The Subnautica Iceberg Explained

Original iceberg by u/ImmortalGodWizard:
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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 Sky Above Iceberg
03:15 Iceberg Surface
05:57 Shallow Water
08:21 Iceberg Middle
11:28 Lower Iceberg
14:55 Iceberg Bottom
17:28 Upper Abyss
20:19 Lower Abyss
Today I'll be taking a look at the iceberg of Subnautica theories and conspiracies. We'll be going down the list with me explaining every entry, all the way from the surface into the deep dark abyss below. Ready for the deep dive? Well then put your tinfoil hat on and let's go!
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[@TheLastBacon]

Shoutout to our epic discord community :) If you guys haven't join yet, you should really consider! We do giveaways, events and you can just directly talk to me! discord.gg/KrvBJPD

[@saturnnottaken]

yes I am in your discord sever and I can say it is a very epic server

[@Bozito6]

Yooo how did I not know there was a discord server, I must join

[@saturnnottaken]

@@Bozito6 yeah dude go join

[@wunwungt9380]

Someone made a mod that adds the Gargantuan Leviatan into the game.

[@Echo-22-538]

I am a witness to this epicness

[@veeer2255]

"Peeper Leviathan" [Softly] *don't*

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha don’t give the devs any ideas :)

[@brodyrexosaurus]

Something's wrong I can feel it

[@asei231]

Crashfish leviathan?

[@jamesonprillwitz7297]

@@asei231 OH GOD

[@Mr.Manta5988]

Mesmer Leviathan

[@LeoCat2291]

Imagine you’re swimming on an unknown water planet then you hear “China” randomly

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha that would truly be something :)

[@mosterchife6045]

And then you get kidnapped for having an opinion on the CCP

[@elliotlevine2145]

I was the 69th like

[@LeoCat2291]

@@elliotlevine2145 nice

[@icedfijiwter4704]

Imagine hearing music in a unknown water planet

[@argatar000]

The single cell biome concept sounds terrifying and also like something i'd love to experience in game

[@TheLastBacon]

Ikr! Shame it didn't get implemented in BZ! :)

[@jellymatsuryuka6853]

That name makes it sound like it has only one molecule of land

[@karolisradzevicius2066]

There should be a mod where that is somewhere randomly across the map and can swallow anything you bring near it

[@billcipher7292]

@@karolisradzevicius2066 :

[@argatar000]

@TomTalksGames no

[@fxrdo]

A peeper leviathan would be so awesome. Imagine just swimming through a dark cave and an eye the size of your cyclops just opens and stares at you. It would be kinda like a giant squid or octopus but even larger.

[@TheLastBacon]

Jesus that would be terrifying :)

[@dream_walker9726]

I hate this but damn it, I want it in the game.

[@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD]

Is would be like reefbacks. "AH WHAT THE HELL" "oh wait he chill nvm"

[@cosmic2813]

i hope a modder sees this comment and makes it

[@AceFaz]

_And it turns out to be ridiculously OP, Fast, High Damage, and more agressive than the ghost leviathan_

[@zacharyclark3693]

Subnautica's planet rests on the backs of four Sea Treaders, standing on the back of a Giant Reefback, swimming through the universe.

[@cashwaynemusic777]

Turtles all the Way Down babyyyy

[@TheLastBacon]

I see you're a commenter of culture as well :D

[@llawliet1522]

Nice reference, Rincewind

[@departedwitch5228]

Nonono, the world is in the bed of a Giant Reefback, supported by four Sea Treaders, standing on the Primordial Peeper.

[@samsarex4318]

Is this a reference to the turtles of time theory

[@max-ln5yr]

“something huge lies in the ecological dead zone” subnautica modders: *hold my disinfected water*

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha accurate :D

[@maximuseridanus5542]

It carries a zero two body pillow

[@justafan9206]

MissingNo.

[@omegaotaku1342]

maybe that's where the peeper leviathan is

[@SpoonEnjoyer]

Lol yes

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

I always find it amusing no one remembers that the Degasi was shot down as well. It's one of many ships crashed on the planet and it's actually quite likely that some of the more far flung pieces of crashed ships you find aren't from the Aurora at all, but from the Degasi and other ships that got shot down by the containment weapon.

[@TheLastBacon]

That isn't quite the case, because based on the lore, the crew scrapped all pieces of their ship to build the bases :) (they could've missed a piece of course) but I imagine they would be much more worn down.

[@george5432]

@@TheLastBacon that’s what I was gonna say because the degassi bases are visibly worn down

[@CallMeKes]

@@TheLastBacon All pieces they could FIND. Some of the further bits could be from the Degassi but I very much doubt any of the big, explorable bits would be.

[@insertedgynamehere___969]

@@TheLastBacon I remember e PDA bringing up them being shot down by something. Then they used the remains of their ship to build bases. I think it's rather silly that they strand themselves on purpose by scrapping a functional ship.

[@mungo7136]

@@TheLastBacon So to sum up - shipwrecks you explore are older ships that were shot down as Aurora is more-or-less one crash site and Degassi was already processed. Which btw. was what I had in my mind when I was playing the game.

[@natyb_art]

It's really impressive that someone actually made the entire philogenetic tree of Subnautica. I'm speachless.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah someone probably put quite a bit of work into that! :)

[@xamoxi3121]

Idk if its accurate or not,Like its the real lore or just some things partially true

[@damon22441]

@@xamoxi3121 They don't have RNA to back it, so it's a Ye Olde tree based on physical traits. As accurate as it gets, really.

[@xamoxi3121]

@@damon22441 yeh but if they don’t have PNA,RNA or DNA,what do they have ? Cuz if the scanner can scan them and say that ray are same species,then the scanner analyze their biological structure and so recognize it So what it is?

[@RafilaWan]

⁠@@xamoxi3121They meant we the fans don’t have the RNA/etc info, so we can’t use it to help make the tree.

[@htwdpw]

“Peeper leviathan” And that’s when I took it personally

[@TheLastBacon]

Fully understandable :)

[@zeroclan3816]

Lol

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@TheLastBacon Hello and Bonjour, Iceberg-Researchers! Sorry for this being really random, but: I currently gather people for a good cause. As you surely know, youtube has big trouble nowadays and youtuber are angry and/or fearful to the Thousands. So i tried to make yt a better place - by reporting. I reported/flagged people being toxic in one way or another: Racists, Sexists, Mobber, Bullies, etc, etc. Also, Porn simply does not belong on yt... So i reported those. And i now provide, by using a Wiki where i store them, Links leading to those people. So i made a Wiki to provide people with Links directly allowing to flag (and hopefully remove) toxic people of various kinds. Would you be interested, at all, in also reporting some of those? Fight some Bullies and such? Costs literally nothing and helps youtube (and the world)... Interested? If not interested, can you at least give me your opinion on this comment here? And/or on the idea overall?

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@TheLastBacon Your words were already warm enough (what an irony, seeing this video is about icebergs...), but i have to ask: Did you consider visiting the wiki yourself and reporting some? At least some of the worst, if anything?

[@PearoIGuess]

@@slevinchannel7589 How ironic. You talk about reporting spam and such but bring random and spamming yourself

[@peanutcalledyou7152]

"Peeper Leviathan" *I dont need sleep, I need answers*

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha I wish we knew more :)

[@Tony_II]

Secure Contain Peanut

[@last-genrichtofen9360]

@@Tony_II *_n u t_*

[@tornadotaylor8956]

@@Tony_II fuckin 173 outbreaks

[@yuritarted4547]

@@last-genrichtofen9360 never Unidentify tumors

[@JustMeKruck]

Feeding fish to stalkers isn't only used for stopping attacks temporarily. If you feed them enough fish in a row you will 'tame' them and they start bringing you scrap metal pieces. Pretty useful overall when trying to stock up on titanium or teeth quickly. You can even drop a grav trap nearby to collect more fish for you to give the stalkers. They might eat some of the fish caught in the grav trap before you pick them up, but it only counts for taming if you hand feed them.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep they will do that after one fish already - but it is always only temporary :)

[@ZenBuu04]

Wow, I have the platinum trophy in this game but never knew you can feed and even tame them so they bring you stuff...

[@francosarceno9203]

@@ZenBuu04ikr I just find out rn

[@kukakysy4817]

​@@ZenBuu04i think it works whit leviathans too

[@Spectrik]

If you wish to get tons of fish there are lots at the bottom of geysers in the safe shallows

[@Despon]

A few things you and the iceberg itself have missed out on: •There was originally an option to dig sand in the game’s earliest first versions, it’s purpose was to uncover outcrops, fragments and even some supply crates that were buried under the sand, this was soon removed likely for the same reasons as the terraformer not being craftable in the game. •The PDA’s voice isn’t a singular voice actor, the voice of the PDA and every other robotic voice we hear in the game (excluding the warpers) were made from stock text-to-speech voices (I presume Microsoft’s generic text-to-speech voices they have) and were mixed through audio editing software (presumably something like Audacity) to make them sound the way they are currently. •At one point in the game there was a cut tool that was meant to be able to pick out DNA from other fish and grant you a temporary buff when you injected the DNA into yourself, it even came with its own buildable fabricator which let you mix multiple dna samples together but was scrapped from the game mid-development, despite the fully modelled and animated tool and fabricator. I unfortunately don’t think its still able to be acquired via console commands like the terraformer. •A lot of the models and their textures were changed through development of the game but the most notable one was the mobile vehicle bay that was just a square object when it was crafted, the relevance of this stems from the fact that it was the longest thing in the game without a proper model and icon, I can’t fully remember if it was even textured or not but considering that it was earlier on in development then it possibly wasn’t. This entry isn’t as interesting to include but I found it strange nonetheless. •Take this one with a grain of salt, but there was originally a bugged / misplaced reaper spawn somewhere in the edges of the safe shallows, it had a very small chance of happening but it was still able to happen, this might have stemmed the other entry that reapers can come into the safe shallows if you are chased by them for long enough. •The game at one point had bad language in it; a while ago before the game’s launch, awesomecrunch live streamed an interview with one of the game’s developers and asked if the game was meant to have bad language in it at all and the developer answered that it wasn’t intended but the voice actor for Marguerite swore in her voice lines once and of course re-did the lines as the game wasn’t meant to have bad language. This also ties in with the sunbeam having it’s voice acting redone in a different tone, there wasn’t any mistakes in the voice acting, they just felt that the tone of the sunbeam personally should be less aggressive. •There was originally another entrance to the active lava zone which lead from directly under the front of the Aurora (many may remember this as it was removed late development due to it’s existence nullifying the need to go through to the lost river, the entire tunnel was patched up and cannot be entered unless you were to make it yourself with the terraformer). This change does unfortunately complicate the idea of sea dragons going up to the surface to drag down reaper leviathans for their dinner and adds a small plot hole. Another thing I would like to add is that a third entrance to the jelly-shroom cave was also present in earlier versions of the game in the grassy plateau but as well suffered the same fate by being patched up mid development. •In it’s earliest versions, the game had very very strange tall pillars of terrain that surrounded the map that had a very eerie ambience that played when they loaded in, these could be found when you swam out to the void, just outside of the game’s playable area. I personally would assume these pillars were put there to possibly mark how big they were gonna expand the map and what the limit was going to be, but the music that was seemingly specifically scripted to play when they were loaded in makes me think otherwise.

[@TheLastBacon]

Very good additions :) I especially love the last point since it isn't known by a lot of people!

[@Despon]

Indeed, I remember it all the way back and has been something not entirely known by everyone for some time

[@Despon]

I actually only just remembered this now but there was originally yet another alternative entrance to the inactive lava zone that you could access on the eastern fringe of the big mushroom forest as it enters the dunes biome, the tunnel was a wide crevice that would lead directly to the ILZ like the one underneath the aurora; this tunnel as well got patched up at the exact same time as the one the at aurora, leaving the only entrance being through the lost river from that point on. I wish they had left this tunnel in as a hidden entrance as it would make a lot more sense for the sea dragon to come up and grab some reaper leviathans for lunch as it’s just as populated with reapers alongside the crash zone.

[@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD]

The DNA tool can be spawned, but it can't do anything.

[@nateimnotgonnasaythat2624]

Sea Dragons eat reapers in a pressure cooker, while in a pressure cooker.

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha pretty much :)

[@sterilebroth8933]

Office reference?

[@pancakes8816]

"Remember, the slower the cook. The better the taste"

[@Dubmentia]

@@pancakes8816 It's pigs! He's pigs!

[@mr.nameno533]

“You’re the best captain on the planet, I’m not even squidding” Meanwhile: Driving cyclops into the crash zone to hear the sweet sound track

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha the cyclops might want to rethink that line :)

[@strawberrymagpie]

Well, I mean, you’re the ONLY captain on the planet, so no matter what you’ll be the best one.

[@legitimate8463]

@@strawberrymagpie below zero spoilers What about Margarita Maida?

[@strawberrymagpie]

@@legitimate8463 good point hm

[@benjaminbarraza8972]

@@legitimate8463 i think below zero happens long after the original subnautica

[@nuyabuisness7526]

With the reapers in the lava zone I would have loved an event where you hear roaring of a reaper getting hunted in game.

[@TheLastBacon]

Or even like an animation of one being dragged down there :)

[@nightwing3618]

I think I know why there is no crush depth in the Emperor's tank. Despite being the biggest leviathan and much too big to fit in most parts of the map, the hatching enzymes are from relatively shallow water plants, which suggests that the emperor is more accustomed to shallow water than the deep sea. So because an emperor is used to shallow waters and not the crushing depths of the lava zones, the Precursors engineered her tank to have a less crushing impact on the last chance of survival.

[@TheLastBacon]

Maybe yeah - even though they supposedly lived out in the void, where I'd imagine they'd have to be accustomed to depth :)

[@peterjordan2431]

Or maybe there’s no crush depth because the air pressure and water is the same as that near the open ocean (physics idk)

[@caphius6095]

@@TheLastBacon Perhaps - in a terrifying thought - They are some of the most shallow void-dwelling leviathans, which also likely means smallest and least dangerous (which we know the latter to be true.) Has me even more scared to what's out there.

[@hendizzle444]

@Nightwing36 Responding to your old comment, but I just finished the game so this is fresh on my mind: I read a PDA entry that said the eggs/hatchlings are likely suited to different environmental conditions than the adult sea emperors. I think I read this when I scanned the sea emperor eggs. So my guess is the young grow up in the shallows and then migrate to the void when they grow up.

[@nightwing3618]

@@hendizzle444 That is a very good point

[@Nova_Avali]

I loved how I would be absolutely terrified and constantly looking on my shoulder just for trump to say "china". It always pulled me out of the moment

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha it is quite a strange Easter Egg :)

[@starcasm8674]

c h i n a

[@Dunnay48]

@@starcasm8674 thats exactly how trump says it

[@lxchristhebuff1303]

China.

[@derekdrake8706]

China probably scarier than 4546b so it fits right in.

[@rexon5218]

For a second I thought there was a secret iceberg in the game and you were explaining what it was haha

[@TheLastBacon]

That would've also been very cool :D

[@helpfulmkll1876]

There is actually a ice island

[@sparky2721]

@@TheLastBacon subnautica subzero anyone XD

[@dylansalisbury8095]

As a new player this was my exact thought

[@specialism640]

Thats what I thought icebergs were when I first saw them

[@jpeg-gaming]

I've been very interested with some of the things that were "lost in development" like the Hell Hole which leads to the Inactive Lava Zone, cut biomes like the single cell landscape, and other awesome stuff which were scrapped and never implemented, but oh well, maybe they will add them to the third game then (if there will be one eventually).

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah to me it’s always interesting to read about the dev cycle of a game and the stuff we never ended up getting :)

[@noustinky1201]

I think the hell hole is in the lost river because if you go far enough there will be a huge big mega massive hole that leads to the lava zone

[@LilacVeritas]

@@noustinky1201 the hell hole existed back in the beta, it was a tunnel that went from the crash zone to the inactive lava zone ie directly to hell

[@wolfpawz13]

This aged well, lol congrats ya called it

[@naisagathefirstdestronmand8559]

@@LilacVeritas There is a deep pit in the lost river that leads directly to the lava zone, which I think is a reference to the old hell hole. There’s even a leviathan above it! Though it’s a ghost instead of a reaper. Also I think it’s canonically the path the dragons use.

[@JohnHidoYEEHAW]

Speaking of a peeper leviathan, I once encountered a ghost leviathan with the model of a peeper. Yes that tiny thing was roaring at me and actually killed me. Never saw it again in the void. Now THAT’s a glitch.

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha that sounds awesome :D

[@Krimzon06]

Imagine when you hit that 8000 meter mark in the void, instead of teleporting you a massive peeper leviathin eats you and whatever vehicle in lol.

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha that would be amazing :)

[@mosqit4324]

Yes me want

[@hazelleaf8749]

Imagine you hit the 8000m mark then a giant yellow eye appears.

[@mrwomanstealer]

@@hazelleaf8749 oh god

[@trolltips4973]

@@hazelleaf8749 or image instead of that a trollge dismembers u

[@A_ghost_leviathan]

Theory: every time you head into the void, not only are ghost leviathans watching you, extremely deep down a living gargantuan leviathan is watching you....

[@TheLastBacon]

That would be absolutely terrifying :)

[@davidecarucci1073]

Imagine if you go too far into the void a 2km sea snakes appears in front of you (btw if you want that experience theres a mod that adds the gargantuan to the game in the void)

[@h1j123]

The "adult" ghost leviathans are actually juveniles of the massive creature.

[@illumiriley7030]

watch Anthomnia or Aci's most recent videos about the gargantuan leviathan (yesterday)

[@A_ghost_leviathan]

I know about the mod, this comment was just a random joke/idea I had

[@gauchesuedo]

The Sea Emperor Crush Depth one should be 45o2 as that's how water pressure works. It's 100% fact. If one were to find an under-water cave at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and they blocked off the entrance (like how the force-field for the entrance to the Sea Emperor containment facility does), then the water pressure inside the cave would become just the pressure for the volume of water inside the contained area. Unblock the cave and it adds the full pressure of the rest of the ocean outside, but otherwise, yeah.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) exactly!

[@Helperishere]

Yup yup. There isn't that immense amount of water on top of and around you to crush you. Just a smaller amount.

[@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat]

When I saw heavy clouds close to water in specific areas, I almost immediately guessed they hid something of value

[@TheLastBacon]

Smart :)

[@sharondornhoff7563]

That's not purely contrived by the developers. Islands in mid-ocean really do tend to attract clouds, because their higher elevation causes humidity to condense along their flanks. Ocean explorers in the past watched for stationary cloud banks that indicated land, all the time.

[@xKenchi]

10:33 there is/was a secret voiceline for the Seamoth, where they said “I love it when you come inside me.” I’m pretty confident this got removed prior the official release as I’ve never had it happen to me

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah it got removed :) It is hilarious though!

[@epicgamer_7985]

It's all fun and games until mom comes on that exact moment

[@uguuuguunen9544]

@@epicgamer_7985 that sounds a bit sketchy

[@mazda9588]

that's propa sketchy innit bruv

[@OrinForDaBay]

@@epicgamer_7985 hold up

[@forza3943]

I never thought that there would be a subnautica iceberg. Excited for this one!

[@denifnaf5874]

Yes

[@TheLastBacon]

Really hope you enjoy! :)

[@sirwilliamiv4498]

Have you heard of subnautica below zero plenty of icebergs there

[@forza3943]

@@TheLastBacon I certainly did!

[@bob_the_2nd_builder404]

it was amazing, really helped me with some facts i didn't know about the game

[@montzy9351]

this game has a special place in my heart. Everything is just perfect like the music, the story everything is just perfectly made

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah same :) It's a really unique and special experience!

[@Dakrem]

16:42 Can confirm Reapers in the Safe Shallows. On my first Hardcore playthrough a Reaper attacked my Cyclops near the Aurora crash site, I bailed and fled with a Seamoth, came back later to find the cyclops hadn't been destroyed so I quickly repaired it and headed back to my base with it, but on the way a reaper decided to follow me all the way back to my base in the safe shallows, then glitched out, and wouldn't leave. The entire rest of that playthrough I had to scramble quickly to get distance from my base every time I stepped outside because the Reaper was right there, which greatly amped up the stress that the perma-death mode already had for my first run.

[@TheLastBacon]

Jeez that's really rough - especially on a hardcore playthrough! :)

[@bluevern904]

"There are actual models" Al-an: Allow me to introduce myself.

[@TheLastBacon]

In Below Zero there indeed are :)

[@harrybambury4320]

imagine if you go deep enough into the void you just see 2 giant red glowing eyes

[@TheLastBacon]

That would be terrifying :)

[@elturbo962]

I went down there and thought I heard voices, I think I'm just paranoid

[@erickbarbos4647]

Some people say their is a gargantuan living down there

[@LL-tr5et]

@@samalizadev WHEEZE

[@becauseimbatman1391]

@@samalizadev Instead of a reefback the entire game takes place on the back of Donald Trump

[@inananaris]

I think i remember hearing something about the biome in the crash zone.. It was a way for the last remaining sea emperors to swim out to the surface in order to hunt reaper leviathans, however the Aurora crashed on top of their only way of getting to the surface to do so, or something like that

[@TheLastBacon]

Probably a way for the dragons to hunt right? :) Given the skeletons in the lava zone.

[@allisond.46]

I think you mean sea dragons.

[@TheOne-lx4ye]

The 'Frozen biome in tropics' theory may refer to the fact that when orbiting the planet before the game ends in the neptune, we can see that there is a large white, frozen continent that should located at the north and south of the planets poles but has been mistakenly placed in the tropics region of the globe by the devs for the cutscene.

[@TheLastBacon]

Fair! But do we know what axis the planet rotates on? :)

[@qui-gonjinnfromlegostarwar5487]

I have this very absurd theory, theorizing that potentially, with enough Repair Tools, you could fix up the Aurora and take off with it. It would certainly be interesting.

[@TheLastBacon]

Imagine Ryley just piloting that thing alone :)

[@FoXenthusiast42]

@@TheLastBacon I can imagine him just desperately driving around on one of the forklifts to get to each control.

[@thecheemcouncil6140]

pretty sure the aurora needs more than one person to control it

[@AA-bz1pr]

@@thecheemcouncil6140 We only heard one captain speaking tbf

[@MrMazzax]

@@AA-bz1pr That's how the position of ship captain works. There's only one.

[@swindle8359]

i remember, one of the first times i entered my cyclops the secret voiceline activated and i was like oh, thank you cyclops

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh nice! :) That is quite lucky!

[@CabbageChad25]

What did it say?

[@BeachHam]

@@CabbageChad25 watch the video and you would know

[@NekoMaster00]

well, i think the cyclops know that player are the only captain on the whole planet

[@andregraves3707]

SPACE!!!!

[@TheLaughingManXC]

16:43 happens a lot when you fight the reaper with the prawn suit (grapple and drill arm). You can basically direct every last reaper to the safe shallow because when their HP drops under a certain threshold they "flee" to the middle of the map (safe shallow). Other fish/leviathans will do this too

[@TheLastBacon]

Oof that definitely makes the shallows less safe :)

[@joshsaunders7971]

13:00 someone actually made a mod that lets you do multiplayer up to 2P it works, slightly buggy but works. They can join your game and so forth. Only issue is that the game is based rendering is on the main character, so if the other player took off to another spot, it would lag the hell out of the game. So a rework for multiplayer makes sense.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah I did try it! It's very buggy but very fun :)

[@lifeiscats1337]

He literally said that 7 seconds later 💀

[@Mr.Manta5988]

Imagine you are a Sea Dragon and you just had an amazing Reaper snack. And than you notice a little rib bone stuck in your teeth and you just can't get it out. No wonder they are allways pissed off

[@TheLastBacon]

Jeez and I was having a good day :D

[@mr.lordstarscream1570]

That happened a lot

[@mosqit4324]

I would help a sea dragon as long as it won't be agressive

[@mr.lordstarscream1570]

@@mosqit4324 alright fine I’ll go tell Carl and mark to stop being hostile to you guys

[@Mr.Manta5988]

@@mr.lordstarscream1570 Well, that's, baffeling nice of you

[@bleeptest]

Damm they gave a random iceberg from below zero lore

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha not quite :D...though I wish.

[@vytherless]

lmfao

[@quicklight7611]

lmao

[@quicklight7611]

@KRISTIAN LINDSEY dude that's so true like who wouldn't agree, he should be elected president

[@chewbacca3269]

I honestly thought it was that at first. Like some meme got created around a random iceberg by the Subnautica community.

[@SHIFTINGTENDONS]

Subnautica is so beautiful. Those opening shots are so incredible, they look like real life recordings!

[@TheLastBacon]

It's a lovely game for sure! :)

[@alexmartinez5859]

I’m sorry. I just heard Precursors in reference to a sci-if game, and all I could think of was Halo, leading my Halo-addicted/withdrawn mind to jump to the conclusion that Halo and Subnautica are part of the same universe.

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha now that would be an ambitious crossover :)

[@johnblack8872]

Inb4 Subnautica is on a halo

[@J-BiRTH]

I mean the concept of the "precursors" is a pretty generic Sci-Fi trope that shows up in just about every universe, I actually think it might be more difficult to name space Sci-Fi works that don't feature the concept, as opposed to ones that do.

[@YraXxx]

kinda disappointed that the seamoth line saying “i love it when you come inside me” isnt included but still a good video haha

[@TheLastBacon]

That is a good one for sure :D....shame it never *made it in* ....get it?

[@airbornewarningandcontrols396]

@@TheLastBacon *clapping.mp3*

[@sci_pain3409]

now i’m worried that seamoth r34 might exist

[@vibe3063]

@@sci_pain3409 it does.

[@airbornewarningandcontrols396]

@@vibe3063 oh god

[@Yuunarii]

Awww but #4 of the cyclops designs looked so cute!! Big fish cyclops. Oh well at least we luckily didn't get race car cyclops.

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha love the big fish cyclops :)

[@theegboi1178]

Reaper: “What the hell is that?” Ryley: *zooms past in Racecar cyclops*

[@starkiller69357]

@@theegboi1178 *starts the abandon ship music*

[@BirbBoiYT]

I loved that one too

[@angelawegger7970]

@@theegboi1178 NYYYOOOOOOOMM

[@itzbeendakavgaming5632]

Looking through these comments and watching the video makes me glad I found this channel. You reply regularly, and make good, concise content. Keep up the great work, friend, can't wait to see more!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly :) Welcome to the channel!

[@Swm9445]

The ‘ice zone in the tropics’ entry on the iceberg, which you note you don’t really understand what it means… I believe it is referring the fact that in the ending cinematic, when the character looks back to the left at 4546b one last time, there is an arctic continent seen on the opposite side of the planet to where the crater is. And the LATITUDE of this ice continent is by the equator, aka, the tropics (between 30.30 deg N or S).

[@TheLastBacon]

True :) Though I guess we don’t know what axis the planet spins on which is what confused me.

[@sodagirl1092]

"Weapons were removed from standard survival blueprints following the massacre on Abraxus Prime. The Knife remains the only exception" is further referencing the shooting that took place.

[@TheLastBacon]

Pretty much :)

[@juanmanuelvidal5121]

Obraxis Prime

[@derekdrake8706]

And I think Abraxis or Obraxis is the screen name of one of the devs, so that's cool.

[@andregraves3707]

like a knife never killed anyone before

[@sickly300salt3]

@@andregraves3707 whole lot harder to commit a massacre with a knife then with a gun

[@aboringredmop]

I managed to disable the QEP before Sunbeam once, and I thought I was about to unlock a secret good ending r something. Was so disappointed when the Sunbeam said they couldn’t land, I loaded a new world and let them get hit this time 🤠

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah it's unfortunate that there isn't any secret way to get them to save you :)

[@OOFMAN64Real]

BADLE BASIC IN MINE SUBNATACA GAME

[@ChadtronicFan]

@@OOFMAN64Real Can you please repeat that?

[@duck_iscool]

They should also have some sort of cyclops shield generator for example if there is a asteroid on course to meet them they can simply just turn on a shield generator instead of turning so they probably were lying about the debris field

[@hazeltree7738]

@@ChadtronicFan Badle basic in mine subnataca game (I think they mean baldi's basics in Minecraft subnautica game, like a clickbait title)

[@sultanofsauce9816]

15:52 ACTUALLY, there did used to be a terrain editor in Subnautica back during the very early alpha/beta builds, however it had to be removed because it was putting serious strain on the game engine following extensive use, not to mention some players figured out that a combination of terrain editor + air pipes meant you could just skip the whole game and bore a hole into to the lava zone.

[@TheLastBacon]

That's a different thing - you're thinking of the terraformer (whish I suppose in a way does edit the map) :)

[@nahim-gd2847]

Subnautica 3 I hope sticks to the same formula but I also hope it incorporates multiplayer, where you are stranded at different points of the map, however it is massive and you have no way of finding each other other than navigation/ large island, I think that would be really cool and I hope they explore something like it

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep having some optional multiplayer sounds awesome! :)

[@mattjohnston9131]

The observatory may also be its own biome because it has its own specific musical track. Every time you enter one the track "Observatory Zen" will start playing.

[@TheLastBacon]

Huh that is an interesting fact! :)

[@meri8431]

it is its own biome, if you hit f1 while in an observatory it says that it is its own biome

[@tylerstamm2737]

@@meri8431 wow another person who is still interested in subnautica and not just below zero

[@meri8431]

...what

[@stibba4286]

Maybe they did that so plants would grow quickly in it

[@baddle6880]

as they say: everybody gangsta till the nuns start meowin

[@bystander5278]

Ah, I see you're a man of colture as well.

[@TheLastBacon]

I understood that reference :)

[@danielfridman90]

@@TheLastBacon I didn't

[@THEREALKEEGANWELCH]

@@danielfridman90 stupid salmonella hater

[@Myranos]

lol, saw a video about that

[@mineplex4629]

Yes, a Reaper did follow me back to my base after I was going on a supply run for the Cyclops (Near the Aurora). It hasn’t left and was a pain to get by when completing the game.

[@TheLastBacon]

Must’ve been very unpleasant :)

[@mr_boss4541]

I respect that you interact with all of your viewers keep up the good work

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly :)

[@LHWK_RHC]

I got the "no water" glitch when docking my Prawn suit into the moonpool. Instead of animating the character climbing out into the base, it instead ejected me down to the sea floor where I was able to walk around as if there was no water, complete with the footstep sounds you get when you're inside the base.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) it is surprisingly easy to trigger that one.

[@devindalton4688]

Well that sounds terrifying

[@jevilstail]

I got this glitch today in Below Zero after saving my game halfway inside a moonpool’s water surface. I thought I ruined my playthrough, but thankfully the bug left when I reloaded

[@maximusrodriguez7187]

@@jevilstail THERE'S GUNS IN THE GAME NOW?!?

[@jevilstail]

@@maximusrodriguez7187 lol I meant I reloaded the game

[@Pesantrengeledeg]

If we found a time capsule in the game, and then we have an option to drop a time capsules in the end, does that mean the aurora crash is endless?

[@TheLastBacon]

I suppose technically it is :)

[@hybralisk]

That "quantum detonation" made me think they were going to go somewhere with a time loop. I think it would have been super cool to have a story that played around with such things.

[@hazeltree7738]

@@hybralisk It being "Quantum" was probably just to do with its engines (They probably warp time to go extra fast), but yeah that could be a cool idea

[@peterjordan2431]

The multiverse theory

[@ThommyofThenn]

This was really entertaining. You did a great job on this. I'm currently replaying BZ after I just finished a "lore" playthrough of the 1st game. As such, this video is exactly what I'm interested in rn

[@TheLastBacon]

Yay really glad you enjoyed :)

[@hollylucianta6711]

I don't know whether or not it was removed in the final version, but in one of the earlier betas you could sometimes randomly get a radio message that says "You've been down too long in the midnight sea, oh don't you see what I mean?" which is a reference to a song called Holy Diver. Also the Safe Shallows Reaper thing might be a reference to a rumor I heard which says if you use a grappling hook on a reaper too much, it will eventually swim to the Safe Shallows and stay there to "punish" the player.

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh dang I love the Holy Diver reference :D Really hope that’s a thing!

[@koningmariskaa]

Fucking nice i never knew that! Love Dio 🤘🤘🤘

[@SebuKaz]

I was ten minutes into playing this game for the first time, just admiring the fishies in the shallows, then I turn around and BOOM REAPER and I turned off the game

[@TheLastBacon]

Oof, that must've been quite the scare :D

[@derekdrake8706]

I remember when I first started playing.. I had seen all the videos so I thought I knew everything. So i decided I wanted to build a base! I had no idea where the floating island was but I knew its general direction, so I headed that way. I swam.. and swam.. without a seaglide mind you.. and swam.. and swam... Annnd.. ended up on the surface of the void. I had no idea until a ghost leviathan broke the surface right next to me. After a quick pause and small heart attack.. I decided to just turn around and curl up into a ball in my lifepod.

[@onninno8028]

I remember i was in my cyclops like 500m down then i accidentally went to the void and i closed the game

[@zoidenvoid]

Im playing subn on ps4 and theres no alt f4 and moving is hard. I got scared and dumbass me unplugged the power cord

[@holybleachbottle8318]

Lol, i let my brother play on his own save and as soon as he left the pod thing he was greeted by 3 stalkers

[@vizthex]

I always thought the PDA voice was just a text-to-speech program in-universe, and is just the PDA itself. Why wouldn't your survival device have a limited AI after all?

[@TheLastBacon]

It does certainly sound like it :)

[@borax8886]

It is, the devs have confirmed it

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

@@borax8886 It's called "Amy"

[@borax8886]

@@notjebbutstillakerbal i didn’t know it had a name, thank you

[@bitbreaker_creator]

@@notjebbutstillakerbal i called it laura lmao

[@urlocalhistorybuff316]

Well, a funny thing happened to me a couple months ago while playing Subnautica. A reaper glitched into the safe shallows. But even more, I killed it with the drill arm upgrade for the prawn suit in survival mode. Well, that about wraps up my story

[@TheLastBacon]

Must've been an unpleasant discovery in the shallows! :)

[@smarsyboi1987]

One of my all time favourite subnautica vids ngl still a banger to this day

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly :)

[@VibrantEyesOfficial]

I love the iceberg trend, but after my year on reddit i never saw an iceberg for subnautica

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah there was only this one that I could find :)

[@koy_medina32]

Could you fully explain what an iceberg is I still don’t understand what it means

[@skinnypeed]

@@koy_medina32 it's kind of like a chart of theories/lore things, and the deeper on the iceberg they get, the more mysterious/creepy they get. You could probably find a better explanation on google

[@koy_medina32]

@@skinnypeed thank you

[@YYellowsnow]

The reef back idea isn’t actually that crazy. My friend told me that in some biomes you can hear a loud Reefback like calling but a lot louder

[@TheLastBacon]

Not sure which biomes he means :)

[@alexyz9430]

@@TheLastBacon :))

[@nerdgaming3688]

Well the Ghost leviathans never leave the void however

[@bluesydoosy2949]

One thing that doesn’t check out about the giant reefback theory is all the geothermal activity, lava and what not:/ I’m not so sure it’d be coming from one giant reefback. But imagine how cool that’d be if we discovered that we’ve been on a ginormous creature this whole time as part of the late/end game.

[@Kai-1138]

@@nerdgaming3688 the Juvenile in the lost river:ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT

[@jfkfade8124]

There should be a part in Subnautica where when activating one of the systems on the rocket, it fails and the only place detected that has the materials to fix it is in a small opening/cave in the dead zone and you have to go into the dead zone so it's actually part of the story

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah I totally think the game should've had you do something small in or near the dead zone before the end :)

[@zpond3212]

Dang I saw you responded to comments 2 days ago on this video! 2 years and you still reply you are a good KZbinr my friend. Keep up the work.

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly! :)

[@eybaza6018]

Rocks on The other side of Aurora are technically A third island.

[@TheLastBacon]

You're not wrong I suppose :)

[@quicklight7611]

Yeah someone made a video proving its 3rd island but I can't put the link on mobile

[@Zachabruh]

I always thought that if they make a multiplayer version for Subnautica it would start with both players being on different pods across the map and they have to find each other using clues and the compass

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah that would be a good way to start it :)

[@azuthedog]

I appreciate how you continue to reply to comments, even though the video is old :)

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you :) I really enjoy it!

[@mdeters90]

you know, i find it absolutely amazing that you still respond to comments to this day! that’s dedication. also love your vids!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly! I really love talking to you guys :)

[@justapineapple4302]

The stalker: an endgame creature. mostly found in the starting areas.

[@TheLastBacon]

I said *in-game :) not endgame.

[@theguy1650]

Technically it’s an end game creature since it’s with the sea emperor🤷‍♂️

[@justapineapple4302]

@@TheLastBacon Im sorry. i have horrible hearing but now i know your a quality youtuber and read your comment section. Good job.

[@estevaobk]

I also understood "endgame" and needed to go back 10s to hear again =P

[@wunwungt9380]

Wierd thing: The Sunbeam reaches the sky above the island in the good ending, yet it can't get through it in the bad ending.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) ....I guess they just didn't want players getting off the planet early.

[@wunwungt9380]

@@TheLastBacon But it doesn't make sense lorewise

[@JohnsonTheSecond]

@@wunwungt9380 It doesn't make sense for you to disable the gun that early, lorewise - At that point you're already going noncanonical

[@THEREALKEEGANWELCH]

I wonder if you could build up to the sunbeam before it lands

[@saharafortner4177]

There are multiple endings?!

[@tsnswimming7119]

Still a banger vid even a year later good job man

[@TheLastBacon]

Thanks mate! :)

[@oculieswaslive8086]

I did my entire playthrough of the finished build of Subnautica with my dad (who was a very early game tester back in like 2014, which I'm extremely proud of), and it was super fun. Surprisingly, there were a lot of things in the game (and in BZ) that I never even happened upon during my playthrough! (Such as many types of fish, the Sea Treaders, and the tameable pets like the Cuddlefish.) It was so cool to get to see these theories and learn facts that even I (a hardcore Subnautica fan) didn't know about. I find it interesting that I discovered the 'no water' glitch on my own when I got out of my PRAWN suit to save once, as we have a low end computer that tended to glitch the game to the point where we'd noclip through the ground with the PRAWN suit every ten minutes which unfortunately led to paranoid saving. (The no water glitch was scary as hell for some reason, thought I completely broke the game before reloading my previous save lmao) Also, I knew someone else had to have made the Peeper Leviathan joke! This was a great video, and it was super cool to learn about this stuff :)

[@TheLastBacon]

That’s a freaking awesome family activity :)

[@oculieswaslive8086]

Yeah, 100%! It was really fun, even if roughly 80% of it was panicked screaming and "YOU'RE GONNA RUN OUT OF OXYGEN! WHY ARE YOU SCANNING THAT?! USE A FIRST AID KIT! AND FIX THE SEAMOTH, NOW! IT'S AT 60%!" Some notable moments were definitely when a Reaper chased me into the creepvine forest, trying headphones with the game for the first time, turning around in the red grass zone after an eerie amount of silence and getting a close-up faceful of Reaper Leviathan and also DEATH (RIP my voice, it was my worst voice crack to this day), and (post-game, on the save before we left 4546B) sacrificing our beloved Seamoth to a Reaper Leviathan in order to keep it distracted while I scanned it. It was always fun switching the computer between us every now and then and then regretting it immediately, and we even ended up doing game theories while playing, such as who or what the Sea Emperor was (I was heavily convinced that it was the ghost of Marguerit Maida communicating through an undiscovered species, trying to save us from her fate - which I thought was death by Kharaa or being eaten by a leviathan, but my dad's theory was definitely more spot-on) :)

[@CrustyMetal]

I realy like these types of videos,and I didnt expect that there was gonna be a subnautica one,very entertaining!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you :) really hope you enjoy this one!

[@gigy1356]

If I had a penny for every time he mentioned Minecraft, I would have two pennies which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@TheLastBacon]

Nice meme :D

[@falinksgod3439]

Phineas and ferb meme

[@justafan9206]

Me, who every once in a while atemps to use mc controls on Subnautica: yeah... About that.

[@gtuesday]

Drake: "Starting from Degasi now we here" Everyone else: "You HAD to go there, didn't you?"

[@TheLastBacon]

What a bar :D

[@zackattacktron1520]

Im shocked and terrified of the lost river, mainly due to all the massive remains of leviathans. And it makes me wonder, especially for the biggest skeleton there, is it still alive out there? If so. We may have a problem. (Also I seriously didn’t know about the secret with the sunbeam and turning the gun off before that, awesome stuff!)

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah it is a really spooky thought :) Imagine all the things that could still be alive out there in the void!

[@Tico-eu4ek]

Imagine Go to the void waiting for the ghosts leviathans and found a leviathan Alpha peeper

[@TheLastBacon]

That would be a twist :)

[@starlight0313]

And then it travels at you with doubled speed and has a crapton more health than a normal reaper

[@widerrapier5394]

just a fuckin eye the size of the aurora

[@Ruiluth]

When I was first getting into this game I was convinced that the peepers were the key to the story. The weird enzyme ones that seemed to want to be eaten, the fact that they were swimming in and out of alien vents, which had weird currents coming in and out... I was convinced that the peepers were connected with the aliens in a direct way. I'm still disappointed. Also, I built a base in the sparse reef and never heard any china...

[@TheLastBacon]

I suppose in a way they are kinda the key :)

[@tizler5054]

Did he say grand reef or sparse reef because I wasn’t paying attention much it might be the grand reef idk

[@francybenz]

but the peepers are the key, aren't they? they are the way through which the sea emperor gave around the enzyme 42, and that's the reason they went through the vents. they are connected with the main lore

[@Ruiluth]

@@francybenzI meant like I thought they *were* the aliens, or their larvae, or something. But no, turns out the only special thing about them is that they're slightly more trainable than the average fish.

[@okkoheinio5139]

​@@Ruiluth being the reason life on the planet hasn't gone extinct isn't special to you?

[@generaljay0]

I think this was the first iceberg video I watched And this is a very great video

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly :)

[@withoutshield1384]

I love these videos, even though I am a bit late. Keep it up!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly! :)

[@blanketcat]

I'm very glad that the "No water" glitch was included, as I have experienced several times when I was exploring in creative mode and when I used the ghost command, it would turn off the water sometimes. It was very strange, but I'm glad to know that this kind of thing exists for multiple people, not just me, and amazing video!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very much! :) Yeah the glitch is surprisingly common and very annoying.

[@matt_gaming1863]

lol one time i deconstructed a moonpool while standing inside and the same thing happened

[@karolisradzevicius2066]

I figured this glitch out for my self and couldnt stop it because i couldnt get in a seabase or out the water ( for those who dont know thats the way you fix the glitch atleast the way i done it)

[@parallellia1509]

I had the same glitch in my survival save. It was quite scary

[@skylarkdemello6980]

I had a bug once in below zero when I got out of my Seattruck where I just fell down to the sea floor and my seamoth just floated there above me And I was still losing oxygen so I ended up dying and spawning back at my base fixing the bug

[@aiocara]

BRO when the cyclops gave me that line I was pretty riled up from what was outside and just got so confused but I loved it. felt good, "on the planet" ahahah

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah it is a very nice one :)

[@eddmastio706]

The reaper in my game is actually in the shallows. Good to know bout the time capsules. I always wondered why am I finding so many in my game.

[@TheLastBacon]

That reaper must really dislike you or something :D

[@Dynvali]

10:26 ok but can we all just acknowledge that the cyclops voice sounds absolutely awesome?

[@TheLastBacon]

It absolutely does :)

[@StanTwiceZ]

By “safe shallows reaper” don’t they mean the reaper roars that you hear from the safe shallows in the background?

[@TheLastBacon]

I suppose that's possible yeah :)

[@meisrerboot]

No, in the early versions of the game there was a glitch that caused the reaper leviathans to randomly swim in the safe shallows.

[@hib7295]

@@meisrerboot that happened to me at some point tho, the reapers can follow you there and stay for a while

[@drakor98]

@@hib7295 I currently have a reefback chilling by the lifepod. I don't think a reaper is out of the question.

[@callmekrause4556]

@@drakor98 I attacked the reaper nearest to the life pod and accidentally chased it to my base in the safe shallows 😂

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

I kinda feel like an asshole leaving AI vehicles after hearing Cyclops's secret line

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah, poor cyclops :)

[@mosqit4324]

Yes

[@bruh-5256]

Thank u ! For explaining! :)

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank YOU for enjoying it :)

[@terracebcdabs4207]

I’ve found 3 of the time capsules and that is insane about that as I found one I had explored for a year of playing before appearing out in the open

[@TheLastBacon]

That's quite solid! :)

[@Sophie-dq7ub]

Me having thalassophobia and still watching this **heavy breathing**

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha yeah...uncomfortable :)

[@premiumepic6050]

“SeEK FluID INtAkE”

[@TheLastBacon]

*grabs bladderfish :)

[@greenxdsayhi1802]

@NANI Me who have stillsuit: Hold my beer

[@KoopaK5]

@@greenxdsayhi1802 I think "Hold my piss" would technically be more accurate in a still-suit

[@justafan9206]

@@KoopaK5 *sweat

[@ghostliviathan4448]

I acctualy got the Cyclops line randomly and I Was so happy to get it.

[@TheLastBacon]

I have yet to get it normally :)

[@ceratide429]

I adore your Subnautica videos, Bacon, your an outstanding creator!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly! :)

[@ceratide429]

@@TheLastBacon Ofc!

[@juansnyders7323]

Frequently uploads, replies on every comment. And actually interesting content, even after so many Subnautica vids. Bacon you are underrated.

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you :) really appreciate the kind words!

[@mango68712]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how you've replied to nearly every single comment? What an absolute legend.

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kindly :)

[@karolisradzevicius2066]

Lol so tru

[@ReversedPanda]

I think the one that said "leviathan spawn areas" is talking about how leviathan spawn at different areas like how reapers are near the aurora, and how the dragon is in the lava biome

[@TheLastBacon]

Maybe yeah! :)

[@ReversedPanda]

@@TheLastBacon I ate the last piece of bacon in my fridge, like actaully, it was good

[@RyomaTheSpiritOfWolf]

And i respect you replying on new comments even if its a year ago

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you :) I really like it!

[@Slime-xs6si]

Damn, props to you for making not only a good video but also replying to an absolute TON of comments. That is some serious dedication!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you :) I really like replying to comments!

[@widerrapier5394]

he's actually still replying to new comments, that aren't just spam, what a great fuckin guy

[@bfredd3333]

I knew the terraformer tool wasn’t a fever dream!

[@TheLastBacon]

It was real for some time :)

[@widerrapier5394]

whenever I'd think the terraformer was real, I was on spice, so it was a fever dream for me

[@lis7175]

Actually terraformer is still in game, you can get it through console commands. But any terrain changes you make with it won't save. As I remember the reason to remove terraformer was because saving all terrain changes increased save files to gigabytes.

[@DrunkGnu]

@@lis7175 jesus. definitely a good call to remove it if it made literal saved data gigabyte-size.

[@dexterous8820]

I love coming back to this og lore Subnautica KZbin Keep it going

[@TheLastBacon]

Will do! :)