Do not release crabsquids from your containment unit

[Saso ʕꖘﻌꖘʔ]

If anyone cares, I decided to try and see if a tamed crabsquid would respond to lights as well. I released a baby crabsquid directly above my base and it started pushing out non-stop EMP waves and terrifying screams. The waves do actually disable my flashlight but not the power supply of my base.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1323554487

[samb]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Originally posted by Wuff:

Hey how did you tame your crabsquid?

Step one, build an alien containment and put a hatch on it.
Step two, find a crapsquid egg.
Step three, put the thing from two in the thing from one.

For more info, wiki. Or trial and error.

"crapsquid" lmao

[Harry Willy]

The way raised creatures work is they're 100% passive in containment, and are small sized.

Once released into the wild they cannot be reclaimed however are passive towards you unless you get too close. They will still attack your vehicles though as well as prey fish and other aggressive creatures. Note: when you drop the creature, if it is large it will instantly attack you. When dropping crabsquids I always take 40 HP damage

You can use creatures to protect your base, just make sure you stay away from them, your vehicles are safely parked, and keep released passive creatures away from released aggressive creatures.

In my current game, I'm on a cliff next to the grand reef, sparse reef, grassy plateau and kelp forest. Right about the deep grand reef. I have stalkers that live under my base with some metal i left them as a tooth farm, Electric Eel things patrolling the area near the grand reef, to keep warpers away (plus they look cool and are all lit up) Crab squids patrolling the grassy plateaus, just for the lols, Crabsnakes patrolling the spare reef side (they often attack and kill small fish), Gastropods on all sides, to keep any creatures i release from getting TOO close, and crapton of small and passive fish as well as rays that live above my base. I'm eventually going to saturate the area enough that I can pleasantly observe all of the farmable creatures in one place.

TLDR: released creatures are aggressive to your vehicles, passive to you unless you get too close. Then they'll nip you

[Xilo The Odd]

best predator imo is the mesmer for something to release outside, they can lock on to other predators like bonesharks and bite them in the face making them flee.

there IS a downside to having something like 20 mesmer outside your base though...

[Technopathic759]

Originally posted by Frau Blücher:

Yep, any hostile creature you release from containment will turn on you once you release them.

Looks like you'll have to stasis rifle and knife him if you don't wish to use the console command above.

No dude, only the crab squid remain hostile

[dreamrider]

necro thread.

[Xautos]

if i saw this at the time i would of have been thinking, "why the bloody hell are you raising crabsquids for?"

[dreamrider]

Well, there is that...but I do have this friend who has played this game to finish at least 20 times, for the last 6 years...who likes to raise crabsquids...and calls them "cute".

[dragonbornzyra]

Crabsnakes will attack you because they don't have a Jelly Mushroom "home" to "return to" to begin their passive behavior. All other predators are passive to you once released, but may attack other fish, vehicles, ect.

Also, two different said that you cannot reclaim fish once released, I have videos demonstrating me releasing and picking back up raised in captivity fish. So, that's an incorrect myth debunked.

Also, why would you raise a crabsquid? Well, what self respecting Pokemon trainer wouldn't? I have lockers on my Cyclops stocked with various fauna and I have been using them as rapid deploy defense measures.

*edit ~ squid-snake

[dreamrider]

Crabsquids are not native to the Jellyshroom area. You are thinking of Crabsnakes.
Crabsquids are found in DEEP dark areas like trenches.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

Crabsquids are not native to the Jellyshroom area. You are thinking of Crabsnakes.
Crabsquids are found in DEEP dark areas like trenches.

They are found in the Blood Kelp zone and one area of Lost River, yeah, I miss typed.