Cant leave the gateway engine at core

[Tiz3Bill]

This is my first time at the centre of one of the planets. Please don't spoil what i have to do next. I cant leave the gateway engine at the centre of Calidor, as my terrain tool with drill mod one doesn't break the hard rock whilst in the core.I cant find the hole i previously made to get in. Do I just have to keep searching for where i came in?

[Wolfgang]

There are pillars reaching up. You can use these to get out.

[Tiz3Bill]

The purple Prong things that flip the camera and gravity?

[Wolfgang]

These long pillars. If you don't see pillars you are in the last layer before the core. In that case you either drill your way back up (hope you have enough Oxygen) or you find the hole through which you came in.

[Tiz3Bill]

I didn't have enough power for my drill module so i will have to suffocate myself probably. That is if i cant find the way in.

[Tiz3Bill]

I got out by suffocating and marking which prong i came in on.

[Shukra]

Originally posted by Tiz-3bill:

I got out by suffocating and marking which prong i came in on.

Early game, prepare diamond bits. Liberal use of shrink wrappers is key to advancing quickly.

[Curious Fox]

Why did you go to the core without activating a gateway on the ground?

[SpaceCat]

Originally posted by Curious Fox:

Why did you go to the core without activating a gateway on the ground?

Lots of people play the game blind. I got to the core of Sylva before I even knew there were gateways on the ground just because I was curious what would happen if I dug down far enough. I started to notice the gravity was changing which piqued my interest and there was huge plants on the lower levels, so I kept going. Was also really difficult for me to get out.

It's not like the game exactly tells you what to do lol, which is one of the awesome things about the game. The only real spoiler I took before I "beat" the game was look up what each resource the engine took to activate after I went to the 2nd engine and couldn't activate it.

[Xilo The Odd]

with a bit of prep, getting to the gateway engine and back can be fairly simple. its always possible to get out and drive back to the surface, but the fastest way in the future is this.

activate one surface gateway closest to your base, bring a tractor, a generator of some sort typically a small wind turbine and a organic burner work, and a packager. two materials for the gateway should also be brought if this is a first visit on the file.

drill down to each layer being careful not to fall into a group of deadly plant traps, using the tractor as an oxygen and power supply. once you reach the gateway and activate it and have everything you need from it there, grab the generators off the tractor and package that thing up, then warp back to the surface, deploy tractor if needed for air and transport.