If you select the coast of a landmass to land there the prompt should say something like "Savanna (Coast)," and there will be a beach and a large ocean a few hundred meters from the landing site
I don't recall the biome saying "coast". Maybe I was unintentionally a couple of hundred miles inland or something.
I shall try again.
It helps to zoom in when clicking potential landing zones.
I did a (boring) 100% planetary survey and one of the fauna I needed to scan were fish in the water close to the shore. I spent wayyy too much time running around looking for water until I realized there was always some within a couple hundred metres of the ship landing site (I assume it's generated that way for that biome type).
When you're landing on a Whatever (Coast), keep your eyes open to see what direction the water is when you come in. Otherwise it can be hard to see it from the ground if it's a foggy world.
If you look at the ground map when you land on a "coast" biome, you can see where all the elevation dots go flat. That will help direct you to the ocean if you can't see it over the hills/fog.
It can be pretty finicky, but it's definitely possible.
I've been to 3 or 4 that had oceans. As others said try to land on a tile that says coast. Once you land if you can't see the water you can try to use the local map to head towards the flat part.
I've also read that there are rivers, IIRC look for swamp biomes.
I'll try again. I need a cool site for an Armillary anyway. Time to go scouting.
I don't have screenshots, but if I remember correctly, two of the fauna on Gagarin in Alpha Centauri were fish when I surveyed the planet. I ran along a coast for quite a while to get all the scans.
Good enough for me. More research needed on my part, clearly.
Turns out I need an outpost site to build an Armillary. I always fancied a beachfront property.
I've seen planets with oceans I cannot land on, but even landing on what appears to be a shore line, there is no water in sight and I can walk out to where there should be water and it's just barren wasteland. The resource map is also wonky as fuck. Like land in a huge patch of Iron, but then it ends up being Chlorine or some shit. Makes the map utterly worthless. Though perhaps that requires deeper skill levels.
Found some last night. I made sure the biome said "shore" from orbit and even then I had to walk a bit, but I found the ocean.
Then I nearly got eaten alive by bacteria when I went paddling. I'll build my beach house somewhere else, I think :)
I landed just beside the you can't land here zone on what looked like an ocean, could see the ocean where I landed.
Fair 'nuff. Seems as though I landed further away than I thought I did.
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