I Suffered Through Building Subnautica’s Deepest Ever Air Pipe

[@iAletho]

Oxygen

[@PanMan47]

Agreed

[@warduxe]

Oxygen

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

So important that the pda lady constantly suggests it :D

[@The_Golden_Finch]

mm yes yes good Oxygen

[@kotletdreama9042]

30 seconds of oxygen remaining

[@stevenscott2136]

A few thoughts from an engineer -- no consulting fee required. 😁 You''d need a pump that could generate high pressure, to overcome the water pressure at the outlet end. At 1450 meters that would be about 2100 psi (assuming Earth-like conditions on 4546B). We have pumps that will do that, so Alterra certainly will. You'll need pressure-regulators at all the outlet points, so the work crew can breathe the air. No different from what a scuba diver puts in his mouth. You'd need some extra pump capacity to overcome the resistance of moving through that long pipe -- I'm not going to calculate that, but a second 2100-psi pump should be more than enough. I would start on the beach of Space-Gun Island and just follow the terrain all the way down, anchoring the pipe to the terrain with braces all the way. This would protect the pipe from collisions with Reefbacks and bending due to cumulative current forces. It would be easier for the work crews, too, having a solid surface to stand on at all times. Since the giant red moon would actually produce insane tidal fluctuations, it might be necessary to start at the TOP of Space-Gun Island -- without numbers I can't calculate, but the intake needs to be high enough to collect air even during high-tide, unless you want to build storage tanks and a control system to switch between supply sources depending on whether the inlet is under water. For long-term robustness, I'd go with the simple system, which means putting the inlet as high as it needs to be. You'll need more pump capacity because the pressure at the bottom will be higher at high tide. It might also be wise to run TWO complete pipe systems along different paths, so if one is damaged, the other will still carry air until repairs can be performed. We DO have leviathans and volcanic activity to worry about, after all. Building inside the containment facility is an unknown -- would the maintenance droids see the pipe as a foreign object and try to dismantle it? A defense system might be necessary. We also might need to change our attachment method, if the alien alloy can't be drilled for bolt holes. Would adhesive stick to the alloy? We might need to lay a concrete footing. Would having a pipe constantly there compromise the water-exclusion forcefield? Filling the facility with water won't harm our pipe, but it might not be great for the facility. This would be expensive, of course, but an insane man living alone in a titanium-rich environment with a universal fabricator has a different notion of economics than you and I do. Notice the assumption that we can't just build a FAR shorter pipe through the teleport gateway -- he's trying to keep busy, after all.

[@Cathowl]

This is the kind of brilliant comment I live for in fan communities. You do a serious breakdown of the problem but you also don't take it so seriously that you dismiss the whole idea as dumb. You commit to the bit and work out what it would actually take to do. I love it. :3

[@BrianatorFTW]

@@Cathowlthe "zillionaire paying with a blank check and also the only person in the world with access to the cure for my/my dog's/my child's/ my spouse's literal alien cancer but only if I do a perfect job completing this one outrageously impossible/unreasonable objective" approach.

[@Cathowl]

@@BrianatorFTW It's like all those old fairy tales where the hero has to figure out how to complete the impossible task, except you're trying to do it with logic instead of "here's a magic feather I got earlier".

[@melody3741]

What are you talking about? If its filled with water gravity does the pumping Edit: I’m an idiot sorry

[@VaclavTheHuman]

🤓

[@tinydiicethief2227]

My guess is the pipes either have limited range of building in some way, perhaps a bubble projected from the pump or base attachment, and then once you hit the end of it it won't build that way, or the pipes after a certain length cause the game to get confused

[@tinydiicethief2227]

well every copy of Subnautica is personalized.@@iAletho

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

@@iAletho Ah yes, the cave/surface interface. I have seen a lot of bugs having to do with building bases across that divide. I like to do it anyway, but animations and lighting gets really broken.

[@sicroto]

its the zone markers for the different biomes acting like a wall.

[@thedepression950]

But that doesn't explains how he was able to go around the bugs like it's an obstacle on 2nd and 3rd time it happened. As we can see that at the last part, it refused to go certain way but accepted to go after being laid near the ground.

[@Greengalaxy6119]

The bug happens at the depth of 471

[@40hzmonitor]

This guy is one of the most reliable subnuatica KZbinr

[@iAletho]

Proud to serve 40hzmonitor!

[@Nephramed]

@@iAlethoYou sound like a captain.

[@DoctorDipshits]

KZbinrs**

[@Nephramed]

@@DoctorDipshits 🗿

[@Monsi_in_germany]

@@DoctorDipshits 🗿

[@trappist-1d587]

"Underwater creatures don't breathe oxygen." Gills, which have been made through billions of years of evolution: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@iAletho]

Well errrr, you know what I meant xD

[@Aespha2]

LOL

[@ravenpotter5131]

​@@iAletho if it's any consolation, they DO require Oxygenated Water, which those pipes WOULD be providing near the same places where you yourself would refill your tanks!

[@TheMemeLord700]

​@@ravenpotter5131so he is helping fish

[@ravenpotter5131]

@@TheMemeLord700 yeah! What he built is just a absolutely gigantic version of the little bubble thingies people put in fishtanks

[@Ramekinnz]

The dedication is outstanding. Nice work, Aletho!

[@iAletho]

Thanks Demons-And-Demigods! Lets just say it took awhile! :D

[@kathydina3646]

I wonder if the pipes have an unintentional connection limit or build limit since the problem reared its head three times.

[@iAletho]

I did have a play with them after this and the issue seems to be present on the surface to if you take them into caves, so maybe it's something to do with how the game renders terrain? Not sure though!

[@SeedlingNL]

@@iAletho I suspect it has to do with horizontal distance from the floating air pump. The game is designed with verticality in mind, after all. Distant bases aren't simulated as detailed as the one you are near, and it's possible that the air pump is now located in the outer simulation shell, which is not accessible from the inner simulation shell you are in. It can't detect the pump, probably throws a hidden error, which is caught in the general exception handling for collisions and stuff, and your attempt to build is rejected.

[@midnight4685]

@@SeedlingNLHm, interesting idea, but at the same time, why would that stop him from building a vertical pipe but allow him to build a horizontal one? It seemed that down was the specific direction it didn’t want him to go.

[@alansmithee419]

5:20 I love these kinds of descriptions of things. Can't really explain it, I just love it.

[@kirbyx2573]

I salute the building Mission Aletho. Always cool to see these. Wish these air pipes had more use in base Subnautica. That aside, this will be a fun watch!

[@iAletho]

Haha enjoy Kirby! I'm always looking for more ways to suffer xD

[@kirbyx2573]

@@iAletho hey if you want a hellish challenge, build a survival base spanning from Below Zero's Crystal caverns all the way to the ice Worm haha. Trust, that takes waaaay too much Material haha.

[@TheLadsGames759]

@@iAletho I got a way to make you suffer… try building a seatruck that stretches from the void to the other side of the map ;)

[@scarredclawsgibberish]

pipe? no i eated it all also watching a T-posing Aletho falling over in a bedroom is hilarious

[@iAletho]

It hurt my knees!

[@robertoberto9385]

i love your work! keeping the alterra industry alive

[@iAletho]

Thanks Robertoberto! :)

[@Birdofthetacklebox]

Fun fact: fish actually breath oxygen, it just has to be dissolved in the water. Meaning that these fish DID use your air pipe thingy to survive.

[@Moonstudios-hd7vi]

Pro tip for both games when you use prawn suit: The drill arm plus the propulsion cannon arm is a good combo, The propulsion cannon arm being used to fling smaller creatures the hell away from you or bringing them in closer so you can absolutely grind them with the drill arm, its a pretty good offensive and defensive combo not forgetting that the 2 arms together are very useful in mining too

[@LeviTheLancer]

He mustve been the Aurora first engineer with that dedication! Love the work, keep it up! Loves from Brasil!

[@NopeThatsIllegal]

Honestly thought I was watching a video from a massive channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and then I saw the 34k, this is so well made for a channel of this size!

[@iAletho]

Thanks NopeThatsIllegal! I like to try and make my videos as entertaining as I can! :)

[@MayinMayo]

all your videos are amazing, that has to be at least infinite times as many tubes as i have used ever

[@iAletho]

Thanks Swindle! Always appreciate your comments, yeah I have to admit I'd hardly used them either before this video!

[@Masterclassdragon]

Aletho is the only person insane enough to do this

[@iAletho]

I like to push the boundaries of my sanity xD

[@carlizinea]

Challenge idea: mine all the limited resources in the game. All the outcrops, mushrooms, and everything that doesn't respawn. Ir would be cool to see how much storage it would take to keep it. Love your videos, keep up with the food work

[@Rig0r_M0rtis]

3:13 Wow this hits home. Haven't had that in years tho

[@tomhalik4877]

as a fish i must agree that i need oxygen from the surface while being 1000 meters deep.

[@iAletho]

I did this for you tom!

[@Stormthorn67]

I tried this once and gave up once I got the glitch where they stop placing. I'm glad to see someone preserved

[@callmeturg1590]

You know what gives oxygen? Brain coral

[@iAletho]

Brain Coral gang rise up!

[@callmeturg1590]

@@iAletho brain coral! Brain coral!

[@RoundusMongus]

Brain Coral planter boxes woo!

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Damn it now I have to build planters all the way to the ALZ

[@Hoverfish-d9i]

Brain coraaaalllll brain coraaaallllll

[@Strikerzzz_z]

Bro has suffered so much with this game that he is inmune to every pain possible.

[@iAletho]

Diamonds are made under pressure Strikerzzz_z!

[@Strikerzzz_z]

@@iAletho facts

[@MDRUM-lb6gt]

now make the fish pay for the oxygen

[@iAletho]

Capitalism 4546B style!

[@Not_A_Guy.]

Aletho is the type of person to do this challenge in normal mode so its not cheating and restrict himself with only the seaglide in order to make good content.

[@justinbrand8270]

Yea the pipes are garbage. I tried using them to get into the jellyshroom cave and they had the sane glitch right at the entrance I assumed it was a depth limit, or only a certain # of pipes allowed per pump. Seems like the developers didnt really think the system through. Anyway, cool vid. Confirmed that pumps are useless. Thanks

[@iAletho]

Haha, yes they are a bit useless, it seems they glitch out around cave entrances which makes me think its something to do with how the terrain is rendered

[@caseyriley1014]

feel around for a familar feeling wall, before you trip over the nightstand😂😂 This was one of the most unexpectedly relatable things I've ever heard on all of youtube

[@Insomn]

You could get to the bottom using the exterior growbed and the Brain Coral clipping. You just have to wait patiently for it to grow at the previous growbed, and remember where each growbed is.

[@snoobab_86]

What a brilliant video. You nailed it. Your time vs content balance is perfect.

[@putis_man_sanwich]

We got to go deeper. Right guys... Guys?

[@iAletho]

To the planets core!

[@moosethegamer9140]

Give this man a reward, all of his videos perfectly line up.

[@TheLadsGames759]

i just triggered a subspace tripmine. it erased 9.2 trillion universes in the Multiverse. i think the universe 4546B was in was a part of that number. remaining universes got their realities swapped. i think 4546B was one of the planets lost in that incident. oops?

[@-SpaceNewsNow-]

It is a crime this guy doesn’t have more subs

[@Theunknown-tomatoe]

Brooo you have the best quality vids And the commitment to the thumbnail is just mind boggling

[@iAletho]

Thanks unknown-tomatoe!

[@theeyeofthetstorm]

favorite parts 0:01 yes it is/me to 0:11 oh no they dont have h2o what are they going to do 0:29 sus 3:08 relatable 6:59 ah a ghost 7:16 ah a dragon 7:51 another dragon 8:55 (insert skyrim music here) you are the dragon born 9:18 what games are on the blue tablet 9:31 yes

[@Transformers2Fan1]

Heh, my map mod caused collision box glitches. Terrifying when a Reaper pokes through a mountain cave wall, hilarious when a Sea Dragon gets trapped in the PCF main room; I have a pet now!

[@_Nykolaii_]

I am pretty sure the pipes have no limits but that there are invisible walls preventing pipes from passing for some reason. But, after experimenting at the jellyshroom cave, this wall isnt perfect and there are some spots you can squeeze a pipe through by gluing it as close as possible against the walls. There surely is a similar solution for the other caves.

[@Arandomgamer7]

As the great Zanny says”oxygen is a scam”

[@iAletho]

The fish need it! Maybe?!

[@bluepititv9465]

89 likes with mine, and it was posted 32 minutes ago and it's a master piece :) Exactly like the game itself.

[@iAletho]

I appreciate the 89th like! :) glad you enjoyed it!

[@BRIGGS2710]

why? just why?

[@cadenwhelan8358]

Games that don't get updates you can only do so much in without running out of content so you have to get creative

[@agentbowlingball6993]

Oxygen 👍

[@lek8630]

deathrun ptsd

[@chadnorris8257]

I've been playing Subnautica for a while, and somehow I missed that there's a chasm leading directly from the surface to the lava zone. I guess because I don't usually spend too much time in the bulb zone. I do know that you can go straight down with the C button, though, which is quite useful when piping oxygen or making vertical corridors on a base.

[@professorkhepri]

YOU SLICK FRICKER- ALWAYS FINDING THE MOST SMOOTH WAYS TO GET ME TO WATCH MORE- YOU CHARMING SLY DOG

[@iAletho]

😉

[@smzubek]

This makes me want to play Subnautica again, but then I remember all the game breaking glitches.

[@MrFishMan.3]

you're such a nice person! giving the poor drowning fishes the oxygen to breathe!

[@TheSandwhichman108]

I have a theory for why subnautica has a breathable atmosphere. Even if there are sparse land masses with vegitation plus the fact the polar regions seem to have more land available for terrestrial plants I don’t think it’s quite enough for terrestrial or airborne organisms to survive so my guess is there’s colonies of bacteria living near and/or on the surface of said planet’s global ocean absorbing carbon dioxide and other byproducts of other organisms and release oxygen into the atmosphere as a waste product. That’s how oxygen was first created on earth as a waste product of bacteria.

[@TeguTheJester1954]

Garsh darn it if only I watched the video at the end or I wouldn’t have also constructed an industrial pipe to the Mariana Trench

[@iAletho]

Damn it Tegu, we would make a good team!

[@TeguTheJester1954]

@@iAletho maybe

[@ayeball152]

A breath of fresh air 😌

[@iAletho]

*gasps for breath after finally reaching the surface after 2 hours*

[@ayeball152]

@@iAletho 🤣

[@kamaljamalludin7026]

The skyrays.yay what cool things made by aletho

[@nicklehnhoff907]

Hey I love the content man, it's always a charm to my day!

[@iAletho]

Awh thanks nicklehnoff! Glad you enjoy it! :)

[@KoonSha]

I’ve started playing Subnautica yesterday and it’s so good bro , I have already made the sea moth

[@iAletho]

Good job whiskers!

[@neondynamite1813]

A Warper decided that his claws would make a good edition to my face is some of the best writing I’ve heard.

[@attevishawhy7400]

Man the art on the thumbnail is sooooo good!

[@iAletho]

Thank you! :)

[@iterativedoor8411]

0:57, you don't have to worry about drowning 🤣

[@iAletho]

It was to late for me already!

[@powerfulpike8875]

I suck at physics but I’m pretty sure that the floating air pump wouldn’t work and you wouldn’t be able to breath the air so you would be dead from being 1000+ meters down underwater, the temperature and not being able to breath

[@stevenscott2136]

You'd just need a pump that could generate high pressure, to overcome the water pressure at the outlet end. At 1450 meters that would be about 2100 psi (assuming Earth-like conditions on 4546B). We have pumps that will do that, so Alterra certainly will. You'll need pressure-regulators at all the outlet points, so the work crew can breathe the air. No different from what a scuba diver puts in his mouth. You'd need some extra pump capacity to overcome the resistance of moving through that long pipe -- I'm not going to calculate that, but a second 2100-psi pump should be more than enough. I would start on the beach of Space-Gun Island and just follow the terrain all the way down, anchoring the pipe to the terrain with braces all the way. This would protect the pipe from collisions with Reefbacks and bending due to cumulative current forces. It would be easier for the work crews, too, having a solid surface to stand on at all times. Since the giant red moon would actually produce insane tidal fluctuations, it might be necessary to start at the TOP of Space-Gun Island -- without numbers I can't calculate, but the intake needs to be high enough to collect air even during high-tide, unless you want to build storage tanks and a control system to switch between supply sources depending on whether the inlet is under water. For long-term robustness, I'd go with the simple system, which means putting the inlet as high as it needs to be. You'll need more pump capacity because the pressure at the bottom will be higher at high tide. It might also be wise to run TWO complete pipe systems along different paths, so if one is damaged, the other will still carry air until repairs can be performed. We DO have leviathans and volcanic activity to worry about, after all. This would be expensive, of course, but an insane man living alone in a titanium-rich environment with a universal fabricator has a different notion of economics than you and I do.

[@powerfulpike8875]

You would also need to secure the pipes so ghosts and sea dragons don’t destroy them

[@SEAF_Democracy_Officer]

When I was younger I actually couldn’t figure out how to power my base so instead of building it on the surface like a normal person, I did this exact same thing, I built a loooong air pipe all the way down into my base. I still don’t know why I did that.

[@adorableanimals4868]

I don't even play Subnautica but these are so entertaining.

[@pokeymouse]

You set up the end beautifully!

[@iAletho]

Haha thank you pokeymouse!

[@lonelyPorterCH]

That pump must be very strong^^

[@MR_TankPT]

ah yes, fixing the planet 4546b one pipe at the time.

[@iAletho]

We can do this Carlos!

[@lechatmangeunbaguette]

Remember the civil war aletho?

[@iAletho]

Never forget the Brain Coral - Baguette War

[@callmeturg1590]

I member

[@colindanger3396]

This is the content I need

[@iAletho]

Glad to be of service Colin!

[@Gronglegrowth]

PIPE This was a very entertaining watch! Nice editing too. I have yet to play this game for myself, have wanted to for awhile however

[@Little-Buster]

You could say that... this was just a pipe dream.

[@DogerBeaner]

That intro had me laughing uncontrollably

[@bingusthecat-d1c]

your vids make me happy even though i am really sick right now

[@iAletho]

Get well soon! :)

[@bingusthecat-d1c]

thanks!@@iAletho

[@Keagan_Ferguson]

Tbh oxygen is overrated my guy, u ever tried Portal 2's "Freshened up" Recycled Co2? because THATS the good stuff

[@megamayhamgaming1296]

And on top of that it saves money!

[@Keagan_Ferguson]

@@megamayhamgaming1296 frrr, gotta my bank acount high ( a whole 2 cents !!1! )

[@eporter5071]

That pipe glitch has driven me insane

[@luislima7345]

Love the tumbnail art, incredible talent.

[@iAletho]

Thanks Luislima!

[@Hunter_VanderMatthews]

You can't build air pipes in The Aurora, so I imagine it's not a bug but the developers gatekeeping air. 😂

[@bartomolev6682]

i think it would be cool if the vechicles had their own supply of oxygen, and base would't just generate it out of nothing but would require an device that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen or a pipe to the surface, or plants

[@yeetussss]

fun fact: pipes in subnautica are extendable, it would have costed less pipes if you had know that

[@cathygrandstaff1957]

“The creatures living in the depths don’t need air” Actually they do, and since deep water tends to be fairly low in oxygen (due to plants needing sunlight and the deep sea having none of that) they probably got some benefit from the oxygen. Thanks to you the Sea Dragons will be repopulating the area in no time.

[@rosesbun]

Great video!! The production is really good and its super entertaining

[@ThatOneSerbianPatriot]

Watch litteraly anything else on youtube while eating: ❌️ Watch someone build most random air pipe in subnautica: ✅️

[@insid3493]

This should be a speed run catagory

[@1andrzej1i]

Great job

[@shadowcween7890]

Next, you should build a base that goes from the surface to the bottom

[@Silicosis_]

Next mission: Relocate your sanity.

[@iAletho]

'I suffered through reclaiming my sanity in Subanutica'

[@feynthefallen]

Subnautica: When getting whipped and nailed to crosses just won't cut it anymore.

[@k98k36]

I never finished this game but now I might go finish it

[@soapfaces]

For some reason I really wanna do this now

[@iAletho]

Haha good luck soapfaces, it'll take awhile 😂

[@jonathanvilante7249]

When I tried to put a pipe under a safe shallows cave it did the same, so I think it could be when it goes under something.

[@calebryanlamxuanrulangps392]

Hey uhh, Aletho? You forgot the pipe to the void Those Ghost Leviathans and whatever else might be lurking doen there need oxygen as well

[@Mr_Spaghetti]

Sea _Dragons?_ Plural? How did I not know there was more than one, I thought it was like a plot point that he was all by himself?

[@notkayra]

I love your thumbnails, are you drawing them? Because they look pretty!

[@iAletho]

Yeah they're drawn notkayra :)

[@BlackScreenCommenter]

just saying your whole channel is so underrated you deserve 1m subs please keep making this very good content 👍

[@Blake_Stone]

Every time I play the game I'm determined to make some kind of worthwhile use out of pipes, but the game is significantly more determined that they be useless.

[@filipwilliamsmuk4055]

I hate the blood kelp experience

[@iAletho]

At least they glow which is... kinda cool? xD

[@1th_to_comment.]

The second you placed the first pipe, you had already beaten the challenge. This is because nobody uses these.

[@iAletho]

Haha yep, I don't think I'd ever used these before making this video!

[@saitokot8700]

And I can say you are wrong. Or mayby I'm just special because I use it

[@SteveKong]

I will show this video to my plumber if he ever complains about his job

[@iAletho]

He'll have to do the job for free!

[@dogsareknockoffwolves]

Oxygen becoming the pain(bread in fr*nch)

[@FireKomodow]

dam 2 years late for both games i did the mega o2 pipes every where with a friend due to us needing to never step on land or in a base that wasent flooded

[@angrymeep8266]

''Ah oxygen, isn't it magnificent, I'm a big fan'' made me roll on the ground because... Oxygen... Air.... Fan..............................

[@UnKNOWN.............]

Yeah I noticed that glitch with the pipes it does not like crossing over different biomes

[@SenyiKimmo]

10 minutes of Aletho laying pipe

[@YamanŞekerci]

avrage oxygen fan be like:

[@iAletho]

*Breathing noises*

[@Excalibur-Sonic]

Yeah I only used the air pipes once in BZ to explore the largest part of the ship you can find and it was NOT fun at all. Never used them again for the rest of the game.

[@ΒασίληςΒλάχος-τ3κ]

That must be a really good pump

[@iAletho]

It must be powered by a reversed Henry Hoover

[@dugthedog2863]

When i first played i built a little base 100 meters deep and i was scared i was gonna run out of power so i built pumps all the way there. Too bad i didnt build a sea guide or air bladder so it wouldnt matter

[@dugthedog2863]

To add to this i put a pump in it

[@batscove]

Really cool challenge and editing!

[@iAletho]

Thanks batscove!