Surface features

Surface Features

Introduced in the Breaking Ground expansion, surface features are similar to terrain scatter.

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 (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Blueberries (can be picked up by a Kerbal)
• Duna Meteorites

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)

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.