Moving Flora... best options?

[AmishJustice]

I found a world that I quite like, and I want to build there, but I'm having problems taking local flora and moving it nearer to my base. There is a grove of cool looking trees nearby, but I'd like some up on the mesa where I'm building. What's the best way to move trees? Are the only planters the hydroponic indoor options? How do you move Gravitino balls for decorative purposes?

[Suzaku]

You can't move any of those things. Basically the only flora you can place wherever are the harvestable plants native to that location, like Solanium on desert planets, Frostwort on snowy planets, etc.. There are also some decorative "glitches" that you might find on exotic planets that you could use.

[AmishJustice]

Wow. This game just continues to disappoint. Can you not move anything on a world? Is there no ability to place things other than via construction?

[Suzaku]

Yep. I guess you could hope that plants move in on your base on their own (the game spawns more plants so a player never lands on a planet without the necessary resources to live), but if they weren't there to begin with, then they won't be there later.

[SteelFire]

There's also a few plants and trees you can get from the quicksilver store that then become placeables in your construction menu.

[AmishJustice]

Guess I'm going back to Subnautica for satisfying base building.

[Dirak2012]

You usually build your base in a landscape that you like, not the other way around.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

You can buy some trees and shrubs from the Nexus- for quicksilver. Probably not going to be what you want, but just so you know. Also, if it is the right biome, some crops can be planted outside.

[NMSPlayer]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

Guess I'm going back to Subnautica for satisfying base building.

you can't move the trees and plants in Subnautica either smh, you're on a planet, did you bring a giant tree mover with you? LOL

[EMCM Magellan]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

I found a world that I quite like, and I want to build there, but I'm having problems taking local flora and moving it nearer to my base. There is a grove of cool looking trees nearby, but I'd like some up on the mesa where I'm building. What's the best way to move trees? Are the only planters the hydroponic indoor options? How do you move Gravitino balls for decorative purposes?

I've read this and some of your other comments and the first thing that comes to my mind is Seriously? You are going to get bum hurt and snarky because you cant dig up local fauna and transplant it wherever you feel like? Seriously? Then I see you say your going back to Subnautica and I draw a breath of relief... I'll just say bye... dont let the door hit ya.

[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by NMSPlayer:

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

Guess I'm going back to Subnautica for satisfying base building.

you can't move the trees and plants in Subnautica either smh, you're on a planet, did you bring a giant tree mover with you? LOL

In subnautica, you can collect seeds of all of the flora, and there are outdoor planters, allowing you to plant any flora you find in the world around the outside of your base, including multiple different luminous plants, which offer light for your base even when you don't have power.
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[AmishJustice]

Originally posted by EMCM Magellan:

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

I found a world that I quite like, and I want to build there, but I'm having problems taking local flora and moving it nearer to my base. There is a grove of cool looking trees nearby, but I'd like some up on the mesa where I'm building. What's the best way to move trees? Are the only planters the hydroponic indoor options? How do you move Gravitino balls for decorative purposes?

I've read this and some of your other comments and the first thing that comes to my mind is Seriously? You are going to get bum hurt and snarky because you cant dig up local fauna and transplant it wherever you feel like? Seriously? Then I see you say your going back to Subnautica and I draw a breath of relief... I'll just say bye... dont let the door hit ya.

Hey, I spent $60 bucks, and was really looking forward to a fun new experience. I'm just disappointed at every step by this game. I was hoping that base design would make for an interesting diversion, but it seems hopelessly limited. We're constantly hitting an upper limit to how many items we can add, and performance has dropped since we upped the base item count. Perhaps I was just excited to embrace this as a multiplayer experience. Those of you with Solo play xp might have a rosier picture than I can see.
BTW, Am I right that there are only two forms of power generation? Solar and Bio? The electromagnetic generators never seem to work --- I've tried using my goggle scanners, but all I can find are mineral deposits and gas hotspots.

[SaD-82]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

including multiple different luminous plants, which offer light for your base even when you don't have power.
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/subnautica/images/3/38/2019-01-13_00001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20190114100654

You want light without powering it? Press "T"...
You want trees and bushes around your base? Search for a spot with trees and bushes and build inside it...
You want moveable green objects? Paint your structures green and move them...

No offense, but your complaints regarding that NMS would be disappointing in terms of gameplay because you can't move a tree are the most ridicolous ones I've ever read. NMS isn't an IKEA-like Minecraft-base builder simulator and it doesn't want to be. Blaming the game for that it's not the kind of game you want to play is, nicely spoken, not very smart.
You're not liking the game because you can't move trees? So be it. But don't act as if the game did tell you it would be such game, because it never did.

[EMCM Magellan]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

Originally posted by EMCM Magellan:

I've read this and some of your other comments and the first thing that comes to my mind is Seriously? You are going to get bum hurt and snarky because you cant dig up local fauna and transplant it wherever you feel like? Seriously? Then I see you say your going back to Subnautica and I draw a breath of relief... I'll just say bye... dont let the door hit ya.

Hey, I spent $60 bucks, and was really looking forward to a fun new experience. I'm just disappointed at every step by this game. I was hoping that base design would make for an interesting diversion, but it seems hopelessly limited. We're constantly hitting an upper limit to how many items we can add, and performance has dropped since we upped the base item count. Perhaps I was just excited to embrace this as a multiplayer experience. Those of you with Solo play xp might have a rosier picture than I can see.
BTW, Am I right that there are only two forms of power generation? Solar and Bio? The electromagnetic generators never seem to work --- I've tried using my goggle scanners, but all I can find are mineral deposits and gas hotspots.

I dont care if you spent $60... a great many of us spent $60... If you really are soooo disappointed go ask for a refund and high tail it back to that puddle that is as wide and as deep as a puddle. Let's be fair, When Subnautica grows up it wants to be NMS.

Upper 'limit'... you MUST be playing the super secret feature limited version that was ONLY available during the few seconds before and after your purchas.

EM works just fine... find the hotspots... the goggles find the closest of the 3 (mineral, gas, EM)

[~luv Richard]

Originally posted by AmishJustice:

Originally posted by EMCM Magellan:

I've read this and some of your other comments and the first thing that comes to my mind is Seriously? You are going to get bum hurt and snarky because you cant dig up local fauna and transplant it wherever you feel like? Seriously? Then I see you say your going back to Subnautica and I draw a breath of relief... I'll just say bye... dont let the door hit ya.

Hey, I spent $60 bucks, and was really looking forward to a fun new experience. I'm just disappointed at every step by this game. I was hoping that base design would make for an interesting diversion, but it seems hopelessly limited. We're constantly hitting an upper limit to how many items we can add, and performance has dropped since we upped the base item count. Perhaps I was just excited to embrace this as a multiplayer experience. Those of you with Solo play xp might have a rosier picture than I can see.
BTW, Am I right that there are only two forms of power generation? Solar and Bio? The electromagnetic generators never seem to work --- I've tried using my goggle scanners, but all I can find are mineral deposits and gas hotspots.

you need the upgraded visor which you can buy from the nexus to see electromagnetic fields, the higher the number the more power you generate

[Dirak2012]

You have to move around to find the power hotspot. The visor will only show you the resource that is closer to you.