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Electric eel
Hunts in packs under Europa's ice; its discharge hurts everything around. It drops its electric organ -- three make a battery without lithium -- and scales.
In the game
How to get it
In packs of 3 to 5 in the ocean under Europa's ice.
What it is for
Killed: its electric organ (three times in five) and 1 or 2 scales. Three organs, iron sheets, copper wire and epoxy at the crafting grid make a 10 kWh battery: no lithium to haul to your Europa base or your submarine.
Why it exists
The ocean of Europa is alive, and not all of it is gentle.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
How it hunts
- It goes for a player swimming within 12 m; the other eels of its pack within 16 m join in.
- Its discharge hits every swimmer and every creature within 3 m in the water, the nearest hardest; out of the water it only hurts what it touches.
How to farm it
Packs of 3 to 5 come back around whoever swims the ocean (not in Easy): every pack beaten is about a battery. Fight them from your submarine's hatch or a sealed room of your sea-floor base, where their discharge reaches only the water.