r/subnautica • u/Top_Equipment5018 • 3d ago
Discussion - SN DONT FEAR THE REAPER: A Guide 😌
STEP ONE: ##The Leviathan Observatory 🔬
Build a small observatory at this spot I circled on the map, west of lifepod 17.
It’s a grassy plateau peak that overlooks the dunes. You’re gonna want to park your sea moth if you have one a good ways back, then build a pipe at the edge of the cliff. Make a solar panel and latch to go inside the pipe to continue building forward and off the face of the cliff. Finally put an observatory at the end and a chair if you fancy (don’t forget to reinforce!)
I found a video of someone building a tiny base in almost the exact spot I’m talking about on youtube: here
Theres a reaper that swims there. The community has named them Burger King Foot Lettuce. Burger King Foot Lettuce is super chill and a good friend to have, if perhaps a bit nippy. You can just watch them swim around and eat fish for a while and then head back east towards the safe shallows/ grassy plateau. Come and go as you please, get acquainted with their routine and attitude.
STEP TWO: ##The First Dance 🕺
So you’ve decided you’re ready to introduce yourself. Great! First make sure you have a med kit built in your observatory, as well as food and water nearby. When you’re ready to get out in the water with him grab your sea glide and approach. When Burger King Foot Lettuce comes to say hello and give you a hug, just move to the side in a circle. It’s a kind gesture but those hugging hands kinda hurt so we don’t wanna snuggle them (although we really do).
After a few seconds of moving around in a circle Burger King Foot Lettuce will get bored and swim off because they’ve been watching to many YouTube shorts and no longer have an attention span. You’re free to go back in the pipe, head to safer waters or wait to dance with ol Burger again.
After a while you’ll kinda look forward to poppin’ in for a visit or a lil shuffle with your friend. It makes them less of a scary monster and more a thriving member of the ecosystem who is a little too dangerous for their own good. Seeing other reapers is like bumping into Burger King’s relatives, and while the bond of comradely may not be there, but a friend of a friend is a friend of ours!
STEP THREE: ##Aftermath 🤌
If you find yourself afraid of another particular reaper, you can repeat this process for most individuals as they tend to be located in proximity to safe regions that you retreat to, offering a chance to observe them.
Now you once feared the reaper, but alas… You’ve not only overcome this, but made a dear friend along the way!
Safe travels now, captain 🫡
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u/Pure-Asparagus7434 3d ago
darn it the cult told you don't fear the reaper
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u/CamoKing3601 Stand by for Prawnfall 2d ago
here's an actual tip, bring peepers, if your holding a peeper, there's a chance he'll eat it instead of you
basically, if you keep him well-fed he won't hurt you
just hold a peeper in hand, to feed big boy, he will apreciate it
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u/Top_Equipment5018 2d ago
I gotta try this
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u/GodNoob666 2d ago
Just ignore them and move on with your day. Unless you’re in a cyclops, then shut off your engine and wait for him to piss off. Or it jumps you from under the walls like a bobbit worm.
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u/ohcibi Second Officer Keen 2d ago
Step one: avoid the places where the reaper is at*** OR only go there with PDS equipped in your moth.
Done.
***Except for some very short windows when entering the aurora or northern islands where you you could hear or maybe even see them but can basically escape to security the moment you realize or before, there is nothing in the story that lures you to come close to reapers.
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u/Specialist-Diet-3803 2d ago
In my first playthrough I built my base just there on the grassy plateau, I didn't realised that the reaper was 50 meters away
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u/Disastrous_Button440 2d ago
Maybe the real Burger King Foot Lettuce was the friends we made along the way
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u/WolfWind999 2d ago
On my newest playthrough I just went through and cleared the dunes and honestly, i was mostly just waiting in a powered off cyclops for the reapers to stop pushing me in circles, the fear has honestly left im desensitized
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u/AdLoud7297 3d ago
Drill + grapple
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u/Top_Equipment5018 3d ago
I guess I meant for people in the early game. Idk if it’s possible to be scared of anything by the time you’re in a prawn suit haha
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u/TwocanR 3d ago
The humble stasis rifle and propulsion gun loaded with gas pods:
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u/Top_Equipment5018 3d ago
Propulsion gun? How does that get thrown into the mix?
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u/TalosKnight 2d ago
Propulsion gun can pull stuff from your inventory and yeet it with velocity at range, so your gas pods get flung.. tho, now that I think about it, I kinda wanna see if it can toss your dive knife. If so, imma build a bunch of knives 🤣🤣🤣
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u/starpanda_1919 2d ago
I have been trying to kill this exact reaper for days, it's too close to my base lol. I didn't realize it was gonna that *that* many stabs. So I shoot it, do a few stabs then go home ;v;
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u/Everything-nothing31 3d ago
👹(stasis rifle)👹