Frozen Fire?

Hello everyone! I am a budding editor of many things in starbound and while digging around in the assets to make a fire weapon, I discovered a frozen fire texture, then a frozen fire chair. This peaked my curiosity so i went to the wiki to check things out. To my surprise, the only thing there was the chair, it said it came from a mini biome, but when i went to that page, it was nowhere to be found. Anyone wanna clue me in on this mysterious frozen fire biome? Me being a novakid, I'm veeeeery interested if there are other pieces of furniture.

 

I'm pretty sure it is a removed mini biome that was on.. snow planets? It had an ice crown, a fire crown too I think.. stuff like that

I don't really get why they remove added biomes to be honest.. I can understand that they probably rework them or make them better or something, but if they don't have a finished biome, why remove it in the first place?
I never got the chance to get the nice items from treasure room underground biome for example

 

confident. because it was finished, and then the updates to other parts of the game meant it needed to be redone. you'd be surprised how often fixing something in a program breaks other things.

 

I imagine testing out the new biome/planet distribution that came with the Giraffe build had a lot to do with it too. By reducing the number of variables, they can better test the basic functionality of "biome types X and Y should only appear on planet type Z".

Then they can add the older biomes in later... with more TO them, as most of the now-missing biomes were kind of empty. And since there's a few quintillion planets in the game universe, it's not like they have to worry about running out of room to implement new or revamped old biomes.

 

The Hive biome stuff looks very interesting too. I wonder when they'll work on that more..

 

Might be just refactoring. In any case, already developed ideas are bound to end up in the game earlier or later, although there's no guarantee the assets won't be changed beforehand.

 

it looks like there were also things like torches planned, ill be using the texture for more spells but i do wish there was more to work with

 

I mean, when they removed the largely empty and largely pointless Sandstone Biome, they turned around and put the handful of decor prizes from it into some really nicely-made microdungeons on the Desert worlds, which was pretty sweet.

At this point I expect a fairly decent amount of the "unused" assets will see life again at a later date, in more comprehensive updates, be they pre- or post-1.0.