Will creatures attack your base?

[mhm_cake]

I'm assuming if you decide to build a base right next to a Sea Dragon Leviathan, he won't take too kindly to your stunt and will proceed to tear your base a new hatch. Is my assumption correct, or can I have a Dragon outside my window as decoration for my living room?

[mhm_cake]

Originally posted by Insanitor:

There is a creature in the game, which does an EMP attack, which can affect your base if built near their habitat, while they're hunting the natural prey in the area.

That's something I'll keep in mind.

[MrGrudge]

Never build near a pack of Reefbacks, they seem to go out of their way to just crash into your buildings and sit there forever. I was all the way in the kelp forest one time and still came back to find a couple Reefbacks nuzzling my base.

[mhm_cake]

Originally posted by MrGrudge:

Never build near a pack of Reefbacks, they seem to go out of their way to just crash into your buildings and sit there forever. I was all the way in the kelp forest one time and still came back to find a couple Reefbacks nuzzling my base.

I built one in a sandy area next to a hill and never had any issues. They always went over my base. It was really cool after I got the glass dome for my living room.

[Mardoin69]

Originally posted by MrGrudge:

Never build near a pack of Reefbacks, they seem to go out of their way to just crash into your buildings and sit there forever. I was all the way in the kelp forest one time and still came back to find a couple Reefbacks nuzzling my base.

That usually only happens if you build up to high toward the surface though. I've had it happen where I built in the shallows before. They don't normally migrate 'THRU' the shallows but, will along it's edges. However, they can kind of 'glitch' sometimes and their path puts them a little further into the shallows--which is what happened in my case. And, they caused quite a bit of damage for me as I was off in the distance a bit collecting materials. Came back to a flooded out base.

But, yeah....as others have said....almost none of the critters 'target' your base. Even if you're looking out the window at them....they won't target your base trying to get at you......at least not in my several play-thru's. It's just lights that aggro a few certain species.....like Crab-squids or the afore-mentioned Levi.

[dreamrider]

The only creatures in the game that have behavioral code that will react to lights are bonesharks and crabsquids.

Those will only react to vehicle lights, flashlights, flares, and exterior lights.

Interior lights of buildings and Cyclops, and the camera spotlights of the Cyclops, will not provoke even the light sensitive creatures.

There is no leviathan that reacts to / aggro's upon / deliberately moves toward light sources, despite how it may appear to you in some instances. They are VERY sensitive to noise, however.

[dragonbornzyra]

*Ryley's stomach growls through his wet suit hiding behind a Cradle*

[mhm_cake]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

The only creatures in the game that have behavioral code that will react to lights are bonesharks and crabsquids.

Those will only react to vehicle lights, flashlights, flares, and exterior lights.

Interior lights of buildings and Cyclops, and the camera spotlights of the Cyclops, will not provoke even the light sensitive creatures.

There is no leviathan that reacts to / aggro's upon / deliberately moves toward light sources, despite how it may appear to you in some instances. They are VERY sensitive to noise, however.

Great to know. Thanks for sharing!

[Patchup]

The Stalkers (mostly in the kelp region) will steal your cameras from your scanner room. They collect titanium scrap and your cameras are considered fair play. Good news is that you will usually have a working camera giving you a picture of where it is. You just go collect it. The solution is to 1) not build close to the stalker region 2) store the cameras until you and to use one.

[dragonbornzyra]

You can also sit and watch "Stalker Cam" if you get bored, and just watch the scenic journey they go on.

[MrGrudge]

Originally posted by mhm_cake:

Originally posted by MrGrudge:

Never build near a pack of Reefbacks, they seem to go out of their way to just crash into your buildings and sit there forever. I was all the way in the kelp forest one time and still came back to find a couple Reefbacks nuzzling my base.

I built one in a sandy area next to a hill and never had any issues. They always went over my base. It was really cool after I got the glass dome for my living room.

They should have gone over me as I was well below their level but low and behold I heard this big thud and found one had come down to my level.

[dreamrider]

Originally posted by Patchup:

The Stalkers (mostly in the kelp region) will steal your cameras from your scanner room. They collect titanium scrap and your cameras are considered fair play. Good news is that you will usually have a working camera giving you a picture of where it is. You just go collect it. The solution is to 1) not build close to the stalker region 2) store the cameras until you and to use one.

Stalkers WILL pick up other types of loose metal ore lumps, but usually only if there is no Metal Scrap (or Camera Drones) in their range.

[bongerman85]

just a thought here, is it possible that the squid shark was attacking smaller fauna like a fish, instead of another predator. because it could be "eating" as some of the creatures in the subnautica game do.

otherwise if u have an alien containment in the base it could be responding to that. but even still since the shark doesnt use projectiles you can clearly see that it is not attacking the base directly. and probably shouldnt be doing damage to it?

[PhailRaptor]

The electro-tentacles on the Squidsharks do constant damage to anything that touches them, just like Ampeels do. So if they make a close pass to your base while in pursuit of smaller bait fish, the tentacles might hit your base and damage it.

[dreamrider]

What the heck is a "squidshark"?

I thought you were speaking of Crabsquids, until that last statement.

If you WERE speaking of Crabsquids, what you describe is not the way they work.

Crabsquids:
- They have an Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) attack, which is an expanding field projected from their ...?core?...?location?. This is triggered when external lights are directed at them. (Cyclops exterior lights, Seamoth headlights, PRAWN lights, Seaglide lights, Flashlight, Flares). EMP is NOT triggered by interior lights of any sort, nor by the camera spotlights of the Cyclops.
From wiki (which is comensurate with my encounters): "In terms of game mechanics, this temporarily reduces the charge of any Battery or Power Cell affected to 0%: after a short time, it will be restored to its original level."
- Other than that, they have a standard physical attack, a slash from their bottom claws. This does 40 HP to a free-swimming player avatar (reduced in the usual way by the Renif. Dive Suit.) It does 20% per attack to a Seamoth. A Crabsquid WILL attack a Cyclops under certain circumstances (unlike many other creatures), but it only does a small amount of damage (?3%? ?5%?).
- Crabsquid has 500 HP.

Crabsquids do not have "tentacles"; they have a cluster of hard claws underneath the balloon-like body. These are employed in a standard physical attack.
Crabsquid claws do not do any sort of constant damage, electrical, poison, or physical. But it can, of course, repeat it's physical attack if you don't get away, or counter it in some way.
(Ramming a couple times with the Cyclops works nicely, if a little awkward. They will run away if you spill some yellow ichor.)

[Alucard †]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

What the heck is a "squidshark"?

https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Squidshark

Most of us were replying to what dragonbrynza said here about those deliberately attacking his base in Below Zero.