Where is the lithium?

[Mic]

8 hours in and still only have a 4 pipe base due to the lack of Lithium. Those crazy spiders on the wreck kill me too fast so the Island will be out! Not enough supplies to get there and back swimming.
When you need this for just the basics it needs to be in reach.
Great game but if this is the grind then not recommended.

[Mic]

Originally posted by Dirak2012:

After 9 hours, you never got the message from the Sunbeam? Did you fix the radio?

Radios fixed but no message?

[Mic]

Originally posted by KarvaRausku:

Originally posted by Mic:

Obviously but now 9 hours in and I'm now giving up so I can go and do something that's fun.

You have to venture around 200m to decently find Lithium.

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Shale, not slate. And once you start finding it, it'll be everywhere.
As the saying goes, "go deeper".

Haven't been below 200 as it gives warning about air and I have about 15-30 seconds before air runs out. But I will try taking extra tanks. Won't be much inventory with all the water and stuff you need to move around.

[CallmePopy]

Mushroom forest on the ground, sparce but plentiful.
Jellyshroom cave in the Shale outcrops.
Any other shale outcrops you come across also.
But, defo get the drill arm for exo and hit the mushroom forest for abundance.

[Mic]

Originally posted by callmepopy:

Mushroom forest on the ground, sparce but plentiful.
Jellyshroom cave in the Shale outcrops.
Any other shale outcrops you come across also.
But, defo get the drill arm for exo and hit the mushroom forest for abundance.

I have all these incomplete plans but they all want exotic minerals I have never seen.
Getting sick of spending an hour getting fish so I have water so I can go out exploring for 30 mins and die.
Pity I tried for so long as it looked great should have refunded as it doesn't really look good anymore.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Mic:

Originally posted by KarvaRausku:

You have to venture around 200m to decently find Lithium.

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Shale, not slate. And once you start finding it, it'll be everywhere.
As the saying goes, "go deeper".

Haven't been below 200 as it gives warning about air and I have about 15-30 seconds before air runs out. But I will try taking extra tanks. Won't be much inventory with all the water and stuff you need to move around.

Build a modification station, and make a thermoblade. Stop carrying food, and just cook fish while you're "out and about" when you get hungry; your inventory space will thank you.

Use the seaglide to increase your movement speed, if you don't yet have a vehicle.

Extra air tanks are good, but bigger air tanks are better... and you can combine those thoughts, and carry multiple larger tanks. Just remember to fill up the ones you're not currently wearing after an extended period underwater; nothing like swapping to an empty tank to ruin your dive.

Alternatively, scan fragments you already have the recipe for to get titanium, and pick up quartz in the red grass (it's easier at night when it practically glows); build a series of base modules at a reasonable distance from each other (100 meters or so is good), with a solar panel each so they're powered and can produce oxygen. Drop a locker in the one at the end with a few waters, a couple medkits, and some salted fish, and you can start your journey to the depths from a position of strength, instead of from the surface.

An I-Compartment is 2 titanium; a solar panel costs 2 titanium, 2 quartz, and 1 copper. They are both created with the "build gun", aka the Habitat Builder.

[Mic]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by Mic:

Haven't been below 200 as it gives warning about air and I have about 15-30 seconds before air runs out. But I will try taking extra tanks. Won't be much inventory with all the water and stuff you need to move around.

Build a modification station, and make a thermoblade. Stop carrying food, and just cook fish while you're "out and about" when you get hungry; your inventory space will thank you.

Use the seaglide to increase your movement speed, if you don't yet have a vehicle.

Extra air tanks are good, but bigger air tanks are better... and you can combine those thoughts, and carry multiple larger tanks. Just remember to fill up the ones you're not currently wearing after an extended period underwater; nothing like swapping to an empty tank to ruin your dive.

Alternatively, scan fragments you already have the recipe for to get titanium, and pick up quartz in the red grass (it's easier at night when it practically glows); build a series of base modules at a reasonable distance from each other (100 meters or so is good), with a solar panel each so they're powered and can produce oxygen. Drop a locker in the one at the end with a few waters, a couple medkits, and some salted fish, and you can start your journey to the depths from a position of strength, instead of from the surface.

An I-Compartment is 2 titanium; a solar panel costs 2 titanium, 2 quartz, and 1 copper. They are both created with the "build gun", aka the Habitat Builder.

I wish I could But then I would have found some materials and wouldnt be in this position. This is not fun anymore. Give up. uninstalled.

[mreed2]

Are you getting *any* messages from the radio in the life pod? It should be placing beacons that help guide your exploration at periodic intervals. If the red light on the radio is blinking, a message is waiting to be played when you click on the radio.

Have you built the repair tool? If you haven't, then that's the root of your problem. The most likely issue is that you gave up exploring caves in the safe shallows area after dying to crash fish one too many times, and... You actually need to seek out the nests the crash fish come from to build the repair tool.

Edited to add: Given that you have built a habitat, it is obvious that you have found sandstone outcrops in some quantity. If you have done that, you can certainly build the oxygen tank and the high-capacity oxygen tank. The high capacity oxygen tank gives more than 100 seconds of oxygen, so that solves one problem right there.

Also, in your exploration you should have found salt -- salt + fish = food that never goes bad. Combined with mass hunting of bladderfish, you should be able to explore at unlimited range from the lifepod (with proper preparation, of course).

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Mic:

I wish I could But then I would have found some materials and wouldnt be in this position. This is not fun anymore. Give up. uninstalled.

If your problem is that you can't figure out how to lay hands on basic materials like titanium, quartz, and copper... then yeah. Go ahead and give up, you're not going to have any fun here.

[bongerman85]

the mushroom forest i think is depth safe for the seamoth near 200m. lithium spawns in its raw form on the seabed in the mushroom forest.

[Cinder_Dragon929]

imagine being this awful at the game

[bongerman85]

Originally posted by Cinder_Dragon929:

imagine being this awful at the game

play nice. we were all as fresh into this ocean as he is at some point in our subnautica experience.

[umop-apisdn]

Ya know, it never occurred to me to ask why the OP was making pipes... I've never used them. Do ya think maybe they're unaware that powered bases provide oxygen automatically?

[nimue]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Ya know, it never occurred to me to ask why the OP was making pipes... I've never used them. Do ya think maybe they're unaware that powered bases provide oxygen automatically?

perhaps because he still hasn't found the multipurpose rooms...

[Ray Robertson]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Ya know, it never occurred to me to ask why the OP was making pipes... I've never used them. Do ya think maybe they're unaware that powered bases provide oxygen automatically?

Pretty sure they were referring to I-compartments.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by Ray Robertson:

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Ya know, it never occurred to me to ask why the OP was making pipes... I've never used them. Do ya think maybe they're unaware that powered bases provide oxygen automatically?

Pretty sure they were referring to I-compartments.

Aye, those are "the basic base components", although I'm now wondering how much the OP has explored the fabricator menus, too... it's entirely possible they're also unaware that you can build bigger oxygen tanks for cheap... and carry them in your inventory to swap out when you're a couple hundred meters down and the PDA says "oxygen!"

... just remember to put them on when you're on the surface, so they get refilled. Swapping to an empty tank es no bueno.