Is there any table coral in the red grass zone?

[Tamren]

The wiki claims that you can find table coral in the grass fields. (the kind for making electronics) But I've been looking around and I can't seem to find any, there are some coloured blotches around the terrain that look like coral are supposed to spawn there. But the only kind I can locate is the vertical plate kind that doesn't have any crafting uses.

[Amanoob105]

http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Table_Coral

[MadHighlander]

I've never seen any.

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

http://subnautica.wikia.com/wiki/Table_Coral

They already checked the wiki.

[Tamren]

I think the wiki is wrong because the only harvestable coral I can find is on the leviathans. I looked around and I couldn't find photo evidence for this biome.

[GeminiEclipse]

Some things have moved around as the game has developed. The wiki isn't 100% up to date.

[Thycket]

I don't see any harm in taking a trip to the safe shallows. If you're in the grassy plateau then it shouldn't be a long swim.

[SternLX]

It used to grow on the pillars in the Grassy Platues(red grass). I just farm all mine out of the Safe Shallows or off a Reef Back if I happen to be passing by one.

[Mortemas]

As an fyi, there is also some table coral in the Lost River.

[Tamren]

It's not a huge issue since I discovered that leviathans can grow them on their backs. You only need one or two at a time to craft assemblers and scanners and backtracking to the red grass is way better than making a 3km round trip if you're way out in the sticks.

[DeFragged]

You can find table coral growing on:
1) Mushroom forest trees, specifically the roots of the largest trees in each of the biomes
2) Reefbacks (as the OP has noted)
3) The ground and certain rocks in the Sparse Reef. Table coral growing on the ground sticks up like a mohawk.
4) On and around most volcanic smokers, both on the walls and on the ground

I haven't looked for it in the Bulb Zone, I've seen it in the Crash zone mesas but why would you, and of course the Lost River.

Would be nice if you could scan for it too.

[Tamren]

Now that you mention it, it's strange that plants aren't on the scan list. Sulfur flowers are, sort of, but the scanner is detecting the sulphur and not the plant.

[DeFragged]

Originally posted by GWJ Tamren:

Now that you mention it, it's strange that plants aren't on the scan list. Sulfur flowers are, sort of, but the scanner is detecting the sulphur and not the plant.

I think it's because of the way resources are handled (in code). The scanner room looks for resources you can harvest and use almost immediately.

Table Corals don't actually become 'usable' until you strike them with the knife, at which point they become table coral SAMPLES (different item entry) that you CAN use, but is kind of pointless because the scanner room would register it as a different entity (and thus wouldn't show up as a scan result).

I found this out by accident because I grabbed a table coral with a propulsion cannon. You can drop it but it won't do anything until you cut it.

My theory on why the reason large resource nodes DO show up when they behave similarly to table corals is
1) They were likely implemented just after the corals and used a more optimized form of entity management
2) It would be damningly obvious if you scanned for copper and the large nodes didn't show up at all.

Kelp is coded the same way which is why you can't find them on the scanners too, I suppose. I can handwave leviathans away as 'having enough mass to count as something despite not being made of minerals'.

[static]

Tons of table coral in the safe shallows. Super easy to find there on the sides of rock formations.

[TheHuskyGT]

I'm pretty sure there is table coral all around your life pod... It kind of happened to me too. I didn't know where to find it, and it ended up being right there from start.

Just note that there are two types of coral next to your life pod: Table Coral (on the walls and next to the acid shrooms) and Coral Tube (the huge tube-like coral formations that you can smack for samples).