# Planet Varieties

Food species are themed by origin. Earth foods form the standalone baseline; three Nerospace-flavoured
families round out the six signature effects with world-appropriate crops.

| Theme | World flavour | Signature crops |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Earth | Home baseline | Grain loaf (nutrition), Sunfruit (night vision) |
| Greenxertz | Lush, low-gravity | Driftmelon (low-gravity adaptation), Lungmoss (oxygen efficiency) |
| Cindara | Volcanic | Emberroot (fire resistance), Magmagourd (mining haste) |
| Glacira | Frozen, dark | Frostberry (freeze immunity), Glowcap (night vision) |

The theme is recorded on each species and published as diet/variety metadata for future consumers
(NeroColonies happiness from varied diets, NeroEconomy premium foods, NeroQuests discovery goals)
through NeroAgriculture's provider seam — no cross-mod imports are required.

## Availability

In this beta the planet families are **not gated by visiting a world**: once a species is researched at
the [Seed Research Bench](Seed-Research.md), it can be grown anywhere its bed tier and any progression
gate allow. The planet flavour is theming and metadata. When Nerospace is present, its planet identity
and environment systems can layer additional meaning on top through Core's shared contracts, but the
whole food system remains fully playable standalone.

See also: [Engineered Foods](Engineered-Foods.md), [Alien Crops](Alien-Crops.md),
[Food Effects](Food-Effects.md).