Planetary Traits are attributes which you can discover by surveying planets. Learn all Planetary Traits and how you can unlock them in this guide.

Planetary Traits Explained

Discoverable Characteristics

Planetary Traits are a planet’s characteristics which you can discover by scanning and surveying different unexplored geological features on a planet.

Unlocking Planetary Traits contributes to a planet's 100% survey completion status. Completed surveys can reward Survey Data that can be sold to earn money.

How to Get 100% Survey Score

Astrophysics skill increases chances of discovering Planetary Traits

Astrophysics

A planet can be scanned to get its initial details when you are present in orbit. If you have at least a point invested in your Astrophysics skill, you should also be able to also scan planets and moons from a different planet or system depending on your the skill's rank.

How to Unlock Planetary Traits

Scan Unexplored Geological Features

These features can be singled out by their unique name, such as the Infected Grove for obtaining the Diseased Biosphere trait.

Unlocking Planetary Traits is part of completing a 100% survey of the planet. You will have to land and explore on a planet to scan unexplored geological features that will reveal a Planetary Trait.

These features can usually be found at unique points of interest (such ones with a Natural label), but icons may differ per location. The amount of times needed to scan certain features for unlocking a Planetary Trait may vary.

The amount of traits per planet to be surveyed are listed on the left side of your HUD as you explore.

How to Use the Hand Scanner

Look Around the Planet

When looking for multiple traits on a single planet, you will want to explore the planet's different biomes. In your planetary map view, you can select on a part of the planet to determine what biome you will land in.

Biome differences may easily be spotted by the differences of color on a planet's surface (usually signalling the presence of a certain resource).

Rank Up the Astrophysics Skill

The Astrophysics skill, which can be found under the Science Skill tree, increases your chances of discovering a Planetary Trait even without surveying a location to 100% when ranked up.

The first rank of the Astrophysics skill will give you a 10% chance to automatically detect a Planetary Trait after a planetary scan, with the highest rank offering a 50% chance to unlock traits of planets within 30 Light Years.

Astrophysics Skill Rank Up Guide

List of All Planetary Traits

All Planetary Traits

List of Planetary Traits
Active Faulting	Aeriform Life	Amphibious Foothold
Boiled Seas	Bolide Bombardment	Charred Ecosystem
Continual Conductors	Coralline Landmass	Crystalline Crust
Diseased Biosphere	Ecological Consortium	Emerging Tectonics
Energetic Rifting	Extinction Event	Frozen Ecosystem
Gaseous Font	Global Glacial Recession	Gravitational Anomaly
Pelted Fields	Primed for Life	Primordial Network
Prismatic Plumes	Psychotropic Biota	Sentient Microbial Colonies
Slushy Subsurface Seas	Solar Storm Seasons	Sonorous Lithosphere

This list will be updated as we discover more traits!

Since there are hundreds of Planets to explore, multiple planets can share any of the known Planetary Traits above.

Alternatively, scanning planets with a rank in Astrophysics can result in the discovery of a Planetary Trait without having to look for them on the ground.

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