500.png
this is how uv-mapping, the world is not being mapped to a full sphere, but is being mapped to a hemisphere, and its that hemisphere that you see in the planets in the sky and on these in-world atlases, because you never see the entirety of the hemisphere at once you get an effect of things dissapearing off one side and appearing on the other (though if you pay enough attention, they re-appear too quickly to be a real sphere etc), on the atlases in-world, for the current world it locks to show where you actually are and facing direction in the middle, and for other-worlds just freely rotates like a planet in the sky.
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I’m not sure I’m understanding what a “brown mountain” biome is on Epsilo. I’ve found many mountains with brown in them, but most are covered with either ice on top, or grass on top, and never anything I’d consider principally ‘brown’.
Does someone have an example picture?
EDIT: Courtesy of Akii on the Discord:
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Yeah that’s them.
Note that the base of the mountain is already high and you’ll be finding topaz in lower parts of them and underneath the ground level. When underneath a mountain it’s easy to wander away and land outside topaz spawn area so it’s good to save a location when you start mining and track it to be able to say where you are.
Good luck!
Ah right. You will find some tech devices in these mountains too.
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Been exploring Vulpto’s caves.
Visited 5-6 natural caves, below 25 altitude(25-19), seen 0 gems yet. What am I doing wrong?
try different areas - some gems might like certain surface above (maybe grassy more than rocky etc. - or its just a random thing; either way you need to travel and try caves in different biomes etc.;sometime you hit an area where an hour mining in caves gives you 40-60 gems, so you come back there for a few weeks and then suddenly it spawns very little, but an area that was barren before suddenly spawns more of them gems);
Also, use an atlas (drop a ruby on it) and follow the hot spots.
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Seems there’s no other way - only searching 
I think atlas is lying. Been searching silver with it’s help. Also tried to search for fibrous leaves - shows only some of plants, often in wrong places.
By the way, to search rubies with atlas I need to find at least one))))
I can give ya a ruby to load it up
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Rubies favor being under mountains… generally the bigger the better… i don’t know if any has changed… but they do seem harder to find then they were 6-8 months ago… maybe all the “easy” or obvious ones have been picked clean… but when i do find them now, they are often tucked away in the nooks and crannies =/
while it’s not a miracle tool… the atlas does help for rare things like Tech Devises, Gems, and what not =)
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I haven’t had much luck with the atlas finding things, only about half the time do I find what I’m looking for, and still have to spend a couple hours looking through too much area.
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I haven’t been doing too bad with rubies using the atlas, certainly better than without it. I’m not having much luck with tech devices and components though. The atlas isn’t accurate enough for them especially as they are usually just one block rather than a small cluster like gems, so much easier to miss, plus their altitude range can vary quite a lot.
Yes, tech devices and components were too often not found where the atlas said.
i find them in surface caves the atlasses should say altitudes
vulpto is in caves near surface tier 3 tech but not exposed to see ------- near lava gold ruby silver ------ and in middle ruby and coal iron ------- fosils also a small bit higher then the lava oh and if ya dig the redsand pockets ya get good sulphur
this is my research and completly not pro lol
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