How to get past monster-kelp in water?

[Sabaithal]

There are a few sections where you have to get past monster-kelp, and usually they are in water so sneaking past them is impossible.

I'm thinking of one particular section in the shaded citadel leading towards the memory crypts. How do you guys usually deal with getting past them?

[hmaAst]

Throw a rock immediately followed by a spear, or just a spear if resources are short/you're carrying something else. The spears will make them thrash around and retreat back into their dens for the cycle.

[tacogao]

just tap move slowly, theyre blind, they only grab if you keep moving.

[D0g3r1up5]

Trigger the Kelp (get it to lean close to the ground), throw something over it and it will chase that. Do what tacogao said and move in slowly with a spear. Get as close as possible without touching the "stem" or whatever. Jump, throw the spear into it and go past quickly while it's thrashing.

Or you could just YEET something explosive at it to instantly kill it

[Lady McZee]

Originally posted by tacogao:

just tap move slowly, theyre blind, they only grab if you keep moving.

This. It's very possible to sneak past them without triggering them at all if you are veeeeery slooooooow. (But I like to keep a spear hand just in case it all goes wrong!)

[Chap]

Sneaking past them is for filthy cashuls, throw a rock or a spear at them and zoom past them at mach 5, spears stun them for longer than rocks, the longer stun duration caused by spears makes a significant difference in water because of the speed impairment, use rocks for the land based ones, but only use rocks when getting close enough for one to try and grab you because the stun starts when the rock/spear hits it, so you'll have more time to get passed it this way. They are like pole plants in the way that you can grab spears from them when passing them, this doesn't change the stun duration and means that you get your spear back without the kelp recovering quicker from the stun, if you fail top get your spear back the first time then forget about it.

[ivan866_z]

interesting part about this game is that there is no single and guaranteed way of doing anything: NPCs are indeterministic, chances are random and controls are sloppy - very much like real life

[Nah_Not_Now]

Old thread, but for anyone hurting bad its entirely possible to swim past them quickely
by staying at the suface and then quickly passing under the "head". Only the top of the plant can grab you.

[Nogardtist]

in rain world spear solves all problems
most of the time

[White Rider]

Originally posted by Nogardtist:

in rain world spear solves all problems
most of the time

IRL too. There's a reason it was the most dominant weapon of war for hundreds of years.
Plus, the tax man never expects a spear in this day and age.

[Honkiewithaboomstick]

pray to god you have enough spears

[chaotic_neutralism]

You can literally just swim under them and not use any resources, if you time it right and move quick they wont detect you until you leave the aggro range.