So I’m driving down the road, just outside of small town, and I get a message like “You hear ‘hostile detected’ to the north and below.” I’m thinking there’s an unmarked science lab with turrets or something. I heard it a few times and kind of triangulated to a point and dug a downstair there. Nothing.
I went to the nearest house thinking I might find an entrance to this area in the basement. Couldn’t go downstairs because it says there was a brown chick blocking the way, lol. I mean, I get why the code would stop me, but I found it funny.
So what’s the deal? Should I be trying harder to see what’s under there?
BTW, there’s no sewer entrance in this tiny 4 house town. No subway either.
I only went 1 deep because rope is aa PITA to craft. I’ll just mark it for later if I come across a bunch of rope. I already have a science lab to explore.
Did you dig around a bit? It’s possible that you’ve just missed it by a few tiles…
One way to make check: Either (try again to) get into the basement of that house or into the hole you’ve dug and wait for a while… unless the turret got destroyed, you might hear another “hostile detected” and get an indication if it’s still deeper down or on the same level.
I had similar case about half year ago. Character was walking in the forest on the outskirts of a town (near my base-house), and heard gunshots from below. And as I discovered later, it was a lab. For my luck the town was small and had a subway station, and subway tunnel led me straight to the lab.
On new lab type,
By the way, those labs of new type, with rectangular shape, are typically on -2 or -4 level, so gigging 1 level below will be not enough to reach them
Is there any forest nearby? I have a few times found air ventilation installations in forested areas that allowed me to cilmb down to an underground railway leading to one or more labs.