Seeing your video reminded me, not sure why, I havent managed to use any of the beacons much. Only built two and carry them around but not set them up yet. I am still in the early stages I suppose but really need to start using them to mark places.
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Yes, you do!
It drove me nuts trying to find places I'd seen but been unable to explore because I'd never find them again.
Yeah definitely spread some beacons out early on as it is really hard otherwise to find places again and gives you a bit of a reference as to where you are on the map.
Scanner room + scanner upgrade for HUD also makes the game a lot less tedious.
Scanner room + scanner upgrade for HUD also makes the game a lot less tedious.
Thanks for this tip, was much appreciated. I played a little earlier and found the cave entrance (popped a beacon there so I can find it again.). Found 9 Magnetite and now have the depth module fully upgraded for the Seamoth and can go to 900 meters depth. Will be going back in there again, might bring enough stuff with me to set up a scanner room in the cave and see if I can find more interesting stuff there. The fishes in the cave are a bit aggressive though.There's actually some very accessible Magnetite spawns near the starting area, but you've got to go through a cave system that goes straight down to find it. It's in the Jellyshroom Caves, and you can usually go as far down as your Seamoth allows before it starts to take damage, and then swim around and collect it, going back to the Seamoth to replenish your oxygen when needed.
There's a really easy entrance location, very close to where my lifepod spawned in my game, but I can't find any videos on that specific location. There are a load of other videos on YouTube showing several other entrances, but that's only if you want to spoil stuff
Was also able to get the Stasis rifle made, not sure how good it will be against some bigger sea monsters though ! Turns out my main base was right above the cave actually, I just hadn't spotted the entrance before. 
Thanks for this tip, was much appreciated. I played a little earlier and found the cave entrance (popped a beacon there so I can find it again.). Found 9 Magnetite and now have the depth module fully upgraded for the Seamoth and can go to 900 meters depth. Will be going back in there again, might bring enough stuff with me to set up a scanner room in the cave and see if I can find more interesting stuff there. The fishes in the cave are a bit aggressive though.
Nice, glad you managed to find some magnetite. Once you start going deeper you'll find even better stuff! It's amazing just how many wrecks there are, and they're also in some really odd places!
I've not played this for a very long time, so it may be due a revisit soon for sure!
Had an interesting challenge trying to recover my cyclops, as I had parked it in the Inactive Lava Zone, right by an entrance to the Lava Lakes and took my prawn suit down into the lakes. Finished my time down there, and returned to where my cyclops was, only to find the large local wildlife had nudged the cyclops teetering on the top of the lava lake entrance. It was at crush depth, damaged, on fire and drained of power!
Managed to swap a power cell and move the cyclops away from crush depth, and sort the fires out. Slowly managed to get the power cells charged by my prawn and swapped into the cyclops, and fix the hull. Wasn’t easy as all local wildlife was interested, and I hadn’t found a couple of useful mods for my cyclops, but cyclops did carry the prawn back to my 900m base
Really enjoying my first play through, and will definitely buy the upcoming game having got this via Epic last month
Managed to swap a power cell and move the cyclops away from crush depth, and sort the fires out. Slowly managed to get the power cells charged by my prawn and swapped into the cyclops, and fix the hull. Wasn’t easy as all local wildlife was interested, and I hadn’t found a couple of useful mods for my cyclops, but cyclops did carry the prawn back to my 900m base
Really enjoying my first play through, and will definitely buy the upcoming game having got this via Epic last month
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Thanks for this tip, was much appreciated. I played a little earlier and found the cave entrance (popped a beacon there so I can find it again.). Found 9 Magnetite and now have the depth module fully upgraded for the Seamoth and can go to 900 meters depth. Will be going back in there again, might bring enough stuff with me to set up a scanner room in the cave and see if I can find more interesting stuff there. The fishes in the cave are a bit aggressive though.
Yeah there is a little bit of Magnetite down there...
Don't need to build a scanner down there though - at a pinch it should be in range of a scanner room at the starting location (shove a camera drone down there) or upgrade the scanner room a little.
If you are playing the main game the entrance can be found via the first Degasi habitat waypoint - otherwise they are a little under 400m NE (slightly E of NE) and SE of the starting location.
Those little woodlouse things that stick to your hull are really annoying. I spent about 10 minutes finding one, killing it, getting back in the cyclops only for another to appear. Little buggers. In the end, I had to drive out with them all attached and deal with them where no more could stick on.
That reminds me that I was going to extend my sea base down into the Jellyshroom cave by use of the newly discovered vertical tubes. I’m not sure if it would be possible to build straight down with them but you can move up and down the inside of them very quickly with the ladder. Would be fun to try.
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I got gifted this for xmas. It's absolutely fantastic fun. Quite a challenge though for the beginner. I've put a good couple of days into it and have explored a chunk of the map, but keep running out of resources. Have just had to upgrade my main base to use nuclear energy as kept running low. Now I am thinking of building another base somewhere else, but don't know where to start. I have just found blueprints for the Cyclops.
How do you find the land biomes? I run into it by accident, and didnt have any beacons.
How do you find the land biomes? I run into it by accident, and didnt have any beacons.
In survival modes the story leads you to the first one, the second there are a couple of ways to get there (maybe more) - otherwise look for the clouds on the horizon that overlap the ocean as that is roughly where they are IIRC.
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Yeah I'm playing survival (nightmare mode lol) and did get there via the story but I tried it again later and ended up in deep water. I'll do as you say.
The one with the alien structures is ~1KM NNE of where you start the game - should see the big cloud standing on top of the life pod.
I'm doing it in Freedom mode hah - blow messing with food and drink in a game but I do find (for the most part) planning and juggling oxygen limits fun.
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As soon as you find marblemelons food and drink is a non issue.
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OOh Marblemelons lol.. I managed to cut a sample of something from a tree on that island which was great food and water, (Bengo tree or something) but even when you plant one for yourself it doesn't last very long.
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Are you farming them? You cut one grown marblemelons into 4 seeds and you then have a endless supply.
LOL, I didn't figure that out until I'd nearly finished. I was living on sea water filtration (which absolutely kills base power) and then salting little fishes. The grav trap is quite a fun little thing to see in action.
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I missed this since my pc was in bits during the epic giveaway. I'm a bit gutted, hopefully they'll give it away again at some point, if not I'm going to try and grab it in a steam sale at some point. It looks like a brilliant game.