Base beacon?

Michlo · September 2016

Greetings,

newcomer here. I'm 17 hours in and really enjoying this fantastic game. I actually waited for my new gaming rig (delivered Friday) before installing Nautica. I'm glad I did as I'm able to see everything at max settings (for the first time) and it is gorgeous.

I did a search and I only saw people speaking of subs, moonpools and the like. Since I'm trying to avoid spoilers I hope you don't mind that I ask it here.

My lifepod has drifted a lot since I started. Not a terrible inconvenience as it still stayed in the general vicinity. Now, however, it has drifted away so far I can't even see it. That's fine, my little base only needed the medical fabricator and transmission unit and now, it has both.

The question, of course, is are we unable to build something to mark our base? I still see the lifepod marker but since I can no longer navigate by it I've had to build a vertical tube reaching three sections out of the ocean to give me a landmark for finding my base.

Now, back to exploring for my Seamoth blueprints.

Cheers.

Screenshots so far: steamcommunity.com/id/Michlo/screenshots/

Edit: Oops, one more question. I have my base to 51% hull strength. Is there an actual need to take it to 100? Thank you.

DrownedOut · September 2016

One of the items you can make from the start is a beacon. It's one of the deployables. You can drop one wherever you please and name it whatever you like (find the panel after deploying it). And pick it back up if you want. It's a little crude for bases not to have a mounted signal device, but the beacon works fine.

Captagear · September 2016

@Michlo
Hey! Welcome to the forums

1. The life pod isn't currently meant to drift, although you're not the first to have noticed. Another user thought it was an intended feature but then said.

CheekySparrow wrote: »

However, the pod drifted back, and I had read since that it's considered a bug.

2. There is a beacon that does just that! It's built as a deployable via the fabricator

3. Ripped from the wiki "Hull Integrity is a feature that currently affects Seabases. When the player is building their seabase they should pay attention to the hull strength, as it drops each time the player adds a module to their seabase. Once the seabase's hull strength, or Hull Integrity reaches 0 the seabase will flood with water" It's not measured as a percent as far as I know, but rather an actual value. The wiki link is in the spoiler but it may be too much of a spoiler

http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Hull_Integrity

Lonnehart · September 2016

I love those beacons. I use them to mark my base AND the Mobile Vehicle Platform (I can't call it a bay because to me it's not some gigantic room where vehicles are made). When I build a seabase I place the bacon under the foundation (I always build one then the base on top of it). Placing bacons on the Mobile Vehicle Platform is a bit more tricky though as I somehow ram them with my Seamoth once in a while...