I need an ion cube to craft a purple tablet but I have none.

[Trunky]

I have found and used he ion cubes in both the first facility and at one precursor tech to create batteries and power cells but now i need one to craft a purple tablet. I cannot find any more so cannot progress in the game. Are there any more?

[Chicken Gamer]

I did not use any before can drill it in the alien room.

[miklkit]

Escrito originalmente por Mega Guillotine 2020:

Escrito originalmente por miklkit:

In Subnautica there were a few ion cubes around but they were rare and one learned to hoard them until the very end and suddenly there were loads of them.

BZ is the same way. They are few and far between until the end and suddenly there are lots of them.

They set the same trap again and you fell into it.

This is patently untrue. You either didn't play Subnautica very thoroughly or have no idea what the issue is. It was literally impossible to use all your ion cubes in Subnautica before you unlocked the unlimited supply.

That is only true if you know where all of the ion cube caches are. If you don't, and many players don't, then yes you can run out of them. I did at first and it is obvious that players are running out in BZ too. It's a nice little trap.

[Dailao]

Escrito originalmente por miklkit:

That is only true if you know where all of the ion cube caches are. If you don't, and many players don't, then yes you can run out of them. I did at first and it is obvious that players are running out in BZ too. It's a nice little trap.

You missed the point completely. In the first game you only learn to craft with them very late, and you can find the blue key to open the unlimited supply without crafting it. So your answer is misleading because 1) you could find the key and did not need to waste a cube for it 2) the unlimited supply was right after and 3) you can't craft with them at all until very late, thus forcing you to collect and store all of the ones you had so far.

There was never a risk of running out and not being able to access an area. Otherwise it would be terrible game design.

In contrast you can craft with them very early in below zero to make batteries.

[Amrak]

As a last resort you can delete the cellscache file to respawn all resources on the map. This will respawn everything you have already scanned as well.

Here re the locations of Ion Cubes available;
https://subnautica-belowzero.fandom.com/wiki/Ion_Cube

[ItsIlusion]

if you get the prawn suit and go to the bases in the lava zone there is drillable ion deposits.

[cwsumner]

There were several cases of the devs letting us have something early, for testing, and then moving or changing it later. I suspect it will be done with the ion cubes

[maestro]

Just use the Console. Hit F3 and then F8 and click the Enable Console button, and then look up the item on the wiki (look for the debugID name), hit the ~ key (next to the 1 key) and just type "item precursorioncrystal 1" and bam. ion cube.

It's a beta, so get used to using the F3, F8, and F1 menus to debug etc where necessary. Save your game before you do just-in-case.

[ZALGO]

Yeah I had this problem too. It's just a broken part of the story, they should definitely fix it in the next version.