We move most of it over to a mobile base(!) towards the end of the game anyway and only one more achievement requires a base. Feel free to trick it out as you please, build other bases around the map, or make do with your X.We need to use all of the resources you gather at some point, so stay ahead of the complicated crafting craziness to reduce that annoyance. Try to keep resources organized, however that makes sense to you.If you see a blue bladderfish (it looks vaguely like a pair of lungs swimming), chase it and grab it. For now, sneak by any Stalkers and grab a couple yellow seeds from a creepvine. They love to play with metal salvage which also knocks loose some of their teeth (more on that later). They are slower than you strafe to avoid them for now. They look like horizontal seahorses and like to get bite-y. Creepvines provide you a source of fiber and yellow seeds they also provide a natural habitat to your first predator, a Stalker. You do have some leeway but not much.Ī little further away from your pod, you soon encounter your next biome, the Creepvine Forests. Keep an eye on your O2, obviously running the meter down results in dying. You should encounter one of the very few tutorial messages, 'Break Limestone.' Doing so gives you either titanium or copper. Nearby should be some small wreckage called Metal Salvage which can be processed into 4 titanium using the Fabricator. I think you will need 6?), or be ready to turn around and drive home to craft those.This biome is the Safe Shallows, almost no danger or depth. So bring along the materials to build and power a moonpool+vehichle mod station setup in the lava biomes (And a fat stack of plasteel ingots.

Those work out pretty great for the prawn suit, but you can't make those with a cyclops. Thermal reactors for the Cyclops and prawn suit (as well as the prawn's much needed jump jet upgrade) need Kynite which is only in the lava biomes. But often much longer due to the current state of the game.Īs a further heads up. Which means 20 literal minutes for Vanilla Power Cells that hold a max of 1,2000, for example. That way, if you gain power? great! But if you lose power, you didn't get your entire set of power cells ruined by some space slugs.Īs a heads up, with no larva involved the thermal reactor when parked over a lake of lava refills your power at rate of roughly 1 energy per second. Remove any power cells that are still at 100% capacity and put them into storage. So if you are going to be away from your cyclops for any length of time in the lava biomes. Even if you have the (very weak) Thermal reactor equipped? With your engines turned off, larva can actually end up draining faster than your thermal reactor gains in some areas.

However, that all goes out the window in the lava biomes. I ASSUME it does not drain energy while parked, or if it does it is so small as to be of no consequence.

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