White spice

White spice is an extremely rare spice that has been found mostly on colonized Gas Giants. Although, there have been reports of it being found on normal planets [EDIT: Link? (edit this edit with it)]. It is impossible to get this spice via colonizing [what about those planets that have it?], since Spore does not let you place a colony on any gas giants. However, if the game has placed a colony on the gas giant for a NPC empire, you can buy the system from them as normal, thus obtaining the gas giant [but they are T-0, and stop producing it]. White spice can be collected like any other spice, but can not be bought or sold. Finding white spice naturally on a gas giant is extremely rare, but mods can be used to obtain it. In the file "Spore_game.package", there are files that have the percent chance that a certain color of spice will appear. If the percentage for one kind of spice is lowered and the empty space is not filled in, the result will be white spice. Therefore, white spice is a placeholder in the event that a planet has no spice assigned to it. These percentages apparently don't apply to Gas Giants, as white spice is the only kind found on them. The White spice icon is actually the neutral image for all the spice icons, and the game recolors the base image to display different spices. Why Spore would use that system instead of something else is not known. [edit: It is known, to save a little bit of space, not much, but still...]