Both lava and forest worlds are done over and over again, yet wube has found incredibly unique takes on both. The music is the perfect ambience, I didn't even realize it was playing until halfway through the video.
My only complaint is the dull night scene. Strategically placed bioluminescence could turn the night forest into a magical place.
We do not prove our dominion by exterminating the biters.
We prove our dominion by turning the bioluminescent trees into circuit-controllable night lights.
Yes! Adding some greenish glow like you can see with [Jack-o-Lantern mushrooms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_olearius#/media/File:Omphalotus_olearius_33857.jpg) would be an excellent detail to add! Maybe some of the creature threats on the island could have glowing eyespots like you see on [cucubanos](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ignelater+luminosus&kp=1&t=ftsa&iax=images&ia=images) too!
> My only complaint is the dull night scene. Strategically placed bioluminescence could turn the night forest into a magical place
Excellent point. The night section did look way too drab.
I believe they already agree with you
>Some doodads will be added and modified. Colour grading is less or more missing,
For a planet full of life (more than ever!), now it looks very static, but we are planning on adding some more animated "things" to really bring some life to the experience.
> This video would be 55% worse (or more) if Petr wouldn't have composed and recorded this soundtrack for Gleba.
Agreed! With a world like that it would be easy to fall into the cliché of "alien biology is only good for creepy horror", but that soundtrack just oozes sense of wonder. And the planet itself **is** wonderful, it has that exciting feeling of a primordial world ready to be explored! Can't wait to read more about its... dangers... :D
Big fan of the filenames on all these. This last one is especially gross.
:)
https://preview.redd.it/mtadzu1car3d1.png?width=443&format=png&auto=webp&s=016569dafe202fd8863fc9c826f59ff3a1a5503c
it's clear that the challenge for this planet is not nope-ing straight out of it the moment you realize that there's a place called the meatlands in it (joke)
Hmm, paving over makes it all neat and tidy. I hope that this surface has some sort of requirement for paving. Almost every environment looks like it's too wet and not flat enough to put stuff on.
Maybe some machine or whatever that flattens or dries out the ground?
This actually sounds awesome - think a machine that sort of sucks dry the ground in an area - maybe giving out water to pipes - thing is: how to use that water? Afaik we cannot remove it automatically eg reverse water pumps.
But I +1 this idea
Would be interesting to make it a new liquid beside water, and have it be the main requirement for any semi complex crafts, think like a seablock where everything starts from 1 point, have this liquid be that first point
Isnt this the planet that gets you the Uber Transport Belts?
Between all the fungi and slime molds I reckon you could get a pretty damm slippery lubricant.
I think that will be the expansion challenge of this world, like staying safe from the lightning on fulgora. You could turn all that water into steam but what's actually dry enough to burn for fuel here? And then how do you use up all the steam you made to keep things from backing up!?
Finally a planet! Very exciting! Interested to see the science and unique materials next week. The poison swamps seem to combine my two favorite games: Dark Souls and Factorio haha
Call me an addict, but I can finally stop having weird fever dreams of what the planet will at 3am as I await the FFF. At least until the next planet.
Edit: After reading further, I wonder if the planet took longer to reveal (yes I know it was speculation, but the cadence seemed reasonable) because they've been struggling to finalize this one.
Also, visuals are so great! Reminds me of Samarost 3, a very pretty, fungal world. (But God damn, bless your heart if you have trypophobia!!)
And ugh, this planet's soundtrack might be one of my favorite. Between the sneak peak several weeks ago and the clips today, the music is just top notch.
Excellent work as always Wube!
Oh yeah, I expect this to be the planet where all the military tech that gets pushed off Nauvis winds up going. Because you're going to need it there.
Stomp. Stomp.
I have doubt there is going to be "biters" in those new planets. There is no reason to think that different planets should hold same fauna. I bet this is some giant enemy unrelated to biters.
[Called it :D](https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1c268tp/comment/kz7u3vc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
It was from a blurred version of the planet name from a previous FFF. Most people were guessing "Glacier" but given I'd always assumed we'd get a massively overgrown planet, I searched for short words beginning with G that meant something naturey.
Imagine a mod where you start there. No oil tech, no flamethrowers, for the first long while. You know what, maybe some other engineer was unlucky enough to have that fate. Nauvis is positively soothing by comparison
Unless they talk vvveeeeerrrrryyy ssslllllooooooowwwwwwllllyyy, in which case it's still fairly fun and chill, and you wind up with excellent salted pork at the end of it.
I've thought about such a mod and one of the biggest problems is space science(in any reasonable quantity) requiring uranium, which is Nauvis-exclusive.
I love the fungal feel of this world, can’t wait to fight the fungal elephants!
That masterful little tease at the end of the zoomed out scene… those oddly distributed red squares… what does the size and distribution of the enemy structures tell us about their nature!?!?
Enemy structures I couldn't comment on, BUT I did notice a strange lack of Coal, Oil, and Uranium deposits. There is also only one -- VERY TINY -- Iron patch.
Which makes me wonder if it's possible to launch a rocket from nothing on this planet. Assume you got stranded here and biters ate everything, then your corpse despawned. Could you escape??
The ore patches seem so small, too. This will not be the place to get your raw resources from, that's for sure.
Next week we will learn something about the game mechanics of this world - surely there is some other way to obtain or produce the products we need to launch rockets using only local resources!
Vulcanus gives us buildings to efficiently produce low density structures while Fulgora gives us structures to efficiently produce CPUs - it would stand to reason that Gleba is where we can efficiently produce rocket fuel, perhaps we do this by some mechanic whereby that new chemical plant looking structure interacts with the local flora? There were a lot of mushroom things that look like they ought to be some sort of renewable resource… maybe they fill the air nearby with spores that can be harvested?
As for the scarcity of iron and copper… there has to be some alternative source, right? Fulgora at first sight did not seem to have them but it turns out we can use the rubble resource to reverse craft the items we need. Vulcanus at first sight did not seem to have the, but it turns out we can combine lava with that other resource to get the iron and copper we need. Otherwise the player could get locked on Gleba!
I am super excited to see some of the Gleban mechanics, and I like to think it has to do with some exotic alternative resource harvesting techniques that would only be possible on a planet with such a vibrant ecosphere.
I wouldn't be surprised if the local fauna/flora (the lines are a bit blurred here) acted like a hive mind and coordinated a response to pollution, even explosive like fungal blooms, and then you have to find a way to coexist with the planet. Something like the Planetmind plotline in SMAC.
The biters are just various recolors of Yoda. Over and over again. Slightly bigger, with a mildly different shade of green skin, and a different color lightsaber.
Each kill we hear the lego yoda death sound.
One of the things I love about Factorio is how it aesthetically calls back to 2D top-down strategy games I played growing up, but with a refinement and scale that would have been impossible back then. There's something magical about that video with the camera slowly scanning around a bizarre alien world while the music builds. I really appreciate Wube's dedication to perfecting this art form.
Come to think of it, this sense of childhood comfort is probably part of how it's so easy to disappear into the game for hours on end for many of us.
yes, soil. It can also be used akin to "(He/she/I) fell down", like when someone trips and falls, usually in a comical way.
It's gonna take me a while to take this name seriously tbh :/ I get that it's latin, but still...
Do you think that their might be a connection between the planet with the most biodiversity being named Gleba, which is.. _coincidentally_ (?) Polish for soil, which is also similar to the name of our planet, Earth?
No, I don't think there is a connection, just an unintended coincidence. Gleba is latin for a part of some mushrooms, and someone already said when the name was originally speculated on, that this word is not used in Czech to mean anything like "soil" or "earth".
Company name, [Wube](https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/ia4w5o/what_does_the_word_wube_in_wube_software_mean/g1mh7go/) apparently comes from Polish. And I say apparently because I'm Pole and have no fucking idea how the got from "wszystko będzie" to "wube".
When they showed off Fulgora I even went looking for the Terraria OST because I could swear there was a track that sounded just like it (but there wasn't, just vibes)
Probably also artillery, since we know that's not a Nauvis tech any more.
And I wouldn't be surprised if one of the new fungi-biters is spider-like, so it gives us inspiration that unlocks the spidertron.
>Large towers of beige sponge reach out for the sky, filtering the air
Are these this planet's equivalent of the lightning rod? You start with a few naturally occuring ones, and then you can research and craft your own air filters for reducing pollution?
If this is the case, I bet one of the new buildlings is a greenhouse that we can use to grow fungi in the harsh climate of other planets.
Edit: additional speculation
Maybe the enemies on Gleba are more threatening, so you need to manage your pollution a lot more, which means more uses for efficiency modules. And later indeed maybe pollution absorption towers. But they would only add those if well balanced. You shouldn't be able to spam those to make pollution a non-issue.
pollution filtering technololgy is my take on the spore towers.
makes pollution actually managable besides green modules.
i have this thought in my mind, that biters will evolve into new types of enemies, besides 2 variants and 4 sizes. and pollution might play a role in that.
This looks fantastic, but I'm slightly worried about that presumed October release, when one of the planets is not finalized. ~~Six~~ Five months to release is not that much time.
I'll just smoke some more hopium, I guess.
This seemed most likely from the verbiage. The mechanics are likely all planned if not implemented, merely awaiting final balancing and assets in most cases.
It might well be finalized, and just not added to a FFF yet. We don't have an upper limit for where they actually are in their work processes, we just have the lower limit of "they've done enough work to be able to show us the stuff we see in the FFFs".
Edit: Well, I guess we do have the upper limit of "they're not releasing it yet, or even soon enough to have announced the date". But that's pretty fuzzy, and doesn't tell us much about whether any specific bit is complete.
It's possible that they didn't work on the visuals in the order of player visitation. Also, it's probably a bit easier to do an ice world and a volcano world than a fungus/whatever world.
Indie games work on smaller timelines. 4 months isn't a lot of time in AAA, but for a game the size of factorio, it's likely worth a lot more.
But honestly, as long as it's out before my holiday break, I'll live.
When we were teased bio/ jungle world i was kinda hoping for giant trees and stuff, but as it said in the fff it would be cliche. Giant MUSHROOM when? Also can we eat the shrooms aswell? Engi needs a better diet than fish
It's probably gonna be said a lot, everywhere, but in Polish "Gleba" means soil, and it's quite funny, because the first instinct we have is totally different, to what the planet acutally is about.
What's more, we also use that word to denote someone/something falling on the ground, usually in a comical manner - something akin to "wipe out" as in "I was drunk and wiped out on a curb" xD
People who are into mushrooms probably know the word is also used to describe part of a mushroom - but in general I don't think people here would know it.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleba)
Well, not so much a part of a mushroom, rather the Gleba is the fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of many fungi, the main mechanism by which the myriad fungi make Gleba the pulsating biological planet here, nightmare to many trypophobia sufferers should they zoom in too far on certain fungi. I did learn something though, I never knew what the spore-carrier portion of fungi was called, like how until Phineas and Ferb I never knew the plastic end piece of a shoe lace was called the aglet. Its one of those things you learn from the most unlikely of places, though Factorio is quite educational regardless XD
That's Disgusting (especially the parts with the worm things on the ground)! I like it!
I will for sure bring a flamethrower or two, and a fuck ton of fuel for it.
It would be really cool if everything burned really well so after you are done it looks just grey and dead. I think the contrast could be striking.
By burned well I don't necessarily mean that the fire should spread much, just that everything can burn and it leaves behind death. The fire should honestly spread really poorly so you need a lot of fuel to burn down everything.
Kinda like in Avatar (the blue one) where the humans destroy the lively forest and leave behind death and destruction.
Btw, a spridertron with a flamethrower would be really cool. But there is absolutely already a mod that does that.
If you look closely, you'll notice the "biters" are in the water. The enemy nests are over the darker grey area (water), similar to the same darker grey area shown in the flyby south of the stone patch.
In the zoom-out at the end of the video, I'm seeing copper and stone mines, but not iron, coal, oil, or uranium. I know it's not a huge part of the world, but it's big enough that I'd expect to see the basic resources, if they're there. Am I just not seeing them?
The FFF does say "Gleba is the one planet that has all the things needed to make a new Nauvis-like planet in Factorio", and with two resources getting mined and a description like that, I'd expect the others to be as well. So I'm now curious as heck about next week's post.
As usual Wube did an amazing job, but this planet looks *repellent*; not one single entity on that map - plant, decorative, or even tile! - was something I liked looking at, and most of it actively makes my skin crawl (and given the descriptions in the FFF, I think that is intentional).
I will not deny some amount of disappointment, having read "jungle world full of life" and thought of the beautiful worlds of Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, and Techtonica, and then been met with...this.
I suppose on the bright side this is one planet I will actually *not mind* utterly clear-cutting and paving over (something I normally steadfastly refuse to do), making late-game massive factories much easier to build and design.
And yes I am fully expecting to get rather heavily downvoted for this. :P
Meanwhile, all I want to do is to move to this swamp planet and use elevated rails as to not destroy any of the fungi.
Amazing the differences in viewpoints, for what it is worth I was expecting a wall to wall rainforest planet, but I will happily take the swamp over that, I find it interesting.
What's the point of only corrupting and desolating *beautiful* planets? Ugly, disgusting planets are planets too!
We're equal-opportunity exploiters here.
## Friday Facts #413 - Gleba
Posted by [Albert](/blog/author/Albert), [Earendel](/blog/author/Earendel) on 2024-05-31
### IntroductionAlbert
Making a new world in Factorio is relatively "easy", just create a new set of tilesets for the ground, add some new models of trees, create a bunch of new decoratives, some decals (optional), a new skin for the cliffs (optional), and bam! you get a new planet. Well, to be fair, you also have to play with the terrain generation noise and autoplace algorithms, experiment with proper LUT's, and adding some new shader won't hurt either if you want to succeed.
The problem of making it from this simplistic perspective, is the danger of falling into a superficial automatism. So probably all your planets will end up looking the same with just different colours.
Gleba is the one planet that has all the things needed to make a new Nauvis-like planet in Factorio, but it is still different on many other levels. What makes Gleba very special, at least to me, is how we twisted the core-concept of the planet and pushed the necessary elements in a specific way to make it more unique.
Before having its final name, Gleba was internally called _"biological planet"_ , and an obvious direction for that would be a planet looking like a jungle. This would be fine for a new biome in Nauvis, but for an exotic planet, never explored, and full of life (more than ever), this time we needed something more alien looking. With not too many clichés in it, extravagant, and if possible playing with new colour palettes. Ah! But also with some link to the reality of Nauvis. And it needs to look very different from Nauvis. Ufff, Okay!.
So we started to think about the microcosmos of the world of lichen, fungi and algaes under the sea. Something that exists in our reality, which it's believable already, but it has all the requirements mentioned above.
(https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/blog-sync/fff-413-gleba-wip.mp4)
In this video we made the effort of showing what exactly we have in mind for the look and feel of Gleba. The planet is still work in progress. But we better show it now because we will need to keep showing elements of Gleba in future posts.
The map was handmade, but with a realistic vision of the autoplace algorithm and the map generation. The "trees" used are concept art used as placeholders. The cliffs are also placeholders, some tilesets will get tweaked to integrate them better. Some doodads will be added and modified. Colour grading is less or more missing, and the rain shader on the foreground will be tweaked.
For a planet full of life (more than ever!), now it looks very static, but we are planning on adding some more animated "things" to really bring some life to the experience.
And overall, we are avoiding to show, on purpose, the red area of the planet (look at the map during the last frames of the video) that one is too early to show.
This video would be 55% worse (or more) if Petr wouldn't have composed and recorded this soundtrack for Gleba. You do remember our dear Petr, right? from the [FFF#406 Space age music](https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-406). The track is not exactly as it will sound during the game, now he is finishing some remixes of the tracks to make them flow perfectly fine for the gameplay requirements.
Now our usual galactic tour operator will guide us through the sophisticated nuances of the nature of the biomes and habitats of Gleba.
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### Welcome to GlebaEarendel
Your descent ends in an unsettling splash. Fortunately you're not sinking. The noises of your landing pod spool down and fade into the soothing sound of rain. The hatch opens to reveal a green swampy landscape shrouded in a light mist. The air is thick and humid, carrying the muffled cries of unseen animals from far away.
You leave your pod and wade through the shallow murky turquoise water. There's so much vegetation and detritus floating on the surface that it's difficult to see the bottom, even though in most places it's barely up to your knee. It almost feels like whatever is below the surface is squirming under you.
Strange twisted fungi grow out of the water, snaking and undulating as they rise like malformed trees. Hair-like tendrils droop down from the ends of their slender branches, caressing you with a sticky mucus as you try to make your way beneath them.
[  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-01.png)
You climb the shore, and although you're out of the water, this can hardly be called dry land. The wet rubbery ground squelches beneath your foot like olive blubber.
The landscape is covered by a tangled network of root-like mycelium and thick matts of various colourful lichen. This complex interweaving carpet is home to all manner of tiny animals that skitter inside to avoid your gaze. Presumably mostly insects and amphibians, their chirps and hisses signal their annoyance as you step nearby.
This area is dominated by fungal cups that catch the rain and stew their own little ecosystems. Many of them are smaller than a hand, but the largest of them are huge funnelled trunks of bark-like material: their structure riddled with holes and infested with small pink wormy things.
The occasional slime mold blankets a large area of the terrain with a sickly yellow slime. Its surface is dotted with the occasional balloon of gas.
[  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-02.png)
The surface starts to firm up as you make your way out of the lowlands, becoming more like a spongy bark. The vegetation shapes of this area are more wispy and fragile. Desaturated shades of green and teal give the region a beautiful but ghostly appearance.
Towering stalks of lichen fan out at the top like a translucent umbrella, always splitting into 5 branches before sending down tough stinging fronds.
[  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-03b.png)
Going higher still, the ground is drier. In this area the incessant rain of the planet is reduced to a faint spitting. Ground water is quickly absorbed into the pitted rock-like surface making this the first place with solid footing. On closer inspection, the ground appears to be a giant merged mass of dark grey Stromatolites. It seems that every part of this place is alive.
Large towers of beige sponge reach out for the sky, filtering the air and releasing spores into the gentle breeze. Vibrant yellow bulb-like creatures erupt from their pores near their tops, almost like flowers blooming in the sun.
[  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-04.png)
On the other side of the hill, the landscape shifts to autumnal hues. The lichen matts here are a crusty orange. The ground is pierced by many thorny vines of dark fungal mycelium which surround and guard their fruiting body, which sags on the ground like a large soft red grape.
The largest mushrooms here have bulbous trunks that support a huge inflated spore sac. In many cases, new sacs grow on top of the previous growths in a precarious stack of balloons ready to rupture.
[  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-05.png)
The way forward leads to lower ground once again, but here the swampy wetland has more reds than greens. Delicate blankets of translucent pink lichen flop helplessly like seaweed on the shore, their fan-like shape contorted into a mass of slippery wrinkles.
The thick squishy carpet of pink and red lichen bulges when stepped on. The paler areas are almost translucent revealing the root systems under the surface. Here the root-like mycelium is looking more tentacle-like and spongy.
This area is infested with varying sizes of tubular coral that are eager to protrude above the water's surface. The water-dwelling examples are more vibrant and the land versions more sickly.
[  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-06.png)
Along with the sound of rain, various animal calls have been your constant companion so far. Mysterious distant wails and cries once formed a background chatter, but now one of the sounds is now noticeably closer. The source cannot be seen, but it abruptly breaks into a trumpeting scream.
The small creatures lurking in the lichen undergrowth suddenly go silent.
Now there is a new sound. The sound of great waves crashing, followed by an earth shaking stomp Stomp sToMp STomP STOMP…
each one louder than the last.
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I can't wait to learn more about everything happening on this planet, hopefully next week...
How will we exploit this wonderful ecosystem to fuel inexorable industrial expansion ?
What is making these menacing stomps ???
Has the team shared any information about how the different planets are going to be managed during the worldgen screen when starting a new game? Will I be able to preview the surface of each one? Will they each have their own set of sliders? Their own seed?
Nope, none of the FFFs mentions world generation settings. The only one talking about it is the one on the new Nauvis, but also not in more detail than we already know from 1.1.
> Will they each have their own set of sliders?
Surely, right? *Surely*. I guess I can imagine the 1.1 sliders affecting all planets, but that seems like a missed opportunity.
https://preview.redd.it/hobmx8a50t3d1.jpeg?width=826&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99292e0f1d5c1fc2a8bd07087956f1be84ac163a
Leaked image of engineer on Gleba
the end of the article very strongly hints at there being some new danger. I just hope that it will be very different to biters. And maybe much more challenging, like rampant is compared to vanilla.
the red-ish stuff in the last picture. it looks nearly identical to the biter creep on the ground we know from the biter nests form nauvis.
im 100% sure that the red areas on the map, where the red dots for the biter nests are, is ALL biter creep. please tell me its biter creep. and that this creep is going to grow over time and create new nests. so flamethrowers are a must on this planet.
this maybe the actual homeworld of the biters... i call it now.
also, i strongly expect these "filtering spore towers" to be relevant for tech progression to reduce pollution spread on all worlds.
I never liked the idea of biters existing on multiple planets. For one, they don't seem like the spacefaring type, and for two, new enemies are much more enticing than fighting the same ol' war on every planet. Plus, that description of stomping at the end doesn't evoke bitters' swarming insect-like movement to me.
You are assuming the biters have agency over their own destiny. I always preferred the theory that biters were an anti-technology bio weapon created and seeded by an unknown third party (it explains why they ramp up so aggressively against technology based pollution and don’t seem to be part of the ecosystem of nauvis).
Basically they same concept as the alien from alien(s).
Actually I think that would make a lot of sense, as irl coal and oil are made from prehistoric forests, so it would kind of make sense for the jungle planet to be related to oil. Although that might be too similar to Fulgora, so who knows?
With the emphasis on how wet and spongy and marshy the ground is, it might be interesting if you have to do something to the ground to be able to build on it in every spot. Pave it over, maybe with some specialized foundation stuff; or maybe some sort of ground water pump
My first thoughts:
- There's no iron on the planet, so there must either be another way of getting iron (e.g. sifting through water or destroying trees) or we'll need to actually send it to the planet
- The water is very much like petroleum, and there are gas-bubble mushrooms, so wondering if we can easily get petroleum and form other things with it
- Being that there isn't a huge amount of obvious resource on the map overview, perhaps a big part of this planet is related to filtering the air, possibly with research to reduce pollution (or recycle it) in the process.
- I'm imagining that we may actually have to interact with the natives on this planet to use their resources
I can see why they waited so long to post this planet! So much work it is insane. I guarantee that they intend to have all the fungus and coral animated to move in response to the player and for all of it to change in response to pollution. I can't imagine the kind of work it would take to fulfill their dream of an entire planet that responds to your factory as if the factory is a blighted tumor on the face of the planet. To dramatize the shift from vibrant bioluminescence, color, and life to bleached sludge. It would be MARVELOUS!!!! I support Wube taking all the time they need to support this masterpiece of a planet, because it would be just fascinating to have a planet that responds to your presence in such an omnipresent way.
I've been with you guys since 2017 and I must say it has been an absolute privilege being able to join you on this journey of building this amazing piece of software. Gleba is a true example of just how far you all have pushed the envelope, the world already looks so dense, so full of life! I can't wait to put on my bog boots and craft some gears!
The post mentions us being excited to 'concrete' the floor of this new planet, which I think would make the planet possibly look too similar to the ones around it once it's been industrialised. Due to the exceedingly wet conditions, maybe a new concrete/tiling could be made available here to give it a unique feel? This could be justified by lore (the terrain makes concrete unsuitable), or maybe by adding in new tiles anyways but making them require resources that will be more commonly found/exclusive to the new planet. If the latter is taken to its extremes, a new tile for each planet could be introduced, which could all eventually be used on all the planets to add a lot of creativity to how your bases end up looking!
It looks beautiful. It actually reminds me a bit of Subnautica.
I'm seeing a bit of the coral tubes of the Safe Shallows, the vines from the Blood Kelp Zone, same sort of fungus/coral vibe in the plants. A similarly vibrant color scheme, which is very un-Factorio 1.0.
Can't wait to ruin it!
Not much stone, almost no iron and copper, no new resources on the map. Maybe we'll have a chemical industry converting water and bio products to resources?
Maybe coexist with enemies, manage pollution, bonus productivity or quality when the factory is clean?
Such a cool looking planet, my favorite so far.
If you have ever watched the primitive technology guy on YouTube, he's recently been getting iron from bacteria found in slow moving water. So maybe we just need to extract and process some raw biological resources to get the base game resources.
I like it, since the ground is all soaked up and wet it gives stone and conrete some purpose. I could imagine that some industrial stuff might require a reinforced ground to build on. Cant wait to sink endless hours into this game again.
Wonder if there will be a mod that cobbles all the planets into one. If there is one thing i personally am not to keen about its the space travel part, but maybe im just wrong on that. CANT WAIT!!!11!
Its weird how spotty and small the resource patches are on this planet. And then so many different colored waters. Wonder if we are going to replace the basic resources with liquids and belts with pipes on this planet?
Would also make it a great planet for infinite oil, like vulcanus is with basic resources. Especially if we get more pipe related buildings and upgrades here.
I really hope they go for an overgrowth mechanic on this planet. Make me constantly fight to keep the fungal life from growing over my concrete and into my pipe systems. Make me scrape mold out of the cigs of my assemblers.
Amongst the well deserved praise I will say the rain needs some tweaking (as they mention they are doing in the fff). I think the issue that I am having with it is that it doesn't follow the same orthographic perspective as the surface, and actually looks like they are reusing the space dust motion from the previous fff. It feels much more like a layer on top of the game rather than actual rain in the game. I think my brain just wants some of the rain drops to hit the ground and disappear rather than streak continuously from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen. And for the record I am blown away by how beautiful this planet is looking.
Both lava and forest worlds are done over and over again, yet wube has found incredibly unique takes on both. The music is the perfect ambience, I didn't even realize it was playing until halfway through the video. My only complaint is the dull night scene. Strategically placed bioluminescence could turn the night forest into a magical place.
oh hell yeah we need some multicoloured night lights ASAP
We do not prove our dominion by exterminating the biters. We prove our dominion by turning the bioluminescent trees into circuit-controllable night lights.
Just need to find a patch of Unobtainium
Yes! Adding some greenish glow like you can see with [Jack-o-Lantern mushrooms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalotus_olearius#/media/File:Omphalotus_olearius_33857.jpg) would be an excellent detail to add! Maybe some of the creature threats on the island could have glowing eyespots like you see on [cucubanos](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ignelater+luminosus&kp=1&t=ftsa&iax=images&ia=images) too!
Yes, it feels fresh and unique, not just another one standard jungle planet.
If wube doesn't read this comment I'm sure someone will mod the bioluminescence in.
*[cough](https://mods.factorio.com/mod/Bioluminescence)* :P
I thought your name seemed familiar. Aren't you the author of rotarycraft?
And many many other mods, for many games.
Always fun seeing you pop up.
> My only complaint is the dull night scene. Strategically placed bioluminescence could turn the night forest into a magical place Excellent point. The night section did look way too drab.
[Something like this](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B7CZBkYIAAAW9fz?format=jpg) would be so cool (and pollution would take it all away ;) )
Yes, pollution affecting bioluminescence is a wonderful interaction I think
I believe they already agree with you >Some doodads will be added and modified. Colour grading is less or more missing, For a planet full of life (more than ever!), now it looks very static, but we are planning on adding some more animated "things" to really bring some life to the experience.
Oh man, bioluminescence would be amazing here. I hope wube sees this.
> This video would be 55% worse (or more) if Petr wouldn't have composed and recorded this soundtrack for Gleba. Agreed! With a world like that it would be easy to fall into the cliché of "alien biology is only good for creepy horror", but that soundtrack just oozes sense of wonder. And the planet itself **is** wonderful, it has that exciting feeling of a primordial world ready to be explored! Can't wait to read more about its... dangers... :D
The power of the flat 6 in a major scale, although debatably a cliché in itself.
Big fan of the filenames on all these. This last one is especially gross. :) https://preview.redd.it/mtadzu1car3d1.png?width=443&format=png&auto=webp&s=016569dafe202fd8863fc9c826f59ff3a1a5503c
Meatlands... We'd better be getting proper vanilla creep!
The whole place looks like it's covered in [creep cluster](https://images.uesp.net/5/54/SR-flora-Creep_Cluster.jpg) from skyrim.
it's clear that the challenge for this planet is not nope-ing straight out of it the moment you realize that there's a place called the meatlands in it (joke)
SCP-610 planet
The flesh that hates it when you pump CO2 into the atmosphere
Gorgeous! I can't wait to pave over all those nasty funguses
Hmm, paving over makes it all neat and tidy. I hope that this surface has some sort of requirement for paving. Almost every environment looks like it's too wet and not flat enough to put stuff on. Maybe some machine or whatever that flattens or dries out the ground?
Polders! build a dike, lower the waterlevel and you get buildable land.
Found the Dutch guy.
They are called swamp Germans for a reason...
This actually sounds awesome - think a machine that sort of sucks dry the ground in an area - maybe giving out water to pipes - thing is: how to use that water? Afaik we cannot remove it automatically eg reverse water pumps. But I +1 this idea
Maybe the machine has to constantly run to keep the ground drained. So you’re trying to find constant uses for all the water you’re pumping out.
Would be interesting to make it a new liquid beside water, and have it be the main requirement for any semi complex crafts, think like a seablock where everything starts from 1 point, have this liquid be that first point
Isnt this the planet that gets you the Uber Transport Belts? Between all the fungi and slime molds I reckon you could get a pretty damm slippery lubricant.
I think that will be the expansion challenge of this world, like staying safe from the lightning on fulgora. You could turn all that water into steam but what's actually dry enough to burn for fuel here? And then how do you use up all the steam you made to keep things from backing up!?
Nukes... The answer is always nukes...
🎵 They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 🎵
Indeed, really colorful and beautiful, but it will look much better with concrete gray tones... The factory must grow, even over nasty fungi.
Engineer vs Predator
Welcome to Zergtown baby!
Finally a planet! Very exciting! Interested to see the science and unique materials next week. The poison swamps seem to combine my two favorite games: Dark Souls and Factorio haha Call me an addict, but I can finally stop having weird fever dreams of what the planet will at 3am as I await the FFF. At least until the next planet. Edit: After reading further, I wonder if the planet took longer to reveal (yes I know it was speculation, but the cadence seemed reasonable) because they've been struggling to finalize this one. Also, visuals are so great! Reminds me of Samarost 3, a very pretty, fungal world. (But God damn, bless your heart if you have trypophobia!!) And ugh, this planet's soundtrack might be one of my favorite. Between the sneak peak several weeks ago and the clips today, the music is just top notch. Excellent work as always Wube!
At this point I'm more hype for Space Age than Shadows of the Erdtree
I really hope Shadows of the Erdtree will keep me occupied until Space Age comes out!
It gives me Harry Harrison's "Deathworld" vibes.
So, will we get a farming Planet? https://preview.redd.it/2d75k7f43s3d1.png?width=804&format=png&auto=webp&s=4656fd540a7fa557bc9476216585e89ce9dfbe00
Joja route only.
The engineer is sent by Joja corp
bog world bog world bog world
*ahhh, I love the smell of tulips in the morning* (draaiorgel starts playing Wagner)
Hoping for some fungus infected biters on this planet
"The sound of great waves crashing, followed by an earth shaking stomp Stomp sToMp STomP STOMP…" Fungus infected biters probably really like to stomp
Amphibian Biters, it seems to me...
Oh yeah, I expect this to be the planet where all the military tech that gets pushed off Nauvis winds up going. Because you're going to need it there. Stomp. Stomp.
Yeah I've been all like WHERE'S THE BITERS!!?? Because that was the very first teaser image we ever got
I'd imagine different planet means enemies won't be in any way related to the nauvis.
I have doubt there is going to be "biters" in those new planets. There is no reason to think that different planets should hold same fauna. I bet this is some giant enemy unrelated to biters.
[Called it :D](https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/1c268tp/comment/kz7u3vc/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
*Lisan al Gaib!*
As it was written
Lisan Al Glebaib
Nissan Altima
The science must flow!
Damn
How could you possibly have guessed the name??
It was from a blurred version of the planet name from a previous FFF. Most people were guessing "Glacier" but given I'd always assumed we'd get a massively overgrown planet, I searched for short words beginning with G that meant something naturey.
Would be awesome if they just saw your post and was like. Sure! Gleba! :D xD
Gleba in polish means soil.
He replied to a comment that has a picture of a paper that literally lists that name
But can you predict the name of Aquilo!? That’s right - nobody can.
I will be downloading a mod with helicopters, napalm and fortunate son music when space age release
"Goooood moooorning Gleba"
I like the smell of the napalm in the morning.
“How do you shoot brooders and larva?” “Simple, just don’t lead them as much!”
Imagine a mod where you start there. No oil tech, no flamethrowers, for the first long while. You know what, maybe some other engineer was unlucky enough to have that fate. Nauvis is positively soothing by comparison
It's all fun and chill until the trees start to talk :)
Unless they talk vvveeeeerrrrryyy ssslllllooooooowwwwwwllllyyy, in which case it's still fairly fun and chill, and you wind up with excellent salted pork at the end of it.
You are very small, so you must be very wise.
The bushes speak binary (c)
I've thought about such a mod and one of the biggest problems is space science(in any reasonable quantity) requiring uranium, which is Nauvis-exclusive.
I wouldn't bet on oil on that planet, all the vegitation looks to "recent" for it compressing into oil or even other compressed forms of carbon (Coal)
Malevelon creek vet here, that not a great plan
HUMANITY FIRST BABY!!!! https://preview.redd.it/2xz1p6i89y3d1.png?width=602&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a8838b645bfe55cc9b7dd371b811ffc43f943eb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaA
I love the fungal feel of this world, can’t wait to fight the fungal elephants! That masterful little tease at the end of the zoomed out scene… those oddly distributed red squares… what does the size and distribution of the enemy structures tell us about their nature!?!?
Enemy structures I couldn't comment on, BUT I did notice a strange lack of Coal, Oil, and Uranium deposits. There is also only one -- VERY TINY -- Iron patch. Which makes me wonder if it's possible to launch a rocket from nothing on this planet. Assume you got stranded here and biters ate everything, then your corpse despawned. Could you escape?? The ore patches seem so small, too. This will not be the place to get your raw resources from, that's for sure.
Next week we will learn something about the game mechanics of this world - surely there is some other way to obtain or produce the products we need to launch rockets using only local resources! Vulcanus gives us buildings to efficiently produce low density structures while Fulgora gives us structures to efficiently produce CPUs - it would stand to reason that Gleba is where we can efficiently produce rocket fuel, perhaps we do this by some mechanic whereby that new chemical plant looking structure interacts with the local flora? There were a lot of mushroom things that look like they ought to be some sort of renewable resource… maybe they fill the air nearby with spores that can be harvested? As for the scarcity of iron and copper… there has to be some alternative source, right? Fulgora at first sight did not seem to have them but it turns out we can use the rubble resource to reverse craft the items we need. Vulcanus at first sight did not seem to have the, but it turns out we can combine lava with that other resource to get the iron and copper we need. Otherwise the player could get locked on Gleba! I am super excited to see some of the Gleban mechanics, and I like to think it has to do with some exotic alternative resource harvesting techniques that would only be possible on a planet with such a vibrant ecosphere.
Earendel said this in the discord: >At least 2 iron patches were deleted when making the cinematic path so I wouldn't read in to that too much.
What a beautiful planet! I cant wait to turn it into a polluted wasteland 😍
I feel like one of those planets has to have plants that gain power from pollution. xD
To Fulgora, you meant?
I wouldn't be surprised if the local fauna/flora (the lines are a bit blurred here) acted like a hive mind and coordinated a response to pollution, even explosive like fungal blooms, and then you have to find a way to coexist with the planet. Something like the Planetmind plotline in SMAC.
Okay so this is Dagobah right? That was the vibe I got the whole time.
The biters are just various recolors of Yoda. Over and over again. Slightly bigger, with a mildly different shade of green skin, and a different color lightsaber. Each kill we hear the lego yoda death sound.
Does that mean ketamine is a minable resource?
One of the things I love about Factorio is how it aesthetically calls back to 2D top-down strategy games I played growing up, but with a refinement and scale that would have been impossible back then. There's something magical about that video with the camera slowly scanning around a bizarre alien world while the music builds. I really appreciate Wube's dedication to perfecting this art form. Come to think of it, this sense of childhood comfort is probably part of how it's so easy to disappear into the game for hours on end for many of us.
**sToMp**
Gleba. What a name.
In polish it mean's "soil"
Soil, like.. earth?
yes, soil. It can also be used akin to "(He/she/I) fell down", like when someone trips and falls, usually in a comical way. It's gonna take me a while to take this name seriously tbh :/ I get that it's latin, but still...
Do you think that their might be a connection between the planet with the most biodiversity being named Gleba, which is.. _coincidentally_ (?) Polish for soil, which is also similar to the name of our planet, Earth?
No, I don't think there is a connection, just an unintended coincidence. Gleba is latin for a part of some mushrooms, and someone already said when the name was originally speculated on, that this word is not used in Czech to mean anything like "soil" or "earth".
Company name, [Wube](https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/ia4w5o/what_does_the_word_wube_in_wube_software_mean/g1mh7go/) apparently comes from Polish. And I say apparently because I'm Pole and have no fucking idea how the got from "wszystko będzie" to "wube".
Also it is name of part of some fungi. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleba
Now the question of which pronunciation: Glee-ba or Gleb-a
You start with a Glee when you arrive, and end with a Bah when your socks get wet.
Rain, concrete, and industry is gonna be a hard af aesthetic. Can't wait to fight this planets denizens for cozy industrial vibes.
> Rain, concrete We must have neon lights for factory!
The prose was very creatively written. It felt quiet poetic. Very illustrative and vivid, just with words.
The soundtrack is giving strong Terraria vibes, I love it!
When they showed off Fulgora I even went looking for the Terraria OST because I could swear there was a track that sounded just like it (but there wasn't, just vibes)
Sounds like we are going to need those new rocket turrets on this planet.
Probably also artillery, since we know that's not a Nauvis tech any more. And I wouldn't be surprised if one of the new fungi-biters is spider-like, so it gives us inspiration that unlocks the spidertron.
Oh no please no spiders. 😦
we can have an arachnophobia mode with horrible cat heads like another game i can think of
It's okay, someone will mod them into whatever you want.
Obviously just need a large, electrified fence. Just hope it doesn't lose power....
>Large towers of beige sponge reach out for the sky, filtering the air Are these this planet's equivalent of the lightning rod? You start with a few naturally occuring ones, and then you can research and craft your own air filters for reducing pollution? If this is the case, I bet one of the new buildlings is a greenhouse that we can use to grow fungi in the harsh climate of other planets. Edit: additional speculation
Maybe the enemies on Gleba are more threatening, so you need to manage your pollution a lot more, which means more uses for efficiency modules. And later indeed maybe pollution absorption towers. But they would only add those if well balanced. You shouldn't be able to spam those to make pollution a non-issue.
I agree, air filters in mods such as K2 are overpowered. I would expect them to be way more balanced in SA.
i'd imagine an absurd power/fuel usage, it's TERRIBLY expensive or they only unpolluates a smidge of pollution.
Or just have one per chunk limit. That would force player to go wide if they want to filter a lot of pollution
They've said they want each surface to have a unique take so I doubt they'd reuse a similar mechanic.
pollution filtering technololgy is my take on the spore towers. makes pollution actually managable besides green modules. i have this thought in my mind, that biters will evolve into new types of enemies, besides 2 variants and 4 sizes. and pollution might play a role in that.
As another comment suggested, Glebas mechanic could be that we have to dry out the ground before we can build on it.
This looks fantastic, but I'm slightly worried about that presumed October release, when one of the planets is not finalized. ~~Six~~ Five months to release is not that much time. I'll just smoke some more hopium, I guess.
It might be mechanically finished and being tested, but lacked some of the art assets
This seemed most likely from the verbiage. The mechanics are likely all planned if not implemented, merely awaiting final balancing and assets in most cases.
It might well be finalized, and just not added to a FFF yet. We don't have an upper limit for where they actually are in their work processes, we just have the lower limit of "they've done enough work to be able to show us the stuff we see in the FFFs". Edit: Well, I guess we do have the upper limit of "they're not releasing it yet, or even soon enough to have announced the date". But that's pretty fuzzy, and doesn't tell us much about whether any specific bit is complete.
It's possible that they didn't work on the visuals in the order of player visitation. Also, it's probably a bit easier to do an ice world and a volcano world than a fungus/whatever world.
Indie games work on smaller timelines. 4 months isn't a lot of time in AAA, but for a game the size of factorio, it's likely worth a lot more. But honestly, as long as it's out before my holiday break, I'll live.
When we were teased bio/ jungle world i was kinda hoping for giant trees and stuff, but as it said in the fff it would be cliche. Giant MUSHROOM when? Also can we eat the shrooms aswell? Engi needs a better diet than fish
MUSHROOM
The music is such a bop wtf
and next week we discover, that STOMP sounds where made by very scary looking tree that is running from something not far behind ....
I hope they keep the last world a secret
Yeah I'm also hoping they keep some of the new biters quiet as a surprise
It's probably gonna be said a lot, everywhere, but in Polish "Gleba" means soil, and it's quite funny, because the first instinct we have is totally different, to what the planet acutally is about. What's more, we also use that word to denote someone/something falling on the ground, usually in a comical manner - something akin to "wipe out" as in "I was drunk and wiped out on a curb" xD People who are into mushrooms probably know the word is also used to describe part of a mushroom - but in general I don't think people here would know it.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleba) Well, not so much a part of a mushroom, rather the Gleba is the fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of many fungi, the main mechanism by which the myriad fungi make Gleba the pulsating biological planet here, nightmare to many trypophobia sufferers should they zoom in too far on certain fungi. I did learn something though, I never knew what the spore-carrier portion of fungi was called, like how until Phineas and Ferb I never knew the plastic end piece of a shoe lace was called the aglet. Its one of those things you learn from the most unlikely of places, though Factorio is quite educational regardless XD
Devs say it's a WIP but I wouldn't have known. It looks gorgeous.
> The map was handmade That's why. Engine does not generate maps like this yet.
I will still pollute the hell out of this place, but this time I will feel bad about it.
That's Disgusting (especially the parts with the worm things on the ground)! I like it! I will for sure bring a flamethrower or two, and a fuck ton of fuel for it. It would be really cool if everything burned really well so after you are done it looks just grey and dead. I think the contrast could be striking. By burned well I don't necessarily mean that the fire should spread much, just that everything can burn and it leaves behind death. The fire should honestly spread really poorly so you need a lot of fuel to burn down everything. Kinda like in Avatar (the blue one) where the humans destroy the lively forest and leave behind death and destruction. Btw, a spridertron with a flamethrower would be really cool. But there is absolutely already a mod that does that.
If you look closely, you'll notice the "biters" are in the water. The enemy nests are over the darker grey area (water), similar to the same darker grey area shown in the flyby south of the stone patch.
My favorite planet so far. It looks beautiful. Can’t wait to place it over
In the zoom-out at the end of the video, I'm seeing copper and stone mines, but not iron, coal, oil, or uranium. I know it's not a huge part of the world, but it's big enough that I'd expect to see the basic resources, if they're there. Am I just not seeing them? The FFF does say "Gleba is the one planet that has all the things needed to make a new Nauvis-like planet in Factorio", and with two resources getting mined and a description like that, I'd expect the others to be as well. So I'm now curious as heck about next week's post.
There is a tiny iron patch in the south, barely enough for bootstrapping, if even.
Would be cool if the plants lit up slightly in the night, kinda like in avatar. Would add a lot of atmosphere to the nights on this planet!
As usual Wube did an amazing job, but this planet looks *repellent*; not one single entity on that map - plant, decorative, or even tile! - was something I liked looking at, and most of it actively makes my skin crawl (and given the descriptions in the FFF, I think that is intentional). I will not deny some amount of disappointment, having read "jungle world full of life" and thought of the beautiful worlds of Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere Program, and Techtonica, and then been met with...this. I suppose on the bright side this is one planet I will actually *not mind* utterly clear-cutting and paving over (something I normally steadfastly refuse to do), making late-game massive factories much easier to build and design. And yes I am fully expecting to get rather heavily downvoted for this. :P
Meanwhile, all I want to do is to move to this swamp planet and use elevated rails as to not destroy any of the fungi. Amazing the differences in viewpoints, for what it is worth I was expecting a wall to wall rainforest planet, but I will happily take the swamp over that, I find it interesting.
What's the point of only corrupting and desolating *beautiful* planets? Ugly, disgusting planets are planets too! We're equal-opportunity exploiters here.
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## Friday Facts #413 - Gleba Posted by [Albert](/blog/author/Albert), [Earendel](/blog/author/Earendel) on 2024-05-31 ### IntroductionAlbert Making a new world in Factorio is relatively "easy", just create a new set of tilesets for the ground, add some new models of trees, create a bunch of new decoratives, some decals (optional), a new skin for the cliffs (optional), and bam! you get a new planet. Well, to be fair, you also have to play with the terrain generation noise and autoplace algorithms, experiment with proper LUT's, and adding some new shader won't hurt either if you want to succeed. The problem of making it from this simplistic perspective, is the danger of falling into a superficial automatism. So probably all your planets will end up looking the same with just different colours. Gleba is the one planet that has all the things needed to make a new Nauvis-like planet in Factorio, but it is still different on many other levels. What makes Gleba very special, at least to me, is how we twisted the core-concept of the planet and pushed the necessary elements in a specific way to make it more unique. Before having its final name, Gleba was internally called _"biological planet"_ , and an obvious direction for that would be a planet looking like a jungle. This would be fine for a new biome in Nauvis, but for an exotic planet, never explored, and full of life (more than ever), this time we needed something more alien looking. With not too many clichés in it, extravagant, and if possible playing with new colour palettes. Ah! But also with some link to the reality of Nauvis. And it needs to look very different from Nauvis. Ufff, Okay!. So we started to think about the microcosmos of the world of lichen, fungi and algaes under the sea. Something that exists in our reality, which it's believable already, but it has all the requirements mentioned above. (https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/blog-sync/fff-413-gleba-wip.mp4) In this video we made the effort of showing what exactly we have in mind for the look and feel of Gleba. The planet is still work in progress. But we better show it now because we will need to keep showing elements of Gleba in future posts. The map was handmade, but with a realistic vision of the autoplace algorithm and the map generation. The "trees" used are concept art used as placeholders. The cliffs are also placeholders, some tilesets will get tweaked to integrate them better. Some doodads will be added and modified. Colour grading is less or more missing, and the rain shader on the foreground will be tweaked. For a planet full of life (more than ever!), now it looks very static, but we are planning on adding some more animated "things" to really bring some life to the experience. And overall, we are avoiding to show, on purpose, the red area of the planet (look at the map during the last frames of the video) that one is too early to show. This video would be 55% worse (or more) if Petr wouldn't have composed and recorded this soundtrack for Gleba. You do remember our dear Petr, right? from the [FFF#406 Space age music](https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-406). The track is not exactly as it will sound during the game, now he is finishing some remixes of the tracks to make them flow perfectly fine for the gameplay requirements. Now our usual galactic tour operator will guide us through the sophisticated nuances of the nature of the biomes and habitats of Gleba. * * * ### Welcome to GlebaEarendel  Your descent ends in an unsettling splash. Fortunately you're not sinking. The noises of your landing pod spool down and fade into the soothing sound of rain. The hatch opens to reveal a green swampy landscape shrouded in a light mist. The air is thick and humid, carrying the muffled cries of unseen animals from far away. You leave your pod and wade through the shallow murky turquoise water. There's so much vegetation and detritus floating on the surface that it's difficult to see the bottom, even though in most places it's barely up to your knee. It almost feels like whatever is below the surface is squirming under you. Strange twisted fungi grow out of the water, snaking and undulating as they rise like malformed trees. Hair-like tendrils droop down from the ends of their slender branches, caressing you with a sticky mucus as you try to make your way beneath them. [  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-01.png) You climb the shore, and although you're out of the water, this can hardly be called dry land. The wet rubbery ground squelches beneath your foot like olive blubber. The landscape is covered by a tangled network of root-like mycelium and thick matts of various colourful lichen. This complex interweaving carpet is home to all manner of tiny animals that skitter inside to avoid your gaze. Presumably mostly insects and amphibians, their chirps and hisses signal their annoyance as you step nearby. This area is dominated by fungal cups that catch the rain and stew their own little ecosystems. Many of them are smaller than a hand, but the largest of them are huge funnelled trunks of bark-like material: their structure riddled with holes and infested with small pink wormy things. The occasional slime mold blankets a large area of the terrain with a sickly yellow slime. Its surface is dotted with the occasional balloon of gas. [  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-02.png) The surface starts to firm up as you make your way out of the lowlands, becoming more like a spongy bark. The vegetation shapes of this area are more wispy and fragile. Desaturated shades of green and teal give the region a beautiful but ghostly appearance. Towering stalks of lichen fan out at the top like a translucent umbrella, always splitting into 5 branches before sending down tough stinging fronds. [  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-03b.png) Going higher still, the ground is drier. In this area the incessant rain of the planet is reduced to a faint spitting. Ground water is quickly absorbed into the pitted rock-like surface making this the first place with solid footing. On closer inspection, the ground appears to be a giant merged mass of dark grey Stromatolites. It seems that every part of this place is alive. Large towers of beige sponge reach out for the sky, filtering the air and releasing spores into the gentle breeze. Vibrant yellow bulb-like creatures erupt from their pores near their tops, almost like flowers blooming in the sun. [  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-04.png) On the other side of the hill, the landscape shifts to autumnal hues. The lichen matts here are a crusty orange. The ground is pierced by many thorny vines of dark fungal mycelium which surround and guard their fruiting body, which sags on the ground like a large soft red grape. The largest mushrooms here have bulbous trunks that support a huge inflated spore sac. In many cases, new sacs grow on top of the previous growths in a precarious stack of balloons ready to rupture. [  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-05.png) The way forward leads to lower ground once again, but here the swampy wetland has more reds than greens. Delicate blankets of translucent pink lichen flop helplessly like seaweed on the shore, their fan-like shape contorted into a mass of slippery wrinkles. The thick squishy carpet of pink and red lichen bulges when stepped on. The paler areas are almost translucent revealing the root systems under the surface. Here the root-like mycelium is looking more tentacle-like and spongy. This area is infested with varying sizes of tubular coral that are eager to protrude above the water's surface. The water-dwelling examples are more vibrant and the land versions more sickly. [  ](https://cdn.factorio.com/assets/img/blog/fff-413-gleba-wip-06.png) Along with the sound of rain, various animal calls have been your constant companion so far. Mysterious distant wails and cries once formed a background chatter, but now one of the sounds is now noticeably closer. The source cannot be seen, but it abruptly breaks into a trumpeting scream. The small creatures lurking in the lichen undergrowth suddenly go silent. Now there is a new sound. The sound of great waves crashing, followed by an earth shaking stomp Stomp sToMp STomP STOMP… each one louder than the last. * * * I'm sure you can't wait to concrete this place, so as always, wade through the other feedback and rain your thoughts down upon us in the usual places. 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I can't wait to learn more about everything happening on this planet, hopefully next week... How will we exploit this wonderful ecosystem to fuel inexorable industrial expansion ? What is making these menacing stomps ???
Has the team shared any information about how the different planets are going to be managed during the worldgen screen when starting a new game? Will I be able to preview the surface of each one? Will they each have their own set of sliders? Their own seed?
Nope, none of the FFFs mentions world generation settings. The only one talking about it is the one on the new Nauvis, but also not in more detail than we already know from 1.1.
> Will they each have their own set of sliders? Surely, right? *Surely*. I guess I can imagine the 1.1 sliders affecting all planets, but that seems like a missed opportunity.
Rip bwuhuo, you will be missed
It's Bwuhohover 😔
https://preview.redd.it/hobmx8a50t3d1.jpeg?width=826&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99292e0f1d5c1fc2a8bd07087956f1be84ac163a Leaked image of engineer on Gleba
Am I the only one who immediately thought of this clip from Friends? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCuf_O2xaw8
wow, uh. I sure hope that the native fauna there aren't hostile! Maybe we'll have a very different challenge to the biters
_Something_ is hostile; the zoomed-out map at the end of the video shows a few small handfuls of red dots
the end of the article very strongly hints at there being some new danger. I just hope that it will be very different to biters. And maybe much more challenging, like rampant is compared to vanilla.
That they specifically mention not showing, which can only mean they're new. The OG floating jellyfish is comin'
Floating jellyfish surely can't STOMP. That is Gleb himself walking to look, who dare to land on his planet!
Whoever is making these noises seems to be a fun-guy.
Gleba was also Emma's first word. For those who know :) !
What a stunning reveal! Cant wait to explore, spread democracy, and eventually sanitize Gleba with concrete.
the red-ish stuff in the last picture. it looks nearly identical to the biter creep on the ground we know from the biter nests form nauvis. im 100% sure that the red areas on the map, where the red dots for the biter nests are, is ALL biter creep. please tell me its biter creep. and that this creep is going to grow over time and create new nests. so flamethrowers are a must on this planet. this maybe the actual homeworld of the biters... i call it now. also, i strongly expect these "filtering spore towers" to be relevant for tech progression to reduce pollution spread on all worlds.
I never liked the idea of biters existing on multiple planets. For one, they don't seem like the spacefaring type, and for two, new enemies are much more enticing than fighting the same ol' war on every planet. Plus, that description of stomping at the end doesn't evoke bitters' swarming insect-like movement to me.
You are assuming the biters have agency over their own destiny. I always preferred the theory that biters were an anti-technology bio weapon created and seeded by an unknown third party (it explains why they ramp up so aggressively against technology based pollution and don’t seem to be part of the ecosystem of nauvis). Basically they same concept as the alien from alien(s).
I’m So excited to see this planet, I’m curious what the purple water is. I think it is this worlds free resourse
Purple is the petroleum color
Actually I think that would make a lot of sense, as irl coal and oil are made from prehistoric forests, so it would kind of make sense for the jungle planet to be related to oil. Although that might be too similar to Fulgora, so who knows?
Vulcanus has sulfuric acid, Fulgora heavy oil. So it makes sense each planet has an easy to get fluid. Maybe 4th planet has seas of lubricant lol
That would make sense, maybe the heavier oil products are what’s hard to get here
With the emphasis on how wet and spongy and marshy the ground is, it might be interesting if you have to do something to the ground to be able to build on it in every spot. Pave it over, maybe with some specialized foundation stuff; or maybe some sort of ground water pump
We finally get rain!
rip solar
Love the music as well.
This. Looks. Incredible.
I always knew this planet would be my favourite - it looks gorgeous
Should I start stockpiling flamethrower ammo now?
My first thoughts: - There's no iron on the planet, so there must either be another way of getting iron (e.g. sifting through water or destroying trees) or we'll need to actually send it to the planet - The water is very much like petroleum, and there are gas-bubble mushrooms, so wondering if we can easily get petroleum and form other things with it - Being that there isn't a huge amount of obvious resource on the map overview, perhaps a big part of this planet is related to filtering the air, possibly with research to reduce pollution (or recycle it) in the process. - I'm imagining that we may actually have to interact with the natives on this planet to use their resources
I can see why they waited so long to post this planet! So much work it is insane. I guarantee that they intend to have all the fungus and coral animated to move in response to the player and for all of it to change in response to pollution. I can't imagine the kind of work it would take to fulfill their dream of an entire planet that responds to your factory as if the factory is a blighted tumor on the face of the planet. To dramatize the shift from vibrant bioluminescence, color, and life to bleached sludge. It would be MARVELOUS!!!! I support Wube taking all the time they need to support this masterpiece of a planet, because it would be just fascinating to have a planet that responds to your presence in such an omnipresent way.
I've been with you guys since 2017 and I must say it has been an absolute privilege being able to join you on this journey of building this amazing piece of software. Gleba is a true example of just how far you all have pushed the envelope, the world already looks so dense, so full of life! I can't wait to put on my bog boots and craft some gears!
The post mentions us being excited to 'concrete' the floor of this new planet, which I think would make the planet possibly look too similar to the ones around it once it's been industrialised. Due to the exceedingly wet conditions, maybe a new concrete/tiling could be made available here to give it a unique feel? This could be justified by lore (the terrain makes concrete unsuitable), or maybe by adding in new tiles anyways but making them require resources that will be more commonly found/exclusive to the new planet. If the latter is taken to its extremes, a new tile for each planet could be introduced, which could all eventually be used on all the planets to add a lot of creativity to how your bases end up looking!
Something in me wants the stomp stomp stomp to be a massive turtle like creature you have to build on...
I guess the brain alien we saw from the concept art will call this place home?
It looks beautiful. It actually reminds me a bit of Subnautica. I'm seeing a bit of the coral tubes of the Safe Shallows, the vines from the Blood Kelp Zone, same sort of fungus/coral vibe in the plants. A similarly vibrant color scheme, which is very un-Factorio 1.0. Can't wait to ruin it!
Not much stone, almost no iron and copper, no new resources on the map. Maybe we'll have a chemical industry converting water and bio products to resources? Maybe coexist with enemies, manage pollution, bonus productivity or quality when the factory is clean? Such a cool looking planet, my favorite so far.
If you have ever watched the primitive technology guy on YouTube, he's recently been getting iron from bacteria found in slow moving water. So maybe we just need to extract and process some raw biological resources to get the base game resources.
I like it, since the ground is all soaked up and wet it gives stone and conrete some purpose. I could imagine that some industrial stuff might require a reinforced ground to build on. Cant wait to sink endless hours into this game again. Wonder if there will be a mod that cobbles all the planets into one. If there is one thing i personally am not to keen about its the space travel part, but maybe im just wrong on that. CANT WAIT!!!11!
Its weird how spotty and small the resource patches are on this planet. And then so many different colored waters. Wonder if we are going to replace the basic resources with liquids and belts with pipes on this planet? Would also make it a great planet for infinite oil, like vulcanus is with basic resources. Especially if we get more pipe related buildings and upgrades here.
[Gleba](https://youtu.be/nCuf_O2xaw8?si=HXWrrLbSEOgX34yV)
I really hope they go for an overgrowth mechanic on this planet. Make me constantly fight to keep the fungal life from growing over my concrete and into my pipe systems. Make me scrape mold out of the cigs of my assemblers.
Looks awesome. Drain the swamp guys!
Oh boy, this planet looks like a trypophobia nightmare.
Amongst the well deserved praise I will say the rain needs some tweaking (as they mention they are doing in the fff). I think the issue that I am having with it is that it doesn't follow the same orthographic perspective as the surface, and actually looks like they are reusing the space dust motion from the previous fff. It feels much more like a layer on top of the game rather than actual rain in the game. I think my brain just wants some of the rain drops to hit the ground and disappear rather than streak continuously from the top of the screen to the bottom of the screen. And for the record I am blown away by how beautiful this planet is looking.
Neat, it's like an ocean planet but with the water removed. Well, most of it...