Surviving Mars: How To Terraform Your Planet

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Surviving Mars is a challenging but rewarding game. If you've mastered the art of building a colony and want to add an extra challenge, the Green Planet DLC expansion introduces terraforming mechanics. As your colony grows, you'll be able to make Mars inhabitable and eventually let your colonists wander freely outside the Domes.

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Terraforming takes a very long time, so planning ahead is important. In this guide, we'll explore how to utilize the different terraforming parameters and examine how you can bring fields, forests, and lakes to the surface of Mars.

If your game has terraforming rules enabled (you can turn them on or off before starting a new campaign) you'll see the four terraforming parameters at the top of your screen, underneath your resource totals. Each is rated with a percentage from zero to one hundred, with zero being Mars' pre-colonization conditions and one hundred being Earthlike. To fully transform Mars into a world habitable by humans, you'll need to get all four parameters to one hundred percent.

With terraforming rules active, your colony will have access to the Terraforming Tech Tree which contains several unique buildings. They're usually quite expensive to build and maintain, so be sure you're ready before you build one.

The GHG Factory, Carbonate Processor, Core Heat Convector, and Magnetic Field Generator can all be Amplified after researching Terraforming Amplification. Like the upgrade of the same name for factories, this allows you to enhance an existing building for a one-time Polymer cost, increasing both its output and its power consumption.

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Completely terraforming Mars can