You gotta build the station that goes inside the moonpool.

How the heck did you get the cyclops without ever modding your seamoth or prawn

Capable Papaya covered it! The parts for the Corvette are split between "basic" and "advanced". All of the basic ones can be bought, and if ya (for example) want 3 habs of a specific type you'll need to buy it 3 times (it doesn't become unlocked with a single purchase). But, you also don't need many pieces to have a flyable Corvette-- you need landing gear, cockpit, engines, a hab I think, a weapon (photon cannon is the "basic" one), reactor, and I'm forgetting 1 or 2 other things but it's all together not expensive, especially if you already got billions from back in the day.

The game tells you if it needs one of the core pieces to be flyable, but it's not many at all and you can get a little one room Corvette going in about 2 minutes literally. It's fun to take longer and play with it though, of course. I was also gone for years and came back for this update, and it's pretty awesome (plus I missed so many other updates over the years, the game looks much nicer now).

Most of the parts give ya performance bonuses up to 3 placements of the module (like you can place 3 shields and get buffs from each one, or 3 engines, 3 weapons, and then after that whatever you put on is just cosmetic and doesn't give you more buffs). The game will warn you when an additional piece won't give you any buffs and it's just a cosmetic change. You can totally just do 1 module of each if ya wanna though, but you can afford as many of the basic pieces that ya want easily.

The other Advanced pieces are found on "salvageable scrap" planets, but there are plenty of those. The scrap shows up with a yellow icon and it's buried in the ground (if you've been gone for a while, there's now several different types of things that are buried and ya normally use the terrain manipulator to dig it up). A nice quirk of the type of scrap at a yellow icon is that you can actually shoot at it from the air to collect it and not need to get out of your ship to pick it up, saving LOADS of time.

And a nice feature of the Corvettes is that you can set one on autopilot going slow over a planet, and then stand up and use your regular scanner to find more yellow icons to get more pieces (with a regular ship, you can't use your scanner unless you land and get out, so again this saves loads of time and is a great change to the game). When ya find a piece, ya hold the button to mark it and then fly over and pick it up by shooting at it.

Also when you dig up the salvageable scrap, you can get up to 4 pieces at once, plus old artifacts to sell for good money and other random goodies.

When you fill up your ship and inventory with pieces (it honestly won't take long), you'll have to go drop it off at the space station where there's a little box to store all of our Corvette pieces next to the spot where you land and can design your ships. It's just to the right of where you interact to edit the ships, ya can't miss it. Throw everything in there and then go off and farm some more pieces.

It'll go quicker than ya might expect, I have tons of pieces that I'll probably never use now. The storage box for Corvette pieces also has tons of room so ya won't be at risk of filling it up.

With any pieces ya don't want, you can trade it for pieces ya do want. The game will give you a percentage chance of the trade going through (it's not a guaranteed trade). I've not personally messed with trading cuz I got all the pieces I had my eye on via some quick farming, but you pick up to 3 pieces to trade for 1 piece and you can kinda brute force it from what I've seen (like if the game only gives you a 2% chance of a trade going through cuz you're trying to get a nice piece for 3 basic pieces, you can keep swapping out a basic piece one at a time and try after each change until ya get a lucky roll and it gets accepted).

WHEN PUTTING YOUR SHIP TOGETHER, I recommend really paying attention to the stats of each piece, cuz I don't know exactly how it works but the pieces can have substantially different stats, even if they're the same exact module. I was able to make a super OP Corvette very quickly.

Sorry to write so much, if ya hop back in the game and have questions just lemme know! You can also do the current expedition and get (for free) various ship pieces and a Sentinel multitool and storage augmentations to increase your Corvette's inventory, the expeditions don't take long and they guide you along the way for anything ya ain't sure how to do.

Salvage scrap isn't new, just the parts being salvaged is new. Any planet that shows salvageable scrap when scanned from orbit has ship parts now. Only the basic parts can be bought, all other parts need to be farmed through salvage and trade. Trade only allows using salvaged pieces as well so you can trade for more advanced parts with purchased parts.

You can build a full ship with the basic parts to get going real fast. Piece it out as you go.

Yep, mark the location and shoot the area with the corvette guns until the marked icon disappears. You can either keybind the "get out of seat" button to get out of the chair to scan without landing and wasting launch fuel, or have a co-op partner stand in the ship and mark locations while you pilot.

I am wondering this as well. Right now I am scanning for them, marking them, beaming down to the planet, digging them up and then mining them, then beam back to my ship to do it all over again. But if you can just blast them with your ship guns that would be dope. I know what I’m trying tomorrow.

There was a really good list someone made a month or two back of all the games that are like roving bases.

Edit: found the link

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamingsuggestions/comments/128tvww/extensive_list_of_mobile_base

I dont have my personal pc up at the moment, so i can't give specifics, but there are mods that include random encounters, npc factions, bases with shops, and all that kinda stuff. Admittedly, it is just a sandbox game, so even with mods, you do still need to do some self starting. I do have a save file somewhere where i built up a small base and a few ships and joined a pirate kinda faction, and i go hunting military and civilian targets for faction reputation and loot.

There are also servers and groups that have more events, and that kina living world structure built in and help give some direction, but again, the game is really a pure sandbox...sooo...yeah...

I prefer the thrusters just because they are silent, so it doesn't break the emersion (well, until it runs out of fuel anyway)

Just toggle them on/off every tick.

Best way is with a switch that takes an input from itself multiplied by -1

Beware tho cuz these seems to up fuel use like a billion times

Yeah that's what I mean - thrusters to adjust depth

True neutral buoyancy is difficult cuz idk the weight displacement density of floats

I mean I made a boat but how to make it go under

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Equip shlooter, go spawn a vehicle on sanctuary, destroy the vehicle (which 'activates' the shlooter), then go open your chests/diamond keys with much better luck now that the shlooter has been triggered for a little while.

XD The BoB jetbeast vehicle thing is extra terrible, I want to blast across the map, not blow up 2 feet from the Catch-A-Ride.

"No vehicles" in Subnautica doesn't mean you don't build a Cyclops, only that you don't use it except as a crafting station.

I think I found one in a time capsule once, so maybe that?

Sure, but it can be a pain in the ass to try to use the grapple all the time, it’s fun, but a little janky

> unless you go silent running

Forget silent running.

Just switch the engine off completely and the leviathan will immediately lose interest and wander off.

I've never even come close to losing a Cyclops and I use it a lot.

Turn off the engine and predators get bored almost immediately.

Also smart management of silent running and engine throttle makes it actually trivial to avoid catching aggro in the first place.

You can take multiple hits and the game gives you about eight thousand ways to deal with the few things that actually acknowledge the cyclops's existence, screwed is the last thing you are. Losing a cyclops is basically a textbook case of PEBCAK.

But yes, the lockers are still accessible.

I used Mk 2 aircraft parts, the aircraft tail surfaces on the tail as the rear dive planes and vertical rudder going up. Used canards on the front as forward dive planes. Had a eleron control surface at the back but mounted going down as a rudder in the water. Some fixed solar panels on the top and a payload by with batteries, science instruments and probe core. No kerbals on the Eve version. The propulsion was from electrical lift fans in NFA mod mounted to give forward propulsion. Some small gear on the bottom to let it roll of the launch pad ramp into the water, no on the Eve version. Diving was an interesting exercise in pitching down and gunning the engines but not too much so as to do a 360 and end up shooting out of the water.

I used Mk 2 aircraft parts, the aircraft tail surfaces on the tail as the rear dive planes and vertical rudder going up. Used canards on the front as forward dive planes. Had a eleron control surface at the back but mounted going down as a rudder in the water. Some fixed solar panels on the top and a payload by with batteries, science instruments and probe core. No kerbals on the Eve version. The propulsion was from electrical lift fans in NFA mod mounted to give forward propulsion. Some small gear on the bottom to let it roll of the launch pad ramp into the water, no on the Eve version. Diving was an interesting exercise in pitching down and gunning the engines but not too much so as to do a 360 and end up shooting out of the water.