I explore planets and scan animals and plants as my main way of making money. Since the in-game methods of tracking where you’ve been are inconsistent, I made a spreadsheet of every planet I’ve ever been to, from the start of my save file until now. I try not to be biased between the colors of star system that I visit, or how planets there are in a system. All-in-all I’ve explored 544 planets in full, and here are some statistics from my spreadsheet:

Extreme planets

• 107 planets (19.7%) have extreme weather
• 59 planets (10.8%) have sentinels that attack on sight
• 15 planets (2.8%) have both of these

Planet biome

• 66 Frozen planets (12.1%)
• 67 Toxic planets (12.3%)
• 64 Paradise planets (11.8%)
• 55 Irradiated planets (10.1%)
• 61 “Hot” desert planets (11.2%)
• 49 “Cold” desert planets (9.0%)
• 81 “Anomalous” planets (14.9%)
• 67 Airless planets (12.1%)
• 34 Exotic planets (6.2%)
• 116 (21.3%) of worlds are moons, the other 428 (78.7%) are planets

Presence of water

• 315 (57.9%) of the worlds I visited had a biome where there *could* be water
• 159 of these 315 worlds actually did have water (50.5% of water possible worlds, 29.2% of all worlds)

Predatory creatures

• On 156 worlds (28.7%) I discovered at least one land creature which is carnivorous
• On 39 worlds (7.2%) I noted described the danger from land creatures as “elevated”
• On 6 worlds (1.1%) I noted the danger from land creatures as “extreme”
• Of the 159 water-having worlds, 33 of them (20.8%) had predatory water creatures
• On planets with more than one underground species, there is 90% chance one or more is hostile

Planet names

• Planet names can start with any letter of the alphabet, but A is most common
• 55 planets had names that started with A (10.1%)
• Five letters (F, J, Q, X, and Z) each account for less than 1% of planet names
• Aamaryist J35 is the alphabetically first planet in my dataset, Zuzum XI is alphabetically last

Miscellaneous:

• 4 planets (0.7%) have diplos; two of them (0.3%) have mega-diplos
• On 20 planets (3.7%) I noted the presence of abundant megafauna
• Frozen moons were surprisingly rare in my dataset, with only five examples (0.9%)
• Several planets’ names were words or personal names. Specific examples from my dataset include Sara, Darren XIV, Lois Sigma, and Memo.