Can't defend my species X without letting them die

[Youdiedgitgud]

I searched up a YouTube guide on how to defend plant species x but it seems like it's completely useless. All the guides using hatch frames for some reason I cannot access the crop plot once the hatch is placed, I usually have to open/close it and tap open inventory really fast, but once the plant x has grown i can't even access it one bit. Help?

[tmora2]

Originally posted by Anorexia:

I searched up a YouTube guide on how to defend plant species x but it seems like it's completely useless. All the guides using hatch frames for some reason I cannot access the crop plot once the hatch is placed, I usually have to open/close it and tap open inventory really fast, but once the plant x has grown i can't even access it one bit. Help?

Why do you have to defend them? Plant enough of them and they defend themselves.

[Youdiedgitgud]

Originally posted by tmora2:

Originally posted by Anorexia:

I searched up a YouTube guide on how to defend plant species x but it seems like it's completely useless. All the guides using hatch frames for some reason I cannot access the crop plot once the hatch is placed, I usually have to open/close it and tap open inventory really fast, but once the plant x has grown i can't even access it one bit. Help?

Why do you have to defend them? Plant enough of them and they defend themselves.

Someone runs up and takes the fert

[tmora2]

Originally posted by Anorexia:

Originally posted by tmora2:

Why do you have to defend them? Plant enough of them and they defend themselves.

Someone runs up and takes the fert

Not if you have enough of them, they don't.

[⚔️☠Reaper☠⚔]

make a box around the plant x so someone cant reach in (make sure a resivore or irrigation system is feeding it water tho

[Youdiedgitgud]

Originally posted by 🐉ꞨᴓʅΔiƏᏒ905🐉:

make a box around the plant x so someone cant reach in (make sure a resivore or irrigation system is feeding it water tho

A box? It's gotta be able to shoot you know

[⚔️☠Reaper☠⚔]

Originally posted by Anorexia:

Originally posted by 🐉ꞨᴓʅΔiƏᏒ905🐉:

make a box around the plant x so someone cant reach in (make sure a resivore or irrigation system is feeding it water tho

A box? It's gotta be able to shoot you know

I misread that my bad ( thought it was about growing them) , Elevate the turrets off the ground with a pillar and ceiling so the only way you can access it is by jumping off a dino . Just remember the easier it is for you to refil it the easier it is for someone to take it out

I did this for my defence which the fert was never taken out of the crop plots and i had an entire region covered by plant x.

[tmora2]

Originally posted by 🐉ꞨᴓʅΔiƏᏒ905🐉:

Originally posted by Anorexia:

A box? It's gotta be able to shoot you know

I misread that my bad ( thought it was about growing them) , Elevate the turrets off the ground with a pillar and ceiling so the only way you can access it is by jumping off a dino . Just remember the easier it is for you to refil it the easier it is for someone to take it out

I did this for my defence which the fert was never taken out of the crop plots and i had an entire region covered by plant x.

Again you don't need to defend them if you have enough. I placed my plants in tightly grouped groups of 10 inside the perimeter of my walls and on platforms on pillars around the center of my lot. When you have 10 plants firing a tight stream at you, you can't move and you die quickly. Players can dodge one plant, but not a group all firing at once. Plus if you groups are within reach of each other, they are getting bombarded from all sides and getting caught in a cross fire. You just have to have plenty of fertilizer so get a good beetle farm going inside a building where they cant kill your beetles.

[MortVent]

One neat trick is use ramps, fence foundations, doorways/windows, pillars and other obstructions to prevent the usual methods of petra spin killing them