Lava Planets are the opposite of Ice Planets. They have molten lava instead of water. The temperature is unusually high. Flying in too close to the lava causes your ship to overheat, causing damage. They also have a pink colored surface.
Threats[]
There are two threats on Lava Planets. Note that flying too close to the lava seas also does damage.
Threats | Minor Damage | Medium Damage | Major Damage |
---|---|---|---|
Fire Storms | X | O | O |
Fire Jets | X | O | X |
Fire Storms[]
Strange clouds made of fire, that deal damage to your ship when you fly into one.
Fire Jets[]
Jets of flame and heated gas, Fire Jets shoot up from the surface and damage your ship if you fly too low. They are unpredictable and shoot up from random locations on the surface.
On Lava Planets, the water is replaced by lava, and the land is pink. As the T-score increases, the land becomes fertile, and the lava lowers and eventually hardens, with water appearing in its place.
Trivia[]
- Placing a Drought Generator, Atmosphere Freezer, Atmosphere Generator or Ice Storm on water will make them float, but they will explode in lava without affecting the T-score.
- Lava planets are possible, although there are no lava planets in the solar system. Many people may think that Venus should be represented as one in Spore, but Venus does not have any "lava oceans" as these planets do. In reality, lava planets can be formed in five simple ways:
- By orbiting close to a star, as in Spore.
- By a massive collision.
- By huge amounts of radioactive elements decaying underneath the crust.
- By tidal flexing from other planets, moons, stars etc.
- During their formation, all planets, including gas giants, were lava planets.