Stalker Teeth falling through terrain?

[Hillbilly_Dave]

90% of the stalker teeth that the scanner room is pinging seem to be under the terrain somehow. Stalkers don't really hang out in caves but I still looked for a cave entrance but couldn't find any. It's like most of the teeth fell through the terrain but it's impossible to tell how far down they are since the scanner room HUD doesn't indicate the distance a ping is from you. They might be in a jellyshroom cave (entrance is really far from me) or they might just be floating in the abyss. Anyone else run into this problem?

[nemoJoe]

Not with the teeth specifically, but I've had my prawn vehicle sink through the sea floor and become unavailable. However, this was a week or two before release.

[droidling]

You can get an idea how far away a scanner contact is by how fast is moves in relation to the terrain when you move at an angle to it. If you swim over it and it moves with you it is deep. If it stays in the same spot on the bottom I'd try reaching out to pick it up.

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Originally posted by droidling:

You can get an idea how far away a scanner contact is by how fast is moves in relation to the terrain when you move at an angle to it. If you swim over it and it moves with you it is deep. If it stays in the same spot on the bottom I'd try reaching out to pick it up.

Yeah no they're deep enough that I can tell they aren't just sitting right below the surface but it's impossible to tell if they're a few meters down, maybe in some cave I didn't find, or 200 meters down in the abyss.

[droidling]

Is it possible that these are teeth that you have already picked up? I have had the Scanner room display the locations of things I picked up before I started scanning for them. I did a test and did see a tooth or 2 that I couldn't locate. I even made a pass through Jelly Shroom Cave. From there they were above me.

[Hillbilly_Dave]

Unless it's confused and detecting them deep inside the terrain, I don't think that's what's happening.

[Ketamonkey]

Yes. They definitely fall through terrain. If you enable the console (google if you can't figure it out), you can use 'freecam' to move beyond the sea floor. If you do that, you'll see a few stalker teeth falling in between the level geometry. I thought I missed a cave, but you can verify it for yourself, too.

[theazurekite1]

Similar things have happened to me with Becons, and maybe even a Gravity Trap

[admiral1018]

The game has a glitch where any objects that can fall on their own will sometimes fall through the terrain during a game load. This doesn't just happen with stalker teeth, it happens with the metal salvage they drop and most other objects you can move with the propulsion gun. It will also happen with resources you drop when you die.

I'm not sure exactly what causes this to happen, but it still isn't fixed in the latest experimental build.

[Dragonfang1971]

Originally posted by admiral1018:

The game has a glitch where any objects that can fall on their own will sometimes fall through the terrain during a game load. This doesn't just happen with stalker teeth, it happens with the metal salvage they drop and most other objects you can move with the propulsion gun. It will also happen with resources you drop when you die.

I'm not sure exactly what causes this to happen, but it still isn't fixed in the latest experimental build.

It still isnt fixed today

[dreamrider]

Well, it isn't like there is any shortage of stalker teeth, if you set up to collect them.

A couple of pieces of scrap dropped in one of the open-ish areas at the bottom of a Kelp Forest narrow canyon is a good scene. A grav trap in the vicinity would enhance things, capturing both the teeth and the scrap as it gets tossed up and down by the locals.


BTW, one of the funniest things I've ever seen in Subnautica was a Stalker, determined to run off with a camera, when there was a Grav Trap right under the Scanner Room.
Stalker grabbed the camera, Grav Trap grabbed the camera AND the Stalker, and about 6 other fish and bits and pieces.
I ran across the Stalker while returning to base in my SM. It was swimming for all it was worth in open water, holding the camera, dragging the Grav Trap and this string of fish, etc, and making forward progress of about 10cm for every 2 or 3 tail strokes. It was like the whole train of stuff was in slow motion.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

Well, it isn't like there is any shortage of stalker teeth, if you set up to collect them.

A couple of pieces of scrap dropped in one of the open-ish areas at the bottom of a Kelp Forest narrow canyon is a good scene. A grav trap in the vicinity would enhance things, capturing both the teeth and the scrap as it gets tossed up and down by the locals.


BTW, one of the funniest things I've ever seen in Subnautica was a Stalker, determined to run off with a camera, when there was a Grav Trap right under the Scanner Room.
Stalker grabbed the camera, Grav Trap grabbed the camera AND the Stalker, and about 6 other fish and bits and pieces.
I ran across the Stalker while returning to base in my SM. It was swimming for all it was worth in open water, holding the camera, dragging the Grav Trap and this string of fish, etc, and making forward progress of about 10cm for every 2 or 3 tail strokes. It was like the whole train of stuff was in slow motion.

Drop another Grav trap on it haha.

[dreamrider]

Thought of it. Didn't have one. I didn't want him to take the camera to hell'n'gone, even slowly, so I bumped it. It got hurt, dropped camera, swam off, I retrieved camera and Grav Trap.

[fred_gal]

and to this day they still have not fixed this bug, the teeth continue to fall below the ground

[admiral1018]

Originally posted by fred_gal:

and to this day they still have not fixed this bug, the teeth continue to fall below the ground

Give this fix a try:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/264710/discussions/0/3827550902572144182/#c3827550902573527618

[Ignis]

I'm marking admiral1018's answer for the workaround and I'm closing this thread as there are more recent ones about the issue.