Can I Complete Subnautica with Just a Prawn Suit? (pt. 1)

[@zeck7775]

Small note in case you didn't know: You don't actually need to have the propulsion cannon to get into the aurora (although it helps with the cave crawlers). There's an alternate entrance you can find by heading up, and then once you get in that room, you can jump on top of some rubble to get in the door without having the propulsion cannon. I actually have almost never made a propulsion cannon in my playthroughs.

[@Streetcleanergaming]

Yea I did that accidentally my first playthrough and never got the blueprints cause I never needed them

[@zeyolivetree]

that’s wild, i never even knew about that entrance! i’ll prolly still go with the propulsion canon (i just like it and its utility) but good to know i don’t actually need it.

[@Scongi]

Yeah also a thing to save a bit of resources. Crafting recipes that need battery dont check its percentage. So a 0% battery is just as good as a 100% I dont know how I found this out but it works. And in the early game its really good cuz free charge plus the recipe is done

[@cheato1163]

I didnt know there was an actual entrance, ive just always went the other way and wondered why propulsion exists...

[@zelda4thego]

I made it since I think they are cool

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

Right off the bat, I can imagine that by not allowing yourself a base you're going to have insane amounts of storage problems and power problems. No base or cyclops means no recharging your power cells or batteries, so all your tools and your prawn suit will need replacements until you get the thermal reactor, and atop that, you can't bring a fabricator with you, so every bit of crafting has to be done at the lifepod. The prawn suit isn't meant for expeditions without anywhere substantial to return to. On the bright side, the prawn suit can use all portals. I have found it viable to make a second prawn suit for shallower expeditions, as the base crush depth means you can visit even the entry to the lost river without needing a depth module at all, and stocking it with storage upgrades gives it an inventory capacity identical to your own or that of a large locker, which is fairly useful for drilling and so forth. It still tends to be nicer to have somewhere to put all the stuff you bring back, but having so much extra capacity - particularly as it's not half filled with tools, unlike your own inventory is required to be on longer trips - is incredibly handy. In regards to fragments, the torpedo arm is one of the least useful (what with the unupgraded arm doing basically the same thing) so it's _everywhere_ around wrecks, but it does serve as a marker - if there's torpedo arms all over the wreck, then it's likely there will be a couple grappling arm or drill arm fragments deeper in. Or sometimes the propulsion cannon arm, because that.. sure does exist, I guess.

[@Cheekybbirb]

Bro thats a fucking esay

[@AnkleBiter3854]

I couldn't run or bother making two prawns, but you make a compelling argument. It would suck to constantly switch upgrades for the situations. I'm guessing we also use the same arm setup? (Drill and grapple)

[@man_with_a_face]

For the storage you can make waterproof lockers.

[@Eguy-hp8xv]

The moonpool charges your powercells for you

[@SwedishSteve]

@@AnkleBiter3854use double grapple to be spider-man it’s so much fun and I weaved the ghost leviathan with this

[@rakaydosdraj8405]

I used to do "Prawn backpacking"- You can build a base, but you cannot build a second one until you deconstruct the first one. No waterproof lockers- you can only have resources you can carry with you or in your prawn's storage. Also, the run "starts" when I fill my inventory and walk (on foot) through the island teleporter- gotta build the prawn below the floating island, and you can never return to the Safe Shallows. It's a convenient place to return to for building the rocket.

[@voidwalker9746]

Loving the influx of small content creators with really funny, engaging content. It brings me back to a simpler time before names like Pewdiepie and DanTDM were all over the place, and I'm glad to see that KZbin is slowly but surely pulling itself out of the brainrot era.

[@thetomtom2362]

The fuck you mean!? DanTDM is my childhood and do not disrespect him and if you don’t like DanTDM or Pewdiepie Watch Someone Else.

[@voidwalker9746]

@@thetomtom2362 i think you misread my message. I was reminiscing about simpler times when those channels were smaller and more niche, and we didn't have swarms of brainrot channels everywhere.

[@thetomtom2362]

@@voidwalker9746 oh ok yeah I misunderstood

[@Tavemanic]

​@@thetomtom2362 DanTDM is my childhood too I remember going to his live show in like 2016-2017 But bro chill 😭😭😭

[@DroneDropper]

You got me wanting to play subnatica again. I used to be so scared, even with creative!

[@meezbeerde6264]

Absolutely correct i went to below zero 0.1 sec after i saw THE REAPER at the back of the aurora R.I.P Cassandra 2023-2023

[@DroneDropper]

Can you please pin this comment? This might give you more subscribers if they think you are the best at playing.

[@hyrummamanakis8529]

same.

[@DroneDropper]

Edit: I quit out when sunbeam was attacked, even though I lost a ton of base that I built.

[@d1nodray]

@@DroneDropper r/choosingbeggars

[@KillerBeeKeeper]

Smashing a reapers skull in with a prawn suit is awesome.

[@Real_Nutella]

With the grapple arm and booster modules, the prawn suit is the best vehicle and is much quicker at moving around than the seamoth. You just gotta be intuitive with how you use the grapple arm. I had minimal issues with it during my first full playthrough and the prawn suit is my freaking baby. I love it.

[@marsar1775]

its fun to use once you get the hang of the grappler and jets. i like to swing through the lava zones and lost river like a monkey once i get it

[@RowanFitzpatrick-i6b]

I should have made a flashlight Me:THERES ONE ON YOUR SEAGLIDE

[@neygrid9037]

the seaglides flashlight sucks tbh its not as bright plus it iluminates at a smaller radius

[@TheBreadSoldier]

It's still better than nothing

[@TauGuyUT]

​@@neygrid9037 still not using the flashlight

[@srdrico342]

I agree. The flashlight gets useless when you obtain the seaglide, because you can both see and move faster. Instead of using a flashlight, take it’s battery and leave them on your inventory, after some time replace the seaglide’s battery. You’ll thank me later.

[@JackDemonXD]

for diamonds and lithium early on, I just go to the gun platform Island, it's got TONS of shale outcrops also, you can punch outcrops with the Prawn Suit and pick it up (you can even duplicate items if you pick them up with both arms at the EXACT same time... kinda hard to do, but doable)

[@Gamerman-lu9bs]

I WOULD go to the Q.E.P for diamonds and lithium early on IF i knew WHERE it is

[@JackDemonXD]

@@Gamerman-lu9bsgo to the surface of the water, look towards the north of the aurora, there should be a wierd cloud/fog like thing, thats thats the Q.E.P. there is another wierd fog thing towards the south as well, that's the other Island

[@HeezNeez]

Now I gotta go try this duplication thing Edit: That shit don’t work

[@angusreibelt722]

It's called the mountain island

[@Tapiot94772]

Then there is the jellyshroom caves

[@Miki-xw8ck]

19:38 on that few sec i love the hiding freddy fazbear

[@williampericht5719]

5:39

[@ZoofyZoof]

They made the prawn suit better in below zero, and then made the totally brilliant decision to not backport those changes to subnautica...

[@killerwhale__]

Wait wat changed

[@ZoofyZoof]

@@killerwhale__ General movement and stability. It feels a lot better to move around in it in BZ, you never phase through the ground, and it has more satisfying noises.

[@beastmode9988]

It might be because alterra modified the prawn suit in the time span between below zero and subnatica

[@ZoofyZoof]

@@beastmode9988 That is the worst excuse imaginable. You can't give an in-universe explanation as a defense against patching out glitches of the prawn suit in base subnautica. You cannot say something like "Alterra fixed that glitch where the prawn suit would turn into a ghost and phase through the ground", in-universe that doesn't make any sense, that's not a thing.

[@beastmode9988]

@@ZoofyZoof cry more

[@ChSVaness]

...and then you have to build the Cyclops because the Neptune rocket needs its shield generator 😅

[@pavelolifirenko2541]

Fun comments

[@ultmateragnarok8376]

It's basically just a really expensive fabricator.

[@Lilrev442]

There is a shield generator in a Degasi base

[@NalliKalliOlla]

@@Lilrev442 I can not confirm but according to the wiki there is just a blueprint in the Degasi base(s). I've played trough a few times, went to all bases and always needed to craft the shield generator myself. Also, all speedrunners craft it in their runs. If it was available (as an intact, ready-made item), I'd presume it would be a huge timesave vs. gathering and crafting all materials needed for the cyclops (and the mobile vehicle bay).

[@Lilrev442]

@@NalliKalliOlla maybe it was the blueprint I was thinking of thanks for the knowledge 😁

[@Maketoru]

Small tips that might help in future challenges, There are easier way to go for blood kelp, near lifepod 17, if you go a bit further behind and go left you'll be in a rather safe place where they can also spawn, and for the mushroom forest same thing, behind lifepod 17 go in the same orientation as the big wreck and there'll be a radiation-safe mushroom forest, having lifepod 13 also

[@Mykolai_Vasylyovych]

Best advice: just try to kill warpers everytime you see them and they would warp out

[@pavelolifirenko2541]

Love the prawn suit!

[@imahaloguy]

Short answer yes I’ve done it! Honestly it makes for a badass playthrough.

[@1_divinity]

19:37 freddy fazbear on the top right 💀

[@richardkominek2244]

Oh yeah I didn't see that.

[@laylauniversa2287]

There was a goofy fact there at about 9:38

[@laylauniversa2287]

I meant face

[@Creminson]

i just saw that xD

[@pedroferreira8033]

don't know if someone said this but why didn't you pick up the storage module in the aurora??

[@felixsheep]

Cyclop shield generator 😅 ( you need it for neptune rocket )

[@CocoaTheYeep]

16:55 that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow

[@Parker-xd3ez]

He predicted it

[@FlyingBaco]

It’s nice how the prawn suit is just thick armour and kinda doesn’t change much

[@Just_a_Piano_]

I mean it has a drill arm so you can mine things, and a grapple arm so you can be spiderman on a budget

[@vaidasvisminas4895]

Also the fact that when i watch this guy makes me go play subnautica even tho i already beat it is insane.

[@P2873]

You are doing awesome! Would love to see you do a modded playthrough! I’ve been playing with the FCS mod suite and it’s awesome.

[@HenryHenry3089]

so happy that people have started doing subnautica again I love this game.

[@TheYosh-3210]

Honestly, the prawn is my favorite vehicle (with upgrades) it just has so many uses and it’s also just cool

[@bvav9678]

I love getting two grapple arms and being mecha spiderman. You can move crazy fast once you get used to it.

[@DigitalTheoryReal]

Bro, I just clicked on this video and watched it like five minutes ago and then I clicked on it again now because of how intriguing the thumbnail was

[@arimabz]

Thank you so much for mentioning the fact that this playthrough will technically not be just a prawn suit as you kind of need the moonpool and modification stations for upgrades, 3 times before even getting to the intro of the game

[@mr-mustard16]

Subnotica without vehicles???

[@Austinadventuress]

That would be nearly impossible or extremely hard

[@Banana_Blaster69]

Ok, you see there's a difference between Torture and THIS. People like you are why the Geneva Convention exists.

[@Azrialgames]

5:41 no one is talking about the emoji in the corner

[@dylthemack1322]

Keep up the good content! First time in a while I actually get excited to watch someone on youtube when they upload!

[@svkviper]

You dont necessarily need the prawn suit depth modules, it is possible to pass the lava zone repairing the prawn suit every now and then (i beat the game like that once) you would need strong nerves for the sea dragon though. Alien facilities also serve as a checkpoint as the prawn suit doesnt take any damage while inside

[@griffenrobrahn4604]

10:31 this stalker is what the speedrunning community calls a "good boy" because it makes grinding for stalker teeth a lot easier. how stalkers work is that when they spawn, they are given a 'nest' which is a point that they take metal scrap to. sometimes this nest can generate above the seafloor, causing the stalker to keep picking up the same metal salvage because every time they take it to their nest, it falls away from the nest.

[@CRINGE_EDITS_]

8:21 Ah yes, dont i absolutely *love* fixing aurora's drive thru😂

[@artekkosmala7870]

Ya know, i never wondered about it too much but now that its come to my head, how does the reaper leviathan and all of the other creatures, survive the aurora's explosion, when being RIGHT NEXT TO IT?

[@KaasaGaming]

🤯

[@Gokumui785]

Lapis: “I don’t like the prawn suit” Also lapis: plus 80 confidence boost

[@adamgrozanic4429]

I just love this challanges. They are pretty fun and it always make my day better. Thanks and keep going❤

[@AlbinoGorilla4]

Hey man I feel like the no bases rule was because the cyclops was its own base, so it was an integral part of it. Not for the prawn suit though, I think you should be able to use a base for power cell charging battery charging and storage.

[@That1British_Guy]

Congrats on getting almost 300k views of you video man! Keep it going

[@sasha1mama]

Nonsense! The exosuitvis an essential piece of mining, exploration, and horrible-evil-hellfish-face-grinding equipment. Engaging the auger with a roar of fury at the Reaper tryna eat ya sets a *tone,* and them liverless hunks a' sushi learn to fear that tone *damn* quick.

[@CombatKing1237]

you could have gotten the prawn suit in 30mins to an hour by just finding the wrecks outside the aurora that have prawn suit parts, you only need the high cap tank, laser cutter and a sea glide to get it. + these wrecks have the different arm pieces too. also WHY are you getting out the prawn suit to break outcrops with the normal arms

[@samuelbrighton1320]

I just played the game with no vehicles, that was rough. Prawn only is basically how I play already

[@averagesubnauticaplayer]

Honestly I got a technique to live fast with it u use the grappling arm on the ground ( gotta be in front and a little far from you ) and then when it’s bringing you toward there activate the jump and u will go so fast with the jump

[@xdryan2.o572]

I didn't even need cyclops when I was going in the lava area. Sea dragons weren't much of a problem

[@Gravyboat78]

Did you know that most plants and plant products (like blood oil) can be grown in exterior growbeds?

[@carlkenner4581]

That counts as a base and would violate the rules of this challenge. Unless he can carry it in the prawn suit, he can't build it.

[@Just_a_Piano_]

@@carlkenner4581 I genuinely don't get how putting a grow bed on the ground counts as a base

[@muffynnom1408]

ur giggle is so cute! great video tho!!

[@GoofyRandomAccount2345]

what if.... "Can i complete subnautica without touching grass" (Seaweed and stuff, also it would mainly be a meme video considering... yk)

[@charlesmusical6875]

Love this dude

[@randomguy2925]

I genuenly started screaming "throw away the f***ing fire extinguischer" when he left the mini aurora behind 😂😂

[@graemewiebe2815]

Isn't there a power cell charger in the life pod? You can see it at 4:53 (might have to seek to the right frame still), there's three power cells labeled pc1 through pc3. If you can't swap those out I believe you can still build a battery/power cell charger in the life pod, since it has built in solar panels iirc.

[@KaasaGaming]

No, it is a charger there, but its only for the life pod and you cant take them out

[@pretzalboi]

hey, i was wondering if you could do a seatruck only run bc of the new stuff they added you can most likely do it

[@flayedra26]

16:34 didn’t know the dragon leviathan was chill like that

[@DroneDropper]

Next with a sea truck! Minimum 3 parts to add on!

[@TRASHO.]

B b but his sanity

[@ZoofyZoof]

​@@TRASHO.Sea Truck is amazing, unironically. It's my favorite.

[@meezbeerde6264]

​@@ZoofyZoof i dont realy like the seatruck, no modules and you just cant do anything. 2 modules (fabrication and storage) and you are pretty slow and with shock upgrade you cannot die

[@ZoofyZoof]

@@meezbeerde6264 The fact that your mobility gets worse is exactly what makes it good design. It's balanced. You can either make it a seamoth, or you can make it more similar to a cyclops, which trades size and speed for practicality. Is that really a hard concept to understand? And yet, they hold off on giving you a full mobile base like the cyclops is, because that was ridiculously unbalanced and ruined an important part of the game: base building. With the sea truck, you still have many reasons to build bases.

[@Ninjaspazboy]

dont forget you need the cyclops to build shield generator :)

[@KaasaGaming]

It is one in one of those abandoned bases i think

[@ghkevilhd44]

No you cant. You need the Shield generator from the Cyclops fabricator

[@jackygerb3446]

The yellow and emoji instead of the laser cutter was funny

[@arbuzakk8849]

You can make some charging fins. they are basicaly a infinite energy glich

[@Papa_Scorch7]

I. LOVE. THIS. CHANNEL.

[@thematriarch-cyn]

"its so slow" w + d or w + a you go twice as fast

[@ShadowVR102]

Bro put the "that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow" meme in here before it even started 😭😭

[@jirikisitha]

15:21 if you go near the mountain biome and follow the mushrooms and go down for 15 seconds you will find lots of arms

[@Unaccepted.]

I didn’t know you needed propulsion cannon for aurora ship and I found it really easy to get to nuclear core

[@Unaccepted.]

With out it lol

[@slendixo]

i named my prawn terminator but my seamoth was bumble bee

[@GQuack]

If you don't do a Seamoth only challenge after this I'll be so disappointed. Binged the Cyclops series a few days ago, and now I'm here to see what you'll do with the other vehicles in the game. Maybe even a Seatruck only challenge in Below Zero?

[@lapisfluff]

ill do challenges on below zero after this one probably, as for the seamoth the depth limits make it more frustrating but ill still try and do that at some point, maybe with that one mod that gives the seamoth extra depth modules

[@killerwhale__]

​@@lapisfluffjust pack enough oxygen tanks

[@moondrop9541]

Look at the lil friggin freddy fazbear he’s makin in the top right corner 19:43

[@clowningvr]

16:54 that feeling when knee surgery is tomorrow 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😐😐😐

[@CohenOrn]

@@clowningvr I was scared when I saw it

[@arepupu]

This was great! Had fun watching

[@dahelmang]

As long as you don't clip through the ground like I have twice. 😂

[@Todd-hx2go]

Create a new scanner with a dead battery. A cheap way to recharge

[@Lightninglord12]

"So, how was your spring break" mine doesn't start till my birthday, my birthday is literally the first day of spring break nearly every damn year, and that isn't for another week

[@Creminson]

You should've named your Prawn "Honey" since it's slow as f*

[@Thaumiel7274]

I might be in the minority here, but I’m personally fine with you building and using a base for these challenges.

[@Slye_Fox]

Couldn't you use Charge Fins to help with the battery issue?

[@bandi10xx31]

I love your videos because its just subnautica without the crazy and annoying editing

[@supersquirrel0612]

Wow, this is great, this is just what I do every playthrough anyways lmao.

[@crabulonbestgirl9130]

Your poor character must have insane carpal tunnel...

[@TauGuyUT]

YOU ARE TELLING ME THE GINGER BREAD THIS MAN?!

[@timtamthemememan5094]

I swear if i get to the end of this series and the time capsule isnt filled with dead batteries im going to be severelg miffed for the next 17 minutes and 29 seconds.

[@rosalieterpstra]

Rifle+knife=god

[@ZyonFreaks]

Murder all leviathans by grappling onto them and drilling them

[@marsar1775]

tbh i like the prawn suit. on my first run i got pretty good with the jump jets and grappler for swinging off terrain or reefbacks like a monkey. and you can fly pretty far underwater if you get good with feathering jump jets, which i have practice with from an unrelated game. it suffers in vertical climbs tho, but in my opinion the fun aspects of swinging like a monkey, piloting a mechsuit and drilling for enough titanium to fuel my base building obsession outweighed the bad. but, thats my opinion

[@iwxnnxdxe]

Yeaaaah he is back, was so happy to see the notification 😩

[@ALEXANDREVEZU]

You need the prawn suit jump jet upgrade it’s better than the graple arm

[@Numbers225]

i think it's senseless masochism to make a challenge so unreasonably hard. i don't think it'd be too strange to say you deserve to at least park the stupid exosuit in the dock

[@The_ultimate_bean]

I also don't like the prawn suit!! Finally someone who gets me

[@bestMarkony]

You canot you need a cyclops SHIELD for the rocket

[@Gohst2008]

That was what i was waiting for

[@Sirinxbella]

You can do the same cyclops hydrothermic vent strat, with the prawn suit. Once you get the gen module for that one. You just need a tiny modification, a base foundation platform in the heatvent. Your suit will die otherwise.

[@bronce0760]

didnt watch the video yet but i can tell its great

[@BananaBoi2012]

19:35 why tf is freedy fazbear in the conner

[@JACKHARRINGTON]

btw, love your editing style

[@spider-juan1568]

19:42 the jumpscare in the top left is crazy

[@guy_from_basement]

Why is bro afraid of stalker

[@Viotuni25]

Fun fact: you can get into the aurora without the cannon. You just need to do a bit of parkour

[@tomstorys9136]

I once went from Lost River back to my life pod (where my base is) to get table coral only using the prawn suit I ended up forgetting to get the table coral

[@dragonelectrico-q4h]

You dont actually need the propulsion canon, you can just jump

[@sebastianrogel-ik7yk]

@@dragonelectrico-q4h lol bro that was what I did but I had to die on purpose

[@ArmandasArmandas-s3x]

20:14 my heart i loved her waaaaaaaaaa ah moment XD

[@thefacelessfathom]

You can find the prawn arms in the underwater islands

[@straygaming5770]

Quick tip to make this series sooo much easier stop making new battery's instead use your dead battery's to make a scanner and then take the battery out of the scanner and boom its a fully charged battery for the price of 1 titanium

[@T9dyi]

Why was there a Fredy Fazbears face in the grappling arm in 19.40🤣

[@KacperWerner-c3q]

It's not about this pointless challenge. but the point is that subnautica is a great game but no one records it anymore

[@vaidasvisminas4895]

Love theese vids. Keep it up dude