below-zero-chat

[storm imp]

robin probably

[eternal garnet]

look scared

[tacit thorn]

it swims around ignoring me. sometimes tries to eat my prawn, spits it out and continues ignoring me

[twilit crag]

It’s pretty annoying to me since my bad is literally right next to where it usually is

[tacit thorn]

got the bad fish . It looks lobsters also need 3x3 cages

[tacit thorn]

My seatruck got stuck in a wall. the smoke pillars actually. is that fixable?

I think the lobster is unalive now

[indigo moth]

Wuh oh

[tacit thorn]

is this fixable?

[dry obsidian]

Yes

Just get in

Or push it by ramming yourself into it

[tacit thorn]

tried all of that plus grapple hooking it with prawn to no effect. but after trying to drive it again and backing up, it finally got free. yay!

[dry obsidian]

Ok

[echo salmon]

wait theres a bottom to the dead zone

[eternal garnet]

in some places yes

[echo salmon]

funny

[eternal garnet]

save more often for stuff like that

[tacit thorn]

I already have a pomodoro counter with 15m intervals. I'm supposed to save every minute? 🤣

[eternal garnet]

15 is good

A tomato counter? neat

[tacit thorn]

was first online inerval timer. normally used for something else, but suffices

the game really needs autosave

[errant ridge]

will the item the grabby fish has disapear if u hit it with knife?

nvm

[tacit thorn]

you mean seamonkeys? feel free to stab them to get your things back. you can also swim under them and yank it out of their hands

they seem to respawn ad infinitum so crashing them with seatruck does not work, but you can breed some sharks and lay grav traps around your base to keep them away

there is also mod that disables the annoying stealing

[errant ridge]

nice

[tacit thorn]

Spoiler: ||they will change their behavior later in the game after one of plot points.||

[next current]

You know... the whole stabbing part is not necessary. I know, crazy right? Not being violent?

[tacit thorn]

there are limits to my patience, and sea monkeys are exceeding them

[next current]

🫤

[tacit thorn]

I am still salty after that one time it stole my only build gun, when making one was still a big thing.

[true oar]

who maintains the sub zero wiki?

i wish to change one word

[storm imp]

it's a wiki. last I checked, you can do it yourself if you have an account.
(also, #📚wiki-discussion)

[true oar]

oh, whoops

[carmine bobcat]

Today i have finally finished a 400m long tube to delta island

Ima make it go to crystal caves too

[steel stream]

And what if it autosaves after you get your seatruck stuck in the pillar...

[pliant jetty]

Time to get a new sea truck maybe

[daring solar]

i think the save we have now is just good enough. im very honest just as said you cant reverse what happened to your vehicle or stuff if its already saved.

[broken badge]

This game doesn’t autosave, unless you took it upon yourself to mod the game, idk why you’d want autosave to get yourself into trouble so to speak but that’s your choice I guess if you use an autosave mod?

I think autosave is bad. Unless the game has both manual and autosave so you can always have a choice

[daring solar]

agreed

[twilit crag]

I was planning on moving all the eggs that have hatched and fish I collected into a cage with a chelicerate and shadow leviathan.Do any of y’all know if a chelicerate or shadow leviathan will kill

Honestly either in the kelp forests or the safe shallows Bc they have a lot of resources

I personally made mine in the purple vents

In the purple vents?

Yea

They’re pretty easy to avoid, though#

Also that’s kinda why I built it there

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking before I built it in the purple vents

U could do by delta

All you have to do is hit those once and they’ll run away

Wow

I built mine by the edge of the big drop off

Yea

Chelicerate?

Wow

That took a turn

My main is solar and bio but I also use thermal quite a bit

I swear I am so tired of trying to find lithium

That sucks

The chelicerate that had seemingly disappeared for like idk a month decided it was gonna show back up and make me loose all my lithium I found

I would but I’m planning on putting it a jail

When I first played the game, I played below zero first, because I had no idea it was a story game

So I started playing the first game like two months ago

LETS GOOOOO!!!!

Yea…

I’ve already started playing it

Just got to the lost river

And started building my base

Which was a really stupid idea building my first face in one of the hardest areas

Yea

I haven’t played in a while because my cyclops ran out of power while I was in the lost river

So I couldn’t really do much but I built song reinforcements so it’s pretty good

Bc right now the cyclops is pretty much my base Bc I got it pretty early on

Also, because I left my sea moth there, I had to go get it

That’s what I’m trying to do but I have no idea where kyanite is

I made my base is ghost leviathan city

Right by the gargantuan skeleton

Hold up what’s ilz?

Oooooooh

Well, my sea moth doesn’t have the third module so I am going to have to go through the lost River entrence with my cyclops.

Prob

How far in the game are you on below zero?

oh so you’ve been to delta

Ok

That’s the only sucky part about building it there

The nearest source is either the Lily Pads or buy delta

Wait a minute wouldn’t holding pure ||uranium|| kill robin

.

[steel stream]

Well, technically it's not pure uranium as it's uraninite ore, but I guess that would still be radioactive...

[twilit crag]

Yea

[steel stream]

But yeah, if it's alfa radiation, it wouldn't penetrate normal clothing or even skin

[twilit crag]

Yea but if u picked let’s say something as radioactive as almost put uranium it would still be really toxic

I think you can get one on the east side of delta

You have to build a storage module

[steel stream]

West from delta island there are couple in the biome border between thermal spires and twisty bridges, another place is omega lab in lilypad biome

Separate module which needs own blueprint

[twilit crag]

I’ve been playing below zero for like two years and I just found omega lab like two days ago

[steel stream]

It's a bit hidden, even with the map clue

[twilit crag]

Yea

Dammit I just realized I left the poster there

[carmine bobcat]

someone told me where the crystal caves where but I cant find the msg so can someone here tell me where the crystal caves r and which direction to take

??

[steel stream]

Think of it as the truck cabin.

[twilit crag]

There’s an entrence by the Lilly pads and one by the purple vents

[carmine bobcat]

ohhh

thnx

[twilit crag]

There’s also one by Marguerites base

[steel stream]

Maybe easiest entrance to find is below ||Marquerit's seabase||

[twilit crag]

I can never find one by Marguerites base

[carmine bobcat]

okkkkkkk ty

[twilit crag]

Even though I’ve been there before

[steel stream]

Another entrance is in the deep purple vent caves, below ||Mercury 2 thruster||

[steel stream]

I think there are two caves starting from there, one to the crystal caves and the other to tree spires

[twilit crag]

I just usually use the purple vents

Since my base is right by it

[pliant jetty]

The ones that scream?

[twilit crag]

?

[steel stream]

Purple vents is a biome name. Yellowish brown rocky terrain with those purple bubbles that burst into purple flames and then start growing the bubble again

[pliant jetty]

There are thermal vents that roar intermittently, probably different ones

[twilit crag]

There aren’t really any other purple vents in the game so I guess those r the ones

[steel stream]

Search around a bit for deeper water and then try to find the beacon location when you're in deeper water.

Hint: look for green lights near a cave...

Based on that green light, you should be close. You need to swim through the cave (or wait until you have depth module for seatruck as it's just below 150m)

You can swim there without seatruck, there are oxygen plants in the cave

[crude vapor]

Don't worry there are plenty of o2 plants along the way do as long as u have the seaglide ull be fine

[lime grove]

hi

[finite mirage]

should i kill the other 3 shadow levvies

[ancient basin]

Why do you even kill them

[finite mirage]

kill them or get dissolved into stomach acid

its also my way of feeling safe in the game

[ancient basin]

I like them just to be there because the look cool. If you are smart and fast they won’t kill you anyways

[nova pendant]

wheres lead

[finite mirage]

its in argentinite i think, or galite (idfk how to spell it)

[nova pendant]

well wehres a lot of those galvanite outcrops

[next current]

There are plenty of Galena Outcrops in the Twisty Bridges and Thermal Spires.

[finite mirage]

dun, dun, dun
another one bites the dust!

[finite mirage]

bumblebeetuna whats that for :(

[lime grove]

for murdering an innocent animal

[finite mirage]

"innocent"

im killing the other 2 aswell btw

[lime grove]

monster

[finite mirage]

no theyre the monsters

im just cleaning 4546b up

[eternal garnet]

youMonster

[finite mirage]

they make chelicerates seem harmless
well, they are, because i killed those too.

[lime grove]

they arent monsters

they are animals

[finite mirage]

oh well theyre dead now

and more will join them

[carmine bobcat]

Cleaning the ecosystem? No wonder our planet is dying

[finite mirage]

they werent needed anyways

[lime grove]

animals arent needed on a planet?

[carmine bobcat]

And that's how we end up loosing every animals

[finite mirage]

the shadows, i mean

[carmine bobcat]

You need it all

[lime grove]

and making them extinct

[carmine bobcat]

Balance of the world

[lime grove]

and balance of the food chain

[finite mirage]

dont worry, i have an aquarium with every harvestable animal in there

[carmine bobcat]

I guess that's just human instinct huh...

[broken badge]

People like you are just toxic for the chat. Do whatever killing you want. Others don’t care to hear about it

[finite mirage]

YOOO LETS GOO

[vast idol]

Why are we discussing about food chains and ecosystems
After someone kills a leviathan

When did things go so wrong

[finite mirage]

LMAOO

[carmine bobcat]

Becuz L is real!!!

[vast idol]

Fair enough

[broken badge]

L?

[vast idol]

Its a internet thing

[broken badge]

Yeah, but what exactly

[vast idol]

L stands for Losers or Loses

Which translates into some sort of loosing an arguement

[broken badge]

Oh, like in Fortnite, kinda

[vast idol]

You basically say L after you beaten someone

Its a taunt

[carmine bobcat]

I meant the Mario 64 thing🐋

[vast idol]

Mario 64 wha

[broken badge]

More of a Zelda fan tbh

[carmine bobcat]

Link is real!!!

[vast idol]

Big Total Tank fan here

[vast idol]

This is truly comedy peak

[carmine bobcat]

I know I'm hilarious🐋

[broken badge]

The One Piece is Real (my son watches lol)
But we’re getting a bit offtopic

[carmine bobcat]

#off-topic

[vast idol]

Post this cat when they least expected it

[broken badge]

What’s it doing up on the lilypad

[vast idol]

You can put fishes that hatches from egg onto lilipad

And its just gonna stay there

Forever.

[broken badge]

I mean, did you just drop it from inventory there?

[carmine bobcat]

😮

[vast idol]

Yep

[broken badge]

Lol😆

[vast idol]

I also had a penquin

But it uhhh

Escaped

Heres my survival base bedroom thing

[broken badge]

Nice

[vast idol]

I spent way too many titanium

[eternal garnet]

What a great place for a shower

[vast idol]

Just to fill in the space cause idk what to put there lol

[broken badge]

I tend to partition off a section of a large room and make a bathroom out of it

Makes it feel like there’s more privacy that way. And I can have the shower, toilet, racks for invisible towels, a counter with aromatherapy and a sink in the same room xD

[vast idol]

If only you can put wall in multi p room

[broken badge]

It’s not that hard to find titanium, or lithium, to build large rooms

[vast idol]

I am not a big fan of grinding

[broken badge]

Mostly I gather salvage from the Mercury 2 wrecks. But there’s also lots of collections of titanium around the lilypad caves where some rocks hold 6 titanium each, you just pluck it out

[vast idol]

And Im the type of guy who pour 90% of the resources into decorating

[crude vapor]

Hm I wonder where I can get some silver

[vast idol]

If only squid shark werent a thing

Theyre cool and all but their emp ticks me off

[broken badge]

Everything that attacks has a cooldown so you can repair or escape at least

[vast idol]

Fair enough

[storm imp]

idk, maybe it's behind you

[crude vapor]

Hmm ye i ill go look in that direction

[tacit thorn]

You load the previous autosave. Or last manual save.

[crude vapor]

Best plants for base deco and where to find them? Go

[west mountain]

Frost vase plant

[next current]

The ||Prawn Pilots Greenhouse and Outpost Zero for Lantern Trees||

[storm imp]

What autosave?

[west mountain]

Also I like the shrub nut and chinese potato a lot

[next current]

They're talking about if the game did have autosaves.

[storm imp]

ah

[crude vapor]

With the frost vase do I just put 4 in 1 plant pot?

[west mountain]

Looks nice especially in the wall planter

[crude vapor]

Fair enough

[tacit thorn]

Chat GPT claims it does!

[next current]

Neither games do. Although you can get them with mods.

[tacit thorn]

no working mods for latest version of BZ

[next current]

I don't know why... but I think I doubt that. Unless BZ had a new update recently.

[tacit thorn]

If you know working autosave, I'd ppreciate a link. the ones i tried broke the saving instead

[crude vapor]

What is the best deco only outside plant for my alien containment

[next current]

Land or sea?

[tacit thorn]

water plant?

[crude vapor]

Sea so can only be placed in exterior grow bed or alien containment

[next current]

Probably the Spotted Dockleaf.

[tacit thorn]

In alient containment, I like the basic redwort/violet beau to make it look realistic. if its stacked 2 store one, kelp looks good too.

[next current]

That or the Violet Beau, Hardy Cave Bush, or Redwort.

[crude vapor]

I can't find any spotted dockleaf in the lillypad island

[next current]

Check around the dead Lilypads.

[crude vapor]

Ok

[warm trout]

is it just me or is below zero absurdly boring

I gave up so quickly into the game idk why, there just wasnt anything interesting after going around the map and finding out it was like 2 x 2 meters wide

[eternal garnet]

That's just you then

[crude vapor]

If I put a noot fish in an alien containment will it attack the other fish?

[next current]

No. Creatures in the AC tank are passive.

[crude vapor]

Cool for some reason you can't put a noot fish in a aquarium so it has to go in alien containment

[covert imp]

||Game: You need to get a hydraulic compartment||

Me:Over my dead pile of titanium

👍

[wet zealot]

Got a small issue here guys

Here's what happened, I basically fell through the terrain

And prawn got stuck in the alien base, there seems to be an invisible wall

Any ideas how to unstuck it? :,DD

[crude vapor]

Unstuck button?

[wet zealot]

Only teleported mc to the base

Prawn still stuck

[storm imp]

I just launched over with a prawn suit

[steel stream]

You can also jump over with snowfox...

[next current]

Either load your save or take the upgrades out, swim back to the surface, and build another exosuit.

It's a good thing that the Prawn Suit is pretty cheap.

[wet zealot]

Thankfully it was only 30 minutes of progress, thanks anyway

[latent mantle]

Funny thing is I first got my lithium batches from the sea monkeys

When I needed one last plasteel ingot they came in clutch with the delivery

[carmine bobcat]

maybe weird question, but, can I make a thermal plant in a hot place then make hundreds of power transmitter to get the power generated to a far base?

[lime grove]

yes

[carmine bobcat]

thanks

[next current]

It's kinda their purpose! XD

[carmine bobcat]

yeah, I forgot they were placed outside the base lol

[echo jolt]

[mint badger]

Finally finished my plans on my first save file! Have a base in twisty/deep twisty, a base in the || void || (observatory) and finally a base in the || fabricator caves. || Also i finished the story on it too. Im quite proud

Time to go back to the original subnautica and make dangerous bases there too

Gonna miss the jukebox music

[steel stream]

You will get the blueprint when you progress in the story.

[desert pilot]

Hey guys, i really wanna know do resource outcrops respawn?

aside from ion cube deposits i know those dont for sure

[pliant jetty]

Modern problems need modern solutions

[west mountain]

No

No, not far enough, still the regular chelis, no ghost chelicerate yet. Can still go a tiny bit further 🙂

[dry obsidian]

Killed that one before

[desert pilot]

even the koppa mining site?

[eternal garnet]

No resources respawn that aren't plants or animals

[barren swan]

What are some good spots to build a base?

I've got a small one in one of the early areas but I want to make a big one somewhere a bit further away

[eternal garnet]

around the island, or in lilypads, or tree spires if you are braver

[barren swan]

What's dangerous in the tree spires

I've not been there yet

[eternal garnet]

big little red shrimp

[west mountain]

for starter stay next to your drop pod. Once you are familiar with all biomes you can go crazy with building bases.

[west mountain]

Are you looking for a specific resource, because there are plenty of all of them all over the map.

[desert pilot]

Nah just would be nice to be able to keep coming back to tthe koppa mine for loads of resources

i would prefer having a specific spot to grind resources instead of having to find new places each time one is depleted

and there doesnt seem to be a mod that can do that either so bummer i guess

[west mountain]

Do you play on PC, because there is a trick

[desert pilot]

yeah

would love to hear it

[jolly basin]

Start by sacrificing your soul to the Peeper Leviathan..

||Go to your game folder > SNAppData > SavedGames > The slot you want to reset resources/fish/fragments in > CellsCache > Murder the zip files inside!||

[whole wave]

Can someone give me a bit of a nudge in the right direction without giving too much away?

[west mountain]

What are you looking for?

[whole wave]

Basically, I’ve not had any communication from ||ALAN|| in quite a while. The last I got from him was to go to the ||body cache|| which I did. I’ve searched throughout the map and asides from anything I’ve missed I feel the only real location I haven’t fully explored is the ||crystal looking caves|| and the place you access through ||extending the bridge||

[west mountain]

Well, then thats what you should do next

I dont think it works underwater. Otherwise by pressing right mouse button.

[lime grove]

it works only on land

[whole wave]

I’m used to the game prompting me to check somewhere, like in the first game you came across the lost river due to PDA prompts and then once you found an alien base it gave you information about other sites at their depths. If that’s the next logical step then I’ll go for it, but I imagined that I’d get a prompt for when it was right to head there

[west mountain]

And also have you explored the area around phi robotics very good.

[west mountain]

There are only very suttle hints in the conversation with AlAn and only if you are close to that area sometimes.

[tacit thorn]

How did you build the stairs? are they part of the hatch assembly?

[west mountain]

Stairs or ladders?

Stairs come only with hatch and you cannot control them.

[west mountain]

Have you already used your spy penglin to retrieve items from caves? Have you scanned the glacial basin map in phi robotics?

[tacit thorn]

Thats what I'm asking. How long they get?

[crude vapor]

Why can't I make this locker in line with the others it just won't let me place it further back while I can for the others

[west mountain]

If they are build automatically, then you know. There is no way to control them.

they are everywhere

[whole wave]

I’ve found the centre, done a look around the area and the main things of note I found were the ||frozen leviathan cave, spy penglin caves (I found the antidote but others were just filled with materials?), the nests where you get fur|| and not much else

[west mountain]

Yes, that is sad that the large room is so uneven to build inside

Ah, sorry, you know where it is? in ||Koppa mine||

[whole wave]

Yeah I find I have to use my sea glide sonar to figure out which cave system to use

[west mountain]

Its a facility shown on the alterra facilities map you scanned in delta station, you have to explore it.

[crude vapor]

In my sn base (which is pretty much identical to my bz base I can place the locker in question in line but I won't let me here, should I try deconstructing the moonpool next to it and the try placing the locker?

[west mountain]

Have you been up to delta station already? the tower on delta island

[tacit thorn]

Try moving in front of the wall. I noticed the locker will pop back and frth as you point your build tool down the wall.

[west mountain]

In the first room is a map on the wall, you have to scan it and then its in your PDA. There you see all alterra facilities you have to explore in the game.

Check your PDA under alterra-->maps if you did already.

[tacit thorn]

New addition to my seatrucking playlist:
Jessica Darrow - Surface Pressure 😂

[crude vapor]

Hmm I give it a try

[tacit thorn]

there is also a snap-builder mod that helps placing those evenly

[whole wave]

Yes

Be careful with oxygen, that is the bottom there is another way out

[tacit thorn]

I hope you brought prawn or truk?

[west mountain]

Well, now you are down in Koppa mine, now you have to find the artefact. Its a side tunnel on your way up on your right. A bit hard to see.

[west mountain]

There are plenty of O2 plants down there, even at the very bottom. But yes, it can get tight 🙂

[whole wave]

Deep

[tacit thorn]

the area you are in has diamonds, use those to increase trucking depth

and prawn pieces too

[clever crow]

2nd depth truck upgrade is enough

[whole wave]

Off I go to the deep caves, need to try remember how to get in there

[west mountain]

Craft beacons and place them when you find an interesting place. My world is littered with beacons

[whole wave]

Yep taken one with me now

[whole wave]

So I just went down into the ||crystal caves, found the red crystal section and the alien fabricator|| but was basically told that I am not yet ready and need to focus on finding the necessary parts first. I just really don’t know what I’m meant to do?

[somber canyon]

||just a tip, if you’re traveling through the Crystal Caves and or Fabricator Caverns leave some beacons behind so you can find your way back. it’s pretty easy to get lost down there||

[whole wave]

Yeah I left one at the entrance to the system and one at a point where it seemed to fork and go deeper.

[somber canyon]

well done

||also, I haven’t really finished bz yet, but I’m pretty sure you need to find those alien caches or artifacts pinged on the map before being able to go in the fabricator caverns base. but I’m not sure||

[crude vapor]

Sadly im on console

[whole wave]

I’m going to check the list of them to see any I’ve missed because I’m certain I’ve found all that I’ve been told to go to.

I’ve checked online, can see a couple I’ve missed ||Array Module, satellite, material analysis station|| but have also noticed a place called ||outpost zero||. Is that place somewhere we should have just happened across or does the game send you there?

[somber canyon]

||ah, outpost zero||

||that’s where you used to start in the earlier builds of the game. I highly recommend you go there because there might be some useful blueprints and story elements.||

[steel stream]

You learn at some point that Sam ||was restationed from Phi robotics to Outpost zero||, and you also can find ||a map of Alterra facilites in the area, which also shows Outpost zero.|| That's the only promts I remember the game gives you to go there...

[west mountain]

Are you still down there?

[whole wave]

Just on my way out

[west mountain]

Wait

[whole wave]

Can turn around

[west mountain]

You have to look for a ||huge crystal structure that hangs from the ceiling and rises up from the ground|| it looks like a ||castle||. Have a closer look at that formation. In the purple crystal cave.

[whole wave]

Are you referring to the ||alien fabricator||?

[somber canyon]

||in the Crystal Caves or Fabricator Caverns?||

[west mountain]

No, something you are missing at the moment.

[somber canyon]

^

[west mountain]

Purple crystal cavern

[somber canyon]

huh, alright that’s new for me

[whole wave]

Whoops back up I go 🤣

[west mountain]

You are still missing ||two body parts||, right?

[whole wave]

Yes

[west mountain]

Ok, guess what

[whole wave]

Yep, think I’ve found it

Thank you!

[somber canyon]

good luck :)

[whole wave]

Can see why it’s hard to find, very small hidden entrance

[west mountain]

But there are two of them 🙂

[west mountain]

You know where to go next them, right? The only area you have not explored yet.

[somber canyon]

goddamn I should continue my bz playthrough

I interrupted it to complete hardcore subnautica and got carried away by it

[whole wave]

Well my plans now are to check out the missing few alien technologies I have missed on the surface. Then I’ll go back to find the second location you mentioned to me. Also figure out how to get to the other station I haven’t yet visited

[west mountain]

Ok, sounds great, do that! And once you are done then you are finally ready to ||cross the bridge||.

[whole wave]

Thanks for your help!

[clever crow]

I’m still waiting for answers for why the meat of ice worm and the meat in ||Marguerite’s kitchen|| is red when all animals in subnautica have bright yellow blood.

[vast idol]

What if...

What if they didnt originate from 4546B

[clever crow]

Aliens!

[vast idol]

Probably like something similar to cows but that work too

[whole wave]

Okay I’ve definitely missed something at some point

How do we find out how to ||extend the bridge||?

[clever crow]

There a broken can on it and a thingy where it’s missing

[whole wave]

Yeah but that says to insert something, I don’t have the blueprint for whatever that is

[clever crow]

Scanned the can?

[whole wave]

There was no can when I last went

Unless I missed it…

[eternal garnet]

but that's just a rusty Fanta can

[clever crow]

Hydraulic fluid is drinkable based on recipe. Sea smoothie.

[whole wave]

Yep just went back and there it was, I hadn’t yet unlocked the transparent lens for my rebreather…

[outer root]

Good afternoon players. Where i can inform to mods about the translation of portuguese are corrupted?

[finite mirage]

||i love how alan reacts to you scanning him when hes remade, i dunno why it made me giggle first time i saw it||

[crude vapor]

Ha ye I liked that

[tacit thorn]

lowest edge of the map is by the ventgarden valley, correct?

[west mountain]

If you mean the most sothern part yes

[hearty sigil]

||Red spiral plan chippings that are needed for synthetic fibers|| are found in the ocean or on the surface?

[west mountain]

Here is the map, but be careful it is just spoilers, OK ||https://mapgenie.io/subnautica-below-zero/maps/world||

[west mountain]

Ocean

[tacit thorn]

deep underwater.

[hearty sigil]

Thank

[west mountain]

There are only three locations where you find them, good luck!

[west mountain]

So so, not soooo deep actually.

[tacit thorn]

thanks for map. I already "finished" the game, just exploring and fooling around now. The map does not have depth indicators, does it?

[west mountain]

No, just be looking at the terrain, the darker the color the deeper

[tacit thorn]

Think I have my base spot, -480m deep should suffice.

Any idea if void chelicerae show up on scanner room as regular ones or as separate entry?

[west mountain]

They will never show up on scanner because they are only there when you are there too 🙂

[tacit thorn]

Wouldn't be asking how to detect them, if I werent in a place they are 😉

[west mountain]

I mean they only come when you are already over the world border, and then they come immediately. So they are not in any fixed location and therefore not detectable. That is my theory.

[tacit thorn]

I saw them swimming at me from some distance, so I assume they don't spawn at point blank. A radar blip a bit away is all I'm asking for

[west mountain]

Try it and tell us what you found out

I think its useless, because they will come immediately.

[tacit thorn]

do you remember if they spawn when you are inside building but in the void?

[west mountain]

Yes, that is how my ghost chelicerate reasarch base works. The base is placed at the world edge that the main building is not triggering them, but when walking one glas tube to the observatory it triggers them. Very cool. And they dissappear when you walk back

[tacit thorn]

So they despawn if you leave?

[west mountain]

Yes, they swim away. But I dont know the true mechanics of the game, its just guessing.

[tacit thorn]

can they dissapear without swimming away?

[west mountain]

well, they come and go but they are just there. All three of them.

[vast lance]

Can you put pengling in the bioreactor?

[eternal garnet]

yes, but please don't talk about it

[tacit thorn]

I heard it is possible, yes

[vast lance]

Ok

[broken badge]

Root pustules, among other things, are much better

[tacit thorn]

but you cant farm them

[broken badge]

You don’t need to

[west mountain]

@eternal garnet @broken badge Can you answer the question if the ghost chelis spawn and despawn at the players location or if they are always there in the void and follow the player, so they are there in time to get you.

[broken badge]

Does the wiki say anything about them?

[eternal garnet]

I don't know. Best guess they despawn and spawn as needed

[broken badge]

I only went into the void once, and they spawned, at least 2 of them I think. And they tossed my seatruck around like it was a bath toy. I reloaded lol

[tacit thorn]

Going to my new base area, so I'm going to find out how they beehave

[deep kettle]

In both games they dynamically spawn in. From the perspective of performance it also makes not much sense to constantly have creatures loaded that are not relevant to the player.

[broken badge]

I think of them as border guards. They’re meant to keep you inside the map

So yeah, they spawn in only as needed when you leave the map borders

I know they’re on a timer in Subnautica

[tacit thorn]

Oh, you know the players. If it doesn't kill them immediatelly, they will just treat it as an challenge

[deep kettle]

People treat everything as a challenge in games xD

[west mountain]

Thank you for clarification, that's how I see it too.

[tacit thorn]

I'm not even going there to annoy the fishies. I just want to build a base at -8k mark

[west mountain]

You need a lot of reinforcement

[tacit thorn]

yes. But according to my calculations, multipurpose rooms are ok up to 10k mark before they add more structural penalty than 6 reinf can cover

[west mountain]

You build from the surface, or directly at -8k? if you build from surface you need endless reinforcements. But the ladder only uses 1 titanium 🙂

[deep kettle]

My disappointment in the Subnautica developers is immeasurable right now 🥲

[tacit thorn]

Not from very surface.
My plan is as follows:

1. Find deepest part of world edge that is still inside map [done, ~480m at vengarden area]
2. Figure out the exact treshold that triggers void chelicerae.
3. Build a cage while hopefully avoiding being eaten.
4. cage the 3 annoyances.
5. Calmly build down to 1k.
6. Put moonpool/truck dock for cargo supply.
7. Build down to 8k+

[west mountain]

You cannot cage them. Once they despawn your cage is useless. You have to build from within the base somehow.

[tacit thorn]

I also have plan B if cage doesn't work:
5. Build 4 vert connector pillars instead of 1. They can't eat you, if they can't squeeze in to get you.

[tacit thorn]

not possible to build vert connectors from inside. You can start, but can't build.

[west mountain]

Yes. I know sadly.

[tacit thorn]

my biggest concern right now is running out of titanium

[west mountain]

You can spawn it in on PC.

[tacit thorn]

resetting the koppa mine? that would be semi-cheating I guess?

[west mountain]

Does it matter?

[deep kettle]

yes, clearly the anti-cheat will catch on 👀

[tacit thorn]

And I will get VAC banned from the multiplayer servers.

[eternal garnet]

oh no, the BZ multiplayer servers.

[tacit thorn]

solar panels still work at -480?

[west mountain]

No

[tacit thorn]

not even 1%?

[deep kettle]

There's a max to how deep they go. At some point they just stop working. 480 seems pretty deep in general for them.

[tacit thorn]

Guess I'll have to put down some thermal plants near ventgarden to get the lights on

[carmine bobcat]

if its hot there i like to get some nice thermal reactors too

[next mantle]

Inb4 you get vac banned for cheating in singleplayer

[carmine bobcat]

Is all you need to beat the game the skeleton, tissue and organs?

[west mountain]

Depends on your definition of beating the game. If you mean bail out and leave the planet before completing the quest you came for, yes. Otherwise no.

[carmine bobcat]

Ok thanks

And its in deep crystal caves?

[west mountain]

the problem is that the game lets you finish without having persued and completed Sam's story line. But that was the reason you came to 4546B initially.

[west mountain]

There is something there also, yes.

[tough oak]

im playing my first save in this game on hardcore because in subnautica i have not died for any reason other than oxygen

and i now have a rebreather and mutliple oxygen tanks so im chill

[west mountain]

I was also until I got stuck under a twisty bridges and died 1.5 hrs into the game. Quite annoyed.

[tough oak]

i am at the point where i ||get some dude stuck in my 4head||

[broken badge]

Awesome

[tough oak]

i nearly died bc i dropped my oxygen tanks instead of swapping

[west mountain]

Also dont forget to manually refill them. Once I died because the spare tank was empty

[broken badge]

You have to worry about more than just running out of oxygen.
You can also freeze to death if you are still for too long underwater

[tough oak]

fr?

[broken badge]

Yes

[tough oak]

not that im usually still underwater

[broken badge]

I sometimes get distracted😅
I never froze to death. But my view iced up a few times lol

And then there’s brinewings

[west mountain]

30 seconds of oxygen and the brinewing freezes you.

[broken badge]

And you can’t switch tanks during that time, iirc

[carmine bobcat]

Hopefully this is the day

Lost my sea truck but made it with 18 o2

yeesh u got lucky

[tough oak]

is the brinewing what froze me

underwater

[carmine bobcat]

yikes

I dont think i can get our tho i have 2 high capacity tqnks and and airbladder lol

oh no lol

when they took below zero off of game pass i was so mad dude

Should i try to scan the leviqthin before sying

Dying

uhhhh idkkk

wait which one

[tacit thorn]

you could scan him after he dies

[carmine bobcat]

true

Damn it killed me

Welp

I got the component

[tough oak]

cant you stab anything and they run away

[carmine bobcat]

oof

[tough oak]

to avoid getting hit twice

[carmine bobcat]

Wel its hard when its like 12x faster than ypu and always faces you

true

But hey i got one kyanite from it lol

hell yea brother

Are u serious i need to go to another place now

which one

Fabricator facilities

ooooofffff

that's gonna suck btw

I need another sea truck and another mark 3

yup

It is what it is i guess

it's all the way down in the crystal caverns (red one)

[tough oak]

i remember when i was exploring i just see some big dude in the distance ripping some fish apart and i immmediately turn back because no medkits

[carmine bobcat]

i did that when i saw a reaper in the first subnautica

[broken badge]

Yep

They squirt frozen water at you and other fish they hunt

You’re just kind of collateral damage

[civic igloo]

I was testing different mods in my save to see which one was causing me not to be able to place beacons but i accidentally saved the game by force of habit. Is there a way to rollback or undo that save ?

[tacit thorn]

of course not. backup your saves often

[eternal garnet]

by the way, the cause is More quickslots

it might work in the first 5 slots. try

[civic igloo]

Good thing this was a new game and didn’t lose much progress and thank you. I will try the first 5 slots

[eternal garnet]

there is a new mod that replaces it

[civic igloo]

Putting it in one of the first 5 slots fixes it

[tacit thorn]

get quickslots+ instead of the broken one

[eternal garnet]

the bug is for all deployed items. MVB etc

[tacit thorn]

Is it possible to attach pipe to my base in below zero, so I can grab some air when building?

[eternal garnet]

no, well maybe the moon pool. But you can use a floating pump. Or the truck

[tacit thorn]

I'm at -600m and planning to go below 1k

[broken badge]

Seatruck goes to 1000m. Carry multiple oxygen tanks for longer time in the water?
Or I guess alternative is build a temporary MP room with nuclear reactor. All you’d lose out on, is a nuclear rod. And you can get plenty of those free, if you dismantle the room later.

[tacit thorn]

Game has pretty wicked sense of humor. This is titanium deposit. right next to where the map itself stops being rendered.

[teal zinc]

Hey for some reason my game isn’t pausing; when I hit the escape key it just brings up a text box in the bottom left

Does anyone know what’s happening

[obtuse summit]

it could be ur keybinds??

[broken badge]

Do you have pda pause selected? It’s under accessibility options I believe

@white wind grapple is found in lilypad caves in sea monkey nests

[white wind]

Ok thanks

[arctic plume]

Where can I get outdoor grow beds and bulk heads?

[vast jay]

Bull head, delta, grow beds are around the twisty/kelp areas

[twilit crag]

Does anyone know here to find any like major quartz places r?

[quaint tartan]

how open console in current version?

shift+enter not work

[carmine bobcat]

Whats that orange place called with the nickel in it

[carmine bobcat]

Nvm

Tomorrows the day

The three kyanites a pain tho

[summer compass]

I’m currently watching a video calling out Below Zero’s problems and yeah, I think the upgrade in visuals between Subnautica and Below Zero definitely blind sighted us with the game’s issues.
Especially with the story and how clonky some parts of it are.

[clever crow]

i'm not blind-sighted, i just like the fish water game and enjoy it just for that alone. all story is just a bonus

[summer compass]

I think one problem is that the map is definitely way too limited for the story they went with.

[clever crow]

can't argue with that. smaller map = less fish and water

[summer compass]

Honestly they could’ve went without the worm leviathan. Cutting out that area wouldn’t have changed the story whatsoever.

Yeah it would remove a challenge but the worm area still needs more work including the worm’s interaction with the environment.

[broken badge]

It’s a smaller map because the game originally was planned to be a DLC. I think it’s great what we got. Sure, the story has some issues to be sure, it’s not amazing, but there were rewrites and idk what all went on with that tbh (I only play on consoles, so I wasn’t following the game during early access since it was only available on Steam, since I didn’t want spoilers). But beyond story issues, and perhaps a bit of getting lost here and there lol, I think the game is amazing. Love the QoL improvements the game brought. And while it took a bit of adjustment for the seatruck, I ended up loving its modularity and the flexibility that offered. It’s really a perfect fit for the map and play.

The worm is an animatronic, I’m not sure why we need to interact with it. It doesn’t need to be something we can defeat imo. Too much of people trying to kill everything the see already (sigh)

[summer compass]

I mean yeah but the animations still don’t have to feel like they should stagger behind when interacting with the player and environment

[broken badge]

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “stagger behind”

Do you mean they lag for you?

[summer compass]

It’s nothing to do with lag, it’s how it interacts with anything. It just feels like a animation is just playing and nothing is really happening as they play. Unlike Genshin Impact’s worm based bosses who’s animations feel natural to their environments.

More like the worm in SNBZ feels like the animation is clicking in and clicking out after that animation has finished rather than continuously playing as the player is in the leviathans general vicinity

[broken badge]

If I had to guess, they were exploring something new, so it makes sense it’s not as polished as some other game where you have a worm as a boss battle (which is obviously a very important aspect of the gameplay as it takes center stage in action of sorts), whereas this is more to add some sense of danger to an area you traverse. Idk what studio makes Genshin Impact, or the size, but Unknown Worlds is also a smaller indie studio. Not trying to sound like I’m making excuses, of course we’d all love for them to have more resources (more devs, more dev time, etc) but there’s always going to be limits on those and priorities, where things may not be able to get all the attention to fully flesh out everything to the fullest. Although they may have planned to, and desired to work on it further, and ran out of time (again, I’m just hypothesizing)

If anything, when it comes to the iceworm, it’s that the thumper is really useless

If you could have carried it with you, as a sort of mobile dampening field to cover the sound of your footsteps, that would’ve been a much more interesting and useful gadget

Maybe something else than a tool called a thumper

Maybe a hover drone that went ahead or followed behind you by some distance and projected a sound wave to cover the sound of your footsteps, idk, maybe something like that

[summer compass]

I think another issue is that they are working with an icy area rather than a sandy area. Worm enemies definitely work better environmentally in a sand based area.

[broken badge]

I guess? It’s an alien world, with a new construct. If you’ve ever played NMS, they have giant worms on all kinds of planets, not just desert planets. Even planets with oceans, the giant worms come out of the water and dive back into it too (looks a bit weird, but it is what it is lol😂)

These giant worms exist in No Man’s Sky on frozen worlds too

You can’t interact with them, they don’t harm you either

[summer compass]

There’s a non boss version of the worms in Genshin that can’t be killed either but they can harm you if you aren’t quick enough to avoid it’s drill animation

[broken badge]

Here’s a pic of one of the giant worms from No Man’s Sky (they come in different shapes, especially the mouth appearance) coming out of the ocean

[summer compass]

Oh god that’s ugly

[broken badge]

They’re modeled a bit after the giant sandworms from Dune I believe

Yeah I’m glad the iceworm doesn’t look like that😅

[summer compass]

This is Genshin’s worm. This is the boss variant but the others only attack you if you end up in its vicinity

[broken badge]

Cool

[summer compass]

What’s funny is that it’s tail is actually it’s head.

[broken badge]

Looks like a drill

[summer compass]

I mean there’s quite a similarity in the creatures. Both have some sort of drill head

[broken badge]

That’s actually a cool pic of the iceworm

[carmine bobcat]

I’m gone just to progress in the game and this happens

[broken badge]

Lol

[vast lance]

My other c truck got destroyed from bumping do you think I should build another one or save my materials

Sea truck*

[broken badge]

The cabin or a module?
Seatruck is pretty handy
Depends what got destroyed
Could you reload before it got destroyed?

[vast lance]

I reloaded it thank you

[carmine bobcat]

Can you kill the ice worm?

[west mountain]

No

[river siren]

I just bought below zero but I haven't finished the original game yet, do I have to finish Subnautica to play below zero?

[somber canyon]

finish the first game

you don’t have to but I think you should

[steel stream]

There is some connections between the two games, but you could play in any order you wish

[somber canyon]

he’d be better off finishing the first game

[steel stream]

Oh yeah, he's in the middle of first game. Sure, better to finish that first

[finite mirage]

some of the story will make 0 sense if you play bz first

[whole wave]

I just finished BZ for the first time

I don’t get why people hate on it so much

I thought it was really really good

[west mountain]

I love it, there are just more people writing that they dont like it conpared to the one who truly like it.

[whole wave]

Yep, I think it’s the perfect continuation from the first. They experimented with more land exploration which I think was executed really well. I also liked the fact it leant slightly toward being more story based, because it filled the gaps left by the first game really well. While I do think the first was a better game that’s purely because I think subnautica was pretty much perfect, rather than BZ not being good

[runic river]

i agree

the addition of land exploration is great, a good call back to the 2 islands and all the underwater architect bases where you had to walk around instead of swim around from the first game

[west mountain]

The biomes and creatures in BZ are more elaborated and densely packed. Yes the map is smaller but the biomes are just staggeringly beautiful.

[dawn quartz]

i just miss my cyclops and if you ask me there was a bit too much land in the game but thats just my opinion

[dawn quartz]

and yes i get why the cyclops wouldnt fit in the game

[vast idol]

I think the problem is that bz doesn't have the same vibe to the base one

Don't get me wrong, both game are fantastic

While the base game drop you on a planet while being "Okay now survive."

While BZ let you know exactly what you have to do or find, such as "Go to point A", or "Follow X directions"

[west mountain]

Thats because people played SN first. If it would be the other way round the SN chat would be full of complaints that it is not like BZ. Just treat it like a seperate game and enjoy

[vast idol]

That too

[west mountain]

Oh, most player experience it the other way round. They are completely lost what to do in BZ.

[vast idol]

From a previous subnautica player I find b is easy

You always know what you have to do

[deep kettle]

In the defence of those people. Yes there are definitely people that for some reason expect the exact same game, which this is just not. But there are also enough people that just didn't like the game or certain parts of the game for other reasons than "it's not like the original".

[vast idol]

Wait until people give subnautica 3 a 1 star review because they can't catch fish with their bare hand

[deep kettle]

At that point UWE is making a bold move.

NO ONE. And I mean no one. Should be taking away our ability to catch fish with our hands >:(

0/10 unplayable if that becomes the case 😆

[vast idol]

Maybe you work as a Alterra employee and reveal that Alterra is funding a terrorist group to take down Trans-Gov and you have to abduct the Creator of Seamoth something something

uhh something somthing

explosion explosion

[deep kettle]

Sounds a bit too far away from a survival game at that point lol.

[vast idol]

Still technically in the subnautica universe

[deep kettle]

But what is a Subnautica game without survival 🤷‍♀️

[vast idol]

Thats true

[deep kettle]

That's the issue I for example have with people wanting a space game, like.. No water, completely different mechanics at that point too. It's just not a "Subnautica" game any more 😛

[vast idol]

catching space fish with robotic hand, count me in

[deep kettle]

;-;

[next sparrow]

I need help with below zero

could anyone dm me so I dont spoil anything for the people here?

[west mountain]

Sure, but thats what spoiler tags are for here

[next sparrow]

ahh true I guess

[tough oak]

i like bz's direction more. not much of a "find this by chance" kinda guy. sure, the lifepods and signals and sunbeam do help guide you to find alot, but clarity helps

although

[next sparrow]

This message is a spoiler
||So basically I need help with progression, I found the vaccine with the spypengling and then put it on the injector, and then found the cure....what do I need to do now?||

[west mountain]

How many body parts have you found so far?

[next sparrow]

2

[west mountain]

Which one is missing?

[next sparrow]

tissue

[west mountain]

then you have to ||cross the bridge|| now and go north

[next sparrow]

ohh

[crude vapor]

And deal with them worms

[next sparrow]

I thought so but where do I find the thing for it? is it with the spypengling too?

[crude vapor]

Nope

[west mountain]

No, its an architect site. there are many sites there to be discovered, so take your time and explore the area very well.

[crude vapor]

Right up top of the arctic spires

[next sparrow]

hmmm okay

ty for help guys!

[crude vapor]

Np

[next sparrow]

I played Below Zero right when it came out in Early access...it changed a lot since then hahahahhaa

[crude vapor]

Question: there are 15 alien artifacts round the map but the last reward for scanning then comes at 10 so is there any point in scanning the last 5?

[next sparrow]

probably the secret achievement if there is any?

[crude vapor]

Defiantly not a PS achievement

[next sparrow]

ohh I play on steam so idk xD

[crude vapor]

Well the achievements are the same on every platform

[next sparrow]

ahh well then maybe you can just get more ion cubes?

I guess that would be it

[west mountain]

Well, it increases your chances of finding 10 and the last remaining 5 is for the ambitious player

[crude vapor]

Maybe but I have a feeling I've got every ion cube I can

[west mountain]

You got the drillable ones too?

[crude vapor]

Yup

[west mountain]

And the one from outpost zero

[crude vapor]

Yup that 1 lonesome cube

[west mountain]

That was quite amazing to find one there 🙂

[crude vapor]

Ye

[west mountain]

You also got the drillable one from the ||tissue location|| also, right? not only from the cave? Three drillable nodes!

[crude vapor]

Yup I got all 4, I have a feeling I might have missed the lone cube at the ||tissue|| but I ain't going back unless I absolutely have to

From what I can tell I have 3 sites I haven't scanned but i m not entirely sure and think I've scanned 2 of those 3 so maybe I only have 1

[west mountain]

Just something I discovered and I think its very well hidden. Do you know the glacial connection, the underwater tunnel from the eye jelly cave into glacial basin? In that connection just before reaching glacial basin, there is one side tunnel that leads to a broken alien site. There is nothing to get from but I was quite proud when I discovered it. Just in case you are looking for something to find.

[crude vapor]

Ooo sounds interesting I might go have a look

[west mountain]

Its just for the gloory.

[crude vapor]

Ye could be cool

[west mountain]

and have you found the ||blue trivalve eggs number 3 and 4 in the iceberg cave|| in west arctic?

[crude vapor]

No I haven't got those yet but I'm planning on going soon

[west mountain]

Are you going for creature eggs, did you find the ||squidshark eggs||??

[crude vapor]

Its just annoying that u need the prawn to get em

[west mountain]

Or the snowfox

[crude vapor]

Yup got that one

My alien containment is so full, I've got ||4 trivalves (2 yellow, 2 blue)||, glowwhale, squidshark, lillypaddler, arctic ray, eye jelly , plus maybe some more

[west mountain]

So you have at least two of each by now? Excellent

Brute shark, cryptosuchus, sea monkey, titan hole fish, brinewing, and the pinnacarid

[crude vapor]

Oh ye I also have titan holefish in my tank

I do want bruteshark and the rest I don't want

Maybe I'll get crypto but idk yet

[west mountain]

Pinnacarid are adorable and the penglins

[crude vapor]

Na

I have penlings in my Sol aquarium

[west mountain]

I have one tank with all of them (1 each)

[crude vapor]

So they don't grow up

[west mountain]

Me too, and seamonkey babies

One aquarium for each species

and the tank for the creatures

[crude vapor]

Wow

That's a lot of glass

[west mountain]

its five tanks interlocked in a X shape

[crude vapor]

Hmm

[west mountain]

Ah forgot to mention the rock puncher. They are great to walk on the floor of the tank

[crude vapor]

Ye I might to get one of those

[west mountain]

You know where the eggs are?

[crude vapor]

Ive heard they can be found in koppa

[west mountain]

Yes, and also in ||crystal cavern in the crystal cavern crevices||

[crude vapor]

Cool

I was in koppa drilling once and I had to keep killing the rock punchers as they kept pushing me away from the nodes I was drilling

Y did they make ||ion batteries and cells more expensive||

[sour narwhal]

I got subnautica below zero

[crude vapor]

Woop

[west mountain]

Excellent, great game!

[tough oak]

the no oxygen warnings REALLY hurt

nearly died trying to swap to my other o2 tank

[carmine bobcat]

the first times I was playing I didnt know that with a single click I could swap the o2 tanks, imagine the pain I had when I tried to drag a o2 tank and it would keep stuck to my mouse instead of swap with the empty one

[west mountain]

Before you do that, did you finish Sam's story completely?

[carmine bobcat]

How do u finish it

[west mountain]

Spoiler: By ||curing the frozen leviathan||

[carmine bobcat]

Man screw that leviathan

[west mountain]

Why, what's wrong?

[carmine bobcat]

I dont care about sam

Shes mean

[clever crow]

That mountain goat person really does make you forget about your sister.

[carmine bobcat]

Lol

[west mountain]

Ok, go and end the game

[carmine bobcat]

Oh no

I dont have perimeter defence

Ima make it as far as possible and try to seaglide it

[west mountain]

You can pick it up on your way down there

[carmine bobcat]

How to u pick up perimeter defence

[west mountain]

its on the floor in Maidas sea base

[carmine bobcat]

Oh im already in the crystal cave

I saved so i can always go back

Brb bouta finish this

[storm imp]

which game?

wasn't laggy for me

[carmine bobcat]

Really

[west mountain]

Yes, its almost home

[carmine bobcat]

Do i need anything for the phase gate like tiranium lithium diamond sulfer

Or do i just go there

[west mountain]

Just go there and enjoy the show

[carmine bobcat]

Ok

[west mountain]

Save before you enter, because you cannot save anymore afterwards

You probabely want to spoiler tag these images, no?

[somber canyon]

exactly…

[tough oak]

so i hear the purple vent area is dangerous?

should i swim straight in on hardcore

[carmine bobcat]

Damn mb

[west mountain]

You will have to sooner or later, just bring med kits

[tough oak]

4 good enough

[west mountain]

A good start

[tough oak]

everything trying to murder me lol

got shrimpy dude along with whatever the biting big things are

[west mountain]

Cryptosuchus and brute sharks

[tough oak]

ill bring 8 medkits

[west mountain]

That sounds reasonable

[tough oak]

and materials for a scanner room

[west mountain]

What are you looking for?

[tough oak]

magnetite

[west mountain]

Not in purple vents

[tough oak]

eh well theres gotta be some fragments there at least

[west mountain]

Sure, all over the place. Which ones are you looking for?

[tough oak]

nothing in particular

i just want to have scanner rooms in every area

[tough oak]

ig ima wait for day again

better visibility

k the scanner is enough to givr me oxygen during the day

i placed it kinda deep so the power will just die the moment night starts

[carmine bobcat]

Use bio reactor

[vast idol]

nuklear reaktor

[tough oak]

i just got nuclear reactor

by pure chance i found a base

that reminds me i have not looked at that map in awhile

[hearty sigil]

Are land areas of ||outposts 0 and Pfi|| connected?

(I'm thinking to make a land base, what's a good area?)

[eternal garnet]

conencted, but you can't travel between them. it's a small continent

[hearty sigil]

All right, which one of these two parts of the continent is better for the base then?

[next sparrow]

does anyone know where I can find a lot of gold?

[steel stream]

Arctic kelp forest caves, koppa mine with drill arm

[tough oak]

jesus shrimpy hates me

bro was almost keeping up with my air bladder

so far i like below zero more than normal subnautica

no dumb stasis rifle

updated graphics

somewhat performs better

[tough oak]

yo are the purple vents just too cold

for thermal energy

[tacit thorn]

they might be. Try walkin in prawn or swinning in truck around them, sometimes the hotspot is not where it graphically would be

I've seen the black smoke stacks being 20c at the exhaust, but 50c on one of the sides

[tough oak]

i dont even have either of those lol

haven't gotten to building it yet

[tacit thorn]

then I can only suggest the 'slow way'.
Build thermal plant. the display will flash showing the current temp then go blank. Try building it in various spots until you find the highest temp.
Also - yellow means its below 30 c, green means ok, but might be anything 31c up.

[tough oak]

yo are there any vents in the purple crystal area

[tacit thorn]

go down, some hot spots there

[tough oak]

i've got no medkits, am on hardcore and this is the first time entering, with just my seaglide

ig exploration beats fear

and im already inside, no turning back rn

[tacit thorn]

purple crystal caves have no air sources

[eternal garnet]

Except in the little alien base there

[tough oak]

i have materials to make a base. im deciding whether to build it inside of the crystal caves or besides the other dude's base

[tacit thorn]

there are some big bad fishies down there

[tough oak]

can they poke into the smaller areas of the cave?

[eternal garnet]

not often

[tacit thorn]

they have a set path

they also tend to grab you through the walls

[tough oak]

actually im just gonna make a base by the entrance instead of deeper in

dont wanna risk drowning when i cant quite respawn

[tacit thorn]

one of big fish patrol route is close to entrance [on bottom side]

[tough oak]

wait yo can the tree spires not be used for thermal energy

[little haven]

Can't thank bladderfish enough for saving me in risky areas to get bps while trying this game on deck.

[broken badge]

There’s some areas under the tree spires where there’s thermal vents
Because that area connects with ||Maida’s seabase in lilypad caves|| eventually, you find where she has a thermal plant arrangement down there in fact, with a pda and a blueprint

[tough oak]

i cant find my walmart enderchest lol

nothing very valuable inside it besides the box itself but still kinds sad

nvm i found it im blind

k i moved the thermal plant power to a base at the crystal caves entrance

not much but hey it has a fabricator

[tough oak]

looks like i've survived

was in a sticky situation, low hp swimming back to my scanner base

after getting assaulted by le big angry fish in crystal finding a spot for a base

[broken badge]

The place where you very first enter the area of the ||purple crystal caves|| where there’s rock that juts out over where you first start to see the crystals, that’s pretty safe. Because the shadows don’t really make it that far up

[tough oak]

i think im there

[broken badge]

I’ve built there before

[tough oak]

i just put it at the entrance because there's alot of fish sitting there to eat and drink

along with some food crops and i intend to move creepvine there for medkits so i can actually explore

or i could just build a prawn suit

idk if i have enough of the resources from crystal tho bc i had to leave bc low hp

actually i might have enough

[worldly holly]

news when

dont hurry

[coral linden]

So

[bold tiger]

h

[coral linden]

Where can I place the hover pad

Kinda been curious

[storm imp]

wherever on land afaik

[coral linden]

Ah

Well how does it work does it like hover over water or only on land

[storm imp]

the hoverpad sits in one place, the snowfox only works on land.

[coral linden]

Well that sucks

[storm imp]

snowfox ain't really fun to drive, prawn is considerably better imo

[coral linden]

I’m not gonna waste my time then but thank you

I think snowfox is the only thing I haven’t built

Vehicle wise

[storm imp]

more maueverable, more utilities, water travel, faster, etc.

[coral linden]

Still working on modifying my prawn

I need grapple arm

One frag needed

[storm imp]

ah

I hate how much is stuck in the lilypads nests

[coral linden]

Also lead is severely hard to come across

[coral linden]

Hm you mean lily padler

[storm imp]

lily pads sea monkey nests

so many blueprints there with no alternatives

[coral linden]

Ah that well I find all my prawn stuff near crystal caves

[storm imp]

no grapple there afaik

just torpedo and propulsion

[coral linden]

Well then I’m rather confused I’m sure I found a grapple arm near there

I have witnesses called siblings

[storm imp]

only says sea monkey nests here, and that's the only place I've found them. https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Prawn_Suit_Grappling_Arm_(Below_Zero)

[coral linden]

Hm thank you I will check it tomorrow when hopefully I’m not disastrously sick

[tough oak]

with 18 medkits, i have gained confidence to explore the crystal caverns

dang i was scanning it and it ran for the hills when i stabbed it

LOL i died

right at the door to my base

i forgot to refill 02 tanks

rip hardcore 10hr

once again

i have never died to a creature. only the dumb oxygen lol

even 1 second longer and i would have survived

[carmine bobcat]

This happened

[sleek timber]

help

I'm addicted to collecting ore deposits

why is the glacial basin completely full of silver, copper, titanium and magnetite, but has little to no other minerals?

[west mountain]

Because that how the game was designed. What other ores are you looking for?

[sleek timber]

I understand game design, but surely there's a reason for that decision

[west mountain]

Well, each biome has its distinct minerals, so you can ask that question for each and every biome. I have no answer than the geology of that particular area

[sleek timber]

I'm not looking for any ores specifically, but if I plan to make a base in that area, it means I have to go back to the main area to gather any ores which I can't find in the glacial basin

[west mountain]

But that is how it works everywhere. The best thing is to seperate collecting resources and building bases entirely. So I made epic gathering runs with compacting stuff to the max and then store it until I build my next base

Then the first thing I build is the recyclotron and uncompact everything.

[sleek timber]

yeah, but this one is kinda far from everywhere, and would be nice to have all basic resources available for base building, like gold and lead at least

ok wait, how do you compact stuff during a gathering run?

[west mountain]

Its not going to happen, so I cannot help.

[sleek timber]

using a fabricator seatruck module?

[west mountain]

Of course, otherwise you do not collect anything. Yes fabricator. Imagine storing 5 titanium+2 lithium in one slot and 2 copper and 2 silver in one compass in one slot.

And the thermos is two quartz and 1 titanum

[sleek timber]

fair enough, though that's still one of the main things that I dislike about this game

crafting stuff en-masse takes ages, and there's not that many solutions for inventory management

[west mountain]

well, but that is the fun, at least for me. I like collecting stuff and organizing them manually.

[sleek timber]

seatruck storage modules are kind of a joke, where you have the capacity of slightly more than a single large locker spread across 5 tiny lockers

trying to find and sort stuff out is annoying as hell

[west mountain]

I have two storage and the prawn attached with two storage upgrades for the prawn plus your player inventory

[little haven]

Yeah, I made a small starter base with lockers and a battery charger. So far at 10 lockers rip.

Probably gonna investigate that || weird signal || after just getting the seatruck.

[west mountain]

Thats a good idea, and also to find delta island. You are much more ahead of base building than the story 🙂

[little haven]

I tend to prioritize on stuff first then go one shot with the story if possible like I did in hardcore for the prequel to b0

[sleek timber]

there are definitely ways to increase capacity, but none of them are anywhere near as good as having a cyclops full of lockers, unfortunately

[little haven]

But I ain't doing b0 hardcore yet bc first time so yeah.

[west mountain]

Once you are through with the game and just want go go into base building, then why bother about collecting? Just spawn in what you need via command line.

[sleek timber]

I have this weird obsession of doing everything in survival

[little haven]

I mean I have a locker full of bladderfish atm.

[west mountain]

Yes, me too. But I had to spawn in items that are not present in the game for decoration 🙂 Like a lot of labcontainers and posters and stuff like that.

[little haven]

And only using 25% of a 2 x 2 + shape base atm

Since need to figure out how to get || multipurpose room || if that is a thing like in first sub

[west mountain]

You have to find one to scan, thats why I asked if you have been to delta island yet. Go south

[little haven]

Figures.

Just like looking for the rebreather and stuff.

[west mountain]

Yes, everything.

[little haven]

Yeah I'm heading there after a quick google with the wiki tbh

[west mountain]

No need to google just go south

[little haven]

For being new to below zero I'm doing okayish but I had previous experience with subnautica

Hmm okay.

[crude vapor]

Its off center ahhhh

[west mountain]

What is off-center, No way! Everything is PERFECTLY aligned 🙂

[crude vapor]

Lmao building in this game is so annoying

[west mountain]

Yes, to make something perfectly aligned is very difficult. Also the rooms have wierd collision detection, no corner works the same as the other.

[crude vapor]

Lmao the rooms be like: NO

[west mountain]

I had a very perculiar instance, where I builit a multipurpose room next to a large room and the connection between them was forced by the game. It did not even bother that there was stuff hanging on the wall. I had deconstruct the wall in order to make a reinforcement in the large room. That prevented the connection. Then build the mutipurpose room and immediately build a reinforcement there. Only then I could deconstruct the reinforcement in the large room and rebuild the wall there. Strange.

Also I hate it when the base builds legs on top of my seatruck

[crude vapor]

Wat happens when u move the truck,

Also is it a mod that let's you change locker name color?

[west mountain]

The legs only grow after I parked the truck under it. I can move it way, its not a fix connection but the legs then stay like that. So I always have to deconstruct the glass tubes and rebuild them to get rid of the legs.

[west mountain]

I dont use mods, that is a base functionality. Just click on the white dot when you edit the name.

[sleek timber]

happens in the base game as well

I have a base with a "cyclops dock" which is basically just a massive structure with a large room as the ceiling

the problem is that if I park a cyclops in there, the room attempts to connect legs to the cyclops, causing it to glitch out massively and at best get stuck, at worst crash the game

[crude vapor]

I've seen that but idk how to access it on ps

[west mountain]

Pitty they did not fix that

[sleek timber]

found a pic

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/103560355065634816/1059927091187032165/2023-01-04_00_09_22-Greenshot.png

this can happen if the legs connect and you let them sit for a while

[craggy ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/teddy-hug-bear-hug-cute-good-morning-gif-14749746

[sleek timber]

yes, thanks

that's very helpful at 13:45 on Monday

[craggy ferry]

np

[native jetty]

bro the first 2 seatruck modules i get the blueprints of are like the most useless ones 😩

[west mountain]

Aquarium and sleeper? You need the one's from ||deep twisty bridges and deep purple vents||!

[craggy ferry]

i love sleeper module 💤

[ivory pivot]

hmm so, how do people solve the storage problem with seatruck without mods? it seems like i'd need about 5 storage modules to have a decent amount of storage for crafting

[west mountain]

Yes, because of the jukebox!!!

[west mountain]

Do you compact the items you collect? Then you have also the prawn docking module with the prawn suit that can be upgraded with two storage upgrade modules

I have two storage, one fabricator and the prawn with two storage upgrade modules

[ivory pivot]

you mean in order to then decompress them with recyclotron?

[west mountain]

Yes,

[ivory pivot]

can you put recyclotron in seatruck?

[craggy ferry]

no

you just do that when you get back to base...

[west mountain]

Then you are wasting a lot of space.

[ivory pivot]

taht beats the purpose of crafting inside of seatruck though

[west mountain]

You have to compact them in the fabricator immediately when collecting

[craggy ferry]

what? i am agreeing with you

compress in seatruck, and then decompress back at base

[west mountain]

Well, not the items you plan to craft, but the one used for storage at the base later. Just compact them immediately

[ivory pivot]

ok, i see what you mean but i was asking how do you cope with lack of space for crafting IN seatruck, not at base. Also i'd like to point out that compressign and then decompressing items is another step that is tedious and could have been avoided in the first place

it seems that fabricator in seatruck is really only just for cooking food and water in emergency

well and compressing items but again tedious

[west mountain]

Some people enjoy it, its so rewarding seeing all your collected items being compacted and coming back to the base with a fully loaded seatruck 🙂

[native jetty]

yup, aquarium and sleeper, from the ||deep purple vents||

[west mountain]

Deep purple vents only has the ||prawn docking module||, you mean just from purple vents and lilypads.

[native jetty]

oh yeah purple vents mb mb

[west mountain]

No problem, but again, deep purple vents is worth it and especially||deep twisty bridges|| has the one you are looking for.

[native jetty]

mk, ty

[crude vapor]

What's a good safe place to find drillable copper

[west mountain]

East arctic and west arctic and a bit in koppa mine

[crude vapor]

What about deep lillypads?

[sleek timber]

SN needs a better crafting system

I wanna compress 64 gold chunks into a single block

[west mountain]

No copper there

[sleek timber]

and carry 27 stacks of those blocks altogether

[crude vapor]

Ah ok

[west mountain]

But if you go deeper, then you get it again in ||crystal cavern||

[crude vapor]

The wiki says copper can be found in deep lillypads

[west mountain]

Then go and have a look. Most copper is in east and west arctic and also tree spires has a lot and along the world border. And then of course in arctic spires.

[crude vapor]

Fair enough

[crude vapor]

Question: will sea monkeys you breed/hatch bring you materials even without ||al-an|| in ur head?

[eternal garnet]

No. They help him, not you

[crude vapor]

Wow talk about favouritism

Um I need help

[west mountain]

Yes, what help?

[crude vapor]

So I'm out collecting some copper with my seatruck and prawn, my seatruck has 3 modules (fabricator, storage and docking) with my prawn on the back, but even tho all modules are attached the game isn't letting me into them, like I get into the seatrucks main hatch it puts me straight into the seat not down the ladder, the game is treating it like I have no modules when I do

[west mountain]

Is your seatruck at a steep angle. More than 45 degrees will not let you walk inside. Also it is a convenient method of getting in and out very quickly. Just tilt the seatruck up or down more than 45° to exit without the animation.

[crude vapor]

Oooooo that makes sense now thx

[crude vapor]

Is it possible to hot swap the snowfoxes battery like with the prawn and seatruck or does it ness to be on its hoverpad?

[tough oak]

minecraft

tbf i think we need more inventory space

maybe high capacity backpack tank

[sleek timber]

[thick chasm]

Hello everyone I have a problem I can't find spiral plant and I need it to build the MK2 for seatruck can someone help me ?

[west mountain]

From delta island dock, go south until you enter the tree spires biome. Follow the terrain into the depth. There you find something big, have a close look at it.

[thick chasm]

Cool thank you I'll go check that 👍

[west mountain]

Let us know how it went 🙂

[thick chasm]

yeah sure I'll play later today on twitch

[crude vapor]

Does the coffee machine not produce actual coffee anymore only fills thermos?

[eternal garnet]

right