Thing is though, early game doesn't properly guide you towards the habitat builder. The lifepod signals introduce the seaglide and the seamoth to players, but the only way to know the habitat builder exists is to look through the entire crafting men…
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....so they asked the community for their opinion, and then went with the least popular option? That's a little disappointing, but if the coder says flooding is too difficult there's not much else that can be done I guess