Asteroid Types

This article has not been revised for the current version (***U50-587362***). It was last updated for *U47-562984*. It may contain inaccuracies.
This article has not been revised for the current version (***U50-587362***). It was last updated for *U47-562984*. It may contain inaccuracies.

*This article is related to content of the Base Game. There may be a version for the  DLC, see Planetoid Clusters.*
In Oxygen Not Included you have the ability to choose an asteroid type on which to found your colony. These are all variations on the same basic asteroid template intended to mix up early and midgame strategies. They all have different assortments of biomes, critters, and randomized traits.

## List of Habitable Asteroids

* Terra is a temperate asteroid.
* Oceania is similar to Terra, but with more saltwater.
* Rime is a uniformly cold asteroid with all biomes and additional volcanoes.
* Verdante is a forest asteroid that lacks Frozen biome.
* Arboria is a colder variant of Verdante, with Frozen biomes, but without Swamps.
* Volcanea is a variant of Terra with guaranteed magma vent, which makes it hotter.
* The Badlands features large swaths of generic rocks and lacks biomes with liquid water.
* Aridio is a uniformly hot variant of Verdante.
* Oasisse starting area is besieged by hot sand, and there are no cold biomes.

## World Seed

World seeds define the maps layout. They are randomly generated, but if you loved the map you just played on and want to retry that seed, or share that world for your friend to play too, you can take that alphanumerical seed, enter it to the seed menu and get the same asteroid layout.

### World Traits

Depending on the asteroid type and world seed, an asteroid may have a number of random traits which affect the biomes and terrain features which can generate there. See World Trait for more details.

### Story Traits

Additionally, upon world creation, players can selectively enable or disable the generation of story traits, which are lore-focused points of interest that can provide unusual benefits to colonies. See Story Trait for more details.

### Special Seeds

Some special asteroid types have unique world seeds. These asteroids are accessed through a different style of gameplay called The Lab (see below).

## The Lab

**The Lab** is an alternative style of gameplay from the regular experience. This gameplay style includes specially-designed asteroids created for unique scenarios, special events, etc.

#### Skewed Asteroid

*A tilted world, at once strange and...strangely familiar. Its singular terrain is consistent across all universes.

This resistance to the fluidity of the temporal shifts has the cosmos buzzing, as individual colonies compare notes on successes, failures and the bizarre redistribution of resources.*
A unique asteroid similar to Terra with the Geodes world trait, but which is rotated 90 ° from the standard orientation. The Volcanic Biome is at the left of the map, whereas the usual Space Biome is at the right of the map; however, the top of the map is still the space access point for rocketry and meteors, since the sides and bottom of the map are bordered by Neutronium as on a regular map. Unique to this map, almost all Ruins and their contents (including the Gravitas Lobby, but excluding Story Traits and Anti Entropy Thermo-Nullifiers) are also rotated sideways. There are some other unusual features on this asteroid, including (but not limited to) a pair of uncovered Gold Volcanoes within a chlorine/hydrogen gas pocket at the intersection of several biomes.

The "alert" welcome message at the beginning of the game is different for this asteroid, and initially appears rotated by 90 ° itself:

## Version History

* **U47-561558**: Added Skewed Asteroid.
* Before Launch Update there were two additional preset maps:
	+ Helicona, where the most of asteroid was consisting out of Frozen Biome
	+ The Rock, where asteroid was composed of Space, Volcanic and Frozen biomes.