Can You Beat Subnautica Without Building A Base?

Subnautica ties many of it's features and unlockables to the base-building system. What would happen if we did away with all of that and still tried to complete the game?
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[@camdenewing7501]

You can actually fully upgrade the seamoth depth modules with the base one in the aurora seamoth bay. It was a very pleasant surprise when I found it!

[@PlanetAlex2010]

Oh yeah

[@yourbigfatmother65]

I found it right after I made one

[@soup3339]

in the WHAT ? HOW ?

[@PlanetAlex2010]

Idk

[@camdenewing7501]

@@soup3339 There is a level 1 depth module next to the terminal in the aurora seamoth bay, you have to take a right instead of going forward to the reactor or left to the prawn bay. i then got a cyclops and upgraded the depth module fully by building and using a mod station.

[@iplaygames8090]

"plant island" is called floater island for a few pink reasons.

[@frizzy_rhapsody]

Also its... floating...

[@admirali.a.6175]

Not too “few”

[@woodenstool6422]

Its called the floating island

[@funnybunny954]

@@woodenstool6422 they're both correct

[@jeraldduck8656]

Yea those pink reason are pretty big

[@ixiahj]

In my first playthrough, I completely abandoned my base when I unlocked the cyclops. I used the materials from my base to prepare my cyclops. All the appliances, all the storage, grow beds, I moved it in and the cyclops and it became my base. The only thing left was a moon pool housing my old sea moth.

[@Gaspucci]

I did that too. Then cried when a ghost leviathan destroyed it.

[@enderduck4253]

I still used my base for sometime until I decided to go to the lava zone and get cured. Knowing it would take a while, I just put a ton of grow beds and stuff inside

[@Mast3rKK]

@@Gaspucci did u reload a save?

[@barneycalhoun7644]

same but i made a small base as a recharging station

[@Villa_Triff]

Did the same thing, spent days on the save, and lost everything due to a reaper

[@Karottenregen]

I never had a beacon i was just like: if i go in that direction from my base i will end up at the bloodkelp from there i just need to go to around 500 metres and the entrance to the lost river should be around here anywhere

[@clairehughes8623]

Same I never used a beacon once you go everywhere once paying attention to depth and direction it becomes very easy to be able to do it the entire time.

[@mossy_tea]

Alot of times; and I still do, I will just use the compass. Directly south from my base will be the gel sack caves etc

[@ryanbonneveld3085]

That’s Awesome man!! I did that as well for 4 months

[@ryanbonneveld3085]

Also without a compass 😂

[@soapfaces]

@@mossy_tea man I love the “gel sack caves” Favourite biome

[@dylansalisbury8095]

I 100% hugged the ceiling in jellyshroom cave before I knew what I was doing

[@mickys8065]

"can you beat subnautica without using an air tank" basically, your air tank slot has to remain empty the entire run. I would suggest using liberal amounts of the air tubes for early game, since they can reach pretty far (for those that don't know, once the tube connects to the last tube but before you place it you can swim away and the tube will expand)

[@c1nquedea47]

i actually did

[@HSukePup]

You can totally beat the game with no bases, no vehicles, AND no habitat builder. It's similar to the same strategy that's used in glitchless speed runs. Now if you want to add no air tanks to that build, there is a way to do that pretty easily too, but it's very tedious and requires a ton of bladderfish.

[@icedragon9097]

@@HSukePup a single corridor thingy counts as a base

[@squar3locket]

@@HSukePup Wrong. You actually need the base and some vehicles in a speed run. Watch one I guess.

[@HSukePup]

@@squar3locket Technically, you are correct that speed runs use bases for the super speed glide and time savings, but the strategies used are similar.

[@Link9058]

9:14 "oh he accidentally called the Sea Dragon the Sea Emperor lol" 9:24 "haha he did it again..." 9:47 "uhm...."

[@totallymady42069]

Then he calls the Emperor the mother, pretending I didn't hear anything

[@zelliop6353]

10:53 he did it again

[@helohel5915]

He also calls the Deep Grand Reef the Deep Bulb Zone

[@Link9058]

@@helohel5915 yeah like wtf

[@breannasmith9883]

7:30 he also called warpers “reapers”

[@MegaXanderlex]

11:39 There are actually 4 of these in the game. 3 "Sanctuary Caches" that cost a purple tablet to enter and one "Laboratory Cache" which takes an orange. All have extra ion cubes. The laboratory also contains an additional cuddlefish egg.

[@ASYNC-research-and-development]

Um

[@widmo206]

I never actually figured out what the orange tablet was for xD

[@wheeeeeha]

Lost River.

[@theshadowcrusader2107]

Also I love how he calls the sea emperor the mothers leviathan in the sea dragon leviathan the emperor leviathan

[@hirwin7593]

I don’t like it at all close to hate

[@jakeinalakevods]

Since names are apparently political, they're actually called ancient floaters.

[@gage2189]

I mean, the Sea Dragon basically does rule the sea, being above the apex predator. Only knowing the name, “Sea Emperor Leviathan,” I can see where the mistake can be made. And I think, “Mother Leviathan” is a better name. (Sidenote: You can also call it father or parent leviathan because subnautica creatures only have 1 sex. I just call it a mother.)

[@eiteiei4063]

Did you have a stroke writing this or what?

[@TeeV479]

@Charles Sutcliffe I agree but there's 2 still idk how this is in had a stroke territory

[@aerodynamickerbal]

Next up: Beating Subnautica without playing Subnautica

[@pendragon.-.]

Pirate subnautica intensifies

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

Impossible, unless you're a dirty, dirty pirate.

[@drivepowerg8624]

@Glippidy that would be cool

[@eternaldocks]

i know this is a joke, but there’s an actual way to do that. “playing” means to have fun, so just don’t have fun and you can beat the game

[@hazeltree7738]

@Glippidy Check out Moist%

[@epic35YT]

I had an Incredible thought: so we know it is required to get a Cyclops for the sheild generator, so with that in mind we know it is impossible to beat the game without a scanner, but I was thinking you could see how many scans are REQUIRED to beat the game, and maybe over time you could make more vids if you find anything that can lower the required number. I was already thinking in some speedruns they glitch through the floor to get passed force fields in alien bases, so that might possibly skip needed to scan the purple tablet to open force fields. After seeing your no vehicle run you did it easily until the end, so you don't need to scan the seamoth and if I'm remembering you don't need a scanner to get the habitat tool. Now getting the Neptune blue prints might be har d since I'm pretty sure you need a laser cutter, but maybe there is a glitch you could do, but I'm not sure, I could be over thinking this, but it's an interesting idea.

[@Mast3rKK]

for a glitchless run, theres the cyclops (9) the- holy shit thats the only required scan in the game, right? (unless u count databoxes as scans, then it would be 11 scans total)

[@ceorobotspace8128]

I’m realizing that I have quite a sense of orientation because I practically never use beacons except to mark bases. Even that I don’t wait to craft one, I often use my memory. That’s actually weird though because it would make things much easier to most of people but I personally hate having a lot of pings on my HUD (I can disable them I KNOW)

[@kylecrane3296]

I never use beacons too, but thats's because I never build bases, I just build a moonpool with solar panels right next to the lifepod, then I just use the cyclops as a mobile base.

[@jesse3430]

@1973Recka same

[@femboycatfish]

I just played the game in creative for 5 hours and...now i just kow the map very well

[@handlewithhandle]

@@kylecrane3296 same i just maxed the depth out today

[@sharkpuppetfanshow3324]

The second island you went on is called the floating island because it is floating because of giant floaters

[@jesse3430]

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@bitbreaker_creator]

OMG THATS INSANE I NEVER NOTICED THAT

[@sprinkleman8103]

@@bitbreaker_creatorhe made the comment because the youtuber didn’t know this

[@raghav1026]

@@sprinkleman8103 bro it was sarcasm

[@JeffDeff-hp3el]

@@raghav1026I think he knew that and was clarifying that the comment was not for sarcasm man

[@reececampbell486]

I’m on my second play through and I just turned off the gun and I’m going to beat my first time 100%

[@unpopularopiniongaming2928]

I am still at the edge of the lave zone trying to make myself go deeper. Any tips?

[@unpopularopiniongaming2928]

Okay I just went and I found the alien thermal plant!!! I am so close to beating subnautica.

[@janlp348]

I beat subnautica three times

[@ultrapika1875]

@@unpopularopiniongaming2928 lol yeah I was too scared o go down there because if the Lava Larvae.

[@xXZbaddertaxesZXx]

@@unpopularopiniongaming2928 every fricking time i get there my game crashes than my save corrupts. PLEASE send help

[@starbuckr5381]

In my first run, I stumbled into the Jellyshroom Caves really early on, before I understood what I was doing. I explored the main base entirely and only missed the stuff on the platforms deeper into the cave, without even a rebreather and with jus one basic o2 tank, by building a couple dozen pipes and a floating air pump. It was a lot of work, but I’m kinda proud of myself looking back. Plus I think it’s be legal in this kind of challenge run

[@disdain9744]

6:12 Ive always called it the floating island because of the giant floater holding it up.

[@djbare9]

I consider the cyclops a mobile base since you can add a bed, interior grow beds and other home comforts, it's why I'm gonna miss it badly in Below Zero.

[@paccie9689]

There’s the seatruck, but it’s not the same. It’s more expensive, and you can’t place furniture inside

[@jesusisafly8689]

cyclops simply doesnt fit anywhere in below zero: the map is much smaller and the max depth modules would far exceed the depth of the map, and theres just too many cramped spaces the big beefy submarine wont fit in

[@trevynlane8094]

Spoiler warning: There is a seamoth depth module inside the Aurora, in the console in the seamoth bay. There is a cargo module in the prawn bay, in the middle console. Lastly, there is cyclops engine efficiency module in the engine room

[@gb8793]

Brooo you could have said spoiler

[@trevynlane8094]

@@gb8793 I did.

[@TravisStuff]

Lolololol Gideon he said it lol

[@mariosfunadventureswithlui6197]

@@gb8793 why is it a spoiler?

[@LyricalViking]

@@TravisStuff I smell a low budget whooosh coming from this thread

[@sammypoops4481]

Grand reef: exists EphiTV: BULB ZONE

[@VectorJW9260]

LOL

[@ceesick9059]

You deserve more credit

[@williamstarke4539]

More credit from what?

[@bjornb3428]

You realy deserve more credit

[@user-gg9qw2ej1z]

He used the cyclops as a base, he had a harder early game and that was pretty much it

[@stickbug3264]

Ngl this guy sounds like he's constantly telling a joke

[@francinequinn4690]

Yep

[@LyricalViking]

without a punchline too which both makes me laugh and mildly infuriated.

[@Dumbass112]

It sounds like he’s smiling constantly.

[@placeholder6343]

He sounds like the kid in school who has food but never eats it

[@ReasonMakes]

I like his voice a lot

[@theupsidedownbear4622]

The video quality are surprisingly good I thought you had atleast 500k

[@EphiTV]

Thanks! Haha, I wish.

[@patcam8652]

Something that really surprised me is how reliant a lot of people are on bases, I went throughout the game twice without feeling the need to make a farm for food or use the water filtration system or even a base in dangerous areas for safety, I only ever made a base with the bare essentials (moonpool, some storage, modification station and a scanner room). That was the extent of my base building lol.

[@joelkp1185]

Plant island is called the floating island, and there aren’t reapers in the blood kelp zone, they are called warpers, and the leviathan in the lava area is called the sea dragon, not emperor

[@Vlugazoide]

He said it right last vid

[@jimmymfs4314]

@Charles Sutcliffe i mean he did call those things in the wrong way, but its not a big deal. Besides anyone can do this challenge after watching this video or enough practice

[@illusion8457]

@Charles Sutcliffe lmao this aint even hard

[@moistman6302]

Playing without beacons is so easy mainly cuz i just turn on the old markers that try to move the story forward like crashed pod next to cave is the jelly shroom cave or the 500 meter depth lifepod that takes you straight into the river of life but yeah with the aurora as a landmark its actually super easy to navigate your at the front of okay that means there either the mountains or the top of the dunes area and the floating islands with all them boney bois behind it well im near the rondevous point which is about the floating ball place next to sea treaders path ect. Then in the actaul cave systems theres like 3 directions every turn and its pretty easy to use the tree of life or one of the skeletons or the thermal plant as the refrence point since all the huge areas have a big distinguishable item smack dab in the middle of it then the lava area is litterally two giant rooms with the testing room in it i just recalled like 60 percent of the map but i know where the rest are lmao

[@Lydkm05]

Same I think I only used a beacon once and that was to remeber where the lava entrance was, I didn’t even need it after going a few times

[@helltubejackie1086]

My guy you need to use punctuation

[@talas2566]

Me who’s never used a beacon in any game: wow is my sense of direction THAT good?

[@imstupidbut1058]

Try no mans sky🤣

[@NEINNEINNEINNEIN1]

I spam beacons everywhere in every biome and my screen look not that good

[@davecrupel2817]

@@issamaebrinks i have 3 bases. One in the safe shallows One at the main blood kelp canyon, about half way down, directly above the Lost River Entrance And one at the dropping point between the Ghost Egg Tree and the Lava Zone. Easy to remember.

[@Walterholdingacat]

All I did was remember this Go north west for mushroom forest Straight through the creepvine to get to grassy plateau Midway through grassy plateau jellyshroom And the direction the aurora's tip is pointing to go to mountain island

[@NEINNEINNEINNEIN1]

@@Walterholdingacat i know where is grand reef with my base location and blood kelp trench,two(three) lost river entries,inactive lava zone,and a lot of wreck locations

[@Camping_Journey]

This is the kind of subnautica content we need, not stupid lets plays

[@noahcraven]

who is we😭

[@triangle2582]

3:02 learning where everything is on the map was the moment I realized I loved this game a little too much

[@iplayminecraft2248]

i have another challenge for you: no scanning the problems are: you can't get a second blue tablet, since you need to scan it you cant make a laser cutter to get the neptune you can't make a cyclops shield module for the neptune

[@iplayminecraft2248]

@Carl Stock i didnt even remember that you needed the mobile vehicle bay for the rocket, so i guess so that also fixes needing the laser cutter and shield generator

[@piercetaliaferro5393]

The game automatically gives you the blue tablet blueprint when you pick it up.

[@iplayminecraft2248]

@@piercetaliaferro5393 ok cool

[@alexplasma986]

you dont actually need to scan for the cyclops shield module since it is in a data box

[@iplayminecraft2248]

@@alexplasma986 yes, but you need to make it in a cyclops, and you need to scan cyclops parts for that

[@twilightsparkle75]

this was literally how i did my first playthrough out of stubbornness. i stayed in the pod till cyclops, and i was playing blind the whole time went in knowing literally nothing. and placing minimal beacons

[@annurissimo1082]

I basically accidentally did this on my first playthrough. I only built a moonpool with an upgrade console inside and a solar panel on top. I was like "Glass Corridor? T-shaped? Multipurpose room? What the hell, who needs this stuff?" My storage was all waterproof lockers, for food I just hunted for fish using grav traps, did all my crafting inside the Lifepod - and to be fair, now that I think about it, I really did not feel like I was missing out on anything and thought this is how most people would play the game.

[@parallellia1509]

You are a true madman.

[@SnazzySMM]

me too

[@ThePolishTexan]

"If you don't use beacons you either have an amazing sense of direction or..." Its actually not like that for most people who don't use beacons. Take me for example, I use landmarks and preset beacons. Eg if I'm going to the jellyshroom caves, Ill go to ollys life pod and go to it from there.

[@myrth2325]

That's what you call a sense of direction

[@diedbyalego4]

it's called being a subnautica veteran

[@princesadam1949]

I almost never get the beacon blueprint because I also use landmarks/life pods

[@funnybunny954]

Ozzy*

[@c1nquedea47]

yes, i actually go there too to reach jellyshroom caves, congrats, veteran

[@skylarea]

These challenge vids are great. What are other games you’d want to beat with a twist?

[@EphiTV]

I did a video on Kingdom Come: Deliverance Unarmed-only in the past too. Lots of possibilities, but open-world RPGs like that have tons of potential. There's also the more difficulty-focused ones like "Beat X game with a certain weapon". Although I find doing something like this video more interesting - because I plan it a bit, but I don't fully know if it's possible or not until I actually do it.

[@skylarea]

EphiTV if you have some kind of call of duty you could try beating the campaign without reloading, just an idea. (When you kill enemies they drop weapons with potentially more ammo)

[@EphiTV]

I haven't played any call of duty games in a while so probably not up my alley, but it's a pretty neat idea.

[@Ace-of-the-Spades]

The "plant" Island is called the floating island, just go under the island and see

[@TheLastSane1]

If you know where the zero point of the map is, its near the coral tube with the single end sticking out of the water. If you go off from there South/South-East you will find a red grass area and it has a jellyshroom cave entrance that is directly over the Degrasi Base. The base is at around 260 meters down. So you can park your Seamoth at 200, but be warned about the crabsnake there. It will let you scan the outside stuff fairly easily with a ready made air pocket nearby. But going inside to get the databoxes and datapads is risky. I recommend a rebreather and bladderfish.

[@darkxsuperphsyco17]

ZERO POINT... Thats at the center of the map

[@TheLastSane1]

@@darkxsuperphsyco17 Yes but unless your playing modded you do not have a map so the landmark is a little more easy to figure out

[@darkxsuperphsyco17]

@@TheLastSane1wait no, th-thats not what i... Nvm

[@wiimotecactus3124]

I've beaten subnautica twice and never used a single beacon, the map is very simple to break down if you make the compass early, I only used beacons in below zero because the map is far more complicated

[@noahgormley4456]

I love subnautica so fucking much, but I'm way too scared to get back into it (crippling thalassophobia) so I end up watching it instead

[@EphiTV]

It's definitely way scarier than quite a lot of horror games. Great experience though.

[@noahgormley4456]

@@EphiTV could not agree more

[@koldblaze6610]

DUDE SAME....What helped me get over it though is i eventually realized that, unlike irl, all the fish in this game are a bunch of stupid AI. Maybe it'll help you too?

[@noahgormley4456]

@@koldblaze6610 I'll try but I've recently discovered skyrim and have been playing that non-stop

[@LoominousShroominous]

you can hear how happy he is just doing this in his voice, you can hear his smiling sometimes

[@tomdean1876]

God I love bases, they are one of the things that make Subnautica very special, very unique.

[@ultimanolastname3143]

I tried a run this particular restriction, and I found out you actually can get the sea moth depth module 3, there is a free one on the Aurora in the sea moth…lab…station….the one room with a sea moth in it. And just put a few storage modules in it. Kinda annoying regardless since leviathans kept attacking me. But otherwise it was fun.

[@mysteryman3204]

You can beat it but its one hell of a challenge since its harder to get kyanite and nickel, prawn suit is basically useless unupgraded, Seamoth can only have depth modules which would be a pain when dealing with reapers, and without a base you can not really charge power cells (Yes I know you can put power cell chargers in the cyclops but it takes the power you are using in your cyclops on the charging power cells), and you have to use your cyclops to go to primary containment unit which is the biggest pain ever.

[@nathanlorance5192]

Is it me or does this guy have an adorable voice? Idk what it means but oh well

[@EphiTV]

Haven't heard that before but I'll take it

[@grayxorchid7932]

Yeah, he sounds wicked cute. ;)

[@bennyboyjnr9845]

3:18 Ozzy very nicely marks this with his life pod

[@Wesmin]

FYI, "plant island" is floating island, since ita floating and held up my giant "floater" organisms. Also the energy leaches are the one thing in the game it seems designed for you to kill rather than just scare off. They don't attack-you- move slow when running away, and die in maybe 5-6 quick hits, low hp compared to other things. Also "that one hidden facility" there's actually 3 of those, all with ion cubes in them.

[@Caffin8tor]

I love Subnautica. I've tried this challenge quite some time ago as well. It sucks not being able to make any prawn upgrades, but other than that, it isn't too hard especially once you have the Cyclops to use as a mobile base.

[@moth5799]

You should try starting in the inactive lava zone by building a small base with a fabricator, and radio, it's really difficult.

[@EphiTV]

Sounds interesting, the main problem is that all the super deep areas have almost no titanium besides the nodes you need the prawn suit to mine. I've done some bases down there and it always sucks trying to build them out because you have to keep ferrying titanium from the surface.

[@moth5799]

@@EphiTV There is titanium in the ILZ, just not much of it. It spawns just on it's own in the lava pit and on some of the spires, same for silver and gold. Also you'll need to cheat in a rebreather to do it, swimming without a seaglide to the surface is impossible to do without one.

[@VesaniusMoon]

Awesome challenge mate, proffesional editing and voice over. Keep up the good work!

[@terakhan6656]

Its kind of funny hearing you talk about using the seamoth in Jellyshroom. I typically rush the seaglide and upgraded tank, then use the entrance directly above the base to zip in and out to get it all before the radiation.

[@rickyspanish69420.]

You can drop in directly above the jellyshroom degasi base and at least park your seamoth relatively close with no upgrade.

[@jademonass2954]

ngl, i only found out about the beacons near the end of the game, as in i just needed stuff from the lost river up until then i oriented myself with the aurora and the inicial ship thing, and how far away i was from them

[@alopexlagopus1488]

In my first ever play through I never built a base as I got the Cyclops quite early and it never occurred to me that I might need one. I finished the game with just the Seamoth and Cyclops. I also never found a second beacon fragment so had to do it without beacons. I made a save just before launching the rocket and then reloaded from that point and went on a completion spree. I built a Prawn and harvested every large mineral node in the game and spent the next 500hours of game time building a mahoosive set of bases all over the map. I had more fun after completing the game than before the story ended. I even had a base from the top of the largest Mushroom tree all the way down to the Lost River via the Blood Kelp entrance.

[@SpinningTurtle66]

I really enjoyed this video, I think I have finally found a channel that I can truly say is underrated.

[@IamCoalfoot]

Watching these kinda make me want to do a challenge run myself, seems fun.

[@Gozieaaa]

Its not fun trust me

[@everydaysniper9390]

3:43 I can say from experience that you absolutely can get the seamoth very close to the base, I've done it multiple times, you do have to dip below 200m a little bit but as long as you have a repair tool there are enough pockets above 200m to park the seamoth reasonably close to the base.

[@anthonycincotta9105]

Alternatively, you could just use the entrance directly above the degassi base and avoid all that nonsense.

[@rtyuik7]

6:20(ish) - for the record, i call that spot "Donut Island" because it has a hole in the middle of it (which is easier to see if you look up/mod in a Map)

[@IaHulg]

The JellyShroom Cave has the entrance right above the Degasi base, so you can park the Seamoth at ~199m and swim back and forth to the base just fine.

[@draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo6978]

Oh man, I love the muchroom biome.

[@alexplasma986]

theres so much room in that biome

[@draugnaustaunikunhymnphoo6978]

@@alexplasma986 void

[@Just_Poncho]

Keep up the good work! Great vid

[@moonlightrider24]

Almost done this one before, might have beaten most of the game without bases before but I can’t 100% confirm, been a while. Definitely gonna put my skills to the test though in a run like this someday though!

[@knowncupid101]

i love how he sounds happy all the time

[@flyingtoaster6105]

Where did you go to get your bridge and hull fragments for the Cyclops? (I usually get them from the Mushroom forest but I was wondering if you go to a different play to get them)

[@EphiTV]

Yeah, Mushroom Forest is usually the best spot. Sea Treader's Path also has both types but it's pretty far out of the way from anything important so I usually don't go there.

[@gravytube4099]

I get bridge and hull fragments from the mushroom forest and engine parts from the back of the aurora

[@zdestructor1234]

Around the aurora there are some fragments but if you don't want to get close to that shit, the mushroom forest near the aurora is your best choice

[@iSomeDood]

@@gravytube4099 that has to be an inside joke, engine parts at the engine of the aurora? totally

[@CA3TRI]

i went under the aurora for mine and mushroom forest for me i couldn’t find any at the mushroom forest then it hit me that under the aurora there is some so yeah i almost died for my cyclops which is still alive surprisingly and ya nobody asked so yeah

[@matthewdombroskas7634]

I can’t count how much I have watched this video

[@aryan78771]

same here bro

[@Kapybarara]

I enjoy watching these modified runs!

[@arch_volatile6462]

Fun fact, theres an enterance to the jelly shroom cave directly above the base down there. Didn't have to sacrifice your seamoth.

[@PikaBolaChan]

not me already knowing you can do this with 30 lockers outside my life pod

[@andrezillmann7001]

I have a Challenge for you. You can only use the prawn suit

[@EphiTV]

Prawn suit with boosters is my fave vehicle. It'd just be very slow getting around everywhere. You'd also need to collect all the parts first which means going to the Aurora ASAP. Would be interesting but rather slow run.

[@geostorm8192]

3:46 Yes, yes it can! I did it myself out of laziness and not wanting to "waste" materials on a moonpool. There's enough pockets above 200m in between the stalactites in the ceiling to make it all the way to the base. Also, right above the base there's a hole that goes directly to it, so who cares.

[@theknightikins9397]

I’m glad that you find my obsessive exploration of this games map to the point where I have memorized pretty much everything as a “good sense of direction.”

[@typhonplume9374]

A bit late but the cyclops will let you build prawn drill arms and such.

[@Franwow]

11:39 - This was literally the first remnants I ever found lol

[@PidgeyHowler]

As someone who plays Subnautica without beacons because I hate wasting valuable inventory space for materials, yes, you do basically get lost over and over until you learn the map. I used to make a habit of making random visits to oddly specific locations to sort of train my brain to memorize the paths to important places, objects, and enemies and the things I would likely encounter while making those trips.

[@Tumush]

"You can hear the reaper scream at me." *Stalker roars

[@InfiniteGreninja]

Why do people care so much about him calling the Sea Dragon the “Sea Emperor”? Like yeah he accidentally said the wrong name, big deal.

[@tomdean1876]

Wow he made common mistake, lets smoke him about it.

[@dumber_bozo]

Lol

[@phenics]

He said it like 5 times lol

[@tomdean1876]

@@phenics So? he probably has a script, and wrote it wrong, you don't to beat him over the head with it.

[@phenics]

@@tomdean1876 Whoa hey, don’t get so offended. Just pointing it out...

[@charisardmegax6556]

Someone may have already mentioned this but "plant island" is more commonly known as the floating island

[@deyo286]

I am not aware of reapers when they roar because I wake up to the sound in my main base only become aware when they either get really loud and my brain suddenly goes 'oh a reaper better get out of here' or when they grab me

[@thepizzacarpizza1056]

If you go into the lava zone pit, (the giant pit that has a little hole in the side) you can park your cyclops there for an extremely long time (forever) and there will be no lava larva to leech off of your cyclops. Trust me, the lava zone pit is the best base spot that deep down. Hot enough for you to need a reinforced suit, but not too hot that you can't chill, close access to an infinite source of ion cubes, and so many other perks. (No leeches)

[@hugodorta8863]

So if he had found those sparse reef ion cubes, he technically could have completed the no vehicles challenge.

[@froggothemaniac2180]

Im one of the few who have good navigational skills, its a pain in the ass however, one wrong move and you completely lose your sense of direction, happened to me once while i was returning to one of my bases from the mushroom cave, i took a wrong turn near the Safe shallows and wouldnt you know Thats a reaper why im in the dunes OH GOD-

[@combinecommando001]

Technically speaking, the cyclops is a mobile base, but extremely limited compared to an actual base. So for all intents and purposes, you fulfilled the requisite of the challenge, albeit it could be argued.

[@marijnyboy8402]

Doing it without beacons is practically first being lost a lot until you have great navigation skills.

[@R-Dax]

I forgot that you can build bases in the game, I just realized that there’s something called the habitat builder while I was making the hatching enzymes

[@zafhfx]

yes i actually acomplished that easily without even trying i was doing a lets play and for some reason i didnt build a base but i had the rocket thing down and my self cured

[@lorantpapp07]

No because you NEED a cuddlefish to keep your sanity.

[@mememan1546]

I'd typically use the islands and sos beacons as waypoints, only using deployable beacons for established bases. Didn't even need a compass. If I was going anywhere new, I'd make sure to thoroughly explore and memorize the area to avoid getting lost. Helps me avoid danger too.

[@breadwitharms1443]

At 8:18 what happened was that you saved in your sea moth and loaded that save. Whenever you do that it activates that glitch.

[@marshallthepup3430]

Me: does a self scan scanner: infected me: CORONA

[@atunalamarinera]

you dont need a moon pool to upgrade a prawn suit, just open the mod compartment and put the arms there.

[@Needless_Chaos]

One thing you can do in the early game after the radiation explosion is visit the aurora and get a depth module from the seamoth bay, you don’t need to do this but it kinda helps.

[@sydneyhunter2807]

I actually did this when I first played... It was a night mare

[@yaboyrgonyoutube3718]

oof...

[@Chwiztid]

Cyclops shield removes the lava larva. Have you checked out any of the mods?

[@EphiTV]

Yeah, they were only a minor annoyance though. Didn't bother making it at the time

[@atg4eva]

It's actually possible to beat the game without using the builder tool altogether. The only issue besides the slow Prawn is the Lava Zones, which can be easily countered by getting out occasionally to repair the Prawn Suit. It might be easier than playing normally because you don't have to worry about getting a bunch of things in a base. Although, storing everything in Waterproof Lockers is simply a nightmare.

[@IAreSmeegoo]

I have never made a beacon in Subnautica, I find that all of the waypoints for life pods are plenty of navigation points to get around.

[@eroth1008]

Sea Dragon Leviathan = Sea Emperor Leviathan Sea Emperor Leviathan = Mother Leviathan Translator for someone that actually knows subnautica

[@Jpteryx]

Think you could have done it without using the habitat builder at all?

[@EphiTV]

Yeah but it would be a huge pain. No modification station means no depth modules so you'd have to do all the lost river/lava zone by stacking O2 tanks in your inventory and seagliding down. Kind of similar to my No Vehicles video but with very limited inventory space and no pit stops.

[@puremarblec]

@@EphiTV you could use a outdoor growbed and brain coral seeds to have a way of getting oxygen also can't you use the mod workbench for depth modules and you could just put that in the cyclops both don't count as a base Edit: by mod workbench I meant the one you can build without a moon pool the box like thing

[@MegaXanderlex]

@@puremarblec He was asking if it could be done without the habitat builder. You need the builder to make both the modification station as well as the growbeds.

[@daz7052]

EphiTV: You need a beacon or you will get lost Me: I do not know this weakness

[@twistedlogic9739]

Memorising the way to the points of interest? I do that too! At this point I’ve memorised what the area with x,z coords 0,0 look like, and I know my way to a lot of places from there. Plus, subnauticamap.io

[@squallstopher608]

I just wanted to say, I play without beacons, but it's not due to my sense of direction, which is actually really bad. I utilize the lifepod signals as beacons because they are all near the points of interest I need. For example, Officer Keen's Life Pod is near a wreck loaded with Prawn Suit arms and other equipment. Lt Yu's lifepod is near a large opening to the Lost River. One has Seaglide parts around it, one has Seamoth parts around it... The survivor recordings give hints about whats around them

[@the_Dos__]

How do you name almost everything wrong

[@zephyr4960]

My guy scans interior wall planters while drowning, even though he can't build bases YET HE DOESN'T GRAB ALL OF THE ION CUBES HE CAN

[@tomalbeartcharles7560]

congrats on getting the cyclops before the sunbeam came thats amazing

[@glitchii_uwu]

not really, the sunbeam is completely triggered via radio. if you never respond to the messages, the sunbeam never comes.

[@Zhiloaxeman]

Hmmm, As I recall, the Prawn Suit is much more maneuverable in Below Zero, you could try a Prawn suit only challenge there, as in dont build any other vehicles and use the suit to explore everywhere you need to go.