do things respawn

[believor in Prawn]

do things like limestone sandstone and shale things respawn or is there a limited amout of resources you can get

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Yes. It respawns.

It is slow but not to slow, and not to fast. It is perfect actually. It forces you to explore at this moment for a bit.

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by NaliWarcow:

Yes. It respawns.

It is slow but not to slow, and not to fast. It is perfect actually. It forces you to explore at this moment for a bit.

thanks :D
i was worried i wouuld run out of things to fuel my heart of industry

[SpookySunday]

Originally posted by Trazer got guns:

do things like limestone sandstone and shale things respawn or is there a limited amout of resources you can get

These resources are limited. See this thread for further information:
https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/7t3p9x/do_resources_respawn/

There is also an explanation, why a lot of people think that resources DO respawn.

[Demolition414]

i beg to differ on the whole respawning of Limestone and Sandstone, in over 3 years of playing with some saves reaching over 100 hours per, ive NEVER seen any limestone chunks respawn, scrapmetal, fish ive seen respawn, but nothing else.

[SpookySunday]

Originally posted by Davidleblanc20:

in over 3 years of playing with some saves reaching over 100 hours per, ive NEVER seen any limestone chunks respawn

The reason for this is that it indeed does not respawn.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/7t3p9x/do_resources_respawn/

You can clear cache to manually respawn resources, but I would consider that a cheat.

[KIKUT]

I do regulary harvest the coral cave in the safe shallows. The bits of quartz and sandstone seem to reapear after a while.

[Demolition414]

Originally posted by civis hamburgum:

I do regulary harvest the coral cave in the safe shallows. The bits of quartz and sandstone seem to reapear after a while.

nope, never seen those respawn with deleting the cell cache files

[Cougarific]

NaliWarcow is incorrect - outcrops never respawn. You should un-mark his answer as the correct answer - it's not.

People think they respawn because they traverse an area they thought they already cleared from a different direction or at a different time of day and they're seeing stuff they simply didn't notice before.

People also find the giant coral tubes and think the materials inside have respawned, not realizing that there are multiple giant coral tubes in the Safe Shallows.

As proof I offer all my dozens and dozens of videos on this game. Resources harvested in the first few days in-game have not respawned by the time I'm ready to leave the planet.

Specifically, in most of my playthroughs I head out to the Mountain Island early for large quantities of Lithium and a few Diamonds from the above-water caves. Revisiting those caves *after curing the infection*, those caves are still empty.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

I dont know, but Obraxis said so during Cohh's stream... lol

I also dont need watch your 'tutorial' videos.

[Cougarific]

Okay some things do respawn but most don't. Metal salvage, Stalker Teeth, and some growing things keep spawning - but outcrops do not.

[GamingWithSilvertail]

Originally posted by Cougarific:

Okay some things do respawn but most don't. Metal salvage, Stalker Teeth, and some growing things keep spawning - but outcrops do not.

Quartz also respawns.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by NaliWarcow:

Yes. It respawns.

It is slow but not to slow, and not to fast. It is perfect actually. It forces you to explore at this moment for a bit.

Nice to know I'm not the only one that knows this.

[SpookySunday]

This has gotten interesting. :D

One can not proof that resources do NOT respawn (it would be like a logical halting problem (e.g. no respawn in 3 years, what about 3 years and 1 day and so on)), so the burden of proof lies on the side who says that resources DO respawn. And that proof has yet to be made.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by SpookyNooky:

This has gotten interesting. :D

One can not proof that resources do NOT respawn (it would be like a logical halting problem (e.g. no respawn in 3 years, what about 3 years and 1 day and so on)), so the burden of proof lies on the side who says that resources DO respawn. And that proof has yet to be made.

Well, here's what I know.
If you wish to test it, feel free. I'm happy knowing what I know to be true having indirectly tested it over about two plus years of owning the game and am happy to tell others how I believe it to be.
(Or in other words, I'm to lazy to gather presentable evidence myself. Something I'm also fine with.)

If I strip an area, e.g. a large part of the safe shallows, of quartz (because underwater bases look better with windows) it will stay stripped for long enough that I can easily under stand why people say it doesn't come back.
When it does come back it will always be parts that are away from the places of the map I spend most of my time in (namely, the base with all the new windows).
This effect I have also seen happen with; limestone, sandstone, scrap and salt.

The places near where most of my time is commonly spent will rarely see any respawning.

The places further away than that, placing them outside of normal render distance which I believe plays a part in it, will slowly start to see some of it respawn.

This repsawn always seems to be slower than the rate at which they were gathered and either doesn't bring them back in the same order that they were gathered or is a little semi-random in were it replaces them.

The time taken to respawn is also normally that of real world days worth of playtime. So most of the time I find it has happened is when I'm taking a shortcut back to base though a spot that I had already been to earlyer in the game. Places like a giant corral tube, which are both easy to tell if you got everything the first time you are in them and hard to mistake for somewhere else when you come back to them.

Speaking of, if you want to test it for yourself I recomend using one of them or a cave for those very reasons. And as I said, I believe the render distance plays a part in all of this.

[Cougarific]

How do you explain the Shale outcrops harvested from the Mountain Island on Day 4 of my main playthrough not respawning by the time I finished the playthrough *and* my "What'd I Miss?" series on the same save, which took *at least* 14 in-game days to complete?

Look, people have been debating this literally *for years* - which is why I started paying attention and checking back on locations I harvested early in the game to see if the stuff had respawned.

I never once found a location where anything had respawned. I started a collection of screenshots of a coral tube near my base, harvested early in the game. 12 days after harvesting, no respawned resources (at that point I gave up taking screenshots, but kept checking back - the stuff never respawned).

If I wanted to put in the effort I could link you the video of me harvesting Shale outcrops on Day 4, and the video of me back in the same cave *after* completing the game (during my What'd I Miss? series).

I'm positive outcrops do not respawn, but fully understand why people insist they do - many parts of the map look similar, and outcrops can be hidden by grass or shadows - only clearly visible when approaching from a certain direction with sufficient light.