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Store Page View Stats: Global Achievements Subnautica > General Gameplay Discussion > Topic Details Ordo View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 6:45am Use of floaters? Tried to float a rock to the surface so I could build a solar panel on it. No dice.What's their actual use? < > Showing 1-15 of 26 comments Bull Milk Supplier View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 6:51am the cyclops used to just stop functioning when it's health reached zero (instead of exploding into fragments) so you used to be able to use floaters to float it back to its safe depth to repair it. #1 CrazyGoblin View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 6:55am There isn't one, really. They used to be quite a bit more powerful than they currently are, meaning just a few of them could buoy a wrecked Cyclops so you could scavenge it without having it fall into the depths (or potentially even float it up to the surface). Nowadays you'd need more floaters than are currently in the game in order to do that.You can slap one or two onto the seamoth and pretend you're drunk driving, or harass the local fauna by attaching floaters to them. That was another thing that was good fun when they were ridiculously buoyant; sticking a few of them onto a reaper and watching it get airlifted away...Now they're more just a curio or collector's item than anything else. #2 Reppoc850 View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 6:55am They were also used to move rocks. We used to have rocks blocking some cave entrances before. You needed to attach floaters to shift the rock so you could explore. They could also be stuck on to some predators to bugger them up when they chased you #3 Lord Essedess View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 6:58am I use them as Bio fuel for my Bio-reactor (along with the acid/deep shrooms I grow in my outdoor grow beds). And they are everywhere in my game now everytime I turn around there are more of them. #4 A Mongoose View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 7:23am I'm more interested in why you tried to power a rock with a solar panel. #5 CrazyGoblin View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 7:23am

Originally posted by X-COM SPARK:I'm more interested in why you tried to power a rock with a solar panel.

Well, he probably wanted to install Linux on it. #6 The Tempted Man View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 7:24am You can torture fish with them, forcing them to stay on he surface #7 Mimsy View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 7:27am

Originally posted by Lord Essedess:I use them as Bio fuel for my Bio-reactor (along with the acid/deep shrooms I grow in my outdoor grow beds). And they are everywhere in my game now everytime I turn around there are more of them.

How do you get the shrooms to reproduce? When I put one in, it just grows one. #8 Piderman View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 7:30am

Originally posted by Mimsy:How do you get the shrooms to reproduce? When I put one in, it just grows one.

Hit them with your knife, of course you will only get one if you pick them by hand. #9 Ordo View Profile View Posts 28 Jan, 2018 @ 9:59am

Originally posted by X-COM SPARK:I'm more interested in why you tried to power a rock with a solar panel.

Floating rock with a solar panel on it gets better sunlight than a solar panel beneath water. Basic solar panel 101. #10 Reuz View Profile View Posts 8 Feb, 2018 @ 6:40am

Originally posted by Ordo:

Originally posted by X-COM SPARK:I'm more interested in why you tried to power a rock with a solar panel.

Floating rock with a solar panel on it gets better sunlight than a solar panel beneath water. Basic solar panel 101.

This makes me curious, does a solar panel above the surface of the water actually give more power / faster power than one below water in the game? I'll have to test. #11 Stevcorp View Profile View Posts 8 Feb, 2018 @ 6:42am The purpose of floaters is to spawn out of nowhere under your cyclops and use their boulders to lift several tons of metal out of the water contrary to all laws of physics. Last edited by Stevcorp; 8 Feb, 2018 @ 6:43am #12 Bort View Profile View Posts 8 Feb, 2018 @ 6:46am

Originally posted by Reuz:

Originally posted by Ordo:Floating rock with a solar panel on it gets better sunlight than a solar panel beneath water. Basic solar panel 101.

This makes me curious, does a solar panel above the surface of the water actually give more power / faster power than one below water in the game? I'll have to test.

more power, no. Faster power, I believe so. I think the speed at which the power is produced gets slower, the deeper you get, down to about 100m or so, when it stops working completely. #13 archonsod View Profile View Posts 8 Feb, 2018 @ 6:47am They do a small amount of damage to anything they're attached to, similar to Bleeders. So you can use them to seriously inconvenience and kill other fauna (although if you're gunning for a Reaper be prepared to take a while; took around a week in-game for four of them to kill a Stalker). #14 zekk_xellos View Profile View Posts 8 Feb, 2018 @ 6:55am Floaters can also latch on to the cyclops/seamoth when the boulder they're supposed to be on doesn't spawn, and you drive too close. One or two floaters can slowly raise your cyclops if you leave it parked for a while. #15 < > Showing 1-15 of 26 comments Per page: 1530 50 Subnautica > General Gameplay Discussion > Topic Details Date Posted: 28 Jan, 2018 @ 6:45amPosts: 26 Discussions Rules and Guidelines

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