below-zero-chat

[graceful pine]

Theres a reaper skull down here?

Lets go perimiter defence system

[tacit thorn]

so, uh, I got an antennae plant fruit to my bio samples base.
Any way I can actually plant it, or I need to go back for some seeds?

[graceful pine]

I am running back to my base because I got all I needed

[tacit comet]

You need to get the seeds from the plant

[graceful pine]

What plant

[tacit comet]

Unfortunately.

For Tomtores's question, you're good.

[graceful pine]

ok

But I am set now

[tacit comet]

Cool

[graceful pine]

I have a perimeter defense system for free so now I can explore without worrying about dying

[tacit thorn]

the only true protection from dying is having a welder in pocket.

[graceful pine]

where is a spiral plant

[tacit thorn]

deeper. some near sulfurish vents

[broken badge]

I find several spiral plants inside the cave area in deep purple vents (where there’s the purple fumaroles that erupt; it’s also where you find the ||fossil excavator artifact||).
Since the area is a bit darker in some places, it can be more difficult to see the spiral plants, but using the highlight feature helps in that regard iirc.

You can also locate spiral plants by going to tree spires and entering one of the large static ventgardens.

[tacit thorn]

once you get a clipping, plant it at base and grow more

No point growing melons like this, right?
Given I can build a large bed with same amount of resources.

[patent night]

I have a lead shortage 😔

[eternal garnet]

scanner room: galena

[chrome cedar]

Yup

[patent night]

The Man Cave has a scanner room but idk if it’s a good one

[graceful pine]

Just ran into the weird leviathans at the purple vents and I just stood there watching it slaughter the fish that lived there

It never really noticed me

[patent night]

Which?

[next current]

Below Zero Moment.

[graceful pine]

Dont know but its mouth splits into four parts

[patent night]

Is it a red dude that likes to give monkey hugs

That’s just Michael he does that sometimes

[patent night]

Ya that’s just Michael

He’s a nice guy

Likes seafood

[graceful pine]

It never really got hostile with me

making the best portable base you can, just got the sleeper module and am going back to the purple vents to get more module parts

[patent night]

||Fabricator Module is there as well|| I don’t have the sleeper module yet tho

[graceful pine]

looking for aquarium module and the docking station one

[patent night]

Aquarium is very easily found in ||Lilypads|| and the docking one idk

[graceful pine]

I just need one more aquarium one

[broken badge]

Aquarium you can find in ||lilypads||

[patent night]

Be warned the more modules there are, the slower it goes

[broken badge]

Docking one is in ||deep purple vents||

[patent night]

How do I get there

[graceful pine]

yeah I usually take them all off if I am starting to go into a dangerous area

I have never been to the lilypads where is that

[patent night]

No way how

[graceful pine]

Found 2 outside of it

[graceful pine]

I think, I dont know the biomes in this game well

[broken badge]

Have you scanned the map from the base at delta island?

[patent night]

Have you not gone to the ||Pilot’s last location???||

[eternal garnet]

truck speed: Full speed with up to 2 modules. 3 if you got the horsepower upgrade.

[graceful pine]

Just did a while ago

I hate it

[patent night]

That’s right in the lilypads. There’s SOOO much there and basically no harm

Basically everything you need going into late game is right there for you

[graceful pine]

No harm after you go to the ||base and grab the upgrade for the seatruck||

[patent night]

At least from what I know

[patent night]

No?

[broken badge]

Before you enter the caves for the pilot’s last known location, you search the seabed (that’s above the cave systems) to look for aquarium module fragments in lilypads

[graceful pine]

I mean like after you get the free defence system your more safe than when you got there when you put it in the seatruck

[graceful pine]

I think I found one while going over

[patent night]

I was so confused on where the seatruck ||afterburner and horsepower|| upgrades were and I thought they were just seatruck fragments 😭

In the lilys

[graceful pine]

I found both in there

[patent night]

I only have the afterburner

[graceful pine]

Mainly because I got lost while in the cave for the ||base||

[patent night]

There are ||two bases||

[graceful pine]

I got to only one?

[patent night]

Look on the Alterra map that u got 👀

[graceful pine]

should I go back there to get to the second one

[patent night]

Should be in PDA files

[graceful pine]

what files

[patent night]

I forget if it is needed for the game but I had fun there. I think that’s the only way to get the exterior growbed

[broken badge]

I ended up watching Hylian Mom on YouTube, because it was just easier to watch than continue going around in circles in the caves😂

[graceful pine]

so the place with all the squidsharks is the lilypads

[patent night]

I literally peed my pants

[graceful pine]

My go to guy is chemical apes

[patent night]

There’s only 2 or 3

[broken badge]

Either works, Hylian Mom or Chemical Apes

[graceful pine]

there were tons it felt like when I was there

[patent night]

Chemical Apes is not the best because he goes to the BEST places, not the SAFEST places

[graceful pine]

Chemical Apes does videos on like everythings location

[broken badge]

I found Hylian Mom explains things a little better but I mean, it’s like most stuff, personal preference

[graceful pine]

If you have the right equpiment its not that bad

[patent night]

I used to enjoy his vids and then Chemical Apes just got rlly complicated and went to all the places that I’m scared to go to or stuff like that

[graceful pine]

He got me to go to a few places I was scared of but not anymore

[patent night]

I think he just gets on my nerves a bit now

He’s too experienced and doesn’t rlly get it

He’s not scared like I am

[graceful pine]

In the first game he just swims past like 3 reapers in the dunes I think

What do you feel like is this games reapers because there is no reaper in bellow zero

[patent night]

The ambience of this game is scarier in my opinion, but only in the thermal vent area and beyond

[graceful pine]

Thats true, ambience is scarier than some of the leviathans

[patent night]

The cryptosuchus roar is one of, if not the scariest roars of any creature in any game. It just is.

[graceful pine]

Both games make me feel like I am being watched though I am in a room with no windows and one door that is just a closet and I have walls in every direction so I am in like a 6x6ft area

[graceful pine]

that and squidshark

[patent night]

Every time I hear it… omg… not only does adrenaline rush come through, but also my reflexes

[patent night]

Both the squid shark and cryptosuchus are weak

[graceful pine]

I instantly switch to the thing that zaps them and zap the crap out of anything that comes close to me

[patent night]

The Cryptosuchus can be one shot if u just ram it with ur seamoth.

Seatruck*

[patent night]

They are so weak

[graceful pine]

Found Michael

[graceful pine]

yeah but its payback for that stupid roar

I walk right next to a leviathan and nothing happens this game is so weird

[patent night]

Michael’s a little angy because Marguerit stole one of his teeth for a prawn suit

[graceful pine]

the leviathan is running when I did nothing

[patent night]

Not Richard

Richard will go AFTER you

Richard is like the Hikaru of the ocean

That dude scares me

[patent night]

Go see Richard you’ll be in for a surprise

[graceful pine]

Where are all the prawn fragments there actually kinda tough in this game

[patent night]

They are much easier than in the first

[graceful pine]

By now I would just be needing cyclops engine fragments

[patent night]

Just go to ||Outpost Zero|| and the ||Mercury II Wreck in the Lilypads (Bow I believe)||

[graceful pine]

I am going to need to relocate my base my seatruck is too fat to fit into the dock

[graceful pine]

Alright

[patent night]

Not how it works. Just go up a bit,

Keep the top of the seatruck near the ceiling

[graceful pine]

My dock is close to a iceberg so the back hits it

[patent night]

That’s extremely inconvenient

My Man Cave would never.

My man cave has the space a man needs 💪

[graceful pine]

My base is only really a seatruck charger now

[patent night]

My base is SO much more than a seatruck charger

My base is like the optimal hangout place for the homies

[graceful pine]

Maybe because my seatruck is my base

[patent night]

I got Jeff, myself, my Prune Suit, and my Honda Seavic

[graceful pine]

not a very fast one

[patent night]

I love making names for the seamoth and seatruck

[graceful pine]

I cant think of any good names

[patent night]

My Seatruck is named Honda Seavic and in the first game my Seamoth was named Bugatti Searon

Both play on words

[tacit comet]

[patent night]

Admit that they’re great 🤣🤣

[tacit comet]

No

[patent night]

Instant report ‼️‼️

[graceful pine]

Named it after one of my favourite cars in forza

[tacit comet]

Cool

[patent night]

I named my prawn suit after my fingers. Because they prune in the water. So I call it the Prune Suit. Get it??? Also that’s a cool thing to do

Honda SEAVIC

[glossy valley]

So I will never by one

[tacit comet]

[tacit comet]

Obviously, why would you when you could steal one?

[glossy valley]

I’m not a thief either

[patent night]

I would pay good money for a Honda Seavic with a Fabricator module and aquarium module

💪

[tacit comet]

Would you buy an irl Seamoth?

[graceful pine]

yes

[tacit comet]

Hold on lemme get a pic

#subnautica-chat

[graceful pine]

New catch with the aquarium module

[carmine bobcat]

If a ||shadow leviathan catches me can I scare it away with seatruck perimeter?||

[unkempt kiln]

yes

u can also kill it

[carmine bobcat]

I'm not brave enough for that

[unkempt kiln]

nah its easy

the first time I did they kept running away from me

the whole time I kept chasing him

[carmine bobcat]

How many are there in ||crystal caves||

[unkempt kiln]

||1 in purple and 2 in red||

[carmine bobcat]

Is seatruck and prawn suite depth module 2 enough to go there

[unkempt kiln]

kinda nah

its below 1000m

[carmine bobcat]

How do you get the kyanite to make depth module mk3

[unkempt kiln]

||crystal caves||

[carmine bobcat]

Alright, thanks for answering my questions

[unkempt kiln]

np

[carmine bobcat]

Is there no way to use the ||perimeter module while a leviathan is grabbing you? It just kicks me out of the vehicle||

Also is the information in the wiki wrong or something it says ||shadow leviathan deals 20-35 damage to seatruck but my seatruck got hurt more than that?||

[unkempt kiln]

select the perimeter defence then left click it

[unkempt kiln]

if your seatruck is low enough

[broken badge]

Only time I ever got kicked out of the seatruck was when I was on switch and I was getting buttons confused since they’re opposite of regular controllers. You didn’t change your bindings or anything did you?

You can time the perimeter defense right when the attack is starting so you don’t get any damage done to the seatruck. You should be able to learn pretty quickly how to time it just right

[violet sage]

Hey everyone, I may be experiencing a bug, unsure yet if it is gamebreaking.

So I have been playing my current save for about 20 hours (I have not completed BZ before). Quite early on I disabled the communications tower, went back to ||Marguerite’s base and found the door locked and she was not there. I received no prompt on what to do next.|| So I kept playing progressing where I could, and today have done pretty much everything I can and am unsure how to progress the story. So I go back to ||her base, still nothing. So I check the communications tower on the wiki and it says after disabling it, she is meant to contact me and give me some coordinates. However, that never happened…||

[broken badge]

Check your PDA, the section where it keeps messages from the game…
Did you not get a message about her calling you ||to meet her 1 km east of the delta island||? You should’ve when you repaired the tower.

[violet sage]

Uh, I guess I can check. I’m not in the game but I can load it up

[broken badge]

I remember one time I was busy not freezing to death or something and wasn’t able to answer the call. But it was logged in my PDA still.

[violet sage]

Hmmm

[broken badge]

No worries, you don’t have to check rn, but maybe whenever you have the chance

[violet sage]

Well, is that the same if ||you decline a call from Alan? I’ve never actually declined so I don’t know what happens lol||

[broken badge]

Yes, it’s basically the same thing. If you don’t answer, or can’t answer, it is logged still in your PDA and you can read it at any time

[violet sage]

I’m gonna have to scroll a long way back lol

It’s loading now

[broken badge]

Did you plug in the TOM to the tower AND go back to the control panel and press the button on that panel?

I know you have to do something at the panel and not just plug in the TOM

[violet sage]

Yeah I found the log

Lmao can’t believe I missed that

Ok crisis averted, but I do feel like I have done part of the story out of order

[broken badge]

I’m just glad it’s there. Because if it wasn’t there, then I’m not sure how to explain it missing😬

[violet sage]

||I put the cure in the frozen leviathan, and Robin said how it was good to have closure about how Sam died… but I don’t know how she died lol. I only found a PDA talking about where Sam hid the cure after finding it myself already||

Yeah and when I loaded up the save just now, I just got some dialogue that is supposed to happen in between those events

Whoops

[broken badge]

I missed the PDA for that as well, so don’t feel bad. Apparently there’s a pda near a forklift I’ve still never found (although I’ve heard about it many times, just never gone back to check for it, maybe one day I will😂)

[violet sage]

Thanks for the help

[broken badge]

Np

[violet sage]

I look forward to continuing the story now

Well, when I play next

I was so worried I would have to start over

[carmine bobcat]

Oh, I play on xbox and I did change some things in bindings because one of my buttons don't work. It's not a big deal anyway I just decided to go with prawn suite and it was way better

[carmine bobcat]

Also you were correct, I just killed the one in the crystal caves entrance and it was way easier because he has a bigger hitbox

Is ||gas torpedo|| useful in killing leviathans?

[tacit comet]

There's actually 2 in Crystal Caves, and 2 in Fabricator Caverns, jsyk.

[tacit comet]

Generally, gas pods are just better. Stasis them, then drop an inventory-full directly obver their heads. Should do the job.

[carmine bobcat]

I think you forgot that this is bz

[tacit comet]

Right, sorry about that lmao.

[carmine bobcat]

Lmao

[tacit comet]

I forgot you use sulfur to make them in BZ.

Prawn with grapple is probably the way to go.

[carmine bobcat]

Does it deal good amount of damage

The wiki doesn't mention its damage

[tacit comet]

I don't believe so, at least not for the work required to make it.

It's generally not worth it.

[carmine bobcat]

Alright

[tacit comet]

The prawn with normal arm and grapple doesn't use resources and is more effective.

[carmine bobcat]

Does the leviathan attack if you're stuck to it via grappler arm?

[tacit comet]

It can do, but the main use of the grapple in that situation is to hang to deal damage longer.

You're not likely to find a way to kill it that doesn't involve some measure of risk.

What levi are you trying to kill?

I hope not the Ice Worm lol 🤣

[carmine bobcat]

Nah lol it was shadow leviathan

I don't use grappler arms anyway

I spam both normal handa at the same time

Though it would be cool if ice worms were killable

[viral knot]

building in ||red crystals|| is so complicated

i have to turn left right left right and go up and down

argh

[tacit comet]

Lol

I'm build in the Crystal Caves, there's a bit more space there.

[viral knot]

yeah i saw you did something on steam screenshots section

i'm doing similar thing but in ||red crystals||

i've done that in purple crystals already and wanted to build one here aswell

[tacit comet]

Cool.

They're pretty close, too.

[viral knot]

yeah

[tacit comet]

Does the Shadow Levi get stuck on your base?

[viral knot]

uh it got once

because i was outside and he wanted to attack me and as soon as i entered moonpool he didnt know what was happening and couldnt return to his path

[tacit comet]

Yeah, happens to me too

Then he died from collision damage, and I had to clear the CellsCache 😵‍💫

[viral knot]

[tacit comet]

Oh no indeed.

That's a portal to the center of the earth.

[viral knot]

i need to go even lower

[tacit comet]

Are you making a metal spaghetti base?

[viral knot]

i am satisfied with that view and i'll leave that compartement here but i want it to swim above large room

[viral knot]

yes

can anyone tell me why couldnt sn team add glass floor

it would be so cool

[tacit comet]

Omg, you're right, why did I think of that.

That's a great idea, but alas...

I'd suspect it's because its more work and bases would be build closer to the ground than the ceiling anyways.

[viral knot]

subnautica team pls hire me

oops

forgot to spoiler it

nahhh bruh i have to go even lower

and he almost ate me

🗿

[ancient nymph]

what is that

[eternal garnet]

that is a game spoiler, is what it is. why did you click

[tacit comet]

Lmao

[eternal garnet]

ok it's a minor spoiler. that's a ||shadow leviathan||

[ancient nymph]

oh really?

[eternal garnet]

they have no face. Actually similar in some ways to Noface from spirited away

[tacit comet]

I actually refer to them as friends-who-enjoy-very-close-hugs.

[eternal garnet]

they are trying to push you into its belly. Canned snack

[ancient nymph]

to be honest i could notice nothing but now, i see a body with no face.

[tacit comet]

mmmm...

It has a face, as in rows of eyes.

The mouth is on the bottom, by the bioluminescent jaws.

I build a base near one where it glides overhead.

[eternal garnet]

or, it just opens its tummy directly

[tacit comet]

I mean, it could, in theory.

but then where's the can opener?

[dusky lake]

Is the Stasis Rifle in Below Zero

[eternal garnet]

cheats only

[carmine bobcat]

Just killed ||2 shadow leviathans in crystal caves, I think that's all. Time for fabricator caves||

[dusky lake]

bruh how

[carmine bobcat]

Go to it with a prawn suite and two normal arms (each one deals 50 damage per hit). Once it attacks you, you're close to it. Attack as much as you can and then go a bit far and repair your prawn suite. And then repeat

That's how I do it

Takes a bit but worth

[dusky lake]

Wish we had the Damage Reduction Module

[carmine bobcat]

You can survive three strikes from it if I'm not wrong. But to assure my safety i repair it after the first

You can try repairing after the second

[dusky lake]

To the fight i goo
tatakeeeee

[carmine bobcat]

Or now that I think about it you will most likely die in the third strike

The damage is a bit random

[dusky lake]

Did you have to swap batteries?

[carmine bobcat]

No but I did end up with 28% charge left

I was using both normal batteries

I'd suggest bringing two extra power cells

[carmine bobcat]

Actually wait this was just for one of them. If you meant for both of them then you do need to either charge batteries or swap them

If you have a thermal reactor you can park somewhere hot and safe and charge your power cell

By the way a question for people who completed the game ||am I done with crystal caves after getting the body component there? Or is there something important there and I need to go back||

[eternal garnet]

There's an ||endgame facility|| down there, direction ||east||

[carmine bobcat]

I'm guessing I need ||all body components before going there. Right?||

[eternal garnet]

correct

[carmine bobcat]

Gotta get the last one for me then

Oh boy||arctic spires|| will be fun to explore....

[dusky lake]

Can’t you go there ||before collecting all three||

[dusky lake]

||Arctic Spires level design is bad, you can get up on the outer layers where you aren’t really supposed to go||

[eternal garnet]

You can, but it's pointless

[dusky lake]

I skipped ||the bridge||

[tacit comet]

With the prawn?

As in, jumped over it?

[dusky lake]

Yes

[dusky lake]

no

[tacit comet]

I would imagine it shouldn't be too hard with foundations or the prawn.

[eternal garnet]

you passed it another way? you may want to open the shortcut, starting from a cave with an elevator

exits east of the phi dock by the end of the big cable

[tacit comet]

There's a shortcut?

Oh, the ||Alien Arch||?

[eternal garnet]

yes, opens from the inside only

[dusky lake]

||I went up from around the position where Phi Labs is||

[eternal garnet]

Ah there's two shortcuts then, including the ||teleport||

but you can't take the prawn thru that one

[carmine bobcat]

Is there acommand to spawn stuff like in game 1 ?

[eternal garnet]

yes. same command, item, or spawn for big stuff

(item goes in inventory)

[carmine bobcat]

Could i remind me the one for the items?

[eternal garnet]

it's "item"

[manic lynx]

i don't understand why anyone would want to explore the ||artic spires|| with the prawn given how large the area is though.

[carmine bobcat]

Nah i meanthow totype the command

[eternal garnet]

how to get the input? Shift-enter on PC

[dusky lake]

You can bunny hop the Prawn

[eternal garnet]

using any command disables achievements for this save.

[tacit comet]

The grapple arm makes it easy.

[carmine bobcat]

I was just about to go there with the prawn

Snowfox is pain to control

When the command appears i just write item name?

[tacit comet]

Prawn is great for that, it doesn't take a ton of damage.

[manic lynx]

hm, never knew that.

seems more like a bug than an actual feature though.

[carmine bobcat]

How much damage does ||the ice worm deal to prawn suite?||

[tacit comet]

Yes, but some items have name different than their in-game titles, i.e. Ion Cube is "PrecursorIonCrystal"

[eternal garnet]

yes, "item precursorioncrystal 8" with an optional count

[manic lynx]

if that's the main reason why there's so much hate for the snowfox then i can kind of understand it now.

[dusky lake]

Use the jet pack to propel you of the ground, you gain speed, on land you are basically instantly on the ground, repeat

[carmine bobcat]

Juet wana spawn some fur

Whats its name to spawn same as in game?

[eternal garnet]

item snowstalkerfur 4

[carmine bobcat]

Ty

[eternal garnet]

using any command disables achievements for this save.

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah dont realy care about achievements tbh just wanna finish the game and died to many times getting tht fur

[dusky lake]

✨save editing✨💖

[eternal garnet]

very, very difficult. but there is an easy way

[carmine bobcat]

It doesnt actualy interefere with story and stuff right? Just achievements?

[eternal garnet]

this: QmodManager enables achievements again, as a side effect

[eternal garnet]

right

[carmine bobcat]

I just killed a snow stalker with my prawn suite and got more than enough fur

[eternal garnet]

you are... lying

killing one does not provide fur.

[dusky lake]

You just have to kill the small ones

[carmine bobcat]

Is there a list for commands somewhere?

[eternal garnet]

no.

[eternal garnet]

spawn ids
https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Spawn_IDs_(Below_Zero)
Commands https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Console_Commands_(Below_Zero)

[carmine bobcat]

Thank you

Does the ||ice worm attack you if you're inside caves?||

[eternal garnet]

the round tunnel caves it made, yes

[carmine bobcat]

Oh shoot

It was made by ice worm itself?

How am I still alive

Does it not attack you if you're inside a prawn suite or something

[eternal garnet]

it does...

[carmine bobcat]

Guess I'm lucky then

[junior skiff]

have you guys ever noticed that creatures stop attacking you if you stand inside the seatruck but dont pilot it

[carmine bobcat]

Huh never tried that

actually I think I remember seeing it in a video but never wanted to make sure

[junior skiff]

even leviathans just forget you exist the moment you stop piloting it and stand there

[carmine bobcat]

By the way how does the ||thumper exactly help with ice worms?||

[junior skiff]

i have never used it but i think it attracts them to it so you can do other things

i could be wrong though

[carmine bobcat]

Interesting

[eternal garnet]

no, it keeps them away. But since the thumper stays there, eating battery, it's not very useful

[junior skiff]

ah ok

[carmine bobcat]

Oh

Thanks for helping anyway

[eternal garnet]

it should have wheels, and follow you around. that'd be nice

[junior skiff]

cant you just pick it up and place it somewhere else

[eternal garnet]

you can

[junior skiff]

also have yall noticed that the prawn suit above water reaches mach 12 with a large jump

i literally traveled 200 meters by jumping off an iceberg

[edgy onyx]

how deep before prawn suit gets crushed?

[junior skiff]

with no depth upgrades it has 400m limit

heavily nerfed from first game lol

[edgy onyx]

how deep first game?

[graceful pine]

||Any leviathans near artifact pk8?||

[viral knot]

Hold on I’ll check where it is

@graceful pine there might be a guy near it

[graceful pine]

Yeah, I will just zap it to death or till it just goes away

[viral knot]

||Is it about 500 meters south from delta?||

||the artifact||

[graceful pine]

1000 ish

Just waiting for it to be day so I can actually see

[viral knot]

So yes there is a leviathan around it

[graceful pine]

Just saw it

Those are not that bad

I went right next to one and it did not get mad at me

[viral knot]

did it look like ||big red shrimp?||

[graceful pine]

Yeah I know what one it is its just annoying to spell

[viral knot]

Chelicerate!

[graceful pine]

Ooh this is not good

Angry leviathan is after me

[viral knot]

zap it

[viral knot]

when he starts biting you, use your perimiter defence

[viral knot]

yes

[graceful pine]

No I used my ability to go forward very fast

[viral knot]

also works

[graceful pine]

Got him

just going to run to the artifact

[viral knot]

||wait the pk8 isnt actually near delta lol||

[graceful pine]

Its like 1200m away

[viral knot]

it is in east arctic yeah

[eternal garnet]

it's in the "arctic", just a straight hole down, guarded by shrimp salad

[viral knot]

there are ||two ground samplers|| right? that got me confused

[eternal garnet]

possibly more

[graceful pine]

Im unstoppable now I have ||ion power cell unlocked||

[viral knot]

yea may be

[graceful pine]

I can stay in the seatruck for way longer now

[viral knot]

i found two

[viral knot]

very good

2,5 times more power than normal power cell i believe

[graceful pine]

What does the ||quantum locker ||do

[eternal garnet]

no, 5 times. But you will do well with just one ion power cell

||quantum locker|| is a portable enderchest.

[viral knot]

||if you place two lockers, basically teleports items from one to another||

[eternal garnet]

all chests have the same global content

it's usable with just one

[viral knot]

two are more usable for me

[graceful pine]

so a ender chest pretty much

[eternal garnet]

yes

[viral knot]

if i need to grab a lot of stuff and i ran out of inventory space and sea truck inventory i just place one, take materials for other one and build it in place where i need to

[viral knot]

yeah as meatie said

[graceful pine]

Just heard a chelicerate behind me

I just turn around and all of the things behind me are dead

[carmine bobcat]

Uhhh end game question: ||where is the entrance to fabricator caves? I thought it was the same area as where you find the component but the area is full of crystals everywhere I can't tell if I'm lost or there isn't any entrance there||

[eternal garnet]

||East end of crystal caves, it goes red. Depth is about 700 I think, target is at depth 960 ||

[carmine bobcat]

How does the end of crystal caves look like 😅?

Nevermind

I found it. Thanks

Phew, ||just killed the first shadow leviathan there... It was kind of challenging. But I got lucky and it was stuck in a perfect place where I can hit it and it can't reach me||

||killed the second. The area is now safe, right?||

[eternal garnet]

yes. There was no need for this violence

[carmine bobcat]

Could someone remind me what did that old lady told me to do

[eternal garnet]

sabotage that radio tower somehow. Clue in PDA at the base of it

more revealing: ||build a test override module and plug it into the tower||

[carmine bobcat]

I am too scared from getting jumpscared out of nowhere xd

||shadow leviathans|| went extinct now in my world. I don't think I regret it

They had enough hugs

Do i need to find and scan the parallel processing unit to get the test override module?

Yes

[eternal garnet]

yes. 3 of them

Bring laser cutter. Clue where it is, base of the tower

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah i need to find last frag of laser cutter

[eternal garnet]

PDA is an angry note about bird poop being corrosive

[carmine bobcat]

Being playing for 9 hours and didnt find anything that terrfied me yet

Where are the big levianthens at

[eternal garnet]

tree spires, east of purple vents, etc

I am not responsible for the coming extinction event

[carmine bobcat]

What extinction event

Is it necessary to go to tree spires

[eternal garnet]

it's beautiful.

maybe not.

[carmine bobcat]

The chelicerates would like to say hi

[eternal garnet]

but there are many wonders

Do not skip.

[carmine bobcat]

Hmmm maybe

Can't wait to make chelicerates go extinct

[eternal garnet]

Tree spires

Random pic of cut content

[carmine bobcat]

Would be cool if these things did something other than having loot

[patent night]

What it that? Is that spoiler 😢

[eternal garnet]

no, since it's from old story

the spot is now a radio tower

[patent night]

Don’t spoil the new story plz

Ok cool

[eternal garnet]

I know that!

[patent night]

Is the best entrance to the ||Crystal Cave place down from marguerit’s base?||

[eternal garnet]

best? It's one of two. Whichever you pick, drop a beacon at the entrance

[patent night]

I don’t have a beacon to ||either of marguerit’s base or the Crystal caves entrance||

[eternal garnet]

make them. Make many.

Always carry one. One more reason: if you die, it will rename and drop

[patent night]

I usually rely on memory

[eternal garnet]

BRRR wrong

[patent night]

The lily pads is the COOLEST place in my opinion so I like to keep it as environmentally safe and beautiful as I can. With as little beacons as possible

[eternal garnet]

well you can toggle them on/off. And beacons are cheap

[patent night]

I was thinking about moving my Man Cave there but it’s kind of useless at this point because I feel like I’m getting farther and farther into the game

[patent night]

Is going to the ||Glacial Basin|| required in the game? If so, do you HAVE to go near ice worms?

[eternal garnet]

yes. Yes.

[patent night]

Both yes?

[eternal garnet]

Yes.
Although, I guess, finishing is not required

If you wanna be a chicken!

[patent night]

That’s a little butt. But at least it’s not underwater 😭

When do you get the beacon to the glacial basin

the dock at least

[eternal garnet]

when you go to the dock and walk west a little bit

[patent night]

Which dock

[eternal garnet]

And erm, underwater is a blessing. Because it keeps you from freezing.

[patent night]

When do u get the location to the dock

[eternal garnet]

Phi dock

[patent night]

…

[eternal garnet]

it's kinda north along the coast, has a small radio mast

if you just see a very tall wall of ice, go north

[steel stream]

Well, you could also look at the map you can scan on delta station and try to search alterra bases with that...

[patent night]

Do I have to go through that tunnel thing to get there or no

In the ice?

[viral knot]

alr

not that much tbh

also

[graceful pine]

Where is a good spot for a base, I always struggle finding a base location in subnautica

[safe sun]

These are subjective but I usually decide on a place in this order:

1. Scenery. Making sure the views are nice is crucial.
2. Space. Gotta make sure there's enough space for a proper base.
3. Convenience. Ready access to essential resources is always a plus.

Southern part of the Twisty Bridges, Lillypads/Deep Lillypads, Tree Spires, and Glacial Bay are my preferred biomes.

[chrome cedar]

A functional base should be reasonably central to your travels. A scenic base can be anywhere you find an enjoyable view. Again, very subjective.

[uncut raptor]

ice worms are no concern

get a prawn with grapple and you outrun them

(and can go out of bounds but thats risky)

[patent night]

What’s out of bounds

[patent night]

I just have it in a safe location that is also very cool

[uncut raptor]

past the invisible walls into the flat snow

you can cheat your way past most land bits that way but you may get stuck and loose your prawn or save depending on where youre stuck

[tacit comet]

You can usually grapple on the underside of the terrain if you fall through.

[pliant jetty]

My priorities:
1: The worst possible scenery, I want to make HR Giger uncomfortable
2: as claustrophobic as possible, I want laying out a base to be atrisinal and bespoke just to fit.
3: inconvenience, most aggressive predators, forced to lay all of my own infrastructure and have to dodge said predators regularly.

Other than that samsies as you Bumble.

[tacit comet]

Lol

[tacit thorn]

Try inside of one of lava vents.

[tacit comet]

That is a very small base

Man has a 1 meter base

[tacit thorn]

You wanted clautrophobic

[pliant jetty]

I'm not even exaggerating, that is in my top 3

[tacit comet]

You can’t though.

It’s way to small, not even sure if there’s space inside, the hit box might just block it.

[pliant jetty]

There is one you can stack corridors in

[tacit comet]

It might just function as terrain.

[tacit comet]

A thermal vent?

Or lava geyser?

[pliant jetty]

Like a big lava pit, the ||precursor generator|| is in it

[tacit thorn]

oh, that one would be classy.
I was thinking one of hot spots near delta island, there is a spot with crevice and two lava pools. enough for couple corridors.

[tacit comet]

Oh I though you meant Hydrothermal Vent.

[pliant jetty]

I'd rather have active geysers like jellyshroom in base game had

[tacit thorn]

nah, you can sunbathe on those

[tacit comet]

These nerds.

[pliant jetty]

I don't have my forever home in below zero yet

[tacit comet]

In cave systems underwater?

[tacit comet]

I have a forever home with a forever friend.

[pliant jetty]

It's more broiling

[tacit comet]

I agree, not much tan there.

[pliant jetty]

The animal I vibe with in bz is the lobster thing

[tacit comet]

Rock Puncher

I love the Prawns PDA message

[pliant jetty]

Which is what people call survival games

[tacit comet]

Lmao

[pliant jetty]

Rock/tree puncher

That or the whales while they are in the tank

[chrome cedar]

Forgot I hatched squidshark eggs, containment was full of them. Had to build a bio reactor to put them to use…. 😂

[late niche]

i wish we could put the seatruck in SN

[tacit comet]

I wish the BZ map was bigger so we could have the cyclops.

[late niche]

the devs condemned porting items from game to game on a public mod

[chrome cedar]

Backport everything. Discover a secret passage connecting the two maps. Release it as Subnautica: Alterra Edition

[tacit comet]

@plush anvil Hey I saw that you were looking for Ventgardens.

There's one in the Tree Spires.

[plush anvil]

im not, someone else was and asked in #subnautica-chat

[tacit comet]

Oh ok, sorry then.

[plush anvil]

it's all good!

have a great day!

[tacit comet]

You too!

[plush anvil]

thanks!

[carmine bobcat]

Can u attach || the seatruck with the seatruck bedroom thing? ||

[chrome cedar]

Yes

[viral knot]

Well yeah

That’s its whole purpose

You attach it to sea truck

[magic ridge]

can someone rate my base

[little grove]

4/5

[eternal garnet]

/

[little grove]

Hey can anyone tell me where to make the compartments on the seatruck

[eternal garnet]

mobile vehicle bay. Move them with the top handle

Handle is above the front side

[little grove]

Thank you

[safe sun]

Boi where are your plants

[magic ridge]

outside

[safe sun]

Put some inside. Don't you have plants in your house IRL?

[chrome cedar]

Needs a few pinball machines.

[magic ridge]

i got 1

[pearl knoll]

any advice on where should i build my first base?

[chrome cedar]

First base I generally build something near the life/drop pod. Nothing fancy.

I tend to build small bases as I go, expand one when I figure out where I’m spending more time.

[pearl knoll]

i have a small base only made of compartment just for storage near my drop pod but want to build a base where strategic for mid game

[patent night]

What’s there

[broken badge]

I know there’s an ||ice worm testing area, from early access days|| somewhere outside the normally reachable playable area, but I’ve never visited it lol. I’ve only seen other peoples’ pics of it😂

[vast idol]

You should scan a snow stalker and check its description

[carmine bobcat]

Hoping to get below zero soon cuz it's on discount

[eternal garnet]

soon as in 5 minutes. Nice

[carmine bobcat]

Just finished the game...

||the ending was amazing, I like it more than the first. Some people said this game is a bad sequel but I definitely disagree||

[eternal garnet]

[carmine bobcat]

Subnautica 3 is confirmed. Right?

[eternal garnet]

Not with that name. We don't know

[viral knot]

well yeah the game is under develompent but while it is 3rd version of SN, it probably won't be called SN3

well we dont know

[carmine bobcat]

I didn't mean it will be called subnautica 3. I should've worded better

[cedar ore]

It will take ages for sn 3

Bcs they are rewriting the code

For multiplayer and other reasons

[eternal garnet]

yes, ripping out Unity code and rewriting for Unreal. And new tools

[carmine bobcat]

MULTIPLAYER?

UNRWLA ENGINE??

Unrwla

[eternal garnet]

Multiplayer not confirmed, Unreal 5 is.

[carmine bobcat]

I'm I'm excited for it man

[eternal garnet]

Since early access has been a big positive, we will probably see that again. Sitting in EA for a long time

My own theory there

[carmine bobcat]

Bruh below zero ain't on discount anymore on ps5 god damnit

[eternal garnet]

You missed it, til next time

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah

[astral moth]

Has anything official came out about the fate of Riley from Subnautica and the character from below zero?

[chrome cedar]

Only official things are in the game. So no.

[eternal garnet]

No.
I think Riley made money on talkshows

[chrome cedar]

Riley made the planet safe to land on, he should have negotiated that and made trillions back.

[carmine bobcat]

Is there just 2 or 3 of these || parallele fragement thing in mercury 1 ? ||

[viral knot]

mercury I doesnt exists in BZ

||mercury II however||

[carmine bobcat]

Well yeah what ever ship they have in this game

[viral knot]

yes you can find more than 3

[carmine bobcat]

More then 3 ?

[viral knot]

i believe you need to scan 3 of them

[carmine bobcat]

There are 2 ships right?,

[viral knot]

one ship, three wrecks

[carmine bobcat]

One u find early game and one next to that || old lady ||

The ship is next to these purple volcano?

[viral knot]

yes

other one is in ||lilypads||

[carmine bobcat]

I guess that ship has many entrance then will check it out

[viral knot]

i'd suggest going to ||lilypads mercury II wreck|| you can find three of parallel processing unit

[carmine bobcat]

Not sure what lilypad is

But i think i visited that wreck before

[viral knot]

and a small surprise :)

[carmine bobcat]

Before having my laser cutter

[viral knot]

the biome south-east from delta island

[viral knot]

dont click if you dont want to see map diverted into biomes

i turned everything off except for biomes if you want to see where it is

[grizzled basalt]

I cannot find a window to scan for the life of me. Been to Delta and Phi so far and they wouldn’t let me scan those windows for some reason. Where can I find one to scan?? I miss having windows in my bases lol

[viral knot]

uhhhh

i dont remember scanning windows

||crystals base completed, might add few more stuff later on but this is it for now||

the view

i have an idea

there is one place in ||red crystals|| where you can see both shadow levis

tunnel time

i hear both of them

[carmine bobcat]

Is building a base on top of these || green lily pad || a smart or dumb idea @viral knot

[viral knot]

is that a good place for you? do you need a base there? do you travel around that place/to that place quite a lot?

[carmine bobcat]

Idk for all questions 😂

[viral knot]

lol

[carmine bobcat]

Just traveling along to finish story

Have mini base in starting place

[viral knot]

i think base in lilypads wouldnt be a bad idea

[carmine bobcat]

Is there like an optimal / cool place?

[broken badge]

Lilypads is a great location for a base

I don’t build on top of the lilypads myself but I know people have done it to build very nice above/below water bases

[carmine bobcat]

Do i need just one || parallel processing thing || ?

[broken badge]

You scan 3 of them in order to build the ||TOM||

[chrome cedar]

I remember scanning a window, not sure now where it was though... Possibly Zero?

[lime grove]

||me||

[patent night]

Why does it look like it’s graduating high school

[viral knot]

bros graduating his whole life🗿

[grizzled basalt]

Hmmm I’ll check it out, thanks!

[eternal garnet]

the 120m deep spot in twisty bridges with the large o2 tank has a window

[chrome cedar]

Oh yeah, forgot about that one.

I'm at the end of my second playthrough. ||Don't want to build Al-An's body. || I've gotten used to having some dialog going.

[grizzled basalt]

Huh I haven’t found that yet. I’ll have to look around, thanks!

[eternal garnet]

in twisty canyon, small building. exactly 120m

[chrome cedar]

I need to check the wiki, I don't think I ever came up with all of them.

Yeah, I don't have all of them... Something to do tonight. 😉

[dusky lake]

||After building Alans body do the leviathans respawn 💀 ||

[eternal garnet]

no. Assuming you removed them

[forest ibex]

Ok normal subnatica is easy but this one is hard

[eternal garnet]

no it isn't harder

[mellow geode]

both games are quite easy once you've played enough to know what you need to do tbh

[warped hinge]

By the way, I HATE the land portions of Below Zero. They're pretty enough I guess, but they're mostly empty labyrinths that mostly look the same and if that wasn't enough, half the time you can't see 2 feet in front of you thanks to the weather. Worst of all, that's all not including the fact that you have no minimap. That's fine for the underwater sections, but in a land labyrinth, far from the sea and with weather that's constantly destroying your visibility in an already ultra confusing maze, it is so easy to get turned around and hopelessly lost. An appropriate song to listen to while you're navigating the land biomes is Circles by Post Malone, because you WILL be running in circles, particularly in the Glacial Basin and Arctic Spires.

Worst level design ever, and with none of the tools you need to help you navigate it, either. If I were a level design teacher, I'd give the land biomes in this game a F grade.

[junior skiff]

that is a you problem, the only time i got lost was the first time i explored there and since then i have never had issues navigating it

[warped hinge]

Don't get me wrong, I can blunder around and find what I need just fine, there's a map that shows the ideal route through the Basin, but all the hidden side content and stuff is not only hard to get to, but when you find it, it's very hard to find your way back again.

[junior skiff]

not for me, and i havent really seen anyone else who has a big problem with it. Besides i never even used that map before to help me

[warped hinge]

Also, by the way, it's called the Basin for a reason. The Eye Jelly narrow route from Hell to an interior "basin" dock still exists, but thankfully, they added a more accessible route in.

[junior skiff]

i just think it would be a little harsh to say its the worst level deign ever when you are having issues that other people dont have

[mellow geode]

skill issue™️

[chrome cedar]

Weather can certainly be an issue. But you need to explore and find navigation markers for reference. A scanner room and beacons are always helpful.

[spring gate]

There's a reason you aren't a level design teacher

It's cause you can't tell what good level design is 💀

Like brother your meant to feel like your surviving with Robin and exploring and getting lost is just part of the experience

You a loser lil bro 🗿

Not to mention that their are multiple things you could've done to help yourself if you were stuck in that situation

[junior skiff]

chill

[ancient acorn]

Arctic spire’s design needs more work, but otherwise I have no issues with any of the biomes.

[ancient acorn]

I don’t like the fact that its literally just a maze, but I love Below Zero regardless. I agree with the arctic spires part.

[warped hinge]

Stupid weather cycle being sped up and the Weather Station being cut. The Weather station would have made dealing with weather a LOT easier. I wish they would have kept the original weather cycling speed and the calmer weathers, both of which were changed and cut respectively.

[warped hinge]

Spires is annoying because you are simultaneously both lost out of your mind, and thanks to how the biome is shaped, bound to come across the points of interest sooner or later, even while completely and utterly lost, but in between the interest points, you're quite often going in circles time and again. It is so annoying. Also, the Ice Worm is a stupid and annoying mechanic, that feels unfinished, robotic, and immersion-breaking (but I repeat myself. A creature in a game that feels like exactly what it is, a computer program masquerading as a creature, is seriously immersion breaking).

[carmine bobcat]

Just completed game, insane game devs, so so good, thanks for creating such a masterpiece!

[still marten]

||wait until Leviathan was in the first subnautica where was it and the other Leviathan that's dead from thousands of years ago where's that now in second one||

[spring gate]

My bad 😭

[tardy ingot]

how do i use the goal and goalreset commands for the following: ||i transferred alan into his body, and now i have the phase gate nav marker. but i remembered that i still need alan inside my head so i can get the pda entries for the remaining actions like for finding the leviathan. ||
and yes, the story command does nothing to reset the unwanted progress i made. ||tried it out, but the fabricator just made an invisible body, hinting that alan is still at the gate and not in my head||

also, is there a way to delete pda dialogue entries?

[carmine bobcat]

Literally a you problem. Maybe arctic spires has bad design BUT not knowing where to go while hearing ||ice worm|| screams was definitely an amazing experience for me

[hearty sparrow]

I actually wonder
Do subnautica and subnautica below zero happen at the same time?
Or is below zero a sequel?

[grave veldt]

Below Zero takes place two years after the events of Subnautica

[lime grove]

below zero happens after SN1

[hearty sparrow]

Ohhh
Okay

[grizzled basalt]

I loved my first time ||running for my life from the ice worm|| last night.

[carmine bobcat]

I love the feeling when ||you're running away from some giant thing chasing you. Happened to me a lot in the first game with sea dragon||

[junior skiff]

ima be honest ||ice worms arent even scary because as long as you dont sit still they never get to you||

[grizzled basalt]

Yessss it’s the best. Literally running and telling myself not to look back over and over. I kind of wish they added a look back button in the game for when you’re getting chased.

[grizzled basalt]

I learned this the hard way hiding in a cave 😂

[carmine bobcat]

The ||screams are enough honestly. Also them popping out of nowhere to eat a snow stalker||

[carmine bobcat]

I guess I'm insanely lucky because i was standing in a cave for a while and nothing happened to me. Only heard screams

How do they fit in the cave

[junior skiff]

in some caves ||the ice worm actually appears above the cave rather than inside it so that is probably what happened||

[carmine bobcat]

Oh

[grizzled basalt]

I was standing in a pretty big cave in the basin when ||the ice worm shout out of the wall directly behind me|| and gave me a kiss on the back of my head.

[severe rune]

hmm, Yes & no

[junior skiff]

it really isnt

it is way easier

[eternal garnet]

SN also has very little guidance where to go for story. You are meant to explore to solve it. Both games

[junior skiff]

yeah BZ gives a lot more direction

[warped hinge]

Well, basic level design 101 is either make sure any vehicle that can be used in the level is balanced for the level, or disallow it by some manner. The Prawn Suit is scarily overpowered for the land biomes, the only threats of Snow Stalkers and Ice Worms are pretty useless against it. Snow Stalkers are only good against the player on foot, not even on the garbage Snow Fox, while the Ice Worm has significant trouble even being summoned by the Prawn Suit, and with a grappling arm the Prawn Suit can clear an area that it does summon a Ice Worm long before the Ice Worm’s animations have a chance to play.

[elfin ivy]

wait the whole story game got rewriten?

[chrome cedar]

Since there are large mineral deposits on land that need the drill arm to collect, the level was certainly designed with the prawn in mind.

[warped hinge]

Yup, original head story writer for BZ got fired and they hastily threw together what scraps they could from already developed content.

[elfin ivy]

i was watching sum old bz content cuz i finished and i just noticed something else

the story seemed really cool tbh

whyd he get fired

[warped hinge]

Not in the Basin. The Spires yes, but the Ice Worm evidently did not get checked to make sure that it functioned correctly for, and posed a significant threat to, the Prawn Suit. Neither are true. Half the time the Prawn’s movement continuously on the floor of the biome doesn’t spawn it anyways, and even when it does, it’s a bit of a case of “catch me if you can, I’m the gingerbread man.” The Ice Worm’s animations are too sluggish, the grappling arm allows the Prawn to get out of dodge too fast.

Also, that’s not even accounting for the new Sprinting feature of the Prawn Suit, which makes that previous statement even more true!

[tacit comet]

You’re operating on the assumption that the Subnautica devs weren’t aware of this.

I find it extremely difficult to believe that this was not a known “issue”.

[frigid depot]

Am I the only one who likes BZ better than the original subnautica

[tacit comet]

I believe it was left in on purpose.

[warped hinge]

Whether they know this or not doesn’t change the fact that it’s an issue, and completely nullifies the entire biome.

[tacit comet]

No, I personally prefer the original, but people have different opinions, you do you.

[tacit comet]

That’s your opinion, I find it perfectly fine.

[chrome cedar]

I never use the grappling arm.

[frigid depot]

Yeah overall I think subnautica is a better game but I enjoy playing below zero better if that makes sense

[tacit comet]

I did too, because it’s more Subnautica that I haven’t explored yet.

I agree, I don’t get why BZ gets a lot of hate, granted I like the first one better, but that doesn’t mean BZ isn’t good.

It’s just hard to beat SN1

[frigid depot]

I really like the story aspect of below zero. The original is just straight forward: escape the planet

[tacit comet]

I find it the other way around personally, you don’t know what you have to do, and keep uncovering more secrets.

[chrome cedar]

Both are great, just in different ways.

[tacit comet]

BZ is just, find out about your sister.

[frigid depot]

Exactly. I feel like it was so much easier to beat bz, which was a bummer for me. Late game below zero was, in my opinion, kind of a joke in terms of resource farming. Like once I got my depth modules I went down to the deepest biomes and didn’t even need to farm anything unlike the original where I needed to farm lots of resources

Maybe it’s different for other people but for me that’s how it was

I meant deepest* biomes

[warped hinge]

I like the Jukebox, the new Ion Tech, the Mercury II and the idea of the Sea Truck. I hate the lack of map size, uninteresting Leviathans, the hodgepodge story, the constant training wheels and hand-holding, and the terrible execution of the Sea Truck. I mean, darn, if they could at LEAST get that rear view mirror to work again, or get some kind of cameras like the Cyclops, it would be a LOT easier to navigate the Sea Truck through the tight caves of BZ.

[elfin ivy]

i played bz first but subnautica is way better, it has much more biomes, bigger story and u can go much much deeper, theres just more to it. bz has cool graphics tho and is cleaner

[frigid depot]

I agree with all of those and obviously this is different for most people but I like that the leviathans aren’t really scary. I get scared pretty easily and maybe that’s a reason I like BZ better

[tacit comet]

I think the levis are really cool actually.

[elfin ivy]

ngl getting scared and jumped are a huge part of subnautica

[tacit comet]

Other than the Chelicerate , cool design, but executed poorly.

[elfin ivy]

bz leviathjans r weak and subnautica leviathans r very scary

[warped hinge]

Not only are they not scary, they’re also annoyingly bland and both have a copy-pasted grab attack. Even the Squidshark has an annoying grab attack.

[tacit comet]

The Shadow Levi and Ice Worm are really cool, just not incredibly dangerous.

[frigid depot]

But for me, it was way easier to avoid leviathans in the original subnautica. In below zero I feel like i never really knew where they were, especially the chelicerate s

[tacit comet]

Annoying doesn’t mean bad.

[frigid depot]

Like in my subnautica play through I never encountered a reaper

[warped hinge]

I feel like Indiana Jones. “Grab attacks, why does it always have to be grab attacks!”

[elfin ivy]

tahts crazy lucky

[tacit comet]

Lol

[frigid depot]

Yeah like the shadow leviathan is impossible to avoid

[frigid depot]

Not really

[tacit comet]

Is actually understandable if you don’t go anywhere weird.

[elfin ivy]

i got a pda message saying there r multiple leviathans in area, r u sure u wanna do tis?

[frigid depot]

It was easy to know where they were

[tacit comet]

Then you leave.

[elfin ivy]

and also the sea emperor.

[chrome cedar]

I have hardly any trouble navigating with the sea truck, and I have 5 storage modules, fabricator, and docking module with the prawn attached.

[frigid depot]

But overall below zero is definitely over hated. I don’t think as an overall game it is as good as subnautica but it’s closer than most would think. I enjoyed my below zero experience more mainly because of the story

[frigid depot]

Yeah exactly idk what people talking about, I found the sea truck also easy to navigate

[elfin ivy]

i enjoted bz cus its clean, the story is too easy to complete and is short

[chrome cedar]

A larger map definitely would have been nice.

[elfin ivy]

the whole margs story line is optional

[chrome cedar]

So is curing the frozen beast.

[frigid depot]

But the story being easy to complete isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I do agree it is shorter than the original game

[elfin ivy]

styory short means u complete it faster

when u conmplete it faster theres nothing rly to do u just get bored

[frigid depot]

I know that’s why I said i agree it is shorter. The story being easy isn’t always a bad thing

[warped hinge]

Show-off, LOL. I would also appreciate if every time, EVERY time, I gave a stray vine a gentle love tap that did no damage, didn’t generate a LOUD glass-breaking sound.

[frigid depot]

I definitely was never bored

Unless u beat the game and have done everything you need to do, then being bored in either subnautica game is your fault

[chrome cedar]

Some random banter with AlAn and Robyn would be nice that isn’t story related. So much dead space while exploring that AlAn doesn’t care about.

[elfin ivy]

dont get me wrong bz is an amazing game but i wish there was more to it, i felt kinda unfullfilled when i finished it

subnatuica story is much longer and interesting than bz

[frigid depot]

Your right about this for sure. The ending definitely was not as satisfying as the original, but at least it sets up for a third game

[elfin ivy]

yeah i mean bz is a sequel u cant rly blame them

[chrome cedar]

I get those sounds too, but hardly any damage, if at all. All cured when I dock it next time.

[elfin ivy]

overall 9/10 game ngl fair rating u cant blame me

[chrome cedar]

I almost never have to get the repair tool out for the sea truck.

[elfin ivy]

i was too secure in bz

cant wait for subnautica 3

[chrome cedar]

Agreed…

[elfin ivy]

call me werid but i played bz first then the originlal subnautica (im still completing subnautica)

[chrome cedar]

You’re weird. 😂

[elfin ivy]

heard theres a multiplayer in 3.0 i cant wait

[chrome cedar]

Nothing is confirmed that I know of.

[frigid depot]

Yeah playing bz first would be crazy confusing

Some of the parts of the story would make no sense

[grizzled basalt]

My friend refused to try the first one because “there’s a newer one” lol

So frustrating

[chrome cedar]

It happens.

[elfin ivy]

nah i got along pretty well, gave me a different perspective to the game

[chrome cedar]

Will make playing through BZ again later more enjoyable probably.

[warped hinge]

AL-AN for most of the game, including intense portions: “I sleep.” AL-AN when you scan a random artifact, marked on your map or not: “Ooh ooh ooh! What’s that!? I’ll never talk about that directly, even though I should know full well what it is and what it’s doing there and why, instead, it’s time for ZANY talking about me!” The player: “Literally shut up Al-An, nobody cares. Why couldn’t you commentate on the rare intense moment instead of during these nothingburgers?”

[chrome cedar]

😂

Fair points.

[frigid depot]

I love base building in all games I play like Minecraft, terraria, etc so I loved all the new things to build in BZ

[elfin ivy]

i went minimalistic in bz and kinda made a medium-large base in subnautica

[chrome cedar]

Or maybe he could have said something useful, something like We bio engineered that species, etc, etc, if you toss it a Noot fish it will be your best friend and guard your base.

[frigid depot]

Like having a bathroom in subnautica is awesome 😂

[elfin ivy]

yall want to see the bases?

[frigid depot]

Sure

[elfin ivy]

my base in bz, very minimalistic, just a control room, multiporpise room, moonpool anmd seatruck dock

[warped hinge]

Not to mention, the zany talking about himself usually devolves into cringe, abstract poetry that’s at best at a second or third grade level and treats both the player and a super intelligent brainiac of an alien like they were born yesterday.

[elfin ivy]

i had everything in that 1 multiporpiuse room

wait imma send ma subnautica base too

im jus stuck in lost river

and tis my base in subnautica

very different bases

[chrome cedar]

Both nice.

I tend to stack rooms at my main base for the alien containment. And usually have multiple for when I’m breeding one particular species.

[elfin ivy]

yeah but why

wait u can breed?

[chrome cedar]

Yes. I breed a bunch then release them outside my base for better scenery.

[wild rapids]

Are there only 2 ||prawn fragments at outpost zero||

[elfin ivy]

i literally put random cool creatures inside the alien containment 💀

[chrome cedar]

In SN I had large swarms of some of the prettier fish around my base. In BZ, I’ve got a large batch of Pengwings going.

[chrome cedar]

I think that’s right.

[wild rapids]

Ok ty

[chrome cedar]

More at ||Koppa|| when you get there. Plus an upgrade.

[wild rapids]

Is there 2 there aswell

[chrome cedar]

I’m not crazy about how that worked in BZ, when you’ve got an entire thing in front of you, but you can only scan a fragment.

[tacit comet]

I can’t help but notice you have not one, but two power cell chargers.

[wild rapids]

Heading there next

[elfin ivy]

yes

[tacit comet]

The question is why?

[chrome cedar]

Not sure, but at least one I know.

[tacit comet]

You need about 0.

[elfin ivy]

i dont have kyanite yet

[tacit comet]

?

You can just swap out the power cells in the Prawn.

[elfin ivy]

its a subnautica base not bz

[tacit comet]

Ik

Prawn is in both.

[elfin ivy]

yes

[chrome cedar]

Nothing against having multiple chargers. I’ve done that before.

[elfin ivy]

i use moonpool for seatruck and prawn as u see i got 2 moonpools, in bz i got a moonpool and a seatruck dock

[tacit comet]

I take it personally, lmao.

Cool

[elfin ivy]

but in subnautica cyclops takes alot of power

[chrome cedar]

LoL

[elfin ivy]

when leviarthan atacks me in subnautica i need like 10 power to defend myself

so i need dem chargers

[chrome cedar]

SN I charge mine in the LZ, but have chargers in my base still.

[wild rapids]

Do you think i could get through it with high capacity tank, seaglide and rebreather

[chrome cedar]

And I always have supplies to build a base with a charger anywhere I go, usually.

[elfin ivy]

in subnautica ||cyclops is a portable base||

[chrome cedar]

It’s hard getting to the bottom and back and doing too much. But you can scout around some and get back to the entrance. If your sea truck is parked there.

I will often put a small base halfway down with bio power and have a plant growing, makes a good stopping point for air.

[chrome cedar]

True, but you still need to make sure you can keep it charged.

Before the thermal upgrade, you need chargers.

[tacit comet]

Prawn will just charge it

If you dock the prawn, and swap out the cells, you can charge it fine

A Prawn will charge two cells faster, anyways.

[wild rapids]

Managed to get both the prawn and its drill

Got out with plenty of o2 to spare

[tacit comet]

[chrome cedar]

Winning!

[chrome cedar]

Oh, my base halfway down the mine I also put a fabricator in, helps condense down the items I’m bringing back up, saves space, fewer trips.

[tacit comet]

Yeah, with the Recylotron, saving space is a lot easier.

[chrome cedar]

Totally. Really wish that would have been ported over to SN.

[tacit comet]

Yeah.

[tacit thorn]

Any math majors here?
If I want a full sphere coverage for scanners, what is the maximum distance I can build them from each other?
They have range of 500m at full upgrade, and I suppose its a sphere?

1. On a flat plane, I would just arrange them in triangle (hexagonal) grid.
   Knowing that hexagons are made from eqaliteral triangles, I just need to find the triangle height (a * sqrt(3) /2), and since there are two triangles, its just [scanner range] * sqrt(3) -> ~ 866m
2. In a 3d plane, I need to account for "missing" cone between the 3 flat scanners, so can put the 4th one at most R from the point all remaining scanners meet. the distance to each scanner to that point is conveniently also R, so the final distance from one scanner to another creates a half-square triangle, and final distance is sqrt(2) * R -> ~ 707m

Does this sound correct?

[chrome cedar]

The range definitely seems spherical in my experience. Your drawing looks good, and I think your distance is pretty close, but not sure on the formula to be sure. Trig and I never got along.

Problem is that you’re never going to be able to place them exactly at various depths, so you’d need to have them a bit closer in general. And beacons on each one to find them later. And each will need their own power, and deeper ones that may be a challenge unless you run bio and you’re ok with power running out.

[viral knot]

holy.

[steel stream]

Wouldn't it be like tetrahedron, and basically each of the 4 scanners have equal distance to each other?

[raven vapor]

Serious question: Should I get Below Zero? I already played Subnautica "1" and wanted to know if I should even play Below Zero for the lore or any content. I have to run the game with resolution mods to even run the game at 20-30 fps for the first game. Is Below Zero more taxing on low end laptops compared to the first game or no? Is it better or does it have better or more content?

[tacit comet]

Resolution should be little better iirc. I would play it. The general response is that it isn’t as good as SN1, but I find that it’s still a new, refreshing dive into 4546B, and is still full of mysteries to uncover.

[carmine bobcat]

Bruh wtf

The game goes from a farming simulator to a hardcore survival game when u meet || that shadow leviathen in that purple crystal place its first leviathen ive encoutered after 10 hours of game play ||

|| is there anything to do in crystal looking place apart from getting ressources? Like an alien place or something ||

[eternal garnet]

yes, two locations

[pseudo hare]

yes, the red crystal cave to do soomething, i wont tell you, and another cave to a temple, i still wont tell you because it wll ruin the fun.

[carmine bobcat]

@pseudo hare i tooka risk with just my 600 m seatruck and dived solo with my ultra tank capcity down to 830 and i found || the architect body thing ||

Is the other thing even deeper?

[pseudo hare]

you found the entrace to a cave? or the red crystals things?

[carmine bobcat]

U mean purple? If purple yes i found it and i scanned the architect thing

[pseudo hare]

no. red.

[eternal garnet]

good, good. Yes, it's deeper. You don't need it until you have 3 body parts.

[pseudo hare]

if you found the cave entrace with purple/blue crystals, then you found the last temple

[carmine bobcat]

Lets hope i can go up to my seatruck

Without dieing

[eternal garnet]

you can upgrade it now, I think

[carmine bobcat]

I need the modification thing

I dont have my seatruck module with me

[pseudo hare]

after you found all the 3 parts, and you have the items to craft them, you will find a exit to that cave with a open space, and from that go straight till you see a red crystal cave, it is supposed to be on your right. be AWARE! there will be another shadow leviathan there.

[carmine bobcat]

And game ends?

[eternal garnet]

it does not.

Matei spills all the goods there

[pseudo hare]

i cant tell you, but you will find ouy. ( you are very very close)

[carmine bobcat]

Ok hope there is more to it cause i didnt see a single coool looking creature yet

Apart from shadow leviathen

[pseudo hare]

not really. i got stuck in that cave, without knowing what to do. also i didnt told anything about the story or smth, beside the fact that cave was the last temple.

[eternal garnet]

the coolest creature is small-ish

[carmine bobcat]

Sea monkey? Whale?

[pseudo hare]

there are, but i wont tell you... + they arent as horror as subnautica was

[pseudo hare]

wont tell you

[eternal garnet]

no. it is RGB upgraded like a PC

me neither

[carmine bobcat]

I realy s3

[pseudo hare]

😊 💀

[carmine bobcat]

Wil be more like s1

Less land

More water depth

[eternal garnet]

oh you are talking next game now. Circa 2025

(We don't know when)

[pseudo hare]

me too... bz was kinda boring... the map was too small, too much land

[pseudo hare]

i cant wait to see the graphics..... bet my pc will catch on fire

if it uses a v5 engine im done

[eternal garnet]

UE5 is very, very well optimized

you don't even have to do any work for that to happen (I think)

[tiny tide]

I actually wish there was more land but also more, much more ocean.

[deep gazelle]

||Warning. Entering ecological dead zone. The prospect for survival is fast approaching zero.||

[frigid depot]

Question. Could you use the prawn suit grapple arm and speed boost to get across the bridge

I’m not gonna try just curious

[dusty halo]

anyone tryna play multiplayer wit me

[exotic path]

They have a multiplayer mod for below zero?

[broken badge]

I think they’re working on one, but there isn’t one available currently

[exotic path]

Oh

[dusty halo]

its in development

[exotic path]

I agree with this but below zero was still a pretty good game. (I platinumed it on ps4) tho the story could have been better

[dusty halo]

i dmed you if you want to try the mod

[exotic path]

I have below zero on ps4 so i cant get mods

I would need to get it on PC

[dusty halo]

oh ok

[chrome cedar]

I heard here a bit ago someone had done a speed run of BZ in 30 minutes. I just played for an hour and barely had a small base going and only had the sea glide as my main transport so far…

[trail torrent]

i dont think i would have nearly enough time to get the items needed to explore everything and then craft everything

[chrome cedar]

I wrote a list of the main things I’d need. But by the time I got a few tools together, scanned a fabricator, then back to the pod to make one, I had almost an hour into it. Going to try again though and see what I could do.

[frigid depot]

Has anybody here totally completed the pda in below zero or the original game

That’s what I’m trying to do in BZ. Hardest thing to do right now is scanning the Chelicerate, unless there is a separate scan for the void chelicerate- is there?

[sacred echo]

Was that ||unknown woman Marg Maida??||

[steel stream]

With snowfox and jump module you can cross the bridge without repairing it, but since the materials needed for hydraulic fluid are quite common, I don't see much point in not repairing it...

[vocal dove]

Why did Subnautica pick out the strangest ending for BZ? I know there was one being made where you were stopped by an Alteria war ship.

[carmine bobcat]

So i just || made the architect body and met him at portal and told me to follow him ... i already cured the lev and met marguerite 3/4 times anything else i could do before going with him? ||

[eternal garnet]

you can load the save after the end

[carmine bobcat]

Yeah but is there anything else to do ?

[eternal garnet]

probably not

[unkempt granite]

What's the best use for my first ion cubes?

[eternal garnet]

ion battery for seaglide

one ion power cell for the truck

If you don't have these recipes, I believe the solution is to scan more artifacts

[unkempt granite]

Good ideas. 👍 Thanks. 🙂

[frigid depot]

||who blew up omega lab, was it sam or Marguerit||

[eternal garnet]

Marge

"it'll be fun"

[unkempt granite]

Is there any way to access the upgrade panel of a seatruck docked in a seatruck dock?

[proven mortar]

can someone help me i dont know what to do in the story and i just returned playing after a long time

[sacred echo]

I just started

I'm trying to find materials

I can't find table coral or gel sacks

Or the damn habitat builder

[eternal garnet]

Save often. Explore everything. This game is about exploration. Sea monkeys may annoy you a lot; just hide your tool (PC: press E). Bring a beacon everywhere. New beacon feature: if you have one and die, it will rename and drop.
The air bladder is now really good. Pin recipes you plan to make.
Have fun. Spoiler free starter guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-GhqzEfMOA

[proven mortar]

no

im beyond the start

i have my snowfox and everything

but alan makes me go to places

but idk what to do or how to

[eternal garnet]

table coral: twisty bridges canyon, 50-100m down. Builder tool: same, 120m exactly by a little building. Gel sacks, deep twisty, below 300m. You can swim, there are many o2 plants. But you probably need rebreather

[sacred echo]

Thank you so much

It was annoying me that the habitat builder is so hard to find, I really need it

[eternal garnet]

The places he points out have a 2nd motive, to make you explore nearby. Do this. Drop beacons

[proven mortar]

wdym

[eternal garnet]

Another important thing in that spot too

[proven mortar]

can i just send u a photo of what stage im at

[eternal garnet]

just explore the region the artifacts are in

[proven mortar]

i have and he just gives me more

and some places i go to but i cant find the artifact/entrance to it

[sacred echo]

I'm not certain on biome names, is that the one with all the coral bridges?

[eternal garnet]

yes. Your pod is in the north bit of it

[proven mortar]

how do ik if ive been to an artifact or not

[eternal garnet]

that is an issue. I change color (and turn off) to the beacons when I visit

[sacred echo]

Ahh alright, thanks

[proven mortar]

if it has a yellow plus next to it does it mean i havent visited it

[somber canopy]

guys question is subnautica 3 cancelled?
\

[eternal garnet]

If you hear a distress call, make a note to find the source

[sacred echo]

I just wanted to make a computer chip, table coral was never this hard to find in sub 1