Zone

A Zone is an area inside of an environment. It is made up of any number of tiles and is considered a wildcard factor for anything on the tile. They may be layered on top of each other, and there are many different kinds of zones. Some of them affect cultures, flora, fauna, and climate.

Non-Environment specific

 * Deadspot
 * Varieties: None
 * Nothing can be cultured here
 * Fauna, flora and fungi will never spawn on these tiles
 * Fauna will stay away from these tiles unless they have their aggro timer provoked by initiating combat
 * These can act as safe zones as normally hostile monsters won't come onto these tiles unless provoked


 * Fertilespot
 * Varieties: Semi, Rich
 * Flora and fungi will be much more likely to spawn here
 * Flora will be much more likely to be successfully cultured with Botany here
 * Fungi will be much more likely to be successfully cultured with Mycology here

Environment specific

 * Topsoil
 * Varieties: Unstable, Drenched, Solid, Thawing, Frozen
 * Found in: Forest, Taiga, Tundra, Grassland,
 * Permafrost
 * Varieties: Thawing, Frozen, Glacial