Gleba

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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

Gleba is a moist, agricultural planet with fungal hills and swampy lowlands.

It is home to the pentapods, which are spider-like enemies who are attracted to the scent of biological processing called Spores, similar to the way that Nauvis creatures negatively respond to pollution. One of the most prominent traits of Gleba is that nearly everything takes a biological form.

Required Research

Planet Discovery Gleba

Exclusive Items

The following items are unlocked on Gleba. The items marked "exclusive" can only be crafted on Gleba:

• Agricultural tower (researched on Gleba, exclusively produced and placed on Gleba and Nauvis)
• Agricultural science pack
• Artificial jellynut soil and Artificial yumako soil (exclusive)
• Overgrowth jellynut soil and Overgrowth yumako soil (exclusive)
• Captive biter spawner (spawners can be captured with Gleba's Capture bot rocket, constructed with Aquilo research, and exclusively produced and placed on Nauvis).
• Heating tower
• Biochamber (exclusive)
• Biolab (unlocked with Gleba science, but exclusively produced and placed on Nauvis)
• Rocket turret
• Spidertron
• Stack inserter
• Toolbelt equipment
• Productivity module 3
• Efficiency module 3

Surface

Properties

Gleba Surface Properties

Property	Value
Pollutant Type	Spores
Day Night Cycle	10 Minutes
Magnetic Field	10
Solar Power	50%
Pressure	2000
Gravity	20

Biomes

Gleba hosts multiple biomes.

Deep water

Impassable

Shallows

A walkable murky water, filled with watercanes

Green lowlands

Red lowlands

Green midlands

Red midlands

Highlands

Mechanics

Main article: Spoilage mechanics

Most biological products on Gleba are "spoilable". A spoilable item has an inherent timer attached to it, which begins at the item's creation. When the timer reaches 0, the item is transformed into spoilage, with a few exceptions. This process is inevitable and cannot be stopped.

The exact time differs per item, ranging anywhere from a few minutes to 2 hours. This means that item throughput is more important than ever on Gleba, and buffering a large stockpile is ineffective, as items can spoil within containers.

The Biochamber, Gleba's special production building, uses a fuel source, nutrients. Nutrients also can spoil, and have a short, 5 minute spoil time.

Access to basic resources

• Water is readily available using offshore pumps
• Stone can be mined from patches on the surface as normal
• Iron ore can be obtained from Iron bacteria, which can be cultivated in a Biochamber using Iron bacteria cultivation
• Copper ore can be obtained from Copper bacteria, which can be cultivated in a biochamber using Copper bacteria cultivation
• Coal can be obtained via Coal synthesis
• Crude oil is not available. However:
  • Plastic bars can be obtained from Bioplastic
  • Sulfur can be obtained from Biosulfur
  • Lubricant can be obtained from Biolubricant
  • Rocket fuel can be obtained from Rocket fuel from jelly
  • Heavy oil can be obtained using Coal liquefaction, if the initial heavy oil is shipped in from another planet. This is only really useful for flamethrower turrets, since all other oil products can be obtained more efficiently using the bio recipes.

Space routes

Gleba is connected to 4 other planets: Nauvis, Vulcanus, Fulgora, and Aquilo.

Planet Distance

Planet	Distance (km)
Nauvis	15,000
Vulcanus	15,000
Fulgora	15,000
Aquilo	30,000

Asteroid rate graphs:

Space route from Nauvis to Gleba	Space route from Vulcanus to Gleba
Space route from Gleba to Fulgora	Space route from Gleba to Aquilo

Graph legend:

Asteroid type	Chunk	Medium	Big
Metallic	● Blue	● Red	● Cyan
Carbonic	● Orange	● Yellow	● Brown
Oxide	● Green	● Magenta	● Purple

Orbit

Properties

Property	Value
Solar Power	200%

Asteroid Spawning Types

Asteroid Type	Spawn Ratio
Metallic asteroid chunk	2
Carbonic asteroid chunk	5
Oxide asteroid chunk	1
Promethium asteroid chunk	0

Asteroid Spawning Sizes

Asteroid Size	Spawn %
Chunk	.30
Medium	.25
Big	0
Huge	0

Note:

• Chunks spawn at Nauvis at 1.25%
• Huge Asteroids only spawn past Aquilo

Key reasons to go to Gleba

• It has a truly unlimited amount of resources, so you never need to worry about expanding.

• It unlocks the Spidertron, which is a big improvement over the Tank, both in combat and remote control.

• Unlocks the plastic bar and rocket fuel productivity, which is a weakness in Vulcanus.

• It is connected to all planets in the solar system, so shipping is easy.

Key reasons to not go to Gleba

• Spoilage mechanic is difficult and might challenge newer players.

• Enemies are significantly stronger than Nauvis enemies.

• Biochamber requires nutrients, not found on either Vulcanus, Fulgora, or Aquilo.

See also

• Aquilo
• Fulgora
• Nauvis
• Vulcanus
• Space platform

Gallery

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  Example landscape of Gleba.

Trivia

• In biology, a gleba is a fleshy, spore-filled inner mass of some fungus like the puffball.
• During development, Gleba was once named Bacchus, after the Roman god of fertility, orchards, and vegetation.

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.