Alien Arch

[ParaScuba]

I has seen many picture and youtube about those floor pop up for ion cube put in. I found one here. but it wont come up. What did I do wrong?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1142372185

[ImHelping]

Where are you specifically?

Portal activations are one way. While you can travel both ways once they are turned on, only one side has the on switch, basically.

The game does have it's share of bugs though, which is why it's important to mention WHERE you are. To tell if it's not working right or not.

Though the vast majority of "Master" portals are at major plot locations. For example, there is a portal link between Mountain Island (the one on land), and Floater Island. But you can only put an Ion cube into the Mountain Island side.

[Phaota]

Looks like you are in the western mushroom forest teleporter. That is a slaved gate to the lava zone's Primary Containment Facility. Once you activate that gate down there, then this one will open and allow you to go back and forth. There are four slaved gates in the world - Cragfield, Western Mushroom Forest, Bulb Bush and Lost Rive Ghost Tree Forest.

[ParaScuba]

This is location at island full with life plants

[kwong20287]

Originally posted by Deaf3279:

This is location at island full with life plants

That one looks like it connects to the mountain island, where the master control is. Floating island, right?

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by kwong20287:

Originally posted by Deaf3279:

This is location at island full with life plants

That one looks like it connects to the mountain island, where the master control is. Floating island, right?

If it's the one with the old human bases instead of the ailen base, then yeah that's Floater island.

[Phaota]

I see. Kind of looked like the one in the mushroom tree forest cavern. Similiar background. Anyway, it's still a slave gate, just in this case to the northern mountain island one. Once you activate that gate, you'll be able to jump back and forth between the islands.

[ParaScuba]

it's float island. full with foods there.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Deaf3279:

it's float island. full with foods there.

Okay, then yeah you can't turn it on from that side. You gotta find the one on Mountain island. (Not the one in the water near Mountain island, the one on land).

[kwong20287]

Inside the mountain itself.

[ImHelping]

At least the mountain island one is easier to find than the floater island one. Obvious ramps everywhere by the alien base vs "Oh there is this mostly obscured cave on a random hillside"

[ParaScuba]

mountain from underwater access? one with structure gunned ship down?

[Phaota]

Yes, the northern mountain island is the one with the cannon. To enter the cave system, go up the trail to the right of the beach doorway and follow it to the rear side of the mountain.

[ParaScuba]

I guess I'll use sub to dock in that structure underwater. I has been there earlier

[ParaScuba]

I got one of them on YAY... but what point of it? mmm I don't know what at this point what I'm suposed to do? mmm I was assure turn alien arch will move into storyline i guess not

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Deaf3279:

I got one of them on YAY... but what point of it? mmm I don't know what at this point what I'm suposed to do? mmm I was assure turn alien arch will move into storyline i guess not

Unfortunatly, every single portal is essentially "Backtrack somewhere on foot/in the prawn suit".

It's not for progress. Most of them are there so you can leave a plot point faster then come back (though... when you leave your cyclops over a thousand meters under the ocean when you do that, yeah...).

Mountain island has three portals in it's vicinity though. So it's worth building at least a small outpost with a fabricator on or near Mountain island, which helps smooth along a "I'm going to walk my Prawn the whole way through the plot" attempt.