*Your ship computer bleeps out one last warning as it turns off for good.*

*The scans were all wrong. There's no Nauvisian System here. It's all gone.*

*There's just asteroids, and one, single planet. It's not rich in metals like the scans suggested, instead it's rich in all kinds of flora and fauna.*

*The only way out of this is to build a factory... using Only Gleba.*

FEATURES:

• The Ultimate Gleba Experience (TM): Nauvis has been replaced with a hybrid-world of Gleba and Nauvis. No iron ore, no copper ore, no coal, no oil. Only fruit, stone, uranium and fish... Plus pentapods, and biters.
• Single planet playthrough: ALL Recipes and buildings (outside of Space Platform specific buildings) are now craftable and placeable on Gleba. There are NO other planets.
• Rearranged tech tree: The tech tree has been restructured to suit a game start on Gleba's surface. Unlocks like the Heating Tower and Heat Exchanger will come earlier than usual, while oil processing will be much later.
• Asteroid Mining: Tungsten and Lithium are now exclusively available in space. Vulcanus itself is gone, but in its place is a huge asteroid field, filled with tungsten-rich asteroids. Lithium is available from Lithium-rich asteroids in an asteroid belt which was previously inhabited by Aquilo.
• New recipes: Ammonia and Fluorine are now craftable as products from Biter and Pentapod eggs.
• Scrap mining: The Fulgoran scrap deposits now reside on Gleba. These resource-rich materials must be mined cautiously using Lubricant as a mining fluid.
• Updated pollution mechanics: All enemies (pentapods and biters) use Nauvisian pollution mechanics. This means pentapods will be attracted to ALL parts of your factory, not just the farms. Additionally - farms now produce "normal" pollution instead of spores.

You might like this mod if:

• You enjoyed Gleba's mechanics, and wished there was more reason to scale up there instead of different planets.
• You're interested in a "What if?" of managing to survive the early game on Gleba, with nowhere to run, and no technology to back you up.
• You're interested in a "What if?" of the above, except now there's biters too.
• You're looking for a "Space Age+" playthrough with a bit more challenge. Most techs and recipes are unchanged, just reordered to fit a Gleban start. Very few techs/recipes are completely new, so the experience is very vanilla-like.
• Death doesn't faze you.

FAQs:

• WHY DID YOU MAKE THIS?
• Gleba has a rich and interesting set of mechanics for resource generation. The balance in Space Age struck me as odd - Vulcanus is relatively basic, but from a simple lava recipe, it's possible to produce near-infinite quantities of high tier-products in only a couple of steps. Meanwhile, the more complex and challenging mechanics on Gleba are very unrewarding in comparison - resulting in just basic ores.

However, I don't think Gleba mechanics are bad - the opposite in fact! It's a far more interesting problem on Gleba, but it's still possible to create scalable resource generation from a small farming plot. This mod makes Gleba's mechanics the focus, and removes the player's ability to "run away" to other planets to build up their resources.

• How do I get started?

Other than installing the mod in the usual way, this will require a new game. Then, similar to Gleba in Space Age, the key hurdles are: > * Obtain iron ore from Iron Stromatites, and copper ore from Copper Stromatites > * These give raw ores, as well as iron/copper bacteria respectively. Those bacteria spoil into more usable ore to get started > * Fruit products can be processed for a small chance of finding additional bacteria, to automate ore productin slowly > * The Agricultural Tower automatically harvests fruit and plants seeds, to automate fruit production > * Researching Bacteria Cultivation allows breeding of bacteria, to automate ore production at scale

• Where are my flamethrowers?

There is no oil on Gleba. Oil Liquification is a Material Science tier unlock, just as it is in Space Age. That means Oil processing requires Material Science, which requires Tungsten, which requires mining Vulcanus remnant asteroids. In short - flamethrowers are space-tech now. To counter this, rocket turrets are obtained much earlier, and are unlocked pre-space.

• Why does the map say I'm on Nauvis?

What? There is Only Gleba.

• How do I get Ammonia?

Ammonia is now crafted from either Pentapod or Biter eggs. The recipe is simple - just cook 'em in steam. Biter eggs are slightly more effecient as the eggs are slightly harder to produce until the endgame.

• How do I get Fluorine?

Fluorine is now crafted from combining Pentapod and Biter eggs together. Don't let your defenses fail!

• Why are my Lithium Plates turning black?

They're spoiling in the Gleban atmosphere. They can be dissolved into Lithium Brine and then reformed into Lithium ore in the usual way.

• Is this beatable?

Yes

Tips:

• Jellynuts are an acceptable power source very early on for the first few furnaces and steam generation. Rocket fuel from fruit is a good idea for the midgame.
• The heat tower is an effective dump for excess spoilage. Items burnt in the tower produce 250% of their usual energy value.
• The heat exchangers technology helps make use of any excess energy from burnt spoilage
• Turning spoilage into carbon is energy positive.
• An agricultural tower combined with ore bacteria from fruit processing is a means to a renewable ore supply
• Processing plant products into Bioflux allows Ore Bacteria to be cultivated. This can be used to automate scalable ore production from renewable plants.
• Running away is semi viable very early on. If nests have closed in on you, find a quieter spot until you can deal with them.
• A good defense is an