Black Holes or singularities are somewhat commonly found in zones.However, there is damage falloff the further away the ship is from the mine. So if the player has less than 200 shields, they would take X shield damage (depleting it completely) and then also take 200 hull damage. The damage number is both the shield and hull damage.They can be taken out from a distance, or if the player's ship is fast enough, can just be flown past to trigger them while avoiding most or all of the explosive damage. Mines can be hard to spot, but continually flash red when in close proximity. If the player gets too close, they will explode, dealing 200 damage (slightly less than a normal Plasma Mine. Mines can naturally spawn in or around certain points of interest, typically in places such as asteroid clusters, abandoned bases, or surrounding jump suppressors.More and more overheat in a random order as the player spends more time in the zone, including Life Support, so being efficient and fast with exploration of the zone is recommended. The damage is temporary and limited to the time spent in the zone, but the overheated systems cannot be repaired and will not recover until the player departs. Overheated ship components are heavily debuffed, much like when damaged. While spending time in one of these zones, ship components have a chance to overheat. Star Hazards are easily seen by the zone's close proximity to a star.

The unique track Electricity is played here. However, there are occasional lightning flashes that could illuminate points of interest to go to. The main negative of this type of hazard is greatly reduced visibility, hindering exploration and looting.

Dark Nebula zones are a very dark green or blue.

Having a Sensor Relay device installed can restore some targeting ability and general sensor range. Every zone with an Ancient structure has scanner impairment. However, Okkar do not jump in after taking too long in the zone.

Scanner Impairment in zones is a very thick cloud-like nebula that makes the ship's scanner much less effective.

All entities in the map are affected by the storm's damage. If the player takes cover behind something facing the star, the ship will not be damaged as long as it shadows the whole ship. Solar Storms create a mild inertia effect and constantly damage the ship's shields until depleted then continuing on to deal hull damage whenever in direct sight of the sun, but only for brief periods of time.They commonly spawn with a few resources scattered inside them, similar to other points of interest. Electric storms can also spawn in small 'bubbles' in a zone, but do not cover the whole area.Electric storms will damage the spawned Splitter Ancients from the Ancient Friends glyph until they are at 1 hp, but will not kill them.When the player first comes across one, it is explained by HIVE.Electric storms are lightning storms that damage the shield (but not the hull), but also charge the ship's energy core.Just enter the temple, shoot the glyph and proceed forward. VERY IMPORTANT TIP: YOU NEED TO ENTER THE MASSIVE STRUCTURE THROUGH THE HOLE WHICH HAS A GLOWING LIGHT ABOVE IT - NEAR THE TOP OF THE STRUCTURE BEFORE ANCIENTS WILL START SPAWNING. Hit this with your ship and you'll collect it. After you've escaped the pull of the black hole, enter the temple (openings are next to the orange glyphs) and approach the central stone. Don't waste secondary weapons, they just teleport to avoid them. Weapons that cause high shield damage work best against them. You need to kill this (beware, it turns into a black hole and tries to suck you in once you kill it). Around the temple, there will be a sphere that launches homing beams of light at you.

These are easily recognisable, they are a large rock with an orange beam of light coming out the top. As you travel through the sectors, you'll encounter Ancient Temples.

Everspace ancient glyphs