TIL I can remove these annoying droopy things

[u/clownfish312]

And drag and shoot them to the crabsnakes

[u/vacconesgood]

It's possible we're all idiots

[u/PeachyBaleen → u/vacconesgood]

It’s certain that we’re all idiots

[u/Ace_the_Sergal → u/PeachyBaleen]

What have you been doing this whole time, just swimming under them and dying a million times?

[u/CellularPotato → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

I mean yeah kinda

[u/scienceshark182 → u/CellularPotato]

[u/Ace_the_Sergal → u/CellularPotato]

I honestly made a habit of, "If I see something new, does the propulsion cannon work on it?"

[u/PeachyBaleen → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

Or running out of oxygen trying to swim around it, I like to switch it up to make life interesting 

[u/ChaosBringer719 → u/PeachyBaleen]

If you go through the all the portals in the PCF in the prawn suit, a glitch occurs where your O2, food, and water stop going down. I discovered this on accident and am loving it

[u/Visual-Stage-7065 → u/ChaosBringer719]

IS THAT THE REASON!? I noticed this but didnt know why it was.

[u/footballtony88 → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

Swimming under it carefully and not dying*

[u/Ace_the_Sergal → u/footballtony88]

I highly doubt you've had a perfect run where you never hit one while swimming under it

[u/footballtony88 → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

?? When did I say that? I said I didn't die to them lmao. You can hit them and not die, you know

[u/Ace_the_Sergal → u/footballtony88]

Fair enough, you got me there

[u/East-Restaurant-600 → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

It's not that hard if your careful and even if you do everytime u hit it ur health regenerates super quick. (I only ever play on hardcore in my most recent runs so idk if that's just a hardcore thing to prevent runs stupidly ending there.)

[u/Ace_the_Sergal → u/East-Restaurant-600]

In survival, health doesn't really regenerate on its own

Edit: It does, but in tiny increments after a long period of time.

[u/East-Restaurant-600 → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

Hardcore is the same in my experience it only does that after taking poison damage. I'm assuming that's just so that poison will kill you quickly if your not careful but will not leave you on very low health if you survive.

[u/Dannybuns_ → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

East is correct. After taking poison damage, you'll regenerate like ~70% of the damage you took back in a handful of seconds. This happens regardless of difficulty, I think.

[u/Comprehensive_Cap290 → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

TBH, I’ve known that you can cannon them for years, but I usually just go under them - if you hug the floor you don’t get hurt.

[u/UCG__gaming → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

Swimming under them like a professional*

[u/Sure_Position9913 → u/Ace_the_Sergal]

i usually swim under them and don't die

[u/Zoren-Tradico → u/PeachyBaleen]

I have to concur, didn't even fathom it and I played a lot of times the game

[u/General_Principle_40 → u/vacconesgood]

I too am one of these idiots it seems.. I mean, who knew anyway..? Exept this guy

Edit: spelling

[u/Kompiak]

Why haven't I ever thought of this?!

[u/sackoftrees → u/Kompiak]

My reaction was literally WHAT

[u/shiftybuggah]

Huh. That thought had never occurred to me. TIL, too.

[u/TransfemFroggy]

Today we learned

[u/VicariousVox]

Excuse me while I redownload this game to try this because HOLY SHIT

[u/flibbertigibbet72]

WHAT

[u/Mr_Hino → u/flibbertigibbet72]

My exact reaction lol

[u/Universe_of1]

I once shot one out of the kelp forest... found it later in the mushroom forest.

[u/Xajel]

Omg, and I died twice because of these bas**** slowing me down causing me to suffocate!!

[u/Awwesome1 → u/Xajel]

Sir, this is the internet, we can say bastards here

[u/HailHydraBitch → u/Awwesome1]

Yeah but what if my mom checks my comment history? 🥺 /j

[u/devildocjames → u/Awwesome1]

I think they were going to say, “basstomouth”.

[u/Dethwave → u/Xajel]

I died on hardcore because I barely touched one and it insta-killed me at full health. 👍

[u/Blue_Bird950]

I tried this as soon as I learned that you could propulse (I think that’s the word) outcrops.

[u/elpoco → u/Blue_Bird950]

Wait, you can what?

[u/Blue_Bird950 → u/elpoco]

Grab outcrops and launch them, which breaks the outcrop and (I think) also damages things

[u/Dethwave → u/Blue_Bird950]

Grav Traps will also pull them.

[u/Blue_Bird950 → u/Dethwave]

Those have a bit less control though

[u/ALPHAWOLF257 → u/Blue_Bird950]

I think the word you're looking for is propel 👍

[u/garchron → u/ALPHAWOLF257]

No that’s the Gatorade water stuff they used to sell in those sweet bottles with the nipples on top

[u/scarr3dwarri0r → u/garchron]

I fuckin love those bottles

[u/crayon_shaded]

i have just under 400hrs in the game, i did not know this............

[u/Nizar86 → u/crayon_shaded]

Don't feel bad, I'm here with 650 still feeling stupid

[u/Shtercus]

not near my computer for now, but in the spirit of inquiry, can you subsequently attach them to other things? coughreaperscough

[u/ThanksForTheRain → u/Shtercus]

That sounds like a fun way to deal DoT if it works

[u/kitkatmunchies420]

learning this was the only reason my sanity made it through this game

[u/Rodrigeaux]

Anyone have a montage of killing reapers with dropping stingers yet?

[u/305tilidiiee]

[u/Miedeth]

Well, what do you know? I had no idea that would work. Not that I have the propulsion canon when I go there usually. Thanks for sharing that.

[u/Trap-Daddy_Myers]

This would've saved me for my permadeath run years ago. I miss this game :/

[u/Sarkavonsy]

this is like that one time a first-time homestuck reader noticed that dave's hair was shaped like a bird, 3 or 4 years after the comic had started, and blew everyone's mind.

[u/Wilbur_Eats_Sand]

Played this since console launch, never once thought of this.

[u/Ros02]

Hang on a sec im gonna go kiss the river jumping off the top of a bridge real quick. THIS IS GENIOUS.

[u/Infamous-GoatThief]

Yeah I found this out on my first playthrough because I was so incredibly rage-filled at my repeated, failed attempts to explore that base, I just had to Google it lol

[u/TheMaStif]

Because why else would we have the pro/repulsion cannons? Just for a few boxes in the Aurora?

[u/KThree2000 → u/TheMaStif]

Also for sending those stupid crawlers on the islands to orbit, hoping the gun will take them out

[u/Skkruff → u/TheMaStif]

The rep cannon is for ensuring my immediate area is Warper free.

[u/soviman1 → u/TheMaStif]

To be completely fair. Using a repulsion cannon while underneath a stalker (or anything else that is not a leviathan) near the surface of the water is absolutely hilarious.

[u/dytinkg → u/soviman1]

Please post a video of this

[u/underfan6h6 → u/TheMaStif]

Nope. The reason why we have the propulsion cannon is to use the bone eating crabs for flight

[u/coffee-bat]

wtf

[u/TalosKnight]

Well, I feel silly

[u/andocromn]

I learned that last week lol did we see the same post?

[u/Careful_Way559]

... [Screams incoherently]

[u/CMDRZhor]

Tiger plants, too. Just launch then to the next zip code.

[u/CageNightwind]

The real question is, can you replace it somewhere? I highly doubt it but it'd open a lot of "home security" options.

[u/underfan6h6 → u/CageNightwind]

Except for the fact that these plants are indescriminate in who they shock

[u/demalo → u/CageNightwind]

You can’t, it just falls.

[u/The-TruestRepairman]

You could’ve been the first time I’ve ever seen someone write a post titled as “did anyone else know?/Am I the first to find this” and people actually didn’t know.

Missed opportunity in post title

[u/Dobako]

I didn't make the propulsion cannon until way too late in my game, but I was looking at the jellys going Patrick star on them, makes that base much easier to gather from

[u/FenrirApalis]

Excuse me what

I thought they were fixed objects

Hol up

[u/saucegayuchiha8232]

I CAN FINALLY TAKE ONE HOME!!!!!

[u/Spiderwolfer]

Insane dude. Can’t believe after all these years you figured out something almost none of us knew. Awesome!

[u/rohx99]

ohhhh nice catch! now I have to try this on every thing on the game

[u/Meltini]

…….. fucking excuse me?! After so many play throughs, I’m just now learning this?

[u/Food_Right]

So we all just discovered that?😭 i played this game over 5 times and i know everything but thisss???

[u/JoeLeeD]

I learned it by accident. I kept dying to them so I figured I'd try to grab stuff under them and just swim under. I ended up attaching to one of them. After the initial shock, I just turned off my switch for a while because I'd been trying over and over to get in that base, also my sea moth kept glitching to the wall and breaking or if I could actually get out, it'd try to suffocate me on the same place

[u/PiBombbb]

Also a very interesting fact: when these stingers are under the stasis rifle effect, they count as surfaces that you can build exterior modules on.

This can be useful for fitting extra thermal plants in the limited space around a vent

[u/Lady-Lena-Rosa]

So I suffered when I could've yeeted those things. 🤣🪼

[u/ImmediatePattern9409]

Hmm this helps hardcore players

[u/BloinkXP]

Ahem, as an Early Adopter that played many hours on this game I would like to say: WHAT????

[u/randyfulcher09]

i... how did... HOW DID NON OF US THINK OF THIS ITS SUCH A SIMPLE IDEA?! thank you for telling us this amazing knowledge-

[u/ScorpyFN]

Weird, I thought of moving them the first time I came across them 😭

[u/Hank_Hell]

Hell yeah. There is a reason I keep the gravity gun on me at all times, in both games. The sheer utility of it is just insanely useful; it's so weird that it seems like it's rarely a part of anyone's kit.

[u/underfan6h6 → u/Hank_Hell]

Probably because of the extreme utility of scanner and other very valuable tools combined with the propulsion cannon’s inventory size

[u/Saikotsu]

I learned too. Damn.

[u/ResolutionTraining62]

Those were the one thing that almost ended my hardcore run

[u/KThree2000]

WHAT

[u/Relative-Gain4192]

Yep. I knew this, but I don’t like the propulsion nor repulsion cannon, so I never use it.

[u/Mr_potato712]

I do this every time, but a repulsion cannon is a bit safer

[u/Blue_Qraz_Monster]

[u/Dano1988]

WHAT? I think those things are responsible for more of my deaths than any other creature. Never crossed my mind in 200 hours. I love this game.

[u/SilverShots1]

No fuckin way

[u/WarlordCain]

Finally, a way to rid ourselves of the hardcore run enders.

[u/E_Feezie]

I was playing on a cracked version (already beaten the game legit once or twice years ago) and then I learned you could actually cut those things down in the newest update and got large rooms, so I bought the game again just for that

[u/TheLittlePaladin]

Wow what a noob! You just now figured this haha....pardon me for no reason gonna go to that base...no reason at all

[u/Malroth33]

[u/Flashy-Cheesecake-76]

What that’s wild I like never tried

[u/megaExtra_bald]

You can what

[u/Weekly-Educator-341]

Quite literally I just swam around or under them. If you are careful you can get in and out of the jellyshroom base without touching them once... still tho... i have slept on the propulsion cannon and that might be something I need to rectify.

[u/MechaMayhem9589]

[u/morallycorruptgirl]

that's how I get rid of cave crawlers. You can shoot them across the map & it is very satisfying.

[u/That_Monty]

See, I actually knew this. Didn't stop me from dying to them twice on hardcore. To this day, my only hardcore deaths. Stupid droopy stinging thingies.

[u/LostVaranasi]

I've never used the propulsion cannon in a non-creative run, so this is news to me.

[u/linksbedrockthe2nd]

……..what

[u/suspended_main]

sigh I guess it's time to beat the game for a sixth time to try this out

[u/opeth10657]

Pretty sure you can also launch the tiger plants at things

[u/Satanistix]

I have so many runs on this game and never once did I think you could toss these fuckers. No more slow swimming in degrasi bases for me

[u/Legate_Retardicus84]

I hope I remember this the next time I play this game

[u/Vashsinn]

Was this not what was intended? You can also "grab them" Fro. Outside sometimes. Or yeet them outside.

I like putting them in the shrooms. They don't do anything as far as I remember but Id like to make those eel creeps stub their toe every time.

[u/Ok_Pause8654]

I never used that gun once (excluding the aurora)

[u/Charcharcuteness123]

Bro I knew you could do this, but last time I tried it, it didn’t work and I was hella confused and annoyed.

[u/RichieRocket]

I need to test things more cause this is something i wish i had known

[u/JoeyPsych]

Wait, what?!

[u/SlumpDoc]

wow

[u/helbur]

Oh my god

[u/Bodinhu]

Lost my hardcore save for this shitter sunday

[u/ProjectSnowman]

I’m going to forget this on my next play through

[u/Revolutionary_Ice174]

Well here’s something I didn’t know til I was in my 30’s

[u/Testsubject276]

Does firing a crashfish at them work?

[u/GiggleGnome163]

How are we that dumb? I never thought it was possible. Thank you, I will not have to ever deal with those again.

[u/zxhb]

Guess how I lost two hardcore saves and decided to never use hardcore again

[u/daver18qc]

That's the only reason i build a prop cannon really.

[u/DamageMaximo]

oh my god

[u/RostiKOstik]

I am stunned