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:

• Agricultural tower
• Heating tower
• Biochamber
• Biolab
• Stack inserter
• Rocket turret
• Spidertron
• Productivity module 3
• Efficiency module 3

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

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

Spoilage

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.

When crafting with spoilable items, the final product will inherit the freshness value of the ingredients. The three exceptions are iron and copper bacteria cultivation, pentapod eggs and fish breeding, whose recipes will always result in a 100% fresh product, regardless of the freshness of the ingredients.

When crafting with two different spoilable items of different freshness values, like in the agricultural science pack and bioflux recipes, the final product's freshness is determined by the average of the ingredients' freshness.

The agricultural science pack does spoil, which will gradually decrease its research value, so the player is incentivized to build a fast space platform to bring them back to Nauvis.

Spoilable items are used as ingredients in a few non-spoilable items, such as the biochamber. In these, the freshness value of the ingredients does not matter in the product being produced.

Spoilable item times

Item	Time	Special effect on spoiling
Agricultural science pack	1 hour
Biter egg	30 minute	Spawns a big biter
Bioflux	2 hours
Copper bacteria	1 minute	Turns into copper ore
Raw fish	2 hours, 5 minutes, 50 seconds
Iron bacteria	1 minute	Turns into iron ore
Jelly	4 minutes
Jellynut	1 hour
Nutrients	5 minutes
Pentapod egg	15 minutes	Spawns a wriggler
Yumako	1 hour
Yumako mash	3 minutes

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

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.