Barotrauma Biomes guide

[@AusFirewing]

Note on Ballast Flora clouds: The flora only has a chance to infect your sub if you're pumping water into the ballast. So if you can't avoid the cloud, use manual steering and fill the ballast pumps above the cloud, then fall through it without adjusting the ballast level. You can also have crewmates turn your pumps off in multiplayer to make sure they don't intake water.

[@Bishop1664]

He did say in the video theres only a chance to be infected 'when moving in a downward direction' (ie when your pumps are pumping in)

[@GamerHangout]

You can also wire a pump shutoff toggle to the navigation console, for easy ballast flora avoidance

[@lmaoroflcopter]

This game... you make the start biome seem like a walk in the park. So far every single mission (multiplayer campaign) has been a brutal. Sub has been attacked by mudraptors every time, sometimes multiples, and we're rocking 6 bullets in a single revolver to fend them off, it's been a nightmare.

[@IronicandDead]

unfortunately, the first biome is a walk in the park compared to what you will experience later on 🤣

[@lmaoroflcopter]

@@IronicandDead haha I guess we will continue to smash our heads against the challenges we face :)

[@minutemen_in_t-605]

My brother in christ if you think that a bunch of mudraptors are hard wait until you get to the second biome. On my first mission in the European Ridge I was attacked by a Thalamus, a Moloch and a band of Tiger Threshers (in time you'll come to hate these bastards in particular). Remember to upgrade your sub or save up for a Tier 2 one once you enter the Ridge, and make sure to get some more powerful weapons, because trust me: a revolver is nice, but you're going to need something better to deal with what awaits you past the last outpost.

[@jacob8858]

@@minutemen_in_t-605 the god damn tiger threshers slip in the sub through the tiniest of gaps

[@jesusarmandocontrerasalvar9272]

Thats a walk in the park for the rest of the game, you know like later on Is very common yo get attacjed by a Moloch, boardes by husk, rammed by hammerheads, attacked by pirates and being trapped by a talamus wreck, all at the same Time while there Is one griefer among your crew disconecting things, overloading the reactor, inyeccting random things to all the crew and loading the diving suits with weilding tanks

[@igalbrodsky290]

I got this game in the recent sale and made my friends also get it and we're having a blast! I watch your videos a lot and your channel is really helpful thank you for the vids!

[@IronicandDead]

Your more than welcome, glad it helped!

[@seboide]

thanks for this videos, i didn't found any other videos that explains how to play or the creatures, biomes, caves, etcetera. My main language is spanish and also i didn't found anything explaining about this game. Im very beginner in this game (1 hour, only play the tutorials) and it looks very awesome to discover and explore the depths. sorry for my bad english, your videos explain very well!!!

[@IronicandDead]

Eres más que bienvenido!

[@askadmine3105]

Hey bro si sigues solo sin tripulación, tengo un submarino con 3 tripulantes. Normalmente jugamos los domingos/lunes por si te quieres unir. De verdad que nos hace falta mano de obra explotable digo, buscamos trabajadores entusiasmados para un ambiente laboral sano

[@CuspideDesempleado]

suerte papu :"v

[@Starshina200]

I think that the most unpleasant and difficult places from the point of view of navigation are the European Ridge and the Great Sea. The European ridge is unpleasant due to the presence of a large number of spores of ballast flora and underwater currents. The Great Sea is impassable due to the accumulation of molochs, piezocrystals, the labyrinth-like structure of the level and blocks of ice. At the fourth location, I was constantly plunging into the abyss to miss most of the level. It turned out to be much easier, faster and safer to fend off a local resident than wandering through the maze in search of a passage. After that, hydrothermal waste seems like a walk in the park I don't speak English well, so I used Google translator

[@iselalatol735]

yeah. the great sea can get annoying with the random chunks of ice that ya sonar cant seem to pick up. the wastes seem dramatically less annoying.

[@Theoceanismoist]

I've reached the hydrothermal wastes in my solo playthrough and now this video get recommended. Man I wish I know about the black molochs. Could've save me 2 hours of retrying the mission.

[@IronicandDead]

yea they are brutal to deal with, you got there tho, and now you know :D

[@oleksandr4371]

Sonar Flore can appears in Europan Ridge, not only Hydrothermal wastes!

[@oleksandr4371]

IMPORTANT: In addition want to say 1. there are new plants that you can find in Aphotic Plateau, they are looks like mutated cacts and they can EXPLODE (low to medium mostly non lethal damage) 2. You can see ANY deposit on handlehand sonars or upgraded scouts vessels navigation terminal INCLUDING alian matirials and even Paralyxis deposits (despite it's a biological material so it must be hidden like plants on sonar) 3. there could be different streams that can bring your vessel in any diraction, THE TRAP that you can barely see balast flora in streams, so be aware if you are trying to get down through the stream

[@lechking941]

yep annoying when it overlaps with balistt oo

[@Man_Toast]

It says on the wiki that you can get to the Abyss at any level because there's a 100% an opening to it will spawn at the 'end outpost'. Does this mean every outpost at the end of a level, or at the end of every biome?

[@IronicandDead]

The end of every level, there will be an opening where you can head out and down into the abyss.

[@Xerkus]

sounds as a workaround to make absolutely sure you can get out of abyss

[@chairwheel1224]

6:31 this would have been nice to know before I went outside of the sub to hit it with boarding axe.

[@KnightoftheSorryFace]

Me and a friend cut a piezo crystal with plasma cutters once...

[@everythingsalright1121]

I take it you needed some bandaids

[@Sleptanimations]

Once... Because you only got to do it once...

[@rockosdyingwish8115]

Love the video! It would be nice if npcs didn’t shoot every ice spire tho

[@Just_Poncho]

Awesome video as always!

[@serioussponge6416]

Passive sonar still works when your navigation display is being disrupted by sonar flora or black molochs. So if you're trying to see in the areas where the disruption is, just turn off the active sonar.

[@jakeryder5068]

i laughed when you threw a nade at the ballast flora

[@tbone9474]

Just made it to the great sea in single player, and sweet holy hell the difficulty spike. Swarms of hammerheads (those are ok), multiple giant spinelings (annoying), and the effing black molochs (BONK). Thalamus wrecks are honestly not a problem, by far the least problematic of all hazards

[@IronicandDead]

Wait till you get impaled by a flesh spike ;)

[@tbone9474]

@@IronicandDead got lucky and haven't had been skewered directly by one. I'm arriving at the eye now... looking forward to discovering the truth

[@dantebond8124]

Ballast Bang, god I love it. Never change, Ironic.

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!

[@IronicandDead]

Hey dude, Thank you so much for your support, great to see you again and hope you are doing well!

[@soldier22881]

@@IronicandDead thanks man, i am doing well and i wish you the best. peace love happiness

[@wozwaldo6032]

If you guys want the most fun in singleplayer just go dugong in cold caverns humpback for europan ridge and aphotic plateau and then something like typhoon 2 for the rest

[@contemptordreadnought]

Personally I prefer typhoon 1

[@void-1632]

Hey man, I am new to the game and was wondering how you are zoomed out like that and can see the whole ship. How you do that? haha

[@IronicandDead]

console commands ;)

[@Wafflehouse71]

How to: Press F3 ( i think ) Type enablecheats Type freecam To go back: Type freecam again

[@everythingsalright1121]

Sergal

[@dmitrivologoslav]

how to disable cheats

[@kissmekatut]

​@@dmitrivologoslavrelaunch game

[@pau13zbak]

Awesome stuff man!!!

[@LegendaryMercDC]

At what level will outside plants like sea yeast and the aquatic poppy spawn in? I'm having the worst luck finding them other than as random loot in wrecks

[@IronicandDead]

They will spawn in all biomes, the more difficult, the more chance for spawning. Best thing to do is use a scout or transport class ship, then upgrade one with a mineral scanner, they will appear on this as you travel through the ocean.

[@LegendaryMercDC]

@@IronicandDead ah. So they do show up on a scanner? Good. Been running the r29 and using the observation periscope in the command room to manually search walls & the sea floors for them.

[@IronicandDead]

@@LegendaryMercDC Fingers crossed you find some soon.

[@DeviousityAtGmail]

@@IronicandDead How do you identify plants on the sonar screen? They don't have handy little pins like minerals that even tell you what they are. Single player, campaign mode, I'm steering and watching that sonar screen 100%. I see the geography light up in different colors, shades of green instead of blue, but when I directly look at the terrain there's nothing there. I have found plants literally one time in one cave (it landed me a ton of ethanol and some antibiotics).

[@crunch.dot.73]

@@DeviousityAtGmail I think he meant the mineral scanner upgrade for scout ships

[@EvilNecroid]

in the 1st biome about 3 levels in i was activating a station then some crawlers outside caused my sub to start sinking down a hole next to the station. i raced outside and started chasing my sub straight down but i couldnt catch up. so i had to switch to 1 of my other characters to stop the sinking. when i finally stopped sinking i was at almost 4000m down which i thought was deep enough to run into something big but nothing happened. my guy made it back to the sub and i just slowly went straight back up to the hole i fell through and continued on as normal. was this a glitch?

[@IronicandDead]

Depends where the beacon station was, and sometimes the level generation can be unfortunate and an unintentional hole is formed.

[@lechking941]

@@IronicandDead i have found a NUMBER of holes just in the floor of a zone with eather a swarm of even pirates and were they spawn. *and this is just second hand running the ship as medic*

[@bungholethrombosis]

i believe the abyss creatures only spawn if youre on or past the final level of the first biome (the transition from the caverns to the ridge)

[@Darkstreets56]

@@bungholethrombosis this is not true in the cold caverns if the area u fall in just opens up thats usually abyss territory and the latcher can spawn with difficulties >10%.

[@DeviousityAtGmail]

@@Darkstreets56 I have personally experienced this. In an unupgraded Dugong. This is how I learned what happens when you pass your submarine's crush depth. The Latcher didn't wanna let me go back up.

[@Medialess]

6:00 me seeig this: OH MY GOD. BRO YOU SURE THATS NOT HELLISH?

[@cptcool-__-7501]

11/10 guide

[@Bishop1664]

Nice vid. Didn't see the volcanoes mentioned, where do they spawn?

[@IronicandDead]

I cover them in the caves video, hope it helps kzbin.info/www/bejne/hITJhqJ_YpaFgbM

[@tf2lover105]

My play style is a search and destroy style as in i just go into the abyss for the sole purpose of fighting the abyss creatures

[@Fian_so]

I find it frustrating that the game doesn't let you see the world outside in colours ,even as a captain .

[@IronicandDead]

Yea, it's all part of that co-operation that makes the game really unique, but i do get it, especially in the really cool biomes and caves you get.

[@dampsok]

I created my own submarine with windows, so you can see each of the biomes in all of it's splendor as you travel through it!

[@dawerrr9906]

"5 biomes" proceeds to tell about 4

[@Elspyfurro]

Gracias por la guia son pocos los que lo hacen

[@ceu160193]

It's kind of dumb, that often it's actually safer to go through Abyss, than through main route.

[@ksuh.dessik]

Not without meeting an abyss creature, the major downplay to using the abyss

[@surg23]

Yesterday I ragequit the game so hard due to ballast flora. We killed the flora root but for some reason there were spore clouds all around inside the ship so we all choked on our own vomit and died. I think it was some type of bug. It was as if there were invisible flora branches popping off gas clouds.

[@kissmekatut]

Damn, if you empty the ballasts by trying to move the sub and use a screwdriver to disconnect the power from the pumps, you can use a dive suit and a welding torch to kill the flora brain at the pump, Close the blast door before you kill the brain everything else should kill it's self and disappear after 10 mins, or run around with a welding torch 2 mins after you kill the brain and it'll clean up quickly Best way to avoid flora (faint twinkling blue dots Seen on the sonar) is to avoid using the pumps while in it by either emptying ballasts and floating up or if you have enough space above the flora fill the ballasts completely by manually steering directly down before you enter the flora Field, if your ballast is already full before you touch it and sink all the way through it you won't catch it in the ballasts End goal is you don't want that infected water in your ballast 😛

[@gabrielzubairy9857]

How do you zoom out that much. And how do you upgrade the diving suits

[@theeldestrelic]

What mod did you use to see the entire sub and the outside at the same time! I love it!

[@IronicandDead]

just free camera, no mods

[@YoutubeAccountMan]

How do you get that view of the sub?

[@googloocraft12]

In ice cavern I got a ballast flora. Weird you said it's start at Europan ridge

[@IronicandDead]

You might have encountered it in an old update or in The Great Sea (which does look like the cold caverns). The current game version will not spawn ballast flora in the cold caverns, outpost levels and the endzone.

[@googloocraft12]

@@IronicandDead I trust you but like I played 3 days ago in a campagne we just started and we got balast flora like 2 levels before changing for the first time of biome. It's weird. Maybe my memory is not good but it's was 3 day ago. I will take note next to be shure.

[@forshovelry2705]

I was also scratching my head when you said it only starts spawning at that point, I’ve definitely seen it in the first biome, I’ve also had 4 skull missions unlocked in the first biome, I’ve also encountered an abyss creature in the first biome Unless I’m being really dumb. My idea of what the first biome is is anything before the first reputation checkpoint, is that wrong?

[@IronicandDead]

@ForShovelry2 If you are very lucky, you can get level 4 monster attack missions, but I was referring to the 2nd biome where they are common and available for all mission types. With regards to abysall you can encounter on every level, to do it you will need to head to the end of a level when the difficulty rating is above 10%, then out the back and down into the abyss, you should encounter a latcher, however you won't encounter one sailing from the start to the end destination for this biome.

[@menz223]

a good video once again

[@IronicandDead]

Thanks again!

[@subowicz8255]

1:45 - *crash* +1 helm

[@gamble6830]

How do you get to that 3rd PP like that ? And see the whole ship

[@EvilNecroid]

nice thumbnail

[@Detrue]

How do you have that zoomed look of the whole sub? i want to see mine like that in campaing. thanks for the guides.

[@kissmekatut]

It's a command, Press f3 Type ' enablecheats ' Then type ' freecamera ' Or ' freecam ' then tab Type the command again to exit

[@lucasbastosrodrigues3111]

Cool Stuff

[@TheMunitor-u8j]

still haven't encountered the piezo crystals, but i'm sure they will give my engineers PTSD EDIT: what's the best way to deal with them btw?

[@IronicandDead]

There was a bug meaning they didn't spawn, this should be fixed in the next update. Best way is to shoot at a distance.

[@howtosuck8274]

Please make a series

[@IronicandDead]

A series of biomes?

[@tragorify]

Music is too loud. Difficult to focus on voice when music is playing at near exact volume.

[@The_Master_User]

How can I zoom out like that? :C

[@IronicandDead]

console commands f3 - freecamera

[@The_Master_User]

@@IronicandDead Dang it, can it be used while playing? Isn't there a way to zoom out without cheats?

[@IronicandDead]

@@The_Master_User if you die and spectate you can

[@ibraheemshuaib8954]

You could probably find a guide to be able to control your sub from a periscope, would kinda simulate this zoom out thing

[@patrickwilson5847]

how do I get that view?

[@IronicandDead]

console commands "freecamera"

[@dainos07]

what sub is that :O

[@IronicandDead]

the Orca2 and the typhon2

[@benjaminty47]

poor sound design for video, music too good, very distracting

[@theTrevorluck]

*Honk Honk!*

[@gruebles1481]

:)

[@cooldude7041]

I wish it was free

[@bruh61782]

Its pretty much always on sale dude 😭

[@googloocraft12]

It's 10$ on sale. It's like free and you dont need a good pc to play it. Potato pc can handle this game.

[@cooldude7041]

@@bruh61782 sad

[@cooldude7041]

@@googloocraft12 it definitely can; my PC is s++t and yet the game runs fine lol

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!