Aridio asteroid guide: the hot start, cooling and example seeds

• Rich in ore: each sample seed holds 2,000 to 3,600 tonnes of Iron Ore, 1,100 to 1,600 tonnes of Gold Amalgam and around 1,000 tonnes of Aluminum Ore.
• Wood from the forest start and rust biomes full of Rust and Bleach Stone.
• Heat-loving crops fit the map: Pincha Pepper (Pincha Pepperplant) grows between 35 and 85 ºC and Waterweed between 22 and 65 ºC, where Mealwood (10 to 30 ºC) has already stopped.
• Cold geysers appear often: every sample seed has at least one Cool Slush Geyser, Cool Salt Slush Geyser or Carbon Dioxide Geyser, and those are the most valuable vents on this map.

• Heat. The base starts warm and every machine adds to it. Crops stop growing above their temperature window: Mealwood and Bristle Blossom both stall above 30 ºC.
• No tundra means no natural cold sink and no AETN.
• Heat also stresses Duplicants and spoils food faster.

1. Cycle 1: Research Station, Outhouse, Oxygen Diffuser, and a Mealwood farm in the coolest corner of the start.
2. Cycle 1 to 10: Microbe Musher for food while the farm grows; keep machines out of the farm room.
3. Cycle 5 to 20: find the nearest cold vent on your seed. A slush geyser at -10 ºC or a liquid CO2 geyser at -55 ºC is your first cooling system.
4. Cycle 10 to 30: research insulation and wall the base with Insulated Tile; run the cold liquid through the farm and bedrooms in pipes.
5. Cycle 30 onward: a Thermo Aquatuner or Thermo Regulator with a Steam Turbine to remove heat for good.

Every watt you spend becomes heat in your base. Build fewer, better machines, keep the electrolyzer and generators in their own insulated room, and send their heat out through a coolant loop rather than letting it spread.

Food is the first thing heat takes away. Watch the farm temperature from cycle 5, and if it climbs toward 30 ºC, move the farm or cool it before the crops stop.

Metal Rich, Trapped Oil, Mixed Boulders and Magma Channels. A good cooling start: a Cool Slush Geyser at -10 ºC sits 58 cells to the right at (154, 153) and a Cool Salt Slush Geyser 70 cells down and to the left at (63, 116).

Water and oil are close too: a Cool Steam Vent 57 cells away at (153, 197) and a Leaky Oil Fissure 45 cells up at (83, 216).

Large Boulders, Subsurface Ocean, Alternate Pod Location and Metal Rich. The pod sits on the far left at (24, 253) with a Hot Polluted Oxygen Vent only 37 cells away: seal it before it heats the base with 500 ºC polluted oxygen.

No cold vent sits close; the nearest Carbon Dioxide Geyser is 147 cells away. Water comes from a Cool Steam Vent 48 cells above the pod and a Salt Water Geyser 70 cells below. This is the hardest of the three seeds for heat.

Geodes, Metal Rich, Slime Molds and Frozen Core. Frozen Core is the best trait Aridio can roll: about 3,300 tonnes of Ice give the cold sink the map otherwise lacks.

An Leaky Oil Fissure sits 31 cells from the pod at (156, 212). Water comes from a Cool Steam Vent at (189, 181) and a Polluted Water Vent at (67, 156), both within 75 cells.

The Spaced Out! Aridio Cluster is rated Slim as well. Its teleporter target, the Radioactive Terrabog Asteroid, has sandstone and swamp biomes that run cooler than the start. Read the Radioactive Terrabog Asteroid guide before the first teleport.

Aridio's late game is a cooling project. A Steam Turbine removes heat and makes power at the same time; pair it with a Thermo Aquatuner and the colony can run the ore-rich industry the map supports. Until then, keep the colony small and the machine count low.