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Tutorial tips 54
The game's own tutorial prompts, the PDA's tutorial lines and every reason a base piece won't place.
Tutorial prompts
Activate Biomod
Build Tool required for Axum Turbine repairs.
Scan creatures with a Bioscanner to unlock new Biomods
PDA tutorial lines
Thanks to Alterra pioneer nanotech, your body can adapt survival traits from a Zezuran rat. Proceed to the sampling pavilion.
Tampering detected. Uncatalogued donor organism in pavilion.
Gene donor found.
You must adapt alien traits to survive.
Adapting trimethylamine n-oxide synthesis. Pressure tolerance increased. Vital signs stabilizing.
Congratulations. This orb is now your relative.
Future adaptations will be easier
Sampling.
Sprinting burns oxygen, limiting your range. Pace yourself, pioneer.
Cruise to cover distance efficiently. Remember: soft hands, strong hips.
Base building rules
- Cannot be placed floating
- Cannot be placed in air
- Cannot be placed in a base
- Cannot be placed inside a current
- Cannot be placed in water
- Cannot be placed on a base
- Cannot be placed on a ceiling
- Cannot be placed on the floor
- Cannot be placed on this surface
- Cannot be placed on a wall
- Cannot be placed out of bounds
- Cannot build. This part of the world is under construction
- Must be built between two stacked rooms
- Must be attached to a room's floor
- Placement surface is too steep
- Must be attached to an interior wall
- Must be attached to a moonpool
- Must be attached to a room
- Must be attached to a room or corridor
- Must be fully on surface
- Must be placed inside a base
- Must be placed on a base
- Must be placed on the end of a corridor
- Must be placed on the ground
- Must be placed on a surface
- Must be placed on the ceiling
- Must be placed on the floor
- Must be placed on the floor or ceiling
- Must be placed on a wall
- Must be placed on a wall or the ceiling
- Must be placed on a wall or the floor
- Must target an interior arch
- Must target a corridor
- Must target an interior wall
- Must target a moonpool
- Must target a room
- Must target a window
- Could not find valid surface for structural supports
- Surface has insufficient space
- Room surface too small, try growing the room
- Distance from ground exceeds maximum length for structural supports