Subnautica Lore: Crater Edge | Video Game Lore

[@mellomoose_]

first time i found the craters edge i was swimming on the top of the water. my brother told me if i went in this direction i would find the island. after swimming for a couple minutes i hear the ghost leviathan i look down...and theres two ghost leviathans swimming up at me. it was the scariest thing ive seen in any video game.

[@TheLastBacon]

Damn :) sounds traumatic....I swear Subnautica can sometimes be scarier than horror games.

[@killer_queen3565]

What a great brother

[@ryancarter2959]

moose I agree 100%. It genuinely scared me 😂

[@gfuke]

same thing happened to me when going after the island

[@Ric_Vicious]

O.o Why would you ever want to swim on top of the water? Lol, you're severely hindering your vision just by doing so, for one. Great way to scare ANYONE you show the game to. Lol, tell em to swim on top of the water toward the Aurora! *Reaper flies out of the water*

[@swifty2515]

I think it's more scary to hear "Warning: entering ecological dead zone, adding report to data bank." Than to actually see a ghost leviathan.

[@TheLastBacon]

Ikr :) that message always gives me the creeps.

[@sirpingsalot3558]

Heavily Debatable

[@spookynoodle3843]

Yeah, same with the dunes

[@recruitlegionary5552]

Personally I'm way more afraid of "Warning detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in this region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?" I heard that for the first time and immediately did a bee line towards my lifepod

[@painfullythicc7680]

You're not wrong my 1st ghost encounter was the one in the grand reef. I was in my cyclops looking for a place to drop off my prawn suit I felt uncomfortable so I start looking around and I just see it ignoring me. So like any other same person I got out to look at it. I got warped then eaten instantly.

[@ubermaster134]

Fun fact: at some point there was supposed to be an animation where a huge tentacle would grab the player or the ship they're in if you went far enough in the void.

[@TheLastBacon]

I think I remember reading that somewhere :) almost wish they would've kept something like that in.

[@redrobsanthem9206]

Oh my god I would piss myself

[@puppup7949]

Fum fact?

[@girlscangame2333]

GrGJy KZbin he ment fun it was just a mistake

[@unga8588]

I would crap myself but I would much prefer it than the ghosty boys. It just seems cooler.

[@adamoop4398]

"Entering ecologically dead zone" Yep OK let's turn around and go bai

[@MediocritysMuse]

Not really a dead zone... You know since things are actually out there. Guess the name just sounded cool so they kept it.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) that message works just as well as an invisible wall for me....

[@TheHerobrian23]

@@TheLastBacon when I first discovered this area I know about the leviathans and they still scared me

[@marshallhamer8770]

“Entering ecological Rock Bottom”

[@GabeMiller2SpoonsOfDoom]

@@MediocritysMuse The only thing that can live are ghost levi's

[@pottoust]

if there is going to be a void type of place in below zero, i wouldnt want there to be a leviathan that already exists in the game. i would want it to be one gigantic creature like the giant skeletal remains in the lost river

[@TheLastBacon]

I would think there probably will be :) it's a neat way to limit the playable area.....and (as scary as it'd be) I'd also love a new - giant hostile creature.

[@jazzling]

My favourite part of that beast is the scan of it says it is only ONE THIRD of the whole thing THATS A BIG BOI

[@pottoust]

@@theplay4555 very nice

[@theplay4555]

Pottoust They didn’t respond yet...

[@pottoust]

@@theplay4555 does still sound like a very neat idea

[@jonnyvue]

The deepest part of Earth's own ocean is actually over 10,000m. Imagine try going that deep in real life.

[@hellothere5141]

Jonny Vue we just know 5% of the ocean so the deepest part is over 10,000 which is scary to imagine

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep, scary stuff - can't even imagine going down there in real life. :)

[@nella544]

A actual ghosty eats you if you go down that depths.

[@TheCumManKing]

Wouldn't that be deepest part Known of Earth's own ocean?

[@theodorerudow4701]

@@hellothere5141 maby dem levitithans live dere ;) (sorry bad spelling)

[@chibipotate]

I can just imagine if instead of teleporting you, they played a cutscene where the player is drifting out a massive roar echoing throughout the world as a giant creature rises up in the darkness to devour you

[@TheLastBacon]

That would be awesome :) .....and scary at the same time.

[@themorningping9075]

Maybe a living version of the massive leviathan skeleton that was about a mile long

[@fowardslashmax.8776]

Rajiv Williams+ I looked at one of his vids and that creature is actually long as half of the map/playable area

[@themorningping9075]

Max Arebalo oh, pardon my error

[@s0l0m0n9]

I like the idea of a massive eye beneath the player opening up to stare at them.

[@WitchofAmethyst]

I remember my first time seeing this. My friend told me it was where you had to go to finish the game. Let's just say I needed new pants

[@TheLastBacon]

Wow, did you keep them as a friend? :D

[@vhnexus9641]

Well at least you finish the game...the game of being able to hold your bladder long enough while playing subNautica

[@Shadowsans99]

W o w

[@Neo_Silver]

The planet is massive compared to the 2x2 kilometer crater we get to play in, and we see evidence of this when we fly off using the Neptune Escape Rocket, where when completing the "slingshot manuever" to launch to the nearest gateway, we can see the two dry islands, which are close together and are probably the size of Hawaii compared to the planet. So, we can safely assume either nothing or much, much more lives past Crater's Edge. Maybe as far down as 10,000 kilometers is the seabed, where more various, new types of fauna live. New leviathans, fish, plants, and maybe a new alien... I think (and I know Below Zero is coming out, but) this would make a wonderful DLC. Explore past the volcanic crater you've known to find beasts of unimaginable sizes and shapes, passive and aggressive, dangerous and pleasantly safe. If this to not be a DLC (which is most likely), than maybe a Gargantuan Leviathan would fit this empty, endless dark zone. Evolution from the millions of years of living past Crater's Edge due to being forced out there because of the shrinking geography of the map, they have taken to a lifestyle like that of the Sea Emporer and Ghost Leviathan, feasting on microscopic plankton and prey. Even though massive and beyond looking peaceful, this monstrosity is fretful and territorial, not used to empty, dark living conditions yet. If straying too deep or too far out past Crater's Edge, somehow dodging Ghost Leviathans, the player begins to hear the earsplitting calls of the nervous Gargantuan Leviathan. Eventually the player will inevitably run into it, and, to return the player to the map, it gobbles them up on a single gulp to get rid of this beasts thought of "threat," the player. Of course, the player would not see more than one at a time, due to the almost-extinct condition they'd be in, where I think there should only be one of the Gargantuan Leviathans per side of the square map. This would balance it out. OK I know this is long but I've wanted to talk about it for a while, and I know the game is in full-release already, so none if this I'd likely to happen. But ya know, wishful thinking...

[@TheLastBacon]

That does sound really awesome :) I'd love to be able to explore other, deeper parts of the map with potentially huge and terrifying creatures roaming about....maybe in the DLC we'll get some of it.

[@yasquishyboi902]

What if this happened in a cutscene where the main character is travelling past the edge and his pda starts to warn him of a Massive life form ahead The player would then hear the creature gargantuan roar and see the faint glow of the creatures eyes approaching and then the side of the beasts face is Seen and it’s eye focuses on the player The player then turns back and try’s to get away but sees the creatures jaw start to close on top of them and (depending on if their in the cyclops or mantis) either has the cyclops crushed or the mantis consumed it would then go to a game over

[@nohaxjustxmod-sfs3984]

To me the void shouldn’t be a bottomless pit, the 3000m end should continue on like a seabed, but since this is a total ocean planet it would probably be a short plateau before dropping off down at 8000m maximum for the abyssal plains, only the deeper parts will be geological marks like trenches or open rifts. I’ve always had this amazing idea for Subnautica if you were to play on one of those big islands and go far out, the water reaching a kilometer below you. A kind of Leviathan that you don’t see immediately, but it creates a whirlpool that sucks you and your sub in it’s gaping mouth, similar to Charybdis in Greek mythology (i think.) Yeah, it would make a good DLC. But I don’t think there are just so many ghost leviathans in the void, because inside the map there are GL eggs, it’s like the adults are defending their nest from a gargantuan leviathan, because I believe it feeds on GLs, because that would satisfy it’s hunger, and provides it energy for such a large beast, and the rest of the void is probably patrolled by the gargantuan, seeking to devour a lone, wandering Ghost Leviathan for sustenance, and it’s probably lived this way for how long. It’s also probably a reason why the Precursors decided to establish their bases on a shallow place guarded by GL’s, their power alone would not match the gargantuan.

[@Manie230]

NoHaxJustXmod - you seem to forget that the virus killed of almost every living creature. There is possibly nothing alive except on the crater and the poles. The possibility is very slim almost zero but on the ocean floor should be a giant grave yard full of ginormous skeletons maybe even bigger than the eel thing inside the lost river.

[@coleyonmcdouchebag3842]

@@nohaxjustxmod-sfs3984 Ghost Leviathans live in caves until they get to big for them and then move out to the void, that's why you find smaller ones and eggs on the crater.

[@Zeithri]

Once upon logging into my save file in Subnautica, I swung myself away from a ledge using the Prawn suit grappling jump swing technique. Shortly thereafter, I realized I had just swung myself out into the void, and I immediately proceeded to panic and slap the break as hard as I could and drag myself back onto the land. As I climbed up, and turned around, I saw an Adult Ghost Leviathan disappearing into the darkness. Even though Ghost Leviathans do not scare me very much, that was a very uncomfortable experience.

[@TheLastBacon]

I definitely believe you that it was uncomfortable :) just something about the void makes me feel uneasy - even while recording this footage in creative mode :)

[@QualityPen]

That’s when you grapple and rodeo ride the leviathan! It might actually be a little more fun in the void, since they won’t get stuck on the edge of a cave while you slowly drill them to death. Grappling a reaper in the “safe” shallows was the most fun I ever had fighting a leviathan though. Due to the shallow seabed, the reaper kept jumping 30 m clear out of the water and dragging me along with it. That must be what bull rider feel like.

[@dingdawng]

I fucked up an adult ghost leviathan easily.

[@dingdawng]

@@QualityPen reapers would sometimes just yeet me straight through the ground. One time my prawn suit got stuck cause there was a small enough space under the ground to land in but not large enough to get out of. I was pissed

[@spookynoodle3843]

That’s sounds scary. I’m only scared of reapers really, I think it’s the sounds, but that sounds really uncomfortable

[@gigagogagagio]

I personally think the entire map is on top of a reefback

[@TheLastBacon]

Take it a step further - the whole PLANET is on a reefback :)

[@islandprincess714]

The Last Bacon take a step further the SOLAR SYSTEM is on a reefback!

[@Siinchro]

@@islandprincess714 take it a step further the whole *UNIVERSE* is on a reefback

[@ragemachine7710]

@@Siinchro take a step further *THE WHOLE MULTIVERSE IS ON A REEFBACK*

[@GoatMilkCookie]

@@ragemachine7710 take it a step further, existence is a reefback on a reefback on a reefback

[@meetrasurrik6982]

I often forget that we are only in a volcanic crater, and standing at the edge looking out into the infinite dark expanse of the rest of the ocean makes me think of the manner of creature that lurks out there in the true deep

[@TheLastBacon]

Ikr, quite a scary though :) Who knows what else lurks out there!

[@Shadowsans99]

@@TheLastBaconmore leviathans

[@synapsemanfunny]

@@Shadowsans99 i had more than 3 ghosts in the dead zone

[@Shadowsans99]

@@synapsemanfunny oh

[@ronyrubinov7449]

Imagine if lava leaked out the side

[@darthslather89]

instead of teleporting, they could've done something like a loud roar, the player taking damage and then just black would be better than the teleport

[@TheLastBacon]

I definitely agree :)

[@Shoxic666]

eaten by a grue

[@trolltips4973]

@@TheLastBacon or to there be a big leviathan that swallows You and u can only find IT at bottom of the void

[@phantomtoxin8756]

But that wouldn't work in creative

[@itzmrman3574]

Get eaten by a gargantuan

[@trelly-cc1pk]

I kinda feel bad for any lifepods that landed in the void

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) that definitely wasn't a pleasant landing....

[@idunno3349]

That would be an ouch and a half

[@elfboi3622]

I think the lifepods on that side ended up failing and not launching, being the reason why you don't get 50 calls on the radio. The majority of the 150 man crew died in the ship. Correct me if i'm wrong

[@idunno3349]

Or before they could land they got destroyed or lost radio connection to the other lifepods or aurora. Or just the pressure of the water caused them to crush

[@elfboi3622]

@@idunno3349 i think the page states that some didn't launch, and considering the state of the side of the aurora facing the void, I think the lifepods were probably destroyed lol

[@pdaa8817]

"Warning: Entering ecological dead zone. Adding report to databank."

[@TheLastBacon]

Every single time I hear that message, I just get shivers down my spine :)

[@lorenzobolor8052]

@@TheLastBacon bodys aching all the time

[@bryantharrison6992]

The Last Bacon every time I go anywhere except the safe shallows, in subnautica, I get chills down my spine. 😂

[@definitelynotjames]

No nonononononononononon Go The Fuck Back GTFB.

[@dani-mx1si]

Oh, fuck.

[@ghostly2.3]

If you actually imagine that it actually is a crater and somewhere down there there are biomes and animals plants stuff.. woah

[@dragoonthegamer5289]

Well you’d probably find a lot of skeletons and dead things, sort of like how in real life whale corpses float to the bottom of the ocean, you’d find lots of mostly eaten reapers sitting down there. It’d be like one massive boneyard that goes on and on, I’d think. The void is supposedly filled with reaper-types constantly hunting and killing each other non-stop to survive, as well as bacterial presence, but I don’t think you’d find anything like plants unless there were lava vents down there, since there isn’t any sunlight for photosynthesis to take place. Though this is an alien planet so there might have been plants down there at one point before the virus came along and wiped out everything. At the time when we are on the planet, the only biomes I think you’d find in the void are long, lifeless stretches of sand dunes dotted with massive skeletons of creatures long extinct, inactive rocky volcanoes that didn’t make it quite as far as the one we crashed on that form rocky crags and ravines splitting up the dead zones/boneyards like mountains in a desert, occasional active volcano pools that are probably frequented by the reapers living down there, and forests of lava vents spitting out essential nutrients that keep the few microbes alive. !SPOILERS AHEAD! I really hope we get to see a little bit of what the void looks like in Below Zero, or get a little bit more information on it. Now that enzyme 42 cured that virus, life should be beginning to move around a little more now. So the bright/top layer of the void could be populated by things like reefbacks, or schools of boomerangs moving from habitat to habitat. That’d be cool to see.

[@bideabiere6125]

Ecological DEAD zone D E A D

[@jorisvideos6924]

@@bideabiere6125 yup ghost leveathian doesnt count as alive because he is dead too

[@MrBlack0950]

If there is an ecology, itd be akin to that of the abyss of earths oceans. Mostly scavengers and specialists.

[@Manie230]

Joris Videos no that’s not what a dead zone means. Dead zone refers to a desert like place in which no plants survive. There is still live in dead zones on this planet it’s small microbes and leviathans. But other then that it’s dead.

[@wheathins5945]

"Warning. Detecting multiple leviathan class creatures. Are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?"

[@TheLastBacon]

Always gives me the chills :)

[@natasha_lorensky]

No, I'm NOT sure!

[@mr.bulldops9482]

YES... WAIT WHATS THA-AHHHH

[@astronomicalgamer205]

Shut up pda lady im busy go oh shit

[@mc.scruffit]

Y E S

[@shelfdefence1112]

When this information was first put into the game it blew my mind. The entire map being a volcanic crater made too much sense. The lava zone is the volcano's magma chamber

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah same :) made the area feel so much cooler!

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

@Aidan Bramwell its definitely not the planet's core lmao

[@jparis3431]

@@louiesatterwhite3885 core and magma chamber are different things.

[@louiesatterwhite3885]

@@jparis3431 I know that. The person who I was replying to, who deleted their message, didn't.

[@jparis3431]

@@louiesatterwhite3885 my apologies

[@zacimusprime4865]

The crater’s edge is easily the scariest place in the whole of subnatica!!! So the max depth you can dive to is 8 kilometres I was wondering if there was a limit to how deep you can go they really need to make a ocean floor in this game plus please make a size comparison video of all the subnatica creatures

[@TheLastBacon]

That's a good suggestion :) thanks! ....and I totally agree, the edge is a freaky place.

[@zacimusprime4865]

The Last Bacon it just scares me how it’s a massive expanse of earey darkness and I’m gonna mention subnatica creatures in my top 10 scariest video game monsters list be sure to check that out plus have you heard of the bloop beneath the map ?

[@TheLastBacon]

I'll check it out :) ...and I have actually, someone mentioned it in a comment - interesting stuff.

[@zacimusprime4865]

The Last Bacon thanks mate I’ll let you know when it’s made😊👍🏻 and there’s a video on it too just type in subnatica bloop👍🏻 it sounds pretty shocking but I won’t spoil anything

[@MeargleSchmeargle]

What's more: That isn't even the deepest our own ocean goes. The deepest point in our ocean is about 23,000 meters down.

[@amazingpug]

Subnautica Subnautica Below Zero Subnautica Dead Zone

[@lorenzobolor8052]

Lol nice. Cool title

[@legoclub2296]

This. This is what I need.

[@dalethom8870]

Amazing pug Subnautica Sea’s Destiny Does that fit?

[@oneal43]

Oh shit! A genius like me!

[@MrHouse-ww3sn]

Lowkey sounds cool

[@sharkman-pk8to]

I love how the devs decided to add the edge instead of just having an invisible wall.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah it is very nice! :)

[@Man_Aslume]

I think when I do my steam game about exploring a cavern with life forms long forgotten by humanity and you play in cave sector 01 but if you go too far, you will enter cave sector 02 where 10 legged shadowy spiders hunt you down

[@absolutelyshmooie7086]

Employee 1: how do we have the map end? Employee 2: we don’t Employee 1: wait what? Employee 2: FRIKK IT PUT A BUNCH OF FUDGING LEVIATHANS

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha, that's probably exactly what the meeting went like :)

[@kceflef]

How Ghosto's was made

[@gmodlocus7309]

You know were getting close to below zero when he says "main version"

[@nemx2472]

this has aged well

[@troy8788]

*reads the miniature* Me, as an intellectual: Craedglor Teree

[@TheLastBacon]

Ah yes, I see you're a man of culture as well :)

[@disthingsuxyt8272]

Man I love these lore videos. they have the level of professionalism on a channel with hundreds and thousands of subs, keep it up and that's how many you will have!! :D

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very much :) hope you're right!

[@OneLynnK]

I feel like one day I'll be looking at my phone, walk off, and get my Prawn suit destroyed in the void

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep, once you fall in with that thing.....good luck :) even with the grapple arm.

[@stradepilled]

Yeah I was just casually walking around and I accidentally fell in that and I was like “HOLY SHHHHHH-“ and then I never went in that world again 🙃

[@n-aera]

Heyyy, that's what happened to me :D

[@vhnexus9641]

Почемумойpp небольшой More like you don’t text and seamoth while trying to explore the aurora

[@crypto4735]

I like how you just casually swim down into the void while I’m too scared to go into the crab snake area

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha well I’ve been at this for quite a while :)

[@chanchohuligancho7411]

Even in creative, i don't go to the void

[@pedrobello8916]

I scared of going in pool of alien island

[@darkcreeper6923]

What if we can go to the bottom of the bottom of the bottom of the ocean

[@TheLastBacon]

Hmmmmm....

[@disthingsuxyt8272]

Also known as the bottom of the ocean

[@kysnaros]

You would break the universe

[@commandergull8188]

dark creeper you would find yourself in the other side of the world or something

[@DeathlyLight]

When you get to the bottom of the crater you can see the flat underside of the map

[@nicholasalexander772]

I was looking for the Degasi Island when I got lost in the middle of nowhere. I thought that I was in the Dead Zone, and if I was, I would be dead in a matter of seconds. Fortunately, I realized I was in the Crags Field. I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE

[@TheLastBacon]

The stress when you look down and don't see the ocean floor is real :)

[@kilianclasen5521]

I was looking for the sea treader's path to collect some poop for my bioreactor. Dumb as I was I used my submarine to swim at the surface. Suddenly: You are now entering the dead zone. Me: Huh, interesting. Found a new biome. "Only microscopic and leviathan class life detected" "Ok... Nah, as long as I don't make too much noise." - Sets speed to minimum and turns silent running on, proceeds further into the dark - Humongous Ghost Leviathan comes outta nowhere and immediately starts attacking my cyclops "HOLY SHIT WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?" - Drives backwards in silent running and at lowest speed not realising they are still on - But I made it back without losing my cyclops and that expensive prawn suit in there

[@vhnexus9641]

Kilian Clasen The cyclops destruction sequence is so dramatic just like the constant flashing The sudden fires appearing around the base the multiple data screens are holograms appearing up in your face while you’re trying to drive and then the cyclops repeatedly telling you to get out as you keep trying to save it and get your prawn before it explodes

[@dragonboi6744]

That my friend Is why I always try and see the bottom

[@TechnicallyRenz]

Imagine if the Crater Edge was actually the mouth of an *EXTREMELY LARGE* Reaper Leviathan

[@TheLastBacon]

Well that would make it absolutely terrifying :)

[@raccoon2336]

Like the back of reef back have plants that would be uh

[@netzach7]

Imagine if the Archverse was actually the mouth of an *EXTREMELY LARGE* Reaper Leviathan

[@vhnexus9641]

Now I understand how a deadly bacteria got on the planet

[@weirdgaming996]

Or the giant skeleton leviathan as a full grown

[@mr.dragon3799]

I can’t wait to see the variety of new leviathans in the upcoming DLC!

[@TheLastBacon]

Same, equally excited and scared to meet them :D

[@RottenHeretic]

It's a different game. Not a DLC. A cashgrab.

[@farkbett699]

@@RottenHeretic shut up

[@loadergaming4319]

When is it coming out

[@theodorerudow4701]

same before i knew the locations of leviathans (aggresive) now i dont lol

[@wintryy8372]

"I'm not scared of the crater edge..." Famous last words.

[@TheLastBacon]

Said no one ever :D

[@flyingonionring]

@@TheLastBacon I went there with my max upgraded seamoth just to scan an adult ghost, worst mistake in my life

[@95freakout]

I AM MORTIFIED OF UNCLEAR DEPTHS! This game triggers a primal fear in me like none before, even looking at videos of the Void petrifies me.

[@TheLastBacon]

I can definitely relate :) always feel uneasy in deep water.

[@StpKiingRss]

When you enter in the ‘void’, you will know when u are actually in it when the music disappears

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh yeah - just to make it extra creepy :)

[@advoneus]

I like how instead of just putting an invisible wall or stopping the player, the devs created lore and made something out of it. Also hey its honestly crazy how you're responding to comments 5 years later, that's insane dedication.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep absolutely :) A great way to keep the player in the map! And thank you!!

[@drsharkboy6568]

Can you do a lore video on the Gargantuan Leviathan (the giant skeleton in the lost river)?

[@TheLastBacon]

I can definitely look into it :) not sure if there is a lot of info though...

[@drsharkboy6568]

The Last Bacon maybe do all the scannable lost river skeletons in one video. Including the ones in the precursor base.

[@pottoust]

would watch if there is much stuff about it that is

[@jregory5658]

I think that there could be other, extremely large leviathans past that 2000m metre mark, It could be maybe something from the new DLC, maybe it’s something bigger or as big as the sea emperor that could eat sea emperors or sea dragons, which could be the reason there are only three sea dragons left. I’m almost certain that there is because the PDA says it detects ‘Leviathan Class’ and not just ghost leviathans. What are your thoughts on this? BTW I loved the video.

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very much :) I definitely agree - there is probably a reason why even the adult ghost leviathans hang around the crater edge - there might be much larger predators lurking out there in the darkness.

[@b0dycatcher]

"There's always a bigger fish."

[@nathanstroomberg1175]

The Last Bacon there is in fact a concept of a creature which later was replaced by the dead zone. The creature was completely black and reacted aggressively to light, which meant you should leave your cyclops lights off. I dont know the exact name of the creature but it was certainly a concept.

[@TheLastBacon]

@@nathanstroomberg1175 Good god....that sounds horrifying :) .....now my paranoia won't allow me to ever go into the void without expecting to see it.

[@pp_Neon]

It's a ghost! That's why it doesn't register

[@themagicnerf]

I remember yelling "TO THE DLC" while riding a sea glide to the bottom of this. I think this was back in 2018.

[@TheLastBacon]

Sounds like a great time :)

[@_Nykolaii_]

Bigger fish = bigger tuna Also you could have tried the command "fog" its quite surprising

[@lawl756]

Big tuna hmm I wonder if at the bottom is just Jim Halperts face plastered on the ocean floor

[@dragonboi6744]

Yes I use it a lot in my void base

[@Riley_The_Snailsquid]

THE LAST BACON HAS NOT REPLIED TO THIS COMMENT!!!

[@Vicioussnakeboy]

@@lawl756 or it just spells "AMOGUS" on the ocean floor

[@Ezdine_G8261]

@@Vicioussnakeboy good lord i get this was 2 years ago but man

[@savary5050]

Fun fact: The deepest place on earth is called the challengers deep. That’s a pretty sick name!

[@TheLastBacon]

That is certainly sick! :)

[@bobtheghostleviathan4883]

Btw sea dragons always wake me up cuz my cave is near the lava zone and i see these robot things that are fun to-attack what they

[@tanukiplayer2539]

Bob the Ghost leviathan lol

[@joe-xk8nl]

Hey man. Can you tell you friend to leave my base alone? AND my cyclops?

[@mrmeek5421]

My cyclops has feelings for you

[@nulcoldbreakfast633]

Bob the Ghost leviathan you seem like a nice guy you don’t mind if I make a home here

[@unga8588]

Bob the Ghost leviathan Bruh you have murdered thousands of players I think you deserve to lose a little sleep. I’m joking don’t eat me

[@fowardslashmax.8776]

Whenever I go to the pool with my siblings I tell them that deep end of the pool is called the craters edge, and if you stay there to long a monster will come to you and eat you. I’m such a good brother

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha I love it :) you're a great brother indeed!

[@Cristian_that_artist]

I have a deep phobia of deep endless ocean. Especially when I cant se below me. When i visited the dead zone and I heard the ghost leviathans I was completely shook.

[@TheLastBacon]

I get that :) also get uneasy when I see the dark depths below me.

[@pp_Neon]

Wait but, when I used the terraformer and clipped through the ground I reached 30,000m and I wasn't teleported back, this was back in 2017 though. Edit: or 2018. I forgot

[@TheLastBacon]

I think it was possible in the older versions of the game but has since been patched out :)

[@massman1216]

Exactly, that was 2017 now it’s 2019 pretty sure some updates have came out since

[@bryantharrison6992]

Well, when you clip through the ground, that’s not the same as falling into the void. I went through one of the portals in the PCF (can’t remember which one) and I fell through the ground on the was back. The same thing happened, it was probably fixed (as in you can’t fall through the world). Also the terraformer was removed.

[@francisharkins]

The Terraformer actually made terrain around you to keep the illusion of a tunnel being dug and the ground being solid all the way through when in reality the ground is a thin textured play area that is empty on the other side. As when I used to play with the terraformer and interactive environment I would put ground close to a hatch door to get out of bounds and have an easier time constructing a base in the mountain island or "underground". Thats why the terraformer made the game lag a bit as it was removing the terrain inside of the voxel toolbar, and replacing it with textured terrain on the outer edges to give the illusion of digging and having a larger world. Though as one of the things I mentioned I did with it myself it broke the game so they tookcit out and because it could add to much render and load making the game crash. The environment is like this as then they can then have more time, space, and render to add in more and better objects and have amazing graphics, content, and run speed. So in short well you may have been that deep thinking the ground was solid, but you actually made a 40km deep tube around yourself well everything was the void. If you glitched out of that tube or got under the map you probably would have seen a single long cylinder going down and down as it would have to render texture on both sides for areas the game registered as play areas and not the out of bounds

[@anidiot5984]

I downloaded a mod that lets you go to the deepest part of the void and there would be dev text that says: Your One good hacker

[@TheLastBacon]

That sounds like a fun mod! :)

[@namelessking9168]

This place reminded me Subnautica is a terror game! And with all these facts you proved it even more

[@TheLastBacon]

Absolutely :) whenever I go into the void - I'm reminded of how good of a horror game Subnautica can sometimes be.

[@AIXITstageleft]

I have three theories on the map. When you go deep enough, the edge stops. This means the island is floating somehow. Theory1: reefback theory Like another commenter said, the whole map is a reefback. Tbh, it makes sense. The reefback leviathan is capable of carrying a coral reef on its back. It could be possible a colossal reefback could be carrying the whole map. And we can take this a step further. Maybe the are multiple colossal reefbacks, acting like floating continents. Theory2: floater theory Just like floater island, maybe a bunch of ancient floaters are holding up the map. Or, once again, bigger versions. Theory3: alien theory Sense we know the alien race on the subnautica planet is a type 3 civilization, its not that farfetched some energy source made from the aliens, is able to make a chunk of the sea floor rise. And we can take this further. Maybe, the map WAS apart of the sea floor, and when the aliens arrived, they couldn't get light from so far down, they made apart of the sea bed float. It makes a teensy bit of sense, seeing the size of the inhabitants, maybe thinking the adapted to the more shallow surface, or even becoming entirely new species. It makes more sense since the proccicutors have been there for 1000 years. Of course these aren't actually theories, more like what if's.

[@TheLastBacon]

I mean, all three of those theories sound like possibilities to me :) though I'm not sure if the edge "end" is considered canon.

[@flyingonionring]

The blue ball zone, idk how it’s called, looks like the back of a reefback, the colors and the fauna

[@Oznerock]

Impossible - the crater is very notably a vulcano so it has a connection to the core of the planet. It's just a game design limitation.

[@dynamx767]

Occasionally I stumble across a channel that I expect to grow exponentially, and I think that this server is definitely one of them, keep up the great content!

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very much for the kind words :)

[@commandergull8188]

DynamX what is that profile (clears throat) (takes sip of water) What was i saying? oh yeah Pic

[@Acex2511]

The first time I experienced the void was when I was searching one of the islands, I took a wrong turn at one point and I thought it was taking a while but didn't question it, until I heard " Entering Biological Dead Zone " that scared the crap out of me and I tried escaping but immediately was getting attacked by a ghost Leviathan.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah I think many people first venture there by accident :)

[@ryancarter2959]

That ghost leviathan scared the hell out of me when it first spawned in

[@schlagenheim1]

I love these lore videos so much

[@TheLastBacon]

Glad you like them :)

[@marleyjr00]

I remember finding the edge on accident when I was exploring the Grand Reef. Got the warning message and just kinda froze. Ghost came shooting up from beneath, rammed me and I was out of there faster than I'd ever done anything. Damn near pissed myself.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep, had a similar experience one time - but was on the surface :) the think came from below and let's just say I didn't come back to the game for a few days...

[@jackcroft3185]

that moment when you dont see anything and you press f1 and it says void

[@TheLastBacon]

Ouf, that's the moment to quit the game! :)

[@HappyGingerWolf]

The teleport happens at 8192 which is the 13 bit integer limit (2¹³). This is probably the largest value that the game can handle. My guess is that your height is stored in 14 bits with 2 for parity, meaning the sky is as high as the ocean is deep.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep that's exactly the case :) The water surface is at 0 on the vertical axis.

[@victoriaevelyn3953]

I think this has to be the only game where a map boundary makes sense and the lore just adds story

[@TheLastBacon]

It is certainly a nice way to do it yep! :)

[@DustGundam]

So basically My aunt was playing the game for me and she needed to go to the gun island and she kinda'over shot the location of it and then heard -warning entering ecological dead zone-the last thing my eyes saw where the sea moth being yeeted across the dead zone by the big ghost boi.

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha yep :) they really don't like you being there!

[@theyelloweyed3971]

This was an interesting and fun video to watch! Lovr these lore videos.

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you :) happy that you liked it!

[@TrainsGD]

oh hey yellowEyedGuy

[@theyelloweyed3971]

@@TrainsGD who r u lol

[@scorchingflametoashes907]

**Casually surfs with the Ghost Leviathans**

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha too cool for school :)

[@Kyler530er]

fun fact: If you go UNDER the map at the mark that the map ends you can find really weird terrain and random flat spaces you can actually build on and it is accessible with the cyclops (if you don't get chomped by the ghost leviathans (and so far I have found two and there may be more platforms so that's pretty cool (and in below zero you can actually find some sort of a bottom to it that expands a vast distance and actually has terrain which is also pretty cool)

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep true :) It's a creepy area for sure!

[@connor.j.j6250]

Do lore of the lava zone pls

[@TheLastBacon]

A good suggestion :) thanks!

[@LUCAS420BLZ]

A bunch of firery bois

[@j.i.m2099]

Yes! Another useful and enjoyable video!! Keep the good work up! -CreepyDestroyer666

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very much :) glad you like them!

[@brokenmileful]

pda: only microorganisms and leviathans can live in the void. me putting my base in the void: pathetic

[@TheLastBacon]

Haha sigma energy :)

[@canofbeans4971]

I really want to see a mod that if you go 2 km into the dead zone horizontally it spawns the Imperator (the massive skeleton in the lost river and concept made by IGP) in and it will hunt you AND the ghost leviathans down.

[@TheLastBacon]

I definitely like that idea too :)

[@pillse]

I think it would be cool if, once you go to far from the playable area a cutscene would play where you get eaten by a gargantuan leviathan or something crazy like that.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah that would be amazing :)

[@insidious654]

One thing I’ve noticed. The gargantuan leviathan skeleton says it probably lived long ago in a vastly different environment. It seems like those would be the kind of things that live outside the crater, and one unlucky one got trapped in the lost river thousands of years ago during an eruption

[@TheLastBacon]

Yeah definitely seems like that would be the case :)

[@aureusknighstar2195]

Anybody remember that giant dead leviathan? Yes someone made a mod on it I think, and would love to see that to be the entities lurking within the dark depths of the dead zone.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) I covered the mod!

[@karofl3943]

Am I the only one hearing the mic problems

[@PNM9_]

No

[@definitelynotjames]

Nopen't

[@bliczb8772]

One of the theories I heard that caught my eye was that Dead Zone might've potentially been a place where Sea Emperor Leviathans used to live before precursors started doing expetiments on the last (known) living speciment and her eggs. It is mentioned that Sea Emperors diet consist only of the microorganisms, which are present in the Dead Zone.

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh definitely :) because of their size and the description of organisms that would inhabit the crater edge - I would definitely think that they used to live there in herds.

[@DrMonir-hd3ez]

me : Finally i got Subnautica me: Okay lets go to the edge me : sees the ghost leviathan me ; fucc go bacc

[@tpomr1837]

Thank you recommended tab, very cool

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you kind commenter :) very cool!

[@BooksToAshes]

Also, it's cool that you still interact with your commenters years later. I only got the game this May, so there's a lot of us still discovering the game. It's probably one of my all time favourites now and love watching your content on it. Keep up the great work.

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very kindly :) Glad I can help you on that discovery journey!

[@jonathan_q_arbuckle1976]

The void sounds more scary. The dead zone or crater’s edge sounds like some pirate nicknames.

[@TheLastBacon]

Sounds like a really dark and edgy band name :)

[@robertwozniak7263]

What if there was something below 5000m that would eat you if you got too close I'd call it "phantom leviathan" that is two times bigger then the sea Emperor. Survive that and get to 10000m you would see the "Titan" crush the Phantom that was chasing you whole and starts chasing you that is 10 times bigger then the Phantom. Survive that thing and get to 20000m (Which sounds insane) the Titan runs away and you'd meet "Death's son" you only see it's hand which is the size of the Aurora that crushes you and before that you'd S*** your pants. However if you escape and go back to the craters edge you would get a message saying "You MADLAD!!!"

[@TheLastBacon]

I really like the idea of there being something huge down in the void that will eat you if you go underneath the map :)

[@NotCrepping]

Dang and saying that i didnt even know this existed, though considering that i finished the game. "I explored most of the possible places but never really got to the edge" (Also i really enjoy your videos saying that i found your channel today)

[@TheLastBacon]

Thank you very much :) Glad I could show you something new!

[@Pexil_Effex]

When I play this on my xbox one, I'm gonna see how long it takes for me to start screaming from sounds. Its gonna terrify me

[@TheLastBacon]

Best of luck :)

[@jazzling]

3:32 Am I stupid or shouldn't the ground not be called 'Earth' and be called '4546B'.

[@TheLastBacon]

That's fair :) misspoke a bit.

[@schnoig_]

The Last Bacon oof

[@Veirviel]

'earth' and 'Earth' is not same, so ground on 4546B can be called earth (because its probably the same substance)

[@OutrightRegent4]

Earth is just another way to say dirt

[@jazzling]

@@Veirviel yeah i thought i was being stupid

[@SunflowerAspenPlays]

I remember my first time seeing the void.... I knew about the island and and it both, decided to head there a bit early because i wanted the multipurpose room. Of course, i missed where it was by a pretty huge margin, and suddenly my PDA was announcing i'd arrived in the deadzone. I whipped around and ran back to the crater so fast my wrist hurt, but the ghost leviathan didn't have enough time to catch me.

[@TheLastBacon]

I had a very similar first experience :)...except I did actually get ambushed and jumped out of my chair.

[@goldenraptorgaming1143]

I hope in subnautica below zero I hope they will have new cretures that live in the crater's edge

[@zealous6832]

If you go down to the void and listen, carefully, you'll here the howls of a Leviathan classed creature that has never been discovered. Possibly something that was gonna be in the game, but got taken out, but the noise is still there.

[@TheLastBacon]

True :) I had some people link me the sound - scary stuff.

[@pancake_the_pancake]

I like how they added lore to the end of the playable area rather then put an invisible barrier

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh yeah for sure :) it's that much more cool!

[@midnightgrower4144]

Your slight lisp is oddly soothing.

[@TheLastBacon]

Uhm....thanks, I guess :)

[@animeaftermidnight2765]

I actually hate your lisp. It is irritating and sounds super unprofessional. I feel like it's stupid to try to become a KZbinr when you can't even speak normally but hey burger king foot lettuce dude seems to be doing alright and he can't speak correctly either. Please fix your lisp. Go get some speech therapy. It makes you sound like you're slow in the brain when you talk like that, it makes it hard to listen to the information you're giving. Good content bad narration.

[@pepsiikan5034]

@@animeaftermidnight2765 stfu and go back to watching you're diy videos

[@turdy_water7646]

@@animeaftermidnight2765 when you say shit like that you sound stupid and unprofessional too

[@chromitehertz9016]

@@animeaftermidnight2765 right proper asshole, aren't you?

[@thecuriousgamer3212]

There was a bottem to the void in the beta

[@TheLastBacon]

Was there? I don't remember much from the beta - I guess it was quite the different game back then :)

[@KikoBean]

the fact that the edge just cuts off and flattens out really scared me first playthrough of creative. it really was unsettling to see the True world just, disappear like that.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep :) It kinda takes you out of the world back to it being just a game.

[@kalebfretwell4839]

It took me 41 hours to finish the game

[@TheLastBacon]

That's pretty good considering the grind times towards the end...

[@adjmoo]

First time I found the craters edge I was looking for lifepod 7. I had my prawn suit and saw a deep drop. I got out to explore but my Prawn wasn't above ground, I tried swimming for It but was then promptly eaten by a ghost leviathan.

[@TheLastBacon]

Ouch :) quite a harsh experience.....I almost got a heart attack the first time a ghost attacked me in the void.

[@jtstill423still8]

The dropping down into the dark gets me every time. XD Seeing the number of meters increase gives me nervous vibes.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep so spooky :)

[@nikogaming4837]

Awesome vid! but you kinda sound like the guy from number 15 xD thats not a bad thing btw

[@TheLastBacon]

Just imagine you're in the void and you find someone's foot fungus :) Thank you very much!

[@bobtheghostleviathan4883]

I use too be in the lost river now im down there in my little cave system with my wife its also matting seson ;)...

[@TheLastBacon]

Wow, you even have a wife? :) ....what's next, a successful career in astrophysics?

[@bobtheghostleviathan4883]

@@TheLastBacon i dont have that but i watch the level of people that come in

[@thestickopia4619]

I think a neat easteregg would be If you’re on the edge of the dead zone at the surface, if you look out into the distance there’s a small chance you could see like a giant fin or tail come out of the water and then move back down in the far distance. See that there’s something huge out there

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh that would be awesome! :)

[@daek2344]

Looks at thumb nail. T E R E E Tree? Three?

[@bryantharrison6992]

Well i read cra-edg-lor so I dunno 😂

[@Nova_Avali]

0:10oh so like every Biome besides the safe shallows and the kelp forest

[@Willardwood-p]

Stalkers fucking brutal man, dunno what you're on about

[@Nova_Avali]

This is very true

[@selfactualizer2099]

​@@Willardwood-phe's saying the youtuber described this biome like it was different than other biomes a.k.a. all of the dangerous biomes fit his description

[@Xiiki]

There’s actually a end to the crater edge, it’s just really far out and practically impossible to reach without the super-jump glitch.

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep true :) Where the ghosts stop following you!

[@MrKod-rr6gs]

OH NO NO

[@bit_ronic]

craedglor teree

[@namlin]

Imagine theres water vortexes in this game, and aggressive water waves

[@TheLastBacon]

I’d love that :)

[@creeperjoreal]

311th

[@4rt1cfox37]

Imagine they make another dlc about the deepest darkest places in subnautica. Perhaps it would be known as 'Into the void' or 'The Dark Depths' and all these new lifeforms exist in it. Including absolutly gigantic creatures

[@TheLastBacon]

That would definitely be awesome :) even just a small Easter egg where you get consumed by a gigantic leviathan upon passing a certain depth would be cool!

[@peeblekitty5780]

My theory is that this is where Sea Emperors used to live naturally before they went extinct/migrated away from the crater. There are certain areas where Sea Emperors could fit comfortably in the crater, but usually only one or two adults. The game, however, tells us they would travel in large herds that would migrate to find plentiful microorganisms to feed on, while leaving time and space for microorganisms to recultavate in places that a Sea Emperor herd would have devastated. Needless to say, this would require TONS of room; and the Dead Zone has just that. But what would they eat, you may be wondering? Well, the PDA says microscopic organisms and leviathan class lifeforms live in the dead zone. The Sea Emperor is a filter feeder of microorganisms, so it would have been able to sustain itself there. They and Ghost Leviathans may have preyed upon each other or fought occasionally, hence why Sea Emperors have evolved to be capable of defending themselves with their tenticle-lashes, and probably why they evolved tough plating, the hammerhead-like bits on their heads, and their tough flippers, likely also used for defense.

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh I definitely agree, just as you mentioned - it would not only be a perfect size fit, but also seemingly enough nutrition for them to survive :)

[@peeblekitty5780]

@@TheLastBacon Thanks! I haven't shared this idea much, I'm glad you liked it :>

[@GoatMilkCookie]

@@peeblekitty5780 whyyy is theee happpp everywheeeerreEe?

[@faker2011]

Is there something bigger out there? Vent garden: let me introduce myself

[@TheLastBacon]

Yep, those certainly are! :)

[@goldenxixx]

I accidentally fell in this I believe and fell for about 6 minutes before I began falling through the map and landing in the lava zone.

[@TheLastBacon]

Oh that's interesting :) not sure how you ended up in the lava zone.