You got to cure yourself first

Could be a glitch, I’ve never heard of anything else causing radiation, but i’ll look it up

In the short term, put on all three pieces of the radiation suit and you'll be protected. In the long term, you need to cut off the radiation at the source- the Aurora and its blown-out drive core.

Friend to a friend, make sure you bring a laser cutter and repair tool to the wreck.

so it was the aurora. for some reason and somehow, the drive core is leaking radiation again. thank you all for your help and suggestions <3

Do you have spent fuel rods or did you dump them somewhere? There is a nuclear waste bin blueprint although I've personally never needed it.

Pro/repulsion isn’t necessary tbh. You can kinda just parkour your way over most obstacles or find another route

I don’t think radiation is implemented at all currently.

Radiation was a feature intended for the Wasteland (where all the ores are), in a future Wasteland update it can be expected that we will gain radiation sickness from going down there to mine.

I’m guessing you haven’t gotten her to open the portal for you. Spoilers ahead:

You need to go towards her eggs on the ground. Then she’ll land close to you and give you the quest, and then she’ll blow away the sand covering the portal there. You’ll get a blueprint for things you need to collect in order to formulate the thing she wants. Create that and then come back to her and use the device near the eggs. Her young will hatch and after you speak to her they’ll release these golden things in the water. Touch it and you’re cured. Then head to the facility on the mountain island and get that thing to jab you in the hand again and the defences will go down, allowing you to take off. Friendly tip, the portal the Emperor activates is right next to the underwater entrance of the facility, so you can easily return to her through that instead of having to go down through the Lost River and the Lava Zones and all of that.

Ok I tried to make a post but I don't have enough post karma (whatever TF that means) I'm at a point where my prawn suit is maxed, orange key is used, got jump scared to high hell by some fire breathing lava lizard, both islands explored as well as the 3 dagassi bases or whatever they're called and am having weird hallucinations of some talking fish as well as the disease spreading to my hands where they crack and have green blisters. Nothing new has popped up on my radio. Any ideaswhat I may be missing ?

Try exploring below the floating island wink wink

That’s the final area, you’ll get a pseudo quest and do what it/she wants

Detailed but spoiler filled explanation of what to do below:

>!Check your blueprint tab for something called the hatching enzyme, you NEED to make that. Each of the portals in the facility at 1700 m base lead to a biome that contains one of each resource besides one which you can get pretty much anywhere, but the easiest place would be with the friendly Leviathan!<

You probably missed the thermal plant where you find the blue tablet. It's one level up from the bottom.

If you found the friendly leviathan then did you find the little eggs in her area? Because you get a blueprint for something and your next step is to gather the ingredients for it

Go back there again. Look around. Explore that building especially near the friendly leviathan.

Dude I literally had the exact same problem before. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what to do anymore but went back and looked around the area better then found the spot where you insert the cube. Felt like such an idiot. 

There's great intelligence in knowing that you are stupid OP(lol). Keep on rocking OP, enjoy lift off. And congrats.

I was like, "How tf did you make the rocket and not get cured?" Lool

Nope. Not currently 

That's not accurate. Source: died on my bike from radiation. Then died three more times (twice after getting back on bike) from respawning on it, until my rad went down enough (which was weird since the last two times I died again, my radiation bar was actually showing zero.)

Also, I hit 150k and stayed there for like 30 seconds without dying before leaving the rad zone. I don’t think it’s an insta death.

Weird, I Respawn at my vehicle just yesterday and was able to retrieve my body and leave..

It was the first time I died to radiation though, so maybe it's like your first worm death where they are a bit more lenient?

Think of the rad metre as time to death. Not once it hits 100% it starts to hurt you.

Radiation generally isnt good lol

There's a striga wire recording of someone with substandard rad gear actively getting cooked while they record the message and they know they won't last much longer.

Seems to only work in a thopter. I've died inside a buggy.

Good catch. I didn't mention that I misclicked on the respawn screen and went back to my base in the rift.

This makes a lot of sense. I did my first jasmium mining run today, rad level all the suddenly was maxed but I wasn't dead so I figured my health would tick away or something. Hopped in my thopter and flew off only to die airborne 10sec later. Thank god I had a spare thopter in my base so I could fly back and get all my shit without losing a couple hours.

It tells you time of day, shows your equipment repair level, and actually tells you what those buff icons do. Its got some nice info. But I mostly use it to check rads. I didn't realize until a few days ago that there's a meter at the bottom.

Is the full meter indication a bug? I can't imagine they intended for the rad level above 75% to become a big mystery. Hopefully they can fix it at some point.

Yes, but you have to go to at least the power plant to get the blue tablet. You don't have to go to any Degasi bases, the QEP, or the Disease research base. You do have to go to the Aurora eventually to get the rocket plans, but you don't have to do that before you get cured.

How would you get the proper tablet tho? You only get the blueprints after finding it iirc, and for doing that you need to visit at least one other place (research if I'm not wrong)

Probably yeah, I’m not sure though. Creative mode should disable that though

Take a look at some YouTube videos for speed runs. I bet you can see where you can cut some time down.

You can use a console command to cure yourself.

Keep going. No spoilers, but the payoff is worth it. Finding the river is the right path, but not the end. Go deeper.

So in your PDA under "Codes and Clues", there'll be three places listed with depths. Go to those and have a look around. Seems like you're going in the right direction.

As long as you’re going deeper you’re on your way

You're on the right track, just keep on keepin' on.

Its the right direction tip: go deeper but the lost river is the entrance to the "thing"