Stuck in tunnels!

[Chibi-kitten]

Due to rl I had to run away as the big bugs came which. .apparently I Shouldn't have and now every single big base I visit the tunnel is caved in and I can't get the virus carrier quest to finish. What should I do?

[Shintai]

Start over?

[Tom21]

Just hit the UnStuck Key!

[Sairi (Jen)]

Look for a mantis in the tunnels. There's usually one lying around either there or at it's entrances. They do blend in with the environment though, so sometimes it's hard to spot

[Chibi-kitten]

Shintai.. no thank you? LOL . I gotten rather far. And Tom? I am not that kind of stuck.

[Chibi-kitten]

Originally posted by Sairi (Jen):

Look for a mantis in the tunnels. There's usually one lying around either there or at it's entrances. They do blend in with the environment though, so sometimes it's hard to spot

So far nothing, I have been crawling around the tunnels almost on my bare belly with the scanner but nothing.

[starrborrn]

i sort of made the same mistake . and once yu leave the first tunnels after being "attacked" by the bugs,i found all the tunnels blocked and unable to get back down there unless i was still at the first tunnel entrance (there are several all over the map, and only the first one you go to leads you to the big bug for samples) i flew all over tryng to find my original tunnel building entrance and ended up restarting . it was for the best as i got to do thinga in a little better order and was prepared for things it surprises yu with .

[Sairi (Jen)]

I found one inside a tunnel, lying against the wall
Another one on top of an entrance

Not sure of there are more locations then these 2, probably... like I said though, they blend in pretty well with the environment

[Kkat]

I've hit at least a dozen underdust stations. As Sairi pointed out above, one of the giant mantis creatures you need to harvest from can often be found dead in one of two locations: the junction in the tunnel where there is an oxygen replenisher and crystal batters, or just above one of the entrances into the tunnels.

There is also a chance that there will not be a dead mantis in either location. If you run into this, instead of traveling to another underdust tower, you can simply re-roll the one you are in. Go back to your ship. Save and quit. Then re-enter the game. Reloading into a zone will generally reset random features that you have not interacted with. (So you can use this to try to spawn in the mantis, or re-roll all the plant resin nodes you haven't harvested from.)

[Chibi-kitten]

Originally posted by Kkat:

I've hit at least a dozen underdust stations. As Sairi pointed out above, one of the giant mantis creatures you need to harvest from can often be found dead in one of two locations: the junction in the tunnel where there is an oxygen replenisher and crystal batters, or just above one of the entrances into the tunnels.

There is also a chance that there will not be a dead mantis in either location. If you run into this, instead of traveling to another underdust tower, you can simply re-roll the one you are in. Go back to your ship. Save and quit. Then re-enter the game. Reloading into a zone will generally reset random features that you have not interacted with. (So you can use this to try to spawn in the mantis, or re-roll all the plant resin nodes you haven't harvested from.)

Great idea! I will do that

[Asmosis]

That would explain the tablets reappearing in letterboxes and other locations.

[Asmosis]

Originally posted by Kkat:

I've hit at least a dozen underdust stations. As Sairi pointed out above, one of the giant mantis creatures you need to harvest from can often be found dead in one of two locations: the junction in the tunnel where there is an oxygen replenisher and crystal batters, or just above one of the entrances into the tunnels.

There is also a chance that there will not be a dead mantis in either location. If you run into this, instead of traveling to another underdust tower, you can simply re-roll the one you are in. Go back to your ship. Save and quit. Then re-enter the game. Reloading into a zone will generally reset random features that you have not interacted with. (So you can use this to try to spawn in the mantis, or re-roll all the plant resin nodes you haven't harvested from.)

I've run into this as well, does that allow you to get the Pet? I got the jumpscare and i've visited 5 dust towers now including the original (with slightly different layout) and have not seen a green or purple bug.

Is it just a case of keeping on and i can synthesise the pet?

I'm pretty sure i did scan the dead green one after the jumpscare but didnt get anything from it.

[Sylxeria]

Running around in circles for hours and hours I finally go searching in the forums and find this thread. I didn't know that upon leaving the area it was going to seal stuff off from me.

I found the dead bug outside so 'quest done', but I wanted to go back into the base itself to finish exploring (Also the "Pet Bug")


Maybe that'll change in the next update?

[Asmosis]

They will probably move the quest flags around that trigger the "collapse" to happen after collecting the pet rather than after the jumpscare in the future, so i wouldnt worry about it too much. They just have it set a bit too early at the moment.

I was also able to get the sample from a dead green mantis above one of the tunnel entrances after reloading a couple times.

Now that i know what I'm doing in the game, it'd probably only take a couple hours on a new save to get the pet.

*edit*

Took just under an hour to get the pet on a new save, skipping pretty much everything except for engines and turbines. You can leap over the fence from the platform above skipping the need for hypothermia/virus station if you just want the pet and getting back to exploring.

[Kkat]

Originally posted by Asmosis:

I've run into this as well, does that allow you to get the Pet?

I don't know if it will allow you to get the Friendly Insect. I acquired the Pet from my first Underdust tower, so I can not experience any other method to get it. (I do know that there is at least one item in the game that you only have one chance to get -- a poster in the starting area -- so it is possible there might be more and the Pet might be one of them.)

[Asmosis]

I think its not currently possible to get the Pet if you dont get it initially. It's not an issue though, they just need to move the trigger conditions around a bit to fix that and I'm sure there will be many future opportunities to get the Pet (and the poster) as they expand and flesh out the world.

I would like to see them reuse the "unique" towers of each type though, it would add more variety into the world when you've already found most of the things.