How do you find diamonds if you can't go very deep yet?

[Pumathang]

Anything I've found online shows deep locations, but I'm limited to 150 feet in the sea truck and however far I can get with the seaglide without running out of air. Unfortunately, I need the diamonds for the first depth upgrade.

I don't think I've gotten very far in the story yet. I've been to the Delta base, to the other base where Sam was staying, and the surrounding map down to about 200-250 meters... and I've been down to about 400-450 around Maida's base but can't do much else down there without a vehicle. Of course it's entirely possible I've missed an important location. (Trying not to google too much because I don't want spoilers, just need a nudge in the right direction.)

[jonnydoh]

Have you explored the distress beacon near the beginner area and the Twisty Bridges? It should guide you to the Rebreather as well as Al-An

[Pumathang]

Originally posted by jonnydoh:

Have you explored the distress beacon near the beginner area and the Twisty Bridges? It should guide you to the Rebreather as well as Al-An

I got the rebreather a long time ago, thank god. I don't remember the exact order I did things, but the distress beacon was something from the very beginning as well, and I thought I'd done what I was supposed to, but Al-An doesn't sound familiar at all, so that might be where I should be looking.

I have "lost" a few new entries in the databank because I bring up the menu to do something and accidentally pull up a newly-scanned/downloaded entry that gets marked as "read" before I can actually read it... so I sometimes go back and skim through the entries and have found a few things this way. Perhaps it got similarly buried.

[jonnydoh]

If you have the rebreather, you should be able to get diamonds. In the Deep Twisty Bridges you'll find them in abundance. There are plenty of oxygen plants down there; you just need to watch out for those four armed tentacle things and squidsharks .

Note that the Deep Twisty Bridges are deeper than the Twisty Bridges. You'll need to look for those holes/pits at the bottom of Twisty Bridges and dive down through those into the deep. Make sure you have the Seaglide to get you down there and back up.

[Edelgris]

I found plenty of diamonds by diving down into the caves with volcanic activity located close to the shore of Delta Island (the one with the comm tower). The caves are easy to find because of the sound their volcanic activity makes. The diamonds are clustered in crevices and it's not very deep at all. Probably not even past 100 feet, iirc. I found about 15-20 diamonds quick trip there.

[dragonbornzyra]

There are Diamonds on land in Ore Veins you can access with Laser Cutter, Snowfox, and Propulsion Canon. Diamond Deposits in Arctic Spires you can Drill with Prawn Suit. Individual pieces of Diamond on the ceiling of Koppa Mining site and Diamond Deposits at the bottom of it to drill. Ore Veins you can harvest with hand in Thermal Spires caves, dozens and dozens of Diamonds obtainable by hand in Deep Twisty Bridges, Diamond you can find in Spy Pengling Holes.

Diamond is plentiful in many areas.

Nothing is stopping you from going deeper.

Seaglide + 2 oxygen tanks and you can beat the game.

Just because your vehicle can't go deeper doesn't mean you can't.

Don't get too attached to your Seatruck, it'll hamper your ability to truly explore.

It's not about bringing the Seatruck with you everywhere. It's about the Seatruck getting YOU everywhere.

[Pumathang]

@_Harbinger

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

There are Diamonds on land in Ore Veins you can access with Laser Cutter, Snowfox, and Propulsion Canon. Diamond Deposits in Arctic Spires you can Drill with Prawn Suit. Individual pieces of Diamond on the ceiling of Koppa Mining site and Diamond Deposits at the bottom of it to drill. Ore Veins you can harvest with hand in Thermal Spires caves, dozens and dozens of Diamonds obtainable by hand in Deep Twisty Bridges, Diamond you can find in Spy Pengling Holes.

Diamond is plentiful in many areas.

Nothing is stopping you from going deeper.

Seaglide + 2 oxygen tanks and you can beat the game.

Just because your vehicle can't go deeper doesn't mean you can't.

Don't get too attached to your Seatruck, it'll hamper your ability to truly explore.

It's not about bringing the Seatruck with you everywhere. It's about the Seatruck getting YOU everywhere.

I'm still pretty early in the game so I don't have any of those things yet, except the Spy Pengling, which I just made - I found one hole in a base to send it through (driving it was awful!) but all I found was a bunch of batteries and water.

I do have the seaglide but I just have the "high capacity o2 tank" right now, which doesn't get me far.

[Pumathang]

Originally posted by jonnydoh:

If you have the rebreather, you should be able to get diamonds. In the Deep Twisty Bridges you'll find them in abundance. There are plenty of oxygen plants down there; you just need to watch out for those four armed tentacle things and squidsharks .

Note that the Deep Twisty Bridges are deeper than the Twisty Bridges. You'll need to look for those holes/pits at the bottom of Twisty Bridges and dive down through those into the deep. Make sure you have the Seaglide to get you down there and back up.

How deep are they? I've found a few of the oxygen plants but typically avoid using them if I'm planning on going deeper, since I almost never find another one and I'm basically just sealing my doom because I'll never have enough oxygen to get all the way back up to where I was... and the reload screen takes forever in BZ lol.

My current process is to take the seatruck down to 150 meters, then use the seaglide to go as deep as I can, then turn around and head back when my o2 is halfway depleted. Granted, I haven't spent much time perfecting this because I haven't actually found anything down there yet, and didn't want to waste too much time looking if there wasn't anything else in the area.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by Pumathang:

Originally posted by jonnydoh:

If you have the rebreather, you should be able to get diamonds. In the Deep Twisty Bridges you'll find them in abundance. There are plenty of oxygen plants down there; you just need to watch out for those four armed tentacle things and squidsharks .

Note that the Deep Twisty Bridges are deeper than the Twisty Bridges. You'll need to look for those holes/pits at the bottom of Twisty Bridges and dive down through those into the deep. Make sure you have the Seaglide to get you down there and back up.

How deep are they? I've found a few of the oxygen plants but typically avoid using them if I'm planning on going deeper, since I almost never find another one and I'm basically just sealing my doom because I'll never have enough oxygen to get all the way back up to where I was... and the reload screen takes forever in BZ lol.

My current process is to take the seatruck down to 150 meters, then use the seaglide to go as deep as I can, then turn around and head back when my o2 is halfway depleted. Granted, I haven't spent much time perfecting this because I haven't actually found anything down there yet, and didn't want to waste too much time looking if there wasn't anything else in the area.

There is a cave on Delta Island where you can find 6 Diamond with your Spy Pengling.

And as consider building 2 of your best Oxygen Tanks. Have you ever used an Air Bladder? They work very well, rapidly ascending you upward about 100 meters. If you bring two and hotkey each you can basically go from 200 meters down to surface level very fast, provided there are no objectacles to physically block you.

You can grab Diamond by hand in the Koppa Mining site, another place where Air Bladders work great for getting out of. Pop one bladder to ascend the main shaft, then the rest of it + another to get back out to the surface once outside.

[Pumathang]

Okay I feel dumb now... there ARE a bunch of diamonds in deep twisty bridge areas, but from a distance they look just like the quartz or the purple gel sacs (depending on the lighting)... both of which I have plenty of, so in my frantic rush to get as far as possible, I never approached them until I decided "why not grab some purple gel sacs while I'm here?" *facepalm*

I was looking for something like the shale rock in the original Subnautica you had to break open to get the diamonds =D

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by Pumathang:

Okay I feel dumb now... there ARE a bunch of diamonds in deep twisty bridge areas, but from a distance they look just like the quartz or the purple gel sacs (depending on the lighting)... both of which I have plenty of, so in my frantic rush to get as far as possible, I never approached them until I decided "why not grab some purple gel sacs while I'm here?" *facepalm*

I was looking for something like the shale rock in the original Subnautica you had to break open to get the diamonds =D

My attempts to find Crashfish Eggs had a simliar level of frustration for a similar reaosn. No woz.

[Pumathang]

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

Originally posted by Pumathang:

How deep are they? I've found a few of the oxygen plants but typically avoid using them if I'm planning on going deeper, since I almost never find another one and I'm basically just sealing my doom because I'll never have enough oxygen to get all the way back up to where I was... and the reload screen takes forever in BZ lol.

My current process is to take the seatruck down to 150 meters, then use the seaglide to go as deep as I can, then turn around and head back when my o2 is halfway depleted. Granted, I haven't spent much time perfecting this because I haven't actually found anything down there yet, and didn't want to waste too much time looking if there wasn't anything else in the area.

There is a cave on Delta Island where you can find 6 Diamond with your Spy Pengling.

And as consider building 2 of your best Oxygen Tanks. Have you ever used an Air Bladder? They work very well, rapidly ascending you upward about 100 meters. If you bring two and hotkey each you can basically go from 200 meters down to surface level very fast, provided there are no objectacles to physically block you.

You can grab Diamond by hand in the Koppa Mining site, another place where Air Bladders work great for getting out of. Pop one bladder to ascend the main shaft, then the rest of it + another to get back out to the surface once outside.

Baha I had not bothered to even try the air bladder, after the single incident when I tried using one in the first game. In the original Subnautica they were really only useful if you forgot which button was "up" and had enough o2 to last the entire slow elevator ride that gradually headed toward the surface... did that change in BZ?

[dragonbornzyra]

ZOOOM

[dupa]

I think there are diamonds in a cave located above the main gate of the mining site (on the same wall).

[Pumathang]

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

ZOOOM

It IS much faster! But... I see why you recommend two of them. I abruptly stopped about 5m below the surface lolol.

[dragonbornzyra]

Originally posted by Pumathang:

Originally posted by dragonbornzyra:

ZOOOM

It IS much faster! But... I see why you recommend two of them. I abruptly stopped about 5m below the surface lolol.

You aren't moving in any direction and just let the Air Bladders work at the right depth, you can get some wicken sick air time