What's the point of the floating oxygen pump?

[GAMING_Alligator]

I can fill my whole inventory with pipes and they only reach a few metres deep. What's the point?

Does anybody use this for anything?

[YardGnome666]

i've never seen a use for it. in either game

[Sprocket66]

You can control the length of the pipe. Attach the pipe and swim down until it won't extend any longer then attach the next part.

[Andreas]

It's a really cumbersome and slow method of getting oxygen somewhere.

[Flight]

It's for exploring deep areas on the very early game, but mostly not needed.

[Smakit]

Originally posted by Flight:

It's for exploring deep areas on the very early game, but mostly not needed.

I don't know, I made it to 'pilots last known location' (to avoid spoilers =P), omega, and many others with the basic tank thanks to all the oxygen plants.

I suppose hypothetically you could make a ridiculously long system down to the depths of the ocean, but by the time you gathered and constructed it... whew. And it would only just let you down there unless there were surrounding plants. And all that time spent, you could probably have found a vehicle or tank or built a simple base in the mean time :)

Granted, if you wanted to just for fun to spend all the time and resources just to get to a point down below, I say do it and have fun. That's what games are all about -enjoy it! But practical uses? Unless I am missing a trick to it, I can't see one.

[Casino]

I have fond memories of that item from the first game. I played mostly blind and I explored nearly the whole jellyshroom caves with those damn things.

[ImHelping]

I could have sworn they finally made the pipes stack as like, the only item that stacks, in the first subnautica.

So deciding to craft some pipes in BZ only for them to be a million individual pipes felt very petty. "Oh well I guess I'll just make some spare lockers in the-oh right storage space in the Not Cyclops is terrible so it is a waste to bother with that too"

[OnlyZuul]

Originally posted by Bookworm:

I can fill my whole inventory with pipes and they only reach a few metres deep. What's the point?

Does anybody use this for anything?

The intended use is to attach pipes and pipe oxygen down to where you need it. I've never used it but that is the intended use. Takes too long to set up. By the time you have the piping where you need it you could have been done and gone to the next area 10 minutes ago without using it.

[Siozen]

Originally posted by Flight:

It's for exploring deep areas on the very early game, but mostly not needed.

Pretty much this. I've found it helpful in SN and BZ for exploring around 75-150m depths. 5 pipes is what, 25m? Still useful even after you get an extended tank and a seaglide. Though I did make the extended air tank fairly quickly.

[Halliwax]

Each pipe reaches 10 meters. One craft gives you five pipes. I think that's a reasonable distance.

It's not very useful though, no. It can be handy when you're going to the twisty bridges for the first time for the high capacity O2 tank and rebreather blueprints. It's not needed by any means but newer players might be more comfortable with it.

They can be used as a way to mark areas, if you don't want a beacon. But light sticks are better for that.

The only other use I've come up with is part of a large garden of exterior growbeds. If you feel like growing a lot of plants just because, there's no brain coral and no base-attached pump anymore. Which means your garden will require you to go in and out of your base repeatedly which could get annoying or to go to the surface, which might not be super close depending on where you build. But if you're not too deep, you could pump air down to it.

[ImHelping]

Originally posted by Halliwax:

Each pipe reaches 10 meters. One craft gives you five pipes. I think that's a reasonable distance.

It's not very useful though, no. It can be handy when you're going to the twisty bridges for the first time for the high capacity O2 tank and rebreather blueprints. It's not needed by any means but newer players might be more comfortable with it.

They can be used as a way to mark areas, if you don't want a beacon. But light sticks are better for that.

The only other use I've come up with is part of a large garden of exterior growbeds. If you feel like growing a lot of plants just because, there's no brain coral and no base-attached pump anymore. Which means your garden will require you to go in and out of your base repeatedly which could get annoying or to go to the surface, which might not be super close depending on where you build. But if you're not too deep, you could pump air down to it.

Really sum up the experience.

"But they are still good!... Oh but you will need to work around the fact they nerfed how practical they are compared to before."

Might as well carry a second air tank considering the bulk of pipe spam, and needing a sea truck to lead pipes down from the surface to a deeper base in a timely manner just further rubs in the punchline. And even that has "Or just say ♥♥♥♥ it and go back into your base." because of the extra steps needed.

[[N63] chrisragnar]

I used it in the original game to explore one of the big wreaks at 150 m when I didn't have a seamoth

[Darlandra]

i use it like crazy in early game in twisty bridges. It will go 200m ish down before it stops letting you attach pipes. you have to swim away from it though to stretch the pipes. The system works fine, the people complaining literally have no idea how to set it up.

[TheAwesomeBastard]

Originally posted by Darlandra:

i use it like crazy in early game in twisty bridges. It will go 200m ish down before it stops letting you attach pipes. you have to swim away from it though to stretch the pipes. The system works fine, the people complaining literally have no idea how to set it up.

the amount mats required to use at the start is expensive and not worth it.
too much time and mats to use, and by the time you do get the mats, you have a real base.

[Darlandra]

Originally posted by TheAwesomeBastard:

Originally posted by Darlandra:

i use it like crazy in early game in twisty bridges. It will go 200m ish down before it stops letting you attach pipes. you have to swim away from it though to stretch the pipes. The system works fine, the people complaining literally have no idea how to set it up.

the amount mats required to use at the start is expensive and not worth it.
too much time and mats to use, and by the time you do get the mats, you have a real base.

WHAT??? It's like a titanium and copper or something for the pump and 2 titanium for 5 pieces of pipe. That's NOTHING to even the first 10 minutes of play.