The Olympic Exclusion Zone inPacific Drivehas had its landscape forever changed by the events that took place in the game. Alongside strange and dangerous anomalies, plenty of flora has been morphed and mutated, or is completely new all together like the floating, jelly-like Beach Balls.

However strange it is, you’ll need these new materials to build new parts for your car and upgrade it to better handle the elements. One of these is Swamp Coral, and these odd, bioluminescent crystals can make some of the best light-providing items in the game, but only if you may successfully harvest them.

Set of Neon Reefs with Swamp Coral growing on them that are lit up by headlights in Pacific Drive.

How To Get Swamp Coral

Swamp Coral is amid-game resource, and you’ll be able to find it injunctions with The Mires biomein it once you’vecrossed the Mid-Zone Wall during the story.

Swamp Coralgrows on the sides of Neon Reefs, which are tall purple-ishspears found in larger lakes and pondsin The Mires, and they’reused inseveral middle tier upgrades and tools, such as the Bio Lantern.

Toharvest Swamp Coral, you’llwant to use aThermal Vacon them, as they have an interesting mechanic that can make them difficult to obtain.

Swamp Coralcan be extracted with a HandVac, but you’llneed to time itso that theSwamp Coral has just grown into a spot, or else it will fail to grab it.

They constantlygrow in and out of multiple locationsalong thesides of the Neon Reef, and second, theyreact to heat.

With the Thermal Vac, its heat-inducing suction willvacuum up Swamp Coral at any time, and you can evenmake the coral spawnin by aiming at andvacuuming the pink misty spots.