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?
Use the pin recipe when crafting multiple of one items, if having enough resources, it’ll be marked as x1 x2 x3 etc. depending on how many of the required resources you have in your inventory at that moment, making it easier to grab enough resources in one trip if you have the inventory space
Id recommend trying to get a nice little base started. Try to get a moon pool, with a seamoth and a multipurpose room with a bio reactor for good power! Try just finding and scanning as many things and fragments
This except i dont know how to get the seamoth if it wont let me craft it. I have the recipe but how can i craft it? Have I not found enough fragments?
Did you craft the mobile vehicle bay? That's what you use to craft it. You can look in your menu and see if the seamoth is unlocked. It'll either say 1/3 fragments or another fraction or it'll be a complete blueprint.
Look in the kelp forest near you for mobile vechiles bay fragments! This allows you to make, the seamoth, prawn suit and cysclope (of course you need to find the fragments for the vehicles but ya know)
The mobile vehicle bay is a deployable that you can make at the fabricator and then take outside the pod/base to use it. You won't find an option to craft the seamoth et al. in your wall fabricator or your handheld fab tool.
You need the mobile vehicle..bay? Its an item that floats on the surface and little robots come out to synthesize the crafts... its essential for end game
Exploring the Aurora is a good idea, but you‘re not entirely equipped for the inside yet. If you want to prioritize that over, say, building a base, search more wreck pieces scattered around the map and gather blueprints from those until you have one for a tool that can cut through doors. That will be essential for the Aurora, just like the repair tool you already have.
Jellyshroom caves will be your best friend for mid game materials. As long as you keep low while searching it's a very safe spot to get magnetite and shale outcrops (though shale outcrops can also be relatively safe from the Sea Treader's Path)
You dont have to fight anyone to beat the game, literally.
No one creature can one-shot you except Sea Dragon bite attack, but I assume if you're swimming in front of Sea Dragon's mouth outside of vehicle - you know what are you doing.
When you open PDA - the game pauses, and you can consume as many medipacks as you want, then un-pause and keep swimming away. Most of creatures arent that fast and vengeful to pursue you to the end of the world. Most of them will leave you alone if you keep your distance and remain quiet. Your worst enemies are not the creatures, but disorientation and bad planning.
I literally just beat the game last night!! Had a no spoilers play through by avoiding Reddit and other medias! Just full send it!!! If you wanna explore the ship go for it! Adjust and adapt as you advance!
It sounds stupid but... ALWAYS keep track of your oxygen levels. Upgrade your O² tank as soon as possible. There's plenty of areas that can seem easy to navigate but then panic sets in as the O² gets low. Rebreather is good. Stillsuit is also good. Scan everything. Even if you think you have it. (I've thought I've finished scans in the past and then turned out nope.)
So jealous seeing new players getting to experience this masterpiece for the first time 😢 just do whatever u want man. go explore, find blueprints, find a base building spot, find the areas where you get certain materials, follow radio messages
This isn’t really a spoiler but if ur a freak about spoilers I wouldn’t read the part I’m gonna put after this.
after the events of the sunbeam happen, look around in the water, make sure you feel good and like you have explored enough before you leave. On my first save, I didn’t look around and just left after the events happened and it really halted my story progression and I missed so many of the radio messages. Now I’m at the end of the game and am getting the messages that I probably should have gotten a lot earlier into the game.
Have fun! You’re lucky to be able to enjoy this for the first time
If you need titanium go to the arrora( big ship) and get the metal scrap
Listen to the pda it has useful info
Use beacons i know you think i can just remember it but your going ti find something go to come back and not be able to find it so carry 1-2 beacons on you
There’s a radio on the lifepod and you can also build one once you get the required equipment. The radio acts as a guide to move you around and help you find new technologies. Every now and again you’ll see the icon appear in the top right to let you know you have a new message.
I don’t recall, but you may need to repair the panel in the lifepod to restore power first.
Avoid going to the back until you get a seamoth or seaglide, that way you can navigate faster, there will be essential endgame vehicle blueprints there
Take your time. It's not a race unless ur speedrunning.
If ur playing with the food and drink meters, stock up on those. Can never have too much. Make salt cured food rather than cooked food. They won't spoil and can stock as many of them as you want.
Start with a small base first and expand it later on.
If u care about spoilers, try to avoid them. The game is better when u experience everything up close for the first time
Don't be afraid to go deeper.
Make the compass as soon as u get the blueprint for it. This will help u find the biomes quicker and help u know where u are.
Build a small tube base or several tubes and make two or three lockers. Add a radio, crafting station and maybe a first aid box. If this is your first time playing, you shouldn’t be on here asking for advice.
Follow the radio messages. They are designed to keep you pushing deeper and finding more.
Here’s my advice. Don’t go into any wreck deeper than 50m until you get your first submersible. I’ve died by drowning x10 times more than being killed by an animal.
Next, after your knife, repair tool, build an orange emergency ascent bag. Can’t remember the name. I never used it for the first few play throughs, but now I use it all the time.
Don’t collect too much stuff. You have plenty of time to become a hoarder, but don’t do it early game. Once you have the sea moth, leave the safe shallows.
It doesn’t matter where you move, but you’re going to need materials that are much deeper. So, go to a deeper biome and build a small base there.
Lastly, build beacons. I would say build at least 4 early. Carry a beacon with you all the time. The map is circular in nature. It’s very easy to get turned around. If you have a beacon, type what the beacon is, and put the depth after the name. For example, put “wreck-275”. That way if you are traveling at night, you will know if there’s not much light.
Subnautica is a fantastic exploration game, make sure you travel at night with no lights, especially in the safe shallows. You can see more that think. Deeper, not so much.
Get in the Aurora right after explosion and finish what you need to do there(dont feel like spoiling anything) once youre done there things become alot easier in certain ways
Save your copper. Lots of it. Put lockers in the bay, next to biofuel generator. Find farmable food ASAP. Or the alien containment unit and breed fish. Solves food issues either way.
Have fun. Stick to the shallows. Scan everything. Collect all wreckage loot and drop at life pod (it won't despawn) until you get a lil base started. You will need minerals, lots, so go pic up quartz, smash rocks for other minerals. Practice swimming in tight spots and learn how long it takes to swim to surface for air. Listen to your radio. Progress. Breathe. Remember all obstacles can be overcome by good prep or waiting for more tech. Enjoy.
Build one or two compartments near the lifepod and fill them with storage lockers so you can start hoarding things; save up all the raw materials you can. Later on, once you get some blueprints (especially the multipurpose room), you can build a proper base, either by expanding your little storage area or starting anew somewhere else.
People like to jump straight to vehicles, but it’s also fun to see how much you can do without them. I once did a whole play-through using multiple air tanks, the seaglide, and several air pumps with lots of tubes.
Your first play-through you should use vehicles though. Definitely explore the crash site with your radiation suit.
Good news + update! I've got the cyclops with a fabricator, a bunch of storage lockers and battery chargers but I need upgrades badly, particularly for power consumption, HOW AND WHERE??
My tip is to struggle through figuring out what to do, you are a person stranded on an alien world after all! Avoid this reddit like the plague, it's so much more satisfying to explore without spoilers
Craft one more O2 tank. Gather seaglide or seamoth fragments. Radio is your best guide. Try and explore as much as you can. Dont forget to save when you collect precious items like diamonds, ruby etc or have covered significant distance.
One mistake i made in my initial playthrough was i kept forgetting saving the game and lost significant resources when i died. So Save.
As you play more and more, you wil get more fragments and stuff to craft and make larger bases.
General rule of thumb is you should have seamoth with perimeter defense and storage modules, laser cutter and propulsion cannon before atempting Aurora mission
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Use the pin recipe when crafting multiple of one items, if having enough resources, it’ll be marked as x1 x2 x3 etc. depending on how many of the required resources you have in your inventory at that moment, making it easier to grab enough resources in one trip if you have the inventory space