A few roadmap questions

EHW1

1. What is the lost river bone shark? Is it the spine eel, a new creature, or a lost river variant of the bone shark?
2. Precursor Bases? Different than abandoned ones and if so, what are they?
3. Optional story areas have been moved to Unknown, I understand this because of the next huge update, but will we ever get a story?
4. Creatures attacking your base seems to be late on, will we be seeing a wide range of defenses or no?

zetachron

1. The Spine Eel was exactly done when the lost river bone shark got marked as implemented on Trello. And the reaper internal name was shark_04. So guess.
2. Precursor and abondoned bases are different on Trello. Abondoned are the miners on the planet before the Aurora. Precursors far older related to imprisoning the Sea Emperor long ago.
3. Optional story and lost river areas cost much work and the timeline for August is probably already undoable. Cut content like this will help to stay halfway with the August release. That doesn't mean the content gets cut forever.
4. Attacking creatures just takes more time and could come with the May update where it gets hot as hell, as the Lava regions get more details. So maybe the May update will be called hot action.

crane476

1. I think the lost river bone shark is just a variant of the bone shark. Kind of like how the spine fish and crawlers had variants for the blood kelp biome.
2. Like zetachron said, abandoned bases and precursor bases are different. Precursor bases will be related to the story.
3. June is currently the month for working on story related things according to the roadmap, but like the creature attack update that might change.
4. So far the only defenses I've seen for bases is a larger version of the electrical field you put on your seamoth.

Klinn

Regarding story areas, I think the devs are trying to avoid adding those as much as possible until the actual release. Gotta have some surprises, you know!

There are already whispers about "certain things" they don't want to talk about in public. They don't appear on Trello etc. That probably includes many story elements.