New P.R.A.W.N. arm
Amtheminer
Join Date: 2020-02-14 Member: 257893Members
Join Date: 2020-02-14 Member: 257893Members
The Vacc arm, compatable with itteration 3 and higher prawn suit versions that when used can suck up small fauna and loose flora including acid mushrooms, creepvine seed clusters, loose metals, vehicle upgrades, creature eggs, and many more except for rooted or sturdy flora including table coral, bloodoil, limestone; sandstone and shale outcrops, creepvine, cave sulfur, and any metals not contained in outcrops like nickel and kyrite. This new tool is in its early proto type stages, meaning it may suffer from overheating, excessive power consumption, and very expensive to craft requiring an advanced wiring kit, 5 nickel, a normal wiring kit and microchip, 2 plasteel ingots, benzine and polyethylene. It makes up for this by being auto matically added to your pda upon building a prawn suit for testing purposes as mentioned before is in its early proto type stages. Its 5 meter Vacc range makes it superior to collecting and clearing large areas of flora to SUIT your needs. Notes: it can suck up rocks and other large objects but will heat up faster and will be disabled to cool down to prevent fire or a possible underwater implosion. Never attempt to suck up gas sacks as the pressure from the Vacc arm will cause it to burst and damage your prawn and anything around it. Its also not reconmened to use it for more than ten seconds or else it will overheat and will take a very short while to cool down as a saftey measure. Kynite makes it worse since it can withstand heat as well as contain it. Later prototypes will have some sort of kynite subsitute. In the meantime, were stuck on testing the latest itteration of the Vacc arm.
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In regard of a propulsion arm: I actually never understood why it's not possible to pick items up (just like a normal PRAWN arm does). I guess the devs thought it would be more important to choose items from your storage to shoot around.
And just to note a few things here. Currently, neither the propulsion arm nor the grav trap is t able to pick up ribbon plants (battery acid) or creep vine clusters. Other plants can be pulled in but can't be stored (like the Mohawk plant). That's probably a bug but it means a 'real' vacc arm would need an option to destroy 'unwanted' items.