Pluto

Pluto

Pluto is one of the most famous dwarf planets in our solar system, located in the Kuiper belt beyond Neptune. In Orrery, it's a fully landable dimension reachable by rocket, offering a freezing but rewarding frontier for exploration.

What to expect on arrival

The sky

Pluto features an incredibly thin atmosphere, meaning the sky remains a deep, pitch black even during the day, with stars and distant planets constantly visible. The Sun appears as an exceptionally bright, sharp point of light rather than a warm disc, providing minimal heat and casting sharp, dramatic shadows across the icy terrain.

Gravity

Pluto has roughly 6% of Earth's gravity—even lower than Eris. When exploring the surface, you will experience:

• Massive, floaty jumps that keep you airborne for seconds at a time
• Drastically slowed falling speeds
• Negligible fall damage from standard heights, though jumping from massive cliffs can still pose a threat to your health bar

Temperature and oxygen

Pluto is a frozen wasteland with no breathable atmosphere. The extreme cold and lack of oxygen will deplete your suits rapidly. You must bring adequate life support and specialized heating gear to survive. See Survival tips for maximizing your life support efficiency in deep space.

Surface

The landscape is a striking mix of frozen nitrogen ice sheets, rugged water-ice mountains, and darker tholin-covered plains. The contrast between the bright white glaciers and dark red-brown highlands makes it a visually distinct, alien world that is excellent for scouting rare resources.

Meteorites

Just like on Eris, Applied Energistics 2 meteorites generate across Pluto's surface. The stark contrast of the dark meteorites against the bright nitrogen ice fields makes hunting for AE2 crash sites and sky stone significantly easier here. To maintain an isolated, uncharted atmosphere, standard Overworld structures do not generate.

Telescope

Pluto is fully visible from the Telescope. While its positioning in the sky tracking system was notoriously bugged in previous versions, Orrery completely fixes this alignment. You can now reliably track Pluto from other celestial bodies, or use a telescope on Pluto to chart the rest of the solar system—including its massive moon, Charon.

Getting there

Pluto is reached via the standard Northstar progression pipeline. You will need to research, craft, and fuel a high-tier rocket capable of deep-space travel to survive the journey into the outer solar system. Consult Northstar's core documentation and Ponder mechanics for step-by-step rocket construction schematics.