Fun things to do with an Alien Containment?

[aaronitco]

I have a lot of Alien Containments and I use them for several things. Principally to tame Stalkers. I raise them in the Aquarium and then, I free them and I give them Peepers often, but... I already have two Stalker Farms (that's how I call them lol), and believe me, if you want to have tons of titanium but you're lazy to go exploring, tame Stalkers so they give you Metal salvage. But, apart from creating Stalker Farms and having animals to use them for Bioreactor fuel... What other fun things can I do with an Alien Containment?? Do someone have an idea?? (btw sorry for my poor english, I'm still learning hehe)

[TheAlphaPigeon]

Well placing two of the same prey fish species (reginald and peeper are the most filling) in a containment unit gets them to breed, which means forever food!

[Cougarific]

I like to put a Purple Brain Coral in the planter section (along with other plants) to give it that true aquarium feel (like how aquariums have bubblers to keep the water oxygenated).

[slxpress]

That's a really good idea, Cougarific.


I have an outdoor grower bed full of the coral because I like to plant them in remote places I might return to for instant oxygen. That was actually Zemecton's idea that I stole.

The bigger reason to have stalkers more than the titanium they fetch is the stalker teeth for enameled glass.

[Blackout]

Bloodvine are also good.
http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Bloodvine

[Bullwinkle]

I have one for kelp, one for bloodkelp. One for peepers(food). Deep shrooms another for the black spore things, and one for stalkers. I got a pretty big base.

[Cougarific]

I tried planting a Creepvine in there but it gets too big and you can't see all the fish, plus once the Seed Clusters sprout the yellow light is kinda blinding and gives the fish weird coloring. Same with Glowing Mushrooms.

You also do not want to plant Acid Mushrooms as an errant knife-swing could blow up the whole tank.

Stick with the pretty coral fans and smaller (harmless) plants. I put my Creepvines and Blood Kelp in exterior grow beds.

[slxpress]

Why peepers instead of reginalds? I guess it doesn't really matter. The main reason I have them is for long journeys in the seamoth or PRAWN suit where I have them cured. Otherwise I'm mostly using marble melons.

Cougarific, I find the eyestalks give off the best light of all the plants. It's more "white" than the other ones. I hope we can eventually turn the lights on and off the base like we can in the cyclops.

[aaronitco]

Okk, thanks to all the comments!! They were really helpfull!

[czartraktheprotogen]

Well the reefback eggs spawn very cute, tiny reefbacks. so do gasopod eggs. you can even pick them up! (they are so cute) Thats really all i do with alien containment. I never thought of some of this above stuff (i did not even know you could harvest brain coral)

[4and4squared]

Grabbing crash eggs and manufacturing IEFDs. So far I've struggled to aim the little buggers and found out Crash come in 2 different sizes.

[Zombie Hunnter]

Spawn stuff.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=821984884

[slxpress]

Yeah, I"ve heard aiming is pretty rough, 4and4squared.

[Team Vladof]

I was hoping that the crash and crabsnake would end up "planting" their respective homes in the aquarium, but haven't seen that.

I can't harvest pieces of either the crash plant or the pink mushroom to plant in the aquarium. So, I just have a crash and crabsnake swimming around aimlessly.

The tank comes with a warning saying that it's good for observing species, but be careful b/c something may be observing you back. I thought perhaps one of the specimens you can grow in it may act as a spy, but that may be in a later update.

The wiki says if you put an infected creature in the tank then it ends up infecting the rest of your creatures over time.

Overall, I just use the tank to breed fish and fuel for bioreactor, and use outside grow beds to grow creepvine (for seed pods) and blood kelp (for blood oil).

One one map I had (older game), I created a base with 3 "silos".... and I made the center silo a massive 6 story aquatic park for creatures. I put an entrance on the bottom and an entrance on the top, so instead of going up/down ladders to go up down the 6 stories, I'd just jump into the tank and swim up down to where I needed to go. That's probably an over-elaborate way of getting around, but it was interesting.

[slxpress]

That sounds like a blast, Team Vladof! What a great idea!

I was able to grab a sample of a jelly mushroom and grow it in the tank, but it doesn't get big enough for the crab snake to do anything with it. like you, I haven't been able to get the crashfish nest.

[Reya]

You don't get Nest I think you just need to get live Crashfish in the tank but I have not tried.