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The Cyclops is a player-controlled submarine that is constructed using the Mobile Vehicle Bay. It is equipped with a vehicle bay capable of storing a Seamoth or Prawn Suit and can be modified with a range of different upgrades. These upgrades can help protect the cyclops against fauna or increase the depth that the cyclops may go.

At 54 meters long, 12 meters wide and 14 meters tall, the Cyclops is the largest vehicle available and capable of diving to depths of 500 meters, or 1700 meters fully upgraded. It can be utilized as a mobile base, capable of being outfitted with furniture and other amenities using the Habitat Builder.

Access is obtained either via the dive chamber located at the bow of the keel or via the docking bay when piloting a Seamoth or Prawn Suit. It is equipped with an onboard AI that will warn the player of danger and a beacon allowing the player to locate it at a distance. If the player choose to build multiple Cyclops, each will have its own beacon.

Each set requires three fragments to be scanned to complete the component. Each component is shown individually in the PDA. Each completed component will progress the overall Cyclops blueprint by 33%; to fully complete the Cyclops blueprint, the player needs to locate and scan nine fragments in total. It should be noted that while the East side of Mountain Island is a viable place to find many, if not all of the parts, a Reaper Leviathan and numerous Boneshark patrols the area, and the parts reside at a depth of below 200m. A far safer option for finding all hull and bridge blueprints could be either of the Mushroom Forests, and engine fragments can be found with relative ease in the Crag Field.

The Cyclops functions as a cross between a Seabase and a vehicle: the player can freely walk around inside it, only controlling it when they approach the helm control and "use" it. While controlling the helm, the player is still able to move their viewpoint in a limited arc to look around. The Cyclops takes over the movement controls, with forward and back moving the submarine in that direction, swim up and swim down being used to ascend and descend, and left and right used to turn. It cannot "strafe" sideways, nor can it pitch forward or back as the Seamoth can.

The submarine is equipped with three external cameras which are operated via the HUD. These cameras are located on the keel, sail and screw, which in layman's terms are below, above and at the rear of the submarine, respectively.

The Cyclops has three speed settings: "slow," "standard" and "flank." As well as speed, each setting affects the amount of noise generated and, in turn, the attention drawn from hostile fauna. More information on noise can be found in the Noise subsection.

A Cyclops is built with a full set of six standard Power Cells inserted into racks of three sockets on either side of the engine, and two wall-mounted Fire Extinguishers, one located next to the damage control console and the other in the engine room. If the player takes one of these, they can replace it (or place a different fire extinguisher) by equipping the extinguisher and looking at the wall bracket, which will bring up a "replace fire extinguisher" button prompt.

The middle of the HUD area is largely clear, but much of the HUD available to the pilot is not visible until the player engages the controls. The Cyclops is incapable of movement if the engine is disabled, and will display "Engine off" in red on the HUD to remind the player.

A console is also located in this room, which allows the player to manage upgrade modules and access any storage on a docked vehicle. The health and energy of the vehicle can also be viewed on this console.

The Cyclops' upgrade fabricator is located on the starboard hull. It functions similarly to the upgrade fabricator in the Vehicle Upgrade Console and Scanner Room, allowing the player to craft dedicated Cyclops Upgrade Modules, which can be installed at the upgrade console located in the port side of the engine.

Seamoths and Prawns will recharge while docked, draining power from the Cyclops' power cells. Vehicles in the Cyclops will also be repaired automatically if the Cyclops is equipped with a Cyclops Docking Bay Repair Module.

The keel section of the Cyclops has five built-in Storage Lockers, each containing 18 (36) units of space. The diving chamber is located here, which allows the player to embark and disembark from the vessel through a hatch.

The Aft Section is located beneath the Engine room, and serves as an access route between the Engine room and the Vehicle Bay. It has a small amount of room on the walls for smaller wall mounted objects like Wall Lockers and Fabricators.

The Engine Efficiency Module and Decoy Tube Upgrade are first unlocked after building a Cyclops for the first time, but the Engine Efficiency Module can be acquired by grabbing the upgrade from the modification storage in the drive core room of the Aurora.

Increases maximum battery life by recycling engine thermal waste and increases engine efficiency to 300%, decreasing engine power consumption to one third of its normal rate. This effect doesn't stack.

Replenishes the onboard power supply by harnessing thermal energy in areas with an ambient temperature greater than 30C. The charge rate depends on the amount of heat in the surrounding environment, and reaches the maximum at 60C. This effect doesn't stack.

The Cyclops' engine consumes energy when moving or turning, but not when stationary. The Silent Running, Shield Generator, Sonar, and any placeable items that require an external power source will also consume the Cyclops' energy. The different speed settings (Slow, Standard, and Flank) affect the rate of energy consumption, which can be found below:

Movement in multiple directions (moving forward while turning, or moving forward while turning and diving) will increase the rate at which energy is drained. The engine efficiency module increases efficiency by 300% when installed: the effect does not stack with multiple modules. The interior and exterior illumination does not consume energy. Exiting the vehicle will not disable the engine, and the lights will remain in whatever state the player left them in.

If the Cyclops runs out of power, the lights will turn off and the Cyclops will stop producing oxygen. The hatches will still function as normal, and a docked vehicle can exit the Cyclops as normal. The same is not true in reverse: a vehicle cannot dock with an unpowered Cyclops. The vehicle's horn also still functions when it is unpowered.

Interior Pieces, such as the Bioreactor or Water Filtration Machine cannot be placed inside of the Cyclops. In addition, the player cannot drop items from their inventory onto the floor inside the vehicle.

A Cyclops has 1,500 hit points, which cannot be altered by any of its upgrades. These are subdivided into 300 hit points which form a regenerating "overshield," and 1,200 hit points which are associated with the Cyclops' hull.

The overshield absorbs all damage taken by the Cyclops when the submarine has more than 80% of its health and prevents hull damage while it is active. When the overshield has absorbed damage, it will deplete, but slowly recharge on its own as long as the hull is intact. The overshield is simply depicted as the top 20% of the Cyclops' health bar, with no special indication of what it is or where its cutoff point is.

Damage that exceeds the capacity of the overshield will cause one or more hull breaches. Hull breaches can only be repaired from the outside of the Cyclops using the Repair Tool. The hologram on the left side of the bridge will mark approximately where hull breaches are located: the player can check this display by looking in through the bow window while outside the vessel. Unlike other vehicles, the hull breaches must be repaired directly to restore the Cyclops' health: no part of the hull but a breach will show a repair progress icon.

If damage continues, fires will start in random locations and will spread if not extinguished. These fires will cause additional damage (if the player is on board), reduce visibility and damage the player's health due to suffocating smoke or direct contact with the flames. Small fires can sometimes burn out on their own, but they will usually require the use of the onboard Fire Extinguishers to bring them under control. If the Cyclops Fire Suppression System is equipped and activated, it will close and lock all bulkheads and a blue light will flash. A few seconds later, all fires will be extinguished and the smoke will evacuate. The Suppression System will need time to recharge before it can be used again (about two minutes).

Piloting a Cyclops at flank speed for more than 20 seconds will lead to the AI issuing a warning that the engine is overheating, after which there is a chance for a fire to start every 2 seconds. Fires from overusing flank speed will always occur in the engine room.

If the Cyclops reaches its current crush depth, the player will be alerted by the onboard AI stating, "WARNING: Maximum depth reached! Hull damage imminent!" As soon as this warning occurs, the submarine's health will begin to drop rapidly. The depth is judged from the horizontal centerline of the Cyclops' hull. The Cyclops Depth Module MK1, MK2 and MK3 upgrades allow the player to increase the crush depth from its default 500m to 900m, 1,300m and 1,700m respectively.

It should be noted that if a vehicle docked with a Cyclops has an inferior crush depth to the Cyclops itself, the vehicle will not be damaged while it is still docked with the Cyclops no matter how deep the latter goes.

Noise will draw hostile creatures' attention to the Cyclops. The more noise the sub is generating, the greater the range from which aggressive creatures will be drawn to attack the sub. The amount of noise generated is dependent on several factors.

The different speed settings will cause the Cyclops to emit noise, with faster settings increasing the amount of noise. This is visualized on the sonar display on the right by a faint blue sphere. This blue sphere represents the area of water where creatures can hear the Cyclops: standard speed is about the size of the first circle permanently present on the sonar display, while flank speed is almost as big as the entire sonar. All hostile creatures that could damage the Cyclops are marked as yellow blips on the sonar. If the creature hears the Cyclops, the blip will turn red. If this occurs it can be prudent to either switch to flank speed and retreat, activate the Cyclops Shield Generator in anticipation of a collision, or eject a Creature Decoy and quiet the engines in the hope it will be distracted by the more obvious target.

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