Tethers

Description
The is one of the items in Astroneer, that you can craft right in your inventory. It is an essential item to have in early exploration, and throughout your playthrough.

Crafting
Tethers can be crafted in the small printer of backpack, using one compound. Each tether stack holds up to 11 tethers.

Usage
To place a tether (post), press the T key (by default) so that you player holds a tether in hand, then left click to place the tether on the ground (or wall, or even ceiling).

A tether line will be created between two tethers (posts) that are close enough. When holding a tether in hand, a transparent line will show to which tether the new one will be connected to when released.

The tether lines can be gray when the tethers are not connected to any base. In that case, the player doesn't get oxygen or power from them. Tether can also be blue when connected to a base or dashed blue/yellow when power is flowing toward a player.

Vehicles can link to tethers but they will only act as a source of oxygen, unless the vehicle as power source. Only the player can get power through tether.

Once placed, tethers can be picked-up again and put back in a tether stack by click on the backpack. Shift-left click on a tether will automatically put back in the backpack wherever there is room.

Note
(As of v.0.29.80 [EA Launch], make sure you leave a space in the top left of your bag if you don't already have tethers. If you have something there and you don't already have tethers, they will disappear.)

TODO 21 dec 2016 : check which tether bug if the last patch has fixed

Tether