Skewed Asteroid guide: the fixed map and every geyser

AsteroidsEasy

The Klei Fest 2023 asteroid is the same in every game; here is its full map with every geyser located.

The Skewed Asteroid is the one start in Oxygen Not Included that is the same in every game. Its cluster has a fixed coordinate, KF23-C-7-0-0-0, so whatever seed you type, the asteroid, its geysers and its neighbours come out identical. The game describes it as a tilted world, strange and strangely familiar. It is a wide 380 × 240 cell asteroid built from the classic biomes, with the Geodes trait always applied.

The Printing Pod in the sandstone start of the Skewed Asteroid
Cycle 0 on the Skewed Asteroid, coordinate KF23-C-7-0-0-0.
FactValue
Size380 × 240 cells, wider than tall
Survival chanceIdeal
Where you find itStart asteroid of the Skewed Asteroid cluster in Spaced Out!, released for Klei Fest 2023.
Starting biomeSandstone: Mealwood, Bristle Blossom, Muckroot, Hatches and Shine Bugs.
Other biomesSandstone pockets, five or more marshes, jungles, tundras and oceans, an oil field and the magma core, all in their tilted variants.
World traitsGeodes, always.
NeighboursThe Radioactive Swamp Asteroid three hexes away and linked by a teleporter pair, and the Tundra, Marshy, Superconductive, Moo, Water and Regolith asteroids.

Strengths

Weaknesses

  • Wide and flat: a lot of horizontal travel, which slows Duplicants on a base that grows sideways.
  • Natural gas is far away: the two Natural Gas Geysers sit 119 and 125 cells from the pod.
  • No seed variety: once you know the map, there are no surprises left.

What to target first

  1. Cycle 1: Research Station, Outhouse, Oxygen Diffuser, Mealwood.
  2. Cycle 3 to 10: the Cool Steam Vent at (169, 147), up and to the left of the pod.
  3. Cycle 10 to 30: Electrolyzer, then the Hydrogen Vent at (171, 183) for a hydrogen generator.
  4. Cycle 30 onward: the Gold Volcanoes at (194, 46) and (206, 40), below the base, and the teleporter to the Radioactive Swamp Asteroid.

Surviving the Skewed Asteroid

Plan transport early. Build the base in vertical layers around the pod, and run a transit tube or long ladders to the outer geysers once the colony expands.

The fixed map: KF23-C-7-0-0-0

The whole asteroid with all 15 geysers. The water vents spread across the map: steam at (169, 147) and (82, 138), slush at (228, 78), salt water at (272, 128) and polluted water at (272, 169).

Printing Pod and the surrounding start biome at cycle 0, seed KF23-C-7-0-0-0
The Printing Pod area as the colony starts, seed KF23-C-7-0-0-0.
The whole 380 by 240 cell asteroid with every cell revealed, seed KF23-C-7-0-0-0
The whole asteroid with the fog lifted, seed KF23-C-7-0-0-0. World traits: Geodes.
GeyserCell (x, y)Average outputTemperature
Polluted Water Vent272, 1693.04 kg/s30 ºC
Salt Water Geyser272, 1282.03 kg/s95 ºC
Cool Steam Vent82, 1381.97 kg/s110 ºC
Cool Slush Geyser228, 781.75 kg/s-10 ºC
Cool Steam Vent169, 1471.24 kg/s110 ºC
Volcano22, 1111.23 kg/s1727 ºC
Volcano20, 1611.15 kg/s1727 ºC
Volcano15, 521.06 kg/s1727 ºC
Copper Volcano270, 43332 g/s2227 ºC
Gold Volcano194, 46328 g/s2627 ºC
Iron Volcano129, 37317 g/s2527 ºC
Gold Volcano206, 40310 g/s2627 ºC
Hydrogen Vent171, 183122 g/s500 ºC
Natural Gas Geyser72, 7197 g/s150 ºC
Natural Gas Geyser82, 17686 g/s150 ºC

The neighbour: Radioactive Swamp Asteroid

The Radioactive Swamp Asteroid of the Skewed cluster, three hexes away, is fixed as well: Small Boulders and Metal Poor, two Iron Volcanoes, an Aluminum Volcano, a Salt Water Geyser, a Cool Steam Vent and two slush geysers.

The whole 160 by 176 cell asteroid with every cell revealed, seed KF23-C-7-0-0-0
The whole asteroid with the fog lifted, seed KF23-C-7-0-0-0. World traits: Small Boulders, Metal Poor.
GeyserCell (x, y)Average outputTemperature
Salt Water Geyser131, 743.18 kg/s95 ºC
Cool Slush Geyser17, 1291.88 kg/s-10 ºC
Cool Salt Slush Geyser64, 1241.80 kg/s-10 ºC
Cool Steam Vent138, 1151.49 kg/s110 ºC
Iron Volcano23, 50370 g/s2527 ºC
Iron Volcano82, 94301 g/s2527 ºC
Aluminum Volcano114, 84244 g/s1727 ºC
Carbon Dioxide Geyser68, 13173 g/s-55 ºC
Carbon Dioxide Geyser22, 21126 g/s-55 ºC
Hot Polluted Oxygen Vent90, 3287 g/s500 ºC
Hydrogen Vent91, 4276 g/s500 ºC

Long-term plan

Because the map never changes, the Skewed Asteroid rewards planning ahead: place the industrial wing below the base near the gold volcanoes, the power plant on the big volcanoes at the left edge, and the farm next to the steam vent.