All posts by Dalek955

Idk, probably no longer than a normal run. I'm in no way a speedrunner.

Oh, and more harvestable plants, even if they're only decorative. I really enjoyed grabbing samples of every flora and making a garden that took up a whole Foundation in Subnautica, but in BZ almost everything is non-harvestable.

Also, since that includes Oxygen Plants, you can't do the trick of using a growbed as a low-tech air fill station.

Replace the Chelicerate model. The thing does not have the sinister majesty that the Reaper did, it just looks like a big bug that's gotten too close.

Replace the craftable Kharaa Cure with a stashed dispenser of imported Enzyme 42 globs. Being able to craft it out of common land plants cheapens the whole "struggle for the cure" storyline, even if you're unlikely to ever use the recipe.

Give Sam a storyline that doesn't basically make her a misguided terrorist.

Do something with the Sea Emperors. A sentient and friendly, and telepathic at that, leviathan species roaming the planet should have had a bigger impact on the story. Especially since a major driver of Subnautica 1 was that the Architects couldn't hear Sea Emperor telepathy and humans can, but now there's an Architect living in a human brain.

The only black monster I know of in the game is Sandsharks. Those look really mean, but they're actually a joke.

Might also have just been a poor view of a Boneshark, though i wouldn't describe those as horrifying.

Btw you can get to the island (either one) quite safely by just skimming the surface, hardly any predators there and nothing that can catch you on a Seaglide.

You also need a propulsion cannon and some fire extinguishers for the Aurora. You can't build a seabase inside the hull, even where there's room, but you can place an Outdoor Growbed to feed yourself while you're in there.

Inside the Aurora isn't all that dangerous, at least once you get past the scavenger party in the breach area, and there's lots of useful fragments and loot in there.

Get some Outdoor Growbeds as soon as you unlock them, and collect one of every Flora you find (except Tiger Plants, those are dangerous). Some of them are crafting components, and some others find a use in endgame. Also, some surface Flora are excellent staple foods.

X Compartments are cheap and very useful. Their corridor sockets can be used for dense storage, crafting centers, mini greenhouses, or other useful things that are otherwise difficult to fit into the decor. I even use one as a bedroom.

If you find a wreck, get a beacon on it, so you can find it again to scour it top to bottom.

A Storage Module is useful on the Seamoth, as you can fit an exploration toolkit and emergency supplies into it while still leaving your own inventory free.

Cherish thermal power, it's the only energy source that neither sleeps nor hungers.

I favor a particular spot on the border of the Safe Shallows and Kelp Forest near the Aurora, and then another inside the curve of the Blood Kelp Trench, and finally a forward base next to the Giant Cove Tree. And as @Stephen1495 said, it's thermal sources that attract me. Also central locations with no major predators.

I've occasionally considered building a base in the Grassy Plateaus, on the ground next to a particularly tall spire with a powerline running to a cluster of solar panels atop the spire. I always decide against it, though, mostly because I don't like the music there. And of course there's none of that sweet sweet thermal power.

Oh geez, I forgot about the stupid reimplementation of Kharaa Antidote. Why oh why couldn't they have just said that one of the bases has a just-in-case antidote dispenser, filled with Enzyme 42 imported from the Crater?

I gotta ask, what's the actual purpose of the exercise?

Crash Zone has a few large lead deposits.

You might also try setting your scanner rooms to find Sandstone Chunks. There are a lot more of them around than you'd think.

After getting the Prawn, a high priority should be getting the Drill Arm for it, so you can exploit large resource deposits. IIRC the best wreck for that is the Blood Kelp Trench one.

Engine fragments can be found in the Crash Zone, I think.

Really though, the Mushroom Forest is your best bet for all three.

It doesn't say *that* either.

If you have a Seabase, and it was the last player-built structure you set foot in, getting killed just teleports you back there with no other consequences. Feel free to take risks.

If that's so, and you have current-version confirmation, you should add it to the page on Lifepod 5. It currently just says "in the Safe Shallows", with no mention of specific location or lack thereof.

Crag Field: start from your lifepod and go straight south.

Underwater Islands: start from your lifepod and go straight north.