Lifepods have a 1 in 25 success rate : Subnautica

Considering the amount of destroyed life pods I think we need to rename them. So far the only one we have found intact is ours. That's a bit of a quality control issue if you ask me.
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Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Credits song - Point Being - Go By Ocean _ Ryan McCaffrey
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[@TeekOfficial]

*Francis running solar down to the sea floor* Bioreactor: “Am I a joke to you?”

[@PoringPoring951]

🤣

[@TeekOfficial]

I see now he addressed this later in the video. 😄

[@sinner5452]

@@JT-qc9nb To be fair fully-loaded reactor has huge capacity. even just 16 acid mushrooms will provide like 3000 energy - 100 minutes of scanning, which is probably enough for anything. On top on 500 energy battery. And it can be powered up again with ease. I just multipurposely plant some marblemelons - for emergency food, water and energy supply in the outpost. Overall its just fastest way to power up small base without geotermal energy sources or some cheezy stuff. But ngl, Francis solution is funny.

[@fortheregm1249]

@@sinner5452 most dense energy for bioReactor is fish btw

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

@@fortheregm1249 the most practical for outposts is gel sacks: has the best energy value of 245 per item of ANY flora, even surpassing some fish + grows extremely fast, can be used as non-spoiling food as well

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

Francis: It's pack rat heaven! Me: Not quite. It's only pack rat heaven when he figures out that he can build shit inside. Francis: Can I build stuff in here? Me: That was fast.

[@SpicySpleen]

exactly my thoughts lol he is quick

[@coobk373]

but at other times​ hes sooo sloooow @@SpicySpleen

[@pokemonfanmario7694]

@@coobk373 If he does a second playthrough I assure you, he'll prob start industrialisation in 3 minutes. He may flounder his way through initially, but he WILL learn rapidly.

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

Best way of describing Francis' playstyle is batch processing. He will either do lots of prep work and/or industrialization to do one thing really well. Cloeset analogy is a CNC operator. When using CNC machines, most of the work is in preproduction. You take a 3d model and break it up into subcomponents if nessecary. Then you program the pathing, tool changes, object manipulation, etc. Once programming is done, you verify that the program is good by making a single part step by step; making sure it doesn't crash into the part/walls, not making unnecessary cuts, the part is in spec, etc. Essentially debugging but with physical tools. Debugging alone can take hours nvm design and programming stages. Once you're sure everything is good, you can effectively let the machine run itself without much intervention, batching out parts.

[@jacoballdredge9067]

Attaching the floaters to the base was such a good idea, I have hundreds of hours and went "WAIT DOES THAT WORK??"

[@jonumine6250]

Sadly no, you can only attach it to your vehicles, rocks or creatures. Kinds useless but hilarious.

[@LiraeNoir]

During early access, floaters could be attached to a lot of things, and wrecked HAVOC on the physics subsystem and the game. If I remember correctly they were seriously reigned in before going to 1.0 release.

[@shotmeonsightplease]

Putting floaters on the big chill things floating around over the red grass is fun. It slowly pushes them up to the surface, getting them stuck there. Allegedly you can put them on the other danger-fish and it will cause hilarity. But good luck doing that.

[@deathdealer646]

I stuck them to the stalkers around my base so they would stop grabbing scrap and annoying me lol.

[@Maas_Grande]

The sonar is nice in some darker deeper spots

[@Oedwak]

"I'm gonna strip-mine the universe!" after finding the storage containers on the Cyclops. And they say the prawn suit instills people with the feeling of ultimate power.

[@fuuryuuSKK]

He's talking from ONI experience, too, after loading everything into his rockets on his "casual" run

[@gus.smedstad]

IMHO the Prawn suit is of only minor use until you get the Cylops and can ferry it around wherever you want. The major turning points in the game are getting the Seamoth, and not needing to swim to the surface all the time, and getting the Cyclops.

[@Neuromancerism]

Fragments are not respawning - its just that your scanner room continues scanning. It doesnt discover everything immediately.

[@cleverca22]

yep, thats what speed upgrades are for

[@SaintGerbilUK]

This is particularly important since the total number of resources are finite, and building a lot of scanner rooms isn't great.

[@artur6912]

​@@SaintGerbilUK I'm pretty sure they do respawn. The raw resources I mean, not the fragments, they are definitely finite.

[@rauminen4167]

@@SaintGerbilUK Eh it's fine. There's more than enough resources around to build a 100 scanner rooms and have enough left for everything else 10 times over.

[@Neuromancerism]

​@@artur6912 No. Neither fragments nor resources in general do respawn(with a few exceptions). In the old days fish didnt, either, which if you were actually playing a world for long you would eventually run out of fish. Resoruces are less of an issue, as they are plentyful plus very few uses actualy permanently use them up, like, you the expensive things like bases and such you could recycle if it really had to be... not needed, honestly.

[@jacob6885]

The guys on the radio with sandwiches was Appsro from the Neebs Gaming Channel. He did a very amusing Subnautica playthrough. So well that the devs had him record the sandwich snippet and added it to the game

[@kyleditch5375]

I thought you tube skipped videos on me. Lol. Love those guys

[@kyleditch5375]

RIP Thick 44

[@UgatoSA]

I love to see Francis flinching at every sound now. Tip, Francis: the creatures all make unique sounds. You can learn the cries of the scary bois

[@vexxer209]

The really scary ones mostly echo. The only really really scary one is the reaper probably. The other ones are pretty easy to spot and not nearly as bad with trying to sneak up behind you.

[@dunnpahineh640]

What gets me is he flinches in every direction except the one that would actually be helpful.

[@SurgicalPrecision]

The sonar is especially helpful if you are so deep there is no sunlight. Also, in tight spaces with the cyclops when you get disoriented, the sonar will definitely help.

[@Karpadin24]

Btw. I noticed that you drag and drop tools into your hotbar, which looks a bit tedious. A nice QoL fix is to hover over a tool and then just press the number on your keyboard that corresponds to the position in your hotbar. Basically, 1 for Slot 1 and so on.

[@davidboyd8822]

I love how the new scanner room finds...."Scanner room fragments"

[@heepajunk]

"Don't get distracted!" less than a full second later, "Ooohhh!"

[@deelkar]

you can build grow beds inside the cyclops...

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

Storage and bed as well, about 40 small lockers fit just fine on the lower deck

[@eventprogenitor1873]

Yes and grow airogel it's a finite resource

[@skyeplays1772]

He'll do it eventually

[@VasiliiAlferov]

Potatoes make some bioreactor fuel :)

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

@@VasiliiAlferov even worse than coral samples in terms of efficiency

[@RFC3514]

When I saw him set up the "-1,0" beacon (that should really be (0,-1 but never mind), I thought: "Ah, he finally figured out how to create a coordinate system to map the game world without the need for dozens of beacons!" Turns out he was just looking for some way to locate and gather even more resources that he has no need for. 😅 Next upgrade: setting the scanners up in a hexagonal pattern to improve tesselation. 😜

[@sumdud2129]

Francis killing a local ecosystem by eliminating mid-size predators at ramming speed.

[@JoshSweetvale]

The Mongolian emissary managing to find inner peace through prayer at the moment of death was a damn cool moment.

[@MikaelLevoniemi]

Interesting matrix style religion no less.

[@mickles1975]

"I've circled this place and I didn't find anything" LOL. Look up.

[@aldrea6506]

lol, My thoughts exactly.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

And maybe do some exploration during daytime, helps a bit...

[@joe520az]

Reapers are super nice. They want to spoil you with their lovely mouth hugs

[@PolluxaC]

Bruhhh 😭

[@justsomebeer]

Francis wanting to punch Neebs because of the sandwich bit was fantastic.

[@rewto5131]

Glad I'm not the only one who caught on to Neebs and (Absro I think)

[@Sheldezare]

Tbh when Neebs goes on his weird tangents a lot of people want to punch him just as much.

[@liberatio8703]

That MS Paint presentation was genius!

[@poio2162]

Press escape -> save for a genuine 90's experience of being able to reload if you die. After years of playing multiplayer survival games that autosave after every picked-up branch I am enjoying that very much.

The game is already pretty lenient with the punishment for dying.

[@sophia_petrillo]

I've been waiting for you to find some labor intensive way to game the system and I was not disappointed

[@RemoraDFC343]

The Aurora Engine room where you found blackbox data and the roof was dripping fire. There is a hallway you could take on that upper area where fire is.

[@mitechko]

Love the series. Haven't met striders in my first playthrough. A few more suggestions The scanner room grid is a really cool idea. But I kind feel like having it persistently installed is a bit of a waste of effort. The main thing to scan for are fragments and those don't respawn, so you can install the scanner, pick all the fragments and then deconstruct it and build it at the next location. There is a case to be made for finding resources, but I feel like most resources in this game are fairly easy to find once you know where to go for them. Pretty sure you found at least one cyclops upgrade on the Aurora. Check your inventories. Can't recall if it was power efficiency or depth upgrade, but you have one. Cyclops truly is a packrat heaven. You build crapton of storage, fabricator, radio, medkit and some plant pots with plants that give you both food and hydration points. Like bulb trees or melons. Do not install a filtration machine, it will eat your batteries. And suddenly you have a base you can move around in. He is a fat boy and driving cyclops in narrow places is a bit of a chore, but external cameras on it help a lot with that.

[@Oedwak]

Filtration machine requires multi-purpose room anyway doesn't it (or large room after living large update)? I don't think it can even be installed on the Cyclops if you wanted to. Used to be able to use power cell chargers but that was rightly nerfed, as well as any kind of power generation.

[@mitechko]

@@OedwakIt fits into a wall, pretty sure you can install it in one of the bigger rooms on the top level of cyclops.

[@Oedwak]

@@mitechko It has to snap in. It can't just be placed anywhere regardless of space available.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

@@mitechko no way, the only equipment that can be built in Cyclops in vanilla are small tools like fabricator and medpacks fab etc

[@croneryveit9070]

You should use the 3d map of seaglide when you say "I circled all around this place, nothing to be found". It will show you tiny cave entrances that lead to good stuff.

[@TheGreatJNK]

Nooo I wanted Francis to experience the joy of destroying your base by building over the strenght limit and having no idea what to do! 😭

[@Genesis8934]

ngl that would've been funny too.

[@rauminen4167]

To be fair he probably would have figured it out in 2 seconds, but yeah it would've been nice to see

[@ketsuekikumori9145]

Hull reinforcement is useless. Only reduces damage from terrain collision. Even worse than useless is that it can also be applied to the prawn, even though it can't take collision damage at all. So it's only there if you're really bad at piloting the seamoth.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

Absolutely, and you have rep tool on you at all times anyways

[@ianc4178]

The Seamoth is great early on but, arguably, once you have the Cyclops with the Prawn docked, it becomes redundant - as does your 'Home Base' as the Cyclops becomes your base.

[@gammaray152]

Have fun with the cyclops. just be sure to keep a few spare powercells is storage so you wont get stranded without battery in the deep. maybe build some bases with recharging stations as a sort of refueling station. I high recommend building a mini-base in every geothermal vent. a geothermal power plant + fully upgraded scanner + 3x powercell chargers + plants for emergency food and water make for a great outpost. and its easy to haul materials with the cyclops. You can build in the Cyclops, maybe plant some food/water plants? if your base is too deep and theres no geothermal you always have bioreactor to fall back on. you dont have to go to the solar tower. Fragments do respawn. if you want new fragments you never seen try exploring other biomes. Cyclops act as save points, like bases.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

There are ZERO reasons to build outposts, all you need is enough mats to build a room, charger, a bioreactor, and gel sacks + optional growbed - and all that easily fits into single locker. Less than a minute to build, sleep the night, batteries charged up. Deconstruct, move on.

[@arrbos]

I used a "base in a can" that I kept separate in the lower deck. Moonpool + multipurpose + bioreactor (or thermal plant) + a couple powercell rechargers.

[@lucasriley874]

Put the heat to energy upgrade on the cyclops then park it with the tail end near something hot like a vent and it'll charge passively while you fiddle round with your inventory or fabricate stuff.

[@arrbos]

@@lucasriley874 Sure, though that's only useful in areas where there's a good heat source. So, volcanic vent areas and the really deep spots past Lonely River. Also you don't necessarily find the right data box. I didn't until fairly late.

[@arrbos]

@@lucasriley874 Also - needs kyanite, which you need the prawn suit for and only spawns way down deep. The "base in a can" works for a good amount of midgame time. :)

[@spidery7618]

I also really like what you're doing with the scanner room array. It's very unconventional I think, I haven't met anyone who would cover the entire map in scanner rooms like that, but it's very entertaining to watch, and it also means you're probably not going to miss out on any of the goodies scattered around the map (like those Alien rooms)

[@nickierv13]

Its a bit of a project but in one run I ended up mapping a good chunk of the map with scanners. Came in super handy when exploring the more dangerous areas, pop on the hud upgrade and keep track of the big critters.

[@Speedy-fk5oy]

FJ good video as always, ther is one thing you should note about scanner rooms, they're broken or rather, the range upgrade is. The 500 m it says is reaches is only on the Hologaphic map, the actual scan range of the room is always 500 m, so you dont need to make upgrades for each room

[@seantaylor6691]

Hi Francis - Tip - Stasis rifle might help with big fish scanning :)

[@poio2162]

6:20 "You can now see what I'm missing." That subtle jab will not pierce the armor of the ones it needed to hit ;)

[@pillemcphilsen8529]

Francis, to decorate your boring hallways you could make picture frames where you can display screenshots from the game. But you can also open the folder on your PC and ad any image file. I remember displaying naughty pictures.

[@milolc]

I normally build a tiny starter base, then rush finding the power cell charger and the cyclops. The starter base turns into a "gas station" full of power cell chargers, and me, my prawn, and the cyclops configured as the *best base ever* go on an adventure. You can get into just about every cave with the cyclops if you try hard enough lol

[@nagylevente5965]

Here I thought I was going to watch a standard subnautica episode, and then floating solar powers and transmitters happened, but the final stroke was, when Francis pulled out MS Paint, now that's some real shit, it broke me xd

The lengths you go to not build a bioreactor ... sheesh. Also, you should have build them in hex-grid, at a 800m distance to cover all.

[@ApocolypseChild]

That guy you wanna punch so much is called Neebs of the Neebs Gaming channel and that's pretty par for the course with him. I was stoked to hear their voices actually show up in this, I've never actually listened to enough radio messages to hear that myself. That's awesome!

[@Akhunrah]

In this episode, Francis mostly succeeds in resisting distractions, has an epiphany a certain large vehicle, and begins building a scanner network, with architecture inspired by Lets Game It Out shenanigans.

[@hellvor7015]

You can place anything you can place in a base in a cyclops.

[@arrbos]

Mostly. Annoyingly you can't do a vehicle upgrade console, so I found I had to build a couple temporary moonpools at depth. Which is fine, since I needed to do that to recharge the Cyclops during pit stops.

[@Genesis8934]

​@@arrbosPretty sure you already have a vehicle upgrade console built-in for the docking bay. He didn't call it out, but his camera panned over what looked like it.

[@arrbos]

@@Genesis8934 There's a Cyclops upgrade fabber, but that doesn't give you Seamoth or Prawn modules, including the common ones.

[@ianc4178]

Correct, you can't put a Vehicle upgrade console in the Cyclops but by that point, you don't (or shouldn't) need it. The Cyclops has it's own console (for everything outside the max depth upgrade). Once you get the Cyclops/Prawn combo fully upgraded, the Seamoth becomes redundant - it cannot handle the depths you need anyway.

[@Davini994]

We would do well, as scientists, to remember that our goal is not the scan the world as we see it, but to explore it as it truly is.

[@Serastrasz]

Yess, buoy grid!! One tip though: place them all at the same depth, otherwise they might be confusing when looked at from the side. I build mine at surface lvl as 5 by 5 square, which meant I could also use the perspective of their flat plane to orient myself better. Also, that last edit was very cathartic.

[@spidery7618]

It goes without saying, but I've been loving this entire series so far, with all of the exploration and everything. Can't wait for the next episode!

[@marshallspohn9220]

I love the unique aspect you bring to every game you cover!! Keep up the great content, huge fan!

[@ArgyleR04D]

Francis' insane scanner scheme is exactly the kind of awesome nonsense I watch this channel for XD

[@KamuiPan]

Nice! You finally got the Cyclops! It's a sweet vessel, for sure.

[@CostelloDamian]

One of the most annoying thing about the scanner room is the fact you can't select to only show you fragments/blueprints you have not acquired yet and that it does not show you distance to the target. Thankfully both are fixed by the mod.

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

I like that you felt the need to explain your plan. As soon as you said 1km I knew what you were doing lol

[@matthewdupont1699]

Love the series FJ! It's fun seeing you discover all this stuff in game. About the scanner grid: a hex grid of scanners is a bit more efficient for densely packing circles(think packing soda/beer cans into a fridge/cooler). If you wanted efficient 100% coverage, you could go with a hex pattern of scanners with each scanner exactly 866m from its immediate neighbors. A side bonus of that is it's easy to triangulate the exact spot of all scanners beyond the second; just find the spot that is 866 meters away from two other adjacent beacons and you are good to go! But it would be a fair bit of work to redo, and mess up your naming/coordinate system. Probably not worth the effort but if you *really* wanted to absolutely, 100% strip mine this world, that might be how you do it XD. (The math for the value of 866 is a bit tough to explain without pictures. Basically, drawing lines between three adjacent scanners in a hex grid makes a triangle with equal side lengths. We want to solve the length of those sides while we have 100% coverage. For 100% coverage, we want to draw a circle around each scanner in the triangle for its range, and we want all 3 circles to intersect on the midpoint of the triangle; that way there's no space between them. If we make a (smaller) right triangle between one scanner(S), the midpoint of the triangle where all scanners intersect(I), and the midway point between two scanners(M), we know the angle MSI is 30 (it's half of one of the angles of the original triangle, which are 60 since it's equilateral), and we know the edge SI is 500m. From that we can use trigonometry and sohcahtoa to solve either cos(30) = x/500 -> x = 500*cos(30), or use the properties of a 30/60/90 triangle to know the long non-hypotenuse edge is 250*√3; both evaluate to 433. Twice that is the distance between scanners :).)

[@Flynnor]

This is the first Francis-Style episode. Ridiculous and unnecessary building. I like it.

[@williamhuhn9221]

Me facepalming when FJ misses the GIANT wreck pieces for both lifepods. The Lifepod 12 Bulb Zone had one perched over the thermal vents and the Lifepod 13 Mushroom Tree had the huge tree right there - he never looked up!!!

[@MrBuyerman]

I think the hoarder is coming out strong in this episode...I think even if a ship came past FJ would refuse to get on board until he's strip mined the planet. lol.

[@TheReviewGhost]

You can build solar panels on foundations. Vertical connectors are just for ladders in multi-level bases

[@spyke1890]

We were SO close to a spreadsheet there!

[@tree_eats]

Such a tease.

[@Liwet.]

You missed a PDA outside the "Proposed Degasi Habitat" which will lead you 'deeper' into the game.

[@TheBumblescum]

I'm sure he'll stumble deeper in his own😊

[@085darkstar]

LOL, you made that so much more complicated than it needed to be. All you need was bioreactor, and a fish 🐟 trap😅

[@SarahFearnley958]

Francis, “Try not to get - Ooh!” 🤣 It is a good idea to take an extra set of power cells in the cyclops or a way to charge them or you will get stuck as you dive deeper. The prawn’s grappling arm and rocket boost are vital for getting around. Build all the essentials on your Cyclops to minimize having to travel back and forth.

[@TheLaughingDove]

I love that the "simple" power solution is spending at least half an hour playing exploit hopscotch vs just adding a multipurpose room and a biorector. That's dedication.

[@stryker1599]

Big fan of the scanner grid solution. Never did something like that in my 2 play throughs back in the day but makes sense if you want to comb the entire map. A 3x3 primary grid should be sufficient if memory serves. As for the leviathan class creatures people said you should have encountered earlier. They only live in deep sea and in the areas north, south and east of the aurora. You coming to the aurora from the west explains why you didn’t meet them until recently. Enjoying this series more then raft. Watching you explore and solve problems is much more interesting to me than you having looked up almost everything and just going through the motions.

[@bobbymann2225]

enjoying the series, slowing playing along and watching as i play! thanks for great videos as always!

[@samuelburgos6392]

46:25 this is something I would do without any second thoughts, I love it

[@renevile]

it's so funny that Neeb's Gaming recorded that radio message. i remember when i first came across their channel i had the same reaction of 'my... my god i wanna punch that guy so much'. but now i love their shenanigans...

[@Th3Mast3rL0ck]

also, build out the following, 1x multi purpose, 1x scanner, 1x bioreactor 1x hatch and related upgrades, deconstruct it, and it fits in a wall locker, keep this in the sub in case you are struggling to find something, also fuctions an emergency charging station, but requres another box to but the powercell charger requirements in. i personally liked making "charging stations" and keepinug a power cell set on the way to the deep portion of the map rather than stopping, building a temporary one, charging, then deconstructing and going on my way.

[@clarfonthey]

I see that you've reached the road rage phase of sea exploration.

[@skomeg]

It's time to discover optimal packaging problem and the beauty of hexagonal grid.

[@Charlio23]

The cyclops has external cameras that you can go into, which are quite useful for navigating in tight spaces. Figuring out how to pilot it effectively is a rewarding experience and will be helpful later.

[@krissimonis3604]

A little tip about the scanner room: It can only scan for stuff you've 'seen': ie. been near. building one won't magically allow you to find everything of interest in the area. If you went past something valuable however, the room will then be able to scan for it and you can go back to it. As to the aurora, the whole insides is one area connected to both exits. you could have gone up and further on and ended up in the prawn bay. I'd recommend scanning for wrecks instead of data boxes. Those will be the big chunks of the aurora that you can swim around and inside to find various bits and bobs. They don't always have data boxes lieing around the place so you could miss a few wrecks that don't have those if you only scan for data boxes.

[@pascal6871]

The camera drone is actually a great way to discover things for scanning because its reasonably fast, needs no air and most baddies ignore them

[@ianc4178]

That & the Stalkers pick them up & carry them off, so you get to explore using the drones without too much effort

[@ophirzeno1920]

45:41 plan looks great, this way you have great chance encountering things, getting all techs, and maybe even see your own way to late game without the PDAs.

[@wolfen210959]

"Can I build stuff in here?" Oh boy, it may appear to be huge, but it does not have the room to hold everything that you want, only what you need, in a minimalist way. 1 or 2 plant pots for food, lots of storage lockers, modification station, fabricator, radio, first aid, bed. It's usually advisable to carry around, in the cyclops, enough materials to build a basic base, including power cell chargers, as they consume more power than they refill when installed in the cyclops. Nice idea with the scanner rooms, however, the wrecks are the places to find new tech, specifically databoxes. Scattered around the wrecks is also the place to find fragments for tech you have not yet discovered, particularly the nuclear reactor and the various Prawn Suit Arms. I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, but, if you take a look at what materials are needed for the various cyclops and prawn suit upgrades, it would be beneficial to carry those in the cyclops, so that when you discover the missing materials, you can build the upgrades in the cyclops, without needing to return to your main base to do so. It may appear to be indestructible, but the cyclops can be destroyed surprisingly quickly, particularly by a determined predator. Those amp eels can be particularly troublesome, especially in tight quarters, my usual tactic involves zapping them with the stasis rifle, then just leaving them frozen in my wake. All predators are attracted by both sound, and light, so only use the floodlights in "safe" areas, and never use flank speed unless you want the engine to catch fire. Silent running can be useful, but it drains an awful lot of power. Important tip, the cyclops cameras are your friend, particularly the keel camera, in tight spaces, as you can continue to steer whilst using them. You appeared rather calm when you received the "hunting" message, a lot calmer than I was the first time I heard it, I barely left my base for days afterwards, what kind of sea creature can send radio messages to others of it's kind? The plot thickens. lol

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

Cyclops becomes 200% safe as soon as engine is turned OFF. Using flank speed is a suicide, and noone sane should ever use it - any predator capable of damaging the sub is faster anyways and becomes more aggroed = exactly opposite effect. Ampeels and crabs do NOT damage the sub at all, just mess with onboard power for a few secs = you can just ignore the warning and keep swimming. For the rest we have stasis + thermoblade

[@bloodchain80]

the scanner rooms i love it hahahahahaha. Could always use a bio generator instead, simpler only requires fish which so happen to be right outside!

[@asureaskie8955]

One scanner room, one multipurpose room, don't even need a connector - it'll generate a connection automatically. Can throw some planter pots with potatoes in them to fuel the reactor.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

@@asureaskie8955 gel sacks are six times better as fuel

[@RFC3514]

In the time it took him to find out how to cheese the solar panels, vertical connectors and power transmitters, he could have built a room with a bioreactor and planted a lantern tree, that would keep it working for days between reloads.

[@jodrono]

Fun tip for the Seamoth. Each directional input held at the same time adds a bit of speed. If you hold forward (W) and right (D) you'll go faster than if you just hold forward, and even faster if you also hold up (Space). Takes a bit of practice to learn to drive with your ship pointed at odd angles to get where you want to go, but when you get the hang of it you're absolutely zooming.

[@Anomynous]

I don't know how... maybe it's from the days of X3 but I always press all the directional buttons to squeeze out some extra and to my surprise it works in this game too :-)

[@jonumine6250]

So that's why I could outrun a reaper going back, sideways and up at the same time... *compared to just driving forward and praying it's not behind me.

[@LiraeNoir]

@@AnomynousIt works on most older 3D games. The way the movement algorithms were designed in these decades meant you could squeeze a tiny bit of extra speed going diagonally (in whatever x, y or z, directions).

[@coobk373]

SR50 moment :3

[@Enceos]

There's really no reason to have scanner rooms operational 100% of the time. Once you have collected all the tech you can just note the types of rare resources and caves it has picked up and done. Come back and power the bioreactor whenever you need any of those resources.

[@cosmicjester6341]

Pretty sure it would have been easier to build a whole new base with a biofuel reactor :P

[@skyeplays1772]

He doesn't want to use biofuel as he wants to limit the amount of attention to each base

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

@@skyeplays1772 Scanners reset on each game reload anyways, and having one growbed full of gel sacks on top of scanner seems to be more sane than solar panels dance...

[@cosmicjester6341]

@@skyeplays1772Yeah. I wrote my comment before he mentioned that :D

[@ermintrude9634]

I’m loving this series. Subnautica is one of my favourite games and watching you discover it for the first time is amazing ❤

[@erawlins1]

Half this episode was just sitting here with my jaw dropped in a continuous WTF moment. I gave up halfway through and installed a map add-on but oh my, this is FJ at his best. I'm enjoying this playthrough so much, thanks!

[@bolverk4355]

1:00:35 wow they added a neebs clip to the game. 00FU glad to hear you.

[@sunstormer5064]

Just a FYI they've done quite a few cuts for voice acting in several games as mostly 'easter eggs' over the past decade

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

36:05 Markiplier meet Francis, Francis meet Markiplier

[@Dragonlord7012]

FJ covers his bases, by building bases.

[@spidery7618]

lol that scanner room build is hilarious

[@pookage]

Dangnabbit, Francis! I would refer you to Bart Torgal's logs when he said: "And what's the point in surviving here if we have to kill everything that makes it so wonderful?"

[@Tacitude]

Really enjoying you exploring the game. You sound like you're having a great time. :)

[@kylerd5663]

9:40 Ahhhhhhh you still missed 2-3 important PDAs there. The Jellyshroom caves Degasi base, Proposed Degasi Habitat (250m), has 2-3 more PDAs you missed. 15:26 Don't worry you only missed a Giant Wreck that has a lot of useful fragments. When you were circling did you ever look up? 31:08 If you read the Logs name it implies there is a "Lifepod 6 Crew Log #1" likely near by, lol. 47:49 Fun fact, if you sleep in a bed after starting searching for stuff in a scanner room it will "simulate" time passing. This results in you suddenly having all item searched for by the scanner room be reviled.

[@erenkaskc114]

Multi functional room bioreactor and scanner is proper way to do it i believe

[@RDKirbyN]

Keep in mind with the cyclops, there is a bug if you have any partially constructed structures that will delete a lot of internal structures as soon as you move.

[@FelixFindsOut]

29:25 "...miscalculated it is" 😂😂 31:20 "sounds like someone had a base case of the muppets" 😂😂 Us germans are known for having not much humor but these sorts of comments make me chuckle so hard, others must be rolling on the floor laughing - literally

[@Alaratt]

You have already stumbled on the power trick in your main base, started to copy it for the south outpost, and then undid it lol. When you were hopscotching the tubes to the surface, you can just attach a T section to the top of those and put solar panels on that. Even though they aren't directly connected because you deleted the pieces between them, the game still considers them one base and power is used for the whole structure. My games I never use the power transmitters.

[@arrbos]

Instead of jumping out of the water in your seamoth, try getting out and standing on top of it. Way better visibility. Also the camera at the top of the Cyclops is really great.

[@spidery7618]

1:01:00 LMAO I love the paranoia hahahaha, increasing paranoia is a common theme in this game as you find out more about the world

[@skilz8098]

When you built the scanner room towards the ocean floor you could have built a multipurpose room next to it and built a biofuel generator in that multipurpose room. You wouldn't need the solar panels. You will however have to transport or grow biofuel to this new location.

[@ahmataevo]

You don't have to limit scanner rooms to only your main base! You can make small firebases allover for recharging, basic processing, and running scans of areas deeper and farther out. Just make sure to mark them with a beacon.

[@Self-replicating_whatnot]

Those floaters can attach themselves to your seamoth. Took me a while to figure out why mine started to pitch up and to the right all the time :)

[@euanlowther-allais2493]

Just got back from the pub, new subnautica video, couldn't be happier

[@ThePiachu]

Ah, the Cyclops. Soon you'll just be living out of that thing. And then cry when something destroys it... As for the scanner room stuff, it's a bit of an overkill for what you need, but you do you! Man, I'd love to see you apply this kind of minmaxing thinking to Stardew Valley and make everyone that likes to chill with that game cry! :D

[@ahmataevo]

Sonar can be very helpful in the darker areas. As you might have guessed, the available depth limits on vehicles now would suggest darkness even during the day.

[@nickierv13]

A tip that you already found but may have missed: the moon pool can fast charge the power cells in a prawn suit in seconds vs the 5+ minutes or so for the wall charger. So you can fast charge the cyclops, just be careful about blacking out the base. Also the smaller ships will pull power from the cyclops power and it is power neutral.

[@mikehanks]

Francis, thank you. Thank you for these great gameplays and laughs Its been a tough 2 weeks when my now ex girlfriend of 9 years told me she doesnt see a future with me. I can sort of relax with these episodes and loving the outro music. Ps. Be a bit kinder to the sharkies, you cant harvest meat from them with the knife😂

[@NerdSide]

1 note he already wants to punch Neebs... love it!! 1:00:22

[@Prinny_421]

It would be easier, and covers more area, if you stagger the scanner rooms like a honeycomb. All you would need to do is make sure you are 1000km from any 2 beacon points.

[@Vergil1Dante0]

Just a note, you can add in a Bioreactor into the Cyclops, as well as growbeds for supplying the necessary power.

[@peterlyaskovsky1473]

growbeds - yes, bioreactor - no (in vanilla)

[@Rikard_Nilsson]

There used to be an exploit of the laws of thermodynamics in the cyclops where you could charge other power cells inside it for free by building a power cell charger, now doing so will just drain the ones plugged in.

[@JayRay4924]

6:20 Good Lord finally! Seriously though it's so much more convenient for gathering nodes since you don't have to keep switching back and forth with the seaglide Edit: 45:35 The MS Paint demonstration is amazing but as an engineer the reversal of the coordinate system gives me the heebie jeebies. Unless it's a US vs EU thing where it's done differently in which case I apologize and carry on. Edit again 55:13 nevermind...