Guides
Arboria asteroid guide: a forest start short on metal, with example seeds
How to run a colony on wood, plants and critters when metal is scarce, with in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsMedium
Aridio asteroid guide: the hot start, cooling and example seeds
How to keep farms and Duplicants cool on the hot forest start, with three in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsHard
Brimstonia Asteroid guide: the moonlet no cluster places
What the Brimstonia world file generates in the current game, with two in-game examples.
AsteroidsMedium
Which starting asteroid to choose: every start compared
Water, metal and algae on every starting asteroid, measured from in-game seeds, with a guide for each.
AsteroidsEasy
How to balance oxygen, food and power as your colony grows
The colony resource loop balances oxygen, food, water and power for a planned colony before the daily report can. Eight Duplicants and one Electrolyzer leave a 52.8 kg oxygen margin per cycle, and a ninth Duplicant turns it into a shortfall.
ColonyEasy
Flipped Asteroid guide: the upside-down moonlet start and example seeds
How to survive with magma overhead and little water, with in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsHard
Folia asteroid guide: the Spaced Out! forest start and example seeds
What the forest start gives you, where the metal is in the cluster, and three in-game seeds with every geyser located.
AsteroidsEasy
How much food does your colony need?
Plan harvests, cooking and storage without counting the same calories twice.
FoodEasy
Frozen Forest Asteroid guide: the cold forest moonlet and example seeds
How to run the cold forest moonlet start, with in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsMedium
Geyser output and storage through dormancy
Use eruption timing and the dormant season to size a supply that lasts between eruptions.
GeysersHard
Glowood Wasteland Asteroid guide: Oceania's teleporter world
Forest, wasteland, rust and uranium behind the Oceania teleporter, with two in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Heat, coolant and Steam Turbine limits
Calculate heat capacity, choose a coolant and keep the turbine body cool enough to run.
HeatMedium
Irradiated Forest Asteroid guide: aluminium, gold and radiation
What the Terrania Cluster rocket target holds, how to land safely and what to mine first, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Irradiated Marsh Asteroid guide: aluminium, gold and uranium
What the Quagmiris Cluster rocket target holds and what to mine first, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Irradiated Swampy Asteroid guide: cobalt, gold and Plug Slugs
What the Folia Cluster rocket target holds and how to work its swamp and uranium, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Marshy Asteroid guide: tungsten volcanoes and Experiment 52B
What the small marsh planetoid holds and how to work it safely, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Metallic Swampy Asteroid guide: metal volcanoes, polluted water and example seeds
How to run the moonlet start with the most metal volcanoes and no clean water, with in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Moo Asteroid guide: Gassy Moos, Gas Grass and chlorine
How to bring Gassy Moos home from their asteroid, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
How many skills can a Duplicant learn before morale runs out?
Each skill raises the morale a Duplicant expects, and the morale planner checks that need against the rooms and meals you plan. Three digging skills expect 6, while base morale with a Great Hall, a Private Bedroom, a shower and standard meals comes to 15.
DuplicantsEasy
Oasisse asteroid guide: desert, scarce water and example seeds
How to stretch the small forest water pockets until a geyser runs, with three in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsHard
Oceania asteroid guide: salt water, pacu and example seeds
How to turn an ocean world into water, oxygen and food, with three in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsEasy
Oily Sandy Swamp Asteroid guide: a teleporter world no cluster places
What the Oily Sandy Swamp world file generates in the current game, with two in-game examples.
AsteroidsMedium
Oily Swamp Asteroid guide: Terrania's teleporter target
What the Terrania teleporter target holds: cobalt, lead, rust and sulfur, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
How many Duplicants can one Electrolyzer support?
Balance oxygen, hydrogen, water and pumping power before expanding a SPOM.
OxygenMedium
How to plan a base layout before you build
Plan an Oxygen Not Included base layout and compare construction materials with potential power and heat. Two Electrolyzers, one Gas Pump and one Hydrogen Generator show +320 W and 3,900 kDTU per cycle when all buildings run continuously.
OxygenEasy
Why is your power circuit failing?
Separate generation shortages, wire overload and battery reserve before changing your grid.
PowerEasy
Quagmiris asteroid guide: the Spaced Out! swamp start and example seeds
How to run the swamp start without germs, where the metal is, and three in-game seeds with every geyser located.
AsteroidsEasy
Radioactive Forest Asteroid guide: Squelchy's teleporter world
Forest, rust, ocean and uranium behind the Squelchy teleporter, with two in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Radioactive Ocean Asteroid guide: water, radiation and example seeds
How to run the water-rich, radiation-heavy moonlet start, with in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsHard
Radioactive Swamp Asteroid guide: the most common teleporter world
Swamp, rust, forest and uranium behind the Terra, Badlands, Oasisse, Volcanea and Skewed teleporters, with in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Radioactive Terra Asteroid guide: the forest starts' teleporter world
Sandstone, wasteland and uranium behind the Arboria and Verdante teleporters, with two in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Radioactive Terrabog Asteroid guide: Aridio's teleporter world
Sandstone, swamp and frozen slush behind the Aridio teleporter, with in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Plan a ranch around feed, space and output
Choose a critter and its actual diet before budgeting feed, by-products and living space.
RanchingMedium
Regolith Asteroid guide: regolith, steam vents and meteor showers
What the cratered moonlet holds and how to handle its meteor showers, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
How much research does a tech really cost?
The research tree adds up a tech's whole prerequisite chain by research type. Smelting alone costs 35 Novice and 30 Advanced points, and 100 Novice and 50 Advanced with its chain.
ResearchMedium
Rime asteroid guide: the cold start, metals and example seeds
How to keep a colony warm on the frozen sandstone start and use the cold for industry, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
How much fuel does a rocket need for a round trip?
The rocket range planner counts the fuel and oxidizer a Spaced Out! rocket needs for a trip before the rocket is built. Four hexes out and back with two landings take 150 kg of steam in a Steam Engine.
SpaceMedium
Rusty Oil Asteroid guide: oil reservoirs, sulfur and the teleporter
What the teleporter target of Folia and Quagmiris holds and how to start an outpost there, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Skewed Asteroid guide: the fixed map and every geyser
The Klei Fest 2023 asteroid is the same in every game; here is its full map with every geyser located.
AsteroidsEasy
Squelchy Asteroid guide: the polluted swamp start of Spaced Out!
How to clean up the Spaced Out! swamp start, with two in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsMedium
Stinko Swamp Asteroid guide: Rime's warm teleporter world
Swamps, steamy marshes and metal volcanoes behind the Rime teleporter, with two in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Superconductive Asteroid guide: the niobium volcano
Where niobium comes from in Spaced Out! and how to mine it, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsHard
Terra asteroid guide: start, resources and example seeds
What the sandstone start gives you, what to build first, and three in-game seeds with every geyser located.
AsteroidsEasy
Terrania asteroid guide: the Spaced Out! sandstone start and example seeds
What the compact Spaced Out! start gives you, what to build first and where the metal is, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsEasy
The Badlands asteroid guide: water, rock and example seeds
How to survive the dry rock world on its few water sources, with three in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsHard
The Desolands asteroid guide: the rocky moonlet start and example seeds
How to survive the oil-and-rock moonlet start on little food, with in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsMedium
Tundra Asteroid guide: four iron volcanoes and the Temporal Tear Opener
What the frozen moonlet holds, why every colony visits it, and three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsMedium
Verdante asteroid guide: forest start, metals and example seeds
How to bridge the forest start until the electrolyzer runs, and three in-game seeds with every geyser located.
AsteroidsMedium
Viscosia Asteroid guide: the oil moonlet no cluster places
What the Viscosia world file generates in the current game, and why many seeds fail, with two in-game examples.
AsteroidsHard
Volcanea asteroid guide: magma, heat and example seeds
How to dig safely around magma pockets and turn volcanoes into power, with three in-game seeds and every geyser located.
AsteroidsMedium
Water Asteroid guide: thousands of tonnes of water and graphite
How to use the submerged planetoid as the water tank of a Spaced Out! colony, with three in-game seeds.
AsteroidsEasy