How deep can you dive?

[Helis]

I mean on your own, without a machine. I've only reached 350-ish depth so far and everything's okay. I don't quite understand why Seamoth can't go beneath 200 but without Seamoth you can go much deeper, but that's not the question.
There has to be an actual depth limit to which you can dive and stay alive, right?

[KingCobra1895]

I was diving in the lost river biome past 700m. When I get out to do some repairs I die. i was near no heat vents or any dangerous creatures. I want to know at what depth you start to take pressure damage

[GD]

It's a blessing the game did not implemented tidal movement by this extremly large moon or planet or what it is or we would be flushed out of the Lost River canels every 10 minutes.

EDIT: Would BTW may be an intresting feature maybe for "Below Zero". Moving water/streams.

[GD]

Originally posted by Cobra1895:

I was divin in the lost river biome last 700m. I get out to do relates near no heat vents and I died. I want to know at what depth you start to take pressure damage

As a person there is no pressure damage / max depth [in this game] only vehicles have max pressure. I guess you touched the green fluid, which is bio-acid and dissolves you I think you cannot swim in there (for long). The normal water is okay, the blue water as well, but not the green.

EDIT: You can sometimes grab after ressources if it's not too deep otherwise you need the Prawn Suit to get in there and mine and pick up stuff. Or use the Cannons for small resource nodes.

[Axiolot]

Originally posted by 3qz0:

main character is immune to underwater pressure which has 0 explanation why ingame. i remember some dev stating that they made it so because it isn't fun.

Theres a a command wich might help i forgot what it is but if you go up/down too fast you get hurt because of pressure something something

[Siggy-]

By carrying an appropriate amount of extra airtanks in your inventory, if I remember correctly you can get as far down as you want. You just need batteries for your seaglide and extra tanks. I think the furthermost I ever want was from the surface to my base at the glowing tree near the lava zone, I had enough air left to go much further. I think I had 3 or 4 of the best airtanks

[Coops]

No. There is no crush depth for a free swimmer. You can comfortably swim at 1700 meters where a seamoth would be crushed.

[Axiolot]

Originally posted by Helis:

I mean on your own, without a machine. I've only reached 350-ish depth so far and everything's okay. I don't quite understand why Seamoth can't go beneath 200 but without Seamoth you can go much deeper, but that's not the question.
There has to be an actual depth limit to which you can dive and stay alive, right?

i've reached the limit and it tp'd me back up

[KingCobra1895]

in real life, we would be a pancake before we hit 1000 meters. or at least a really small human raisin. heh

[Axiolot]

i went 17000 (you read that correctly) meters deep once, it teleported me back up

[KingCobra1895]

there is no 17,000 meteres deep,unless you glitched through the sea floor the max depth i belive is 240o

[KingCobra1895]

Originally posted by GD:

Originally posted by Cobra1895:

I was divin in the lost river biome last 700m. I get out to do relates near no heat vents and I died. I want to know at what depth you start to take pressure damage

As a person there is no pressure damage / max depth [in this game] only vehicles have max pressure. I guess you touched the green fluid, which is bio-acid and dissolves you I think you cannot swim in there (for long). The normal water is okay, the blue water as well, but not the green.

EDIT: You can sometimes grab after ressources if it's not too deep otherwise you need the Prawn Suit to get in there and mine and pick up stuff. Or use the Cannons for small resource nodes.

thanks, that helps i kinda realized i reminded me of the stuff that comes out of the manatee like creatures that release little orbs that burst into a toxic gas. so lesson learned. ;)

[admiral1018]

The max depth is 8,192 meters. After that, the character and any vehicles teleport back to the center of the map. And yes, it is possible go that deep in the void without using cheats.

[Axiolot]

Originally posted by Cobra1895:

there is no 17,000 meteres deep,unless you glitched through the sea floor the max depth i belive is 240o

what?
no i used a glitch that a bunch of people know about, i dropped my prawnsuit and every so often when it needed to be repaired i got out and it stopped itself, i then repaired it, went back in, and it kept falling, rinse and repeat

[WarNerve]

Originally posted by 3qz0:

main character is immune to underwater pressure which has 0 explanation why ingame. i remember some dev stating that they made it so because it isn't fun.

It's actually that way in real life to, to an extent. The Seamoth is full of oxygen and has a pretty large internal space within it. So the pressure is going to want to crush that cavity. If the materials that the Seamoth are made of aren't strong enough it will be crushed. You, as a diver, don't have a large internal cavity. Just your lungs. If you keep that space to a minimum by taking shallow breaths, you may be able to go deeper than a craft like the Seamoth. It's not very realistic that the Seamoth would be made of such weak materials, but this is the overall jist of things. Not entirely realistic, but it skirts the edges of realism.

[TheClosetSkeleton]

Fall down with the prawn from the edge of the map.

My record is around 22K meters down