Surface features

Surface Features

Introduced in the Breaking Ground expansion, surface features are similar to terrain scatter. Terrain scatter tends to be more prolific and can make it difficult to identify surface features. The largest difference is surface features can be interacted with, while terrain scatter allows objects to pass right through.

Description

Bill Kerman standing in front of a feature on Minmus

In the Breaking Ground DLC, several new kinds of surface feature were added. These are to a much higher resolution than terrain and are also able to be interacted with. Kerbals can pick up samples of the features, and they can be scanned with the 3 different types of scanning arm.

Examples

There are several different types of surface feature, including rocks (found on most planets and moons), and planet-specific features such as the Vall cryovolcanoes or the Wrinkle Ridges on Moho.

Surface Features by Planet

Kerbin

• Baobab trees: (grasslands or highlands)
• Giant quartz: (mountains)

Mun

• Mun Stones (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Mun crater (all biomes)
• Mun large crater (all biomes)

Minmus

• Green Sandstones (lowlands, flats, great flats, greater flats, lesser flats) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Olivine formation (lowlands, midlands, highlands, poles, slopes)

Moho

• Moho stone: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Moho wrinkle ridge: (all biomes)

Eve

• Volcanic rock: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Basalt formation: (peaks, impact ejecta, highlands, Olympus, craters, foothills, shallows)
• Pancake dome: (peaks, impact ejecta, Olympus, craters, foothills, shallows)

Gilly

• Gilly ridgeline: (lowlands, midlands, or highlands)

Duna

• Duna Stones: (all biomes except poles and polar highlands) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Blueberries: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Duna Meteorites: (all biomes)
• Duna Dune: (all biomes except poles and polar highlands)

Ike

• Duna ejecta: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)

Dres

• Dres meteorite: (all biomes)
• Dres crater: (poles, lowlands, midlands, highlands, impact craters, impact ejecta)

Jool

Laythe

• Laythe stone: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Laythe boulder: (all biomes)
• Laythe geyser: (shores, dunes, crater island)

Vall

• Vall ice chunk: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Vall stone: (all biomes)
• Cryovolcano: (lowlands, midlands, highlands, northeast basin, northwest basin, southern basin, southern valleys)

Tylo

• Tylo light stone: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Tylo dark boulder: (all biomes)
• Tylo checkerboard: (all biomes)

Bop

• Gravel pile: (poles, slopes, valley)

Pol

• Yellow stones: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)

Eeloo

• Eeloo ice chunk: (all biomes) (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Eeloo brown boulder: (poles, midlands, highlands, lowlands, craters, northern glaciers, fragipan, southern glaciers, mu glacier)
• Eeloo berg: (poles, midlands, highlands, lowlands, craters, northern glaciers, fragipan, southern glaciers, mu glacier)

In-Game Data Files

The above location info is from

GameData\SquadExpansion\Serenity\Resources\rocsdef.cfg

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Changes

Breaking Ground 1.1

• Surface features more frequent.

Breaking Ground 1.0

• Surface features introduced.