Guide: How to enter lost river and inactive lava zone step by step

Maestro5563

Hey guys.

Many mid-game players wish to explore the famous lost river and inactive lava zone because they want to see something like:




They tried many guides on internet, but they are not quite easily to follow. I, myself, tried many ways to enter LR and ILZ but failed and end up lost and stuck in some unknown abyss.

Now, I've decided to break down the entering process step by step so that you can follow easier.

Before I start, you should know that LR and ILZ have multiple entrances. What I'm going to use is bloodkelp entrance.
Okay, now, get your equipment ready, let's explore!

Step 1: Goto bloodkelp zone. It's between dune, and sea treader's path. the easiest way to find it, is go straight from pod 5, passing pod 17, and keep going. When you see a wreck and many bloodkelp 350m something deep, dive.

Step 2: Dive to the bottom, you should be in a place around 610m deep. It's a deep trench in bloodkep zone.

Step 3: Navigate in the trench until you reach (-1297, -621, -271). You can check your position by pressing F1. Here, when you are looking backward, you see bloodkelp:


Step 4: Go to the cave in front of you, you will notice the temperature dropped drastically, to around 4 degrees Celcius. (This is LR's property, frigid.)

Step 5: Keep going into the cave, if see this that means you are right:


Step 6: Keep going, until you reach the giant fossil:


You can see the coordinate in this picture. Also, if you want to visit the skull, it's coordinate is (-758, -708, -277).

Step 7: Navigate yourself to this place, coordinate in screenshot.


Step 8: Now we head to a tree cove area in LR:


Step 9: Keep going, see a lovely tree in the previous step? Go for it! You will find tons of ghost ray here.


Step 10: And going, be aware of the hot vent here:


Step 11: Turn left after passing thru the hot vent.


Step 12: Go straight, until you see a place heading to deeper place:


Step 13: Dive:



Keep going, and voila!



Welcome to ILZ!

Maestro5563

There is a faster way to ILZ thru crashing zone. I followed that path before, and struggled a lot...
This way is simpler although it requires some navigation.

I'm planning to build a huge seabase in LR once this biome is completed.

Maestro5563

The problem is, the bloodkelp deep trench is too narrow so that Cyclops can't enter this place.

I built a seabase at the entrance of LR, which eases my exploration, and further seabase constructions in LR and even in ILZ.

Sidchicken

Bloodkelp 2 entrance is probably easier to find (just go to west end of underwater islands) and easier to cyclops navigate. If you're feeling adventurous you can get in through the deep grand reef, but getting the clops through there is a freaking chore with all those blue ball things.

Maestro5563

Sidchicken wrote: »

Bloodkelp 2 entrance is probably easier to find (just go to west end of underwater islands) and easier to cyclops navigate. If you're feeling adventurous you can get in through the deep grand reef, but getting the clops through there is a freaking chore with all those blue ball things.

Well I choose bloodkelp simply because I happened to build my main seabase there before even realized that there is LR or ILZ... lol

Mirality

The Deep Grand Reef entrance to the ILZ is pretty easy to find too, and it's nice and wide, at least once you're inside. Might be a little tight for a Cyclops in some places though.

jpinard

THanks!

Silveressa

It's also worth it to bring along a dive reel, or multiple beacons to trace your route down there, since finding your way back out can prove somewhat problematic the first couple trips. (It's easy to get turned around on your trip out and wind back up in the center.

Also, the rebreather + reinforced diving suit is a must for this biome. The ambient temp the lava zone is pretty much universally 50-65C+, and the reinforced suit lets you endure temps up to 70C before taking heat damage, (Compared to 50C in the basic or still suits) and trying to clear energy leeches from the outside of your Cyclops with the Prawn is way more of a pain than just using a hardened diving knife.

Another note, check your Prawn after redocking with the Cyclops for leeches, as they will still drain your Cyclops batteries if they are attached to the Prawn after it's docked.