Metal Sliders!

I've been playing around a bit and it might be cool if we could turn the Metal down a bit more just to see what scarcity does to gameplay and reclaiming - this is a 900 Radius on minimum:



I think mexes might give a bit too much metal at the moment if we're going to have Mex numbers be variable.
Really glad this feature is in!

That's actually a very beautiful planet, burrito! Noice.

Sorian talked about this during today's PTE stream: metal sliders will be changed (apparently have been changed in the PTE build already) so that a setting of 0 gives 0 metal on a planet.

In the live build (for now), setting metal density to a negative number like -100 or -150 will give you your scarce metal.

Still not totally clear on how the clusters setting works, however.

I fiddle a lot, usually trying to avoid this ugly duckling!

Awesome!
It looks like there are two things - the clusters are blobs of mexes whereas the density gives more spread out mexes.

Every time a mountain biome spawns, a puppy cries.
(God I hope they're improved soon...)

You played the System editor like damn fiddle.

I hope they look a bit more like the rocky biome concepts:

Has the main branch been updated since yesterday? Because what I described (negative density gives fewer mex than 0 density, 0 density does not give 0 mex spots) is how it was working yesterday.

@eroticburrito what settings are you running this in? Screenshots 4 and 5 look a lot smoother than what I'm seeing in game and I run max settings, with all rendering and lighting effects on. Dat water...Mmm.

EDIT: Maybe just the resolution of the screenshot...

If you go under 'Settings- Awesome!' and click 'ENGAGE' then you too will experience this.
I'm foolin. If you like the aqua water, set the planet's Height Range to 0.