how do i make armor?

[ashnagog]

i crashed on an island, how am i going to make armor? (becouse u cannot swim without the armor, for some reason)

[Boss_CyAn1d3]

you can totally swim without the armor

just not underwater for very long, and remember to hit '0' before entering the water... lest ye will sink like a rock.

lastly to actually answer your question, you cant construct a light suit until you unlock it in the tech tree and build a survival constructor.... or you get lucky and come across an outpost and happen to find a suit.

good luck

[softwalker001]

Dont forget, you need an armor locker to equip/remove it.

In order to swim your hands must be empty, and i often have to bump the jump button to stay on the surface.

[ashnagog]

oh man, thank you very much!

[Boss_CyAn1d3]

depending on how deep the water is, you can get away with going down for plant proteins.

general rule of thumb is, if you can clearly see the bottom... you should be good.

[Obz3hL33t]

The better armors, medium and heavy, are only available from vendors.

The heavy armor I highly recommend. It's got 4 mod slots! 4x multi handles almost anything, with the EVA mod covering the most common exception.

I imagine 4x pure temperature mods would be best on lava worlds, but even those worlds have a wide range of temperatures across their surfaces, so with 4x multi you can still get a lot done.

[ashnagog]

thank you for the info, both of you!

[softwalker001]

Originally posted by Obz3hL33t:

The better armors, medium and heavy, are only available from vendors.

The heavy armor I highly recommend. It's got 4 mod slots! 4x multi handles almost anything, with the EVA mod covering the most common exception.

I imagine 4x pure temperature mods would be best on lava worlds, but even those worlds have a wide range of temperatures across their surfaces, so with 4x multi you can still get a lot done.

Dont forget looting them from POI's Abandoned mine is good for 1-3 suits on most seeds and can be raided faily easily for the upper levels. Abandonef factory you have to take out the 2 Sentry guns from range preferably with an HV/SV or Sniper (but it uses lots of anno.) Then you have to take out the scorpion spawner on the second landig pad. But after that theres 4 wardrobes that usually have 1-2 sets and mods.

[HurtfulPlayer97]

Why you can't make the heavier armors yourself is a complete mystery to me. I mean you can make a warp engine for gosh sakes, but not a suit of heavy armor???

[Obz3hL33t]

@softwalker001: I like having the best armor BEFORE I put myself in harm's way, but hammering away at the defenses at range from a vehicle definitely counts as "not in harm's way", so I don't fault your strategy at all.

[softwalker001]

Originally posted by Obz3hL33t:

@softwalker001: I like having the best armor BEFORE I put myself in harm's way, but hammering away at the defenses at range from a vehicle definitely counts as "not in harm's way", so I don't fault your strategy at all.

Call me insane but I recently tried MP for the fist time, and chose the hard stater world. Wound up there was NO vegitation or water on the starter world. There were Promethium surface rocks and Pentaxid crystals thankfully. Wound up taking Abandoned mine with a survival tool and explosives. But it got me enough resources to get off plannet.

[Obz3hL33t]

That's one hell of a start. Literally.

[softwalker001]

Originally posted by Obz3hL33t:

That's one hell of a start. Literally.

Yeah the guy who designed it has a sense of irony. the planet is named "Mara" wich is a High Demoness from the "Ah My Goddess" Anime Series, and yes she's a royal B----.