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.

Planet discovery Gleba (research) is required to travel to the planet.

Exclusive Items

The following items are unlocked on Gleba and can only be crafted on-planet:

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  Agricultural science pack
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  Artificial jellynut soil
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  Artificial yumako soil
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  Overgrowth jellynut soil
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  Overgrowth yumako soil
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  Biochamber

The following items are unlocked on Gleba but can be crafted elsewhere:

• Agricultural tower (Buildable only on Gleba and Nauvis)
• 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
• 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 lake

A region of deep water that is impassable without landfill.

Blue marsh

An area of shallow water with some buildable terrain, typically bordering deep water lakes. Does not contain any farmland.

Midlands

Turquoise or orange terrain with no marshlands, suitable for building without needing landfill.

Highlands

Darker terrain suitable for building without needing landfill. Stone can be found in this biome.

Green biome

Marshy terrain where Yumako trees can grow. Contains a small amount of natural Yumako soil, a larger quantity of yumako wetlands where artificial yumako soil can be placed, and all other terrain in the biome can have overgrowth yumako soil placed on them. Copper stromatolites can be found in this biome in abundance.

Red biome

Marshy terrain where Jellystems can grow. Contains a small amount of natural Jellynut soil, a larger quantity of jellynut wetlands where artificial jellynut soil can be placed, and all other terrain in the biome can have overgrowth jellynut soil placed on them. Iron stromatolites can be found in this biome in abundance.

Pentapod enemies can only build nests on shallow water tiles, so midlands and highlands act as natural barriers to their expansion (artificial barriers can be made as well via landfill or similar tiles).

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

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.

See also

• Aquilo
• Fulgora
• Nauvis
• Vulcanus
• Space platform