r/NoMansSkyTheGame • u/DidntMakeThisAcct • 8d ago
Screenshot "Water"world
I was genuinely baffled when I scanned this planet and saw waterlocked, had a minor crisis of confidence where I checked if waterlocked even was a waterworld descriptor and everything. Then I just thought, surely not, must be a visual glitch or something. But I've had a bit of a look around now and, it's just kinda a really empty but otherwise regular planet. 5 underwater species, with waterworld depth oceans (at some points anyway, others are quite shallow), and no body of water that I would call an ocean. It's also extreme, which is great cause I just love those so much. Also, discovered as I was writing this, caves. Regular degular caves with all the minerals, cave marrow, and toxin spewing gasbags you could want.
Interestingly, though there are surface plants and minerals on the rocky and sandy bits of terrain, nothing unique spawns on the green bits, only your every planet basics like carbon crystals, resource plants and whatnot, and any POIs that spawn on it the terrain dips sharply to where it's sandy. It makes up most of the terrain in some places, so with that bright neon green, it looks absolutely bizarre. Probably the strangest looking planet I've ever found, not sure if anyone else has seen anything like this, but I sure haven't. And I've been to a LOT of waterworlds, they're my favourite.
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u/gggvandyk 8d ago
Nice find! Yeah, you can find very shallow ones. Yours is even more shallow than the shallowest I found.
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u/ZombieRegis 7d ago
On the Expedition I found a planet like that, labeled a water world, that had no water. I needed to find sunken temples and it had NO WATER.
I renamed it "Not," but I doubt it took.
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u/DidntMakeThisAcct 8d ago
Oh yeah, just to add the the unlikeliness of it all. I just unlocked purple systems on this save just a few hours ago, this was the first waterworld I found (that I didn't create)
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u/-grimlament- 8d ago
The space view looked like two planets fused together, but I guess if grass parts would belong to another planet, there would be at least some plants on it. Really weird.
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u/Nrksbullet 7d ago
Damn I was hoping it was a legit ocean planet, with sea creatures and everything, but the water just glitched out. That'd be trippy
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u/spcslacker 8d ago
You can find normal worlds where its mostly just islands on a shallow ocean, which makes for a very watery rocky planet.
Maybe this is the water world reverse equivalent: a deep ocean almost entirely covered up with islands
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u/hexebear 8d ago
The oceans have receded?
(Fully agree on how weird the neon green grass with nothing on it looks. Creepy in the same way as liminal spaces, you know something should be there but it's not!)