If you go nuclear, be sure to grab the lab trash can when you visit the Aurora. It gives you the temperature readout when you place one, and you want 50c or greater for the best production. They can be damaged and the vent bursts will break them if they are too near to it. You can also use these to your advantage if you don't want to build right next to the vent, but nearby.Īlso be careful about where you put them. Just make sure you hunt down the power transfer blueprints to make the most of it. Plus it's deep enough to make parking your cyclops easy when you get one. It's close to a lot of mid game resources and isn't too far from the deep areas. You'll outgrow the shallows quickly, and won't spend much time there. Honestly, right by that vent is the best place for your first base. Optimally you want 50c or higher, but they do make for an okay supplement at lower temperatures. If it's yellow the generator won't work at all, but if it's green it will generate at least some power. You can tell whether it will work by what color the placement is. They just suck and don't produce if the water is below a certain temperature. You don't need to be right by a thermal vent. With reginald's giving the best power-for-space-used. A good rule of thumb is how much food you would get from eating it = more power given. The energy given depends on what you put in it. Bio is the easiest to get power from, just about anything can be put in it for power (if you can grow/breed it around/in your base you can use it for power, also poop from the seatreaders). Nuke gives the most power but the rods can be a pain to find the items for if you run out.

a heat vent, they don't do squat otherwise). 3) Sonar, Shields, Silent running drain tons of power even if used for. 2) Silent Running is a toggle, and keeps draining power EVEN if the engine is off. Active engine drain is constant even if not moving. Tips for conserving power: 1) Turn off engines when not moving. Thermal is good if you have somewhere to put it (i.e. Originally posted by DeFragged: Standard speed is fine.

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