Scorpion drown in less than 1 foot of water

[MaelstromDesign]

Message for Devs and warning for scorp owners. Scorps should have a higher water tolerance and not die in a puddle, kinda butt hurt about this.

[MaelstromDesign]

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/450707476762692703/5319DB338062672561088C0121BC6221AE8315BD/

[saice]

Well yeah their little faces are vary low to the ground. So if your saddle touches water they are most likely losing O2. Personally I just use space bar while crossing any water even a puddle.

[MaelstromDesign]

Scorps actually cant float, they literatly walk on the bottom of the water. If that was the case, the AI would have made him pop in and out of the water to gain oxygen. Scientific fact: most insects breathe through their skin, not through inhaling through lungs.

[Klingenmeister]

Originally posted by MaelstromSoldier:

Scorps actually cant float, they literatly walk on the bottom of the water. If that was the case, the AI would have made him pop in and out of the water to gain oxygen. Scientific fact: most insects breathe through their skin, not through inhaling through lungs.

Because they breath through their skins, even rainfall can kill them because they inhale the water and suffocate. Thats why spiders drown so fast when they fall into your sink.

[Burnese Herbs]

i use my scorpion under water all the time, he has like 280 oxygen. Must have been a glitch.

[MaelstromDesign]

It was idling slightly in the water, i wasn't currently riding it.

[MaelstromDesign]

Granted it was techincally my fault, but should it really have been?

[Lilo]

Scorpions are pretty low to the ground, you really should have taken that into consideration and just moved a little to dry land.

[Uzi [OTG]]

You could try plugging the little air holes along the side of its exoskeleton with
plumbers putty before letting it go into water.

Sorry, I can't help myself.

It's a big bug.
Not designed for water play.

But, I do note the damn wilde ones dont' seem to care. I have seen them in water over their bony little heads .
Doing scorp stuff.

[Burnese Herbs]

even so, i have crossed from island to island with my scorpion following, so he must have gliched because even if his oxygen lvl was low he would still have to burn through all his health, unless he was there a really long time, then it was completely your fault and i dont see the problem.

[WorldPhoenix]

To be fair, the Pulmonoscorpius should have A LOT more oxygen. In real life, at least some scorpions can hold their breath for days at a time. Pulmonoscorpius lived in swamps, so it likely would have been adapted to holding its breath too.

I'm not saying you should be able to just leave your pet Pulmonoscorpius in the ocean for 2 days and come back to see that it has only lost 50% of its oxygen, but it would be nice if the base oxygen where increased to, say, 500. That would also make using a "sea scorpion" a more effective strategy.

[Burnese Herbs]

You people must have really low lvl scorps or something because i have never even seen his oxygen lvl reach the half way point.

[MaelstromDesign]

It was lvl 45, unkown oxygen, it was maybe there for 3 minutes.

[Burnese Herbs]

3 minutes!!! Well then it was completely your fault

[MaelstromDesign]

Just saying, by the image, would you have felt safe leaving your scorpion there? I didn't think twice about it, i honestly didn't think a critter would just let itself ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ die because i said stay. At least other dinos try to surface.