Radioactive Ocean Asteroid guide: water, radiation and example seeds

• Water. On every sample seed a Salt Water Geyser sits within 40 cells of the pod, and two of the three also rolled a Water Geyser within 45 cells.
• Oxygen and food in the start: 9 to 18 Oxyferns, Mealwood and 50 to 85 wild Waterweed (Waterweed) in the ocean.
• Uranium ore (about 45 to 52 tonnes), Beeta hives and radioactive biomes for radbolt research from the start.
• Liquid Carbon Dioxide Geysers near the pod on every seed: free cold.

• Radiation. The surface and the radioactive biomes expose Duplicants; rockets and surface work need protection.
• Little metal ore: Aluminum Ore around 110 to 150 tonnes and almost no iron or copper ore.
• Salt water floods if ocean pockets are opened carelessly.

1. Cycle 1: Research Station, Outhouse, Mealwood; leave the Oxyferns in place.
2. Cycle 1 to 5: Microbe Musher on the forest water pockets.
3. Cycle 5 to 15: tap the nearest water vent; a Desalinator on the Salt Water Geyser if no fresh vent is close.
4. Cycle 10 to 30: Electrolyzer, then wall off the radioactive biomes and the uranium fields.
5. Cycle 20 onward: the teleporter to the Flipped Asteroid for sulfur and Sweetles, and rockets for metal.

Radiation is the threat the game's rating reflects. Keep the base inside the forest, away from the radioactive biomes, and limit surface and uranium work to short trips. Water, food and oxygen are easier here than on any other moonlet start; metal is the resource to import.

Medium Boulders. Two Salt Water Geyser rolls at 40 and 59 cells and a Cool Slush Geyser 47 cells away. Two Carbon Dioxide Geyser vents within 39 cells provide cooling.

Geodes. The best water roll: a Salt Water Geyser 33 cells away, a Cool Salt Slush Geyser at 40 and a Water Geyser at 45 with 3.5 kg/s. A Carbon Dioxide Vent 28 cells away should be sealed.

Frozen Friend. A Polluted Water Vent 30 cells from the pod, a Salt Water Geyser at 31 and a Water Geyser at 44 with 3.5 kg/s. The Infectious Polluted Oxygen Vent 36 cells below brings slimelung germs.

The non-start Radioactive Ocean in the Frozen Forest cluster: Volcanic Activity added three Volcano rolls next to a Water Geyser, two Salt Water Geysers and a Cool Salt Slush Geyser. As a rocket target it is a water and uranium outpost.

The Radioactive Ocean is a water and radiation colony. Use its liquids for a large electrolyzer and farm block, run radbolt research and later a Research Reactor on the local uranium, and bring metal from the other moonlets by rocket.