Summary
Gas Giants are a type of planets in the game. Gas Giants frequently have one or more planets in orbit around them, an example being the starting world. Since Gas Giants have no physical surface, Icarus cannot land on them; instead, it simply floats above the cloud layer.
Icarus can manually collect resources from a Gas Giant, but Orbital Collectors can gather them automatically.
Production
A maximum of 40 Orbital Collectors may be placed on a Gas Giant's equator (where the latitude is 0 degrees, marked by a thicker green line in construction mode). Each collector will produce resources at the rate listed on the planet information seen in the star map.
Some of these resources will be consumed to power the collector, see the Orbital Collector page for details.
There are two types of Gas Giant.
Gas Giant
Mainly produces Hydrogen, and produces Deuterium at a lower rate.
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Ice Giant
Mainly produces Fire Ice, and Hydrogen at a lower rate.
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Production Upgrades
While each level of the Veins Utilization upgrade increases the collecting rate by a flat 10%, the 30MW upkeep cost of the Orbital Collector effectively increases it by more than 10%. See the Orbital Collector page for the full explanation.
Player Tips & Tricks
- Due to the large distance between where Orbital Collectors can be placed, construction drones can lag far behind if flying to place multiple collectors without waiting for each to be constructed.
- As with resource quantities on planets, the typical production rate of Gas Giants is higher for those found in systems further from the starting system, scaling as distance increases.
- Since Gas Giants are not physical, a loose item will simply fall directly into the planet and become irretrievable. Take care when managing the inventory while on a Gas Giant's surface.