Angry reefback

GenghisConnor · August 2016

So This is happening

This reefback seems intent on headbutting my base, cyclops, and seamoth

Not sure what I did to deserve his ire. anyone else have this happening to them?

NamelessChaos · August 2016

Maybe you build on his favourite resting-spot? :>

Darwin-Evolution · August 2016

How would you feel if somebody wanted to demolish your house early in the morning to build a bypass?

Rainstorm · August 2016

I believe theres no real explanation to this other than the fact that your base happen to be on his normal pathing routes. If you look at one closely for a few minutes you'll see that they often tend to deviate from where they usually hang out randomly. I've had that happen to me as well once .... I made this outpost on a rock pillar in the red grass area

Out of the blue one Reefback suddenly started to hang near it and even collide with it from time to time. Had to relocate the outpost somewhere else, not too far but a bit deeper. The Reefback didnt follow, it simply hang'ed where my base used to be for awhile then went back to it ''pack'' after awhile.

GenghisConnor · August 2016

He pushed my cyclops a certain distance away, started pushing my seamoth around till I docked it, then started on the base. Super coincidental if it is just trying to swim around

NamelessChaos · August 2016

Well, then don`t leave your garbage out in the open near him. xD For him it`s just strange stuff at his home(zone)

Kouji_San · August 2016

Pfft, isn't it obvious... Angry reefback just wants to play angry birds, stop hogging your smart device in your base you meany!

Dactylos · August 2016

Put a few floaters on it. Hilarity ensues.

Mr357 · August 2016

I built my base on the same kind of structure (maybe the exact same one), and there's a Reefback that comes over to visit me every so often. He doesn't actually touch my base though.

DagothUr · August 2016

I've had that happen, too. The problem is that Reefbacks apparently have absolutely no pathfinding coded into their behavior. Guess the devs just assumed they would never need it. So when they bump into something, well, you see what happens.

Mirality · August 2016

I've had one headbutting my Cyclops a few times. There's a screenshot in one of the threads here. They're pretty dumb beasts.

Sidchicken · August 2016

Darwin-Evolution wrote: »

How would you feel if somebody wanted to demolish your house early in the morning to build a bypass?

He just wishes you people would once and for all work out where the hell you want to be.

zetachron · August 2016

In their earlier lifes (other builds or savegames or from other players) the Reefbacks remember being mistreated by Prawnauticans (bad dwarves in the eyes of Reefbacks) riding on their back and drilling them "too deep". Now their shared conscience strikes back, taking revenge by pushing around their Cyclops and punching some breaches into the base hulls.

NamelessChaos · August 2016

Sadly you can`t ride em, tried with the prawn, but the physics suck. Defines prawn and the Reefback in a way that they are still seperated when being on top of him, so you "glide" of it without moving on top of the Reefback.

FryerDevil · August 2016

If its following you I had a similar problem with a peeper, it kept running into me (if I moved away it would just follow me) and it had bugged animations. All it did was follow me until it just vanished :C

orobouros · August 2016

BTW, OP, I love what you did with the glass elbow corridors on your Moonpool there. I'm definitely gonna try that instead of ordinary windows on mine.

GenghisConnor · August 2016

orobouros wrote: »

BTW, OP, I love what you did with the glass elbow corridors on your Moonpool there. I'm definitely gonna try that instead of ordinary windows on mine.

Thanks! Bases can look super samey if you don't make an effort to use unique structures, and I kind of like glass corridors better than observatories.

Duma · August 2016

I built on that very spot in my first save game. It was a single room on a foundation. I called it a repo point. Used it to explore the immediate area. Came back from a swim one day, and it was totaled. I wondered back then if it was a reefback.

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