Hatch on bottom of Aquarium Room?

etherealyandere

Right now, the only way to get into the large aquarium is by building a hatch on the side of it. This means you have to go inside your base then inside the tank then out again and out the base. What if instead, a hatch could be built on the bottom of the multipurpose room where the aquarium is contained that allows direct access to it? The plant-life would need to be altered if the hatch was in the middle but maybe it could be placed on the out edge?

Not only would this allow the player easy access, but it could allow for tamed animals to leave and enter the base. I'm not sure if taming animals is going to be implemented or not, but this could allow a realistic movement method for them. Player swims into the aquarium, chooses the creature to join them, swims out and the creature follows them. If the player re-enters the base through another hatch, the creature could wait or return to the aquarium.

GlyphGryph

Why not on top instead.

etherealyandere

GlyphGryph wrote: »

Why not on top instead.

EDIT: Also, what if a player has a room on top of their aquarium for the view? A ceiling hatch wouldn't work in those circumstances

Dagon

etherealyandere wrote: »

GlyphGryph wrote: »

Why not on top instead.

EDIT: Also, what if a player has a room on top of their aquarium for the view? A ceiling hatch wouldn't work in those circumstances

Maybe alter the hatch shape so it doesn't get into the way as much?

zetachron

I wonder how the devs will animate an unrealistic side hatch entry (for the aquarium as well as the base hatches), as they wish to get those animations for entering and exiting.

You soon get problems if you want to visualize unreal actions. Maybe that's how comics got into our society.

Now getting to the unreal stuff:

• side hatches
• hatches where the water is at the top and air is below

Real stuff:

• entering an aquarium through a hatch from below if water is below
• entering air from water below through a moonpool or hatch at the bottom
• entering an aquarium from top or have an open aquarium in an O2 environment

But @etherealyandere :
You're probably stuck. The devs never made hatches for MP rooms and never allowed MP rooms to connect to anything but themselves. It's a miracle they allowed ladders in MP room centers. And even more strangely they didn't create open aquaria or top hatches for them. Not to forget they'd had to get the aquarium center heap out of the way being fixed to the MP center as alignment.

So I fear unless we won't see a top hatch for aquaria, we won't see a bottom hatch either.