acidic yeast creeper colony root

[Stu -1]

first one got destroyed at 130/150 research progress. one of the devs told another player that keeping it alive is part of the challenge and you need to find another one.

2 hours later and totally sick of the game. no guidance and crawling through regenerating poison with long range siege enemies blasting constantly.

am i missing something? is there an easy way to find more of these? or should i ditch the last 2 hours and load a previous save and try and do the research in a single effort?

[ToxicTeacherTTV]

I have the exact problem. Can't find another. Been looking forever.

[Full Clog Destroyer]

Get rid of the outpost and comeback?

[EvilBob]

Okay, there are many roots and the roots actually regenerate unless you murder the whole thing. What I did, build a big anti-acid platform, much larger than necessary and then 2-3 research stations. One of them will eventually pick something up. Then lots of short range turrets to protect the science. That mission sucked, BTW, but you can just brute force it.

[Stu -1]

i had to revert to a save a few hours prior. i explored the whole map using the cheat console and radar platforms cause they show up the plants. i dont know if environmental disasters had wiped them or something but they werent there.

[Stu -1]

Originally posted by Full Clog Destroyer:

Get rid of the outpost and comeback?

it saves the world as it is even without an outpust until you clear the mission. im guessing this is so people dont lock themselves out of the quest area. you're right a quick fix would be to let people re-roll and go to a new map area

[Izumi]

Got the same issue , and i cant load in the beginning , my latest save wasnt close enough ...

[NoFrAg]

This mission sucked hard. I also noticed to late that these spores are reproducing. But at the end I just brutforced it. I used Grenades and Grenade-Launcher to make a way till the plant, then I just build a lot of towers which constantly shot the stuff, walls for protection and ammo buildings. Was able to hold it until research was finished.

[Ill Behaviour]

Ignore the root = loose the map, do not ignore the root kill it fast before it spreads

[NoFrAg]

Originally posted by Ill Behaviour:

Ignore the root = loose the map, do not ignore the root kill it fast before it spreads

It's still possible if you ignored it, but its annoying. Also, the Anticorrosivet Floor is not preventing it from spreading as Mr. Riggs tells you in the comms.

[Ill Behaviour]

Originally posted by NoFrAg:

Originally posted by Ill Behaviour:

Ignore the root = loose the map, do not ignore the root kill it fast before it spreads

It's still possible if you ignored it, but its annoying. Also, the Anticorrosivet Floor is not preventing it from spreading as Mr. Riggs tells you in the comms.

Ah I havn't done the campaign mission yet I was speaking from a survival perspective, where ignoring the root is only viable if your near the endgame.

[ToxicTeacherTTV]

Is there a way around this quest?

[RickiusMaximus]

is the colony root just the bigger bulbs that appear in the middle of the patches? I have scanned loads of them and built my research station within range of two - but the mission is not ticking either of the boxes

https://imgur.com/I38ZILP

[brian7772]

The roots a huge thing apart from the rest. About 3x as big as the rest.

[Mora]

Originally posted by RickiusMaximus:

is the colony root just the bigger bulbs that appear in the middle of the patches? I have scanned loads of them and built my research station within range of two - but the mission is not ticking either of the boxes

https://imgur.com/I38ZILP

That is not the Prime root there is only 1 looks a little red and is way bigger the map points to it after some time of playing any acid map.

[Mora]

The way I did this mission :
1: Build 6 wide anti-acid tiles around the Prime root and that neutralize it spread.
2: Build a base around it , tip #1 use the sludge to make Gas Power plants. tip #2 build anti acid tiles on both sides of the fence line and flamethrowers.
3: Make sure none of you turrets are in the range of the Prime Root or they will fire at it, Tip don't build artillery they destroy the prime root.
4:Once you have everything set up Build the research station this will trigger the attacks.
Good luck.