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Water Strider

This Hover Vessel is specially designed for scouting lakebeds and gathering underwater resources. It uses a two-tiered hover engine array to allow easy and controlled submersion of the craft and fairly reliable movement over dry land, although it's really meant to be in the water.

Before diving, you'll need to descend the craft until it lunges downward into the water, then immediately ascend to dive height. Optimal hover height for diving is ~0.60 m. Be careful how you descend so that you don't sink the whole craft under the water. Optimal hover height for travel over the water is ~2.15 m. The lower hover engines should just be under the water at that point, allowing more easily controlled submersion after re-positioning. The craft handles most reliably on land at a full 3.00 m hover height.

You should be able to notice when the craft is hovering on the lower array or the upper array of hover engines. This is an important point for maneuvering the craft safely. Whenever the lower array is engaged, the craft will lunge upward, and it will be more dangerous to submerge it again as you risk sinking without proper reflexes. It is necessary to use the lower array when moving the craft across dry land. Ideally, you should build a dock on the waterside where you may enter the vessel from the side deck and leave it submerged or at traveling height.

Does not come with storage, but that should be easily enough remedied as there is room on the deck with the fuel tanks for adding a fridge, some cargo boxes, etc. This blueprint is bare-bones in some sense.

Level 10 unlock; cheap and quick to build. Stats and resource requirements may be reviewed above in the final preview image.