Lava

Pick XII, a typical lava world.

Lava is a type of biome.

Summary

Esbury, a darkly-clouded lava world.

Worlds with Lava biomes are similar to Scorched worlds but with a darker landscape showing obvious signs of volcanic activity on the surface.

Like dead and exotic worlds, lava worlds do not have a biome-specific harvestable plant resource. Nor do lava worlds have biome subtypes.

Biome Descriptors

A world's biome descriptor can be scanned from space and is displayed when a player exits their starship. This is procedurally generated by adding one of the following prefixes to the Planet or Moon text, except for those marked with a dagger (†) which have no added text.

The following sequence is taken from the game data.

1. Lava
2. Magma
3. Erupting
4. Volcanic
5. Ash-Shrouded
6. Ashen
7. Tectonic
8. Unstable
9. Violent
10. Molten
11. Flame-Ruptured
12. Imminent Core Detonation^†
13. Obsidian Bead^†
14. Basalt

Weather Descriptors

Dobact Gamma, another lava world.

The following sequence is taken from the game data.

Sequence	Clear	Normal	Extreme
1.	Sulphurous Haze	Heated Gas Pockets	Frequent Firestorms
2.	Ash Wisps	Occasional Firestorms	Walls of Flame
3.	Drifting Smog	Incendiary Winds	Clouds of Fire
4.	Cinderfalls	Unpredictable Conflagrations	Ashen Destruction
5.	Ash Plumes	Drifting Firestorms	Magma Rain
6.	Choking Ash	Pillars of Flame	Basalt Hail
7.	Burning Mists	Magma Geysers	Explosive Gas Eruptions
8.	Sulfur Fumes	Plumes of Fire	Lethal Ash Storms
9.	Enveloping Ash	Molten Rain	Sulphurous Inferno
10.	Ashen Winds	Tectonic Storms	Colossal Firestorms
11.		Smothering Ash	Obsidian Doom

Additional information

• The biome descriptor and weather sequences were extracted from the 3.00 version of NMS_LOC6_ENGLISH.MBIN game file by pc player Ertosi.
• The biome subtype descriptors and weights were extracted from the 3.12 version of BIOMEFILENAMES.MBIN game file by pc player Ertosi.
• The lava biome was added to NMS with the Origins update.