Am I missing something or is the Aquatic start very tiresome?

[Szczuku]

In order to do, basically anything, I need to start farming aquatic plants + the rubber tree, but to do that I need wide farms, and to make them I need pearls. So until wild clams start producing I can't do anything and even then domestic clams will take 8 cycles to start producing.

On top of that managing water was one of the more annoying aspects of any ONI early game and in the case of this dlc it is 10x worse. How am I supposed to build stuff if there's so little dry space? I cannot build a  classic base since expansion is made hard by huge amounts of salt water everywhere. And early game is, well, too early to be able to manage all of those liquids, even with the 2 free hydro generators adding some extra power for pumps

[sakura_sk]

Embrace chaos~

[Twiki]

I found it to be one of the easiest starts. As long as you don't disturb the plants and fish, you get free o2, pearl, food, etc to start and keep your base running. Minnow gives you a free gasket, and it's pretty common to get more through the printing pod after. Even heat is barely an issue for a long time, with so much liquid mass to sink it into.

The main thing is to build upward, so you're not dealing with keeping the ocean out too much. Beyond that, I didn't even use the hamster wheel this run, which is rare. Probably my biggest challenge was stopping myself from trying to jump straight to my endgame base before I had some temporary food/survival stuff built.

[KittenIsAGeek]

21 hours ago, Twiki said:

I found it to be one of the easiest starts.

Yeah.  Gotta be careful here and there, but the only thing I started farming right off was clams.  By time I could actually use rubber, I had plenty from the two wild trees near my base and enough perl to plant a couple more in a farm.   I had to actually fence Beakons away from around flue coral to keep my base from over pressurizing.

[Gurgel]

Agreed. It is an easy start, because most things just work without you even making them work. I am kind of enjoying that it is not a struggle and careful planning is not needed, but I am looking forward to getting something hard form the lab or from the next addition again. 

[Simonova]

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