Is the brown air zone like total smog?
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Based on the chart, probably so. You do not want to breath in that air!
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I wonder how it is like near the source of the smokesā¦
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What? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
When did I become Industrial? My poor planets oceans, forests, and skies will never be that same. 
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Well now itās all industrial biomesā¦
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I wonder what kind of Space Biomes you will come up withā¦
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That is if Poodelicus is even willing to tackle themā¦
Also,what would be āascended biomesā?
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I already added Cryomagmatic biomes, and am in fact in the middle of an expansion that, when done, is meant to include non-water oceans, but I have taken a break from biomes, partially because I want to complete my āWood if they Couldā project sooner, and partially to ponder one particular important point of the expansion. Or is ānon earth like planetsā not what you meant?
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Will the exotic ocean list include ammonia oceans for example?
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Yes, and I am also considering how a world with two ocean types could be classified. I am also redoing plants with subtypes to accommodate a few rare. extinct, and plausible but to my knowledge never appeared on Earth plant types. What is holding me back at the moment (other than my desire to finish my other project) is making a system where you can take, for example, something from the Plant Biome category, say [Tall][Fruit and Flower Bearing][Herbaceous Grass-Like] (read as Seagrass Meadow), and something from the Aquatic Biome category [Saline][Water][Lake][Reef] and get a Saltwater Reef Seagrass Marsh Biome. Or something like that. I realized I had Algal Forests and Seagrass Meadows list under both plants and aquatic, and I was doing worse with the incomplete subterranean category. I figured having a good āthis goes here, this goes there, and this is how you put them togetherā system would help me narrow down what needs to be in the cavern/subterranean system and what should be left as part of one of the other pieces. But it needs work, and I only have enough free time to work on one project right now (I use to work on 3 simultaneously, but I am busier at the moment).
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iirc in the early days Earth used to have a layer of liquid co2 above the h2o of the ocean.
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Good to know, I will keep that in mind when I return to that part of the project.
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Also is methane also a liquid for oceans youāve considered yet?
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Nematodes can come together and form towers.
Link to the Max Planck Institute article: Tower power
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Welp, that will complicate simulating them for sureā¦
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Ants do something similar, so with multiple organisms that do it, the feature is more likely to get programed in. 
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Still far from certain and even if would probably be at the end of the feature listā¦
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siloxylithohexane
extremely polar, technically a sugar(though not a carbohydrate, rather a siloxylithate), theoretically stable in water, and can be decomposed to release energy
it might also be a passive proton pump as well, but that only really means that using it in a membrane might be a bad idea cause itād probably make the membrane destroy itself unless you provide the protons it pulls in a route to escape the membrane
and i also came up with a possible siloxane based fatty acid which could be bound to it!
i have no idea how itād form tho
it would require oceans of at least diluted HF though
at least a few %s of it
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Welp, one step closer to silicon life that isā¦ And MANY more remain before that sort of life is considered viable.
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pure silicon based life is only non-viable because itās unstable in water and rapidly turns to SiO2, and simply wouldnāt form
siloxane(Si-O) based life solves that problem by replacing every Si-Si bond with a Si-O-Si bond, but you still canāt have hydrogens on silicon in water cause itās too weak iirc, so you gotta replace it with lithium, which has mostly similar properties but forms stronger molecular bonds and has 2 of its own electrons left after it gives away its valence electron
both would require HF though, as otherwise thereād be no way to get reasonably usable concentrations of dissolved SiO2 in the water from the rocks to use for making molecules
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