Geothermal vents
Stats
Layer
- 9
Temperature
- 35 to 43 °C
Liquids
- Magma
Ore veins
- Copper, ilmenite
Earthquakes
- Yes
Radiation timer
- Yes
On this layer
- MagmaMagma fills the layer. Magma close to you cools into obsidian.
- Heated rockStanding on it costs each foot 20 Skin health and adds 20 pain per second, and raises Core temperature 0.1 °C, adrenaline 3 and stamina 20 per second, all less with armored feet. Shock falls 12 per second while you stand on it.
- PressureBelow the middle of the layer High pressure sets in within a second while you are awake and never gets worse here. It only builds further on the next layer.
- Mood on arrivalArriving with Mood below 10 raises it by 10. If it is then still below -10, it rises by 20 more.
- No lifepodsNo intact lifepods are placed here, so there are no traders and no lifepod chests. Collapsed lifepods still are.
- Mini-barrelsMini-barrels are placed 1.75 times as often as on other layers.
- Way onFall out of the bottom of the layer to reach the next one.
Loot
Medical crateUp to 57 per layer
Container crateUp to 57 per layer
Food boxUp to 103 per layer
Animal corpseUp to 52 per layer
CorpseUp to 52 per layer
Mini-barrelUp to 90 per layer
Drop capsuleUp to 34 per layer
Ripped dressingUp to 26 per layer
E-PDAUp to 64 per layer
- Collapsed lifepodUp to 21 per layer, each with a magazine 90% of the time, Internal organs 80% and up to 3 Yellow flesh, each 30%
Kinetic Transmitter chip25% chance of a chip site, always in M.E.R.C. runs
