#below-zero-chat
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From a business prospective though I think it's better if it's a simple to play game
Same here, I did the whole story in 1 day after I build a bigish base
True to some extent.
same lmao, I finished my base and I was like "oh yea the story" and beat it in hours
but I mean I had the entire map scanned, looted, and beacon-d by then
The ending does seem like it's likely.
I had the important story places beacon'd because I was like "oh I can't get through this yet it's probably a story thing"
I feel it'd be really weird having a game on the architect planet
That's why I thought the ending would have a tiny bit of gameplay on it
same : (
I thought it was the perfect amount of closure tbh
It sorta felt a bit sudden for me
But that was probably because I was expecting it to last longer
like what else are they gonna do? ||show Robin shaking all the Architect's hands and saying hello||?
Maybe look around the place and gather a bit more lore
And I also feel it was weird how Al-an and robin never seemed to get along the best yet seemed to be best mates in the ending
Like they got along but not really as well as that
What if, in the next game, you play as an architect or something around that time and experience the Kharra outbreak
I thought we'd at least find out if they're still alive
Exactly!
I think alot of people said that in the old story with the old voice actor they got along better
I preferred the old voice actor but this one is still good
I felt I could see their relationship develop tbh, as a pretty antisocial introverted person that's kinda how my relationships with people tend to develop
What they get inside of your head and you get to know them by them calling you primitive?
just like you talk sometimes then after a few months or so of casual conversation your just like "i'd die for you"
While you put all the effort in to actually make them a body
Thats a bit of an exaggeration
he gave off that vibe of the person in the group who's like "he's a jerk but he's OUR jerk and we love him"
Another thing that I just thought of is that navigating becomes easier due too many beacons. I love navigating through the first game, like go this way from the Aurora or the islands or whatever
Yea
The sense of wonder when you found something new can't be replicated when there is beacons
And you're expecting something new and good
and actually going that route, yea I can say his last line felt a bit out of character
He's good I guess
he's just tsundere
actual spoiler || Al-an is a murderer ||
but yeah great character
bah, it was ||an accident anyway if I remember correctly, that or just a lapse in judgment||
he is in a god like race so insignificant anyway
it's not like it happened out of animosity
he may have || killed Lillian to protect secrets though ||
||I also wish there was more about the frozen levi||
many things left open
tbh I think the whole re-outbreak of khreafayduchsb virus was just kinda bleh to begin with anyway
I do like Margs story and Alans story though, and Sams if it extended longer
I really think some kind of Alterra muckraking plot would have been better
Yeh
like you go there because you know they are up to something, and it turns out they are trying to weaponize the virus or something
and maybe you work with Al-An to turn the planets quarantine defenses back on or something
although even then I still think it's really hard to do anything with the virus considering you basically eradicated it in the first game
the planet is all water, and the water is saturated with an enzyme whose pretty much sole purpose is to wipe out said virus after the events of the first game
even if it froze over, the enzyme would still be in the ice unless cold destroys it or something
Is she even definitely dead?
oh I was talking about ||Al-An releasing the virus||
I don't remember him talking about ||specifically killing anyone||
idk I think the first game just had such amazing closure for the most part, that it's pretty dang hard to make a direct sequel in the first place
Yea
Unless it took place on another planet
Because the virus did spread to multiple planets I'm pretty sure was said
I still have no idea what they'd do from there though
I don't know I'm not a game developer
oh was this a different planet?
No but I'm saying they could have made it on a separate planet
yea, although they would have had to change a few of the reoccurring fish probably
It probably would take more effort yea
if anything when it comes to the fish, i'm a bit bummed they made arctic peepers just like clearly the best fish
like in the first you has reginalds for food, oculus for bioreactor, and bladderfish for water and the air sack things
Wasn't the oculus in the second one?
im going to be honest i quite like the new balancing with materials and outcrops! materials that previously had very few uses like lead and gold are used more in tools and whatnot :0 i really enjoy it
this one you had basically no use for anything other than arctic peepers
I just ate whatever my seatruck aquarium caught
Nevermind
It annoys me how annoying the snowfox is
yea the drop rates of materials was way better in this one for the most part I would say
I never made it
I literally never used it
It is not very useful considering how much time you spend on land
Firstly, it's not even that good, Then you get it after you already needed it, then it costs the hoverpad and magnetite as well, and it's land-bound
I made it, drove it around, tapped something and watched the hull integrity go from 100 to like 60 and was like "yea screw this"
Plus it makes Ice worms more of a threat
So basically: You unlock it after you need it, it is kinda costly until you done the land segments and it isn't that great
prawn had nearly the same, if not better land maneuverability with grappling hook, was WAY more tanky, and had a longer power cell life
I was rocketing across dry land using the booster and grappling hook on prawn
I only made prawn for land
I used it loads in the first
you kinda had to because the seamoth wasn't able to go deep enough for later stuff
is it was prawn or nothing
I miss the cyclops but understand its departure
Yes but it's still a cyclops
I loved cyclops
Fun to use
Because I just got out in my prawn and when all the way down
fun to drive, I loved the multitasking
It was so uncomfortable for me
I really didn't like it
I prefer my grapple prawn
That was fun
So fast
I liked the micromanagement
Seatruck kinda replaced it if you include the modules but let's be real I didn't use them besides docking
deciding wether to keep the inside lights off to save power, or to leave them on so you could see better when running around
reloading the creature decoy tubes, however uselss they were
I used loads
having to actually find the hull beaches on the outside and repair it spot by spot to get it to fully working order again
I needed some tunes some crafting and food so I had 3
I actually used the jukebox until I realised the power cost
I didn't care about the power
it had a power cost too?
Yea
Loads
the skele module sounds more and more trash the more I learn about it lmao
I had more than enough power cells
You couldn't do long journeys, defeating the purpose of the other modules
I used fabricator, storage, and docking
I never found the teleport module
Just docking for me but I made them all
I never really scanned most of the architect tech
Since I could never find the first ones Alan said to look for
and I used aquarium once for like an hour to complete my collection of every fish
...
i only use the base one but I have the fabricator one built
The what one
I had an alien containment stacked 4 high with arctic peepers and like 13 water filtration plants, I had cured arctic peepers and large filtered waters for days
Wow
I just had fruit salad (WAY TOO OP) and never worried about eating again
there was no need for aquarium
fruit salad is good
I missed so many things in bz lol
other than making sure fish did not die and rot before I got to my base
Too good
I never made salad or a farm
yea, I switched over to salad but kept the peepers around
I used shrub nuts until I got the fruit salad
because what else was I gonna do with the containment honestly
shrub nuts were easy to get and they gve quite good stuff
I was using shrub nuts until I got alien containment and water filtration plant
But y on earth is fruit salad 80 30 and 100
other than they they were pretty trash relatively
took up tons of space and did not give much for how much space they took up
filling the 2x2 space with cured arctic peepers and large filtered waters was way more efficient
I just got one plant as I never needed it and was only cosmetic
i thought acu is first, then you go plants
I did all the plants planted + a seed for every kind in storage for just in case, one aquarium for every type of fish that could be put inside of them (no noot fish or rock grubs basically), a pair of adults capable of making eggs for every egg laying animal as well as two of each egg on backup for if I lost them somehow, and an individual standing locker for every base material in the game
I have a question, I went to Koppa mines and found only one Ruby Large Resource Deposit. Is it normal that there is only one? I hoped there could be more of them. 😄
i thinnk theres more
and my farm has a glaring lack of bulbo trees, but we cant get em
yea I don't remember seeing many either, I saw one large ruby deposit near the elevator thing and one in the very bottom of the mining site if I remember correctly
i use lockers for materials but i dont use standing lockers
I only used standing lockers
they take up nearly the same space as wall lockers, hold more items, and are not restricted to only walls
I did pay dearly for quartz though, my base build ate up SO much quartz oh my god
I should really calculate how much quartz I used, because it was a LOT
I use wall lockers because free labels, space is not an issue with mods
I think I made 35 standing lockers? 41?
same, I think may have multipurposed a few though?
yea, I stored table coral and root pustules together
i've just multipurposed creep vine derivatives
everything else was separated except for seeds, eggs, and reproductive adults
I had a few general lockers for eggs and few general lockers for seeds, but I grouped water and dry land seeds separately
don't mods lock achievements though? I suffered all that farming because I did not want my achievements locked
plus I don't like modding first playthroughs
bethesda does for Skyrim and Fallout 4
but even then you can actually mod that feature out if you wanted lmao
XD
I personally just don't care about achievements so long as I can either get them all, or get none at all
if I get a few and then am not able to get any others afterward, it drives me nuts
also your telling if I use the in-game console commands my achievements get locked, but if I straight up mod it they don't?
well duh
they can see internal cheats
but they cant as easily see if your modding to get a map or all the mats
wouldn't it be even easier to see changes to the code?
unless it's like save editing
i guess they are too lazy to account for all the modding possibilties or sth
well someone is much less likely to mod a way to get all achievements in 5 minutes than someone using commands
time to make a mod that speedruns the achievements for you 
it kinda depends on the size of the player base and modding community too
salt ingot saving space doesn't make sense at all but I like it
theres a ingot for almost everything
and if thats not enough, you can make ingot stacks (btw its all 10x so stacks are 10x10)
except titanium
I just like general inventory compression
I was so hyped when I got recyclotron and was able to start storing titanium ingots instead of a bunch of titanium ores
yeah, thats kinda pain
storing copper wire instead of a bunch of copper ore
heh
shame silver, gold, lithium, nickel, or lead did not have anything like that
or kyanite, but that kinda makes sense at least
Why would you ever need loads of kyanite
because I kyan

I am a natural born hoarder in crafting survival games
If it exists, you need more of it
okeh, i decided to start new game for post release, now im done
Before the release there was a map of all alterra infrastructure inside island base. Is it still there or was it removed? Cause I didn't see it, but maybe I just didn't look good enough, or maybe it was somewhere else. Just curious
try playing a harder scenario
can you not grow Chinese potatos as when i cut them they give no seeds
plant a potato
the map is on the wall, yes
then I missed it due to night time 🙂 thx, I have it in my screenshots from previous playthroughs, but was curious if they removed it to make game a bit harder
what ya mean harder scenario
nah they didnt
maybe he ment survival with 1 life, I usually don't play that cause 1 mistake can make so much frustration, it's not worth the effort
You can just play that on regular and stop if you die, so that if you die and you don't actually want to end you don't have to
yeah hardcores kinda a waste of time
my current playthrough is no build tool and no vehicles
Hardcore should have had more survival elements rather than just permadeath
na, I mean like no build tool and no vehicles. I agree that hardcore mode is a poo as you can get stumped by a bug with no return
Like in early access of the original game there was punishment for overeating, and an experimental nitrogen mode, that required you to decompress after deep diving
Those would have been great for a hardcore
no vehicles and no build tool is fun .... makes you realise that you spend 90% of a playthrough getting stuff you don't need to make more stuff you don't need
that sounds interesting ... I am all in for more hard options
But getting stuff is part of the fun
agree
my current entire storage is 2 floating lockers so being lean
plus the storage in the pod you are given
i sleep
gn
It would encourage you to use vehicles more and actually incentivize you to build your bases deeper, since coming back up too fast would hurt you or even kill you
Something as simple as a seaglide trip to the twisty bridges, or deep twisty bridges for some materials, would now be impossible
ok where should i build a base
there are very few bad places
drop pod is a bad place. near the island is central
Water filtration machine doesnt work out of water does it?
Because i have a base in the arctic spires and an underwater base near it just to get water seems kind of unnecessary.
logically it shouldnt. You must try it
hello guys if i have idea for add on this beautiful game, where I can give them ?
success maybe
ping me if you have a sentence for me ^^
Wonder if they could add a Lan multiplayer or play with your friends on steam that’d be so cool
Water filtration systems don't properly work above water yeah. They are slower and don't give any salt I believe.
They won't be adding multiplayer to this game, it would take a lot of time to do right and they would basically have to start over the code base for the project. Multiplayer is a complicated thing 🙂
Can i find diamonds in "Сoppa" mining site?
I think there will be like subnautica 2 because game has still unfinished story and then they can make it multiplayer
Yes.
Maybe? It depends on the theme of the game
One of the reasons they ultimately decided not to add multiplayer was because it would ruin the theme of the game
Are there any dangerous inside?
Inside not really, just a couple of rock punchers.
Ok, thanks
i feel like playing the subnautica zero would be more entertaining with my friend
So if “subnautica 2” isn’t around the same lost and alone theme the original game was based off, then it could be added
Also this is not necessarily true, Subnautica was meant to be a co-op game initially, they didn't because they still had a lot to learn about the game and the engine they were using. At some point it would be too much work to make it multiplayer.
Below Zero's code is based off the original Subnautica. Hence why the same reason is used.
Huh, interesting
I wonder how much of the code they recycled if its the same engine.
The game would have certainly had a different feel in multiplayer tho so I guess things kinda worked out, though now im curious where the series is going next, if they’re making a third game at all
Lol the gif I sent got deleted
I think they said they might get back to the franchise but next up is an unrelated project
If they were to ever create a multiplayer Subnautica it would need the intentions of being multiplayer from the start
I have to say that I would love multiplayer and I dont particularly think it would change the feel, though I do understand that it would be really hard.
Subnautica would loose a lot of it’s tension and loneliness of the game, while BZ would feels kinda small for more than one person
If they were to do a multiplayer of the original game, id probably do it from the point of view of the degasi crew, and add multiple new creatures to the game, which could be explained as they went extinct in the 10 year gap due to kharaa
I honestly sort of disagree, things can be just as tense playing w/ friends. It would be a different kind of fear though.
It can, though I believe the game has to be built around that idea of multiplayer to keep the same levels of tension
Sure.
hey im having troubles ||finding the frozen leviathan||
got the ice area map?
Aren't we all.
any directions from drop pod will be helpful
yes but i suck at reading it
which is why i take beacons everywhere
the map with no ocean on it. OK, bottom left there's a tree area. Top of that area there's a tower.
is there a more exact approach form the drop pod
with directions using the hud compass?
any notches off or directly SW?
You have to find phi robotics first. This has an ice map
i found phi robotics
though it was mostly through trial and error
didnt see any map there tho
the drop pod is NOWHERE near. Irrelevant
so much for help
to find things i did a lap around the map
this is more hurting than helping
it was cool
it is near phi. Bottom left of the map, by a tower
... ill try my best
probably just going to look up a tutorial if i cant find it still
Do resources respawn
No
Woah
it would be dumb
How do I get a large room and an alien containment I can’t find them anywhere
ill try to find the leviathan too
||alien containment is in mercury spaceship if im correct||
||large room fragments can be in some bases||
it is indeed in marges base
You are correct on that
do you guys know where to find al-an ref sheet? I`ve been trying to find it
body parts?
no i mean a refrence sheet, like a sheet of al-an character design
idk
welp i have to dig up the files ; - ;
All she had was the glass dome for the large room
no
My seatruck pengling locker is still going stronk
Excuse me, can I get some help inserting custom music into my jukebox?
I'm on the explorer and the wiki told me to enter C:/Users/my name/Music/Unknownworlds/subnautica.
But I don't know where to put that.
Is omega the pilots base?
Oh ok, thanks tuna!
Np
Is it ||in the shadow leviathan || area
Do you have the last pilot's location beacon?
Yes
Explore the caves under it.
I shiver at just looking how deep that is.
Guessing I need depth MK3
No lol
um I just finished the game, why the sea monkey in my base start stealing stuff again ?? I just go to my base when Im waiting for the seamonkey for giving me stuff but it just took my seaglide away
my bad
Nah it's ok.
nono I mean when i waiting outside the base
i usually wait for them to bring copper of titanium, ect its usefull but it just grab my seaglide away
Don't use the seaglide then.
They don't bring you things if you don't have Al-An in your head.
omg this gonna be nightmare then
They can't steal from Robin's magical pockets.
I have like 15 seamonkeys around my base
How can she fit an entire Mobile vehicle bay with no backpacks tho-
lol
Does light attract the shadow bois
Just a quick question WHY DOES THE ICE WORM EXIST?
to warm your house
well I still hate them.
LOL idk how many times my snowfox destroyed cause of that worm
||I don't know what the architects were thinking when they like put their stupid Ion cube mine there. Like mate there is a giant worm outside!||
Can you connect a scanner room to your base or no?
Im having a really tough time trying to connect this god dang thing
Maybe they could speak trough telepathy with the ice worm and ask them not to attack them
I'm looking for omega but I know where her base is
Sure can.
Are you looking for the pilot's base or for Omega? They are not the same thing.
Looking for omega
If I remember correctly Omega will be to the southeast of the pilot location beacon. It's not deep, and is hiding in a huge floating rock.
Thanks
it's right above body cache, if you have that beacon
Ty
I see some logs of scanned creatures not really having any description! I think more descriptions will be added/updated in future updates
like what
So Idk where to go next after finishing omega
The sea monkeys used to be annoying, but now I have the propulsion cannon and if they grab my stuff, I can grab them.
They should all have them now. Game build number?
Don't be mean to them, at one point they start helping you
I'm not mean to them, I just want my tools back
is that the number you can see top-right in main menu?
yes
44290
How do you check what update version you are on?
that's the regular public May release
On xbox
options / troubleshooting. Or main menu
alright
i mean with descriptions that are short. like the nootfish description just being NOOOOOOOOT. I don't really mind it though. Still having fun! 
yea
Cant cook with thermoblade
they have to be swimming
The Nootfish does Noot taste good
What do I need to fabricate AL-AN
||skeleton, tissues, organs, special location||
||so there's a special machine for it?||
|| You make the parts at the fabricator facility, there consoles you put the items into. ||
I'm sure I've explored all beacons but I guess I have to check them all
He hasn't gave me any new ones
i wish they would add below zero building compartments to original subnautica so i can upgrade my base
oh sad, game doesn't tell you where to go all the time
You can get lots of stuff in the east artic if oyu got prawnsuit with drill
Oh yeah, I forgot that there were drillable nodes of Copper, Quartz, and Titanium there.
So I've scanned every alien beacon but idk what to do next || I also found the greenhouse which was the last thing it directed me to||
What happened?
I died then respawned in there
Can you exit the seatruck or?
No i couldnt, i used "kill" in console to get me out
lmaooooooo
did not know that you can access mining site with a truck
how
How the heck do I avoid shadows
shadows??????????
what shadows?
explore crystal caverns
shadow leviathans?
i set my next to volcano vents for ez powa
im at the red flower place rn
build it under a shadow levi
wheres shadow levi?
it was a joke
-_-
that place suck for base building
Would I need a reinforced diving suit for the heat
no
make sure you have a depth module that can take you 1k meters down
move quick
i need the last peace
be sneaky
Perimeter defense
ah shiet
You should have it, it's in the pilots base
yeah i built it rn
Use the defense when it grabs you
What i have to do near Marguerit's last coordinates?
explore around, you'll find her
Ok. thanks
surch for large room
Thanks, but should i go deeper?
max 200 meter it's not that deep plus it is marked with flood lights
There is an opening in the thermal vents. It lets you through.
Ok, thanks
I think it's 300m, but I could be misremembering
could be usualy go yolo when i see some stuf fo explore
can get into mining site with truck if you go through that area with a lot of heat vents. a bit complex though
nah you can fit in it straight thrue main dorss
if you dont mind damaging your truck, sure
I couldn't get through the doors... ended up building a base in there so I could breathe 😛
just repair it 4head
didnt damage it tho
thats probably going to be glitching through
is anyone here from russia or knows the culture? i might have f-ed up
a prawn can go through the doors no problem though
this a subnautica chat bro
just save b4 you wanna go there might glitch a bit
ik i just cant get this out of my head
you could try csgo, theres a lot of russians there hah
true but they cant even speak english
some do just few words
my seatruck can go 1000m deep, is that enough for the crystal place
yea
ye ye
goooooooooooood
max depth is 1k in game
maybe a little more
wish me luck
mhm
prawn have 1.1k depth
if you wanna you can dm me your problem and i can try to make sense out of it btw
who
you
LESGO
well what can i say
"screwed" up is a common replacement for that.
now i have to write all that again -_-
I'll DM it to you so you can copy/paste it.
yes
376m
)
it's definitely more beautiful
I want the game but its expensive
is it just me or is the prawn cheaper than the seatruck
its 30
NAH IT IS
not too bad for a game of its calibar
39.99
canada?
i actually feel bad for buying some games tho, hollow knight is too cheap
yeah
everything is cheaper in below zero than in subnautica
i feel like im scamming the devs cos i would pay $60 for that game
I got subnautica when it was free on epic games a year ago
nah
or it just feels like it
im talking about prawn to seatruck, not prawn to old prawn
for 20 hours on content, thats not worth a triple A game price
the sea truck is sick
more than that but okay
im talking about mainstory
idk whether ur talking about sn or hl but they both have 150+ hours of gameplay
yeah but that doesnt mean much
even being a completionist i doubt it takes 60 hours
which game
I have 80 hours in BZ, same in Subnautica and I aint planning on stopping them. 30€ is more than a correct price. Plus AAA games usually cost 60/70€
also im talking about end game content also the game has replayability
what game do you think
idk
expensive :/
i mean i assume sn but i was talking about hk before so idk
subnautica/
ok the prawn is cheaper than the seatruck
ok
yeah
I feel like they nerfed the Prawn in BZ but on the other hand I like it better so idk
i mean the game only takes like 20 hours to beat but there is end game stuff plus with sam and the ||kharaa|| also i could easily replay bz or sn 4 or 5 times (which i have)
the prawn in bz is op, its wayy faster
True
I cured and did main story
Agreed, prawn is way better.
within 22 hours
Feel like grapple arm just lacks compared to Subnautica, everything else is just better
That's because they fixed the ridiculous momentum bug in SN1.
I assume it was fixed. Either that or it never existed in BZ lol
Oh it was a bug ? Thats actually sad, I thought it was supposed to be that way lol
Yeah it has no business going that fast in SN1
Well then I can safely say the Prawn is 100% better now
the truck is waaay better than the cyclops imo
Do you ever notice Robin sometimes makes the sounds as Ryley when she takes damage.
Nah, can't hear it over how loud she is when she eats food or drinks water 😂
Yeah I think thats because they didnt want to record painful screams
I loved the cyclops in theory... but to play with it wasn't as fun as I expected... also it was glitchy for me
Eats food Mmmmh
Lol. First time my gf heard that was hilarious.
In my opinion the Cyclops is overrated. Built it once and hated using it. Its too big, too slow, too impractical in most situations and doesnt fit my playstyle
I don't think girls make those sounds when they eat
She was playing while I was eating lunch. When she ate something in the game and heard that sound, she said "Who the hell reacts like that when they eat something?!" to which I replied "Uh I literally just made that sound. Have you had this chicken?!"
loll
Hmmmm 😌
at long last
I make all sorts of noises when I'm eating good food 😂
I liked the idea of building in the cyclops, which I kind of miss in the truck, but it was so overpowered -- I just built tons of storage etc 😛
I really enjoy seafood
i really enjoy storing penglings in my basement
im late to the hours talk but ive got ~300 hours worth in subnautica from 6-7 replays of it and im only on my first play through of BZ but i 100% intend to replay it several times
They symbiote is said to taste like lobster
Mods
Im on Xbox unfortunately
aeeeeee where's the ventgardens
Someone can just make a mod for it. Don't think it would fit well in below zero though
Original game maybe
in the ||tree spires|| @gaunt wing i found the big one today you just have to swim deeper!
||Tree Spires, directly south of Delta Island, at about 300m deep||
south of delta island
lil bit east
alrighty thanks
yeah i've heard that it's south-southeast
its a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing. Flowers are blooming. On days like this ice worms like this eat my 12th Snowfox.
i'm gonna take my prawn suit there because Why the Heck Not™️
They're really a sight to behold, being the second biggest live leviathans after the ||Emperor|| themselves
i make the same noises as when ice worms eat snow stalkers when i eat
laughs and cries in having no snowfox
iwas so lost trying to find the big ol ventgarden today 😭 wiki said ||tree spires|| and i was losing my mind because i was there. but i ended up realizing i was right above it
I love Iceworms to death. Best creature in the whole franchise, cant change my mind
na, seamonkeys are the best ;-P
there is a dead one
how do you type spoiliers?
dms
||like this||
oh wait you have dms disabled
😐
||
||Theres a corpse on the north east part of the Arctic Spires||
oh |like this|?
||like this||
ahha thanks
no problem <3
so yeah -- you can scan an iceworm via ||a dead one|| which someone already said 😛
They are kinda scary early on
Oops sorry lol
crap my base is losing power
If it loses power just sleep
welp i guess solar panel can't handle power cells charging at night
I did not mean to reply to this mesage but okay...
wait what
You just need to have enough of solar panels
not rly surprising
it's night in my game currently and my base is powered by one solar panel
during night u would need a lot
BZ#44667 by Dmitriy Butuzov: Unk-11416 cold resist buff from held items (flare)
Build a lot of them so you can have a lot of power to burn through the night
i'm thinking of getting either a nuclear reactor or a bioreacter
do a bio
Nice.
and put penglings in it
not worth it, just bio is better
just get tons of solar, then you charge up enough during the day to last you the night
bad idea, too expensive
They're the best energy sources imo
my base is at a really bad location tho so i'm thinking of moving it
yeah i mean undoubtedly nuclear is best but bio is the cheap mans option
Eww, why would you put penglings into it. Everyone knows that Root Pustules are better.
bio is good for bases that you plan to teardown... solar is good because you don't have to babysit it like bio 😛
True
gel is still better
Exact
not very hard when you got a grav trap and some farms
cos u can grow it
Can you plant root pustules?
gel is kinda better
in my base there is a battery charger a power cell charger a recycle and a jukebox with only two solar panels and even in the night it charges.
Used to, but Root Pustules have the best energy output.
r u USING those things?
yeah but u grow gel
And there is a ton in the Kelp Caves
add water filtration and see how good two solar panels work for you 😛
also gel is tasty
true
I mean if you live directly on top of the kelp caves it can be worth it
Otherwise gel sacs are better yeah
is it just me or is BZ a lot less scary than the first game? dont get me wrong, bz is super beautiful and the story so far is just as interesting and motivating but after countless.replays of subnautica 1, im still terrified of the creatures, depths, etc. meanwhile 15 hrs into tje first bz play through and im already numb to ||the ice worm, chelicerates, etc.||
i like the squishing sonud that gel sacks make when you eat them
Music
yeah same
I don't need a water filtration if you combine snow with those things you know you get large filtered water
lol same
the shadow, ice worm, and shrimp just arent scary compared to the reaper
Ikr? Kinda poggers if you ask me.
Shadow is still terrifying to me xD
I’m 18hrs in and I’m scared to go to marg’s base lmao
Same.
ngl its sounds r terrifying
the reaper will destroy the seamoth... haven't had that issue in BZ
Yeah I feel like Subnautuca is survival horror while BZ is survival exploration
Cheli isn't too bad and the ice worm has better sounds than it really is when in a vehicle.
the reaper still scares me so bad that i cant go anywhwre near dunes in the first game 😭 i havent seen the shadow yet so we'll see
but the leviathans r just so easy to deal with
First day of playing I tried to go to it and then I was ambushed by a squid shark
the thing is they respawn I have like four of those food thingies
I have around 50 solar panels at both of my iceberg bases, but nothing really to use the power on
Most terrifying species in the franchise
leave now pls
no.
squisharks are scarier than chelicerates and shadows change my mind
Lol...
Thank you to whoever deleted that
TRUE ive made my base on a lilypad and the squidsharks manage to jumpscare me so often
yeah
I use squidsharks as fuel.
i mean they arent SCARY but they are scarier to me than any other leviathan in bz
lol
BZ doesn't seem as deep to me either, so less scary in that regard
Ehh, they never really intimidated me.
like, the water depth
idk i just cant take the shadow and cheli seriously, i just think of shrimp and centipedes
I had a bad encounter with one my first day of playing, back when I had to take breaks every 30 mins because I was so on edge in the shallows lol
Cheli doesn't scare me
BZ is a lot more shallow than SN1, but has a lot more cave like biomes.
Shadow scares the heck out of me
fax
^^^^ i swam down to the ||purple crystal biome entrance|| (dunno the name) with just the high cap tank and a rebreather and had the time of my life stealing the resources there
my advice is let it grab u, its animations arent that bad
yeah and caves aren't as scary... usually they're narrow so nothing big can fit
although the shadows have jumpscared me cos they ended up where they werent supposed to be near the tree spires
The tree spires? How did it end up all the way there xD
compared to SN1, where you have this huge floating island, and deep below is a huge empty space and a ghost leviathan
terrifying
idk
i mean i think it chased me
in SN1 the sound is more scary because in BZ those silly dark monsters make a lot of noise and you become numb to it
Personally my wish would be the more depth like feeling of Subnautica but with Below Zero's polish of the biomes.
true
bz's creatures are also more way polished than subnautica's, they have a dinosaury feel to them especially the chelicerate and those annoying rabid duck things in the thermal spires
in SN1 if you hear a growl, you better look around and get out of there... in BZ you just ignore it and keep truckin
true
On that I'm mixed, BZ has some cool and some less cool creatures. Same with SN1. It's not necessarily that I would pick one game over the other for that.
im talking more about details rather than overall idea, sn1 has some AMAZING creature design and ideas, but overall bz's creatures feel more polished and detailed even if some of them are uninteresting
nice
overall BZ is better, but SN1 definitely wins in some categories still imo
imo BZ is a lot better story-wise
yeah the terror i sn1 is way better
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Wait there is a storage module?!
yeah
And where
has anyone else kind of memorized every song on the jukebox? im kind of obsessed with them all, theyre super jazzy
?
deep twisty
I like how in sn1 has easier to find resources
yeah my truck setup is ||cab - storage - storage - prawn||
Its a lot more straight forward
i ave that but replace first storage with fabricator and aqaurium
mine is ||cab - fabricator - storage - storage||
i am holding 16 penglings hostage
Mine is ||truck-fabricator-storage-storage-storage||
i want the ||aquarium module|| really bad
How many large rooms are good for a base
more than one is eccentric
I used to use ||fabricator|| in setup but learned I can just build a base instead
All
I just got warned because the first time I asked my question I did it with all caps
yeah but its nice to have it just in case
one usually, 2 if you like your space large and in charge
yeah i saw that its annoying sometimes
||It took me 7 hours to find the habitat builder||
||Im 13 hours in just starting a base||
What are essential parts of a base?
you can get a ||prawn suit docking module|| for the seatruck right?
Yes
idk if this is normal but im pretty endgame rn ||(have all architect components unlocked and ready to craft)|| and i only have two bases with like two multipurpose rooms
my base is ||one big room divided up, control room, moonpool.. that's it||
i ended up waiting 13-14 hours in to make a base, i had like 7 small storage lockers floating outside the drop pod and so many resources falling out of my pockets i forced,myself to make one at some point
Power unit, storage, plants,
where can i find the fragments for it
in purple vents caves like where the spiral plants r
Rip i never used those things i didnt trust them after sn1
alrighty
They would always just up and dissapear
i'm moving my base to delta station because i've heard that it's a good place to build a base
||Lots of lithium probably the reason why||
Can I just say for a moment that I hate the water lockers xD
hello there mister cryptosuchus
But why?
not a lot of people seem to recommend it but i big rec the top of big lilypads to build a base on! very neat and fun and tje lilypad biome has tons of resources. also endless creative possiblities
You need 4 titanium for it that you won't get back for a while, and you get 16 slots for it. That's hardly anything, so you will probably need more of them. Which costs more resources for again barely anything compared to a proper locker in a real base.
You could also spend that titanium on a proper base instead 😛
Say that to me just starting the game not having any idea what hell I am doing
I actually prefer playing with one small base for stockpiling, but mostly playing mobile -- using the truck, go to a new location, build a tiny base, explore for a while, tear down the base, repeat
it's fun to try and keep things minimal and sustainable
The builder is unlocked pretty quickly in this game, it's not too far out. For your first game sure, go use it. I'm not saying you're not allowed to. But I'm saying for a second, third run it's a bit of a waste IMO 😄
my save file got corrupted AGAIN, i didn't even save this time
What happened?
i think it's because i closed the game while entering a vehicle
What platform do you play on?
pc, steam
Yeah that happens lol. Seatruck is a bit OP in terms of damage xD
i'm just gonna uninstall until UW makes more stability pathces
If you still want to, would you mind sending a report to @scarlet oriole with the issue? They can't do anything about it if we don't know what happened. It will guide you through the report when you say 'hi'.
I challenged your spy pengling to a footrace earlier.
To go to the crystal caves you need Depth MK3
To get Depth MK3 you need kyanite
To get kyanite you need to get to the crystal caves
gotta just go for it 😛
Just cba going there and then back to my modification station then back 😫
not really there is kyanite above 1000m
What all do I need Kyanite for other than Depth Modules??
nothing maybe an air tank and a rebreather there is kyanite on the ground.
The rebreather does not need kyanite. But it is needed for ||alans vessel||
Ohh wait I read it wrong.
new base is up and running
Just depth modules, thermal reactor, and ||alans vessel||
What is going to be your target fuel for this run?
i just saw the ending. i hate those kinds of endings -_-
will there be subnautica 3?
we dont know
with aliens. that would be sick
its a beautiful day outside. skyrays are flying.Thermal lilies are blooming. On days like this ice worms like this eat my 12th Snowfox.
hi
hi
so
so what?
Don't.
Can i get Parallel Processing Unit without Laser Cutter?
NO
please
NO
no you cant.
please
NO!!!
@terse pivot stop asking.
Do u guys think they'll make another subnautica lol
ok but please
did the devs have had plans to make bz a factorio/satisfactory kind of game?
no
Im waiting for multiplayer
could swear they had
I don't even buy games virtually.
I mean the ending of below zero does look promising for another subnautica but idk
but the factory automation got scrapped
I don't ended this game, but I agree that the lore looks unfinished
imagine automatic batteries 😩
honestly i feel like they had plans for factory mechanics in bz
or what does xenoworx do for work again?
What do I do after I cure the levithian? is that it?
genetic something research idk
so no mining 😔
no
still looks like the devs had factory mechanics planned but they got scapped
wdym
find the ||architect body parts then build the architect||
dunno koppa mines has all the stuff to carry ores from a to b
imagine satisfactory mechanics in bz to make automatic batteries etc
but idk
is it a problem if I saved on the surface?
Where i can get blueprint of laser cutter?
Ok, thanks
koppa and phi has it
and mercury
literally everywhere
i guess go|| find marg again|| or|| carry on getting alans stuff||
do the second thing i said
is there some kind of rule that u cant spoil anything here?
no
Just anything relating to the ending.
Alan still hasn't gave me the crystal cave caches location
its easy to find
Yeah, just had to wiki it, don't know why he didn't beacon it though
he said why he couldnt
he never does. I think
which one was the room item that is built bigger in the big room, and smaller in the regular circular room? I thought it was the aquarium, but it's the same size in both rooms
||the crystals distorted the signals he was getting which is why he couldnt detect it||
alien containment?
Ah, yes, maybe that was the one. Am I to put the eggs I found in the acquarium?
You can put eggs in it if thats what you mean
What's to do with them anyway? Put them in the aquarium and they become fish?
jup
and the alien containment, instead?
Actually, it's not letting me put my eggs in the aquarium... maybe because they are unidentified?
||in my opinion it looks like that the next one is going to be in all-ans planet but I have no idea where there is sea there||
also the aquarium seems rather small... I remember in the first one it was bigger?
you have to put them in the alien containment
it wasnt
I remember being able to enter it?
alien containment...
ahh...
so all these eggs are for the alien containment? I can't transfer them to the AQ
no, not to what I know
the aquarium can only be used for fish already fully developed
ah, I see
plants as well maybe never tried
I almost have all achivements but the dressed for the weather is bugged.😔
About to make the stora- body components 
close one
What are the achievements
steam achievements
Ye
np
the rest are going to play it "soon"
It's because people have it on multiple accounts
I play on the ps4 but they are the same thing just renamed trophies.
no. they havent started the game, most of them
Another thing is people on the beta completed the game before achievements were made
you have to drop them
yes but that's the alien containment.. I only have an aquarium
afraid of pine cones?
then get alien containment
Early access u mean? if so they worked fine for me. Did all of them other than the endings ofc as it hasnt been finished back then
yep, I wasn't planning on not getting it...
I didn't have before playing the game, now I do and probably many other people
thalassophobia
spoiler ||go to the mercury 2 explore it and you should find it somewhere in there||
no idea what that place is, but thanks
look around the ||delta island|| and you should find it its ||a crashed ship||
ah I've been there. I've yet to explore it since I only just got a high capacity tank
also dont remember if i mentioned this but they reused the description for the moonpool
it says seamoth/prawnsuit
seamoth is not in the game
take a rebreather aswell
I got that one, fortunately
i nearly died a million times there
also maybe a pathfinder that is optional
i didnt use one but it is a good idea so that you get the hell out easily if you are running out of oxygen
i remember somebody got it inside the mining site not stuck in between the doors but like legit inside of the mining site
Is the achievement for ||using the antidote|| Story related
its not req to beat the game
get out slash it with a knife or use the propulsion arm with the prawnsuit
||leaving 4546b is though right? How can I use the antidote before leaving, I'm close to finishing the game I think||
idk i havent beat the game yet
i mean i assume so
go to the little robot and press the thing on the screen
I haven't pawn suit, but i don't want to destroy it
oh just hope it nudges
What little robot? ||I've just made Alan's body now I'm going to meet him at the gate||
Just after a nice platinum screenshot
spoilers ||you are going to find some PDAs at the mining site that tell you that this subnautica happened 2 years sfter the other in the timeline and so the cannon is alredy deactivated and the virus is contained by the emperor and the ice||
No, unsuccessfully
go to the frozen lev and if you go to its head you should see this cart kinda thingy theres also a screen press that after you placed the antidote onto the robot
so?
||thats why the antidote isn't required||
for what?
for leaving the planet
ye well playing sn you find out that the ||antidote|| has been made well you make it
drilling for ore is such a pain
im just gonna scan artefacts
how do you get the one in the glacial basin?
the place with the bridge you have to fix
praying for daddy rng to give you two ores from a vein stage is torture
||i found a teleporter do i need to power that?||
||in the φ facility?||
phi?
ok
the only food i trust is spicyfruit salad
so do I
no exploring a different part of the ||basin a found a teleporter that i can power with an ion cube||
daddy koppa hooked me up with rubies though, I only had to save and reload like 7 times
||no I think there is no use for that portal||
Where?
over da bridge
|| phi robotics?||
nope
Thought so
||u have to deposit smth in the bridge||
w
32 rubies from Koppa 
i did
||then you just have to open the bridge from the little computer screen next to the place that u depositted the acid, and after you cross the bridge, be careful||
i did all that stuff how do i get to the artefact though
i even have the ||snowfox||
called it snowy
just search around the island it is hard to find
Guys, where i find lithium?
k
||if u have a prawn suit with a graple arm then it is better than the snow fox ||
||you can reach insane speeds with it, also bring the drill arm||
oml Koppa has SO much thermal
i have da power of bubbles
Robin has bubble power
what in the world am I looking at right now?
Fun fact: Robins Goggles are not actually just a screen overlay but an actual model in game that moves accordingly
robin lol
yes but where is her head?
Head disappears while in freecam
yup
i think is better than the previous one
did you see the green glass jar?