Ranger Environments
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These environments cover lightly populated areas eg. open farmland, moors, but do not include towns, cities, etc. Some environments overlap.
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Arctic
- Includes
- tundra, steppes, permafrost and ice caps and other infertile lowlands in cold climates.
- Fertility
- Infertile
- Seasons
- standard, note that winter has no daylight & summer has no night time.
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Caverns
- Includes
- all caves, tunnels, natural caverns, and other substantial underground areas.
- Fertility
- Infertile
- Seasons
- always low season.
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Coastal
- Includes
- land adjacent to saltwater, estuaries,coastal marshes etc.
- Fertility
- Average or poor
- Seasons
- standard.
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Highlands
- Includes
- hills and mountains, moors, high plateaus. Also includes evergreen forests on steep ground. These areas are fertile in summer but snow or ice covered and hostile in winter.
- Fertility
- Poor
- Seasons
- standard.
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Jungle
- Includes
- hot climate forests of any sort. They are particularly characterised by heavy undergrowth and high rainfall.
- Fertility
- Rich
- Seasons
- wet/dry.
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Plains
- Includes
- grasslands, plains, pampas, savannah, prairie, veldt, and other more or less open and flat or rolling terrain. May include low hills where the land is open and not wooded.
- Fertility
- Poor
- Seasons
- standard.
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Rural
Generally mild climate cultivated terrain, lightly inhabited.
- Includes
- cultivated fields, grazing lands, vineyards, heaths, etc.
- Fertility
- Average
- Seasons
- standard.
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Waste
- Includes
- all deserts, wastelands, salt flats, and other infertile lowlands in mild to hot climates.
- Fertility
- Infertile
- Seasons
- Reversed in hot regions as the most fertile period is autumn and the least fertile summer.
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Wetlands (freshwater)
- Includes
- marshes & swamps, and land adjacent to freshwater rivers, lakes & ponds, etc.
- Fertility
- Rich
- Seasons
- standard.
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Woods
- Includes
- mild climate deciduous and evergreen forests or large wooded areas with few sentient inhabitants, in mild to cold climates.
- Fertility
- Average
- Seasons
- standard.
