below-zero-chat

[frosty bay]

I think it being a spoiler went out the window when they added it as an emoji to the server lol

[open lintel]

Honestly itd to fun to let that person figure it out

I like figuring out stuff by myself and going in fully blind

By blind i ofc mean blindfolded /j

[novel gale]

Yes i regret beating sn 1 and bz with guides and stuff

[frosty bay]

Of course, of course

[novel gale]

Takes out a part of the experience

Im trying to learn from my mistakes and beating games by not searching up anything

So i get the intended experience

[open lintel]

When i was going to the lifepod 19 i almost exploded, i went there at night and its pitch black and i was horrified that something big will just come at me

[open lintel]

I agree

[novel gale]

Thats a thing i would like to experience😭

[ebon monolith]

im prob gonna go through below zero blind

[novel gale]

You should

[open lintel]

When i heard a reefback i remember i just paused the game and came back in 15 minutes or so 😭

[ebon monolith]

i cant wait to encounter a shadow leviathan

[novel gale]

Its not even a scary sound it literally sounds like a moo😭

[open lintel]

Hey i tell you it sounds HUGE

[novel gale]

By knowing what a ||shadow leviathan|| is you clearly arent going in blind

[ebon monolith]

bro reefback sounded like a HUGE CREATURE

[novel gale]

Big moo

[ebon monolith]

welp

[carmine bobcat]

I can definitely wait

[open lintel]

I bet i could do voice acting for the reefback

[novel gale]

Just moo as deep as possible

[open lintel]

And then put it in slow mode

We do have a newbie here, so im just gonna spoiler major bz stuff y' know

||the mining site||...

[novel gale]

Ye

[novel gale]

Vro thats not even that big a spoiler🥀

[open lintel]

but its a place :(

Idk it felt eerie but it was kinda smol

[novel gale]

Ye

But not being to go in with a seatruck was so stressful

[open lintel]

The seaglide speed nerf

[novel gale]

Like WHERE IS OXYGEN

[carmine bobcat]

I died like 5 times because I didn't have rebreather 😃

[open lintel]

😂

[carmine bobcat]

but got the ||artifact||

so

[open lintel]

Sounds like a great experience to me

[novel gale]

I havent been close to dying there but it still feels stressful😭

[open lintel]

Idk about yall but ive been stressing in that one grassy plateaus wreck

[novel gale]

Near 17?

[open lintel]

Yes

[novel gale]

Ye thats awful

[open lintel]

Lack of rebreather really made that scary

Was it below 100m?

I cant remember 😭

If not, blame the vents they were horrible

[novel gale]

Uhh probably around 70(im talking about the tip)

[open lintel]

Ah, so it did most likely go under 100m

[novel gale]

Idk this is off of memory

[open lintel]

I died in it like actually

[novel gale]

And memory is pretty unreliable

[novel gale]

Ive been close to

[open lintel]

Anyways, good night fellas!

[carmine bobcat]

nighty night

[novel gale]

Good night

[azure drum]

all of my lockers are full of penglings

[charred sonnet]

Did the patch change the ||Lilypaddler effect||? I feel like it used to make you ||swim in a random direction||, but the last couple of times I’ve been affected this hasn’t seemed to happen.

[azure drum]

how do i find the mvb

[fair sonnet]

Move them to a fridge

[charred sonnet]

It’s not the trouble with tribbles but a problem with penglings.

[broken badge]

If you didn’t find it already, check in the creepvine forest caves. Also some seabed areas in deeper ares of Twisty Bridges (but not all the way into Deep Twisty Bridges)

[jaunty raft]

Hi

[fair sonnet]

Hi

[jaunty raft]

uuh that was fast

[azure drum]

i got the mvb and seatruck frags but where do i find any leviathans

[modest niche]

Does the horsepower upgrade increase speed, or just lower the amount of speed lost when using multiple modules?

[bold monolith]

The latter.

[modest niche]

darn, I wanna go zoom

[toxic ocean]

Afterburner makes you go faster for a short period of time

Horsepower is still good tho, you can carry 3 modules with only a 3% speed decrease

[steel stream]

Also seatruck has slots for 4 upgrades and it has 4 different upgrade modules available...

(So you don't lose a slot for using horsepower)

[charred sonnet]

Do they stack? Could you have multiple afterburner modules and go twice as fast?

[narrow depot]

guys, I had a thought

yk how in below zero, there's a jukebox?

what about if you had a hud chip which u could create that'd work like the speakers u could put in ur base?

like, say for if u went out in ur seatruck and went exploring phi robotics area, you could have music playing while u explored on the snowfox

[narrow depot]

from what I know, no it can't

[modest niche]

do you guys find the quantum locker useful? like what do you use it for

[toxic ocean]

Moving materials between bases

Now I keep one in my seatruck to cheat for extra storage slots

It takes up a 2x2 square but has 4x4 storage, and you can pick it up while it has stuff

[ivory lagoon]

Keep food

[modest niche]

Like yeah sure, but I feel like there's gotta be some important use cases for it.
I was thinking maybe just having it be like an actual emergency kit, keep water, food, batteries, medkits

[ivory lagoon]

So that you don’t have problems in middle of crystal zone

[ivory lagoon]

Yea

[modest niche]

but I was also thinking, you could probably fit all the materials for a scanner room and maybe even like a bioreactor + other room, so it's effectively a portable scanner

pretty sure every biome has a source of bioreactor fuel

[ivory lagoon]

Take ressource from where you are

Like if your full

Lot of use

[modest niche]

what's faster, the sea truck with no modules, or the seaglide

[narrow depot]

No module seatruck

If U play on pc, press F1 and look at your velocity, it'll be higher in the seatruck than swimming with a seaglide

[celest spoke]

f

[charred sonnet]

I’ve started using it to cart all of my tools around. That way I’m never caught short of one, but I keep my inventory open for resources.

[azure drum]

i made all the penglings become fuel

[azure drum]

sea monkeys dont grab the materials they just spawn in their hands

why is the back of my seatruck look so weird

[eternal garnet]

Here can go modules. Little rooms

Find your first two in ||deep twisty below 300m||

[regal vale]

They need to add a sub you can equip to the sea truck

You can upgrade it with better amplifiers you can craft

Imagine pulling up to a leviathan and cranking up some gucci mane and it makes them bug off

[azure drum]

honestly bz feels like an easier subnautica

[regal vale]

it gets so much dislike but i find it fun, subnautica doesnt story tell well and didnt even have a story when it was launched in 2016, only thing i didnt like was that once you crash landed it didnt tell you what to do from there something i think subnautica did better

[charred sonnet]

I dunno, I thought there were a lot of breadcrumbs. First thing Robin says upon crashing is “get to the drop pod.” Then, later, “Delta Station - I should go there” and after a time the beacon for Delta shows up. On your way to Delta, you hear ||the SOS||, and Robin says “I should investigate that.”

I think Subnautica was far less structured, and let you wander about without a specific goal. Which is fine! Sometimes that’s how I want to play, and sometimes I want BZ’s more directed game.

[azure drum]

where do i get modules

[regal vale]

sea monkey nests

bro whatever

go to the ||radio station|| for a lot of scannable base pieces

discord was buggin

[azure drum]

bz feels like an easier subnautica so far

[regal vale]

Yeah cause it has a sense of direction once you get going

Subnautic is all over the place

[hollow belfry]

first time playing below zero and found this sea monkey nest with a bunch of propulsion cannon fragments. is this normal?

[bold monolith]

Yes.

[arctic ledge]

Yes. Its counts as 1 fragment

[fair kelp]

AWEE

[tranquil meteor]

🥺

So cute.
I didn't know till my fifth playthrough that you can put baby Penglings and baby Sea Monkeys in the fish tanks.

It's beyond adorable. I almost exploded into unicorns and heat shaped balloons.

[fair kelp]

UMMM why does repair tool need crystiline sulfur bro

[azure drum]

why not just keep sulfur and crashfish are hard to find

[eternal garnet]

this game only has one kind of sulfur

[azure drum]

How do I easily find sea monkey nests

[novel gale]

Lilypad biome caves

Or kelp forest caves

[azure drum]

went down into a place where the water was purple and this shark thing with a weird mouth is ima scan it

the seatruck sucks

[novel gale]

Ikr

[azure drum]

didnt end well

[novel gale]

I shouldve warned you

[azure drum]

got the scan tho

Want the squidshark scan thing

[final sparrow]

idk if im stupid but i cant get the spy penguin to work 😭

[stoic surge]

You are using the remote to control it, yes?

[final sparrow]

My issue is putting it down it makes a quick noise and then nothing tried looking it uo says it only right click but yeah...

[stoic surge]

So you deploy the pengibot, then use the remote and ... nothing?

[final sparrow]

It wont let me deploy it

I can drop it from my inventory directly but wont let me do nothing with it

[stoic surge]

OH - I think you need to put it on your hotbar, and deploy it from there

[final sparrow]

Ik thats what u tried first but wont let me deploy

I

[stoic surge]

Must be deployed on solid ground [above water]

Won't work in your habitat or under water

[final sparrow]

I been tryna do it next to the lil holes they suposed to go in

Unless the fact i tried to it inside f it or smth

[charred sonnet]

Sometimes, it won’t let you deploy if it’s too close. That’s happened to me a couple times. You can try backing up a pace and trying again.

[tulip mural]

i wanna buy below zero so bad but i spent my money on hitman 3 dlcs

[cloud shell]

You need to place down the pengling. And then use the separately crafted remote to control it

[modest fulcrum]

How do people build large bases in this game? The environment is either vertical or crammed. Could’t find an area wide enough for big bases building like the first game’s grassy plateaus. And I don’t want to build on land

[bold monolith]

You should have space in Lilypads.

[severe onyx]

guys where do i find the blueprints for the high capacity oxygen tank?

[bold monolith]

Twisty Bridges.

[severe onyx]

are you sure? is that rare? i nver find it there

[bold monolith]

It's a databox.

Unless you're talking about the ultra high. In that case you have to find it on the seamonkey nests.

[severe onyx]

no, im talking about the regular high, where is that data box?

[bold monolith]

Near a tube (base wreck) in Twisty Bridges.

[eternal garnet]

depth exactly 120

[toxic ocean]

Yeah scour the twisty bridges for the high cap tank and rebreather

[severe onyx]

ok thanks guys, imma go look

and is there filtered water? like the one with salt and tube coral from the first game?

[steel stream]

There might be some filtered water bottles to be found, but you cannot craft it

[rustic walrus]

anyone can give me sum of house design

[quasi quartz]

Hello fellow subnauts.

You may recognise me, you may not (it literally does not matter).

I bought Subnautica Below Zero, played a bit through and stopped playing as school is starting up again.

Considering playing something (Subnautica) but don't really feel like playing Sub BZ.

I found ||all the abandoned bases, found Marguerite's base||... And that's honestly it.

I did find the ||Mercury II wrecks|| but honestly couldn't be bothered exploring them yet.

My question, if you can really call it that, is it worth going back and trying to finish it.

Whilst I enjoyed what I played (base building improvements, new stuffs, more lore etc) there's some stuff I miss greatly miss (Cyclops/Seamoth) and some stuff that's on a range of "meh" to just bad (Seatruck, arguably the new P.R.A.W.N controls).

For context, I don't know how the game ends but do know how I would start progressing in the ||Marguerite storyline-bit-thingy.||

Side note: ||the Al-An story seems really weak in terms of actual gameplay. "Here go, to this point that's supposedly significant." I haven't found a body part yet so it might honestly be that.||

[rustic walrus]

a thing i can say u just wait for subnautica 2 it will be so good (i hope)

[quasi quartz]

Hopefully yeah. If Sub 2 is good then we'll all be celebrating. It looks good from the trailer at the very least.

[rustic walrus]

yeah

[wraith hull]

But i recommend still playing your world completely.
Id say go explore the Mercury II wreckage and see if Al-An contacts you while your in there.

[eternal garnet]

or rush to the end. it's very cool

[fair kelp]

I have been playing below zero recently

I cant really find a pathway to land

[eternal garnet]

the large land is north-west of delta. Dock by the radio mast there. If you see a very tall ice wall, go north

[gaunt sail]

[tidal river]

[golden narwhal]

i finally bought below zero

[fair kelp]

WHO IS THIS WOMAN

[bold monolith]

We don't know, it says unindentified.

[golden narwhal]

cyclope's mother😍

[steel stream]

You may learn more later during the game...or not 🤷‍♂️

[golden narwhal]

idk why someone dont like below zero

but graphics 😃

[fair kelp]

below zero is peak, we are just brainwashed

[golden narwhal]

hehe

[steel stream]

Looking at rating/reviews in Steam it still seems to be considered a good game🤷‍♂️

[golden narwhal]

yes

but many people on TikTok in Russia complain about it

for example

small map, ugly transport

but i idk

[steel stream]

Many people complain about it in many places, including this discord server

[fair kelp]

how to use thermos?

[golden narwhal]

In below zero thermos?

[fair kelp]

yh

[golden narwhal]

:0

[grand haven]

||You need to fill it up in a coffee machine||

[golden narwhal]

I think to pour water in there and warm up

[fair kelp]

oh.... so no water

[grand haven]

Yea

[golden narwhal]

new crafting sound little strange, but okay

🤨

hihi

[golden narwhal]

WOOW

oops sorry guys i forgot to spoiler

[bold monolith]

You don't have to spoil this.

[golden narwhal]

oh fine

[bold monolith]

You could have used spoiler tags for this though.

As it's story related.

[golden narwhal]

oop

||delta station||😃

[golden narwhal]

WHAT IS THAT

[steel stream]

I think your pda mentions something when you approach it the first time

[golden narwhal]

ye

||Mercury 2||

BUT ITS SO BIG

[steel stream]

It's actually even bigger than you think (hint by reading the pda message carefully...)

[twilit geyser]

I can’t wait until he gets the jumpscare

[golden narwhal]

😧

where can I get gel pouches guys

[eternal garnet]

deep twisty bridges, deep purple vents, other deep biomes

[golden narwhal]

thx

[eternal garnet]

you can farm them

[golden narwhal]

w h o t

[eternal garnet]

you found secret ride mode

[severe onyx]

yo guys, i finhsed sub 1, should i bother finishing sub bz?

are argentite outcrops rare?

[next current]

No.

[severe onyx]

but i cant find any, where are they?

[next current]

Go to the Thermal Spires.

That or the kelp caves.

[golden narwhal]

i found ||alien base||, when i tryed to get diamond

[fair kelp]

how do I get the habitat builder?

[steel stream]

You scan it. Can be found in several places, earliest ones to come across are probably ||i corridor in twisty bridges canyon and Delta station||

[fair kelp]

||is delta station the place where I meet margaret||

[fair kelp]

is delta station good for a base location

[steel stream]

Building near delta dock is quite popular base location: central, possibility to use thermal power, enough space

[fair kelp]

Wildlife in this planet, is a bit grabby

[novel gale]

Yes

[severe onyx]

ok i'll try

is it harder than sub 1?

[eternal garnet]

it's a little easier

[eternal garnet]

They change, in a nice way, when you start the proper story

[severe onyx]

i gues i'll get used to the new environment

[fair kelp]

too late, I did mass murder of their species aldready

[eternal garnet]

go find that distress call

[novel gale]

B-b-but they gift you titanium

[fair kelp]

dont care, kill them all

[eternal garnet]

You can't. They respawn

[novel gale]

[fair kelp]

wait.... pengling... THE PENGLING GAVE ME 3 TITANIUM

Pengling 1, Monkey 0

also um... is there a mobile vehicle bay?

[eternal garnet]

there we go. You can even control what they give you. Pins!

[novel gale]

They can gift you other stuff

[eternal garnet]

yes, look for these in the sand and in nests. Scan everyh nest!

[heady urchin]

just bought below zero

why is there a thunderstorm

great now its a snowstorm

[rustic walrus]

i need help to find the frozen leviathan

😠

[steel stream]

Scan the map in phi robotics and try to find the purple tree area shown in the map

[heady urchin]

i am now matpat

[rustic walrus]

thanks

[heady urchin]

and i declare that the pengiuns are leviathans

[severe onyx]

how do i activate commands on sub bz pc?

[novel gale]

Not the right channel bud

[trim dragon]

GLHF I always get lost there

[ripe ruin]

Can someone help me find the deep purple jets?

[toxic ocean]

There is a small mercury II wreck on top of the entrance.

[eternal garnet]

if you use commands and save after, achievements stop coming for this save, forever
Press shift-enter to open commandline first time

[trim dragon]

Nope, I always get lost in BZ for some reason

[toxic ocean]

BZ is too small to get lost in

My only difficulty is finding fragments in the lilypad caves

[fair kelp]

where can I find mobile vehicle bay fragment

[eternal garnet]

in twisty bridges, in the sand and in monkey nests
#below-zero-chat message

@fair kelp

[severe condor]

How to get habitat builder pls help

[eternal garnet]

Go here, depth 120, twisty bridges

[severe condor]

Got it thanks

[toxic ocean]

it's also available at delta station

[vital maple]

Oh boy, im gonna go to the crystal caves, surely i wont get absolutely massacred by a creature in the area

[severe onyx]

guys how do i get to hte q59 alien artefact, it,s the one that's between 300 and 600 meters deep under the vents biome where you can find lithium

[grand haven]

Alternatively a builder tool fragment can also be found in ||Delta Station on Delta Island||

[eternal garnet]

you will want the o2 upgrade at my spot

[severe onyx]

please someone respond

[eternal garnet]

it's inside ||Koppa Mining Site||

[severe onyx]

inside what?

oh sorry i didnt read the spoiler

but hwere is the koppa mining site?

[eternal garnet]

brown on the map, entrance depth 150 I think, south-west of delta, not far from shore

[severe onyx]

what do you mean brown on the map?

[eternal garnet]

no map? the wall map was scannable

[severe onyx]

oh yeah right

[eternal garnet]

goes in PDA under info

[golden narwhal]

ALMOST🥶

wait who is this

[heady urchin]

Is snowfox even worth it

to get snowfox u need prawn technically and prawn is already able to go on land and is more durable than snowfox most probably

oh right I need jump jet to even get snowfox 🤡

Or nah idk

[steel stream]

Why would you need prawn to get snowfox? You can explore on foot and use heating food/caves/steam vents to stay warm. Or carry materials to build i compartment and hatch (don't even need power to have warmth in base).

[heady urchin]

what food heats you

because you are saving my life saying that

[steel stream]

Lantern fruit, fevered pepper, coffee (thermos), salad (bit later game thing). Holding a flare gives 5% cold resistance (and no need to worry about snow stalkers)

[heady urchin]

Ok

how to make fevered peeepah

Sorry for asking so much questions but like it's fascinating how much new game mechanics the temperature gives

Or nvm ama google it

Oh right

My sleepy ahh read it as peeper not pepper

Lol

outpost zero for lantern

Oh god there are so much fevered peppers

near the edge

[steel stream]

Fevered pepper plants grow in some, but not all land areas

[heady urchin]

But they do grow on basin

[steel stream]

Yes, and arctic spires

[heady urchin]

so cold suit does give 100% cold resistance?

so i do need seatruck mk1

bruh so cool time for purple vents

[steel stream]

No, maybe 80-90% total. You still cannot stay outside forever

[heady urchin]

ok

thats still good

i now can craft the depth upgrade so thats kinda cool

i need what to craft enameled glass

deep twisty bridges it is

oh right so i need better o2 tanks now

nevermind

yay diamonds

[heady urchin]

bro navigating thru glacial connection is like navigating thru ||lost river||

or prob even worse

bc no landmarks (like that giant tree in LR)

[golden narwhal]

how much? :0

[steel stream]

Yes, ignots need only 5 and not 10 titanium

[vast totem]

This give RPG vibe, if only we got to drink ginger flask/potion lol

[golden narwhal]

guys can i enter that room ?

somehow

[bold monolith]

Not yet.

[golden narwhal]

but i can somewhen

[bold monolith]

Yes after a while Preston will move.

You have to go through the story though.

[golden narwhal]

yay🎉

thx

[toxic ocean]

yes, after you do what she asked

[kindred marlin]

ive been waiting like a hour for below zero to load and its not done

ITS FINALY DONE

[stoic surge]

What platform are you using?

[kindred marlin]

idk

[stoic surge]

oh

[novel gale]

How do you not know

[eternal garnet]

idk is short for sus

[kindred marlin]

stop the cap

well time to kidnap more pinglings

[novel gale]

Pinglings💔

[kindred marlin]

ive got a lot

[novel gale]

You called them pinglings😭

[cloud sigil]

just downloaded, wish me luck

[cloud sigil]

i hate these monkeys.

[toxic ocean]

They get better later

[cloud sigil]

hmm, an hour in, and its way different from the base game

[modest niche]

you got this! :3

best advice I can give is, if you havent played subnautica 1 after its 1.0 patch, as of below zero, the air bladder got massively buffed

it is a lifesaver in the early game

and even mid game, complete game changer

you can comfortably go to like 200m depth and hit 10 seconds of oxygen and just superman yeet yourself to the surface

though be weary of iceburgs

[cloud sigil]

oh i know this!!

i always have it on hand, even with 3 wins under my belt for base game

one thing though....

HOW DO I GET GOLD?!?!

i do have a feeling its with sea monkeys, its just when i gave them my stuff, they just ran off, i expected them to come back with shiney.

[modest niche]

||Calaverite outcrops|| can be found around ||delta island|| which is ||the middle of the map, south and a little west of the lifepod||

[cloud sigil]

im looking at the wiki without spoilers right now, seems my hunch was right

[modest niche]

if you don't mind spoilers and such for the map, I highly recommend this site
https://mapgenie.io/subnautica-below-zero/maps/world

[cloud sigil]

ah but i do! i downloaded it earlier today and im trying for a boind run

[golden narwhal]

furniture, electronics and plumbing shop i think

[golden narwhal]

someone knows where i can find magnetitum

[modest niche]

deep lilypad cave

its gonna be your safest bet

well safest as in danger

youll need to go there regardless to ||get flowering spores to make benzene||

I mean it's only used to make one thing but you kinda need ||the prawn suit grappling arm||

[golden narwhal]

thx

[steel stream]

You can also pin suitable recipe and go to arctic kelp forest or lilypad caves...

[heady urchin]

Magnetite

Is pretty eazy to get in the uh

glacial connection if you don't have the seatruck depth 2 and you don't wanna macro O2 tanks

You just have to search for them in one of the outer cabins of the place where you actually enter the glacial basin

The biome marked as glacial with the green-ish ice spikes

Where out of the main big cabin of connection you have two tunnels to enter it both most prob blocked by jellies

You just ram into their eye part and swim by

It deals you like 5 damage most

[heady urchin]

it will be hidden in a small gap in the wall

There's like four if it isn't randomizer

so enough for two snowfoxes

[golden narwhal]

and how to enter this cave

[bold monolith]

It's a shortcut, it can be opened from the other side.

[golden narwhal]

thx

[north kraken]

It's too cold

[orchid beacon]

Probably because there’s not metal salvage in BZ

[steel shoal]

There are 44 metal salvages

[orchid beacon]

In the starting area?

[steel shoal]

Mercury II wrecks...

But every outcrop has a 50% titanium chance

It's not like Below Zero is lacking titanium, I guess it's just to make people build more stuff. Or maybe it has to do with Recyclotron

Titanium ingots are much more useful in BZ, with the large rooms and modules

[wooden lion]

does someone want to play subnautica bz multiplayer

[stoic surge]

I would love to see the recyclotron backported to the OG ... tho highly unlikely to happen

[steel stream]

I think there's a mod for that

[stoic surge]

Sounds cool, altho I own the Switch version and have no idea how to mod it 🙁

[steel stream]

Yeah, no mods on switch

Or other consoles for that matter...

[steel shoal]

Either way, I don't think there are switch ports for the mods, you'd have to do that yourself

[stoic surge]

It's fine for me, I'm quite happy with BZ and the OG switch versions as they are

[steel shoal]

Vanilla is so good

[steel stream]

Below zero custom mode already offers some options to tweak your game without modding

That would be fun for original game and console players

[stoic surge]

Indeed, I have been playing lately with the carnivore aggression set to zero, so I can just roam and explore

[steel stream]

My son does that too, but still not creative, so need to find blueprints and materials to craft stuff

[stoic surge]

Sounds like a good setting for younger players

[steel shoal]

I like reducing the damage I deal to fishies to 0, so running them over doesn't kill them

[steel stream]

He also changes day-night cycle to always be day so no need to worry about darkness (except in some caves)

[steel shoal]

Meanwhile me changing night time to be as long as day

[stoic surge]

IDK about doing that, there's something really satisfying when I crush a cryptosuchus with my seatruck

[steel stream]

I can see the amazement in some players when they read this😜

[steel shoal]

Custom mode is awesome

[steel shoal]

They still react to it

Like "ouch!! that dealt 0 damage!!"

There's still blood and the hurt roar

[stoic surge]

Still, I did rename my seatruck to 'the CRUSHER' for a reason, lol

[steel shoal]

Ah, is it not in celebration of our #art-archive-13 artist Crusher?

[stoic surge]

Nope - it's a celebration of carnage, mua ha ha!

[steel stream]

Or tribute to Wesley Crusher😅

[clear canyon]

Is their a mod to have robin be quiet or nah

[carmine bobcat]

the slaughter

they annoyed me

[toxic ocean]

I would say turn down voice volume but that disables the pda too

[ivory lagoon]

Good the Indian pda voice is bad

They should have kept the old one

[toxic ocean]

The pda’s sad attempts at quips don’t help at all either

[modest niche]

I mean, obviously no problem with indian people and its a text to speak anyway so no personal offense given.
But I do think it was a misstep to give the PDA a thick accent, kinda makes it less accessible.

Like regardless of the accent. I do admit idk if it sounds any different if you change the language settings in the menu

I play/watch most things with subtitles on anyway so it hardly bothers me but I have on occasion like if I'm alt tabbed on the wiki, had to go back and replay it like what was that word

[steel shoal]

The accent makes it sound less serious. It has a personality, unlike Alterra's more advanced PDAs, that have a soft British accent and much colder voice. I think that was the goal with it, and while certain words are a bit difficult to understand, they're mostly from the tts quirks and not the accent. The strange pauses and different tones unnaturally changing.

Maybe I don't have as much of a problem because I'm already used to accents, but Subnautica has subtitles on by default.

[modest niche]

I don't really have that big of a problem with it personally but that's not really what experience I'm running off of. This is 100% my bias to clarify, I just happen to live in the most multicultural city in the UK, and I've found strong accents really don't help with people trying to learn English over here.

Considering it's a text to speech, I'd love if we had options to change the accent, just for the sake of accessibility.

English is a very hard language to learn, half our words arent even phonetically spoken.

I'm a british native and lord knows I can barely understand my own scotish or northern irish countrymen.

There's pro's and con's, a great thing I liked about the original PDA was its deadpan humour.

But the indian accent of below zero did feel like it was more "human", which I also liked.

[sour hill]

Just completed BZ for the first time

[ruby obsidian]

How was it for you i found the ending cool especially the robo arm bit,made me feel like doc ock from spider man lol

[sour hill]

I loved it! Beautiful game, great music. The Twisty Bridges blew my mind. I thought the added mechanics like temperature and the cold suit were really cool. I did the story completely in the wrong order haha, but enjoyed it nonetheless once I put everything together.

||I accidentally kidnapped a baby pengling spamming buttons (PS5) and panicked when they started freaking out 😭 I will never mess with you again, pengling who I named Bill||

The only thing I was unsure about was the ||shadow leviathans|| at the end. Maybe there is a way to avoid them and I am just too smooth brained to figure it out. 🤣 I just used the Seatruck and zapped em if they bothered me. I actually didn't end up using a single Seatruck module, I like the little baby seatruck as it is with just the horsepower upgrade

I thought it was really cool we get to see a glimpse ||the architects' world|| at the end. I will probably play it again!

[steel stream]

Just to point out that the horsepower upgrade does nothing if you don't have 3 or more modules on your seatruck...

[charred sonnet]

My first time through, I did the same thing, brought all the seatruck modules down to ||the crystal caves||. Nightmare for navigation. There really is no need for anything but the seatruck itself equipped with the perimeter defense.

Re: the PDA: My personal experience is that it didn’t bother me nearly as much as others. I like the fact that a Xenoworx PDA has a different voice than Alterra’s (whether that was deliberate or simply a side-effect of replacing the voice actor).

I didn’t find it hard to understand, and as I’ve mentioned before, I even thought some of its jokes were funny. The comment about not being able to see societal power structures with the control room, the one about the mineral detector helping you find titanium if you need it to for some reason…Okay, they weren’t as funny as “multiple leviathan-class creatures in the area, are you sure whatever you’re doing is worth it?” or congratulating you on so much swimming exercise, but they still amuse me.

[toxic ocean]

my trick is to detach less needed modules at the entrance so I have a beacon on the way back

[charred sonnet]

Oh, clever. I’ll do that next time.

[fierce hill]

ah yes the 3rd person camera position gamemode

my favorite

[toxic ocean]

Subnautica 2 could work with a 3rd person camera

[dusky olive]

hot take below zero soundtrack/ambience is arguably even better than Sbntca 1

[ruby obsidian]

the lighting switches between biomes was jarring in some areas and wasn't gradual like sn1 but i agree i liked some stuff and the soundtrack was good

[dusky olive]

oh sorry i meant sound-ambience when i said ambience not visual ambience. i agree subnautica 1 had better visual ambience and better gradual switches.

[ruby obsidian]

Oh i misread what you typed then im dumb lmao

[dusky olive]

no all good i didnt clarify, ambience was vague

[ruby obsidian]

My favorite example was the lily to orange zone so damn jarring

Hopefully the devs dont repeat that mistake

[verbal canopy]

I preferred subnautica, but I think it's because its too easy to get used to the leviathans in below zero

they're unavoidable, which just gets frustrating after a while

[ruby obsidian]

I def gonna miss bein able to kill them after i beat the game to test my skill oh well

[dusky olive]

yeah i agree

[ruby obsidian]

Ill just glitch one on land so it can suffer for eternity ig

Since it cant die it will suffocate forever >:3

But i understand why they made them invincible, altho i dont agree with it, it is their game and it will still be fun

[dusky olive]

i agree, and i also think below zero doesnt have the terror factor that subnatica has, like sure i feel scared sometimes when i see something but never really like feel that feeling of terror that something could come swimming from the depths and eat me, like in subnautica one everything was more spacious and open and there was so much reverb and echoing of distant creatures and everything, every second felt like you were on your toes

[verbal canopy]

definitely, even in the lost river it still felt spacious

like, it's pretty easy to get a cyclops down there with some practice, and then the seatruck gets stuck everywhere in BZ

[ruby obsidian]

Chelicerate

[dusky olive]

yeah, but i do think that the first game just did everything so perfect that it makes below zero look like a mid game...

[verbal canopy]

bz has some really cool areas but I was so frustrated most of the time

[ruby obsidian]

0 to 100 so fast

[verbal canopy]

i will say, the Mercury cockpit was so awesome

[ruby obsidian]

When your not lost

[open crane]

Below zero honestly felt like it focused too much on the character narrative. the first one had a clear narrative, survive, cure the disease, escape the planet

[dusky olive]

the opening sequence?

[verbal canopy]

yeah, i don't like Robin being voiced tbh

[ruby obsidian]

Exactly

[verbal canopy]

Riley not being voiced allows you as the player to project your feelings and reactions onto him

[dusky olive]

exactly

[ruby obsidian]

I can say my piece on why i think it was changed but i wont bc its a touchy subject

[verbal canopy]

and like, robins sister did die from her own negligence tho

[ruby obsidian]

Lol she did

And killed a innocent coworker

[open crane]

I’m listening

[dusky olive]

have u guys seen like the different iterations of the below zero early access openings and story. like if you watch jacksepticeyes videos on the early acess the story is much better and theres no voiced dialogue. and sam is still alive and her story is better from the little bits we can see

[verbal canopy]

with little to know evidence that the kharaa was actually being used badly

[ruby obsidian]

And al an was made to seem incompetent

[verbal canopy]

yeah he just feels out of touch

and unwilling to learn tbh

[ruby obsidian]

Dmd u it

[dusky olive]

i realise now that one of the main reasons they probably added robins voice dialgoue is because the ALAN thing wouldnt work without that

[ruby obsidian]

They had a British girl originally

[verbal canopy]

I think it would have been a bit better as a DLC, but it was trying to live up to the first game and it's just worse in many ways

[dusky olive]

and i like AL AN lowkey

[dusky olive]

yeah ik

[verbal canopy]

I also like him, but he has moments where he's really awkward

[ruby obsidian]

Robin got switched in for reasons ig

Not sure why

[verbal canopy]

and i don't like the PDA voice swap either, the original was great and i feel like the new one makes it harder to understand

[dusky olive]

i think that it is now consdiered a dlc, but i should have always been marketed/treated that way it would have been recieved ebtter

[verbal canopy]

yeah, as it's own game its not great but I'd have been ok with that (or less) being a dlc

also the fact that robin's sister made an antidote for kharaa is so hard to believe

[dusky olive]

i actually still think its great, im a below zero defeneder despite its flaws

[ruby obsidian]

I kinda liked it, wish i could have Jamaican accent as an option lol

[verbal canopy]

I feel like it could've been cool to have options to select

[ruby obsidian]

From a pepper and some plant

[verbal canopy]

it would give an in universe reason for why it's different in bz

like how you can change google maps' accent

[ruby obsidian]

Exactly

[icy moat]

have they given a release date yet?

[dusky olive]

for subnautica 2?

[icy moat]

yes

[dusky olive]

just 2026 thats all

[icy moat]

🙁

[dusky olive]

early into 2026 hopefully is the projected date

[ruby obsidian]

Some big hitters relased this year probably a good idea in hindsight now

[verbal canopy]

I hope the dev team still get their bonuses though

they deserve it

[sleek torrent]

when krafton doesnt need to give that payout ill prob relese

[verbal canopy]

are you referring to silksong?

[icy moat]

nah a new paw patrol game came out

[verbal canopy]

unfortunately :(

[ruby obsidian]

That, Battlefield 6, and a few others

[sleek torrent]

i heard that gta 6 will cost a 100 dollars

[verbal canopy]

that doesn't surprise me

[ruby obsidian]

I wont buy it

[sleek torrent]

that is lots of money

[verbal canopy]

yeah its frustrating how expensive games are now, like silksong is $20 and sold like hot cakes

[sleek torrent]

so schedule 1 did

schedule 1 broke all steam records, made by one person

[ruby obsidian]

Now we measure games worth in how many silksongs it is

[verbal canopy]

yes

Im not sure if ill get silksong tbh, but that's just bc im so bad at hollow knight (haven't beat it yet)

[ruby obsidian]

I hope palworld wins its lawsut

Feck nintendouche

They literally just patented a form of monster summoning fighting mechanics

[sleek torrent]

thats why some people pirate big AAA game companies

they just focus on profit and lawsuits

[verbal canopy]

yeah, i don't pirate indie games, but AAA games are different

i support indie developers that put time and love into games

also because im tired of games needing 2983 GB and a supercomputer to run

[eternal garnet]

On-topic is enforced harder here

[verbal canopy]

got it, I'll keep that in mind

[small cloak]

so like idk how did i turn this sound thingy on nor how do it turn it off😭

[bold monolith]

It's the frame time graph in the F3 menu.

I think 4 is the shortcut.

[quiet frigate]

Is there a PDA entry for juvenile snow stalkers? It let me fully scan one but then I just didn’t get an entry

[modest niche]

Nope there’s no one specifically for the babies

[quiet frigate]

Why are you able to scan them then?

[modest niche]

Idk, safe way of getting the pda entry?
I mean penglings and pengwings are actually two different creatures

Well I haven’t looked at the code but they’re definitely treated as such

[quiet frigate]

Ohh yeah it probably would have given me the adult entry if I hadn’t already got it

[modest niche]

Yeah just two different animals using the same call :3

Okay so I’m doing a hardcore run and it’s been a long time since I’ve been to the land area, and I mean a LONG time.

If I just go as fast as possible on my snowfox can the ice worms still get me

Or should I make a thumper (I have never used one before)

[quiet frigate]

I never use the snow fox cuz whenever one surfaces it always just knocks me off

[modest niche]

Well I would really not like to lose this save considering it’s hardcore

[quiet frigate]

Idk if I’m doing something wrong or not going fast enough but I always get knocked off

I mean if you want to be safe just use the prawn

[modest niche]

I am so dumb I didn’t even think about that

Especially cause you can even just pick up the snowfox and then use it after you get past the worm

I’m gonna Spider-Man this shiz

[quiet frigate]

Lmao yeah that’s what I do

[toxic ocean]

for some reason, the prawn accelerates at an insane speed if you tap jump on land (or if you fall)
this literally makes it better than the snowfox in terms of utility and speed

snowfox was fine for me, I just used the boost whenever I felt my controller rumble and I barely got hit

[tidal river]

Guys

Should my chelicerate be trying to beach itself

[steel stream]

In the latest update the iceworm chance to knock off snowfox was reduced from 100% to 25%.

[toxic ocean]

Well I only got hit by it less than 4 times so that explains why I never got knocked off

[azure drum]

where do i find lithium for my fabricator module

[steel stream]

Around delta island

Not on the island, but seabed on the biomes around it

[outer pine]

You guys like the land part of this game?

[toxic ocean]

yes actually. only when I have a vehicle

[charred sonnet]

I think it makes a nice change. Some beautiful scenery above the waterline, not to mention the aurora and weather effects. And then, when I’ve had enough, I can head back underwater again.

[steel stream]

The colored lights in the sky at night (not spaceship)

[modest niche]

can you kill worms

[steel shoal]

No

They are puppets, you can't interact with them, beyond taking damage

[modest niche]

one million thumpers

[steel shoal]

You can just stay near Stalkers

The Worm will eat them instead

[modest niche]

i didnt know that

i didnt want to know that

[azure drum]

are squid sharks supposed to be able to deactivate my seatruck?

[eternal garnet]

yes, for a couple seconds

[azure drum]

oh god

[silver olive]

do the Squidsharks have teeth?
Always been confused what those black things on its mouth are
Maybe they act like a venus flytrap

[modest niche]

There any actual use to bulkheads other than increasing integrity? Like I know they’re supposed to seal off flooding. But doesn’t every single room get breached anyway when you go under 0 integrity.

[fast widget]

cool door

[echo kernel]

Very cool door🗣️🔥🔥🔥

I need to finally build it in my house

[steel stream]

I've thought the same about low integrity causing leaks 🤷‍♂️

[junior bloom]

this game would be better if it had huge caves that dont have leviathans inside of them

[shrewd orbit]

Wassup, can you finally choose Playermodel for this game with vanilla or are there mods for that?

[fading panther]

No they also prevent the flooding

[fast widget]

cool door

[toxic ocean]

I never saw a practical use for bulkheads

If your base is flooding, might as well spend a few seconds to repair it instead, right?

[echo kernel]

Cool door 🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[charred sonnet]

I use them mainly for "privacy", for my sleeping quarters.

Though privacy is kinda difficult as it is. On the one hand, you're the only person on the planet. On the other hand, ||you have an alien in your head||.

[steel stream]

But if your base is flooding due to low integrity, the integrity is low on both sides of the bulkhead and leaks can appear anywhere? Or am I missing something?

[eternal garnet]

you can't even see the player, normally

[shrewd orbit]

cutscenes, voice, little beeps in the background

[eternal garnet]

the player beeps?

Anyway, I've not seen a character mod

[carmine bobcat]

Hey did the BZ patch make the ice worms more fun to go against when using snow fox?

[eternal garnet]

more fun? Less attacks and less falling off, yes

[carmine bobcat]

What do you mean by less attacks?
Like it won’t appear as much or

[charred sonnet]

Now that you folks have brought this up, I’ve started really wondering about bulkheads. I assumed that the builheads had to be closed prior to the base starting to leak in order to prevent flooding, but now I’m wondering how that works, if it indeed does at all.

[shrewd orbit]

idk, maybe they did the voice acting from home, i hear little beeps, propably firealarm in need of batteries and poorly edited out

[modest niche]

But doesn’t every room flood if the overall integrity is low

[fading panther]

If you leave the integrity low enough for long enough and a breach appears in that specific room yes

[modest niche]

So it’s more so useful to prevent flooding so long as it’s only been low integrity for a tiny bit

I make them regardless, it looks cool to have two bulkheads in a straight tube compartment leading to my nuclear reactor, it looks like an airlock

I do wish you could put bulkheads in the automatic connections between base pieces without the need of an extra compartment

[dreamy cedar]

Hello

[fierce hill]

guys where do i build my base i cant find a good spot

[charred sonnet]

When in doubt, somewhere near Delta station island. It’s central, lots of thermal vents, many resources.

[fierce hill]

i want looks not practicality

not the ||crystal caves|| tho

that would be too impractical

[charred sonnet]

Well then, the bottom of Twisty Bridges is nice, if you have glass tops to your multipurpose rooms and can look up.

[fierce hill]

aight i'll try that, not sure if i can fit my base in

[charred sonnet]

It’s tricky. /nod

[fierce hill]

i dont know why i even bother my first playthrough literally was the drop pod and like 2 T compartments for storage & modification station

i was telling myself "i'll build a base later" and the game just ended

[charred sonnet]

Top of the Lily Pads, if you like the weather effects but not snow.

[fierce hill]

yeah im not building in twisty bridges

theres barely enough space for my ||seatruck|| in there

its kinda a problem with space for me when im building a base

also can i remove the base pieces that are the part of the map somehow

i found a spot in twisty bridges that i can work with but there's this ugly base compartment

[serene robin]

Not sure if this is a bug but can ice worms instant destroy a prawn suit? Cause it happened to me lmaoo

[toxic ocean]

Likely a bug, they deal 25% damage to my prawn

[serene robin]

Yea I even looked it up

I was just going thru to scan a certain something and a ice worm instant destroyed my prawn

[cloud sigil]

thats me!

[ruby obsidian]

Hello there angry face

[cloud sigil]

yes

[vestal canyon]

hi ball of anger

[twilit quarry]

Will there be a subnautica below zero on Android? Approximately when

[stone plover]

If Below zero wasn't suppose to be subnautica 2, then what was is it supposed to be?

[ornate finch]

Meanly a spin off but the arctic version i think

[stone plover]

Even content creators were convinced that it was the subnautica 2

[ornate finch]

Yeah and they had us

[stone plover]

And were calling the next game SN 3

[novel gale]

First was supposed to be dlc then it became a spin off

[ornate finch]

I guess a change

[modest niche]

Subnautica: Above Infinity

[charred sonnet]

Subnautica: To 4546B and Beyond?

[dry verge]

Who here played subnautica below zero when it was early access? (and i mean like in it's first 5 months)

[toxic ocean]

Spinoff of sn2 be called subnautica: zero

[dry verge]

And then a third game (a trilogy) will be subnautica above zero, and you just start in a volcano inside 4546B

[broken badge]

BZ is considered a “standalone expansion”

[vast iris]

Imma see if my old PC can run below zero it has like 3 gigs of ram

[shadow grail]

Is there a way to stop the air bladder if you get stuck on something like a ledge

[steel stream]

Release the 'use' button?

[toxic ocean]

Swap tools

[shadow grail]

I did

[shadow grail]

I did not

[pure prawn]

I am wondering if someone could help me figure out something.

[drowsy turtle]

yeah

so let's chat here @pure prawn

[pure prawn]

Okay!

[drowsy turtle]

do you have

then, my guess is that you should go to %localappdata%\EpicGamesLauncher\Saved\Saves[EpicAccountID][YourGameFolder]

[pure prawn]

I did click on view and shown hidden files and it still didn’t pop up.

I can try that as soon as I get back home in a couple minutes.

[drowsy turtle]

The saved game files for the Epic Games version of Subnautica: Below Zero are located at %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Unknown Worlds\Subnautica Below Zero\SubnauticaBelowZero\SavedGames. You can type %USERPROFILE% into your File Explorer's address bar to quickly navigate to your user profile, then proceed to the AppData, LocalLow, Unknown Worlds, and Subnautica Below Zero folders to find the game's save data

cool

[pure prawn]

Whenever I type that into the address bar it takes me to Windows > System 32

A bunch of random folders

[drowsy turtle]

If you've chosen to show hidden folders and files, then that should be the address of where an epic games version of Sn: Below zero save is

that exact address, except USERPROFILE is whateveryour windows profile name is

[eternal garnet]

try this. Paste it into the windows Run box, or a folder address bar
%userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\Unknown Worlds\Subnautica Below Zero\SubnauticaZero\SavedGames

nearly the same, but "SubnauticaZero" is different

[pure prawn]

Is there space between Below Zero in the first?

[drowsy turtle]

another option, too, i believe it supports cloud saves on epic

[eternal garnet]

one space, yes

[drowsy turtle]

thanks, meatie

[pure prawn]

I’m just at a loss. I’ve tried both. Nothing is found.

[eternal garnet]

you should paste, not type it

[pure prawn]

I have a saved game. Not sure why a saved folder doesn’t exist,

I did paste it

Takes me to random folders

[eternal garnet]

if you see slot0001 it's correct

[pure prawn]

Nope. I don’t understand. Thank y’all for trying to help!

[eternal garnet]

oh well

[pure prawn]

Hold crap I found it

I had to do it all manually through users.

There is a slot0000 and a slot0001

[eternal garnet]

go inside, open the screenshot and check its date

each folder is a save

[pure prawn]

I had already successfully moved the save over!

I could tell by the date because I tried to make a new save to see if that would help.

[drowsy turtle]

glad it got sorted

[wet burrow]

Guys, I have problem. My seatruck is stuck in a dock. I can't: board it, push it, deconstruct dock. What should I do to fix it???

[weary sluice]

bruh... I just got out of a cave, I was about to hop into my prawn suit, but then the stupid worm jumps out of the ground and destroys it right in front of me

[eternal garnet]

Load a save. Pull it with a grapple. Or destroy it with prop cannon loaded with metal

[serene robin]

There’s one data box at || delta station island correct and what’s in it? ||

?

[eternal garnet]

I forget. probably control room

[weary sluice]

Yh it's scanner room

[serene robin]

Ah okay ty

[twilit otter]

guys how do i fill up a thermos 😭

[toxic ocean]

Coffee machine

[twilit otter]

its only for coffee?

[toxic ocean]

Yes, I don’t think there’s anything else

[twilit otter]

bruh

[shadow grail]

All 3 parts for the ||parallel processing unit|| should be in the ||Mercury 2|| crash right

Idk if im searching for something thats not here

Nvm I found it

[cloud sigil]

ok so im looking at the tower log, and it says the guy was something short to repair it

maybe i need to go to the place he said the materiel could be found...

searching...

[steel stream]

Yes, but there's more than one wreck site...

[cinder trout]

Is this game better or worse than the original

[stoic surge]

If you enjoyed the original, BZ should be fun also - I've played thru both

[cinder trout]

I’ve just remembered how hard this game series is

[cinder trout]

Ok I’m not playing for a while

[half nexus]

anyone got tips for dealing or avoiding ||shadow leviathans||?

[steel stream]

Seatruck perimeter defence system

[carmine bobcat]

you finally have a pfp

I can't believe it

[rustic mountain]

guys whats in the deep ocean bundle?

[cinder trout]

i feel like i skipped a bit of the game by mistake

Ok I definitely have

[eternal garnet]

both games and maybe some soundtracks

[rustic mountain]

Thanks

[eternal garnet]

If you have one game, it's deducted. You may get a discount on the other this way

[mild yacht]

I have below zero and I just don’t understand how I’m supposed to progress

[cinder trout]

Neither do I

[eternal garnet]

do you have an alien friend?

[mild yacht]

Nope

No clue what that’s supposed to mean

[cinder trout]

I was trying to find the sea truck and found ||the architect||

[eternal garnet]

Find thee distress call origin in twisty bridge canyon

oh Hej

[mild yacht]

Hej

[fading panther]

Jeh

[cinder trout]

Where am I meant to find the seatruck

[mild yacht]

I found it really esily

I literally just don’t understand how to progress

[eternal garnet]

lots around delta dock

[mild yacht]

All I have is the destruct

[eternal garnet]

But you also need the vehicle bay

[mild yacht]

Seatruck*

[cinder trout]

Where

[mild yacht]

The place where the beacon was

[eternal garnet]

it's south oif your pod. Get near and a beacon is added. Don't take this beacon! but scan it

[cinder trout]

I went really deep there and all I could find were the modules

[cinder trout]

Why don’t take the beacon

[eternal garnet]

they aren't deep

[cinder trout]

Oh I went like 300m

[eternal garnet]

Because it's an useful marker entire game

[cinder trout]

Oh

I already removed it

[eternal garnet]

put it back soon

beacons are very cheap

[cinder trout]

I lost the beacon

[eternal garnet]

the hardest item to lose. Congrats

[cinder trout]

There were no fragments

[toxic ocean]

I used the beacons for the mercury wrecks and cave entrances

[eternal garnet]

they are cheap. Spam the world with them

[mild yacht]

How do you even lose beacon

[eternal garnet]

if you get it out of bounds, maybe

or drop it on land without using its spike

[mild yacht]

Still you would’ve had to put it there

[cinder trout]

Seatruck is so expensive

the lead

it hurts

i really need more resources

[modest niche]

There is a simple solution
Scanner room with 4 range upgrades, and if that is not enough, another scanner room with 4 range upgrades, AND IF THAT IS NOT ENOUGH

afaik they didn’t make large deposits for like lithium, lead, magnetite

And what’s doubly annoying is I’m 99% sure in subnautica 1 the scanner room actually tracked large deposits but in below zero it doesn’t

[cinder trout]

I can’t even make the builder thing

I barely made the rebreather

[toxic ocean]

I got my scanner room in below zero to track quartz and it marked two large deposits

[toxic ocean]

and mineral detector is a life saver if you don't have a scanner room

[steel stream]

I think the scanner room range bug is in both games and range upgrades only increase the holomap size but not actual scanning range (which is already max 500 m by default).

[toxic ocean]

no it's only in sn1, I checked

[modest niche]

I really wish they’d increase the range on it by like 5-10m

Also it eats batteries like they’re Pringles

[broken badge]

I’m pretty sure Mika is right unless the recent update fixed that

[modest niche]

Huh. Weird. I’ll do some testing tonight.

If I scan alien artefacts will Alan eventually give me the coordinates for all of them?

[broken badge]

No, he doesn’t lead you to all of them

[modest niche]

gosh dammit, do I need to visit every one of them to finish the game?

I shall have to do exploration, and discover how many times I can pee my pants before turning my bedroom into subnautica yellow edition

[broken badge]

No, not to finish the game

There are certain unlocks you get depending on how many sites you visit

Ok there are two different things we are talking about here, let’s not confuse them
There are the places you get ||Al-an’s body parts, and there are just architect sites where you scan something||

You only go to 3 places for the “parts”

He gives you directions to the first part
After that he gives you clues to the other 2

The other places I mentioned, the more you find, the more “tech” things you unlock. Such as ion tech

[modest niche]

I am very angy that the headlamp is locked behind ion tech cause it needs an ion battery.
I would've loved that early game and have no use for it once I lock it

[broken badge]

Yeah it’s unfortunate imo they made it where the headlamp removes ability to wear rebreather at the same time
The devs say well you have to make a choice just like in real life as to what gear is most useful under the circumstances
However I disagree in that even current day dive helmets include a very good headlamp as light source, especially when you’d be diving to the depths we are

In other words, you wouldn’t be sacrificing headlamp for a rebreather

I do agree there would be other ways we could make decisions about our gear, and we do

[modest niche]

also seaglide has a light (even though I'm not a fan of the blue light), and I bring the actual handheld flashlight with me everywhere and all it takes it me pressing 4 then 1 really quickly to not even slow me down

[errant oriole]

I've built my first base in below zero. It has one large room, one moon pool, one hull reinforcement, and two wall lockers. It is connected via relays to three thermal power plants, each in a lava geyser. Nothing is docked in the moon pool.
My base power fluctuates between 0 and 4, and if I build anything that consumes power then at 0 the power goes out.
I feel like I've done something wrong here. I expect my power to fill and stay full at this point. Help?

I'm underground, so no solar, although I could build a long relay chain up to the surface

[glacial swallow]

Make sure all the relays actually connect all the way.

[errant oriole]

power is /750, 250 per thermal pp I think

I'm following the lines now, and they seem to go all the way

the one thermal pp that I can see clearly is showing 84C constantly

there's enough power for O2 in the base. maybe that's draining more than the three thermal PPs make?

when I'm out checking on the PPs, I use a prawn for O2

I'm not docking the prawn because that's one of the things that causes blackouts in the base

one large room, one moon pool, one hull reinforcement, and two wall lockers

no

I had some but deconstructed them

also had water purification and deconstructed that

sorry, gonna take a break and look into this later. I'm a bit burned out on it. Thanks for trying to help.

[cinder trout]

This game is hard

I’ve been trying for my whole run and still can’t get a sea truck

[toxic ocean]

Put it literally on top of the heat source for maximum efficiency

I did that with 1 thermal plant on a big underground thermal vent (not the purple ones) and the reading is around 240 degrees

Or use bioreactor while farming ribbon plant

Or use solar power

[cinder trout]

Pain

[errant oriole]

they are all on/in the lava geysers

right in the middle

I reloaded my save, back to before I built the battery chargers or water filtration. Just one thermal PP, and it's building up toward 250/250 pretty quickly once I undock the prawn

[errant oriole]

yeah, something was bugged. now I can dock the prawn and charge 4 batteries and power is staying at 249 or 250

[tight tapir]

Do resources like outcrops, large ore clumps and veins respawn over time?

[broken badge]

No

[modest niche]

what the hell do you mean, I thought resources were infinite ;-;
rip my dreams of having a planet sized base

[split folio]

creative go brrrrrr

[modest niche]

I guess I am in the process of getting 2 of every egg, and hatching one whilst keeping one in storage, so at least my animals are infinite

[modest niche]

Okay so I need a really technical answer to a question.
Is there any form of prioritization in how power is spent in a base?
Because hypothetically, lets say my base is powered by a solar panel, a bioreactor, and a nuclear reactor, will it use the power from the solar panel first?

I would preferably like to extend the life of my nuclear rods as long as possible

[bold monolith]

At first, the power source order is the order you built them. But after reload it becomes arbitrary. With some exceptions. Things behind power transmitters are usually loaded last.

You have mods that can control that order.

In vanilla you can't really prevent your nuclear reactor to be the first drained. In some sessions it will be.

[modest niche]

Damn, I knew it acted kinda weird between saves, was driving me crazy.
Welp I suppose at the end of the day I can always use the mighty bioreactor :3

[bold monolith]

https://youtu.be/yscDT2rZcek It's a Subnautica video but it works the same in BZ.

First load the nuclear reactor is being drained, second load the bioreactor.

And you can notice I didn't save again between the loads.

Ie: nothing changed.

[fierce sluice]

hey

i want subnautica below zero so bad on pc

anyone know when there is gonna be a discount?

[rose python]

I've got the skeleton and the organs where are the alien tissues?

[toxic ocean]

I think at some point Al-An gives you a hint

[spiral isle]

What’s the best place to build a base in your guys’ opinion ?

[mild yacht]

I have no clue sorry man, I literally don’t understand how to progress

[rose python]

Just had a major jump scare with a shadow leviathan as I thought I killed I killed it with the perimeter defense even nudged it and it would not move so I got out to scan it and just as I was finishing the scan it woke up

[toxic ocean]

I heard people say around delta island is good because of the heat sources and it's in the center of the map
I personally built in the twisty bridges starting area and it still worked

[spiral isle]

Yeah I was thinking twisty bridges too. This is my second playthrough but I’m taking it more seriously this time scanning basically everything and having fun with it

[rose python]

I swear the only things scarish in NZ is the void and the shadow leviathans

[broken badge]

Early game I build next to the shark cage. It’s close to delta but the cryptos (armored croc-likes) don’t bother me (they’re noisy too)

[balmy coral]

Hello, guys is it possible to play below zero in multiplayer with frends ? somehow with mods or idk ?

[eternal garnet]

yes, there is a mod, on subnauticamultiplayer.com

[cinder trout]

I have no idea what I’m meant to be doing right now

All my markers are to places I’ve been to

[errant oriole]

In original subnautica, when I mined with the prawn drill arm, the resources got picked up automatically.
In below zero, this seems to happen about 25% of the time, and the other 75% they are on the ground, rolling away, etc.
Might I be doing something wrong?

the power thing could have been a mod problem, although I had no mods related to bases or power. the prawn thing was happening before I tried modding.

[steel stream]

Then explore...

[modest niche]

Frankly next to delta station dock, it's central, has thermal vents, and outcrops for lead, plus lithium, which're two things that don't have large ore deposits in below zero

[spiral isle]

Yep thats what I went with lol

[modest niche]

I am stationed just east of delta island

I've got my main base complex, a farm for peepers and bladderfish, and a separate large room for breeding any creatures that have eggs :3

[modest niche]

if only penglings bred in alien containment chambers, I would make a million of them 🙁

[modest niche]

wait, wait wait wait, when seamonkeys gift you titanium and stuff, do they actually take that from an outcrop or is that technically infinite

[broken badge]

I’m not aware of that coming from any outcrops

[modest niche]

like if I hypothetically, hypothetically, created an area, and constantly bread seamonkeys until I had like 100, could I get infinite titanium

as someone who avoids eating meat due to the conditions of factory farming, I am not fond of the idea

however... Infinite resources in my fish game

[broken badge]

The game has tons of resources, it would be incredibly difficult to run out of something (although lead is probably the most complained about resource, by far, as there are no large lead deposits in the game). Even then, for “average use” cases, you can still find plenty enough lead (galena) in the game

Titanium is not an issue, there are not only a lot of large deposits, not to mention ore veins, and clusters of titanium nuggets, you have a lot of metal salvage as well around the Mercury wrecks

[modest niche]

I am honestly really struggling with quartz and lead and lithium, not complaining about the game and balance, it's my fault.
I want several large structures, I want them to have windows and glass domes, so I need a f-tonne of quarts, lead for reinforcements, and lithium for enameled glass as well as other things.

I dunno how to phrase it.
I feel as though the lack of large deposits for lead and lithium was in fact a bad decision.

Like there are ruby deposits? but not lead?

[broken badge]

Lilypads has a fair bit of quartz, as does purple vents (which also has a lot of lithium). Lead can be a pain to spot, but thermal spires has some, in fact many areas have some, it’s just often hard to notice it because it blends in so well
Scanner room can help a lot

I also am a big fan of using the highlight feature in accessibility settings. It’s not the greatest in terms of immersion, but it helped me find a lot of things I probably would’ve overlooked otherwise
And you can turn it on and off whenever you want, so if you say, wanted to use it while resource hunting, then turn it off again, you could totally do that

You can also change the color, so it’s doesn’t have to be bright pink or something (I totally use bright pink🤣)

[modest niche]

I did not know about this .-.

Okay well that helps a whole bunch

Nah it's just weird to me that like there are diamond deposits and ruby deposits, yet lithium and lead go unloved

granted I am a rare case that makes stupid bases

ty for info, I shall make my seamonkey farm and tell you the results :3

[broken badge]

Good luck!

[fierce sluice]

Ik whats this?

[modest niche]

Its a site that sells steam codes for games, basically their model works like this.
Wait until game is on sale, buy a bunch of codes for said game at a discount, wait until sale ends, sell the codes at a price between sale price and current price, profit.
Just if you really can't wait till the winter/Halloween sale, it's worked for me before, but of course use your head, its still a third party, and I don't like trusting third parties.

Technically speaking you'd be buying a code, that has been paid for, towards unknown worlds already, so I am pretty sure it's not against the rules or anything

[half nexus]

i just flew my prawn suit into my seatruck and the seatruck just exploded, has this happened to anyone else?

[steel stream]

Considering that sea monkeys in arctic kelp forest can give you magnetite and diamonds which don't naturally occur in that biome I would think the gifts are just spawned and make all possible gift resources infinite.

[modest niche]

one million sea monkeys

one hundred million sea monkeys

[novel zodiac]

Uh why are there only 3 for below zero

[bold monolith]

You are not following the others.

And BZ isn't on mobile.

[grand haven]

You have to click on the > next to Below Zero

[novel zodiac]

Bruh didn’t see it thanks

[spiral isle]

How do you have a farm for peepers and bladderfish? Only problem being in this area is the Grav trap doesn’t really catch anything for me lol

[toxic ocean]

Breed them in alien containment

[spiral isle]

I never knew you could do that lmao I’m definitely gonna try now

[drowsy hazel]

Hello Dichard Steele

[modest niche]

Large room with two alien containers

[toxic ocean]

I breed peepers for fuel

[tacit thorn]

I usually put a pepper plant pot next to reactor and it suffices to keep scanner running. Also keeps the player running.

[ivory lagoon]

Also in the first game you can cure fish with pepper

[cinder trout]

I have no idea what I should do

[rugged condor]

if a carrot god doesnt know what to do, what does that mean for us mere mortals?

[cinder trout]

I have no sea truck, should I aim for that

[rugged condor]

idk. why not

[cinder trout]

It’s so expensive, I need gold

[rugged condor]

just go for it. dont think. just do

[cinder trout]

I keep dying whenever I find gold

[rugged condor]

then keep dying until you dont or find another solution

if u keep trying different things, eventually u will learn all the ways not to find gold

[cinder trout]

Swim->drown

[rugged condor]

why r u drowning?

[cinder trout]

No air

[rugged condor]

ok. can u find a way to get more air?

[cinder trout]

No

[serene robin]

What does that plant do

[serene robin]

Mineral detector

[broken badge]

Not a big fan of it, due to limited range. But sure, that’s always an option as well

[wanton oriole]

Built a whole base just for water filtering

[steel stream]

(Or crafting salad...)

[weary sluice]

I'm stranded in the middle of the ice spires thingy, with the ice worms because they destroyed my prawnsuit, should I revert to my last save, or attept to walk back to my seatruck and craft a new one?

[modest niche]

id revert just cause making a new prawn suit with upgrades is a lot of work 🙁

[wanton oriole]

Eh just run back

Seaworms are slow asf

[weary sluice]

Yeah :/

[next current]

Oh you think it's expensive now? When the Seatruck first came out for early access, One Seatruck needed FIVE advanced wiring kits!

And this was before they made Advanced Wiring Kits cheaper!

[toxic ocean]

why'd they make it so expensive again

[serene robin]

Oh okay which is the best fuel source for the bio reactor ?

Whether it’s food or a fish

[steel stream]

If you only consider energy per slot, root pustule would be the best. Next is probably arctic peeper iirc.

Root pustules cannot be grown in your base, but technically infinite amounts can be acquired from sea monkey gifts...

[cinder trout]

hyperventilating

[quiet frigate]

So I looted the phi robotics ages ago but I went back for another look around, and all the posters and collectibles respawned? So now I have double of everything, I assume it’s a glitch?

[tacit thorn]

Long long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there has been a game update that reset some map chunks. It may be you have been there so long ago you got hit with such reset. You may find all the ore respawned as well.

[surreal compass]

Anyone know what to do when you first start. I’ve been to outpost zero and delta station, but I haven’t even got a habitat builder yet. Is there sandstone outcrop or something because I don’t know where to find gold or table coral sample

[modest niche]

99% sure on delta station, in the surface caves, there is a habitat builder on a desk next to a pool of sulphur

[steel stream]

If you have been to delta station, you have passed by at least one scannable habitat builder fragment. Gold is in calaverite outcrops, which actually looks a bit like sandstone in the first game. Delta island has one cave with plenty of them, and also the biome around delta island has them. Calaverite outcrops can also be found in arctic kelp caves. Table coral can be found in twisty bridges canyon (which also has two interesting databoxes)

[surreal compass]

No I mean I have unlocked the blueprint but I don’t know where to get gold

[surreal compass]

Oh ok thank you, and I don’t know the difference between the normal twisty bridges and the deep twisty bridges. Does anyone know any pointers to tell which one is which (other than squid sharks)

[steel stream]

It's basically just depth...table coral is shallower than squidshark...it's in 'brute shark depth'

[surreal compass]

Oh ok, I was in the area with the brute sharks, is there a certain depth which is where you get into the deep twisty bridges?

[bold monolith]

The biome looks different.

You don't find the same plant.

But yes the sanctuary is at 200 meters depth, so below that if you're still in Twisty you're in Deep Twisty.

[surreal compass]

Oh ok, I was a little worried to go there, I’ll probably get a sea truck by then just to be safe

[charred sonnet]

You’ll know. It gets even darker and spookier. The entrance(s) are quite small, so hard to do by accident.

[modest niche]

Ohh. The sand/yellowish outcrops.
Just a little east of delta station, by the dock, you can find a couple thermal vents in crevices, inside of those crevices are said outcrops and also diamonds, probably a couple other things

But if you do go down them be careful cause if you get caught in the middle of one of their blasts, you can lose like 60hp

[wanton oriole]

Bro not being able to farm coral is so stupid, wdym I had to run back and forth between my underwater base and my worm base to get some corals

[toxic ocean]

True

But there are a few mystical spots where there are loads of table coral in one small area

[steel stream]

I think also sea monkeys can gift you table coral with suitable recipe pinned.

[echo kernel]

Idk about bz but i know which in sn 1 😏

[bold monolith]

While it is pretty high on the list, it is only top one in your subjective mind.

[stoic surge]

I like to have a couple pepper plants nearby, they can fuel the BR and Robin also

[jovial stone]

Man, i really wish the Squidshark is the main leviathan for Below Zero, as much as i love shrimpy, bro has like almost nothing to it? While the Squidshark has like an emp electric move and thats cool

I still like shrimpy tho

[steel stream]

(Note that if you scan squidshark, it goes under 'large carnivores' and not under 'leviathans')

[jovial stone]

Eh still, wish the Squidshark is one of the main leviathans but both subnautica games have like 3 aggressive leviathans max so eh

[charred sonnet]

I wonder if - since the leviathan thing has been covered - a swarm of micro-sized aggressive lifeforms would be fun.

[echo kernel]

Just started playing bz

Idc how bad story will turn out to be, or if gameplay wont be fun, gosh its So beatiful

[charred sonnet]

It is indeed gorgeous. /nod

[bold monolith]

I'm also missing the reason for this horrible game design decision.

[toxic ocean]

hey yeah i got that on ps5

[bold monolith]

It's on all platforms because it's by design.

There is something in the code that says you better have the nuclear reactor running if you don't want any flickering when you use your fabricator.

This number was chosen arbitrarily.