murder

let us kill the creature or at least stun them

The devs are determined to not let us kill anything except for the millions of small fish and water slugs we kill on a regular basis. Personally I think it’s a bit silly, but my biggest gripe is that we have no way of deterring nibblers in particular. They tend to congregate around bases and just get more and more annoying. I don’t mind them being unkillable, I just want to make them leave me and my base alone somehow.

You can actually sort of parry nibblers with the survival multitool by smacking them when they get close. Shooting them with the sonic resonator also achieves a similar effect, but from a greater range and it can be done to marrowbreaches (while charging you) as well. They will still come back for more after a little while, but it works decently as a temporary solution.
The worst thing about this is that there’s almost no visual indicator that you can do this. Nibblers do make small sound and jump a bit when you whack them, as do marrowbreaches to a greater extent, but it could be improved.

We aren’t as defenseless as we think. The multitool, resonaters, flares, and biomods all provide great ways to avoid predators. We don’t really need violence, just more nuance in the existing systems.