below-zero-chat

[stoic surge]

This is one of many things I love about these games

[next current]

Well... I'm sure it had to be done.

[stoic surge]

On another note, I recently found some eggs in the lilypads area, and they're huge [3x3] so I'm wondering what can hatch from these things

[next current]

Oooo...! Hatch them to find out!

[carmine bobcat]

Maybe squid sharks if there in there

[stoic surge]

OK, I guess I'll have to build a containment tho

Should I build a regular, or a Large?

[next current]

Either is fine.

[jolly basin]

Totally go large

[timid horizon]

is the || Quantum Locker || worth building

[jolly basin]

I’ve never used it but probably good to get resources home without taking multiple runs with seatruck or prawn

Like a little base in crystal to farm up from and depot into locker

[timid horizon]

yeah just figured you need two to make it work probably

[next current]

Yeah, I use it as a little backpack.

[timid horizon]

is has such little space

[timid horizon]

wait can you put one inside another one?

[next current]

Yee, it's the same as the waterproof locker (4x4).

[next current]

I'm... not sure.

[timid horizon]

oh boi if so that can cause some serious lag

[next current]

You can, but It's pretty useless.

[jolly basin]

Can you not extend the storage in the locker?

May have been a mod

[next current]

Mod thing.

The Quantum Locker acts the same way as an Ender Chest from Minecraft.

[timid horizon]

like this?

[next current]

They're referring to this mod: https://www.nexusmods.com/subnauticabelowzero/mods/91

[timid horizon]

can you but a different type of battery in || Propulsion Cannon || ?

[hasty panther]

Ion battery yea

[next current]

Yee... You can swap out the regular battery for an ion battery.

[timid horizon]

how do you charge them

[hasty panther]

Battery charger foo

[next current]

Via swim charge fins or the battery charger.

[timid horizon]

how much charge do they have

[hasty panther]

500 I think?

[next current]

[timid horizon]

are they worth making?

[hasty panther]

It’s been a minute since I’ve played ice cube game

[hasty panther]

Uh yea dude they hold a lot of charge

[next current]

While they do hold more charge, they do take longer to recharge.

[timid horizon]

why doesn’t it have the charge of a || ion cube || if you need that to make it

[hasty panther]

When I play ice cube game I always go for ion battery so I can get one for the sea glide cuz that thing sucks up battery life like my ex girlfriend

I mean what?

[next current]

The charge for the Ion Crystals are for another piece of tech from the scanning artifacts.

[hasty panther]

I think u gotta scan alien crap to get ion battery?

[next current]

Yeah, 6 to be precise.

[timid horizon]

should i be using all my || ion cubs || for the batterys?

[hasty panther]

That tp module for the truck is amazing

[next current]

I would save some.

How many cubes do you have?

[timid horizon]

4

[next current]

I'd save at least one.

[timid horizon]

i am still early game haven’t even touched the story yet

[steady adder]

So I have my multipurpose room disabled but the water filtration machine in it is still producing water

Is that normal or

[hasty panther]

Why do you have it disabled

[next current]

Because the WFM drains a ton of power in the early game.

[timid horizon]

i don’t think it’s possible to remove the water filtration?

[next current]

You can.

[timid horizon]

how? mine doesn’t let me. once i pull everything out it just turns back on

[modest pagoda]

you unpower the room I think

[next current]

Oh I thought you meant like deconstructing the machine.

[timid horizon]

yeah it never let me

so i just started a new save file and not touching it again

[next current]

Fair enough.

I never use it anyways.

[timid horizon]

also how do you take out fish from the ||bio reactor||? it seems it never depletes the fish inside

[next current]

You can't remove fish from the bioreactor. Is the energy amount at the top almost always full?

[timid horizon]

like how often do you need to fill it up? it literally hasn’t depleted yes

[modest pagoda]

do you have any other power generators?

[timid horizon]

does solar count?

[modest pagoda]

yes

[next current]

Yes. It might be taking power out of your solar panels first.

[modest pagoda]

your bioreactor isn't losing power because your base is only relaying on the panels

[timid horizon]

welp game just crashed

how do make the scanner stop scanning

[modest pagoda]

the room or the tool?

[timid horizon]

the room

[next current]

Disable it with the Control Room.

[timid horizon]

?

[modest pagoda]

where you selected the item to scan for its the x below the name

[next current]

Ahh this.

[timid horizon]

game keeps crashing

oh boi i messed up big time

[modest pagoda]

rip

[timid horizon]

nvn it disappeared when i stopped it

i had like 40 quarts singles on my screen

[stoic surge]

'Singles in your area'

[timid horizon]

were is the best place to place one?

[stoic surge]

Quartz? or Singles?

[timid horizon]

the scanner room

[stoic surge]

OH -- the databox on the island

[timid horizon]

?

to use it?

[next current]

I'd say as close to the seafloor as you can.

[stoic surge]

Oh, I thought you wanted to find the blueprint

[next current]

Sad data box mining site noises

[stoic surge]

I do wonder why they have two databox for that

[timid horizon]

for people like me

i literally just explore a game first and don’t do the story until later

[next current]

I wonder the same question with the Control Room as it has 3 data box locations.

[timid horizon]

that’s what crashed my game

but there was more

[stoic surge]

Nice

[dull blaze]

there's a pda (that I thought I'd taken previously) but I don't get a pop-up to pick it up

[next current]

How old is your save? Pre-WTD Update?

[dull blaze]

yeh

pre WTD idd

[next current]

Yeah, this happens on older saves when a new update like the WTD Update comes out. All PDA's previously found in the world are now respawned.

[timid horizon]

by chance is it confirmed yet if there will be a Subnautica 3? or were they be updating subnautica 2 for a while

[dull blaze]

ight, thanks! ^^

[next current]

A third game has been confirmed iirc. Although that won't start actual development until Moonbreaker fully releases. As for the SN2.0 Update, we're waiting for that update to come out.

[timid horizon]

Umm my base just turned off

Like all the lights

[next current]

Out of power?

[timid horizon]

No idea

[dull blaze]

what power source(s) do you have?

[next current]

It looks on.

[stoic surge]

This looks familiar, lol

[next current]

Oh... the Scanner Room probably drained all of your power.

[dull blaze]

I can't see it with the lighting of a picture of the screen, the inside looks dark, so I'd assume the power of your solar panel'rs run out

[timid horizon]

I have a solar panel

[timid horizon]

It does?

[stoic surge]

Shall I show you?

[timid horizon]

Sure

[dull blaze]

it's power is probably drained, it charges during the day (when enough sun hits it) but it loses power during the night when a scanner room or fabricator drains it

[timid horizon]

So one solar panel isn’t enough?

[stoic surge]

Mine is from slightly deeper, lol

[next current]

I recommend trying a bioreactor.

[dull blaze]

depending on the depth that you're playing in (and biome?) your solar panel will charge from pretty soon in the morning to only at noon

[dull blaze]

I'd also recommend watching a yt tutorial about sn power

[modest pagoda]

what biome is this?

[stoic surge]

This is from a biome in 'the crater'

[modest pagoda]

I know, I was poking fun at that

[stoic surge]

I was mentioning the earlier pic looked similar to this one

[timid horizon]

What’s the clear room used for

[stoic surge]

That's an observatory, it for -- observing

[timid horizon]

Would you mind telling me we’re you built the base

[stoic surge]

That one's from the OG, not from sector zero

But I was comparing the shape of the base

[timid horizon]

Ahh

So the further I build my base down does it fake damage

[stoic surge]

A base needs more strength to take more pressure

The one from my pic had 3 bulkheads, and 6 reinforcements

This was to counter the low integrity of the observatory

[steady adder]

My base is currently on the edge of the delta island, in the purple vents area and a solar panel + thermal reactor powers it up pretty good

And I have scanner room, moonpool, wfm and a lot more

[stoic surge]

Thermal plants work well with 'purple power'

[timid horizon]

Were would you say is the best place to build in below zero

[carmine bobcat]

Deep Twisty Bridges is always popular

[timid horizon]

Like as far down as I can go?

[carmine bobcat]

Pretty much

[stoic surge]

You're not limited to building in one spot, you can have several 'outposts' if you like -- I do have one central base, where I do most crafting and stuff tho

[timid horizon]

Yeah but I don’t want to loose my base if I build it somewhere down below

[carmine bobcat]

So build it properly with reinforcements

[stoic surge]

For a first base, there's a sort of mesa just south of the drop pod area, it's a nice spot to get started

[timid horizon]

No I mean I don’t want to forgot we’re the base is

[carmine bobcat]

You can place a beacon right above it

[stoic surge]

If you build near the drop pod, you'll never lose track of it

[timid horizon]

You can make beacons?

[carmine bobcat]

Yes

[dull blaze]

send help pls 0-0

[stoic surge]

Dude

[dull blaze]

I'm on pretty low health

[stoic surge]

Lol, I bet you are

[timid horizon]

I am assuming there isn’t a way to teleport between bases?

[dull blaze]

Idk how, but I'm still alive

don't think there's a way to teleport in BZ, period, since the map is pretty small scale

[stoic surge]

Nope, but the Seatruck is a great way to travel

[raw jewel]

Thank you deconstruction from the inside WORKED!!!!

[stoic surge]

Were you the one trying to remove a random base part?

[hasty panther]

Sea truck tp module can help

Only works one way

[timid horizon]

How dose it work

[broken badge]

Also uses ion cubes to work

[stoic surge]

I think they were meaning between bases

[raw jewel]

Random base part...Yes I was

[hasty panther]

Ohhhh yeah that’s no bueno

[broken badge]

The map isn’t that big tbh, dunno how many bases you planned to have

[hasty panther]

Unless console commands then no bueno bro

Map isn’t super huge like the first water game so I don’t see a reason to do that

[stoic surge]

Yeah, base building takes some practice

I've gotten myself stuck many times

[broken badge]

Base building also can be finicky, in either game

[hasty panther]

Lucky for you the unstuck button is a thing

[stoic surge]

It is now, but I've been getting stuck for a looong time here

[timid horizon]

I trapped myself in my base

[hasty panther]

The sea truck dock is amazing, a bit laggy, but amazing

[broken badge]

I got softlocked inside a base in Subnautica once

Had to use commands to get out

[timid horizon]

It can happen in below zero

[broken badge]

Because freedom, wasn’t gonna die

[stoic surge]

I think the Devs have made it so your builder tool can work inside a base even if it has no battery

[broken badge]

Yeah, the builder tool keeps working

[hasty panther]

Do hwat?

[stoic surge]

Yeap

[hasty panther]

Idk what that means, but I’ll just nod my head and say yes

[stoic surge]

It means yes, it does that

[hasty panther]

Yes

[broken badge]

My issue in Subnautica, my base was powered, I was working in a section that wasn’t connected to the main part of it. I deconstructed a hatch from the inside, to move it. And the game didn’t refund me the piece of quartz and I didn’t have another in my inventory to make the other hatch, so yeah the section was (1) cut off from the other part of base, (2) didn’t have materials to make a way out, and (3) in freedom mode I wasn’t ever going to die since there was oxygen and didn’t need food or water

[hasty panther]

I wonder if water game 3 will have Riley somewhere in there or a multiplayer feature

[broken badge]

Now I always keep extra materials with me, just in case😅

[stoic surge]

Always a good idea

[broken badge]

Although I don’t think BZ has the failure to refund materials issue that Subnautica has (rare, but it’s happened to me before a few times)

[hasty panther]

I saw someone say there isn’t enough cubes in ice cube game but when I found the ones I needed, I had enough to make four ion cells, six ion batteries, and enough left over to fill half the huge locker

There’s way more than needed for whatever the player needs

[broken badge]

I only asked you to change your status once Ares

[next current]

Lol.

[hasty panther]

That tp module is awesome

[stoic surge]

The aquarium module is also, it can catch fishies even when docked

[broken badge]

Lol
Kinda wonder if that was actually intended

[stoic surge]

idk but it's cool anyway

[broken badge]

Well at this point it’s certainly not something that would change😆

[hasty panther]

Didn’t even know it existed

[carmine bobcat]

Builds seatruck dock
Builds seatruck
Builds 20 aquarium modules for seatruck
Sits back and enjoys the fish

[next current]

XD

That's clever!

[stoic surge]

Ouch, so much lead needed tho

[next current]

Trust me... That's not a lot.

Well I mean... 63 is a lot of Lead.

But I mean... Compared to... other things... that's not a lot.

[stoic surge]

I greatly miss the large lead deposits

[next current]

Same.

Arty has once again failed me.

[stoic surge]

Surely not?

[hasty panther]

Imagine how slow that would be with 60+ modules

[next current]

Uhhh... yeah...

[opaque harbor]

speeb

[hasty panther]

And good luck getting anywhere with Johnny sins piloting that massive worm of a truck

[opaque harbor]

actually after 50 modules you start to gain speed, just no one ever tried it

[modest pagoda]

art has come here

[next current]

ahem

[hasty panther]

You’d make the devourer of gods jealous with that much length and birth

[next current]

Do not lie to the masses.

[opaque harbor]

[hasty panther]

[next current]

That is false advertisement and I would like my kromer back.

[opaque harbor]

It was a half truth because i never tested with anything over 10 before. So i don't know what powers you unlock

[hasty panther]

Do hwat?

[next current]

It just continuously gets slower and slower and slower and- you get the idea.

[hasty panther]

If u do make a truck that big and long, Johnny sins might get jealous

[next current]

Poor Johnny sins.

[hasty panther]

Yeee

That dude gon get ya

[next current]

Lemme at 'em!

[hasty panther]

Get em good

LMAO it was deleted

[stoic surge]

I think the boomerang fish might be kinda derpy, they're actually trying to go into my aquarium module

[steady adder]

If you have the sea truck docking thing attached to your base is a moonpool worth it

[stoic surge]

Only if you want to park a Prawn also

[steady adder]

The I have the docking module on the sea truck so I feel as if the moonpool could be replaced with a power cell charger at that point

But I do need that station that can only be built in the moonpool

[stoic surge]

It's up to you

You can always try it, and if it doesn't work, unbuild

[steady adder]

Idk I wish the upgrade console could be built elsewhere

That’s the only thing holding me back

[stoic surge]

You can try many things, and if you don't like, try something different -- you always get materials back when unbuilding

[steady adder]

Yeah true

[carmine bobcat]

That I can totally agree with. I'd love to be able to be 100% set with only using the sub. No statis bases or items which require them.

I've tried it with mods in BZ and Sub, but it's felt janky and cheaty.

[stoic surge]

I would really like the Seatruck to have some way to charge, like the Seamoth did with the solar charger

[timid horizon]

Anyone know of a bug after scanning architect artifact the pop up we’re it is won’t go away?

[stoic surge]

You can toggle the signal in the PDA

[eternal garnet]

do you mean the beacon? turn it off

[timid horizon]

It doesn’t go off automatically?

The other did

[eternal garnet]

no it's not working properly

[timid horizon]

How strange the others aren’t showing up

[eternal garnet]

toggle them off/on and they do

So it kinda works. But not

[timid horizon]

How do you do that

[eternal garnet]

you click, left. Console, no idea

[crimson pier]

So i finally found omega

and i’m gonna go out a limb and guess old margey sent that place to hell and back

[timid horizon]

Just making sure the tiny fish that I hit with my sea truck that die de spawn eventually right?

[modest pagoda]

I think

[eternal garnet]

yes, they respawn too

[timid horizon]

They do? I literally cleared out the area around me and haven’t seen any since

[eternal garnet]

well, yes. If not, you risk running out of food

[timid horizon]

?

[hasty panther]

I had for the longest time a water problem because I never had enough

Took me till I almost finished the game for me to find a reliable water source

[timid horizon]

Do ore vains respawn

[next current]

No.

[timid horizon]

Dang we need a renewable resource update

[jolly basin]

You can reset resources but only on PC

[timid horizon]

Because I am running out of resources

[hasty panther]

What are you running out of so fast dude sheesh

[hybrid geyser]

Maybe they've been playing for a long time.

[hasty panther]

Idk what he goes through so fast but I’ve never been out of anything

I grow all plants I get, I get plenty of titanium because it’s the life blood of this game, and I have my handy mineral detector for anything I need

[hybrid geyser]

The mineral detector is useful as heck. I barely had to use the scanner room because of it.

[hasty panther]

That detector is a godsend holy crap yes it is

[modest pagoda]

scanner room is just better imo

[hasty panther]

Yes and no

Yes because it scans in abundance, and no because it’s not mobile

[modest pagoda]

the range on the mineral detector is like 10m and it takes too long to find things sometimes that I lose my o2 and die

[hybrid geyser]

True.

[modest pagoda]

eh, you only need like a bioreactor, a room for it, and scanner room, plus upgrades i guess

[hasty panther]

I got at least one of every power generator

I have four solar panels because yes

[hybrid geyser]

Even nuclear?

[modest pagoda]

nuclear is amazing in this game

you can get so many free rods its insane

[hasty panther]

Yes of course

Why wouldn’t I?

Nuclear energy is supreme

[steady adder]

Except for long term

You’ll run out of the materials eventually

Long term, passive energy is better

Such as thermal or solar

[modest pagoda]

its good if you have other sources so that the rods don't get used up as fast

[hasty panther]

I don’t play that long I’m not a hardcore player

[stoic surge]

Nuclear is really the only one I don't use

Bioreactor is my preferred energy source - it's cheap to build and easily fueled

[carmine bobcat]

I pretty much only use solar panels and extenders.

[crimson pier]

nothing like researching out in the arctic

except it’s just a game

nobody cares about my silly made up “research”

it’s probably been done before

i’m just sad now

[crystal plaza]

all this advanced technology in the game and they can't figure out how to make a rebreather with a head lamp attached?

head lamp is useless because you have to take off the rebreather to use. I wasted an ion cube to find that out?

[steel stream]

If you have recycler, you can get the headlamp materials back

[hasty panther]

Just use the recycler to get ur stuff back, ez

[crystal plaza]

i'd rather find a modded rebreather that includes a head lamp

[carmine bobcat]

hi

[crystal plaza]

hey

who else vastly prefers the prawn suit over the snow fox for land exploration?

[bold monolith]

I think it's a common opinion.

[timid horizon]

i am abusing the scanner room. I went on a collecting spree and can’t find anymore titanium

[steady adder]

There’s a lot of metal scraps by the ||mercury||

[timid horizon]

i know i used the scanner room to find parts as well all gone

[crystal plaza]

go to worlds end with the prawn suit and drill arm you'll find big titanium chunks aplenty also inside the ||koppa mine||

[carmine bobcat]

How many lockers full

[timid horizon]

this is just a small section

[crystal plaza]

why dod you need so much titanium what are you building?

[carmine bobcat]

99999999999multipurposerooms

[timid horizon]

a huge base

like huge

[crystal plaza]

you may as well just use creative mode or the console to spawn as much titanium as you want

[carmine bobcat]

Be carful because you have access to all of the titanium in the map

[timid horizon]

nah that disables trophies

[crystal plaza]

but if you want to do it the hardway I'd go to worlds end with the prawn suit and drill

[timid horizon]

we just need a renewal source of ores

[crystal plaza]

you can delete the cache fles forcing areas to repawn

but thats also "cheating"

[timid horizon]

PlayStation

[crystal plaza]

worlds end then, theres plenty of big titanium chunks

[timid horizon]

Dang that sucks. They should add drill that you can can place that generates ore over time. But it cost like tons of power/ 10 diamonds, Ruby some ion Cubs ect.

[steady adder]

That would be nice

[timid horizon]

is there a way to suggest ideas?

[steady adder]

I mean there’s the feedback section in game

[timid horizon]

Yeah but do they read it?

They must get tons of feedback

[bold monolith]

It was mainly used as feedbacks in the early access. Now that the game is done, not much will be added. And the feedback system is left for bugs.

[steady adder]

Yeah^

But I mean it never hurts to say like in the next game you should …

[timid horizon]

Well hopefully the next game is bigger in map size like 3 times as big.

[bold monolith]

Yes, but don't use the feedback system in this game to do that. It will be lost very quickly. Use twitter, email, ...

https://snexpansion.unknownworlds.com/feedback/tickets

[deep kettle]

That's a lot of years of work 😛

[steady adder]

Yes it very much is

[timid horizon]

Not really just make a programming that randomly generates maps with some parameters

[deep kettle]

Procedural/random generation really isn't too easy either. It took Minecraft as an example many many years to get where they currently are, the first years of the game had very much laughable/poor terrain. Not to forget about that for a story based game it's rough to make anything good out of it.

Yes it's an option, but it's not just magically going to fill in content / a good world 😛

[timid horizon]

So do they just make ever saque inch of the map themself?

There is no way

[deep kettle]

Both maps were mostly hand made yes. They did use some rough outlines to set the terrain, but a lot of it is adjusted by level designers.

Hence my comment why third times the size of either map would take an extremely long amount of time for them 🙂

[timid horizon]

And how big is the dev team?

[steady adder]

More map would also pretty much force them to increase the length and size of the story so it’d be a lot of work

[deep kettle]

I believe they have in the tens of people now, 40-50 I believe was said at some point(?). But those are not all working on Subnautica and not all of them are level designers either 😛

I'm missing something I feel like xD

[bold monolith]

That's it.

[crystal plaza]

You can use procedural generation to make a rough outline then hand edit it to add interesting sections or fix glitches , stuff that doesn’t look right

Lots of games are using hybrid systems now

Like deep rock galactic

[deep kettle]

Deep Rock Galactic is a bit of a weird case lol.

[crystal plaza]

It uses premade chunks but then arranges them randomly with random tunnels between them

Something like 800 premade chunks I read I think ?

[deep kettle]

I'm not sure how many they exactly made.

But it becomes pretty obvious if you played enough 😛

[crystal plaza]

Anyway I doubt they’ll add regenerating minerals because creative mode is right there . Play the game once in survival to get all the trophies then play in creative to make your massive base

[zealous beacon]

I would be interested in them adding more vertical connection options to rooms.
Like Large, two multipurpose below that, and a second large on the bottom.
Or allow large rooms to offset from each other, like those two squiggly tetris blocks.

[light saddle]

can ||ice worms|| hear prawn suits

[zealous beacon]

Yes.

[light saddle]

how do i avoid those buggers

[zealous beacon]

Run.
Literally.
In my last hardcore play through, I didn't even take a vehicle into their region. I just held shift and made sure I knew where I was going.

Any grazing hits I took, were a few peppers or a med kit away from being fixed.

[light saddle]

can they hear running

[zealous beacon]

They will hear everything. But they are not perfect at targeting you. If you are moving, they are more likely to miss.

[light saddle]

EVEN WALKING?

[zealous beacon]

Everything.

Think about it, they eat snow stalkers. Those things typically walk.

[light saddle]

how do i get thumpers

[zealous beacon]

You can TRY to use a thumper, if you need to be in one spot for more than a couple seconds, but my advice is just don't stop moving unless you are sure you're not in a zone for them.

I think they're in a databox at a mining spot in worm territory.

But I never use them, so I tend to forget.

They only work in a set radius, after all.

My biggest lesson for the Subnautica games: The AI is meant to give you a chance.
Predators will stop chasing after a short distance, break off after an attack to give you time to retreat, and generally bad at maneuvering.

The worms cheat a bit, as mechanically they are not a creature, but an environmental hazard that spawns near you. Hence the inability to fight or scan them.

The thing I am pondering, is how you are meant to find Delta Station. Whether purely by accident while exploring, or if there is some in-game indicator of "that way" I have never noticed.

I mean, we have beacons for stuff show up from a good distance away, but what is supposed to make you go toward the island to get the beacon in the first place.

[bold monolith]

A beacon.

[stoic surge]

Lillian does say in the first recording, that it's 'impossible to miss' -- Sooo, it's fairly possible most players will be looking around for the huge tower

[zealous beacon]

Yeah, I tested that. 200m or so, before the tower pops into view, similar to the beacon detection range.
So it still leaves the question of, what is supposed to guide the player in that direction? Or are you just supposed to find it by accident, incidentally going that way?

[stoic surge]

I figure, since the drop pod is 'south' of the landing spot, it insinuates the player should keep heading that same direction -- possibly

[zealous beacon]

Heading west has the supply cache beacon, though, and you could get sidetracked thinking its that way, and wind up at Phi dock.

[deep kettle]

I would say it's pretty difficult to miss the island though. It's in the middle of everything.

[stoic surge]

I do like to set up an outpost at that location, once I have a builder

[zealous beacon]

It is, but its meant to be your first stop, but nothing tells you which way to go to get there, is my point.

[zealous beacon]

If it had a better draw distance, so you could see it from that 'impossible to miss' distance, that'd be something.

So a "You're taking too long" bone thrown to the player then?

[stoic surge]

Ah, so we don't have to get close to eventually see it? Awesome

[bold monolith]

Two goals, one is location based the other is time based from when you exit the lifepod.

[zealous beacon]

So essentially, you find it randomly by exploring, or the game throws the beacon location at you for taking too long.
No in-game clues or visuals to tell you to go that direction before you stumble across the beacon.

[deep kettle]

I'm convinced Ignis has a database for every detail in the game.

[stoic surge]

He IS the mighty wizard, ya know

[bold monolith]

I have the location of all slots in batches, that is pretty useless, but indeed.

[deep kettle]

We need a way to spy on everyone.

Very important

[stoic surge]

Spy Pengling?

[zealous beacon]

Useful info, but sort of disappointing. Par for the course though.
In the first game, you find a PDA at the jellyshroom base, telling you they are going to build a base in the direction of that cave, from the island. In short, you already found what the clue was telling you about.

[deep kettle]

Subnautica does the same thing with a bunch of things btw Terakhan.

[deep kettle]

No as in I want to be able to request data from people their games, could never go wrong >:D

[stoic surge]

Oh

[bold monolith]

In SN1 you also have goals that are triggered two ways, the second usually if you spent a lot of time while doing nothing.

[zealous beacon]

See, that is what bugs me.
Triggers, rather than organic direction.

[stoic surge]

If the OG had a jukebox, I would probably have spent more time loafing around

[deep kettle]

Someone made an integration with Spotify as a mod, I absolutely loved that xD

[zealous beacon]

Lil says the tower is impossible to miss, but you have to get within a distance just a bit bigger than a football field for the tower to be seen at all.

Which means, exploring on the surface, until you happen into range to see it.
Meanwhile, grumpy fish below you.

[crystal plaza]

i think delta island is pretty hard to miss but what is easy to miss is the pathfinder tool at the emergency supply cache and if you miss that then no compass which makes using the map you find in delta base much harder

[zealous beacon]

You get the compass by default.

[crystal plaza]

i just started a new game

[stoic surge]

Fun fact - the smaller moon is always directly North, in both games

[crystal plaza]

and didn't have the compass until I found the path finder tool to unlock the blueprint

[zealous beacon]

I did too. I hit my little caches of silver, gold, and copper right off the shore, and built my compass first.

Not even an hour play time yet, on this run.

[crystal plaza]

also is there a clue to finding the rebreather , its just there but considerably below your comfortable diving depth at the start so pretty unlikely to just find it randomly?

[zealous beacon]

I think THAT one, you are to find by accident, following the distress signal. Its right outside the cave. The better O2 tank is a bit harder, as its further away and shallower.

All the parts for the seatruck and mvb are within diving distance without either.

So it feels like they want you to have the seatruck, take that into the trench as your source of oxygen, and find those two spots while exploring.

[crystal plaza]

true - you can manage without the rebreather for a whule with jus the seatruck

finding diamonds for your first depth upgrades is a bit hit and miss as well

[zealous beacon]

Which is why the scanner room is an early find, at delta.

[crystal plaza]

right, but the scanner can often show nothing because its out of range and you need magnetite for the scanner range updates

[stoic surge]

The HUD chip makes the scanner room actually useful

[crystal plaza]

yes

[stoic surge]

Some players say BZ has too much 'hand-holding' compared to the OG, but we still get many new players logging in here, asking where to find stuff

Personally, I think the Devs did a good job balancing needs with wants

Developer's rule #1 - you can't please everybody

[crystal plaza]

yes for sure

[crude citrus]

They probably refer to "too much handholding" as constantly being pointed exactly where an ||artifact|| is instead of the game having confidence they can locate them themselves.

[deep kettle]

I mean those are in really weird places honestly.

[crystal plaza]

I can see people getting stuck on the laser cutter fragments as well a bit of luck involved there

[crude citrus]

It's kind of like Easter egg hunting with your parents except they tell you the exact location of every egg instead of giving occasional hints.

[crystal plaza]

sometimes the exact location doesn't help because you still have to work out how to get there, like the ||architect body inside the koppa mine||

[stoic surge]

Perhaps the Devs wanted players to do some travelling to find them, to become familiar with the various biomes and the resources that can be found in them

[zealous beacon]

My thought is, for what I have been discussing, a simple inclusion of Lil saying Delta was south of the mainland.
Legitimately, my first base found was Outpost Zero.

Because, you can see it as you fly in, so I had a direction to go to find it.

[crude citrus]

Also is it just me or I get ripped out of the game each time ||Robin and Al-An talk to each other? It absolutely kills my immersion.||

[zealous beacon]

I was thinking about that too: What happens, as far as his story, if you get all the alien tech scans, short of the body parts of course, before ever meeting him? Does he just spam you with, 'I know where my body is!' lines to catch up?

[stoic surge]

It has become annoying for me, as I've heard it several times now, in my current game I'm just leaving him in the cube, lol

[crude citrus]

I kind of wish they had Robin as a vessel like they did with Ryley, no talking.

[tardy surge]

BZ is story-based, so I'm guessing that's why she has a persona.

[stoic surge]

I once tried to get ||Al-an|| to transfer into a pengi-bot ... It didn't work, but would have been awesome

[crude citrus]

I find it to be a poor choice.

[tardy surge]

Well, that's why it's not called Subnautica 2.

[zealous beacon]

Doh. Built my base without noticing the steam geyser 3 feet in front of my exit stairs.

[tardy surge]

It'll make every day exciting

[zealous beacon]

Nope. Just moved the stairs. Large rooms are handy.

[crystal plaza]

Robin has a goal beyond just survival, looking for her sister. if it was just pure survival with no personality or back story people would complain it was too similar to SN1

[crude citrus]

Eh that goal gets dropped during the middle of the game in favor of ||Al-An's.||

[eternal garnet]

short version: people like to complain

[crystal plaza]

yep can't please everyone

[crude citrus]

Does anybody know what happened to ||Marg?||

[eternal garnet]

she is still salting peepers

[tardy surge]

BZ isn't as objectively good as the og, but Robin does have more of a reason to speak.

[crystal plaza]

I wish C key would make the prawn suit crouch

[stoic surge]

I once got out of mine on land, and it crouched down- I then took the power cells out to charge them, and while I was away the dang thing stood up again

[crystal plaza]

spooky

[stoic surge]

Annoying, too

[crystal plaza]

yeah like you take a tiny bit of fall damage everytime you exit the prawn on land because you can't make it crouch before you get out

[tardy surge]

Apparently they still haven't perfected mecha-type suites in that point of the future.

[crystal plaza]

or being able to put a head mounted light and a rebreather on at the same time

[stoic surge]

It works just fine, if you exit while in water, or it's docked inna moonpool, maybe it's just not optimized for land exits

[stoic surge]

sad flashlight noises

[tardy surge]

If you think of it as a sea turtle, then you'll have a better time.

[crystal plaza]

I need my hands to hold the scanner

[stoic surge]

The mineral detector?

[crystal plaza]

no i mean if youe exploring a new dark place you want to try and scan everything in case theres new items

can't have a light at the same time as scanner and rebreather

[stoic surge]

Oh, I just cycle through the tools, maybe the headlamp would be better to have in above-water passages tho

[timid horizon]

Wait you’re supposed to scan everything?

[tardy surge]

In both Subnautica games and in hacking.

[crystal plaza]

I do, because sometimes the uses arent obvious

[stoic surge]

It's not required, but knowing about the world makes living in it easier

Urg, I just built an extra room for a containment, got it all ready for the egg I found outside, and now the game won't let me even pick up the stupid egg

[crude citrus]

Console commands?

[stoic surge]

Are you suggesting I use them?

[crude citrus]

If you really want that egg and don't want to look for another, and if you don't want achievements for that save.

[stoic surge]

I'm afraid I cannot

By the way, I'm currently in my base in the lilypads area, I swear, I'm hearing some creature make the same sound as the 'rabbit ray' from the OG

[tardy surge]

His sense of duty prevents him!

[stoic surge]

Actually, the Switch doesn't have commands

[sage notch]

wow it just saved me

[tardy surge]

based Chelicerate

[sage notch]

well... i swimmed inside and drown there, left with my prawn suit

[stoic sundial]

Did they ever fix the handheld scanner beeping for things you've already picked up?

[stoic surge]

May I ask what system you're playing on?

[stoic sundial]

This was on PS4 when I played before

thinking of playing again now that I have ps5

[stoic surge]

I was asking because different versions have different weird things that happen, as a Switch player, I've seen some stuff, lol

[severe rune]

How to get sea truck dock?

[jolly basin]

Unlock moonpool

[severe rune]

Oh ok 😄

[modest rose]

module or the dock*?

[severe rune]

Huh

is there 2 new stuff?!

[modest rose]

theres a sea truck module and a sea truck dock*

[severe rune]

Oh yeagh

Loadin up to the game rn 😄

[crystal plaza]

The sea truck dock is nice . But I hate leaving loose modules floating near my base so now I have to build two sea truck docks and two sea trucks so the modules im not currently using can be in the second dock

[stoic surge]

The 'Seatruck dock' is built onto a habitat, the 'Prawn suit docking module' is clamped on to the back of a Seatruck

[severe rune]

u can dock them together

[stoic surge]

Are you not planning to ever use them again?

[modest rose]

its called the sea truck dock module itself iirc

[jolly basin]

Seatruck Docking Module
Seatruck Dock

[crystal plaza]

I was messing around with longer sea trucks but theyre just too slow even with the horse power upgrade. now I just take the fabricator module, the dock and the prawn and use the storage in the prawn. then your seatruck stays full speed

[modest rose]

can you use a stable save in an experimental build?

[stoic surge]

If you don't plan to use the leftover modules, you can either park them somewhere with beacons switched off, or destroy them with a few Prawn-punches

[crystal plaza]

its just a pain theres no way easily relocate two sea trucks , you have to swim back with the seaglide or the prawn suit to move the second one

[crystal plaza]

nah I like having them just in case

if you decide to change your main base position the extra storage is useful

[stoic surge]

I have a couple that I'm not using either, but I don't mind having a 'parking area'

[crystal plaza]

the sleeping module is useless, why no storage in it?

wish there was a solar power / thermal power module which also had a battery charger in it

but I guess they want you to still keep making bases

rather than it becoming the base replacement like the cyclops does

[stoic surge]

This would be really useful, but like you said, it might make bases less needed

[crystal plaza]

right, I just build minimal bases with a fabricator and battery chargers in a single i piece around the map

[stoic surge]

Of course, if you pop a couple ||ion power cells|| in the Seatruck, it will greatly reduce the charging sessions

[crystal plaza]

its not those, its the batteries for all my hand held tools

don't have enough ||ion cubes|| for all of them

[stoic surge]

Have you collected from the ||3 big piles||?

[crystal plaza]

I'm sure I'll get more, its fine for now

[stoic surge]

Keep in mind, there's a limited supply of them in sector zero

[crystal plaza]

right but when you make ion batteries from them them those batteries are rechargable

[crystal plaza]

the fevered pepper is so good for water you barely need to bother about water purification tablets once youve planted a bunch indoors

[stoic surge]

Yes, the peppers paired with the filtration suit ensures you're never without water

[stoic surge]

I recently built an outpost on the border between the deepest area and the one just before, and I made sure to bring some plants for growing food, thinking there might not be many fishies -- Dude was I wrong, there's sooo many down here

[timid horizon]

Is it a good place to build?

[little zephyr]

is BZ not in game pass anymore????

[steady adder]

I don’t believe so

When you pick up a cd for the jukebox does it go into your inventory or automatically put the music in the jukebox

[little zephyr]

Did I just lose all my progress unless I buy the game??

[steady adder]

Well if you want to play you’ll need to purchase the game

[hollow fern]

What your saying is I can soft lock my game and never finish it

[steady adder]

Am I missing any (these are only the farmable ones)

[barren atlas]

bullseye shroom
(This)

found in safe shallows

[barren atlas]

it saves digitally, when you build a jukebox, it will then give you the option to play that song that you found

Artyom lurk👀

[opaque harbor]

I always do

[barren atlas]

makes sense

[carmine bobcat]

guys im getting close to beating the game

[barren atlas]

nice

[carmine bobcat]

i just got prawn suit lvl 2 and seatruck lvl 3 depth

[barren atlas]

nice

you can use the truck to finish

[carmine bobcat]

wdym

[barren atlas]

mk3 is deepest

[carmine bobcat]

yeah ik

[barren atlas]

you won’t really need the prawn

[carmine bobcat]

i just have the prawn suit for like farming

ots really useful

in the first prawn was like needed

[barren atlas]

for the mines and stuff ig

[carmine bobcat]

also whats the deepest point on the actual map

[carmine bobcat]

ye

[stoic surge]

Probably not, if you're looking for a spot for a primary base -- It's more an exploration outpost, where I can restock food n water, and charge batteries

[opaque harbor]

enjoy!

[carmine bobcat]

i havent seen the ending yet

[barren atlas]

1000m I think, or below idk

around that

[carmine bobcat]

beside the end of the map area

[opaque harbor]

yea but i mean enjoy the ending of it

I really like the ending

[barren atlas]

the deepest spot you need to visit is about 1000m deep

[carmine bobcat]

oh ok

[carmine bobcat]

like the ||crystal area||

[barren atlas]

it’s extremely pretty, as a person who likes photography, I’m always taking screenshots 😅

[barren atlas]

yes

just follow it further

[carmine bobcat]

same my xbox background is a really cool pic from a game called astroneer is was playing with a friend while making it too

[stoic surge]

The BGM in those areas are also prime

[frosty grotto]

What is the biggest creature and the dangerous one?

[carmine bobcat]

i like the music your listening to

[barren atlas]

nice

[opaque harbor]

The biggest creature is the worm and the most dangerous one is humans

[barren atlas]

yes

philosophical

[frosty grotto]

Humans?

[carmine bobcat]

i love pollution

[barren atlas]

humans have caused the most endangerment and extinctions of species in a long time

[carmine bobcat]

https://tenor.com/view/chiens-funny-animals-dogs-gif-10908202

[frosty grotto]

For me the Below Zero is more difficult then the normal subnautica

[carmine bobcat]

same

[stoic surge]

All the creatures on 4546B want just one thing, their next meal, so we know what they'll do, but Humans will pretend to be your buddy then betray

[barren atlas]

I’m not familiar with that location abbreviation :/

[carmine bobcat]

i had a hard time at the start looking for table coral

[frosty grotto]

But i dont understand this whole alien story

[frosty grotto]

Yes me too

[stoic surge]

bgm = back ground music

[barren atlas]

ah, ok

mhm

[opaque harbor]

crystal caves

[barren atlas]

good music

[frosty grotto]

Its so sad that subnautica can not be played with your friends 😦

[carmine bobcat]

i love that one also your the subnautica team which game did you work on or what did you work on

[opaque harbor]

I work on both

[carmine bobcat]

thats what im sayin!

[carmine bobcat]

when will multiplayer be out

tell me now!!!

[opaque harbor]

For SN and BZ never

[carmine bobcat]

or if it will be out in sub 3

[opaque harbor]

We don't even have Sub 2 yet

[carmine bobcat]

yk what i mean

[barren atlas]

crystal caverns in unfair tho

[opaque harbor]

yea i getcha, I just like to be humorous.

[stoic surge]

You must have a 2 before a 3

[frosty grotto]

The production of the games are so slow that you can compare to gta 6

[carmine bobcat]

ik

[barren atlas]

bro legit spawned on me:/

[opaque harbor]

The team working on the SN updates right now is like... 6 people we are doing our best

[carmine bobcat]

in sub 23274 will there be multiplayer

[stoic surge]

Good things take time

[carmine bobcat]

sorry man

[frosty grotto]

Then recruit more people, it haves so many bugs

[carmine bobcat]

hol up then get back to work and help your friends insted of being on discord

[stoic surge]

Please tell them all, we Subnauts are grateful for their work

[barren atlas]

chill… great things take time

[ancient sail]

Wait until the SN 2.0 patch notes

[carmine bobcat]

what does sn stand for

[barren atlas]

Subnautica

[stoic surge]

Don't pester about that, we don't want to scare them away

[carmine bobcat]

it was a joke

chill

[opaque harbor]

I can tell I know you're all jokin

[stoic surge]

Brrrr

[frosty grotto]

But what does subnautica means?

[carmine bobcat]

what are you workin on rn

[carmine bobcat]

STOP

my head hurts now

[opaque harbor]

Working on Subnautica's 2.0 Update.

[stoic surge]

Sub = under, Nautica = fish

[carmine bobcat]

yessir/ma'am

[barren atlas]

you legit said the same thing I was typing…
rude🗿

[steady adder]

Woooo

[stoic surge]

Sorry, you do next time

[barren atlas]

ok

[carmine bobcat]

btw you fr

[barren atlas]

ngl… I slightly guessed nautica

I got it wrong

[frosty grotto]

I can say that subnautica is more scary for me then a horror Film

[opaque harbor]

fr fr on god no cap

[carmine bobcat]

fr fr on god no cap

[barren atlas]

update 2.0 has been worked on for a while

[stoic surge]

That looks like it means something but I got no idea

[carmine bobcat]

wdym update 2.0

[opaque harbor]

We just released the Below Zero what the dock update which was our 2.0 update to Below Zero, now we are working on Subnautica 1's 2.0 update.

[carmine bobcat]

like sub 2

[barren atlas]

big fixes, added content etc…

[carmine bobcat]

OH

[frosty grotto]

I dont understand the story from sub

[stoic surge]

Huzzah!

[barren atlas]

storyline?

[frosty grotto]

Yes

[carmine bobcat]

is it gonna add building stuff from bz maybe even seatruck?

[stoic surge]

The story -- Crash, swim, cry, survive, eat, etc...

[opaque harbor]

Base building stuff is going to be in the SN 2.0 update, (Large room etc) :)

pinning recipes and stuff as well

[frosty grotto]

I can say that sub haves some good graphics for a game that was released on 2014

[carmine bobcat]

its spelled pepper right

like those eyeball edible fish

or peaper

or peeper

sorry lol

[frosty grotto]

My Equipment for playing sub below zero is: Youtube, Console and Google

[carmine bobcat]

damn i play without any of that and so far doing good i like going into games blind

[barren atlas]

Alterra have gone to planet 4546b to say they went to check is the degasi (who crash landed ages ago), but got struck by the QEP, so now you are the lone survivor, exploring degasi remnants and an entire unknown world(pun), you get infected by a deadly virus, you find old structures and the cure for the virus, and by combining your technologies(slightly ||ion batteries||) you manage to escape.

[frosty grotto]

You are a cheater or something like that

[carmine bobcat]

i just like doing games without tutorials and self exploration

[stoic surge]

Best Food Ever

[frosty grotto]

Thanks for your History buddy

[carmine bobcat]

no not that lol

[barren atlas]

all lore

[frosty grotto]

Dont say to me that you play without help and you play survival

[stoic surge]

Still good -- gives food, water, and heat

[carmine bobcat]

i do

[frosty grotto]

You need a doctor buddy

[carmine bobcat]

the one with the big eyeball yk

[carmine bobcat]

ik

[stoic surge]

Could be 'Arctic Peeper'?

[frosty grotto]

I play sub just on free game without food and drinking

[carmine bobcat]

YEAH THAT

i forgot how to spell lmao

[barren atlas]

nice… you should try vegetarian hardcore;)

[frosty grotto]

No pls NOT

[barren atlas]

ngl… bullseye shroom carried the whole game

[carmine bobcat]

guys remember a peeper keeps the reaper away-said by

[barren atlas]

and nutrient blocks

[stoic surge]

Just don't turn 'predator aggression' up to maximum, you'll be instantly devoured by pengwings

[barren atlas]

lol

[frosty grotto]

Subnautica is scarier for me then resident evil 7

[carmine bobcat]

i like the challenges in subnautica kinda

[barren atlas]

imagine, player damage reception x100 creature agression x100 hardcore🗿🗿

[carmine bobcat]

i mean i dont do that

[carmine bobcat]

yessir

[barren atlas]

ultimate challenge

[stoic surge]

This isn't a challenge, it's just death

[carmine bobcat]

ik

[frosty grotto]

Im scaried to go in the void and see the ghost leviathan

[stoic surge]

No ghosts in BZ

[barren atlas]

void Chelicerates

[frosty grotto]

Thanks God

[barren atlas]

sadly, all the agressive aquatic leviathans in bz are grabby ones… so they can easily be countered with a perimeter defence system:/

making them ten times less scary

[frosty grotto]

Yes

I mean sub bz is 1000 times better then fortnite

[stoic surge]

And no phone required, lol

[frosty grotto]

What do you mean with phone?

[stoic surge]

FN2 joke, but that's for off-topic

[frosty grotto]

The music from sub bz is amazing

Im still vibing to the music

[barren atlas]

mhm

sn1’s one is great too

[frosty grotto]

Yes

[timid horizon]

bruh i never knew there was PDA pause feature

also is there a way to have high frame rate and high quality at the same time?

[eternal garnet]

yes, get a top spec GPU

Actually medium spec will do

[timid horizon]

the game can’t handle that on ps5?

[eternal garnet]

oh. I don't know

[opaque harbor]

Console only allows for one or the other

[timid horizon]

is that due to limitations?

i know ps4 can’t handle it but maybe in sub 3 ps5 could

[opaque harbor]

We don't know how things are going to be set up, so we'll cross that bridge when its time

[ancient sail]

Play in 360p XD
No but seriously on pc the game runs well, on a GTX 1060 / RX 580 you easily have 60fps at 1080p. Right now I'm on an RX 6600XT (the equivalent of a RTX 3060) and I'm never under 60fps at 1440p

[stoic surge]

Speaking of consoles, my Switch version of BZ has started crashing again since WtD

[lime condor]

where do I ask for help. I can't load my steam sub below zero at all. I press play; it says it's running. and then it never does. I'm so lost

can I keep some advice from you on what to do?I have done the Verifying of the files on the steams utility resource, uninstalled/reinstalled various times, updated drivers, changed to singular screen rather than my two screens, disabled and enabled steam cloud, ran it as administrator, attempted to view the logs. I'm super stumped.

[opaque harbor]

Have you ever installed mods?

[lime condor]

never

[opaque harbor]

Whats your CPU?

You can check that by searching dxdiag in your start menu and it'll be under processor :)

[lime condor]

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 950 @ 3.07GHz 3.06 GHz
Installed RAM 12.0 GB
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

[opaque harbor]

Alright, so the 950 doesn't have AVX support. Our newest update has required AVX to be supported to play.

[eternal garnet]

After the update, support for some old CPUs was broken. It's possible this will get fixed. Meanwhile, on steam, the previous version is available as the Legacy beta branch. Go in game properties, Betas.

[opaque harbor]

yea well i was typing that but Meatie said it

[lime condor]

alright; i'll give it a whirl

[opaque harbor]

On a side note, we have been having trouble getting someone with those types of specs for some testing 🤔
If you stick around on the server for awhile, would you be open to us reaching out if we could use some support when it comes to running some tests on older software. It wouldn't be today, but if we need some help on the future with SN1.

[timid horizon]

also has anyone noticed loading screen coloring issues

like the color will be distorted

[lime condor]

Sure. Just let me know the best way to communicate with you.

[opaque harbor]

I'll add you as a friend on here, and then if something arises closer to our updates i'll reach out here. :)

[eternal garnet]

@opaque harbor Found an i5 M520 here at home

[timid horizon]

this one isn’t as bad but i had worse been happening since the new update

[eternal garnet]

it doesn't have AVX!

[opaque harbor]

awesome more the merrier at this point :)

[lime condor]

Well I did just get a promo at work. So I'll be surely saving up to do some upgrades.

my computer was gifted to me.

[opaque harbor]

well don't hold on upgrading because of us, its just better to have a few options just incase when it comes to this. Thanks again!

[lime condor]

Nah. I'm a mom. Rent, Bills and other things are kinda always hovering at the top of my spending priorities. 😄

[opaque harbor]

Appreciate it none the less. Do you own SN1?

[lime condor]

Yes 😄

[deep kettle]

Just ask for a 3000 dollar PC in return for helping 😆

[opaque harbor]

i don't even have that and I work here'

[steady adder]

Mother’s Day gift idea

[lime condor]

Nah. I'd just as for a Hoodie. XD

[steady adder]

😂

[lime condor]

I like floofy things

[ancient sail]

It happened to me a few times, I just unplug my monitor and replug it a few moments after and everything works fine again, maybe this will work for you

[lime condor]

Oooo meh gwad! Legacy worked. I'm in tears.

[timid horizon]

like my tv?

[ancient sail]

Yes

[lime condor]

does it work on Managers?

does it reset moral compasses?

[steady adder]

😭

[lime condor]

[timid horizon]

is it not possible to recycle the air bladder?

[bold monolith]

No.

[ancient sail]

I wouldn't advise unpluging your managers unless your planning to go live in a cell for the next 10 years 😂

[steady adder]

It requires a live fish so no

[bold monolith]

It would create a fish.

[timid horizon]

dang i want my silicone rubber back

[lime condor]

It's loading.

So happy. -happy dancey-

[steady adder]

Imagine a world with no subnautica

[timid horizon]

its a hidden gem

[lime condor]

I have a few nephews who ask me to stream to them on discord so they can see what i'm doing. It's pixely; but they love it. 😄 They're too scared to play by themselves. haha

[tardy surge]

[carmine bobcat]

guys im at the red crystal area but i dont have the body component

[carmine bobcat]

how old are they

[lime condor]

10 and 11

[carmine bobcat]

cool

[timid horizon]

maybe they should make SUB3 a horror game or more terrifying

[lime condor]

oh dear, I'll be honest. The leviathan in the purple crystal area made me scream and wake the husband up. I feel like it's got a health balance of scare and curiosity; or as I enjoy saying. Eff around and find out

[timid horizon]

anyone wanna see a picture of my cat right now?

[carmine bobcat]

bruh it basilically is horror already just stop

[tardy surge]

Take it to off-topic!

[timid horizon]

Can’t post photos there

[tardy surge]

er, media chat

[bold tiger]

how do i make the ||snowfox||? i thought it was in the fabricator but i guess no?

[modest pagoda]

habitat builder to build the pad, then you can build it from there

[timid horizon]

Posted

[crimson pier]

So are ion cubes not renewable

[broken badge]

Do you mean do they continue to regenerate like in Subnautica?
They don’t.
There’s a finite supply.
But unless you plan on building a fleet of seatrucks, or using tp modules for like ungodly amount of uses, it’s unlikely you’ll run out

[crimson pier]

I’m only worried about if i will have enough for batteries

[broken badge]

Yeah, shouldn’t be an issue

There’s ||3 drillable nodes||

[lime condor]

Ok, so jumping back into this. where is the most strategic area to build a 1st base

[eternal garnet]

near delta is fine

it's central

[broken badge]

I just make my first one in twisty bridges. I kinda like near that floating dock with that hanging electrical cable
But it’s a bit personal preference.
Delta is central like meatie said

[eternal garnet]

that's the "shark cage"

[broken badge]

Is that it’s official term?😆

[eternal garnet]

I believe so. Anyway that's what it is

[broken badge]

Makes sense

I’ve seen diver cages like that before

I think that’s what they’re called, isn’t it? Diving cages?

[eternal garnet]

there's only one fish that you need the cage for

well, type of fish

[broken badge]

Looks like they can be called either
Shark cage
Diving cage
Cage diving
Shark cage diving
Etc

[lime condor]

it's a anti cuddle box

[eternal garnet]

anti shark hug box

[lime condor]

yiss

[steady adder]

And you can get yourself some purple power

[rocky sigil]

what

[stoic surge]

I wonder what kind of power source they used for that cable? It's been sparking since I arrived here

[eternal garnet]

consider the Degasi PDAs, screen glowing for 10+ years

[stoic surge]

purple power is using thermal plants on the purple vents

[eternal garnet]

oh I meant Mercury

[stoic surge]

True, that

Future tech is amazing

[smoky fox]

why am i stuck on the epilepsy warning screen?(i cant find a solution and i dont have epilepsy)

[modest pagoda]

did you download mods?

[smoky fox]

a bit

and i tried with and without mods

and i read tech support

[modest pagoda]

we got the epilepsy mod warning thing

[carmine bobcat]

am i able to build stuff like i was in the first sub or no?

[eternal garnet]

You got to remove the folder Bepinex. Or upgrade mods with hard to find versions

[smoky fox]

oh

[eternal garnet]

yes, and a few new buildings

[smoky fox]

thanks

[eternal garnet]

full info with updates:

If you are stuck on the warning screen, remove folder BepinEx (meaning Qmodloader). Or, update QmodLoader and SMLH with pre-release updates from here: https://snm.crd.co/#install-bz There's also a list of which mods work. Many are broken.

[carmine bobcat]

i cant find the thing to start builds

ive found a lot of other stuff but not that

[eternal garnet]

in twisty bridges, 120m depth, there's a small building tube. There

The best spot, as it also has the large tank

[smoky fox]

wait, wouldnt that make the mods unable to work?

[carmine bobcat]

im talking about the thing to build a platform that type of thing

is that in the game or no?

[eternal garnet]

Remove the folder to uninstall the modloader. Or, update it.

[eternal garnet]

Yes. By the way, skip the foundation. Build a tube / corridor

[carmine bobcat]

i was the platform as an example so that u know what im talking about bec idk what its called and ive found a lot of other stuff other then that

[eternal garnet]

south (Away from the volcano) twisty bridges has a deep canyon. There, at 120m exactly

[carmine bobcat]

this place?

[eternal garnet]

well that is twisty bridges anyway. You can see them

[carmine bobcat]

so keep going then down?

[eternal garnet]

go deeper. There are many o2 plants here, don't miss them

[carmine bobcat]

alright

[eternal garnet]

Especially when going up, they are a bit hard to see

[carmine bobcat]

i wont fail u dad

[eternal garnet]

Btw, the air bladder is really good now. You can even get some emergency air from it

The beacon got better too: if you die it renames+drops

[carmine bobcat]

o neat

im offended

i cant cuss

@eternal garnet is the whale lookin thing friendly?

[rocky sigil]

yes

[carmine bobcat]

i need to change my diaper bec that thin looks scary af

[carmine bobcat]

[carmine bobcat]

i hate u

[rocky sigil]

next time clarify you arent talking about the actual whale in the game

[carmine bobcat]

theres no whale lookin things??!!

[rocky sigil]

there is

i just showed you an image of it

[modest pagoda]

thats literally the whale looking thing

[rocky sigil]

its clearly a hamster

[modest pagoda]

lol

[carmine bobcat]

the one i saw had a glowing part the end of it

[rocky sigil]

squidshark

sharks and whales are entirely different

[carmine bobcat]

yeah thats what it was calledd

it looked like a whale

[modest pagoda]

its not big enough

also, squidsharks are not friendly

[carmine bobcat]

i found that out the hardway

[eternal garnet]

it is very friendly. And huggy. And shocking

[carmine bobcat]

It was the second scariest thing I’ve seen so far in the game

[modest pagoda]

...you're gonna die eventually probably

[carmine bobcat]

is it just me or is lead kinda hard to find

[ancient star]

I FINALLY BEAT THE GAME 😭😭 abt to cry fr

[carmine bobcat]

wtf is the airpump for

[rocky sigil]

wha

airpump?

[carmine bobcat]

this thing

[rocky sigil]

why would you reply to them saying that then

[carmine bobcat]

bec he beat the game so i thought he would know

@rocky sigil can u tell me what its used for

[arctic holly]

It floats and pumps air

[carmine bobcat]

ya dont say but to what does it pump air into is my question

[rocky sigil]

bro it says it on the description

[carmine bobcat]

doesnt tell me what the air goes into

[rocky sigil]

it does

[carmine bobcat]

so it just pumps airs into pipes that just sounds useless to me

[eternal garnet]

it lets you build an infinite air source deep. Like a room with hatch and power.

[carmine bobcat]

thank u thats the answer i was looking for

[crystal plaza]

If you want to explore 200 meters down air pipes are one of the best options before you get the depth upgrades for the sea truck

Solar power only works to 225 meters you can go deeper than that with air pipes

[carmine bobcat]

where does one find diamonds how deep?

or where

[eternal garnet]

I recommend deep twisty bridges, below 300

[crystal plaza]

250 meters and below

[carmine bobcat]

[eternal garnet]

can be found at 150 in koppa mine. But where is that?

[carmine bobcat]

i have no idea

[rocky sigil]

I thought koppa was well below 150

[crystal plaza]

If you build a base at 195 meters in twisty bridges that just barely gets power you can dive for diamonds safely even without sea truck or rebreather

[eternal garnet]

it's ok, there are o2 plants there. And things.

ah yes. You do need the rebreather otherwise

[carmine bobcat]

not worried about o2

[eternal garnet]

well, there's other very useful things, like 2 truck modules

[carmine bobcat]

i may or may not have filled my inventory up with diamonds

[smoky fox]

how can i get mods to work without the epilepsy warning?(i tried what meatie swe told me)

[eternal garnet]

if you don't get past the warning, your qmodloader is too old

the page has instructions, you may have done them wrong

[smoky fox]

what page?

[jolly basin]

The one in my About Me section when you click my profile

[eternal garnet]

https://snm.crd.co/#install-bz There's also a list of which mods work. Many are broken.

yes that's RamuneNeptune's page

I guess it's possible an individual mod is making the game stop loading

[jolly basin]

Maybe not so much the epilepsy screen, I don’t believe there is a mod that can get a player stuck on it, besides an outdated QModManager

Though I managed to do that once when trying to make a seizure warning screen skip mod, still probably hard to make a mod that gets the player stuck on it unless doing something like what I did

[smoky fox]

wait whats the latest version of BZ q mod manager?

[jolly basin]

The one on the site, in my profile

You can also find it in #modding-news in #subnautica-modding discord

[eternal garnet]

Nexus is still stuck on march 22. Sad. Mod community is dying

[smoky fox]

uhm

is there supposed to have a "mods" section in options if i launch modded bz

[jolly basin]

Yeah just move to Subnautica Modding discord so I can help you

[eternal garnet]

some mods add stuff to it, some don't

[bold monolith]

If they don't want to use Nexus it's fine, but they should at least update the github releases. https://github.com/SubnauticaModding/QModManager/releases

[carmine bobcat]

Whats your favourite Animal in BZ?

[carmine bobcat]

Penguin

[sage notch]

Titan holefish

[ashen jolt]

So Titian hole fish cause massive lag on switch because I killed the one I grew and my framer rate issue went away

Also the baked lighting isn’t working in the dock on switch

I tried to make a but report in game but got an error about a server issue

I think it’s kinda funny how the steam nightly build is more stable than switch

[crystal plaza]

i'm suprised switch can run subnautica and below zero at all given its tiny RAM amount

and the need to keep everything the player has built in RAM

[ashen jolt]

Well depending on how you do it, you could load tool models and textures only for the hot bar the rest would just be data in the inventory

[crystal plaza]

i meant the bases you build

[ashen jolt]

You would be surprised about the optimizing you could do for something like that

[crystal plaza]

oh for sure people have done amazing stuff with switch hardwar

[ashen jolt]

For instance use a lower Polly model farther away

And it already reduces texture quality

[crystal plaza]

I have a switch but I wouldnt buy subnautica or BZ on it

[ashen jolt]

Half life 2 does it really well

[crystal plaza]

imo any game with complex base building is really straining the switch capabilities

[ashen jolt]

It runs better on my laptop igpu just fine on mostly medium

[crystal plaza]

right bet your laptop has more than 4GB RAM

[bold monolith]

The latest update on all platforms is very close to the current experimental build.

You say it's more stable, but it's the same thing really.

[ashen jolt]

Unity isn’t that simple, as someone who is taking courses in it currently having bugs on only certain platforms isn’t uncommon this is because of how unity handles graphics settings, color, compression and configuration on a per platform basis

And due to the lack of a decent debug logging system on switch the only way to get debug logs is to use a developer kit or have the consoles constantly streamed to something else

[bold monolith]

I was just saying that the builds are the same, not that you wouldn't encounter an issue on one platform and not the other.

I'm aware if, for instance you have a NRE on PC, it will be a crash on consoles.

[deep kettle]

Any NRE Is just an instant crash?

[bold monolith]

I don't know if it works for all, but I know at least two recent examples. The first one was an issue on the telemetry that would trigger a NRE in PDAs when picked up in SN1, it was fixed. It was a crash on consoles.

The second, and currently in SN1 still, is when you want to pin the Cyclops recipes: hull, engine, etc.

This triggers a NRE on PC, it makes the consoles crash.

[deep kettle]

That sounds kind of awful.

Although would explain the Switch news crash I suppose.

[tawny sedge]

can I grow fevered peppers in my base?

and do they have to be on dry land or can I do it underwater

[next current]

Yes. You can plant Fevered Peppers. They have to be planted in an interior growbed or an exterior growbed that is above water.

[crystal plaza]

and they're one of the best to grow because they give you a lot of water. them and chinese potatos