Can't find any time capsules

[Pvt Anderson]

Hey guys so I am around 20ish hours into a new game and have explored around most of the area but I just can't seem to find any time capsules at all. I am constantly on the look out and regularly go to thing such as lifepods and wreckages and search around them but I just can't find any, is it possible that they just aren't spawning in my game at all?

[darkdisciple1313]

The most common reply given is: go deeper. If you're still just on the surface and maybe have gone through most of the shallower cave systems, you probably haven't found the capsules yet. Keep looking, just be aware that you really don't get much for finding them since they're not that important to the survival part of the game. It's just a semi-fun collectible set to find.

I'll be honest in that I'm the type that gets frustrated quickly, especially if the items to be located aren't important to any quest. You probably have more patience than I do, though, so good luck and keep searching, I guess.

And go deeper.

[Pvt Anderson]

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

The most common reply given is: go deeper. If you're still just on the surface and maybe have gone through most of the shallower cave systems, you probably haven't found the capsules yet. Keep looking, just be aware that you really don't get much for finding them since they're not that important to the survival part of the game. It's just a semi-fun collectible set to find.

I'll be honest in that I'm the type that gets frustrated quickly, especially if the items to be located aren't important to any quest. You probably have more patience than I do, though, so good luck and keep searching, I guess.

And go deeper.

That's the thing though, I am searching just about as deep as I can go without going in the lava zones and I am still having no luck at all

[RetroBlast]

I think the time capsules, seeing as they're generated by other players completing the game, may be slowing down. When I played when it was first released, time capsules were everywhere. I think I found at least five or so.

[Cougarific]

They're so random it's not really something you can go hunting for, you just have to keep your eyes open as you do other stuff and hope to stumble across one.

[RetroBlast]

As far as I know they're not in any one "place" - I found them all over the place, in the shallows, the deep...they truly seemed like random drops.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by RetroBlast:

As far as I know they're not in any one "place" - I found them all over the place, in the shallows, the deep...they truly seemed like random drops.

I agree. I found three in one playthrough (not completed) and zero in the second, even though I visited the same three places as in the first game. That's why I won't bother going out of my way to look for them anymore, so that I am pleasantly suprised when one does show up. It's like finding a five-dollar bill that somebody decided to use as a place-holder in a library book. Except, of course, that you can actually spend that. The time capsules aren't worth a Confederate dollar.

[Woatr]

Check in the mushroom forest, blood kelp zone, and near Officer Keen's lifepod. I don't know if they spawn that much in the deeper areas.

[Reppoc850]

You won't find any time capsules in the end zone areas , the safe shallows or underground. The concept behind them is that they are jettisoned from the escape rocket during the launch sequence. In keeping with that you will only find the capsules in areas consistent with where they would have fallen after detaching from the rocket.

The best places to search are areas you would typically expect a player to set up the launch pad in (must be in deep water) since the capsule should be expected to fall back into that area.

I'd also recommend searching for them at night since the capsules glowing blue faceplate makes it easier to see in the dark

[Blood Eagle97]

I already finished the game once and never found a single time capsule in that playthrough which was like 40 hours long.

[HiSaZuL]

In my current run I got about 10 so far, they are just really random. Also be aware they render at much closer distance then other stuff of similar size initially, once it "loaded" you can back off pretty far and still see them but initially need to be rather close. The only logic I could see in their locations is that they won't spawn inside wrecks/aurora or safe shallows, other then that anything goes it seems.

[Stormbringer]

check on the dunes biome

[John Johnson]

they don't run really spawn that much and are pretty random. I've only ever find 1 of them in *each* of my 2 runs. 1 was in the aurora zone about being scared of the place and the second was to be cautious of birds.

[HiSaZuL]

If we are going to be honest here, if you are not finding any you are not observant enough to find them. Yes they are random, yes they are rare and all that but I believe not everyone pays the same amount of attention to details, that's why some people find lots of hidden things and some never find any.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1629880075

[kajidiablo]

lol i always launched off near the cannon island about as close as i could get but i would agree the capsuls are random af i managed to find about 4 my last playthrough and all were junk...minus the snack pack i found amusing because i needed food right that second

[HiSaZuL]

I actually prefer capsules that have rubbish over really good stuff. Had a run where, I went on my initial scavenging hunt to aurora to get some batteries and the like. Came back with prawn thermal module, depth 2 for prawn, depth 3 for cyclops, depth 3 for seamoth, solar for seamoth, about 10 ion batteries and like 4 ion cells and other stuff I dont remember. All that just because I found 3 capsules while I was heading to aurora lol... felt kind of pointless to even bother with that run.