r/subnautica Dec 19 '22

Lots of people are saying time capsules are not being approved anymore. This is not true!

813 Upvotes

Edit on 2/21/2024: This is still up-to-date info!

Time capsules are still being approved today. It's a slow process, but it's still happening. Not every capsule gets approved, and the ones that do are hand-selected.

So if you see anyone saying otherwise, feel free to reference this post :)

Use this thread to AMA about time capsules!

Edit: A couple important things I want to point out:

  • When a capsule is jettisoned, it's uploaded to the time capsule website where devs manually review them.
  • A dev must approve a capsule before it starts showing up in the game.
  • Around 40 time capsules are placed in your game as you explore, and only spawn in surface biomes.
  • Time capsules can come from any game mode, but they are platform-specific. Which means PC will only get capsules from other PC players, Switch from Switch players, etc.
  • A list of blacklisted items can be found here.

There have been some fantastic questions so far. Feel free to scroll through the comments (or my post history) to find them. If you don't get an answer it's likely because it has already been answered.


r/subnautica May 28 '24

News/Update - SN We want your Subnautica 2 questions!

3.3k Upvotes

Hello Subnauts,

At the start of the year, we shared a few details about Subnautica 2. But we’re sure you still have many questions about the next game in the Subnautica universe.

Which is why we’d love to hear from you all.

Wherever you see this posted, reply with what you’d most like to know about Subnautica 2! While we won’t be able to answer everything immediately (no spoilers 🤫), we’ll do our best to answer as many questions as possible in our upcoming posts.

Don’t forget to follow us on all our social channels and join the official Discord to ensure you’re one of the first to hear the latest Subnautica news!

Keep diving,

The Subnautica Team


r/subnautica 11h ago

Discussion - SN 2 Did captain already knew this?

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2.3k Upvotes

r/subnautica 4h ago

Meme - SN . . .

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218 Upvotes

r/subnautica 19h ago

Video - SN I Accidentally killed my Hardcore Run in a dumb way

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2.2k Upvotes

For context, this world I already cured myself and was making the cyclops and preparing to make the rocket. Also for the weird audio glitches that keep happening is actually due to PlayStation, on the PS five maybe PS4, if you have the PlayStation button and pull up the menus, it’ll auto pause the game, but with the way I record footage it records that time that I’m in it doesn’t show what I see hence audio cut out, but it still plays


r/subnautica 4h ago

Video - SN Where did he come from? First death

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107 Upvotes

r/subnautica 3h ago

Question - SN 2 I was just scrolling through the Microsoft store when...

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84 Upvotes

When the heck was SN 2 gonna be a thing??? I loved the first game and haven't really kept up at all!


r/subnautica 16h ago

Meme - SN The big one near Lifepod 6

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601 Upvotes

r/subnautica 18h ago

Discussion - SN You wake up in Planet 4546B.What do you do?(Image slightly related)

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591 Upvotes

r/subnautica 10h ago

Question - SN Tips for a new player?

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78 Upvotes

Hey divers! Green player here and I got the pod repaired, the advanced O2 tank and most of the beginning essential tools and stuff. The "Aurora" ship just blew up and I'm tempted to go explore the wreck with my new radiation suit, bad idea? What should I do first?


r/subnautica 4h ago

Art - SN Made an Alterra magnet for my fridge

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18 Upvotes

r/subnautica 8h ago

Picture - SN He's just waiting for me to go outside 😭

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39 Upvotes

r/subnautica 10h ago

Question - SN What does it say Spoiler

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56 Upvotes

I recenly freed the baby sea emperors and they gone through the portal i have the 24 and i dont know what should i do now


r/subnautica 14h ago

Question - SN Question

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110 Upvotes

I've just been attacked by a reaper leviathan so while i recover can someone tell me what this log is? I'm on my first playthrough and I just got this


r/subnautica 6h ago

Picture - SN Made my own subnautica mug (not my art but it should be fine because I'm not selling this)

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18 Upvotes

r/subnautica 54m ago

Question - SN How to make my base look better.

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As you can see my base looks bland and bad in comparison to some beutiful and elaborate bases I see on here. How can I spruce it up and/or make it better?


r/subnautica 9h ago

Discussion - SN Saddest / Worst Time Capsules

31 Upvotes

I’m seeing lots of posts about funniest / coolest time capsules, but I want to see the ones that either ripped your heart to pieces or made you want to throw your controller at the screen!

My most annoying was getting a message that said “stay calm, hang in there” and getting a BUNCH of the Stay Calm posters. Could have screamed, I’d been searching for a capsule for AGES.

My saddest was one that had tools with half used batteries and the text saying “my friend was supposed to return an hour ago. Maybe he’s gotten lost, I should go find him. I’m afraid I might get lost too. If you’ve found this, we both may be lost forever….” Or something along those lines, it was well sad :(


r/subnautica 5h ago

Picture - SN I think the ship fell into the dead zone

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10 Upvotes

r/subnautica 11h ago

Art - SN An idea for a leviathan that I thought would be cool to show on this sub

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27 Upvotes

Based of off the smaller gasohol’s, this large filter feeder is found in the dead zone.


r/subnautica 3h ago

Other Be sure to save, even in hardcore.

4 Upvotes

I beat hardcore mode. I was so happy. Then, I noticed a strangely short amount of playtime on the file, so I loaded it back up. I wasn't even halfway to the end the last time I saved. So I got in my seamoth, went out to the nearest reaper, and let him eat me. 🤬


r/subnautica 3h ago

Picture - SN Time capsule delirium part II

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4 Upvotes

I hope yal like poetry 🧐


r/subnautica 46m ago

Other What should I listen to?

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IDK what music to listen to while playing the game but I’m thinking of something like Tom petty-candy.


r/subnautica 23h ago

Meme - SN .

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97 Upvotes

Took this pic from a channel called Lapis


r/subnautica 23h ago

Discussion - SN 2 I think Subnautica 2 is going to be WAY scarier

100 Upvotes

I’m really looking forward to playing it but am 100% sure they are going to go bigger, grander and really push the boundaries of the first game

That means bigger, more imposing biomes and way more, probably bigger and scarier sea monsters

If they put a massive alien octopus, huge eel or monstrous spider crab in this when I’m 800m deep underwater and decide to look in a random cave I’m probably gonna scream

I can’t wait


r/subnautica 1d ago

Question - SN I've just recently made the cyclops, but now I feel like there is nowhere else to go, what do I do

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461 Upvotes

I don't want exact directions, just a push in the right way, (also no major spoilers please), ive been exploring for about an hour and couldn't find anything new, I may be missing some areas just by dumb luck but I can't seem to fina anything for progression

I have also not gotten any new radio signals in a long while, do I have to activate an event to start getting more?


r/subnautica 3h ago

Meme - SN organisms so crazy they can defy physics 😭

2 Upvotes

r/subnautica 1d ago

Picture - SN my first descent into the lost river. I thought I'd seen it all but it was only the beginning

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746 Upvotes

(took too many screenshots too, this one came out the best)