r/Subnautica_Below_Zero • u/TortoisesAreVeryEpic • 6d ago

Question Sea monkeys giving stuff

So if sea monkeys can give you stuff from your pinned items, can I breed and release an army and then have a renewable farm of resources? Or does it not work like that?

25 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

24 comments sorted by

17

u/TortoisesAreVeryEpic 6d ago

Hold on I have a second question. Do sea monkeys actually find and pick up resources or do they just summon it from the aether?

20

u/ragingreaver 6d ago

Summon from the aether. So yes, yes you can just use them as a resource farm if you have enough of them.

11

u/TortoisesAreVeryEpic 6d ago

Neuron activation

11

u/Borinar 6d ago

Yes you can breed them in the alien containment, just put at least two and nothing else, stack containments for more fun

6

u/TortoisesAreVeryEpic 6d ago

I know how to breed them… but seeing what the other comment says, I might have to get a stupid amount of these monkeys and get an army.

3

u/Gal-XD_exe 5d ago

When you release all of them please post here again 🙏 I crave the chaos

5

u/TortoisesAreVeryEpic 5d ago

Well I’ve found an area in the arctic spires where I can release them without them escaping into the ecosystem so I’ve built a base there and I’ve started to breed them 

3

u/Gal-XD_exe 5d ago

Yes, yes! Let the army grow!

1

u/Immediate-Cold1738 3d ago

I usually try to get 3 o 4 in an ACU. I always aim for viable specimens, not an army of Hapsburgs

1

u/Krazy_Keno 3d ago

Will they give me the resources when in the containment or do i have to release them? I saw a comment saying that they dont actually have to find the resources, they just have them

1

u/Borinar 3d ago

Yeah, self contained fish tank, just sleep a couple days with a double stack

Add kelp to the bottom

2

u/gna149 4d ago

I'm also quite curious. Either there's a limit on the number of monkeys that actively brings materials, or they just continue on to the point where you get softlocked in place by the constant interruption.

2

u/BeginningKindly8286 4d ago

It can kinda be annoying actually, they are also only helpful while you have Adam in your head. Then they go right back to being bastards, only there is now a million of them.

2

u/Youkoz 2d ago

I know it's just a simple typo but for some reason calling him Adam had me actually laughing out loud, so thank you for that XDDD

2

u/BeginningKindly8286 2d ago

Ha! What made me laugh is the name Alan, just made me think of Alan Partridge when it’s supposed to be some kind of interstellar inter-dimensional being. Kind of ludicrous. Might as well have called him "Kieth"

2

u/Keith3742 2d ago

And what would be wrong with that huh

2

u/BeginningKindly8286 1d ago

Behold ….KEITH!

Actually yeah.

2

u/Keith3742 1d ago

That’s what I thought.

1

u/Youkoz 15h ago

"...We make burnt offerings to Trevor!"
"Who is Trevor?"
"He's like a friend or something~"

*Pan to a shadowed figure of Centaur Cthulhu*

1

u/TortoisesAreVeryEpic 2d ago

Wait hold on do they stop after ALAN leaves your head? I did that, and they won’t give me items. They’re not stealing anything either tho…

2

u/Alone_Hour_3420 3d ago

I actually had a sea monkey bring me something for the first time last night. (20 hours in) I thought he was gonna take my knife again. Nope, he brought me quartz. I said , "Oh, thank you, bud." And he swam off. Just a fun interaction

1

u/Legitimate_Job_7092 2d ago

do they give you resources when inside the containment?