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Anyone else thought Titan (Saturn's moon) looked nothing like what Titan is supposed to look like? This changes Titan from that boring old copy pasted frozen biome to a completely unique biome based off of real surface photographs!

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Titan was another huge disappointment for me in Starfield. My first impressions were, "This is just another deep freeze moon, but with snow." I expected it to look like it's atmosphere, but I figured, maybe it just looked genuinely different on the surface. Looking at the Huygens Probe. I was sorely disappointed by what Starfield gave us. Where were the yellowish tan sandy dunes? Where were the methane soaked sands on hillsides? Where was the thick hazy orange atmosphere? I've longed for a mod to change this and after working in xEdit for over 8 days on this project, it's finally come to life.

What this mod offers:
  • A Complete biome overhaul of Titan. No more will you walk through a frozen copy pasted hellscape. You'll see Titan as accurate to reality as one could get! 
  • Removed frozen ecosystem as a discoverable trait and replaced with sonorous lithosphere.
  • Biome name changed to Sandy Dunes.
  • Completely overhauled the landscape textures, changing the snow to tan and black sand to closely match the sand colors on titan. The black sand is supposed to represent the "wet" methane soaked areas on Titan.
  • Added possible terrormorph encounters.
  • Attempted to change locations to only be non hostile, meaning civilian only POIs, but I'm not entirely sure if this will work.
  • Set Biome Density to high (no life) vs the vanilla, low (no life). Now there should theoretically be more POIs to explore!
  • Changed surface rocks and glacial rocks to rocks more in line with Titan.
  • Climate has been completely overhauled, Now featuring absolutely zero rain and snow, because it only snows on Titan once or so every century and it lasts between 1 and 100 hours, so it made no logical sense to have snow as a possibility.
  • Rock colors have been changed from the bluish white ice, to a more brown color to match with the terrain.
  • Atmosphere colors have been overhauled. No more clear skies on a planet with atmosphere so thick, you wouldn't be able to even see Saturn! The color has been altered to an orange like color, to give it that hazy Titan look.
  • Water textures have been edited to remove the ice from the water, which wouldn't align at all with the real liquid methane of Titan. New Homestead has also been edited to remove icy water textures.
  • Planet water quality has been changed from Safe to Chemical.
  • Altered the structures of the biome. It should be more mountainous.
  • Attempted to add more methane pools, but I'm unsure of how successful this was.
  • General rock density has been lowered so you won't be tripping over a billion 6 foot tall rocks. 
  • Optional version which removes human presence on Titan. Natural POIs will still be present to explore.

Now Titan can be the most true to life experience in Starfield! Get those boots sandy, Explorer!

This theoretically should work on existing saves, but already discovered markers and landing sites likely won't be affected and will still have their original look or elements of it. Climate won't take effect until an undiscovered landing zone has been explored.

Io is currently not possible to be modified because it doesn't use a unique biome. I'm still trying to find a way around this. It was originally meant to come first, but it wasn't possible so I made this instead while I try to find a solution.