Talk:Lantern Tree/@comment-28435078-20161025172216/@comment-25450485-20190102183154

Well, game's intentionally designed to trivialize food collection in the later phases of the game.

For example: You want to explore the HUGE cave system of the lost river and inactive lava zone without needing to leave anytime soon? Simple:

1) Take a cyclops (with the appropriate upgrades, of course)

2) Outfit it with at least one indoor growth bed and aquarium, both filled with your favorite flavours of fish

3) Fill inventory with materials needed to build a nice and big seabase. Build a few lockers in places that got free room

4) Once you find a space that is somewhat left alone by hostile wildlife, build a seabase there. Have it contain indoor planters, alien containment tanks and a bioreactor.

5) Transfer the fish and plants you brought along into the seabase's tanks and planters. Once they've grown, re-seed the ones in your cyclops.

6) If you don't need the base any more or you want to build a new one elsewhere, take it apart (you get all parts back), put the components back into your storage and rinse and repeat whereever.