Creature capturing is confusing.

First off for those who don't know you can build a creature capture facility once you enter the delta sector and yes I cheated to quickly rush myself over there.

Anyways once you get the capture station you can make capture pods but after that it starts to get a bit confusing. It seems that that I'm only able to capture small creatures. By small I mean those creatures that are half my character height and maybe only twice my character's length. Anything bigger or longer doesn't seem to get captured. I've spent 100 captures pods on one creature around the same size as my character and have not caught it but when I tried to catch much more smaller one it captures immediately after weakening it. I started testing out the capture pods on a variety of creatures but for some reason it seems size determines whether or not you can capture it. Also flying creatures seem to be immune to capturing also.

I currently own 5 creatures so far and all of them are smaller than my character. Anything else doesn't seem to get caught.

Is this intended or maybe is this a bug?

 

You can only catch baby creatures, and (hopefully) in a later patch they will grow up

 

I don't think that true, I only found different variations of creatures but not different sizes of them. When I find one type of creature I don't see any smaller version of it. So I assume those are adults. But if the devs plan to change it that you can only capture the much more smaller ones when they apprear.

 

Nobody likes a cheat

 

Um...aren't you supposed to catch baby monsters and then grow them? Maybe that's why you can also catch smaller critters Can someone confirm this, or am I crazy?

 

Capture system is nowhere near feature-complete yet. But yes, you can only catch young ones. You said yourself they were smaller than your character. They don't seem to grow up yet, and I bet baby birds haven't been added yet.

 

The OP could be talking about the smaller monster types.. Not babies guys..




So obviously he's not capturing babies. The devs have said that the capture system is barely implemented anyways. They're going to expand it on the next patch I think.

 

I am still not sure if any unique monsters are classified as baby monsters as the tiny poop monster that looks like a slime from old RPGs looks like a baby but I don't want to waste resources on something that might be uncapturable.

 

I remember reading that they don't plan on making uniques capture-able, only random gen monsters. That was a few months ago though, so they may have changed their mind.

 

Patch notes, guys.
Tiy already said that only baby creatures can be captured. And the size of them depends on the size of the adult creature.

 

I just found out that pets can be returned if you toss an empty capsule onto the summoned monster. It will cost you an orb, but it will also save your pet when it gets stuck in a hole or something.

 

what is a capsule/orb

 

Is there any way to bring back you tamed monster into its own Orb? Mine died and it brang it back in its orb but I don't want to wait for him to die everytime. And, can you make them grow bigger? (Also, he kills civilians everywhere I bring him )

 

In Tier 4, you can craft capture pods (or Orbs) which are used to tame monsters.

 

Lol wow I actually just tried to do this.. but they bounce around so much I couldn't manage to catch one anyway /sadface. Cute.. but nastly little things. I'd like to know too if this is possible.

 

You can capture them, It was a bit tough to get one under 50%, but it worked.

The downside is, they dont follow you if you go out of screen, and seem to like to stand around, I've had to kill mine every time I move him to try and level him up.

 

Oh shit.