10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing Subnautica

[@TheLastBacon]

Only just got this recommended - great video! :)

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank You! I love your videos :D

[@lhzoz7]

Huh same

[@mr.boomguy]

Me too, just 2 days later xD

[@PatrickMele]

TheLastBacon?! I love your vids, and I agree with you. 🙂

[@sacred9813]

Was not expecting you being here

[@YouthRightsRadical]

Trick I found for Stalker Teeth: Get five pieces of metal salvage and a gravity trap. Find a stalker and drop the salvage and the grav trap. The grav trap keeps the stalker and the salvage together and the stalker will be constantly dropping one piece of metal salvage to pick up a different piece. This produces a massive number of stalker teeth very quickly.

[@Breathtaker5000]

That’s clever, I honestly need to experiment with grav traps a lot more

[@brodriguez11000]

Scanner room can track teeth. Don't forget the HUD upgrade.

[@slavking992]

And here I thought trapping them in caves with airpipes and salvage was a big brain move. I shalll be making a stalker tooth farm with grav traps from now on.

[@EdilbertFernando]

Ladies and gentlemen we got him!

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

Man, I always used grav traps for easy food and water, but never thought to use it for farming stalker teeth. I'll have to try that next time!

[@smactanya]

I honestly wish I could play this game for the first time again and at number 7 is literally the spot everyone goes through

[@Breathtaker5000]

Agreed! The first playthrough of this game is something truly special

[@mightyflamingo9336]

indeed, i just discovered with this video that you can enter somewhere else with the propulsion gun

[@kylegraham7363]

The first time I played it I never saw the sea dragon so I never knew it existed until my second playthrough 💀

[@TheSuperDuperLS]

Not me.

[@YoutubeKnight53]

​@@kylegraham7363lmao

[@IamDaveDev]

Fun fact: the extra 10 seconds of oxygen was originally a bug, but the developers thought it was a good quality of life feature, so they kept it in.

[@firstname9954]

well its accurate actually,once your oxygen tank is out,you don't instantly lose consciousness

[@gaymer816]

Hate to be that "um, actually" guy, but it's just the brief part where it's pitch black and you're still breathing that was originally a bug but became a Todd Howard special

[@ulysses847]

@@gaymer816it just works

[@Local_Iterator]

Well actually you dont spawn with an oxygen tank so its assumed that the character has a 45 second lung capacity. It is still realistic tho because you dont instantly die after inhaling water​@firstname9954

[@Miglow]

That's hilarious and awesome. One of my favorite jokes is "it's not a bug, it's a feature!" And it's cool to see cases when devs make this officially true

[@CollectiveCorgi-hd3hm]

Another tip I would recommend is burst fire with the stasis rifle first, then charge shot. Uncharged shots freeze the targeted area for 6.5 seconds; fully charged shots freeze the targeted area for 30 seconds. Triple tapping a leviathan gives you a good chance to immobilize it long enough to charge a full shot, which then gives you plenty of time to get away. Makes handling everything from Reapers to Ghost leviathans a walk in the park.

[@ja-nozeveryman5865]

3:50 also you can just use scaning room and if you have your base near kelp forest, you will find a lot of them. 5:52 monster.

[@Tim22344]

In BZ i usually use Baby penguins to fuel my Bioreactor.

[@ja-nozeveryman5865]

@@Tim22344 Why penguins? I use bodies Mercury II staff. A little rotten, but still.

[@vladvulcan]

@@Tim22344 sick freak

[@JamalJackson-bc7rp]

@@ja-nozeveryman5865no

[@connorkramer7812]

In my opinion I think the cuddlefish looks ugly

[@zachlandis8728]

Beacons are also useful because if you have one in your inventory, it will drop if you die, allowing you to locate your lost items easier

[@brodriguez11000]

Had one that ended in the ground and in a bad neighborhood.

[@deathkilleraw.o.w3244]

I only play hardcore so no death please .but agree there good for marking places .

[@MortonGoldthwait]

Good to know. Thanks!

[@sharkrancher282]

​@@deathkilleraw.o.w3244; Lol, ditto! I get a little jealous looking at some of the fun stuff you can do in Survival Mode (ESPECIALLY the really neat bases a lot of folks have managed to build); but, for my money, there's no thrill quite like playing Subnautica on Hardcore. I've got a really nice 55+ hour run going right now; where I'm just having a good time building cool bases and (carefully) exploring the map. It's kind of exciting knowing that all of my hard work can be instantly undone by a single unlucky Crashfish blast.

[@noonecaresxhxz]

this is actually key knowledge thanks

[@vixendembny1711]

the scanner room is a super underutilized tool. for example, you can build one in the safe shallows and scan for stalker teeth, rather than farming them yourself.

[@MortonGoldthwait]

Scanner Bases are the only other bases I construct. They are god tier for farming. I build so many that I wrote down a formula for whenever I want to set up shop in a new biome. 17 titanium 5 Quartz 2 Shelf Coral Sample 4 Copper 2 Gold 3 Scanner Range Upgrades 1 Scanner Speed Upgrade 1 Beacon (be sure to give your base a clever name) Packing all that will give you enough for a scanner base, a hatch, two solar panels, a fabricator and superior radar.

[@АлександрЛоктионов-б4г]

Except that most teeth it shows have clipped through the seabed. The best way to exploit that is to go to the mushroom cave, check which of those teeth signatures are moving down and wait for them to fall out of the ceiling. It's so stupid.

[@speedude0164]

In a new playthrough, the faster you can get a Scanner Room, Moonpool and Battery Charger, the better.

[@HH-hd7nd]

@@АлександрЛоктионов-б4г Actually not true in most of the cases. Most people entirely forget that the Kelp Forests have a lot of caves - and the stalkers play inside the caves too. I've seen a lot of people complaining about this while in reality the teeth where just in the caves instead of the surface. It can occasionally happen that something clips into the ground but that is a lot more rare than most people assume.

[@cabriskus4700]

I just started playing this game today, and I just got the scanner room with the hud link and oml does it make the game so much easier

[@abaddon1371]

1:45 in addtion to the +10 seconds, it can be a good idea to carry a couple of Bladderfish when either deep diving with limited oxygen tank or when exploring wrecks. Bladderfish, while being great for water in the beginning, can also be eaten raw and when you do so, they provide the player with 15 oxygen points.

[@garryuyahoo]

Learned that the emergency floatation device made from bladder fish can be used for a bit of oxygen as well.

[@charlesg7926]

Honestly, it’s much better just to carry a spare “ultra high capacity tank”, the game really isn’t that hard lol. It’s epic and immersive though

[@charlesg7926]

Also the pathfinder tool is the best item for wrecks, BAR NONE. It prevents you from getting lost bcuz it illuminates a path back to the surface.

[@charlesg7926]

Here’s the key with the pathfinder tool: put a marker at the entrance (right in the doorway) of each room, then a 2nd marker in the middle of the room (to brighten it up). And put a marker each time a duct/tunnel changes direction.

[@speedude0164]

@@charlesg7926 I never used the Pathfinder Tool since by the time I made it I had enough oxygen and past experience to avoid getting lost and running out, but I may still wanna consider making one in the earlier half of my next playthrough.

[@HungryWanderer86]

I don't use the Cyclops as a vehicle, I use it more like a mobile base, once I get it as close as possible to the place I wanna go to, I turn off the engine, station it, and completely rely on the sea-moth/prawn-suit to explore, and in areas with more than 2 leviathans prowling like the Lost river, I try to rely even less on my vehicles to avoid drawing their attention.

[@mospusthespider1246]

One thing that I haven’t seen mentioned in the comments or the video is that reefbacks can provide a good source of copper before getting the drill arm. Breaking the glowing barnacles on their back gives you copper and sometimes silver. Way more reliable than banking on limestone outcrops, in my opinion.

[@virt1one]

unfortunately a lot of reefbacks have tiger plants on them that are a fairly serious hazard until you get the reinforced dive suit some time later. Also FWIW, you can knife the tiger plant and iirc they disappear like any other plant (requires three strikes) . That permanently removes them from that location, and gives you seeds to plant. Warning: the adult plants will be hostile, and WILL target you even inside your base, making holes in it over and over till you realize what's happening. (guess how I know that?)

[@zenphir9051]

Im pretty sure that “secondary” entrance is the intended route, since it was the default entrance before the prawn bay was added.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Good point!

[@MrKalidascopeEyes]

The scanner even comments on the spider crabs having human in their digestive tracks over there

[@nnelg8139]

Yeah I never even knew about the propulsion cannon entrance...actually, idk if I ever even used a propulsion cannon.

[@MrKalidascopeEyes]

@@nnelg8139 it's handy either one all sorts of weapons everywhere. But crashfish have to be raised in a tank then stored in inventory

[@Broockle]

@@MrKalidascopeEyes u can only carry so many items and for me the propulsion canon nvr made the cut 😅 The prawn suit even gets a propulsion canon arm I think which I also found very little use for. 🤔

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

This is a trick that is used in speed runs but is actually part of the cote game on purpose: if you hold shift (or equivalent) when crafting you can stay in the crafting menu and navigate it while your item is being made. Its not insanely useful, but if you're making a lot of stuff that is multi layered crafting it can be useful for speeding it along.

[@TheGreatCyberwolf]

Idk what that would be on PS4, but it SURE WOULD'VE BEEN HANDY in the 10+ playthroughs I've done

[@hystericalgd9497]

i'd like to add to the reaper thing: if you want to be safe around reapers (and yes, this is a perfect tip for hardcore runs) always have uncooked peepers onhand. most of the times reapers will come at you, snatch the fish out of your hand, and then swim away for a short time period.

[@dlievitanz]

Lol

[@NinjaFlout]

Or just have a heat knife and stasis rifle? More reliable + get rid of the problem permanently

[@hystericalgd9497]

@@NinjaFlout na, stasis rifle is hard to hit, i trust the live peeper strat way more than the stasis rifle

[@Kingslayer11]

No that’s stalkers

[@wiquid]

Feed the Reaper a Peeper.

[@yawningkitty457]

Something that I have noticed about the more aggresive creatures in this game is if you get into a fight with e.g a Stalker and you wound it enough that it tries to escape, if you don't kill it, it will swim towards your lifepod, now scale that up to the Reaper and after two or three such fights, you can have a Reaper swimming arround your lifepod in the supposed 'safe' starting area. This works with all predatory creatures in the game, so be warned about leaving gribblies to swim away from a fight.

[@Breathtaker5000]

I’ve noticed this too. They can also follow you quite far in the cyclops - nothing more terrifying than seeing a reaper in a place where you WEREN’T EXPECTING to see a reaper

[@cursedone2231]

Sea dragon too?

[@yawningkitty457]

@@cursedone2231 Honestly don't know, never tried on one.

[@unknowncompany4479]

One thing i personally crutch on is the scanner room. I tell all of my friends that are playing Subnautica for the first time "build a scanner room, maxout its range, and build the hud chip ASAP. You will thank me later."

[@kumaahito3927]

Yeah, that is literally the most useful thing in the entire game for me. On my first playthrough I managed to discover its usefulness quite quickly, and built scanner bases throughout the map. Like... I had 5-7 maxed out control rooms in the lost river alone. Especially underground, near a heat source, it is very easy to build small bases with infinite energy

[@slavking992]

One of the funnest challenges is containing a reaper in a 'tank' by trapping it in a space enclosed by the big rooms since it was added to the original game. Such a joy looking at your pet leviathan in your improvised containment area and a real grind on your sanity when constructing such a big project😂

[@Breathtaker5000]

I’m gonna have to try this at some point

[@alexpena4091]

You probably used a stasis rifle I'm guessing

[@slavking992]

@@alexpena4091 at first I thought it was a good idea, but eventually I just left it for inventory space. Quite a few deaths mind you😂 (I am yet to attempt it on hardcore, I'll keep the stasis rifle then)

[@oliverandom6808]

My tip: There is no need for a seamoth to get to the aurora. All you need is a seaglide, and you might not even need that. Simply climb on your lifepod, point yourself in the direction of the Aurora, and swim. This worked without fail for me many times. Its also the best way to find the capsized lifepod, forgot what it's called.

[@lodgeAlloy275]

I made a base directly underneath the capsized lifepod without even knowing, and was surprised when i looked up and seen it

[@timklafke4712]

Wait capsized lifepod?? I don’t remember that, but I haven’t played this game in so long. Is it near the aurora

[@seeargee]

@@timklafke4712 yes, i believe it’s life pod 4, it’s pretty close to the aurora

[@asteropax6469]

⁠@@timklafke4712you will eventually find a total of 9 life pods besides your own. Lifepod 4 is the capsized lifepod and is at the water’s surface. You can find it to the northwest of the aurora’s wreck.

[@chadnorris8257]

Pretty sure at one point, there was a Reaper spawn on the left side of the Aurora, to keep you from just swimming to it. It was removed, I guess, because I haven't seen it in recent playthroughs, making the side closest to the lifepod fairly safe.

[@wisewyatt5668]

Another tip for reapers: keep a peeper in your hotbar, and if a reaper is charging you, hold it out. The reaper will eat the peeper out of your hand and ignore you for a minute or so.

[@davegerald1043]

5:56 Do not ever hold a cuddle fish egg again, you have just lost that right.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yummy omelette go brrrrrr :)

[@vladvulcan]

@@Breathtaker5000 unsubbed

[@larswilms8275]

@@vladvulcan He could have used actual cuddlefish.

[@vladvulcan]

@@larswilms8275 not possible

[@mir6165]

@@larswilms8275you litteraly cannot use grown cuddle fish

[@laimis763]

There is two more advanced tips with the reaper (that I found). 1. Before reaper approaches you they will not scream for a while. 2. They will most likely come from your back. So when the reaper goes silent, turn around just in case. P.S. The wiki and PDA also say that reapers will circle there pray before attacking. P.S.2 great video I actually didn’t know that only one 3/4 metal salvage can yield stalker teeth and I thought that swimming in the water was faster, turns out it isn’t.

[@Breathtaker5000]

They are also not very agile, and you can avoid them by doing circles around em, it is very funny

[@laimis763]

@@Breathtaker5000 The devs actually did it on purpose to give players time to escape the reaper.

[@theterrorofdimensions1326]

That's the weakness of being able to move as fast as a Reaper does, but also being so large. XD

[@nooneofimportance2110]

I have a great story involving that.

[@jakoblopez5691]

Fun fact about reapers they use echolocation to hunt so that means if u can hear them they can see u

[@Stambo59]

I got this game free on Epic game store because my son wanted to play it. He kept asking me "how do I do this and that" so I installed it on my PC too. I played for a short while and was hooked. Several hundred hours later I keep going back and doing "Just one more play through". When Below Zero came out I was happy to drop some cash and support the devs.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yup, it’s just such a good game

[@CASA-dy4vs]

Below zero..haven’t heard that name since 5 hours ago when I just finished getting one of those underwater scooter things (I can’t remember lol) fun game sad it didn’t go so deep

[@miffedcuttlefish6139]

Meh. BZ didnt have tge same feel of Subnautica

[@NovumSB]

What do you think of bz?

[@Stambo59]

@@NovumSB I like it but not as much as the first one.

[@nicholaslisle7089]

Use three scraps and a gravity trap for a stalker farm. Pick up any fish that is trapped and materials. Great stalker tooth farm. Though, be sure to collect the gravity trap when you are done. The stalkers will steal them.

[@Breathtaker5000]

That’s smart

[@myview5840]

Hence i gave up using drones

[@marcosdheleno]

you can also use the gravity trap for those fishes inside the vents that get cooked. just put it close enough to the entrance, and it will collect them for you.

[@HH-hd7nd]

I have never seen a stalker stealing a grave trap. They steal the drones from the scanner room all the time, but I have never sever seen one talking one of my grav traps.

[@nicholaslisle7089]

They do not grab it. They swim away while being pulled by it. So they steal it.@@HH-hd7nd

[@Comp1337Loser]

4:45 “So if you have good timing, and a non-existent self-preservation instinct” 😂 Greatest beginning to any sentence ever

[@RedFloyd469]

Here's some general tips that may improve people's enjoyment, if they didn't already know: 1) For those having trouble with stalker teeth: Create a grav trap, find some metal salvage, fill up your inventory with said salvage, go to the nearest stalker nest, and drop all metal salvage close to one another, somewhere where the stalkers will immediately pick up on them. Activate grav trap. Enjoy eternal stalker teeth farm. They should drop by about a dozen every minute, if not more. Best thing is, the stalkers can't take your metal salvage away from the grav trap. If you need the salvage again for your own purposes, just pick them back up. The grav trap requires a battery but will never run out of it's charge. 2) Don't just use the cyclops as a big clunky vehicle. Use it as a portable base, in which you can store MORE bases for you to deploy at your own leisure. You can use the base builder tool to fill your cyclops to the brink with all sorts of lockers and storage containers. You can even build storage containers OVER the ones the cyclops has by default, right next to it's person entrance. Last run I was drilling titanium, gold, lead, silver, kyanite and uranite for several hours in a row and STILL didn't entirely fill up all personally placed containers on the cyclops. A singular, fully functional scanner room (all upgrades) + multipurpose room, with bioreactor, potted plants (I suggest marblemelons for both sustenance AND bioreactor fuel), a fabricator, med kit fabricator, battery recharger, power cell recharger and a single locker, solar panel, thermal plants, several power lines, a wall reinforcement, a platform, an outside growbed and 24 biogel(They have the highest concentrated energy output per square out of all flora)/biogel seeds will ALL fit in about 5-6 standing, 48 squared lockers. You can use this carriable base to create underwater bases everywhere you go, deconstruct them and store them again once you're finished. Takes a few minutes tops to build and deconstruct at your leisure. I suggest the small room between the cockpit and the vehicle storage bay as a valid place to store these 5-6 lockers (plus 4 plantpots with 4 marblemelons each in them for infinite food and water) 3) PRO TIP: Using the base builder tool INSIDE a POWERED base (so one that is above 0 power) does NOT require any batteries. This was likely added as a means to avoid the player from softlocking themselves inside a base. No more switching around batteries and recharging them constantly just because you build some lockers. Simply being NEAR a powered base, WILL require a battery charge, however. 4) Resist the urge to escape the seamoth if a reaper has it in it's clutches with you inside, so long as the seamoth is caught at 100% health. So long as you are inside, the reaper WILL let go of it in time before it explodes, giving you time to escape and repair. LEAVE the seamoth while the reaper has a hold on it, however, and the reaper will hold on for far longer. If the seamoth has no reinforcement upgrades, it WILL explode. Anything inside the seamoth's storage will dissapear. 5) Reapers don't respawn. Take a stasis rifle and a heated knife to their face, hack them a bunch of times and prove that you are the only real apex predator around. Or respect nature and don't. The choice is yours (consider for a moment that the reaper is just an innocent animal and doesn't even see the seamoth as food. It just hates loud noises. At no point in the game do you NEED to engage with a reaper, they are all perfectly avoidable. A bunch of people have reported to have finished the game and never even seen a reaper to begin with.) 6) You can stack multipurpose rooms on top of one another if you have a lack of room to build horizontally. You will need ladders though, and getting down a ladder that is next to a ladder going up is a pain in the ass, as their interaction areas overlap. 7) If you ever find a cave entrance blocked off by a boulder, you can put floaters on the boulder to make it drift off. Swimming against the side of the boulder if there is a small gap will also knock it away. 8) If you load a game, chances are your scanner room won't pick up the same amount of stuff as it did when you left the game. This is because the game has to load in the areas around the scanner room again. Drive around the seamoth in a radius of max 500m around the scanner room, and it's scanners will return to normal and remain that way until you leave the game again. 9) If you have the prawn suit, you can move to speeds approximating that of the seamoth if you use your arms wisely. Use the grappling arm and once the arm sticks to a surface, use the jump boost, you will massively increase your speeds. By using the grappling arm on the floor, rather than a wall, and using the jump boost then, it will boost you forward at high speeds. You can basically move as fast as the cyclops's second speed setting this way, if not faster. So don't just rely on either jump boost or grappling arm. 10) The normal prawn suit arm (nothing equiped) isn't just a punching arm. You can pick up stuff with it, which will immediately go to the prawn's storage if it has any. You can use this to get sulphuric acid in the lost river without harming yourself. 11) You can get rid of warpers if they're ever being a nuisance to you if you're foraging. Equip a propulsion cannon, drop an acid mushroom, shoot the mushroom at the warper. The warper will be insta-killed, but will respawn if you reload the area either manually or if you leave the area long enough. 12) If you feed a reaper a peeper, the reaper will apparantly go away temporarily (I read this online, still have to test it out for myself, sorry.)

[@Lennart1995]

These are great, thanks! I screenshotted the entire comment hehe

[@Lennart1995]

Also, picking up gas pods and releasing those after a leviathan has been frozen by the stasis rifle is a really effective way of killing them.

[@kaws8778]

Big storage containers inside your cyclops can fall through the bottom when attacked by a leviathan, better to build small lockers attached to the walls. Also try not to leave the prawn suit inside the temples, it can clip into the floor and become stuck forever if you get too far away.

[@nova.3192]

Bro just dropped his entire years long subnautica experience in a single comment

[@ZainKhan-b2d]

Did no one see him put 16 CUDDLEFISH EGGS?!?!

[@xasozine]

What a monster

[@Aurath_weh]

Good powah source 😋

[@elit3spartan3]

I am all for loving computerized creatures. But at the end of the day I love my real pets more than a pet.

[@248nutella9]

I would recommend carrying 2 beacons at around the time when you get the cyclops (the huge submarine for you newbies) because you probably arent going to go back home after finding a single thing only

[@Breathtaker5000]

Good idea!

[@Notmauer2341]

when you have a cyclops can you not just make a fabricator in there and then just build new ones?

[@248nutella9]

You can but its kinda annoying to get the resources on the go for it

[@terraversalvoid5391]

One of the first things I did was make a dozen of them haha.

[@248nutella9]

A dozen is about what you will need total, maybe a bit more if you wanna mark e v e r y t h i n g

[@thamakil1394]

A small note on the subject of power priority: I have made the experience that with a very large base and especially when using power transmitters, the order can unfortunately change after reloading the game. I think the game first loads what is immediately around the player and only then gradually loads objects further away. For me, the bio-generator in the base regularly became the first device and, for example, thermal generators or solar panels that were further away and connected via transmitters became secondary devices, which was very annoying.

[@wjrneo2]

Yes. Power prioritization is based on which power piece loads in first. So if bioreactor loads before solar panels, the bioreactor is #1. With all the updates to the game I wish the devs had given us the ability to set power priorities without having to resort to Mods. That said, power priority mod works great.

[@AlexKaplan97]

Just beat the game for the first time yesterday. I never found the second beacon fragment so I played the game without them. I navigated using the compass and by surfacing to check my orientation to the Aurora. Once I built my first scanner room, I was able to write down basic gps coordinates for discoveries by the distance from my life pod and scanner room.

[@virt1one]

+ you can craft more than one oxygen tank and "hot swap" when your air warning comes up. But spare tank(s) take up inventory space. Just remember to swap them when you get back to base to refill them. I've drowned more than once due to swapping and realizing that tan is ALSO empty because I forgot to refill it. + you can craft a scanner from a battery and one ti. The battery can be completely dead, but the crafted scanner's battery will be full. So you can effectively fully recharge a battery at a fabricator for a cost of one titanium. (and just throw away the empty scanner after removing the battery) + IMO the bulbo tree is the best source of food and water. just knife a tree on the gun or degasi island to get a cutting. (plants always grow, even if the cutting is rotten). An indoor growbed with four trees planted in it provides all the food and water you need (it's just not good for travel) I drop one of these in the entrance of all my bases. Just don't forget your knife. + solar panels recover their energy faster the closer you are to the surface + structures can be "turned off" by starting to disassemble them. good for powering off the bio reactor to conserve fish (say if it's just an air outpost base and you're going to leave it for awhile and you want to guarantee you have immediate oxygen available there net time you stop in), or water purifier to conserve power + if a base piece you're trying to build outside lets you freely rotate it, it's a new base and won't share power (AND structural strength) with any other nearby base, regardless of how close it looks. pieces that snap to 90 degree rotations are part of the base you're near and will share power/strength. you can also abuse this to extend a base any distance you have the patience for, deconstructing the previous piece after building the next one, to extend the coverage of solar, thermal, or nuclear power a bit without needing power transmitters + base pieces are solid as soon as you start to build them. you can abuse this to place shelves (I use foundations) to land your pawn suit on when you need to get it up a tall steep cliff. also the suit won't fall if you deconstruct what it's standing on. (you can even walk around at that level after it's deconstructed!) But they need to be built near another base piece, so you might need to "walk" one up from the ground as above abusing the base extending for power) + if your inventory is full AND the locker you have open is full, you can still (slowly) switch contents. drag an item out of one, and over another item in the other list and you'll see the "swap" icon. release and the items exchange places. + the player swims slower (on the surface and below water) if they're holding a tool. put the tool away (press its number button again to go to two hands) to swim faster.

[@PebbleAddie]

Entire book of useful tips :D

[@LAZERAK47V2]

Listen, the Prawn Suit may protect you from the creature that can one shot you. But not if he has some biomechanical backup who happens to have a way to forcibly eject you from your Prawn.

[@canadiangopher4443]

i have never seen one of those alien teleporters (i forget their name) in the lava zone, didn't think they spawned there.

[@Ytcuber280]

​@@canadiangopher4443They're called Warpers btw

[@Madtrack]

yep got me once. i was so close to dying.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@canadiangopher4443 There was a time when I first started streaming that I did a playthrough of Subnautica. I was trying to dodge around the Sea Dragon and a Warper got me from off screen. I kid you not, I was teleported about 15ft away from the Dragon's face. The was a brief pause as we just kind of looked at each other and I immediately hightailed it. I was disoriented from the Warp and couldn't find my Prawn. What followed was about 3 minutes of absolute silence on stream, I was completely focused on hiding from the Dragon.

[@TlalocTemporal]

Don't forget lining up a lava vomit that shatters the PRAWN faster than you can grapple. Bonus points if you left your cyclops in the inactive lava zone.

[@373iimak]

With 1300 hours in Subnautica, (Half are AFK) I could say that I know a few thing about this masterpiece of a game. Yet, I didn’t know about the one with the thermal vents. The video was very good, and was on point! Subscribed.

[@Breathtaker5000]

1300 Hours! Even with AFK time that is insane. Welcome aboard! 😉

[@DamageMaximo]

the fuck have you been doing for 1300 hours in subnautica lmfao, did you replay the game 78 times?

[@MareLoverZL]

Why afk???

[@373iimak]

@@MareLoverZL i’m the type of person to leave my computer on for LOOOOOOOOONG periods of time.

[@brodriguez11000]

Fish rots over time.

[@shinmalphur2734]

Having and switching to a spare oxygen tank increases how long you can stay underwater. Using this trick I used the sea-moth to go down 900 meters into the lost river and used 3 of the highest capacity oxygen tanks and med kits to go the rest of the way to the primary containment facility. Having small base built just outside of the QEP (big gun) with a fabricator and storage would also be good to have.

[@technokicksyourass]

You can reach the alien thermal plant using only 3 high-cap tanks and a sea glide. The thermal plant has air, so you can refill your tanks once you reach it. You can then return to the surface make a blue tablet, and push on to the primary containment facility.

[@KaiTheMemeKing]

I'm playing deathrun, a super difficult modded version of Subnautica, and I always carry an extra ultra high capacity tank with me because you have to do so much freediving on default settings. Sacrifices some inventory space, but definitely underrated in the normal game

[@janinemurdock2043]

One other thing I'd point out for beginners that i myself only just realized on my (6th? 7th?) playthrough is that when you're exploring the caves in the Shallows for cave sulfur, a vital early resource, you can actually kill the crash fish (the fish sitting above the cave sulfur deposits who chases after you and explodes) with your knife and they will just pop harmlessly instead of blowing up in your face and doing damage, which not only saves the use of a health pack but also makes it so you don't have to waste time running away from them.

[@dhayes907]

Thank you kind stranger.😊

[@josephbarkwell5855]

Once you get the propulsion cannon you can have fun grabbing them and shooting them at things to explode

[@kakkoishorts]

5:49 looks like a war crime

[@juanferroso4464]

This is worse

[@benfletcher8100]

If it isn’t already, it should be

[@apathyguy8338]

Didn't think I'd encounter anything new but I was unaware of the power priorities. So I'll tell you a trick I picked up ages ago. Near the beginning of the game it's easy to make fire extinguishers and they work like Jets underwater. Much faster than the air bladder if you need to get to the surface fast swim backwards and point it down.

[@FL4k1224]

This will definitely be a big help I started saving up money yesterday by helping my dad move some dirt and when I get subnatica I’m definitely coming back and rewatching this video

[@Greirat]

Late comment but don’t watch videos on this game before you play, this is one game you don’t want any spoilers for

[@Christian_7777-d9n]

excellent advice, I knew that the noise of the cyclops attracts predators but it never occurred to me to turn off the engine! I have to admit that my first play-through of subnatica was very peculiar... I've never been afraid of the game's predators, several times I've come face to face with phantom leviathans etc, but I've never panicked. I even scanned all the leviathans in the game without any security measures and absurdly I only died twice in my first game. But anyway subnatica scared the shit out of me too with its creepy alien structures... I remember the first time I explored the alien cannon. I literally ran to the landing site and when I saw the alien cannon I TOTALLY panicked. With my heart pounding, I explored the structure with the fear that an alien would come out of a corner. And when I realized that that cannon was used to carry out the quarantine procedure and would surely have destroyed the ship that was supposed to save me well I promoted subnatica to my favorite game! no other game has ever made me feel such emotions. At that moment I thought that this was the culmination of subnatica, but I was wrong! The end of the game was able to be even more exciting, I dare say almost perfect! I literally loved the Sea imperator's "philosophical" observations... and well it was a unique emotion to hatch the eggs!

[@mattpfarr6129]

Yeah it’s uncanny how perfectly this game inspires such emotion. You really feel the terror, hopelessness, loneliness, awe, and wonder. I was so horrified when the Sunbeam was shot down. All my hopes dashed like that!

[@uhtred7860]

Shame about Below Zero, it wasn't a patch on the first one.

[@Christian_7777-d9n]

@@uhtred7860 I was planning to buy subnautica below zero, but I have often heard several criticisms about this. Do you recommend it?

[@WaywardPython]

It depends what you're looking for, but I would recommend trying it. There's a lot more story in BZ, including one moment which will have veteran players celebrating, and some of the new creatures are cute. But the map is smaller and on the whole I find the monsters less terrifying. The above-ground elements (the ice) do bring a new dimension to the game. So give it a try and see what you think. @@Christian_7777-d9n

[@clonechoopa31]

5:50 seeing you chuck all those cuddlefish eggs into the bioreactor made me uncontrollably scrunch my face in a deeply snarling scowl with a horrified whimper at the sametime 😆 This the first time I've ever had such a violent reaction to something in a game... and I regularly watch the channel "Let's Game It Out" which makes this experience all the more surprising to me.

[@Breathtaker5000]

“A cuddlefish egg a day keeps the voices in my head away”

[@Notashi0]

​@@Breathtaker5000 I actually don't find the cuddlefish very cute. It reminds me of a pug.

[@antred11]

I wish the grown cuddlefish were as cute as the eggs imply. :-( I find the hatched ones pretty ugly, actually.

[@Notashi0]

@@antred11 ikr? It looks like this adorable little guy in the egg then it hatches and it's just PUG, or like a cow looking thing kind of. I don't know why everyone thinks it's so cute, I get that it's the closest thing to a pet companion in the game, but up close for me it's just a bug eyed, lumpy fish thing.

[@virt1one]

I didn't even realize you could get that many cuddle eggs. ORIGINALLY only one egg spawned in an extremely inconvenient place.

[@evenfunnierguy]

Did you just stick 16 cuddlefish eggs into your bioreactor? YOU MONSTER!!

[@LeonS.Kennedy-m9m]

I love the cyclops. its absence from Below Zero is one reason I've even yet to beat that one. theres just something to making it your base, loading in down with 2 dozen storage containers (and any thing else you may need) and taking my base anywhere. only thing i need a regular base for is power cell recharging and food/water resupply

[@Breathtaker5000]

Agreed, not having the cyclops in BZ makes transporting materials a NIGHTMARE

[@ranekeisenkralle8265]

you can very easily solve the food/water supply by putting a couple plant pots in the room behind the bridge - you can fit around four per side. Put Bulbo Trees in them and you will never again run out of food or water - and got very good biomatter for kickstarting an outpost-base for recharging the power cells. By the time you ate the third, the first is already (mostly) regrown - and the 4th is for backup.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@Breathtaker5000 Seatruck with the replicator is the only thing really needed. Hardest in below zero is not getting lost.

[@mattpfarr6129]

You can farm quite a bit on the cyclops. Seatruck makes a practical mobile base you customize with modules, but it isn’t quite the same feel as the cyclops.

[@СергійСавелов]

@@brodriguez11000 seatruck was intended to be something between a cyclops and a seamoth. And it is. It takes size from a cyclops and customization from a seamoth.

[@quandagdiggle]

One of my greatest tips for beginners he's that when you get Ozzie's distress call scan the bioreactor fragments around it and build one in your base Near a huge coarsl tube you see if you build your base near huge Coral tube you can cut it with a knife to get Coral shards which are able to be put in the bioreactor and the best part is the huge corals you've never disappears so you have Infinit bioreactor fuel

[@testfire3000]

That is a good one! I have never tried that.

[@marcosdheleno]

to me, the most usefull bio fuel is just the mushrooms. put them into a planter outside, and you will have ALOT of fuel that will last a lifetime. mushrooms are also great to have in hand for emergency batteries that you might need.

[@TheGreatCyberwolf]

That's actually a good idea. I've always just used marblemelons, since they're not only a good food source but can literally be grown right next to it

[@LethalOwl]

I’d argue the best item for the bioreactor, by far, is the Reginald fish. Incidentally it’s also the best food item too. As soon you have access to alien containment, stuff it full of reginalds and you have unlimited food and power from the same source. Reginalds have the most power output of any item that only takes up 1 inventory slot, and also gives over 40 food per fish, the best option once you are out of nutrient blocks. Edit, Apparently Oculus is better for power, but having both types of fish in containment is excessive. Oculus is probably the better choice if you do not intend to eat fish anymore and just use plants, for instance.

[@testfire3000]

@@LethalOwl Yes, the Reginald is the best fish for farming hands down.

[@77z5xgqg]

Best way to map is to place 3 beacons, draw a map on a paper and triangulate with the distance from the 3 beacons.

[@Breathtaker5000]

It’s big brain time 🧠

[@gabrieltwinwithulm7466]

Ooo that sounds like so much fun! This method is called "Trilateration." There's lot of info online about how to do map using Trilateration efficiently.

[@yanis1065]

Honestly, it would be a fun thing to do

[@Exkhaniber]

I did something similar. It took a while, but I put down beacons at each of the four cardinal directions at the middle of each side as far to the direction as I reasonably could. Then, I kept a spreadsheet document and made a rudimentary map of my own by triangulating between those beacons. Each square on the spreadsheet = 100 m, and I did color codings for important areas, marked items of interest, etc. Did the same for Below Zero, which is how I found out the dimension of the map was quite a bit smaller and had less stuff in it :(

[@TMTM7]

​@Exkhaniber I'm gonna try that now! I was gonna cheat and look at a map for my next playthrough but making my own map sounds sick

[@erdvilla]

Also, the usefulness of Scanner rooms with full 500m range. You can easily find 20+ naturally occurring Teeth and other rare stuff, it also includes Shipwrecks so you can go, explore and leave your Beacon for triangulation. Then once you don't need nothing else from that zone you can pack it into a locker on your Cyclops (with the 4 range mods) and move it to where you need it, or if you are doing a full sweep then move it 750m into your desired direction (750 so 250 overlap where both circles meet but with new zones on the edges of them). If it's too deep for Solar panels just place it near a Thermal Vent and use a Thermal Plant for infinite energy re-install the Range mods and launch your new scans. You only need a Tube with a hatch to attach the Room and the Thermal Plant nearby. Few materials that need hauling.

[@sstottlemyre]

Was worried about watching this after constantly getting it recommended to me for fear is spoilers, but luckily I did! Learned a few things and spoiler free from what I've played through so far. Great vid

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! I tried to keep it as spoiler free as I could when possible

[@lttatertots1960]

this was a really well made video, I wasn't expecting it to come from a channel with only a 1000 subs. solid effort and, well yeah. 10/10 video and information.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed

[@FreakOut8493]

Thermal vents can be useful for power for your base, cyclops or PRAWN suit ( if the thermal upgrade is installed). And you also have rig for silent running in the cyclops. If I understand it correctly, it makes it more silent when you a piloting it.

[@voidwalker2456]

Fun fact about silent running is that I'm pretty sure it disables some of your more passive upgrades, for example the engine efficiency module, which is why silent running seems to jack up your power consumption is purely because why silent running does use less power its still eating power faster than with the engine efficiency active

[@FreakOut8493]

@@voidwalker2456 I looked it up online, didnt say about the consumption but it makes it move slower, so less noise

[@clues1908]

@@FreakOut8493 yeah it does consume more energy than normal on silent running, though it isnt really a problem due to being able to have lockers full of power cells and you can swap them for the Ion power cells too if need be.

[@speedude0164]

When going out to find the 3rd Degasi base, my dumb ass decided to leave my Cyclops on silent running before going out instead of just turning off the engine. I came back up to find it with 0 power and I had to take out a few Power Cells and slowly walk back to my base with my Prawn Suit to charge them, then take my Seamoth all the way back over to bring it back (in hindsight I should've just taken a Power Cell from the Prawn Suit and placed it in the Cyclops).

[@StodaGryph]

An obvious, critical bit of info that I just failed to figure out until my 3rd playthrough - the gravity ball. That thing is FANTASTIC for trapping fish, making catching them no trouble (and no risk).

[@terraversalvoid5391]

The grav trap seriously saved my ass at the start of the game.

[@beginthewar9681]

It's the best way to catch fish. When I built my base (Currently it has 5-6 solar panels and 4 bioreactors) I set up 2 grav traps and set beacons to them as I almost died due to dehydration since I couldn't find them, and I can get 20 fish, which the max of bladders being 5. I'm going to set up another one since these are so successful. Just uh, make sure they're in good locations. I moved one from a good spot to a bad one and my hauls went from 9 to 2-3/grav trap.

[@gravyy7378]

lol the medkits clip was LITERALLY me from the moment i knew there was an unlimited medkits in the lifepod, even in below zero. I never leave my base without medkits cause every mob that makes noise i consider as a threat

[@SleightlyPersonal]

#11: PRAWN Suit is the fastest form of travel. Get a grappling arm and jump pack upgrade (whatever it’s called). Grapple the ground somewhere in front of you. Run at it, then jump and release grapple right before you get to the hook. You will fly across entire zones in a matter of a few seconds.

[@nowakjim]

One thing I wished I had known before playing Subnautica for the first time was the notion that I'd only, truly, have this one moment to FULLY enjoy the game. I've spent many hours since that first play through. But damn, I too wish I could recapture that first time. This is one game you DON'T want to have spoiled!

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

Some tips of my own: Most fish are easier to catch at night time. Bladderfish give a small amount of oxygen when eaten raw. Crashfish are easy to dodge. They have a wide turn radius. If you swim toward them they will overshoot and explode before they can turn back around. You can carry a spare oxygen tank and swap them out when low. If you're lost in a cave look for brain coral to give yourself a literal breather and a chance to calmly plan your escape. Pathfinder tools are great: they leave a trail of lit beacons each pointing to the last. It is always worth keeping at least one of each of these with you at all times: water, ration brick, med kit, air bladder, battery Your water depletes faster than your food. For mid-length journeys you will only need water. Many hostile fauna are triggered by light. Turning off torches or headlights will often help you avoid harm. Most of the destroyed lifepods act as a tutorial for a new biome. Don't just retrieve their datapads & leave. Explore the area for nearby tech fragments. You can use exterior growbeds and creepseeds as DIY waypoints. They light up without needing power, and you can also plant brain coral and bulb bush for oxygen & water. "Ahead slow" is the most energy-efficient speed for the Cyclops in terms of distance per energy. Unless you are using any of the other features such as silent running, in which case speed is king. You can build around the exit hatch on the cyclops. Place a container there with some equipment and supplies and you will always be prepared each time you depart the sub, and you won't have to keep going up & down ladders because you forgot something.

[@_PapstFranziskus_]

Well at some point ration bricks a no more sooo… what then?

[@archiveacc3248]

​@@_PapstFranziskus_if you're talking about an emergency food, bring dehydrated fish, they keep forever. If you have a base with an acu and a water purifier that's completely renewable salt and reginalds for the rest of time. But even just naturally collecting the ingredients works

[@_PapstFranziskus_]

@@archiveacc3248 thanks Im pretty new to this whole surviving thing

[@MichaelLaing71]

Some really good advice, particularly with the beacon and power. Not sure swimming into a vent to collect fish, is really a good idea generally. The thing I wish I had known was that you don't need to pilot the Cyclops and you don't need the prawn suit at all. As long as you collect as many ion cubes as possible, are prepared to swim to the Alien thermal plant and primary containment facility to activate the Alien Arches (which means you will encounter the sea dragon).

[@Desgax]

The base power priority system when I learned about it all those years ago was a HUGE gamechanger since I was always tearing my hair out over why my bioreactor was always empty but my solar panels were always full. I had always assumed bases drained power evenly across everything. Power being drained completely one at a time is why my thermal base is almost always on half energy since one thermal plant isn't enough to feed my base but once the first one drains the second kicks in and two is more than enough

[@supremefankai5480]

Only got Subnautica a couple of weeks ago, and these kind of videos have really helped me survive, though I figured out the first tip myself, I used the destroyed lifepods as beacons as well simply because they are always available to be used as nav points.

[@ford6]

Your "secondary entrance" into the Aurora is actually the primary entrance as the PDA's and scripts are ment to be triggered from that path.

[@Cuteseals2]

that was bugging me too, the path he said was the main is actually a backdoor into the prawn bay area...

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

Kind of ironic, then, given the fact that the prawn bay access is the most obvious entrance...

[@Cuteseals2]

@@shinigamimiroku3723 idk the other entrance is literally on a path from the largest landing sort of "beach" area of the Aurora wreck

[@shinigamimiroku3723]

@@Cuteseals2 I must be blind as a bat, then, because it never even occurred to me that that might be a path. But then, I also didn't get the game until after it had its full release (I only ever had a laptop due to my constantly moving around, and a game like Subnautica would never run properly on it).

[@theshadowking3198]

The surviving when your screen is blacking out is one of the best experiences ever

[@Scongi]

Bioreactor with a farm is absolutely goated early Infinite food plus power for almost no cost

[@heavycritic9554]

I only have two tips: Swim Charge Fins + Seaglide = infinite battery for Seaglide. One Seamoth Solar Charger = charge a power cell 0-100% in 1 minute 40 seconds while travelling, down to 150 meters, as opposed to 6 minutes in a static power cell charger. Use 4, and recharge one power cell in 25 seconds.

[@jsingleton3142]

My number 1 tip is: you can carry a spare oxygen tank in your inventory and switch when you get low. Great for large wreck explorations. Just remember to swap and refill when available.

[@LearningaboutMovies]

1. Carry four beacons at all times and mark everything -- including every big deposit where you can find a resource. 2. Get the scanner room asap and the scanner hud chip, so that you can cut down on the resource-finding time. This is how you find stalker teeth in seconds. 3. Get the better O2 tanks as quickly as possible. 4. Take a floating pump and pipes and connect them all the way down into the jellyshroom area early, so that you can mine lithium, magnetite, diamond, etc., with an O2 supply at hand. I found this spot has the quickest access to shale early on. 5. All scary-looking sea monsters are just territorial, except reaper and ghost leviathans, which will go after you. You generally don't have to worry much about anything.

[@archiveacc3248]

^ this, I started marking the big resources long before I had any way to drill them. As soon as I got the drill arm I never had to worry again. And it was honestly fun going back through all those areas all kitted out now

[@selalewow]

I started playing in the Beta and I really miss the excitement of exploring the world and waiting for new content to drop. This was one of the best games ever, especially if you got in early.

[@MortonGoldthwait]

One trick I learned is that if a biome is to deep for solar power, particularly for a Scanner Base, you can construct a series of I connectors until you reach around 170-150 Meters. You will be able to build on top of the connectors. Once your Scanner Base is constructed, you can deconstruct the connectors to salvage Titanium and the Scanner Base will remain hovering in the middle of the deep water.

[@samurai2871]

One more tip for your audience. If you are attacked by a reaper, swim down to the floor of the ocean as it makes it hard for it to get to you. If you’re not near the bottom of the ocean, swim backwards and to the left and you should dodge his attacks With this knowledge I have never died to the reaper in recent play though despite it sneaking up on my twice and destroying a sub I was in once.

[@Notashi0]

Of note regarding #6, Power Priority, keep in mind it also applies regarding the first power source connected when loading the game. Thermal generators that relay power back to your base from a distance will typically be disconnected from it when you first load your save, and then connect after a couple seconds. This causes the thermal generators to be considered as the last power source connected to your base, meaning you should probably always consider them to be the last power source the game will use unless your base is right next to the thermal vent.

[@lordpalandus11]

Some nice tips, but most of them I knew about. Didn't know of the cooked fish at the bottom of the heat vents though. Also didn't know of the power priority. Some more of my own for the specific sections: Stalker Teeth = The more of the metal bits you give them, the faster they lose teeth. Just make sure to have them do the deed where you can easily spot the teeth. The teeth can blend into the terrain a lot of the time so you might find them in hard to see spots. After It Explodes = I always thought the blocked off entrance was the secret entrance. Because you often had to get the propulsion gun parts from inside the Aurora, to be able to exit from that route. Reapers = Some notes: -> The gas torpedoes are particularly useful against reapers, though collecting the gas nodules is a pain in the booty hole. -> Getting out fast and shooting them with a stasis rifle, and getting back in your sea moth can be a great way to escape. Reapers/Cyclops = Most of the time turning off the engine isn't sufficient. Because if you wandered into their "home" and they were patrolling on the far side and then spots you, they'll hang around you for quite some time... like I did this tactic once, and it took me 40 minutes of slow inching my way out and turning off the engine to avoid getting destroyed. However, there are some ways of handling reapers with the cyclops that you didn't mention. Namely: -> Going stealth mode with the engines to sneak away, but also try to get to the surface. Reapers are more inclined to stay down 300 meters or so, and thus it takes them longer to get to you if they do decide to go after you again. -> Depending on how close you are to a safer region, you could go to maximum speed and try to outrun them. -> Depending on tech available, the cyclops shield can take a beating, especially if you routinely swap out power cells at bases that recharge them. The decoys are extremely useful especially in the lava zone. Drop a decoy and go to max speed. -> Also piloting the cyclops I find is easier in third person, from one of the camera mounts. When in open spaces, i do first person, but in tight spaces or combat, I go third person.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, sometimes I will just use the shield generator, it lasts quite a while with ion power cells

[@antred11]

"-> Getting out fast and shooting them with a stasis rifle, and getting back in your sea moth can be a great way to escape." Is that really necessary? IMO the Seamoth easily outruns ANY of the predators in the game. Just turn and run for a few hundred meters ... done.

[@lordpalandus11]

@@antred11 The seamoth doesn't outrun any of the predators in the game, except for the worms in the purple cavern. It cannot outrun either Leviathan, or the Crab Squids. Most of the time, you don't have a few hundred meters you can flee in a straight line from them. The statis rifle idea however isn't one I've tried.

[@antred11]

@@lordpalandus11 Are you sure? Whenever a predator attacks me, I just turn tail and run, and they've NEVER once managed to catch me.

[@lordpalandus11]

@@antred11 With mods it might be possible; like the mod that lets you dash in the seamoth. But I've never outrun a reaper or ghost leviathan, and crab squids often teleport me out of the sea moth, when I played it without mods.

[@PhasedPrism]

I'm gonna share something helpful of my own. With a stasis gun, a thermoblade, and some patience, you can kill Reaper Leviathans. They do not respawn. Shoot them in the head with the stasis gun, then stabby-stabby ftw. You'll have to repeat the process a few times. Re-fire the stasis gun when the bubble starts to shrink. When the jerk goes belly-up take a photo! You're a badass!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Nothing like hanging a photo of a dead reaper over your bed!

[@kaiweber1178]

You edit really well and the video was very interesting. Your videos really deserve to get more attention. It was really fun to watch, hope there's coming more to see!

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thank you so much! I’m already scripting out a new video :)

[@ArmstrongandTumbler]

I think one that is more important to know that not everyone knows is the fact that you can literally grow anything on growbeds. I knew you could do it for some things on my first playthrough, but I didn't know you could grow gel sacs, and blood oil I didn't know you could grow them until recently.

[@Bethylee]

I have 370 hours in this game on steam, and I have to say Tips 4, 5, and 6 are super useful! I didn't realize the power priority or about metal salvage bug. Tip 5 I usually don't end up near thermal vents early on to find the cooked fish, but it certainly is useful for playthroughs where I do! Great video!

[@mikelxanadu]

0 things I wish I knew before Subnautica. The absolute best part of this game was learning as I went. Not only was it more fun, but it showcased the brilliance of the developers. They didn't bombard you with tutorials, they eased you into the game in such an organic way that you barely noticed their guiding hand. I suppose we can play games how we want, but Subnautica is one of the few games I'm staunchly opposed to learning about before playing. This video is a great resource post ten or twenty hours of gameplay. But everyone should experience this game blind until at least the sea moth is unlocked, but I'd argue until the Cyclops is unlocked.

[@lastflightofosiris]

Amen brother

[@Feyyore]

An other tip for stalker teeth is to build your base near their spawn and build anscanning room. They pluck those camera orbs out of their housing and shed teeth like nobodies business. Also that secondary entrance to the aurora I always thought it was the main one haha. xD Been cheeky all this time.

[@spacefightertzz]

Oh ya. I can find that true. I have built several bases through my progress in the game. Farming certain things and keeping them in base storages. I did notice they pluck them out haha... And at the end game, it was easy and quick to build the final structure, I just went around to my different bases, collected the things from the storages, and built the structure.

[@rvolcano7338]

One piece of info I wish I the first time was just how valuable those nutrition bars were. I ate them as they came along, but as I went deeper food became harder to collect and even when I did it was always fish or farmed goods, things that took up more inventory space than the nutri bars.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, I wish subnautica had a better mobile food source like in BZ

[@Jubblr_]

Bro you are so underrated for such great content! I started playing about 2 months ago and this is the best tips video I have seen.

[@Breathtaker5000]

Thanks! Glad I could help! 😀

[@Lucas-yu4bu]

Its really nice seeing a channel go from 400 subs to 25k in under a year, great job dude

[@jeffreyhughes5972]

one thing I have found that has made navigating much easier is tagging all the wrecks by name, then using that plus a map w/wrecks on your second screen to navigate

[@Breathtaker5000]

Nod a bad idea

[@tvctaswegia497]

Mandatory for me as I get lost or distracted easily. Also I colour code them for easy reference: Red. Danger, critical resource or story location. Orange. Secondary objective, farm location or potential base/unexplored area. Blue. Caches, safe houses, bases and supplies. Remember to turn off beacons/way points you don't need to prevent HUD spam, and retrieve out of date beacons to deploy to new area to prevent confusion. The most scarce resource you have in the game is actually... time. The less of it you waste, the more efficient you'll be and the more productive you'll be per session. ...or just chill out with the fishies and vibe, you do you. :)

[@brodriguez11000]

Include depth in description.

[@furiousapplesack]

On PC at least, there are some fantastic mods that have been updated and the map mod is essential. It's great, like choosing between "map explored as you go" or starting fully explored, different modes to show biome/depths/etc., you can put notes on locations, all on your PDA. Lots of options, really well-made.

[@furiousapplesack]

@@tvctaswegia497 That's pretty logical. I used green for bases, and the rest to denote how "done" I was with a location because I had a hard time keeping track even when turning off unused beacons. Red for unvisited, yellow for "visited but unfinished," blue for finished and then I'd turn off the blue ones and only turn them back on if I needed to get somewhere specific.

[@Sea_dragon_laviathan]

WHY?!?? bro… he put cuddle fish in the bioreactor😭

[@EdricLysharae]

It made me grin and tear up.

[@Damien_Paxton]

HE HAS NO SOUL!

[@peggychu3002]

Beyond 2-3 cuttlefish, where the hell did he get so many? I’ve never seen them reproduce!

[@FireCool2K]

i eat cuddlefish Note: they taste delicous

[@argosdash]

@@peggychu3002they can be found in the labs all around

[@alexandercampbell5136]

Fun fact: Reaper leviathan's scream is actually a form of sonar. This means that they can use it to find you. This also means that submarine warfare spotting/ stealth tactics apply to them. When in a Cyclops, get as close to the sea floor as possible, and engage silent running. The reapers echolocation won't be able to distinguish you from the sea floor. The same works with the seamoth.

[@Bigs3958]

The Reapers scream is not an actual game mechanic it’s just a very interesting bit of lore

[@Lennart1995]

@@Bigs3958 so what he's saying about crawling the sea floor is inaccurate?

[@Bigs3958]

@@Lennart1995 I’m unsure about the see floor, I just know the echo location is just for lore they only let out a big scream when they see you

[@darkbladenexas]

It's worth noting a scanner room can detect reapers (and other leviathans), letting you keep track of them

[@fekl0416]

its just not practical on a large scale

[@darkbladenexas]

@@fekl0416 Lets you avoid the seadragons and if you're trying to grab cyclops parts from the edge of aurora, it's helpful there too, though I usually get them elsewhere. But you're right, it's not practical to cover the dunes or anything

[@fekl0416]

@@darkbladenexas yeah im a pussy so i just try to avoid repears like the plague and goto mushroom forest for cylops :p

[@milesedgeworth6353]

Even as a veteran subnautica player with several playthroughs there was stuff in here i didnt know(like stalker tooth spawn rates). Great video!

[@gabadaba5436]

Yall remember when the aurora had a side entrance?

[@williamswain2303]

Yeah I watched Mark play this for years

[@quintonmartin27]

For number 7 I didn't realize that there was need for the cannon. I always just followed the other path in

[@keyhaddock8909]

With number 10 you also could jump from the tip of one of the mountains from the other island and most likely just survive if at full health 👍

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, the player must have titanium shins or something 🤣

[@Ch1ck3nB0y]

Yeah, Riley got them long fall boots from Portal.

[@nathanbrinkerhoff5886]

​@Ch1ck3nB0y I think you mean a Chinese knock-off of the Long Fall Boots. You still take damage.

[@Kira_J]

I knew absolutely NOTHING about this game. Didn't see a single playthrough, but it got recommended to me by my sister. I must say it was fun to explore 'all by myself', but the beginning was pretty difficult to get into! There are only 4 things I will say to new players that know nothing, and that is: do not immediately swim to the aurora (been there), gather materials from the loose rocks, build the scanner and scan EVERYTHING, build the radio. You'll figure it out from there

[@corvokoi504]

One of the things I think are the most important are the scan rooms and the microchip that allows you to see the marks in your screen, outside of the scan room. Instead of building bases in key biomes full of resources such as the lost river or the lava zone, or even those glowing mushroom caves, I build scan rooms and use them as bases, because they are far more useful! Great video!!

[@Raiderlaker19]

We just not gonna talk about the war crime here? 5:47

[@TheriiYuh]

the baby was inside 😭 😭

[@LegoSpiderman18]

I’ve been using the auroras 2nd entrance this entire time and thought it was the only way to enter

[@Breathtaker5000]

I use it when I’m too lazy to get a propulsion cannon

[@KostasOkomura]

5:50 YOU MONSTER!

[@pointlesspeanut3182]

about the cyclopes: the mini-map next to the helm has a blue sphere that shows how far enemies can agro from. the sphere will grow and shrink depending how much noise you're making and will disappear entirely if your engine is off.

[@mattiemathis9549]

I just found this game. I’ve been enjoying it, but I’m also having to watch videos to figure it out. Very helpful information! Thanks!

[@woofiwoofi6506]

Like actually this was a great video and was greatly made Btw going with cyclops with the slowest engine might help with your life since it doesnt create much noice, ofcourse if ur attacked then turn it off

[@MrLarsgren]

oh i can add to this. 1. planting creepvine give you a free light source to mark points of interrest, the more you put in the plot the more intense light. 2. planting brain coral give you a air vent with bubbles that go all the way to surface and can also refill diving tanks. perfect for free diving. 3. the dragon fruit thing keeps producing and is the optimal source of energy with bio reactors. 4. almost all plants have a purpose. 5. now combine it all for a no sub playtrough. no prawn. no seamoth and cyclops is only allowed as surface vessel. 😄 that is my preferred way. get to experience the depth of the game mechanics soo much more. and you get to meet the locals XD i will give you 1 good tip. the xpipe can fit 16 lockers using a hatch ontop. its only 5 titanite and 1 quarts to drop a camp. all about inventory when freediving.

[@furiousapplesack]

I lived out of an xpipe for almost an entire playthrough once. It was surprisingly efficient and could fit almost everything you'd need for most of the game.

[@LethalOwl]

Big disagree on the optimal bio reactor fuel. Reginald is by far the best energy output item for it’s size. Lasts much longer and you can fit 16 at once. Also the best food item in the game for long journeys.

[@mirakil7636]

@@LethalOwl It's the Oculus that's the best Bioreactor powersource, with each fish providing 630 units of power, compared to the Reginald's 490 units of power. Reginalds are the most filling fish for eating, though.

[@LethalOwl]

@@mirakil7636 Fair. I'd probably still just stick with the Reginalds, in that case. No need to raise both types of fish, with that much power per fish. Reginalds alone can sustain both power and food needs just fine in my playthroughs.

[@mirakil7636]

@@LethalOwl True enough. It's not like the survival aspect is challenging in any way, regardless. Once you get the thermal knife, you'll always be able to get food.

[@lool8421]

for reapers, all i really need is just an ability to stun it, a seamoth and a knife just stun the reaper, stab it 100 times and enter the seamoth to regen oxygen, that's basically how you can kill it an alternate option i've seen is to stun it and then drop as much poisonous gas into its face as possible

[@Breathtaker5000]

Subnautica 3: Violation of the Geneva Conventions

[@monberg1000]

I like the title of the video. It doesn't talk down to the viewers, or act like click bait. It's just you being honest. And we as viewers might learn something we didn't knew either.

[@SamanthaLaurier]

You went from less than 400 subs to almost 10k in 4 months. Congrats, mate. You've earned it.

[@ImaSpinachLeaf]

Am I the only one who didn’t realize the “secondary entrance” wasn’t the only entrance

[@cypro9413]

Nope happend to me as well

[@computerexe-xe8il]

Me too man, me too

[@PrototemReal]

don't tell me I am the only one who saw him doing a war crime at 5:50...

[@Breathtaker5000]

Shh… ;)

[@PrototemReal]

@@Breathtaker5000 Don't worry, won't tell the government, they won't come after you

[@sawbucksgold3727]

came to the comments the second I saw that

[@GG_1318]

6:25 i thought this was the main entrance

[@Breathtaker5000]

Yeah, I’m not sure which one the devs intended the player to go through first

[@NovaHorizon]

I remember back when the Cyclops was invulnerable. You could just sit there and watch the Leviathans attack you and enjoy the zen of their roars. lol

[@Breathtaker5000]

Ah, the good old days :)

[@ngabel8956]

If I wasn't carrying a beacon, what I used to do was look at a marker (typically the starting lifepod) and take a screenshot. Thus, I know that my point of interest is at x distance along y compass heading from the lifepod.