Folia asteroid guide: the Spaced Out! forest start and example seeds

• Oxygen grows in the start: Oxyferns and the forest's oxygen pockets carry the first cycles while algae is short.
• Wood from Arbor Trees for the Wood Burner and the ethanol line.
• Water is guaranteed: a Cool Steam Vent plus the cold Cool Slush Geyser and Cool Salt Slush Geyser, all within about 80 cells on the sample seeds.
• Sweetles (Sweetle) live in the wastelands, about 20 to 30 per seed, and an AETN sits in the tundra.

• Metal is scarce in the start biome. Iron and copper ore sit in the outer biomes, and without Metal Rich the asteroid holds only about 500 tonnes of Iron Ore.
• Chlorine vents rolled close to the pod on all three sample seeds, two or three per seed.
• Low sunlight (20,000 lux) makes solar power weak.

1. Cycle 1: Research Station, Outhouse, Mealwood on Farm Tile; leave Oxyferns in place.
2. Cycle 1 to 5: Oxygen Diffuser on the nearest algae, Microbe Musher on the start water.
3. Cycle 5 to 15: the Cool Steam Vent, then an Electrolyzer.
4. Cycle 10 to 30: Arbor Trees on polluted water and a Wood Burner; seal the chlorine vents near the base.
5. Cycle 25 onward: rockets to the Irradiated Swampy Asteroid for cobalt and gold, and the teleporter to the Rusty Oil Asteroid for sulfur and oil.

The early game is calm; the long-term risk is a metal shortage. Spend copper only on what needs it, mine the rust biomes for Rust, and treat the neighbours as the metal supply from cycle 30 on.

Slime Molds, Frozen Core, Mixed Boulders and Metal Rich. The best Folia of the three for metal, with about 1,700 tonnes of copper ore and 1,300 tonnes of iron ore.

A Cool Steam Vent sits 32 cells from the pod at (57, 97). A Polluted Water Vent 50 cells below adds 2.8 kg/s. The Chlorine Gas Vent 35 cells above at (91, 152) is the one to wall off first.

Large Boulders, Subsurface Ocean, Crashed Satellites and Slime Molds. A Hydrogen Vent sits 29 cells above the pod at (82, 146): cool it and it powers the early colony.

Water comes from a Cool Steam Vent 46 cells away at (55, 76) and the Cool Slush Geyser 55 cells up. Crashed Satellites adds radioactive wreckage: approach it only with protection.

Geodes, Crashed Satellites, Subsurface Ocean and Slime Molds. The Cool Slush Geyser is the closest vent at 47 cells, next to a Hot Polluted Oxygen Vent at (96, 78) that needs sealing.

Two Hydrogen Vent rolls above the base, 71 and 77 cells away, give a strong power option once the colony can cool hydrogen.

The Irradiated Swampy Asteroid is three hexes away. On every sample seed it held two Cobalt Volcanoes, two Gold Volcanoes, two Carbon Dioxide Geysers and at least one Polluted Water Vent, with Plug Slugs (Plug Slug) and Beeta hives. The Rusty Oil Asteroid, four hexes away and linked by the teleporter, held one Liquid Sulfur Geyser on each seed, plus oil-rich rock and Slicksters.

Folia is an organic start that grows into a cluster colony. Run food, oxygen and wood at home, fetch metal by rocket from the swampy neighbour, and use the Rusty Oil Asteroid's sulfur and oil for plastics and rocket fuel.