It seemed like it was pretty far, and I saw a bit of the head and some of the neck before I turned on Silent Running and got the fuck out. I'm so glad I've been going into this blind. I'm almost nostalgic already of these water I just worked so hard to quit. This game is probably the most rewarding exploration experience I've ever played. I loved the idea, both desperate and tragic, I love the scope of hte building, something so crazy so huge so deep, what an amazing reward for the player I was in aw at the entire end of this plot, the details all connecting together with the pumping, the fish with trails that were healing with the enzyme the ecosystem and of course this huge beast trap down there. I was expecting some kind of god like glowing white tentacle alien form deep down there but not a trapped majestic beast. I didn't expect to interact with an emperor lethiathan like that. It made the backtracking to get the seed for the Emperor leviathan super easy but also the back tracking to get the crafting materials to the Neptune rocket super easy. I left the cyclops and prawn at the entrace of the primary containment facility and map with beacons the exit caves of the 4 teleporters of the facilities.
What part of the lost river do I claim as my forward home ? Cove tree seems the safest but its right below the 900 threshold so neither my seamoth nor my prawn can go on floor if I build a moonpool. I was asking for a map earlier one but I think mapping for yourself is as effective : on the downside you have to work for it. Is there twice the same biome across the crater ? This game is amazing ! Can you read how enthusiast I am, to take actions and be rewaded from my actual exploration and effort to get into the game. Now I actually have a sens of visual representation of the entire thing but I also naviguate it much easier : I also found a HUGE and more pratical from the " forest " of trees with lights spots, back to another blood vine zone, but 1500 meters away from the one I entered. It's been super effective : I went down through the narrow vertical pit from the blood egg vine zone, I lay a beacon with a custom name for each room or biome I found : giant skeleton, lab, giant cove tree, pit to lava zone, forest, etc. I'm always getting lost in the Lost River so I crafted 10 beacons, and went down to try to find a safe place to create a forward base and map the caves.