Planets

As of the November 2022 update, there are currently 164 planets to discover.

## Discovering planets

To explore a new planet you must first not already be building a new DFR or already exploring a new planet. Click explore and you will be asked what kind of planet you want to find.

There are three main different ways to discover planets - randomly discovered planets, festival planets and from completing epics  for the first time.

* When exploring you can select a type of planet to explore (eg animal or cuisine type planets) or randomly from any of these types of planet.

* Completing epics for the first time will reward you with a 'Galaxy Map', and let you pick this option in the planet exploration menu - these are specific planets related to the epic, and can't be found through the random option above. (Repeating epics will give cubes instead of a planet.)

* Festival planets are once a month themed planets that also won't appear through the random feature, for example, a Christmas themed planet would be found by exploring for festival planets during the month of December.

* Exception: Green Garden (#1000) is the only "Super Planet", and it is unlocked by downloading the sister app Plant Nanny 2. It produces resources, but they are not used in any missions  and the population does not contribution to the total population.

## Upgrading planets

When a planet is first discovered, that planet has a level of 1. Each planet's level is shown next to the name of the planet when viewed in regular exploration mode. Planets can be upgraded via the upgrade button below the planet up to a level of 7. Upgrading planets costs coins and will take some time to upgrade, during which, the planet does not accept food nor produce resources. Upgrading requires more time and coins based on how high the current level of that planet is and how far from Earth the planet is.

Upgrading a planet is useful as higher level planets have an increased production time (more resources produced before the planet must be fed), and a higher population. Each upgrade from level 1 to 7 also adds two to the populations and a new aesthetic feature to that planet. A fully upgraded, level 7 planet has 2 royal members (2 of the population appear different and wear crowns), and a new addition to the planet, such as the rainbow ring that appears around the Bubble Gum planet at level 7.

After you have discovered 20 planets, you can upgrade planets using the Lab. You make a request in the lab to upgrade a planet. The other members of your lab will give energy to your planet to upgrade it one level up. It will cost more energy to upgrade a planet when the level of the planet is higher. Location in the galaxy does not affect the amount of energy needed to upgrade, which is an advantage for planets discovered later.

The Earth cannot be upgrade these way.

## Earth

The Earth planet is the original starting planet. It appears with the Moon as its satellite.

The Earth is very different to the other planets: its satellite cannot be changed, it cannot be upgraded with coins, and it does not produce collectible resources.

The population of the Earth however, can be increased and this does contribute to the overall population of the galaxy. Increasing the population requires adding friends within the app. Friends can be added when participating in Epics with others, or friends can be added via the 'add friend' icon that appears after clicking the 'info' button below Earth. Through this button, friends can be added from social media accounts, or found by name within the Walkr app. For each 5 friends added, who have also accepted the request, Earth's population increases by 1 up to a maximum of 16 (80 friends).

## Satellite matchup

When you discover a planet you will also discover a random satellite. By attaching a satellite to your planet you may get a bonus, eg more food or quicker production. You can attach any satellite to any planet, but every planet also has an 'ideal' satellite that matches that planet and will reward you an even greater bonus (eg attaching the Honey Dipper satellite to the Honeycomb planet will get you a greater bonus than if it was attached to another planet). This list can be seen below.

Note that not all satellite combinations grant a bonus. A satellite will generally give a half-match bonuses for planets of the same type as its ideal planet. (eg Honey Dipper will give a partial match to other Animal type planets.)

## List of planets

See http://walkrgame.com/en/planets for images and story descriptions of the planets and creatures!

Planets with Type marked with an asterisk (\*) are prizes from epics and are not discovered through random exploration.