[Spoilers] How to prevent prawn suit from being destroyed?

[KiraTheUnholy]

So, I finally found the fabricator base and had all the ingredients.

When I arrived, I found that even though the opening was VERY clearly big enough for my prawn suit to fit into, for some reason the game did not want me bringing it inside, so I had to leave it outside. I figured "Well, if the game is gonna have me leave it outside surely it's not going to make me just auto-lose my prawn suit for the sake of this cutscene."

I get to building AL-AN's body and after he's made and the cutscene is played I'm told to go to the gate. When I go to leave I find a shadow leviathan literally clipped into the ground outside and my prawn suite is just completely gone, assumedly destroyed.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening? It seems incredibly stupid to be forced to lose your prawn suit for the sake of a cutscene, how am I even meant to get out of the biome without it?

[Just Chill]

It's partially impossible.
I just went there myself, but as I previously found this topic, luckily I was prepared.

I've build a teleportation module onto my seatruck, kept my seatruck back at my base and just moved with the Prawn down there.
I surely either build a Tether Tool and took it with me.

When I arrived at the entry, I've removed all equipment and upgrade modules from the Prawn and shotrly after I entered the fabricator facility, I witnessed the Prawn being attacked once by the Shadow Leviathan.
Ultimately I think it got destroyed by the depth (without the respective modules that were in my inventory), but as of using the Tether Tool after giving AL-AN a body, I simply arrived at my seabase ready to build a new Prawn. :D

[Vince]

go there with the seatruck not the prawn

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by Vince:

go there with the seatruck not the prawn

The prawn is the fasted vehicle in the game though.
At least if you use strafe jumping (or strafe gliding under water).

[Festive Mints]

Just use the Docking Module on the Seatruck, monsters won't attack it it it's docked on there.

[Vince]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

The prawn is the fasted vehicle in the game though.
At least if you use strafe jumping (or strafe gliding under water).

doesn't change anithing to the fact leviathan don't attack the seatruck when your not piloting it unlike the prawn

it's also possible to park the prawn a little away from the fabricator entrance out of reach of roaming leviathan path and aggro range but it so much easier to just come with the seatruck

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by Vince:

doesn't change anithing to the fact leviathan don't attack the seatruck when your not piloting it unlike the prawn

Fair enough, but I rather keep "Fatman" at home. He's good for resource hunting, but not if I am only particular after a quest.
That said... I actually should give my Prawn a name. "Bunny" fits, I guess. XD

[Fuiserino]

I had the same issue and died 10 meters before i reached my seatruck which was parked at the entrance of the crystal cave.

[tprx]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

That said... I actually should give my Prawn a name. "Bunny" fits, I guess. XD

Called mine "Mr.Bubbles" because I have found memories of Bioshock :)

[Liquid ID]

Take the PRAWN and park the PRAWN on the left of the entrance, behind the large crystal. The leviathan won't see the PRAWN there and thus wont attack it. You have to swim from the PRAWN to the entrance though, so make sure the leviathan is not nearby and use the Seaglide to get in fast.

[Doktor Kaputt]

Didnt have an issue with that.
I went around in the cave and made sure there were no Leviathans on me while I went towards the entrance of the facility. So they stayed away from the facility and thus the prawn.
After I was done I could just normally enter my prawn and go back to my Seatruck. They didnt touch it once, nor were they seen anywhere near.

[Volti]

Originally posted by Liquid ID:

Take the PRAWN and park the PRAWN on the left of the entrance, behind the large crystal. The leviathan won't see the PRAWN there and thus wont attack it. You have to swim from the PRAWN to the entrance though, so make sure the leviathan is not nearby and use the Seaglide to get in fast.

This is exactly what I did. To be honest, kind of annoying that we had to do this, but it did get me through this section without losing my Prawn Suit.

[Sprocket66]

There are lots of little pockets in the crystals where you can park your prawn safely. Find an out of the way nook out the the leviathan path, hide your prawn and seaglide over to the facility. Only had issues if I left it in the open right outside the entrance.

[Brigador Genetta]

Originally posted by KiraTheUnholy:

So, I finally found the fabricator base and had all the ingredients.

When I arrived, I found that even though the opening was VERY clearly big enough for my prawn suit to fit into, for some reason the game did not want me bringing it inside, so I had to leave it outside. I figured "Well, if the game is gonna have me leave it outside surely it's not going to make me just auto-lose my prawn suit for the sake of this cutscene."

I get to building AL-AN's body and after he's made and the cutscene is played I'm told to go to the gate. When I go to leave I find a shadow leviathan literally clipped into the ground outside and my prawn suite is just completely gone, assumedly destroyed.

Is there any way to prevent this from happening? It seems incredibly stupid to be forced to lose your prawn suit for the sake of a cutscene, how am I even meant to get out of the biome without it?

Find an out of the way nook between three crystals, and cram the Prawn into it, then seaglide to the fabber base. The spooky glow-worms seem to have a harder time clipping through the crystals than the neighboring terrain.

Or use the Tether, and a stripped Prawn. Reapers stuffing Seamoths into terrain was a time-honored Subnautica thing, and the sequel has carried the tradition of "get your vehicle dropped from animations into solid terrain".

Edit: ^ "Three crystals" is the important detail. You need an awkward enough space that the leviathan's "Hungry for Prawn" timer runs out before it can pathfind to the vehicle. The more axes of approach it's blocked on, the better.

[KiraTheUnholy]

Appreciate all the answers, but to be perfectly honest. After experiencing a lot of other bugs, tedious unclear quests and moments of forced grinding, I just stopped playing the game after this happened to me.

I was having fun with the game, and had fun with the original as well... but I just can't keep ignoring all the problems the game has. It's not something I want to struggle against anymore. Power to anyone that can still keep enjoying the game regardless, but for me that was it I'm done now.

[Mysteria]

I’d not stop after building the architect parts. Do visit the wayppoint that you got afterwards. (You don’t even need to rebuild a prawn for that.)