Subnautica's Crazy Cut Creatures

[@TV-MA.x_x.]

I'm so glad you're making a video on the Ice Dragon. Even to this day, it makes me upset knowing such a cool creature got cut. A cold empty biome with a dragon lurking in it is just what Below Zero needed and where Subnautica 1 thrived. I'm dying to know why they removed especially after having a full model. It seems like something they put a lot of work into. It must've been hard letting it go before the full game released.

[@iAletho]

Yeah its seems it was cut in 2019 after one of Unknown Worlds developer conferences, it seems the whole biome was scrapped which meant the Ice Dragon unfortunately went aswell

[@thomasdevlin5825]

I think it was ultimately deemed too similar to the sea dragon so they decided not to go through with it. You never know though, I'm pretty sure every creature that got a full model was eventually added at some point, I remember the ghost leviathan was just a disembodied model for a really long time until eventually it got added, and the rock puncher and giant lily pads were both only models for a long time, and they eventually both made it into below zero

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

​@@thomasdevlin5825 I mean familiarity in a game doesn't ruin it. It seems like its brinicle affects would've been different anyhow, so it certainly has a different feel

[@Toastishott]

Espcially since below zero was so barebones....it needed more biomes and more creatures yet they cut so many.

[@DarlexGardenWarden]

The reason they didn't add it is because in the fandom a lot of people were saying they didn't want it in and that it looked bad basically there was this whole war of people wanting and not wanting it in and sadly we lost the Negative Nancie's won by crybabies that just because it had Dragon in the name it was gonna be a copypasta of the Sea Dragon Leviathan even tho the Chelicerate is the counterpart of the Reaper and the Shadow kinda is the counterpart to the Ghost

[@TheLastBacon]

My heart aches for the sandworm :) It walked so the ice worm could run....or breach.

[@iAletho]

Yep I found that one during my research! They really love worms over at Unknown Worlds xD

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

​@@iAletho It seems a major theme of creatures is to be long and slender lol

[@warduxe]

@@iAletho wormlike bodies are cool, i really love serpentine creatures

[@Gamerman-lu9bs]

Ok but what the fuck happened to the dead ice worm that can be scanned unlike the live one

[@doudou6251]

Hello

[@thomasdevlin5825]

I was actually bummed out when the crested reaper didn't make it into the game, I think it would have fit right in. We already have a giant version of one of the smallest creatures in the game, it would have been a cool parallel to see a miniature version of one of the largest creatures in the game

[@symbiotesoda1148]

Yeah, that thing honestly sounded (and looked) super cool and interesting! And the idea of it hunting in pods would actually make it a significant threat and would make up for its lack of size.

[@thunderred5263]

What is that large version of small creature

[@thomasdevlin5825]

@@thunderred5263 The titan holefish

[@aceraddo2556]

@@symbiotesoda1148 When Bellow Zero came out, and when I knew how downsized it was, it was really disappointed that they still used a lot of large scale creature, instead of opting for more unique threats that suit the environments. A threat that attacks in a group, or pod in the crested reaper's case, would work well in a more open setting, and in more cramped environments they could use the scale of your environment to make threats appear larger. They could've also made certain creatures respond to senses and/or take advantage of the environment they're in. A creature that uses a spotlight to search for its prey, creatures that camouflage to suit their surroundings, and something that I think could suit the alien environment well, is a potentially leviathan class starfish/sea-serpent hybrid, with the body itself being fairly slow moving, with many eyes on the underside of its body. While the body itself moves, whenever it sees a prey organism of suitable size, it will like a starfish on earth, remove its stomach from its body to consume its prey. In this case however, this hybrid creatures stomach is instead a long, fast moving, strongly resembles a snake, with a head at the tip of these limbs. There could be one of these appendages, or several, with them upon reaching their prey, having their "jaw" unhinge in order to consume their prey.

[@secondairy]

​@@thomasdevlin5825 Titan holefish my beloved

[@ManuLamork]

Knowing how strong a Bobbit worm is, it would be absolutely terrifying to see how strong the sand spear would be

[@iAletho]

I'm not sure any of the Aurora's survivors would be lasting very long!

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

Thats exactly what I thought of when seeing the sand spear, especially seeing it embedded in the sand

[@Phantom_Zone]

Subnautica was a game where you look at the world and go, 'Yeah nah fuck that'. Then you coop in your base cause you rather not go in the Darkness with whatever roaring. And then you look at Below Zero and go, 'Not this again.' One was terrorizing. The other is agonizing.

[@Kitxi_Official]

Hello, Below Zero beta tester here! Back when it was in development, polls were held to determine what creatures would make it into the game. The piece of concept art most people use with the ice dragon is no the art they went with when asking the community for feedback. The actual art used didn’t fit subnautica’s style and had a far more fantasy look. Thus, the community voted to not put it in the game. I hope this trivia helps!

[@mochatitan7401]

Thats interesting, I wonder why they didn't vote to rework it rather than completely scrapping it

[@kyleRayn]

Fuck the community man...

[@odinulveson9101]

Such an IDIOTIC waste and desicion! So instead of adjust the style and form a bit but still keep it true to its concept, it got thrown in the flaming trashbin?? Did they even try? Give it time? Its like going from flirting to married and breakup in 1 effing day😂 If I were the lead decicion maker I would delay the damn game to try and fit in as much hugely potential and awesome things as possible.

[@odinulveson9101]

​@@mochatitan7401Exactly! Such a waste of opportunity. Not fitting Subnautica... or hidden jealous spiteful grudge against the one who concepted it. Tin foil thought but still. Same regarding the Sky Ray " nope! Im jealous, it was ME who should have concepted it not that person, will hinder it, he/ she shall not get credit due to xyz, gonna sway community to vote " Hinder " or just adjust the polls myself " Seriously there are devs team that have gutted games content because of personal boiling jealousy and issues, hinderingcand contentgating awesome stuff out of vitriolic spite😒

[@Puttis]

Tf did I just read

[@kirbyx2573]

I would have loved to see the Ice Dragon in Below Zero. Just such an amazing design! Also yes cute creatures like the Shadow Leviathan :). He is friend shaped haha!

[@iAletho]

A cute and friendly dragon Kirby!

[@allyephraums6417]

Listen here Aetho why are you doing a video on the cut creatures,when you haven’t done one on the shadow leviathan 😂

[@iAletho]

@allyephraums6417 You might be happy next week ;)

[@allyephraums6417]

@@iAletho YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

[@allyephraums6417]

@@iAletho 🌊💧🐟🐠🐙🦀🐬🐳🐧💦🐧🐡🦞🦐🦑🦈🪸🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊🧊

[@AloisAgos]

Ice Dragon should have been put in the East and West Arctic biomes. Those areas felt too barren to me, so turning them into Below Zero's equivalent of the Dunes would have been great.

[@MeerkatJac]

Would be cool to make those areas way more full of resources too The only dune-like area is really just the caldera with the chelicerate

[@ShinyFloragatoLeif]

Out of all these creatures I wish made it in was the ice dragon as it would be terrifying and awe inspiring to see! I'm also really glad that the rotnest was removed as I have trypophobia. Great vid as always and thanks for covering these would be creatures!

[@iAletho]

The Ice Dragon is definitely a solid pick Shiny! I'd love to have seen the Crested Reaper in the game but I suppose it wasn't meant to be :(

[@ShinyFloragatoLeif]

@@iAletho may those two forever live in our hearts and minds or until someone mods them in!

[@Eilo-g8r]

@@iAlethoI would like someone to get the design of the ice dragon and then add their own Ai for it then release it to the public as like a mod called “THE FORGOTTEN RENEW”

[@theparrishshow9803]

To me, the craziest cut creature is without a doubt the Single Cell Landscape. If you know, you know…

[@iAletho]

We know!

[@Grantbird1964]

I know

[@theparrishshow9803]

@@iAletho There’s a lot of potential for you to make a video about that horrifying yet fascinating terror of the deep.

[@edenengland1883]

the single cell biome couldve been sick if you could drive your vehicles *through* the big globby mass that makes it up, needing to fend off encroaching tendrils and repair any harm as you work your way to a hostile fluidous... *thing*.. just to reach something or somewhere

[@felixdeplanques3614]

Going over cut contents is always so interesting ! Even more with universe as interesting and unique as Subnautica

[@iAletho]

They're definitely unique, and probably terrifiying to meet in a dark ocean xD

[@felixdeplanques3614]

@@iAletho Subnautica is both fascinating and terrifying

[@cosmicbrick44]

It’s so sad to see that the Ice Dragon didn’t make it into the game. It seemed like it would’ve been on par with the Reaper in terms of fear. My one issue with Below Zero was that the Leviathans weren’t really all that scary. Yea you’d get the occasional scare but they really don’t strike as much fear in my opinion. I feel like the ice dragon could’ve changed that.

[@robertkennedy4114]

I feel like it would have worked better.As a sea dragon type enemy

[@MayinMayo]

The cut creatures are so cool its a shame they didnt make it into the final game

[@iAletho]

Yeah a lot of these are really cool! Hopefully we will see some of them again one day!

[@No0b_Editz117]

4:36 that version of the sea monkey can keep that power cell or anything it takes from me its to adorable to take what ever it took

[@Hasty332]

Below zero had so much potential, some of these early concepts would make the game way different

[@iAletho]

Yeah I would love to have seen some of these in the final version!

[@Shry99]

You didn't mention how the sea monkeys early design was reworked into the trivalve, similar to what happened with the crashfish and cuddle fish in the first game

[@Splatfan92]

0:09 this is why you should put cuddlefish and penglings into bioreactors-

[@iAletho]

A necessary sacrifice!

[@Bloeb731]

i really like the gardener eel, ice breaker, and the Thalassacean. I generally feel like bz needs some more „special“ creatures. (i really like bz anyways)

[@iAletho]

They'd definitely have made the game feel more alien and unique, maybe Subnautica 3 will "revive" some of them!

[@SEAFInfantry]

I really loved the Gardeneer eel because it really shows how wild symbiosis can get with aliens how it has a literal plant inside it to create food for itself!

[@xxslumbersplaysvr]

I'm pretty sure that in subnautica 1, theres a mod that adds in scrapped or cut creatures called De-Extinction on nexusmods

[@doomchromee8648]

I honestly care more about the loss of the deep artic and methane ice caves than the ice dragon. Such a cool biome that would have been great to make belowzero feel like it has more options. I have tried being there and the place even artifically makes it much darker than it should be

[@iAletho]

That's something I'll need to look into doomchrome! I need to learn more about Below Zero's development in general :)

[@tiredspudguy6835]

I actually got to talk to Alex Ries over email for a speculative biology project of mine when I was in school. It was a short conversation and I had asked him for advice when it came to creature design. He pointed me to a tutorial he made, and it was fantastic!

[@Grubbergrubling]

What i really like is that the cut creatures weren't completely scrapped the early sea monkey became triops, the sand spear became the tentacle things or the ice worm whichever one works,the gardener eel became vent garden, etc

[@ma1-t1f]

3:57 fun fact two of the designs for the concept of the sea monkey was actually used for two creatures in the same game one even had a similar kind of thing to the sea monkey and you can actually see a baby through the egg

[@bijan9116]

The Kitewing Skyray would have been perfect for the Tundra Void north of the Arctic Spires. The flat, barren landscape seems like an ideal environment to leave you exposed for some massive airborne creature to swoop in and kill you. It would also be hilarious because you would not expect skyrays-which are completely harmless-to have such dangerous larger cousins.

[@viperwolf3762]

I feel like replacing the current void leviathan in below zero with the ice dragon would have been interesting, the current void leviathan is terrifying but imagine adventuring into the darkness of the void and hearing one of the most blood curling roar, you turn around if fear but you've already gone to far, the player gets struck by a force that does 1\3 of the seatrucks health and slows the Vehicle, after, the player turns around to a beast as big as a ghost leviathan coming for another strike, you manage to get back out the void but not before one last hit putting the seatruck ar 1\3 health. I feel like I got to invested in this.

[@SydneySighs]

I always loved looking at the concept art images for both of the Subnautica games. They're always very interesting and cool to see, as they're usually very unique in design and/or function

[@shonkyhonker9347]

I really think having the ice dragon in below zero would’ve made people like the game a lot more. Below zero only had two hostile underwater leviathans, only one of which was a regular threat with the shadow leviathan only appearing in the end game. Having the cue dragon be like the ghost leviathans would’ve made exploring sector zero a lot scarier, especially the under the circumstances sections that are easy to get lost and trapped in

[@akane754]

Honestlt im leaning either the crested reaper or the ice dragon. The crested reaper could have been similar to the cryptosuchus but with more of the straight charge at you that the reaper had. I also feel like having a biome with one singular massive creature would be absolutely insane so the ice dragon would have been amazing

[@iAletho]

I agree akane! Both would have been really cool :)

[@PottsieHEW]

Mate I cannot put into words how fucking good your editing is swear down proper entertaining

[@eisschnee2649]

I really hope some of these fellas manage to make it into the next game like how the Rock crusher was pushed forward.

[@Foamamusic]

Here I will state a couple of the creatures here that made it into the game but went through some changes. 1:51 this made its way into below zero as a ventgarden, it’s much bigger and holds spiral plants if you need that for any recipe. 5:09 two of these designs made it as other creatures but lost the abilities. Trivalves as a non-breedable pet and triops found in the deep twisty bridges and a couple other places. Triops are small enough to grab from the wild and if you want one it’s better to run into them by chance than go out looking for them, Spikey traps and rarely squidsharks lurk in its habitat and it’s a sparse creature anyway. 5:19 this creature went through major changes but I see resemblance to the noot fish. Noot fish are harmless but will devour anything they can eat whole. Big enough to eat a peeper but small enough to hold. 10:08 no trace of the ice dragon is left in the brinewing but it’s ability, to freeze prey. If you see titan holefish or symbiotes brinewing could be near. (Symbiotes are more parasite though) 6 months later: I now know symbiotes actually defend titan holefish, I used to think it was a meal.

[@Foamamusic]

Here’s my second comment I didn’t compact at first.. Don’t want to annoy anyone with too many comments 2:03 I’m imagining ginormous alpha gardener eels big enough to hold the in-game thermal lilies

[@galcide1927]

I like to think the banned creatures just live somewhere else on the planet 4546b

[@angelvictoriano7551]

Agreed 👍

[@Danzilla111]

I now want all these cut creatures :( Also have you heard of the single cell biome because its sorta a cut creature bc its just a big creature that drags you down

[@iAletho]

Maybe one day G21! :)

[@Moonstudios-hd7vi]

im gonna get cancer and use my wish to make unknown worlds replace the void chelis with one big ass ice dragon leviathan. its for the greater good

[@mateuszkoprowski1313]

Wow I really appreciate you fitting all 17 creatures in one 10 minute video. Intresting, well paced and to the point. Nice work!

[@iAletho]

Thanks Mateusz!

[@Finn-zm3hm]

Hey Aletho, I just wanted to say that I love that you made some new drawings for your character. It’s really nice to see you improving your work!

[@iAletho]

Thanks Finn! It felt like time for an update, the hardest part is figuring out what other poses I want / need that can be shown in a creative way! :)

[@filipwilliamsmuk4055]

Blud tried to kill a Fish underwater with a flamethrower 💀 (Love your content keep it going)

[@iAletho]

Thanks Filip!

[@warduxe]

Hey Aletho, was looking forward to your next video.

[@iAletho]

Thanks Warduxe! It was a long time coming! :D

[@wakaitsu]

That moment where you agree with the intro unironically

[@back_slash3620]

Not only would the Ice Dragon be a really cool enemy but it wouldve been a really cool counterpart to the Sea Dragon from the original game

[@crowpond3665]

I’m in love with the Electrogami and Shockstar Their designs are peak and they would’ve made a fun different electric enemy in the waters

[@TylerNinjaFortniteBlevins]

I love that the previous designs for the sea monkey also got in the game as other creatures

[@Miliradian]

It's a good day when Aletho uploads

[@iAletho]

And you're first comment Miliradian!

[@Miliradian]

​​@@iAlethoWhats even better is i got the notification just when i started eating

[@Mathijsvand]

Photosynthesis is extremely rare in animals. I only know of one species of slug that does some photosynthesis. The issue with photosynthesis and cold environments, is that it'd be almost impossible for a creature to produce enough heat AND enough energy to produce the required heat through the sugars from photosynthesis.

[@iAletho]

Got your comment in eventually Mathijs! :P

[@Gracefulwarrior2124]

If its an option, life will find a way lol

[@htfs493]

One of my favourite types of creatures in fiction are subspecies (you can thank Monster Hunter for that). It hurts my souls to know we missed out on both Reefback and Reaper subspecies. ESPECIALLY the Icebreaker, I love when fictional creatures have a cool looking design that’s also purposeful.

[@q-miiproductions878]

5:05 The first and second designs were just used for the trivalve and triops.

[@paytonallen1027]

Been waiting for a video on the cut creatures

[@iAletho]

Well here it is just for you!

[@v3nombite742]

I honestly would've loved to see the Rotnest, it would add a fun unique challenge, plus seeing all the infected variations would be cool as well, maybe even after getting infected you had to get a cure, otherwise the game would mess with your movement or sight or something of that nature.

[@aLittleNightmare.]

Sand Spear seems just like a huge aline bobbit worm.

[@themuslimgamer]

new aletho vid!! this was worth the wait. thank you, aletho.

[@zalybrainlessgenius503]

All of these are far more alien-like than the creatures we got in the games. The only truly alien creature I feel is the reefback, truly unrecognizable from anything that lives on Earth. Shame these were cut. Especially the parasites. Parasites are a big part of the animal kingdom and they would provide a new kind of horror into the game - a body horror.

[@Thundabull1]

i like how in multiple parts of the video he pulls out a shotgun

[@sokkaluvr]

wow the ice dragon is so pretty !! i love the grays !! i also love the cut sea monkey designs !!i like those ones more, as the ones we ended up with look too normal imo, though i still love them :3

[@sokkaluvr]

oh and i also noticed the first concept art of the sea monkey you showed looks almost exactly like the trivalve !!

[@Thundabull1]

its cool how they reused the sea monkey concept art into different animals in the game e.g triops and trivalve

[@gigaknight9485]

Hi Aletho! I know am really late, but thank you for covering the Ice dragon. Don't know if you remember me, but I asked you to check out the ice dragon back in your "ventgarden" video. So thank you for covering it!

[@iAletho]

Glad you think it was worth the wait Gigaknight! :)

[@des4929]

I feel like creature variety is something below zero struggles with so these would have been cool to see

[@tomhalik4877]

some of this cut content is really a shame that we didnt get it. :(

[@iAletho]

I especially would have loved to see the Crested Reaper, maybe next time eh!

[@misterglo1394]

I thought I knew a lot of subnautica cut conetent but Damm a lot of these would be really cool in game also I’m being stalked by a cuddlefish in attack mode so gotta go

[@iAletho]

That cuddle fish is right on your tail misterglo!

[@misterglo1394]

@@iAletho I gotta make the Neptune rocket quick let’s hope it needs air to survive

[@lslv573]

I loved the "down right horrifying" **high pitch squeak** **FLAMETHROWER**

[@Scorpion-eh1xh]

They probably cut the gardener ell because it is a little bit to similar to the vent garden

[@aidantheumbreon]

Thank you for the arachnophobia warning no one ever does it and i appreciate the heads up

[@Jaxonhellsing]

4:50 I love how this concept art says "A knife!" and is referencing to "What do you have? A KNIFE! NO!"

[@potentiallyunfunnyguy9716]

I love Alex Ries's work in particular, I would've loved to see Sector Zero expanded on with more fauna. Everytime I look at the squidshark i do instantly think 'angry Birrin' though.

[@Lodycuzwhynot321]

I would not add any of them like WHAAAAA YOU THINK I WANT EVEN MORE PTSD FROM THAT GAME?! LIKE WHAAAAAA- I'm scared

[@flyinggander990]

I wish the devs didn’t cut any of these creatures. These would all look great in the game and make it feel more diverse. Imo I feel like below zero lacked a lot in the bigger creatures. Sad to see we couldn’t see the ice dragon or the ice reaper cousin.

[@jamesmccarthy962]

Hopefully some make it into subnautica 2 especially ice dragon or a variant of that design (:

[@courtjester7328]

Man the Icebreaker leviathan is my favourite out of all of these. it wouldve been so cool and fun to see

[@adamixziober]

0:01 *DLC. the sequel is subnautica 2

[@ProSkillzDragonGal]

I really hope we get something like the de-extinction mod but for below zero cause I need that ice dragon in my life

[@symbiotesoda1148]

Its got to be the crested reaper for me. The idea of a smaller relative to the reaper that hunts in pods and could knock you off an ice sheet sounds awesome.

[@RainBrain26]

I fell in love when I saw the Ice Dragon during BZ's development. I hang on to my hope that somehow it could be implemented and when it wasn't, it broke my heart. I still can't play BZ without thinking about it and how awesome it would have been.

[@Woidon123]

These videos are amazing!

[@iAletho]

Cheers Woidon!

[@TheSeabornGaming]

I’m always a sucker for giant scary creatures. Still really cool to learn about them.

[@silentrush6839]

Ive seen the thalassacean, its become a mod creature for subnautica de-extinction. I didnt know there was more than 2 variants tho, im gonna have to keep a look out for any in my game

[@aircraftcarrierwo-class]

I feel like discovering, studying, and dealing with the Rotnest parasite could be the plot of an entire game.

[@scarredclawsgibberish]

i love the gardenener eel so much but can it survive the bioreactor 😇

[@iAletho]

Is this the new version of will it blend? xD

[@scarredclawsgibberish]

@@iAletho will it bioreactor?

[@cancercentral9997]

The Rotnest reminds me of the Flood from Halo

[@Moonstruck_Arrow]

I think that the sand spear ended up becoming the “spiky trap” in below zero, since the two seem very similar. It’s also interesting that a lot of the cut designs for the sea monkey ended up getting reused as other creatures. The one with three googly eyes looks exactly like the triops fish, and the egg-shaped one looks like something called a Trivalve, which is supposedly BZ’s equivalent to the cuddlefish (I never encountered it myself, but supposedly it exists)

[@kenidur1561]

I'd love to have seen the grabsquid alongside the sea monkey, possibly being slower and easier to escape/incapacitate, but being more nimble and draining the battery of anything it steals.

[@reionics]

Awww look how cute the ice dragon is,would definitely make a good pet😃👍

[@iAletho]

It looks like it would make a good plushie!

[@reionics]

@@iAletho damn now I want one

[@craftykit2242]

I love the icebreaker and crested reaper, but really I think the rot parrasite would’ve been the most interesting thing to encounter. Parasites are very important for an ecosystem, and the ocean has a lot of them.

[@goldendragon6985]

the kitewing could be a kind of boss fight where you in a empty flat space where you need to avoid it and memerize its patterns and if you successfully pass it and get in into a type of new biome it could trigger a cool lil fight with the ice worm and the kitewing is killed

[@Hydra_Corinthian]

6:31 as a perth resident, that was a sleeper agent trigger word for me

[@ma1-t1f]

5:36 I think this one wasn’t fully scrapped. I think they just like took the idea and turned it into the Artic ray I come on a ray but be friends are facing up and down pretty similar to the artic ray but it’s just a suspicion or we can know is that could not be the case

[@SockTheBop]

I would have liked to see the arctic variants of the first game’s creatures in place of some of the new ones we got. Not because they’re bad, but just because it would tie everything together just that little bit more

[@jamieTGD]

The Ice Dragon sounded like such a cool and interesting idea. Especially if it was in Below Zero. Really makes me wonder what could have been.

[@linux_doggo]

The good thing is that Below Zero showed us the developers are not above using old scrapped ideas, as many cut ideas from the original game were added to BZ. It's entirely possible that some of these creatures will be added to Subnautica 2, and if not, maybe creatures based on the scrapped ones. The Rock Puncher was scrapped in the first game and came back in BZ, so there is hope

[@tetraxis3011]

I love Subnauticas fauna and flora, it’s “speculative” biology at its best.

[@BabukAdamRblx]

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[@Randomdude-t7e]

Haaaa from the monster in the cover i knew that this one was going to be good also I noticed that you're keeping the sea emperor leviatan as last should i expect something crazy🧐

[@iAletho]

It's going to be a big one for sure! I have something special planned for that one ;)

[@Randomdude-t7e]

@@iAletho can't wait

[@noelhutchins7366]

Cut content still makes for great starting points to jump-start future franchise sequels.

[@pramusetyakanca1552]

Rotnests can basically make Brute Sharks into Metal Gear REXs. Think about it: they already have the mugshot of REX, what with the heavyset jaw and whatnot. And the Rotnests basically allow it to have the signature anti-tank missiles.

[@witherwraith1226]

Surprisingly, some of the designs for the sea monkey was actually used for some of the smaller sea life in the second one with one of them being the special eggs you can find in the game

[@cavemanpretzel9520]

Sand spear defibitely bobbit worm inspired

[@SPIKYBOI69420]

Pretty sure the sand spear's inspiration was a bobbit worm, go look it up of you don't know what that is

[@lasercraft32]

The rotnest is horrifying.

[@XanderExists]

I actually find it interesting that some of the concepts and models DID make it into the game, just repurposed. The one sea monkey concept art design made it in as the triops fish The Ice Dragon's design was repurposed for the pinnicarid, or at least has a very similar design with the fins and general body shape. The Symbiotes from the ice dragon made it in (at least by name) as the titan holefish symbiotes. These are the main ones I could find, but yeah

[@Hannahtheseal]

4:52 “show me what you have!” “A KNIFE” “NO”

[@jasperscheerlinck8170]

isn't the Thalasscean being used in the Return of the ancients mod?

[@ComfyNightStreams]

Yessir

[@Trollgernautt]

That icebreaker reefback is such a wonderful idea, I would have loved to see them in game, pity...

[@ferretzim8694]

I wish the ice dragon had made it. But something that could have been funny to do with it is to have it shoot its ice breath and slap your seatruck around, clearly seeming aggressive. But when you scan it, it's revealed that it subsists entierly on alien-krill and kelp, and is in fact friendly. It's just playing. The giant spiky menacing ice dragon is just a giant Pinnacarid