below-zero-chat

[west mountain]

Nothing

[tacit thorn]

is there any way to put up sign/text outside base?

[rugged onyx]

hi

[next current]

Kyanite is also used in the Prawn Suit Thermal Reactor Module.

[west mountain]

No

[tacit thorn]

Then control room it is!

[west mountain]

The most expensive way to label something. Build a control room 🙂

[tacit thorn]

Maybe I can incorporate it as part of the bars

[west mountain]

Beacons probabely

[tacit thorn]

also valid solution

[lofty pike]

Hi, new here. 👋🏻
Not sure if this is where to ask this - but I was wondering if anyone knows a way around the Pilot - Last Known Position mission? I’m on a custom game mode and I fixed the satellite BEFORE finding Marg at her base….and now I can’t complete the mission? Any tips anyone has? I submitted a bug report yesterday.

[tacit thorn]

did you get a message about meeting at greenhouse?

[lofty pike]

I got the message to meet her at her greenhouse (before I did the Last Known position mission) and I met her at her greenhouse (before I went to her base.)

[tacit thorn]

Found an "useless" gold cove

[hollow fern]

I just watched a peeper swim threw a wall and then 4 peepers came back out of the wall what a well made game LMAO

[next current]

Magic.

[next current]

How the hell did you manage to get the Test Override Module? I mean... you need to meet with her on the Delta Island in order for the base to be unlocked.

[tacit thorn]

creative, so probably 'able to craft everything' setting

[next current]

Story is disabled in Creative.

[lofty pike]

I’m in custom mode. And I explore a lot, so I ended up at Delta way earlier than I was supposed to.

[tacit thorn]

Day 293 - found the alien organs (3rd part)
Day 258: constructed sleeper module

I'm not very fast player, am I?

[lofty pike]

It’s not disabled in custom.

[crude vapor]

Taking my prawn to koppa time to get rich

[tacit thorn]

Biology/story question - what does centipede leviathan eat? I havent seen any medium-sized fauna here, only ribbon fish and baldderfish

[clever crow]

It makes absolutely no biological sense. But according to trivia - fishes just sewer slide into its mouth because it glows ✨

[tacit thorn]

so, uh, a macroplankton feeder?

[clever crow]

Unless it actually snacks on those drilling lobsters.

[tacit thorn]

good point, forgot about those

[clever crow]

Its mouth isn’t a macro plankton feeder mouth. Bottom feeder at best.

I would guess they are in a cave because it’s mating season, no way they could realistically live there forever.

[tacit thorn]

Now you made me wonder if it actually tried to eat me, or do something else

[clever crow]

def eating u. that's how snails hunt - use acid to break the shell of their prey

I like old concepts more.

Imagine: sea monkey leviathan.

[tacit thorn]

thank you very much, an image of gaint slug trying to eat me in my head was not something I wanted to go to sleep tonight.

[clever crow]

Also. Where. Mesmer leviathan.

[tacit thorn]

Why stop there. have a leviathan capable of eating small planets

[clever crow]

boooring. small leviathans better

concept art has so many creatures with cute pink crests, let that person have their cute leviathan already!

[tacit thorn]

what is the rule for things to appear in scanner room? Must be in range? or must be in range and near area I have seen? I've got some resources popping up only after I visited the cave area.

[west mountain]

Its a time function. It starts scanning and slowly more and more resources appear. Not related if you been in the area. And all that matters is that they ard in range

[tacit thorn]

I'm asking about the list. When I first bult the room, it was two pages, after I explored the cave a bit that list is now 4 pages. for example, kyanite only popped up after I went past my leviathan-deterrent cage

or is the game only 'spawning' resources when I enter given area?

[west mountain]

You added range

[tacit thorn]

no, didn't touch range

[west mountain]

Then i dont know

Probabely only showing resources you have discovered previously?

[tacit thorn]

I literaly went out of the base, 100m past found a kyanite crystal and had 'new resource added to scenner' or something like that popup

I already scanned my first kyanite sample hour earlier

[carmine bobcat]

Is artifact z13 safe

Like no leviathans

[west mountain]

Yes

[carmine bobcat]

Ok

[sleek timber]

I'm so done with this game

trying to find a nice spot for a base in purple vents

found one, started building

ugly crab-squid thing comes along and eats me. Twice.

ok whatever, went 250m away to another nice spot in purple vents

got bitten 5 times by crocodile nerds and the same ugly squid thing comes and eats me again

ugh

[west mountain]

Third time is a charm

[sleek timber]

but like, I'm pretty sure I started building right here:

right between the chelicerate locations

and yet it comes right to me

[west mountain]

He can smell you

[sleek timber]

what a nerd

guess it's stabby-stabby time?

[west mountain]

You have to build quicker than he attacks you

[sleek timber]

well it's not like I'm gonna build the base and never leave it

ah whatever, I'll figure it out tomorrow

close to 3 am already haha

[west mountain]

Then zap it with the zapper

[sleek timber]

stasis rifle?

don't have it yet

[west mountain]

Seatruck perimeter defense upgrade. 100% effective if used correctly

[sleek timber]

don't have that either

[west mountain]

Have you been to ||maidas base||yet?

[sleek timber]

I just got all 5 modules fully researched today tho, so I got that going for me which is nice

[sleek timber]

yeah, briefly

[west mountain]

Its there on the floor

[onyx cairn]

Where’d you get this map?

[stoic ferry]

thats the map genie map

no matter how much I search around my drop pod, I cant find any calaverite deposits, not even with my mineral detector

[carmine bobcat]

How many hydraulic fluids do i need for bridge

[foggy grove]

One

[carmine bobcat]

Uhh

[foggy grove]

Souvenirs

[carmine bobcat]

Lol

Just died and my inventory was filled with silver and now

Nothing

[clever crow]

if you return to where u died - your silver will be floating there unless it clips underground

[dreamy gust]

im starting the game from scratch again yall wish me luck

[unborn trail]

Do you guys think marguerit could take down a ghost leviathan

[clever crow]

Ghosts are kind of less dangerous in this context. Marge had to fight reaper while holding on to its face with teeth and mandibles. Ghosts are bigger but they attach by ramming but they are just tubes. They have less muscle, they appear softer.
So if in place of that reaper there was a ghost she would still win. Like once u grab onto it - what can it do? It has no arms.

[pseudo tinsel]

Goofy ah gif

[regal swan]

guys have yall ever played subnautica below zero???/?/?/?//????/?

[stray breach]

ye

[clever crow]

maybe

[stray breach]

perhaps

[clever crow]

ur pfp makes me want to rewatch the movie and replay the game from 2008

people in bz chat don't have anything to say about bz today.

[naive lotus]

Here we have Subnaughtyca: Negative

[harsh coral]

for some reason i cant play sub zero, my laptop says smth about accounts or smth and i have tried searching it up and fixing it. why is it always MY family that has weird computer issues that make no sense or just wont fix no matter what we do

[blazing tangle]

starting BZ for the first time after playing subnautica 3 times. Mad hyped

[tacit comet]

Nice! Good luck and happy playthrough!

[blazing tangle]

90 minutes in, this game is a lot lot more story driven than i thought it was. Also while i appreciate the oxygen plants and will definitely use them, not sure how i feel about the maps kind of being designed around them

so far it’s fun tho. Very pretty

[west mountain]

Oxygen plants are only for the first biomes where the player has not yet sufficient equipment to survive. They will become less frequent and go away completely.

[sleek timber]

I hope you didn't make the same mistake as me, where I spent 30 minutes confused about creepvine seed clusters vs creepvine samples

even though it uses literally the same recipe in subnautica, just with a different colour

[west mountain]

Creepvine sample you cut off with knife where as creepvine seed cluster are taken by hand (the red berries on the creepvine)

[sleek timber]

I know, I have 144 hours in subnautica

but for some reason the colour change caused me to have a massive brainfart

but also I saw a large bunch of creepvines and didn't immediately see any clusters, so I assumed they were removed from BZ

[west mountain]

Yes they only grow on the very big creepvines

[sleek timber]

and I was thinking how the hell am I gonna get creepvine samples to craft rubber when rubber is needed to craft a knife, which is needed to collect samples

anyway, had a big "duh" moment there

also, I have this weird deja vu issue with magnetite

[west mountain]

What happend?

[sleek timber]

in the first game I found a single piece of magnetite near gun island, and I used it to craft a compass

and then it took me another 5 hours to find more magnetite

and now in BZ I also found a single piece of magnetite, crafted a compass, and haven't been able to find more for 3 hours

[west mountain]

You dont need magnetite to craft a compass in BZ

[sleek timber]

oh, you're right

I guess I haven't found any magnetite at all then

[west mountain]

Rather that 🙂

[sleek timber]

I already have benzene, polyaniline, nickel, aerogel, synthetic fibres...

but no magnetite

[west mountain]

When you crafted Benzen you needed the flowering spore form the deep lilypad cave. That one is full of magnetite, all over the place

[sleek timber]

ah, I'll have a look

I was swimming around there yesterday and kept seeing "magnetite", but when I got closer it was all diamonds

[west mountain]

Also how far are you into the story, what is your next goal

[sleek timber]

maybe I'm goign insane idk

uhh... just visited the redneck lady

Marguerit

[west mountain]

Excellent, and what else did you find?

[sleek timber]

well... I didn't find the statis rifle in her base, for a start

need to go back and get that

[west mountain]

There is no riffle in the game

[sleek timber]

oh, really?

someone else told me there's a rifle in her base

[west mountain]

No, its not. There is another defensive device there

But have you found something important in twisty bridges

[sleek timber]

yeah

I'm well into the alien components story

[west mountain]

Ok, great, just wanted to know that. Just remember what your main mission objectives are, OK. Dont get distracted by ||AlAn|| from them

[sleek timber]

there's one thing I don't understand about the artifacts

I've been randomly stumbling upon them as I was exploring, but is there some kind of hint that leads you to them?

or a good way to track which ones you visited besides putting beacons at each one?

[west mountain]

You get beacons occasionally to some of them from ||AlAn||. The rest you have to find yourself.

[sleek timber]

ah ok

[west mountain]

No you dont have to keep track of them too much. If you stumble upon the same one again its no issue.

But it is important to find them because it unlocks cool blueprints

[sleek timber]

just found out that ||ion battery and cell|| are part of the unlock tiers - I was wondering how I got the blueprints

[blazing tangle]

i struggled to find them in the first place, but now i know where they are so i’m fine

i’ve also got some seatruck parts all synthesized i just need to find the mobile vehicle bay lol

[sleek timber]

haha, I got the mobile bay quite quickly in BZ, fortunately

[west mountain]

You know where to look for it?

[sleek timber]

I probably scanned like 15 fragments of it already

[blazing tangle]

no, i just started. I found 1 in a trench opening but couldn’t find any others in the same area

i’m off for the night, i’m sure i’ll find some tomorrow

i’d rather not have any tips or anything, i’ll find em eventually

i played so much og subnautica that i haven’t had a fresh first playthrough in a long time. I’m hoping to get that out of this

[sleek timber]

same

been very enjoyable so far, can't relate to the people saying BZ is much worse than the base game

[west mountain]

They just make it worse for themselves.

[crude vapor]

Will a prawn take crush damage if it goes below depth while attached to a docking module?

[eternal garnet]

I think... no. But I never tried this

[west mountain]

No and once you detach it it does hold up pretty well. Then you dock it and repair it

[crude vapor]

Fair enoufh

Tho this did get me curious, due to them nerfing the prawns stock depth from 900 to 400, how deep is the deepest part of the map?

[west mountain]

950 or so

[crude vapor]

Daym what a downgrade

[west mountain]

Then lets say it is 3100 OK

[sleek timber]

to be fair, in the base game a lot of that verticality is just going straight down

it doesn't add much to gameplay besides increasing travel time and showing bigger depth numbers

[west mountain]

Correct, depth must have a reason. Its not just for the high number. But finding the spot is cool.

[crude vapor]

Ye but in sn going on the treck from the safe shallows, to the deep grand reef, to the lost river, and then finally to the lava zone was so cool now u just sorta go down a hole for a 100m and ur just there.

[west mountain]

Why always Ye but. Its BZ, its a different map. If you want to go down 100m then play SN. Dont compare the to games and look for SN in BZ. Its not going to be. Let me know when you found the deepest spot on the map, curious where it is.

[crude vapor]

To the void I go🤣

[west mountain]

Nooooo, not there!!!! Come back, I appologize

[crude vapor]

Lmaooo

[naive lotus]

today, we withness a brave man, forever lost, but legend remains

[steel stream]

I guess the main gameplay thing is to find new materials for depth upgrades so you can go deeper.

[crude vapor]

Hahaha

[fickle cosmos]

Ok you will only experience a void and big creatures

[tough oak]

maybe i'll buy this when its on sale

idk if it is rn tho

[smoky lily]

Seems like if you save in the seatruck, you save can bug out ONCE after loading and only let your mouse work, and not your keyboard which the only fix is restarting your pc, but then your save works normally if you load back in

[carmine bobcat]

Hi, i try to write in English, because my German is better. Have a problem with my Game and search someone, that can help me to fixit. Gives a support in this DC, that can help?

[west mountain]

Can you type your problem, the plattform you play on and other important information into google translate and post the english translation here. So we know who can help you. Kannst du das Problem, die Plattform auf der du spielst und andere wichtige Informationen dazu in Google Übersetzung eingaben und den Englischen Text dann hier im Forum reinkopieren.

[crude vapor]

Made me a seatruck dock

[carmine bobcat]

the big Aquarium is flashing, change the color to white/yellow. My Base is change the color to black and flashing too. My Seafox fall 21m down in the country and no way down.

[carmine bobcat]

new install, repair the folder was not helping. I have a R9-5900X_DDR4-3200-32GB_WD-SN570_RTX3060TI

[sleek timber]

lol I thought this was a serial number or promo code

[tardy zodiac]

how do I get the spiral plant to make the synthetic fibers

[indigo moth]

Cut with knife

[tardy zodiac]

fr

I mean where is it

[indigo moth]

Idk I don’t play bz

[sleek timber]

underwater

(you're welcome)

[tardy zodiac]

bet its on the surface

[bold monolith]

||Tree Spires or Deep Purple Vents.||

[tardy zodiac]

next to ||mercury II on purple vents||?

[tardy zodiac]

wheres ||mercury II|| on that map

[bold monolith]

There are three parts, so.

[tardy zodiac]

the one next to delta base

[bold monolith]

Around the red dots in ||Purple Vents|| there is one.

[tardy zodiac]

is there one in this place with a ||big jellyfish with an ecosystem inside it and a big red reaper death machine thing||?

[bold monolith]

Yes. But only one ||ventgarden|| is guarded.

If you look at the map above, the red dots on the south are where the second is, and this one is totally safe.

[tardy zodiac]

this ||chelicerate|| guy seems pretty nice tho

[bold monolith]

The spiral plants are ||inside the two ventgardens in Tree Spires||.

So they're pretty easy to spot there.

[naive lotus]

whoa

cut some and grow them

why risk you heart

and health insurance

[tardy zodiac]

how do I get in it

[west mountain]

From underneath

[tardy zodiac]

whats in this ||pilot last known location next to delta base||? I’ve been searching a lot

[naive lotus]

easiest one is in the ||purple vent|| near ||Mecury II|| as mention above

like i said, cut some and grow it

it won't take long to grow

[naive lotus]

there's 2 point of interest near there, ||Maida's sea base|| and ||Omega base||.

[west mountain]

Did you get a beacon for ||pilots last known position|| ?

[tardy zodiac]

yeah

[tardy zodiac]

||omega base|| is this?

[naive lotus]

nah, that's alien one

[tardy zodiac]

is it not a point of interest?

||alien guy|| said he feels there was alien stuff here

[carmine bobcat]

is only my PC-Setup, maybe is important

[west mountain]

Then go at that location, turn your seatruck in a North West direction and go down into the crevices, always following a rough NW direction until you see some ||light sticks||. Then follow the light sticks. The base is at ||360m||. In case you dont find it, here is a tutorial: ||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJeubqz3pMo||

[west mountain]

No, this is an alien site, omega is an alterra facility.

[west mountain]

@bold monolith Do you have any idea what is going on here with his game: The big Aquarium is flashing, change the color to white/yellow. My Base is change the color to black and flashing too. My Seafox fall 21m down in the country and no way down. new install, repair the folder was not helping. I have a R9-5900X_DDR4-3200-32GB_WD-SN570_RTX3060TI

[tardy zodiac]

so the alien thing here is useless? just to scan a plant

[west mountain]

That is VERY important. Make sure to scan EVERYTHING in there. Its just not Omega, which is also important. For Omega, just follow the broken Alien Cable until you get to a cave.

[tardy zodiac]

damn

I only saw a plant to scan there on alien base

[west mountain]

Hmmm... there was something on the ground.

[tardy zodiac]

well thats too bad I just got eaten by that shark thing

[west mountain]

Reload Save 🙂

[tardy zodiac]

I did that

[bold monolith]

I would say look at their log file first.

[tardy zodiac]

ok Im at the base that marguerit talks to me, wheres the other one

[west mountain]

Did you|| scan everything at her base? Did you pick up the item from the floor? What task did she give you||?

[tardy zodiac]

I scanned the big room, I scanned the testing module, but I need some other thing to make it and I scanned a fragment of snowfox, thats it

[west mountain]

You have to pick the item from the floor

[tardy zodiac]

which

[west mountain]

Did you pick one up? The ||seatruck perimeter defense upgrade||

[tardy zodiac]

oh yeah

[west mountain]

Great, no more hassle from shrimps. Do you know how to use it?

[tardy zodiac]

what

[west mountain]

The ||seatruck perimeter defense upgrade||

[tardy zodiac]

yeah

wheres the other base tho

[clever crow]

First hardcore world lost let’s gooooooo

Next game: copium chair construction.

Wrong chat, but let’s pretend I meant bz

[west mountain]

In Lilypad, follow the broken archithect cable to the big rock

[naive lotus]

I chalenge you to do it on BZ

[west mountain]

I died after 1 hour. Got trapped under a twisty bridge and drowned. I could have cried. Just had all the blueprints and only wanted to scan some more.

[tardy zodiac]

there was also the spy penguin and the filter suit

[west mountain]

Excellent, well done. Remeber that place where you scanned those. You will have to go there again.

[tardy zodiac]

wheres the other base here?

[clever crow]

I always suffocate in bz. Always.
Probably because it’s a bit harder to upgrade O2 tank.

[west mountain]

I did everything right, built two 02 tanks, had the air bladder, all fine. And then I got trapped on my way up and could not free myself in time and.... gone

[clever crow]

Even the unstuck button didn’t work?

[west mountain]

No, I was not stuck. The airbladder still hat uplift, I was trapped under the bridge and until I stopped the airbladder and wanted to swim away it was getting dark forever

[tardy zodiac]

the omega base

[west mountain]

I already told you three times

[tardy zodiac]

u didnt

I found marguerit base

[west mountain]

If you dont read my messages I cannot help you. Its just up there.

[tardy zodiac]

can u mention it

the message

oh I followed the cable, it doesnt continue

[west mountain]

Well, maybe at the end in lilypad there is something. It hangs down from a big rock and there is an entrance .

[crude vapor]

||mercury 2 wrecks||

[tardy zodiac]

on the one next to delta base but behind the laser door yeah?

[blazing tangle]

hopping back in

hoping to find a the last 2 vehicle bay frags and then a good bit of silver for wiring kits

[storm imp]

loads of silver veins around ||glacial basin caves||

[eternal garnet]

where MVB: ||on the sand in twisty bridges and in kelp root caves, some in nests||

[storm imp]

mvb is rather annoying to find in bz

[fluid cove]

i started playing sn below zero

its amazing

[eternal garnet]

is very pretty

[naive lotus]

Where can I find a lot of diamond? I'm building a new base and need a lot of enameled glass

[eternal garnet]

deep twisty bridges, and in most lava pits

[west mountain]

Koppa mine has drillable deposits

[lime grove]

there are a few diamond veins below the delta island

[naive lotus]

Does deposit respawn? I already swept Koppa mine.

[west mountain]

And there is a site over the bridge with a lot of drillable deposits.

[west mountain]

No

[lime grove]

nope

[naive lotus]

okay, I'll go with delta island, since it's nearest

[lime grove]

there are lava pits below it with diamond veins

[west mountain]

Also in tree spires under the vent gardens

[blazing tangle]

why is table coral so scarce compared to Sub1?

[west mountain]

Lots in twisty bridges

Sometimes in clusters

[blazing tangle]

nah it also just spawns at lower quantities

in sub 1 it was basically a non resource because it spawned everywhere

seat truck acquired

[crude vapor]

Na in the twisty bridges in the caves area u can find huge clumps

[blazing tangle]

wow okay

seatruck is very maneuverable

[west mountain]

Wait till you add lots of modules 😄

[blazing tangle]

i can already tell i’ll need 2 seatruck

1 for seamoth activities, one for cyclops activities

[west mountain]

You can just detach the modules instead

[umbral talon]

Just got back into below zero had a pretty good save on game pass and it’s no longer available so got it on steam, just built a semi good base and got sea truck and docking station built what’s everything planting as far as food and fuel for bio reactor now a days?

[blazing tangle]

aww man they fixed it

tools crafted with low power batteries now spawn with low power

[eternal garnet]

Most convenient is pepper fruit, when you find them

grow it right next to reactor

until then, fish and root pustules

[umbral talon]

I remember those actually, where can I grab them again? I got my sea truck module 1 diving to 300m last night and built a higher o2 tank so definitely need to go scan and collect the omega lab tonight, would it be in there?

[eternal garnet]

no, on icy land

pusutiles on kelp roots. Not renewable

[dire locust]

Hello

[blazing tangle]

oh no, the endless struggle of finding silver has met me once again

also i need to find a multipurpose room

[naive lotus]

My base, one last pic before I move out to a new one

[blazing tangle]

sick

[umbral talon]

Scan it at the delta station

[blazing tangle]

i haven’t been there yet, i figured it was there

[west mountain]

And on the way there you find tons of silver

[next current]

I found it easier and quicker just to go to ||Outpost Zero||.

[blazing tangle]

i was gonna go after i get a locker and battery charger setup

[blazing tangle]

that’s so useful thank you

[blazing tangle]

long time sub player, first time BZ player. Idk where anything is

[umbral talon]

Under the delta station go the left (the under water base where you find the moon pool) plenty of rocks I’ve found with silver, swim around inside it and collect them diamonds as well

[eternal garnet]

that is koppa mine, brown on the map

[naive lotus]

Holy shiet! Is this the best food? It's too easy to make.

[storm imp]

pretty much

[eternal garnet]

yes, that's why it isn't early game

[storm imp]

indeed, you gotta get to ||maida's greenhouse|| to make it

[naive lotus]

This is too OP, not even rot

I can deep dive with this for hours with only prawn suit

[crude vapor]

Ye

[tacit thorn]

Any recommended music for seatrucking?
Got wellerman and last shanty on my list, waht else to add for underwater hard working day?

[west mountain]

Mika underwater

[next current]

The Rite of the Deep Jukebox disk.

It's the song from BZ's cinematic trailer. (Beautifully put together btw)

[blazing tangle]

bruh what is that weird thing between you and delta

creature

[tacit thorn]

is it in jukebox or need to download as mp3 and put in folder?

[west mountain]

siouxsie and the banshees passenger

[west mountain]

Cryptosuchus more bark than bite. Give it a swipe with the knife

[west mountain]

It plays in the background of Freds Trailer.

[blazing tangle]

wow there’s a lot of architect structure in this area

[next current]

In the game, there are several Jukebox Disks that can be found in the world. Most of which are around Alterra Tech Sites/Bases. (Minus the two in the Mercury II Bow and Mercury II Thruster)

[tacit thorn]

Think I already found them all or mostly all. Just looking for something else to listen while trucking

[west mountain]

7 in total

[bold monolith]

My data say nine.

[west mountain]

8, 1 song was removed the one Matt mentioned above Rite of the deep

[bold monolith]

Since when?

[blazing tangle]

okay, a lot has happened in the last hour of playtime

[broken badge]

Be sure you save often

[tacit thorn]

be sure you backup your save, in case you wanted to prolong your cohabitation arrangement

[bold monolith]

It was added.

[broken badge]

Most platforms don’t have the option to make backups, but ok

[tacit thorn]

right, forgetting not everyone uses PC

[raw canyon]

So, I finished the story, and it gave me an idea for another game! Although I dont want to.spoil the end for anyone....

[blazing tangle]

why does ||kyanite|| spawn up so high?

i went looking for rubys and found the deepest resource of game 1 lol

[tacit thorn]

it does. and there is a ton of it.
But, you are in territory of terror centipede

[eternal garnet]

because this isn't game 1.

[raw canyon]

Because theres other stuff further down they dont want you tonsee yet

[blazing tangle]

noted

[crude vapor]

I need help, idk what to do next for the story

[raw canyon]

Where are you?

[crude vapor]

I've ||done margs greenhouse|| and I've scanned 1 of ||al-ans body parts||

[raw canyon]

What I did is I explored around, upgraded my equipment, and he just told me parts were nearby.

[tacit thorn]

have you explored all of the alterra bases?

[crude vapor]

The main 5? On the map?

[tacit thorn]

yes

[crude vapor]

No only 3

But the other 2 are on land and I'm scared of them wormmys

[tacit thorn]

explore them all, one of them has a bridge that you need to fix

[raw canyon]

Surprisingly, I completed the whole storyline without coming across a single worm

Tjat might be beacause I ised the prawn suit though

[crude vapor]

Ye I could do that

[tacit thorn]

I only seen them in distance, but also used the superior all terrain travel method

[raw canyon]

You're going to want to jump jet upgrade a storage upgrade and a Grappler

[crude vapor]

Already sorted

[tacit thorn]

grapple is not necessary, most places can be jumped into or walked around

[raw canyon]

The grapple makes it easier to get up on to the land if you fall off

[blazing tangle]

wait so given that we see the below zero in the end of sub1, the ice shelf is about a quarter way across the planet

how tf is ||maida still alive||

[raw canyon]

Did you find her voice logs?

[crude vapor]

Reaper meat

[blazing tangle]

her log said she floated on a reaper corpse with 3 liters of water, that just don’t make sense

[raw canyon]

She survived the same way we did

[blazing tangle]

she floated a quarter way across a planet on 3 liters?

[broken badge]

Suspension of disbelief xD

It’s a game

Plot armor

[blazing tangle]

understandable

[eternal garnet]

And we don't know how far. And planet looks small

[tacit thorn]

I think she was from the ship that crashed near delta?

[raw canyon]

I really want to suggest a new game but I don't want to spoil anything

[blazing tangle]

she was in subnautica 1 in voice logs

[eternal garnet]

Mercury is not Degasi

Degasi is a ship name

[tacit thorn]

Oh, I need to play game 1 once I finish this

[blazing tangle]

you can actually hear her fighting the reaper who’s head is mounted

anyway, i gotta upgrade my seatruck to go down into the crystal zone

put a storage unit on it

[tacit thorn]

and a prawn dock

[raw canyon]

You don't actually need to bring a prawn suit with you

[blazing tangle]

i don’t have a prawn yet anyway

[tacit thorn]

FALSE. You always bring prawn with you.

[broken badge]

I know that meat rots. So that reaper meat wouldn’t be edible after a short period of time. So yeah you kinda just have to suspend some of reality’s rules

[blazing tangle]

i found some arms but not the actual thing

[raw canyon]

I'm just saying it is possible to complete the game without it

[tacit thorn]

As is putting in nails without hammer. But I liek my big hammer.

[blazing tangle]

to be fair, muscle rots slower than fat. And she said reapers are mostly muscle

[broken badge]

Meat still goes bad

[blazing tangle]

facts

[tacit thorn]

she managed to cook/smoke some of it, which would preserve it longer

[blazing tangle]

i need to head back to base (and actually build a base)

and i need to find the prawn suit

[broken badge]

It’s kinda like how Ryley probably would’ve died from smoke inhalation before the game actually started but we just ignore that little bit😂

[blazing tangle]

i’ve got the grapple arm synthesizedx but not the actual suit

[tacit thorn]

Explore the alterra bases.

[blazing tangle]

i’ve only found 1

the one maida drops down on you at

[tacit thorn]

found the facility maps?

[blazing tangle]

i’m sure i’ll get more beacons as the game progresses

oh yeah i did find the map

i’ll find them

[eternal garnet]

important: spam the world with your own beacons. Always carry one or more

Especially useful if you die, as you will find

[blazing tangle]

do you drop items when you die?

oh i’ve already figured out i need beacons

[eternal garnet]

yes. And a beacon - if you carry one

[tacit thorn]

or, you can reload save if you die, if you don't want to deal with that

[blazing tangle]

i just won’t die

built different

[eternal garnet]

Riiiight

[tacit thorn]

sometimes game glitches

[eternal garnet]

either way, save often.

Not because of dying

[lime grove]

but because of crashes

[eternal garnet]

not crashes. More like stuck vehicles

[tacit thorn]

yes that sucks, especially because no autosave

[eternal garnet]

my BZ never crashes ever (steam)

[lime grove]

my BZ was crashing really much before the What The Dock update (ps4) but it isnt now

[eternal garnet]

yes, console stability should have increased

[lime grove]

it really did cuz it didnt crash once after the update

[tacit thorn]

games on consoles can crash? 😱

[lime grove]

yes

[eternal garnet]

sarcasm?

[tacit thorn]

I thought that was PC exclusive feature!

[eternal garnet]

ha. Any computer, including phones

[tacit thorn]

I mean, I never had console game crash, but I only played on ps1/ps2

[lime grove]

i experienced many crashes

not only on BZ

[tacit thorn]

ok... do consoles have any remaining strong sides then? I thought they simply never crashed, because no problems with weird hardware and drivers.

[icy coyote]

They cost less for what you get I think

Mass produced

[tacit thorn]

they do, but pc allows you to go higher. there is only one version of console vs dozen tiers for pc

[icy coyote]

The main strength of consoles is that they are standardized

Exactly

Like “my pc is malfunctioning” vs “my Xbox is malfunctioning”

[tacit thorn]

although pc can usually be fixed with minimal cost, while xbox usually is dead brick if something happens

[icy coyote]

True

But there are people who fix Xbox’s

[tacit thorn]

my personal expience across the years has been 1 burned gpu (refunded on warranty) and 2 broken hdd-s, also replaced on warranty, vs 2 or three dead consoles in my brothers possesion.

[icy coyote]

Also most consoles are non portable

Laptop is

[tacit thorn]

computers are beefy and larger, but in most cases a regular user can just replace the faulty component without special tools.

I don't consider laptops in the gaming department, they are just mobile office.

[icy coyote]

My entire setup is laptop based

I have a gaming laptop that I plug in to a keyboard, cooling pad, mouse, and monitor

Mobile gaming if I bring my charger and Bluetooth mouse

[tacit thorn]

imo 'gaming laptops' are one of worst way to solve the problem, unless you have absolutely no space or live on the move.

[eternal garnet]

There are gaming laptops. Most of them suffer from overheating issues... Especially after a few months when fans clog with dust

[broken badge]

Switch and Steam deck are also portable

[blazing tangle]

idk when but at some point while i was eating my game unpaused

[icy coyote]

Have a switch

[blazing tangle]

i spawned back in my seatruck

[icy coyote]

Like while you were underwater

One time my controller died and the game didn’t auto pause

[west mountain]

Maybe your cat jumped on the keyboard 😄

[broken badge]

Consoles are basically just computers with locked OSes

[icy coyote]

Not exactly locked-

[broken badge]

Well we can’t talk about that here

[tacit thorn]

portable game consoles are like battery powered angle grinders. Awesome in tight spaces, but for serious work, I prefer the 2kw corded monster. depends on your situation.

[blazing tangle]

what is a spiral plant

[broken badge]

A plant with spiral leaves

[tacit thorn]

You need to go deeper ™️

[blazing tangle]

i just came back from deep to upgrade my seatruck to go deeper

[lime grove]

a plant that is spiral

[blazing tangle]

so now i need to go deeper to go deeper after i just got back from the deep

[tacit thorn]

exactly

[blazing tangle]

bruh

[west mountain]

Go south from delta island

[tacit thorn]

I found some plants near one of the starship wrecks. just kinda deep below

[blazing tangle]

that’s where i just was

i just got back from there

[west mountain]

Did you find the big friendly leviathan

[tacit thorn]

spiral plants don't lok like anything special. but when you find one, grab some samples and plant it near your base

[icy coyote]

They’re the one in the ||ventgarden|| right

[west mountain]

Yes

[icy coyote]

You can plant them

[west mountain]

Yes

[icy coyote]

Oh

I didn’t know that

[tacit thorn]

you should already developed a reflex to stab everything with knife to see if it gives samples

[icy coyote]

To be fair I was dropping my FPS to about 15-20 with my 30 sea monkeys

[tacit thorn]

||clippings can be planted. don't look like seeds but can. gel sacks can be knifed for seeds too. as all plantable things actually||

[icy coyote]

I grew them in containment

Sea monkeys give recourses even when you get them from containment

[west mountain]

Except preston shrub nuts lantern chinese potato and fevered peppers

[icy coyote]

I got soooo much copper

[tacit thorn]

I actually asked a modder to make update that disables them from bothering you ever. too many times had them fly in my face when building.

[icy coyote]

Like literally an one and a half standing lockers if copper

[west mountain]

I have 8 lockers with compasses

[icy coyote]

They give you the recourses for what you have pinned

[tacit thorn]

I'm not a hoarder. Currently like 16 lockers of just copper.

[icy coyote]

Holy dang

How

[tacit thorn]

I do know that. no amount of lead and titanium is going to pay for them interrupting my building when running out of oxygen.

[tacit thorn]

Its called hoarding. Just stripmined everything in starter zone.

[west mountain]

I emptied the entire map of all resources and built 20 bases so far

[tacit thorn]

I actually stopped my stripmining efforts when I filled quarter of large room with titanium lockers and couldn't put more.

[icy coyote]

You should make 5 large rooms and fill them with bioreactors for no reason

[west mountain]

Do you not compact your stuff

[tacit thorn]

Imagine the section on left of this image having all the passges filled with lockers.

[icy coyote]

My base was almost entirely made with loot from monkeys

[broken badge]

I get the sea monkeys to bring me the stuff to make my first depth upgrade for seatruck xD

[tacit thorn]

Too lazy to stand by fabricator that long.
Only time I compacted things was making pile of glass, because I knew my quartz would end up used as windows anyway.

[icy coyote]

They can give you everything except ion cubes

[tacit thorn]

Do seamonkeys bring stuff they picked somewhere on map, or it actually spawns from nowhere in their hands?

[icy coyote]

It’s infinite

[broken badge]

I’m pretty sure if you have no recipes pinned they have a select loot list for the area they’re in
So if you want something specific you should pin recipes

[west mountain]

You do that:already in your seatruck. I come home with all lockers filled with titanu. Ingots. You wast your time by moving around individual pieces as well

I have one locker with seatruck depth upgrade mk1 that is 15 lockers worth of material

[tacit thorn]

I have a mod that adds ctrl+click to move all items of same type with single click. Outrageous its not in base game.

[pliant jetty]

unlabelled storage makes me sad.

[broken badge]

Compressing resources when you’re out collecting is

[pliant jetty]

like, at least put a sign up

[tacit thorn]

Actually, have a 'show locker interior' mod, because you can't put text on them

[pliant jetty]

then run them over with the truck, right?

[broken badge]

Nooooo

[pliant jetty]

oh, thats sick, do some items freak the mod out?

[tacit thorn]

Doesn't work, they seem to respawn ad infinitum.

[west mountain]

True

[broken badge]

I only run over lilypaddlers, well before options, because they make my head hurt

[icy coyote]

They do

[pliant jetty]

What do you mean "doesn't work"? do they splatter or not?

[west mountain]

They respawn too

[tacit thorn]

yes and no. I had my game crash three times in same spot when putting a stalker fur in after 1h outside of base, but after saving before locker and putting fur in, it did not reoccur. So, possibly, but unconfirmed.

[broken badge]

I only did it when I needed to build
After that I didn’t care

[pliant jetty]

You could also grow, then introduce predators to their spawn locations

[icy coyote]

Although sea monkeys don’t give you anything until ||after you get alan||

[tacit thorn]

the predators would hunt them?

[broken badge]

Now I can just turn lilypaddler effects off using custom options

[pliant jetty]

Ah, that's the trigger, I just assumed it was feeding them which i did to get them to leave me alone

[icy coyote]

Yea they steal your stuff before

[pliant jetty]

it depends on the predator for sure

[west mountain]

Hey Guys, did you see that I rebuilt Omega lab on top of the destroid one. Check out the screen shots in the Awesome Bases Chat at the end.

Try to copy the lab as good as possible

[tacit thorn]

You, sir, are awesomely evil.
Any recommended predators? They won't attack me, which is a perfect setup.

[pliant jetty]

I managed some good stuff with predator fish in the base game

So I'm looking forward to unlocking containment here

[pliant jetty]

i'm afraid i'm not that far in BZ

[tacit thorn]

Containment is fun. If you wish to grow vines, you have to stack them perfectly in large rooms. star-step doesnt work

[pliant jetty]

But in base game 8 ||crabsquid|| permanently deter ||reapers||

[tacit thorn]

||purple vents, crashed ship||

[pliant jetty]

I have seen these things, and am slightly beyond

[pliant jetty]

I suggest this, grab at least 2 of every egg you see, especially bigger ones

once you have 2 eggs you can just patently wait for infinite predators

[tacit thorn]

I know where to find rockpunchers. maybe some squidsharks as well

[icy coyote]

Dang. Are those just worse though?

[pliant jetty]

always leave at least 2 behind when you take out a hunting pack

[icy coyote]

Where I want to enslave them

[pliant jetty]

I dont follow "just worse"

they are tame

[blazing tangle]

seatruck storage is cool

[pliant jetty]

they'll turn off your electronics, but they wont hurt you

[blazing tangle]

this seatruck certainly seems like a cool vehicle

[tacit thorn]

||rockpunchers - koppa mining site, alien statue room. Squidhsraks can't remember, lilypads?||

[icy coyote]

Rockpunchers make infinite materials

[pliant jetty]

I'm a big fan of the dock and suggest you build it the moment you get it, mainly to get familiar with it

you need to build your base around it rather than the base first

as its awkward af

[blazing tangle]

i have the blueprint but it costs a good bit of resource

[icy coyote]

Do rockpunchers have eggs

[pliant jetty]

you can always refund it

[tacit thorn]

you may want to build one standalone from the base, to figure out where the connector is. then connect it to base. I had to google youtube vid, since it didn't want to connect

also, the dock has much bigger bounding box than it looks. kinda like multiroom

[west mountain]

Yes

[icy coyote]

I’m going to have to find some

[west mountain]

You know where?

[icy coyote]

They might be better than sea monkeys

[blazing tangle]

big broken ship wtf

[icy coyote]

No

[west mountain]

||Koppa mine||

[tacit thorn]

||koppa mining site alien statue room has some||

[icy coyote]

Thanks

[weary tendon]

Where can I find a large deposit of lead?

[west mountain]

Also just down at the bottom

[weary tendon]

I have everything except lead...

[tacit thorn]

don't think I saw those, maybe only galena outcrops

[west mountain]

Twisty bridges and thermal spires

[weary tendon]

Thank you

[tacit thorn]

lead exists as drillable rocks?

[west mountain]

Also lots on the floating lilypad rocks

[broken badge]

No lead deposits in BZ, sadly

[weary tendon]

My shrimp friend is also sad about that fact

[broken badge]

There are areas where you can find quite a bit of galena rocks but no large deposits for lead

[icy coyote]

Monkeys

[steel stream]

In the first game, not in below zero...

[weary tendon]

Shrimp friend decided to eat me( Why I build my base near this abomination

[tacit thorn]

thats a lobster

[weary tendon]

Lobster is in my aquarium

[blazing tangle]

struggling to find spiral plant

i found loop plant and thought i had it, i was wrong

[west mountain]

South of delra island

[icy coyote]

There’s a big crater with a jellyfish

[tacit thorn]

check on wiki how it looks, wasn't obvious what I was looking for, only found it by chance

[blazing tangle]

that’s where i am

[icy coyote]

Very big jellyfish

[west mountain]

You have to find the giant ||vent garden|| in tree spires

[weary tendon]

Just go south and find giant... something

[icy coyote]

Jellyfish

[weary tendon]

And swim inside

[weary tendon]

From below

[icy coyote]

If you see any swimming around, they are smol jellyfish

Scan them and leave

They mean you are close to big jellyfish

Also there’s a chilecrite near the big jellyfish

[weary tendon]

At first I didnt know where to get spiral plants. When i decided to swim souther my base through my shrimp friend. After swimming 200 metres down i found ||vent gardens||

[blazing tangle]

okay i see the small jellyfish surrounding the mercury

[weary tendon]

Yep you are near

Swim souther

A little bit, the water will become purple

[west mountain]

Swim all the way south following the seafloor

[blazing tangle]

wait so i have to go inside this thing?

[west mountain]

Correct

[blazing tangle]

inside the jellyfish

[weary tendon]

Yes

[blazing tangle]

this game is so cool

[weary tendon]

Lmao

[west mountain]

Vent Garden no jelly

[blazing tangle]

bro i just got attacked by some big dude

[weary tendon]

Where can I find music disks?

[blazing tangle]

seatruck on life support

[weary tendon]

It's a big shrimpy

[icy coyote]

Just around

[weary tendon]

Run

[west mountain]

Its his territory

[weary tendon]

I found some in the ||Mercury 2||

[icy coyote]

This is why perimeter defense system exists

[weary tendon]

And I dont know where other could be

[icy coyote]

altera Bases

[weary tendon]

This game actually has jellyfish....

[blazing tangle]

he didn’t do all that much damage, but he dragged me under my crush depth

[weary tendon]

Wow

[icy coyote]

Eye jellys

[blazing tangle]

wait i still don’t know what the spiral plant looks like

[icy coyote]

It’s in the ventgarden

[blazing tangle]

i mean yeah, i gotta find it

[west mountain]

The plants that grow inside the vent gardens

[blazing tangle]

but i’m low on water and big shrimpin is out there

[icy coyote]

Red

[blazing tangle]

i’ll grab a sample and dip

i need to craft like 6 beacons so i can find my way around

[tacit thorn]

remember to plant the sample to make more instead of using it for depth upgrades right away

[blazing tangle]

or i’ll grab a few and do both

i don’t have exterior growbed tho

[weary tendon]

Why do these eye guys damage hich-tech vehicle provided to swim in dangerous environment?

[west mountain]

You can build an exterior growbed and plant them at your base

[blazing tangle]

you don’t need a blueprint?

you had to find it first in the first game

[west mountain]

Yes you need a scan

[weary tendon]

There is one somewhere near an island

[tacit thorn]

some growbeds are near delta island

[weary tendon]

I kinda love what devs did to exosuit in Below Zero

Is it a bug or something? Why grappling arm ignore gravity

[broken badge]

Not the best picture quality because I took stills from video clips I already had, and I have highlight on (they’re smaller and harder to see in game) but this is what spiral plant looks like @blazing tangle

They’re spiral, as you can see

[sleek timber]

question

the ||parallel processing unit|| found in wrecks - do you need to explore multiple wrecks to find three fragments?

I'm in the stern wreck right now, and I think I explored the whole thing but only found two

[broken badge]

Generally speaking unless you find the bow in lilypads, because I think the bow might have 3

Thrusters only has 1, stern has 2 iirc

[west mountain]

You should:explore all three wrecks because there is great stuff to find

[broken badge]

Nice loot

[tacit thorn]

good base pieces

[broken badge]

Bow is the biggest

[sleek timber]

ok thanks

[west mountain]

And you can get three scans without laser cutter

[sleek timber]

well, so far it's been mildly disappointing - just a few above-average supply crates

[broken badge]

The bow is like the mother lode😂

[sleek timber]

[west mountain]

It gets beter from here

[sleek timber]

okay then

[blazing tangle]

hallucination fish wtf

[west mountain]

Lily paddler

[blazing tangle]

still didn’t find the spiral plant

[west mountain]

Did you find the giant vent gardens

[blazing tangle]

yup, been looking around the vent garden for a while now

[west mountain]

Did you go inside

[blazing tangle]

inside what, the mushroom?

jellyfish whatever

[west mountain]

The vent gardens

[blazing tangle]

yeah i’m there

[west mountain]

Go inside from underneath

[blazing tangle]

i’m convinced it doesn’t exist

i’ll find it later

[west mountain]

Are you inside the vent garden?

[blazing tangle]

no, i’m on my way back to base because my character is thirsty

[broken badge]

Not the floating baby ventgardens the big ones stuck to the ground in tree spires

[blazing tangle]

yeah, i went into the caves and found a “refresher tank” or something like that

[west mountain]

You dont find them unless you go inside the giant vent garden.

[broken badge]

I just go to the caves in purple vents

[blazing tangle]

i went in

[west mountain]

Then just cut them with the knife

[blazing tangle]

there weren’t any of the plants…

[broken badge]

I don’t mess with ventgardens for spiral plant you don’t really have to go to that biome otherwise, although it’s cool to go later on

[west mountain]

Its full of them. Make a screenshot

[blazing tangle]

i am 1000m away at my base now

for water

[west mountain]

Next time i mean

[broken badge]

You know the purple vents biome, the purple fumaroles that spew? The caves underneath, they have the spiral plant too

[west mountain]

But its amazing for new players to find them and swim inside. I like that part of the story

[broken badge]

Same place you find prawn docking module for seatruck

[weary tendon]

Do you know how to lose a painting? Place it in an aquarium

[broken badge]

Poster you mean?

[weary tendon]

Yes

[blazing tangle]

i managed to refind maida’s base before finding this plant

i’m losing my mind

[next current]

What Plant are you looking for?

[west mountain]

Spiral plant clippings. We already gave him directions

[blazing tangle]

when in doubt, chemical apes will help

[west mountain]

Or hilian mom

[blazing tangle]

i really just can’t find these plants

[west mountain]

So where did you went wrong?

[blazing tangle]

huh

[next current]

Dang.

[blazing tangle]

nowhere, i was in the purple caves under the vent garden. I just didn’t find any plants

[west mountain]

Inside the vent gardens

You did mot went to the big ones

[blazing tangle]

i literally asked if you go inside the mushroom and i was told no

so i was searching the caves this whole time

[west mountain]

We said go inside the vent gardens from underneath

Not caves

[blazing tangle]

somebody said not to go in, idk

i’ll go in

[west mountain]

I wrote you five times to go inside the giant vent gardens 😄

[blazing tangle]

i got it

grabbed an abundance just in case

[white wind]

Does anyone know what the thumper is used for

[broken badge]

Purple vent caves works just as well as going inside ventgardens

[west mountain]

It creates a circle within you are:save from ||ice worm attacks||. And its pretty much useless.

[broken badge]

Thumper is useless, ngl

Don’t waste your resources

[west mountain]

You can recycle it after one use 😄

[blazing tangle]

650 meters accomplished

[west mountain]

Excellent and already planning for the next one. Pin the recipie

[blazing tangle]

all i need is 3 nickel i have everything else

first order of business (when i get home from work) is taking the truck down into the purple crystal cave and seeing what’s deeper

[west mountain]

Or deep lilypad cave

[carmine bobcat]

how do i find the cotton amenone bc i cant find it in the lilypad biome

[west mountain]

Deep lilypad cave

[broken badge]

I’m not very good at directions, but you go into the lilypad caves, and find where there’s a place where there’s a gap in the vines where you can go much deeper

And as you go down the color changes to like a rosy pink with these reddish spheres you’ll need to collect, and explore further as well

[carmine bobcat]

Ohh

[carmine bobcat]

alrr thnx both of u

[broken badge]

You’ll know for sure you’re in the right place once you see these things

[old tundra]

Wait you can do that!?

[west mountain]

Yes thats where you get spiral plant clippings, besides deep purple vents.

[old tundra]

Bro what

[signal dagger]

why so.

and how do you have an air tank with that capacity.

[eternal garnet]

it's the Ultra tank, total 225s

find it in ||Lilypad monkey nests||

[storm imp]

I quite dislike how much is there with no alternative sources

[quartz delta]

fiah

fish*

[signal dagger]

the what.

i do not know what that is.

[eternal garnet]

ultra capacity. Bigger than the Large

[storm imp]

ultra high capacity

[upbeat plume]

Hi i played Subnautica and would like to play Sub Zero next, are the system requirements higher/much higher ? Because in some Biomes my Pc seemed to be struggling with Subnautica OG

Thanks for any answers regarding performance

[signal dagger]

i suggest a NASA computer. but in all seriousness just have at least a pretty decent computer to play the game at full graphics settings.

i dont know what computer is best.

[upbeat plume]

Hmm compared to the first is there a difference ?

[storm imp]

might as well check the steam page

[upbeat plume]

I did but user experience can be different 🙂

[storm imp]

well yeah, most pcs are going to be different. comparing requirements to your specs just tells you if you can run it, not how well it will run.

[upbeat plume]

Processor AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six Core 3.20GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB

[storm imp]

use a site like techpowerup to compare those

avoid userbenchmark though

[upbeat plume]

It recommends: / AMD Ryzen 5 @ 3Ghz +
Nvidia 1050 Ti

[storm imp]

recommended and not minimum?

[upbeat plume]

Minimum is way lower

Processor: Intel Core i3 4XXX series / AMD Ryzen 3 2.6ghz+
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Intel HD 530 or better

[storm imp]

so you'll probably be able to run it at 1080p60 on high settings, but like you said, ymmv.

[upbeat plume]

But given that Subnautica asks for (recommended)
Processor: Intel Haswell 4 cores / 4 threads @ 3.2Ghz or equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GTX 550 Ti or equivalent, 2GB VRAM

And some Biomes had my Pc struggling :E 😄 i am worried 😄

[storm imp]

how much ram do you have, and what kind of drive do you have the game on?

[upbeat plume]

16 and a 500 GB SSD, which is the only Drive in my PC 😄

[storm imp]

how full is the drive?

[upbeat plume]

40 GB free 😄

i have to remove some stuff

90 GB now

[storm imp]

then I'm not sure why it'd be struggling...

[upbeat plume]

deleted a few games

[upbeat plume]

Hm

[carmine bobcat]

Best place to find grapple arm????

[naive lotus]

sea monkey nest at lilypad

[eternal garnet]

They are very similar. Not much higher.

Might even be reverse, meaning BZ is lighter. But not much

It's that GPU, by the way

Memory is a little tight. Don't make huge bases

[jovial rain]

Is the top speed effected by the number of modules on the sea truck

[stray breach]

yes

The more modules, the slower you are

[jovial rain]

Darn

[broken badge]

Meatie made this graph, speed doesn’t start to taper off until about 3 modules

@jovial rain

Having horsepower and afterburner upgrades certainly help

[jovial rain]

Ok sweet I only wanted to rock 3 anyways

[broken badge]

Yeah, most people will have storage, fabricator and maybe docking, so they won’t see any significant speed loss

Especially if they have the HP and AB upgrades

[jovial rain]

Hmm trying to figure out how to attach the seatruck docking

[broken badge]

It has to go last

The prawn docking module

Unless you meant the seatruck dock itself

It can be a bit finicky to attach to bases

[jovial rain]

I got it

[eternal garnet]

So if you got 99 modules, speed with afterburner boost will be 5m/s... then drop to about 0.2

[eternal garnet]

oh, you can attach it to the base, with the pointy end. Leave space between

[dense tartan]

hey

i have a question

so i'm playing through the area where the phi station is rn, and i found the place with the ||snow stalkers. i have collected 4 pieces of their fur, and i looked up and apparently they're only used for crafting the low temp suit, which uses 4. I googled, and apparently they do not respawn. Does this mean I can kill them now so they don't bother me and i can explore? or will i need them alive for some other reason?||

[tacit comet]

I think you're good. Also, there's a lot of them around the map, so I wouldn't be surprised if you keep finding more every now and then.

Also, I have my suspicions that there is one Snow Stalker that respawns now and again, but I'm unsure if that's correct.

[broken badge]

Just use flares. That’ll keep them away when you’re on foot

[tacit comet]

And while you're in a prawn, they don't do enough damage to really stack up, especially if you can evade them with the grappling arm, since they're usually too slow to catch up.

[broken badge]

Since there’s an animation for the ||ice worm eating snow stalkers|| I’m guessing they never completely go away

[tacit comet]

Yeah that's what I thought, it's a fun base location.

An observatory to watch their never-ending doom.

[bold monolith]

All creatures have a "respawn only if killed by another creature" switch.

And they have that set to true.

[tacit comet]

Ok, good to know.

So, in that regard, the ||Ice Worm|| is actually registered as a creature? I was under the impression that the game's mechanics didn't classify it as such.

[broken badge]

Hmm, interesting

[tacit comet]

Because, after retreating, it disappears, and only spawns after it's triggered again, right?

[jovial rain]

Are these not enough heat for thermal powerplants?

[broken badge]

Well it’s not a creature form the standpoint you can scan it or kill it or interact with it in a normal way. But I guess in that strict sense of killing a snow stalker it counts

You want the thermal plant read out in green numbers preferably for providing power

Green means good

Can’t see the numbers but those are red

[jovial rain]

How do I know if a area is hot enough? Just trial and error?

[broken badge]

Usually you’ll see red hot looking geysers where it’s hot enough

[bold monolith]

As said, when it kills it probably broadcasts the killed by a creature message, but you're also right it is an animatronic more than a creature.

[jovial rain]

Damn I made a entire base assuming there was thermal power here

[broken badge]

Generally you’ll need to look inside caves for places to put thermal plants for energy production

[tacit comet]

When placing the thermal plant, you want both the area of placement, and the readout to be green. You also need to connect it to a base with power transmitters.

[broken badge]

You can use the power transmitters to carry power to your base

You won’t have to move your base

Unless you just want to

[tacit comet]

Purple Vents might work ok, but I haven't tried. I would hazard to guess no, but they're nearby if you wanna give it a shot.

[broken badge]

I never used thermal plants in BZ. Nuclear reactors were so easy to use instead, and provide so much more power over time

In that area, solar energy would be plenty especially if you added bioreactor to carry through the night

[jovial rain]

I got lucky there is a hot vent right by

Boiling water comming out

and it hurts

[tacit comet]

Cool, yeah there are some deeper down in that area.

[broken badge]

There’s caves in the area so that’s not too surprising
Glad you found a place tho

[jovial rain]

How close does it need to be lol

That seems pretty close

[tacit comet]

I mean, you're getting some power.

But if you can build it on top, it's fine, it won't get damaged or anything.

I would build it as close to pain as possible.

Good rule of thumb.

Put it literally on top of the heat source for best results if it lets you.

[broken badge]

I know some geysers have a ring of sorts around them where you can’t place it directly on top

[tacit comet]

Yeah, but usually you can at least slope it off to the side

[jovial rain]

Lol NICE

[broken badge]

That, among other reasons, is why I never mess with thermal plants in BZ. Plus stringing the power transmitters along, it’s just more than I find worth it for power that’s not anything more really than a bioreactor gives you

Most aren’t that hot. I think there’s only one or maybe two places that are that hot😂

[jovial rain]

Hmm I don't think it's going to work no play to put the power transmitter

nbm

LOTS of powah now

[sleek timber]

huh, good to know

I was wondering about that yesterday when I saw the big chompy boi eat a croc boi

[bold monolith]

I can share it if you want.

[sleek timber]

share what?

[bold monolith]

The state of those for each creature.

[sleek timber]

oh that's fine, thanks

no need

[bold monolith]

The main thing is that in this game it isn't as straightforward as in SN1. Some aggressive fish will respawn if you kill them whereas in SN usually they don't with the exception of warpers, crash fish and void leviathans.

For instance the brinewing respawn.

The lilypaddler too.

Crash fish have the same behavior as SN, they'll respawn if you don't touch their home.

The symbiote respawn too.

[west mountain]

Was it below its crash depth and got destroyed while you were away?

[bold monolith]

You said you have no signal, no signal for the Seatruck or no signal at all?

[west mountain]

Do you still have the seatruck icon in the beacon manager in your PDA, its it just turned off or is it gone? Reload last saved game? Rebuild the seatruck?

[steel stream]

If you don't have seatruck beacon in your pda beacon manager, it probably means that something destroyed your seatruck...

[crude vapor]

I like me some nuclear radiation with a nuclear tractor

[west mountain]

Just make sure you have the proper handling procedure for the nuclear reactor:

[crude vapor]

Or now hear me out just grab it and change it

I have multiple full and depleted rods in my storage

[west mountain]

Depleted rods go in the nuclear waste bin, they are lost unfortunately.

[crude vapor]

Actually I have been wondering what if u put a rod in a regular bin? Or something else in a nuclear bin?

[west mountain]

i have four lockers of rods, should be enough to continue the game for a while

[west mountain]

I think you cant mix it up.

[crude vapor]

Fair

Is the seatruck ||teleportation module|| worth it?

[west mountain]

No, but hey, why not 🙂

[crude vapor]

It does sound funny tho just blip across the entire map

[west mountain]

No, that is not how it works 😦

[crude vapor]

Just leave ur seatruck at one end and go to the other then boom

[west mountain]

Sure but why? And it consumes 1/3 of an ion cube each time

[crude vapor]

Cause funny

[west mountain]

Exactly what I said, build it, use it once because funny and then leave it. But worth? No, not really.

[crude vapor]

U can't recharge ion cubes can u? Only ||ion batteries and cells||

[west mountain]

You can save them by recycling the teather tool before it is depleted and rescue the ion cube and rebuild the teather tool again. Too much of a hassle each time, therefore no, why bother. No idea what it was originally planned for. Maybe as a rescue device from a dangerous situation? But then its too late in the game. Once you get it, you already mastered the game and all dangers. No idea what its purpose is. A mobile scanner room would have been muuuuuch better 🙂

[crude vapor]

Tru that would have been nice, I just miss my stasis rifle, that thing made scanning levis so much easier

[west mountain]

No need in BZ, you can get way by just using health kits

[crude vapor]

How am I supposed to scan an ice worm anyway?

[west mountain]

you have to find one that does not move

[crude vapor]

And how do I do that , find one that's bugged?

[west mountain]

Correct

[crude vapor]

Oh

Couldn't I also put down a thumper and while its distracted with that scan it?

[west mountain]

No, you cannot interact with the ice worms, it is not designed that way

[bold monolith]

What do you mean bugged?

It's just dead, it isn't bugged.

[crude vapor]

I'm confused now lol

[west mountain]

There is a|| dead ice worm east of the tissue location in arctic spires||

[bold monolith]

You can scan a dead ice worm in a specific area in the Arctic Spires.

[crude vapor]

Ooo and the dead one gives the same scan as a live one would?

[west mountain]

Yes, of course.

[crude vapor]

Thank god

Now I just have to deal with the rest

I might need to deforest a kelp forest tho

[west mountain]

Why

Just plant them in an exterior growbed and harvest there

[crude vapor]

Or that

[west mountain]

Dont destroy your environment. I always take one sample per plant and move on to the next one to not destroy it

[crude vapor]

Hehehehehehehe destruction

[west mountain]

@bold monolith sorry for the confusion about the music disks yesterday. I did not know there was one added to the game. Have to go and look for it now. Was it with the seatruck dock update?

[bold monolith]

No worries.

[crude vapor]

How many music disks are there to find as I found 1 yesterday

[bold monolith]

Yes.

[west mountain]

so after 17 days and 19 hrs I am going to find a new item. Coooool!!!!!

[bold monolith]

Nine.

[west mountain]

Now 9 in total, I just learned yesterday

[crude vapor]

Sweet its cool that they put fan made songs in the game as well

[west mountain]

Just discovered another BZ song on youtube: there is ice in my veins from Nerdout. Cool!

[sleek timber]

Environmentalists: "We must be very cautious with nuclear energy, as the waste can be extremely dangerous for humans and the ecosystem! Disposal must be carefully regulated with maximum safety measures!"
Me: *yeet*

[west mountain]

That is not good!

[stuck sky]

am I suppose to do something here?

this is at the delta station

[sleek timber]

yes, but later on

you need to find some parts and unlock blueprints first

[stuck sky]

oh ok

cheers

does ores and such respawn on the delta station island?

[sleek timber]

not as far as I know?

no ores respawn in subnautica games

[stuck sky]

damn, was gonna build a base near it :p

[sleek timber]

the only exception is in the base game, where sea treaders spawn shale outcroppings as they walk

[stuck sky]

I remember these heat things, underground volcanors if you will from the first game, but I compltely forgot how to use it

[sleek timber]

how to use them for energy?

[stuck sky]

yea, I guess I dont have them unlocked yet

[sleek timber]

to power a seabase with them, you have to have a thermal reactor, which you build as close as possible to the vent

and either build your base right next to it so that the power transfers directly, or use power transmitters if the vent is far from your base

[stuck sky]

ah got it, and it wont damage my buildings?

there is a palce near delta with 3 heat vents next to eachother

if I die the stuff I lose are they gone or can I go back to get them back

nvm they still there

whats the point with foundations?

why cant I remove this

nevermind I had to remove the glass from inside

building is a bit frustrating

no snap compartment with multi room?

[sleek timber]

the snap has a very limited range - like three sections or something

[stuck sky]

yea I found out, you have to aim very specificly in a specific angel its very anoying lol

[sleek timber]

they increase base strength a bit, and provide a level surface where you can build things like exterior grow beds