Cryopod

Freezing a tame for transport

The Cryopod stores a tamed creature as an item. Its description in our records: "Store tamed creatures inside for easy transport. Expires if not in Cryofridge." To use it, equip an empty pod, aim at a creature from close range and hold for a few seconds. Once frozen, the creature stops eating, and the pod can travel in a survivor's or a creature's inventory. Creatures in pods also do not count toward the tribe's creature limit.

The 30-day charge

A pod starts to discharge the moment it is crafted or taken from an Orbital Supply Drop, and a full charge lasts 30 days. A powered Cryofridge or Tek Sleeping Pod recharges it. If the charge reaches zero the pod dies, and so does the creature inside, permanently, with a note in the tribe log. A Refrigerator halves the discharge rate; Preserving Salt has no effect on it.

Making pods

The engram unlocks at level 51 for 20 engram points. Each pod takes:

• 15 Fiber
• 10 Crystal (or Primal Crystal)
• 8 Polymer (or Organic Polymer, or Corrupted Nodule)
• 5 Hide
• 4 Oil
• 2 Metal Ingot (or Scrap Metal Ingot)

Crafting takes 5 seconds and gives 11.35 XP. A pod weighs 0.5. They also come from 31 crate types, including the orbital drops on Extinction and Astraeos.

What players use them for

• Flying aquatic tames, or large land tames that a Quetzal cannot lift
• Moving several creatures in one trip, or freeing a stuck tame
• Bringing big creatures into caves with narrow entrances
• Transferring saddled tames through Obelisk terminals while saving slots

When release fails

A pod refuses to deploy if there is not enough space (including inside closed Tek Caves or boss arenas), if an aquatic creature is released out of water, if the tribe or server has too many tames, or if that kind of creature is banned from the map, for instance a flyer on Aberration.

Cryo Sickness

On servers that enable it (it is off by default and on PvE official servers), releasing a creature gives the survivor a 5-minute Cryo Cooldown. Creatures released during that window get Cryo Sickness for 5 minutes: they are knocked out with full torpor, take 10 times normal damage and cannot be podded again until it ends. Anything in a creature's inventory drops when it is podded, except its saddle.