Pyro Barnacle

Pyro Barnacles are an alien species living primarily in the Barnacle Forest around Research Base One, though they are found occasionally around other areas clear exposure to the Ice and where nutrients are present in the Ice.

They appear as hard, grey cones with an almost scale-like texture. The top of a mature Pyro Barnacle has a hole in the top of the cone. Inside the hole is the hot, glowing orange digestive parts of the Barnacle that seem to suck and digest nutrients above them in the Ice. The bubbles that come from the nutrients down into the Branacles is safe to breath, but if not cautious the player may get stuck, though it is possible to escape, though difficult, especially in larger Barnacles like the giant one next to Research Base One.