Sea People Bracelet does not work on damage

[Sir PotsNPans]

I don't know if this is intended or not, but the Sea People Bracelet says "Survive for a certain period after running out of oxygen".

I was just exploring as normal, and got down to 33 oxygen. There was a shark chasing me, but I had the bracelet and a portable oxygen tank. I was planning to get hit, and use the oxygen tank to refill to get max value.

Except when I got hit again, I just died right away, and didn't get the grace period to pop my oxygen tank.

Is this intended, or is this a bug where damage bypasses the effect of the bracelet?

[♡Bastard™]

I'm not the devs so I can't 100% confirm this but I am 99% sure this is intentional. I've always interpreted the description of "running out" of oxygen to be anything outside of damage / combat - as in your oxygen counter naturally ticks down to 0 just by exploring and gives you a window to find oxygen or return to the surface (don't know how long, never wore the bracelet and died).

Originally posted by Sir PotsNPans:

IThere was a shark chasing me, but I had the bracelet and a portable oxygen tank. I was planning to get hit, and use the oxygen tank to refill to get max value.

Also unrelated to your question, but I wanted to clarify that a portable O2 tank will not refill you to full, only half of your total capacity. If your O2 capacity is 220, it will refill 110. If your current O2 level is at or above 110 in this scenario, you would be back to full O2, but if you were not, you would have 110 O2 added to whatever your remainder was. Just wanted to point that out.

Edit: re-reading your post, I realize that by 'max value' you probably meant getting the most bang for your buck out of the O2 tank. I'll leave this clarification in just in case though.

[Sir PotsNPans]

Yeah, it was mostly me going "well, if I can survive a little bit after hitting 0 oxygen, then getting hit for 100 when I'm on 33 will be big value!"

Turns out, not true unfortunately. I just took the bracelet off after discovering that. Thanks! :)

[justin_84]

I think it works as having a few extra oxygen that you can't see. I've taken damage at low oxygen and still been able to pop an aux tank. However it was smaller values, like having 18 oxygen and getting hit for like 20. I don't think it would add more than about 10 oxygen for you(based on earlier testing I did just running myself out of oxygen with no enemies in early access).

It's actually nicely balanced for the time in the game you get it, but I found the ecowatcher bracelet that reduces damage 10% to be better for me. If I have 100 oxygen and get hit for 100, I'd rather have the 10 I could see rather than the 10 I can't see.