You can't start an air pump from your base!

[WoodenDOOM]

It has to be started from the surface. Look I know most ppl probly wont care but it just drives me nuts that you can't do this. You could in the original, and dang it, you should still be able to.

EDIT: I found out you can spawn a base pump with the console, but it doesn't even work. No air coming out of it. Base module it was connected to was powered and everything.

[bongerman85]

there is a floating pump and a base pump 2 different objects, i dont know if either made it into this game as i never found use for them

[ruse]

its probably the most useless item in the game

[Nefai]

Subnautica and BZ both have two different air pumps:
Floating Air Pump is mounted on the surface
Base-attached Air Pump is mounted on a habitat.

[Weaver]

Next you'll tell us you use the Pathfinder tool....

[WoodenDOOM]

Originally posted by bongerman85:

there is a floating pump and a base pump 2 different objects, i dont know if either made it into this game as i never found use for them

Originally posted by Nefai:

Subnautica and BZ both have two different air pumps:
Floating Air Pump is mounted on the surface
Base-attached Air Pump is mounted on a habitat.

There's only one pump in BZ, and it's the floating one.

[Nefai]

Originally posted by WoodenDOOM:

There's only one pump in BZ, and it's the floating one.

They must have just copied/pasted the page from the Subnautica wiki over to the BZ wiki.

[TheGraveDigger]

from the looks of things the wiki says you craft a standard o2 tank for the base pump, and also the header on top says that some of the information is updated for the experimental branch, so its attainability is on the experimental branch

[WoodenDOOM]

Originally posted by TheGraveDigger:

from the looks of things the wiki says you craft a standard o2 tank for the base pump, and also the header on top says that some of the information is updated for the experimental branch, so its attainability is on the experimental branch

Thanks and I hope that’s all it is

[Darth Cervantes]

it isn't useless.
If you want to go deep in the beginning of the game you can do this with pipes and an air pump and build it down , every 50 meters or so you put a pipe to the side for some air. it isn't ideal, but its fun to go where you aren't supposed to yet. It's an option that does not have to be used but I think it DOES have a use

[Andreas]

Originally posted by Darth Cervantes:

it isn't useless.
If you want to go deep in the beginning of the game you can do this with pipes and an air pump and build it down , every 50 meters or so you put a pipe to the side for some air. it isn't ideal, but its fun to go where you aren't supposed to yet. It's an option that does not have to be used but I think it DOES have a use

I tried this once (in Subnautica). It works, but it takes a lot of time (and resources) and I quickly decided that it's a terribly inefficient way to explore and never used it again.
I'd argue you are better off spending the time on upgrading your equipment.

So, not quite useless, but not the best option either.

It's probably most useful for those people who set themselves arbitrary restrictions to make the game more challenging. In that case it can replace the use of a vehicle for access to air.

Now that I think about it, it might also be fun to build an underwater plantation without any actual base structures and just pipes for air.