Verdante asteroid guide: forest start, metals and example seeds

• Metal from the start. Iron Ore, Gold Amalgam and Aluminum Ore sit in the thousands of tonnes, so refined metal and good conductive wire come early.
• Wood. Arbor Tree gives Lumber for the Wood Burner and the ethanol line, a power source Terra cannot grow.
• Rust biomes hold Rust and Bleach Stone, the inputs for rust deoxidizing and for Waterweed.
• Dirt is common, about 3,000 tonnes on each sample seed, which keeps Mealwood and the musher fed.

• Less Algae than Terra: about 280 to 470 tonnes on the whole map against roughly 650 on Terra. The algae deoxidizer phase is shorter.
• No tundra means no guaranteed AETN and no natural cold sink. Cooling has to be built.
• Five or more marshes and jungles surround the forest, with slime, chlorine and heat on every side.
• Fresh Water is low, about 130 to 220 tonnes of liquid water on each sample seed. Polluted water and salt water are the real sources.

1. Cycle 1: Research Station, Outhouse and Wash Basin. Leave the Oxyferns in place; they turn your Duplicants' Carbon Dioxide into oxygen while they last.
2. Cycle 1 to 3: a Oxygen Diffuser on the nearest algae, and Mealwood on Farm Tile with the forest dirt.
3. Cycle 3 to 10: Microbe Musher and a Manual Generator; plan a Water Sieve early because polluted water is the main liquid.
4. Cycle 10 to 25: switch to an Electrolyzer on purified water before the algae runs out.
5. Cycle 20 to 40: refine the local metals in a Metal Refinery once you have coolant; Aluminum conducts heat far better than copper, which matters for every cooler you build.

The early danger on Verdante is the gap between the end of the starting algae and a working electrolyzer. Count your algae in the first cycles and start the water purifier and electrolyzer before it runs out. Oxyferns help only while carbon dioxide reaches them, so plant them low in the base where CO2 settles.

Food is the second risk. Mealwood alone keeps three Duplicants alive but lowers morale over time. Add a second crop by cycle 15 from the seeds your Duplicants find in the neighbouring biomes.

Metal Rich, Trapped Oil, Mixed Boulders and Magma Channels. A Copper Volcano sits 53 cells up and to the left at (81, 212), next to a Leaky Oil Fissure at (93, 227). That corner is the best early industry spot on this seed.

Natural gas is 56 cells straight down at (124, 130), and the nearest water is a Cool Steam Vent 74 cells above the pod. Two Iron Volcano rolls and a Water Geyser round out a strong seed.

Large Boulders, Subsurface Ocean, Alternate Pod Location and Metal Rich. The pod sits on the left at (50, 220). Its only nearby liquid is a Salt Water Geyser 48 cells away at (82, 184) with 3.9 kg/s, the strongest single vent in this guide; every other geyser is more than 110 cells away.

Plan a Desalinator early on this seed. The far side of the map is volcanic: two Volcano and two Minor Volcano rolls, plus Gold Volcano and Copper Volcano.

Geodes, Metal Rich, Slime Molds and Frozen Core. On Verdante Frozen Core gives the cold sink the asteroid otherwise lacks: about 3,200 tonnes of Ice at the bottom of the map.

The nearest vents are a Copper Volcano at (177, 229), a Carbon Dioxide Geyser at (204, 209) and a Cool Salt Slush Geyser at (206, 220), all to the upper right within 85 cells. Fresh water is farther away: the nearest Cool Steam Vent is 102 cells up at (86, 284).

In Spaced Out! the Verdante Cluster is rated Likely as well. Its teleporter target is the Radioactive Terra Asteroid, which adds sandstone, uranium and radiation research to a metal-rich start. Read the Radioactive Terra Asteroid guide before the first teleport.

Verdante rewards an early industrial push. Purified polluted water and desalinated salt water feed the electrolyzers, metal volcanoes and the large ore deposits feed refineries, and the oil patches give petroleum for plastics. Because there is no tundra, build a steam turbine cooling loop or an Thermo Regulator loop before the refinery and the generators heat the base.