I like to think of myself as a practical man. I have static bases with scanners, battery chargers and food farms in strategic locations for resupply and storage of excess material. I take my Cyclops wherever i go with a pravler or a seamoth in tow depending on the objective at hand. My fears of the deep sea are the strongest i have, this game is a true horror game for me, being inside the Cyclops brings me comfort. I also like to play with buttons.
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Flintlock am I the only one that has shown zero fear from all these monsters I’ve encountered?
I usually just make 1 base that I go to everytime, powered by solar panels and thermal plants (Usually close to the grand reef or the safe shallows, since they always have thermal vents and lava geysers, not to mention some basic resources I can easily gather just outside my base). I hate making multiple bases, since making them in the first place is a pain. Then I turn my Cyclops in to a sort of base. No fabricators, chargers, anything that uses power because I don't like having my Cyclops getting drained and possibly getting my ship stranded in the middle of the ocean. But I do make a farm and up the storage for resources.
My main bases are located in safe shallows very near to lifepod 5, in the SW grass fields near lifepod 17, and in the Giant tree cove in lost river. Powered by solar panels, heat sources and nuclear reactors. This setup gives me a clear and compact routes to most areas of the map and safe places to sort my shit out at. I dislike long travel, i like to have a place to seek cover from nearby. Especially when leviathans or the lost river are involved. In addition to that i have tiny scanner bases powered by bioreactors wherever needed for finding databoxes and materials. I have a locker with the components at the ready for quick deployment.
@@zzztriplezzz5264 i once did that, i got a cuddlefish egg and died, spent 2 hours and 30 minutes trying to get it back with a scanner room before realising i couldve just quit and rejoined 😭
@@darkoni95 You find fragments scattered around. You need three for the hull, bridge and engine respectively. Then you need a bunch of lithium and titanium and a mobile vehicle bay. Got mine done yesterday, it really is a sight to see when it gets built :D don't do it in the shallows, though....
English Guy4 cyclops battery drains like crazy if you add a power cell charger...for me it felt like they drained faster than they charged up so a net loss I guess
Chargers in a cyclops? What i did was charge my seamoth in a moonpool and swapped the 100% battery with a dead one from my cyclops 6 times. Then later it was faster charging with the prawn suit because it has two power cells :>
Channa Wijetunga back when the cyclops was relatively new power cell chargers were way op, it only took 17 energy points to fully recharge an empty power cell, which gets you a profit of 183 power, infinite power lol, I used this to sustain the cyclop’s energy needs back then, they’ve fixed this since then
So I bought this game because I have a deep down crippling fear of ocean depths and giant sea creatures.... I'm so addicted and I love it so much. I think my wife is getting aggravated lol
@@gargillaape5292 I don’t know why it doesn’t scare me. Maybe it’s because I have actively gone out to kill the leviathans on my own free will, instilling a sense of control.
@@shittttttt8016 not in the entrance with all the trees. It's sometimes hard to keep track if those. Also, you can have infinite power if you pop a prawn suit with a thermal reactor onto a thermal vent, and use it to charge the cyclops' batteries
WelshCrusade yeah I guess you are right, I never use that entrance I usually use the grand reef one and that’s easy to navigate without any support on your cyclops you just need silent running past the ghosty
There are no coffee machines in subnautica, there's only decaf and that doesn't count. If there was real coffee on 4546B I would have no reason to go home or anywhere really.
Not mad about the coffee machine's rate of hydration tho... Personally water purifier, and 👉🏽 salt 👈🏽 Salt + tube coral = 1x bleach. 1x bleach = 2x disinfected water from the fabricator, and 1 bleach takes less space in your escape pod storage than 2 bottles of water 😎. Before you even get a water purifier aim for as much salt as possible. Tube coral is easy, you can hack at the tube anywhere, not just the plates, and it NEVER runs out. Salt is common on the seabed near the seaweed forests, and in the red grass areas. Also, once you can upgrade to the thermal knife, cured (salted) fish is less important, as the knife kills and cooks fish. Going deep? Catch a few live Reggies or Peepers and take them along, and hotknife them when you need to eat, they give +food & a small +water as opposed to -water for salted fish. New game & desperate for food & water? Eat the green kelp samples for food & water, but be quick as it goes off pretty fast. Once you have growbeds and Bulbo trees / marble melons your worries are over. Oh and another interesting thing, if you're in an area with a lot of Reggies or Peepers, catch them and let them go by your habitat, they'll stay there and you can utilise them later. Oh and never ever get into your Cyclops if you have a cuddlefish following you. Your little waterbro can get stuck in the sub & die, and can also mess up the clipping of your Cyclops, causing you to fall through the sub to the seabed with indoors physics pretty much shagging your game as it happens more and more often after the first time.
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Give him the entire solution to the game, why dont ya :)
I remember when we used to be able to build a solar panel on top of the Cyclops, that was always awesome :D Shame it was a bug and they fixed it lol I always have a static base now, for recharging batteries and growing food. But I still spend more time in the seamoth or prawn.
James Kaplonek you could just add that upgrade that charges the cyclops in hot water and just sit near a vulcanic or hot spot to replenish the cyclopses battery and then you wont need a static base
@@DartLuke exactly that, they took it out because having solar power on the Cyclops made a lot of players hang around too long near the surface rather than taking it down which is what its real purpose is.
Tip: Have a whole section of storage filled with water (preferably water fabricated from bleach due to ease of access and how much can be made). This is to allow the planters to be filled with more filling plants such as potatoes. If you don’t want to do this, then load up on marblemelons in planters. You can also be like me and have two planters filled with potatoes and eat every single one when you’re almost dehydrated to death :D
Note you CAN get infinite power on your cyclops. For each Efficiency mod you make things cost less. So instead of costing you 200 to charge a powercell of 200, you can make it 180, at a 10% discount. The effect stacks however it means you have to constantly cycle the cells, due to your only getting the discounted % back as returns
Just an advise, energy cell recharger inside the cyclops is a little useless, it drains the same energy amount from your cyclops to recharge the same at the power cells, the easiest way i like to do is get the thermal reactor module and park the ciclops right above a hotspot, theres also one on safe area, so you can recharge your power cells directly from the cyclops power cells bay.
A good place to put an outpost is the lost river. You can charge the cyclops at thermal vents, gather the plentiful resources, progress the story, etc.
MrSpicyGaming it's free tho, no fish catching or energy cost ;) Click all coffee machines twice, then go get snacks to eat, coffee will jump in your inventory wherever you are, with enough coffe machines you can get 48 water （6 machines）in one go
+李昊 But then again you could always just build an alien containment and breed reginalds. It'll give you so much food that you won't even know what to do with it all. It's a lot more efficent since they dont take up much space and you can take them wherever you want.
melon are so much better (+14/+12 VS +8/+10 for bulbo) and for less space in growbeds ;) bulbo are too long to grow compared to melon (in the end, melon is just the best of all)
Get the Thermal charge Mod for the cyclops then just park on or near a heat source (lava or thermal vent). Voila all your stuff is charged at about the rate of a single solar cell, but more than fast enough to charge your batteries and powercells and keep your vehicles charged.
You can do one better. Have the thermal upgrade on the prawn-suit and give the prawn 1 empty (or partially charged) powercell and walk it to/in some hot water. Especially useful for thermal vents that the cyclops can't reach (at least not the 60 degrees Celsius part). Take some extra empty cells on your person and swap them as you go.
My own version of the Cyclops Base is similar, but has notable differences. First was a lot less lockers, I never once had to make extra lockers outside of the entrance and locker area except for specific things I'll get into in a second. Also, I kept one resource per locker except for a few that were labeled PRECURSOR or CREEPVINE which contained anything I could make or get from that; SILVER contained wiring kits also and COPPER had copper wire too. Used prawn suit to gather materials if I ran low. From the control area , I added a standing locker on the right side of the sub next to the big hatch for extra or unused equipment like propulsion cannon, fins, the radiation suit after I fixed the leaks. I also added a lab counter on the left side of control room behind the hatch for decoration. Just past the hatch, I had my single person bed with two pots with the chinese plants on either side of the it and an Aurora poster above it too, all on the left side. On right side of this area, I had two standing lockers, one for misc tech and the other for health, food, and water. Alongside these where a fabricator, modification station, a battery charger, and a power cell charger. A health kit thing remained mostly untouched above the hatch side of this small area. In the main area of the ship, I had a trash can and a coffee maker (mostly decoration) on the front left side of the ship, vending machine on the front right (also decor), aquarium on the elevated part near the middle hatch across from the access for storage and upgrade for the prawn suit, and a grow bed filled with the marblemellon plants for food in front of the creature decoy thing. A storage locker next to the creature decoy held all my batteries, power cells, and of course the decoys. On the walls of this area was misc posters and a radio that looked more like a router because of how it interacted with the wall. Last thing I had was that kitty poster above the engine. I had the thermal upgrade in the cyclops so I can charge power cells and batteries in heat areas without worrying about power. Other upgrades were the shield, sonar, efficiency, depth, and I can't remember what else, but probably the prawn repair one. Never used the fire suppression system tho, never went full speed and used the shield to avoid attacks. Overall, my cyclops became my home. I had only one base the whole game that I stopped using after I got the cyclops; I never even really made a temp base although I had two lockers dedicated to such a thing. Temp base included a single corridor, hatch, battery and power cell chargers, glass for windows, two flood lights, and it was all powered by a thermal generator and one of the power conduits if it was needed.
i have a cyclops for safer areas and one for the more dangerous areas ones stocked the others made for short trips and after use is parked in a small cave area where its safe they both have a prawn docked so if one goes i still have the other ill only exit and load my last save if i lost something important
I just have a moonpool with cell and battery chargers with solar panels in the safe shallows. And I have a seamoth in the moonpool. Just a simple station setup idea. EDIT: You actually can put a modification thing, not the whole station but the table type one (I don't know what it's called) inside a cyclops.
This was a great tour. Playing Below Zero with the great and much more practical truck rn, I still kinda missed the customizable experience from the Cyclops. Loved to see how you put the interior to good use. Had my bed and planters and even the Fabricator in the same places back then. It was nice to see, so thank you.
Just picked up this near-ancient game Black Friday 2023. I actually have a nice cyclops but on multiple occasions have watched as these storage lockers disappear off the walls. One time I was outside the sub and was able to watch them fall off into the sea. It appears that they some buggy behavior around the skin of the sub where fish and scarier things can cross over into the sub and things on the walls (added by the user) can occasionally go into the water.
the way i do it: have enough storage for basic things, and 2-3 lockers designated to an 'emergency base' if i need to set up a small camp somewhere. a vending machine, 3 coffee machines, a bed and upgrades: thermal reactor, efficiency, depth mk3, repair module, hull reinforcement, sonar. if you pilot it correctly you wont even need the fire suppression system. the emergency base stuff should be for a large room, hatch, power supplies, water, indoor growbed, fabricator and battery+power cell chargers. the vehicle should always be a prawn suit.
The cockpit would be completely bare, save for a fire extinguisher, a wall locker full of spare extinguishers, a fabricator, and a coms setup, the room just be hind the Cockpit would be the living quarters, with a coffee machine and a vending machine, the room just aft of that would be the med-bay and grow room with some over flow storage of med kits as well as battery/power cell chargers, then the engine room would have all of the items stored up in it that are pertinent to the Cyclops like upgrade modules, and some fire suppression items as well as a few spare repair tools, then the lower room just aft of the entrance would be the main storage room, the room just under the engine room would be for more over flow storage, and in the main airlock room, there’d be several “dump-chests” (wall lockers) for any resources I need to get out of my inventory quickly. Also, one of the chests in the foreword airlock would be filled with the resources required for an outpost. The Cyclops would also be outfitted with a Prawn Suit for mining, or a sea moth for exploration and escape. There would also be a “main base” but the cyclops would be a fully outfitted mobile base so if the main one fails I’m not caught up shit Creek with out a paddle.
a bit late to the thread but thought I'd point out a few things. first you can place things much more densely than that, I have four lockers, radio, batt charger, trash, mod station, and more just up in the front section. Second, the best source of food and water is bulbo trees, just a row of three pots will keep you permanently fed and watered. (tho you may want 4) I have a base with a huge peeper aquarium (5 level) and water filter and that keeps my cyclops lockers stoked with salted peepers and bottled water for prawn excursions, so I have no need to keep live fish onboard. You can also place 6 lockers up front beside your fabricator, and four pots for edible flora variety at the VERY rear of the ship on the upper level. (to keep melons, taters, bulbo, and lantern) Thanks for the idea on where to place the bed, that works well. Another good suggestion is to keep a full set of fully charged ion cells handy "just in case".
The Cyclops can't do quite everything, but, TBH, you can easily use the PRAWN and portals to quickly zip to a shallows base for access to a moon pool, if you have any sense. Upgrade the PRAWN jets, use grappler, and mount thermal module, and you can quickly travel in style. It is also a good idea to deploy beacons at the portal arches.
I always order my freestanding lickers in the same way: Titanium Glass Copper Sandstone Shale Deeper stuff(e.g. kyanite or crystalline sulfur) Sustenance(food and water) Tools Organic materials Alien stuff
I'm the same but I've got 10 multipurpose rooms filled with the standing lockers just incase I need my storage (Dont do it, it drained my resources and I still have like 5 not filled)
Tried this once when I first got my cyclops. I moved all of my stored items onto my cyclops and then saved. Went for a stroll and didn't know there was ghost leviathans in the dead zone.... Cyclops and all my items gone.
Fun fact: i forget what theyre called, but there is a plant you can get from the mountain island that gives you 10 water. Just one of those in a growbed and boom, water problems disappear. Edit: theyre called bulbo trees
Btw if you get the cyclops engine efficiency upgrade and you get ion power cells you can recharge power cells in the cyclops. You can do it without those but you get the best with them
You totally can turn the cyclops into a mobile Base. Yes. I been living inside mine from the very beginning. The only inconvenience is the Power Cells. But you can Recharge them if you have a seamoth with solar charge module.
It can be a basic-bitch self-sustaining base. You can live in your cyclops. I put a bed, indoor growbed filled with marblemelons, lantern fruit trees, and a chinese potato plane. The bridge has 2 wall lockers with water and medkits in it, and i have a medkit fab above the door. The room behind the bridge has a bed, vending machine and coffee machine in it. You can equip the thermal charger module and stop at a vent somewhere to recharge. You can't equip a vehicle mod station. But you can equip a repair station, and have a locker or two to keep various modules so you can change them as needed. And last but not least, i have 2 wall lockers in engineering, filled with power cells. Took a while stocking everything up, but it was worth it. Again, it's a basic base. But it is indeed a, key word: *self-sustaining,* base.
i place chargers above door inside engine room. best survival tips ill trow in the mix would be fight nature with nature. acid shroom seeds.melons.firefruit.waterplant.creepvine and brain coral is your best friends. melons mostly because they give both food and water and 1 seed only take 1 slot and can grow 4 in a small flowerpot. brain corals can be used for refill stations for air and best of all used as elevator shafts with full air supply. bubbles goes all way to surface and this way you have full tank when reaching bottom . creepvine is a free light source. put 6 in a cropplot and you can light up a base with it. also a good free way to mark checkpoints with air at cave diving. recommend using the X shaped pipe for "drop base" since it only 2 titanium and can hold alot of lockers and even a plantpot with melons. make hatch ontop. firefruit i use for bio reactors in deep tunnels. its a one time planting and it yield plenty to fuel base. place a seperate plot with some acid shrooms so you can make emergency batteries if needed. this way you can do it as a no sub challenge and just use cyclops as surface vessel. also prawn is only needed to farm a few ion and for blue tablet. and yes. its easy to reach emperor this way. you attract less attention and get to see way more of map. i only do no sub runs . try it.. i highly recommend it. you can also befriend a local stalker by feeding it some peepers. after some it will bring you gifts. oh yeah. and in beginning save your 0% batteries and powercells and use them for crafting equipment and powercells. when crafting , 2 dead batteries can become a fully charged powercell. a great tip for before finding chargers.
12:32 I dont know if it was not the same then, or if you know now, but when a cyclops gets destroyed, the wreckage sinks to the seabed right where it was. It always stays there. Basically the only difference is theres no power, no oxygen, and you cant move it. You can still access any storage that you have in the cyclops. It also drops some metal salvage too. Although the destroyed model for the cyclops is always the same. The back is torn off, the cockpit window is broken open, and one of the vehicle bay doors is ripped off. I truly wish that one day the destroyed model will reflect how it was destroyed. :(
have you heard of common sense like a sheild generator shields you from leviathan class flora and if you every now and then... chill at a thermal geezer or vent then easy dub you just made a sustainable power supply for said cyclops
so that storage locker section that glitches through the wall while unintended makes the cyclops look even cooler especially if you recolor the lockers... neat... I'll keep it in mind for amazing reasons
I always use my Cyclops as a mobile base. All I do when I start out is I stock up on rare materials (uranite, ruby, silver, nickel ore, etc.) and materials you can only find in the Kelp Forests, such as Seed Clusters, Creepvine Samples, and Stalker Teeth. Also, you have to see to it that you actually plant the vines as often as you can or you'll kick yourself if you ever need some Fiber Mesh or Bleach for whatever reason and have to go all the way back to the Safe Shallows just to get 4 or 5 of them. I also see to it that I build all the upgrades I need for the Cyclops before I start moving towards the lava zones. The Thermal Recharge upgrade is invaluable early on since it can be used as early as the Safe Shallows at the small underwater volcanoes. The biomes in-between Inactive Lava Zone and Safe Shallows have a tendency not to have a lot of the stuff you require in order to build bases and other things you need further on into the story.
Critical Role Highlights Hey what's the current state of the cyclops with regards to the damage it takes and it's survivability? I see lots of people complain about it but they're from a few months back
i put my fabricator in the area where you put the plants. also i made that area kind of a food area with a coffee machine, vending machine, radio, med kit fabricator, and a locker with fish and other stuff. the part above the docking bay is where i put my indoor kind of garden area and bed.
In mine in the room you put a crap ton of lockers in I put wall planters on the walls and made a marblemelon farm, in the room next to that I have med kid fabricators all on the walls, nothing in the engine room, in the docking room I have lockers, standing lockers, modification station, fabricator, battery charger, and other things. In the room between that and the room with the steering wheel I have a bench with fruit trees (forgot what they’re called) on both sides and an aquarium cause why not, and in the room with the steering wheel I have another farm on the walls, radio, trash bin, a couple more standing lockers, and some decorations.
Ok, so you can build stuff on the inside... can you put solar panels on the roof outside? (apparently an update has removed this posibility). Or some other kind of power generation?
Yes they did remove the solar panel option quite sometime ago from the Cyclops. Initially your power generation option will be a temporary base for recharging. However, once you have the scans and materials you can also use the Seamoth's Solar module, the Prawn Suit Thermal module, and the Cyclops Thermal module as ways to recharge power cells. However these are a bit slower than a well powered base with a couple of power cell chargers.
what the Cyclops lacks in order to become a "main base" is power generation and water filtration, plus some invisible walls on top of most.. well, walls, make the wall mounted furniture float mid-air and that's a -1000 style points to me. My cyclops just has some energy cell chargers underneath the engine room (mostly for the looks, I don't use them to charge the cells as it just doesn't work), classic interior planter in front of the decoy storage, two medkits (one on the bridge and one in the locker rooms, right behind the front door), aquarium with a bench in front of it that's facing 3 vases and a display with some fancy screenshots and a standing locker on the leftmost side to house my gear. Under the engine room I also have a wall locker with some beacons and light wands to highlight some areas even though I never use it, but it's still piece of mind.
Would like to comment that this video was done during Early Access, but overall it's still a decent guide, though a few things have changed: IIRC, you can no longer build a Power Cell Charger inside the Cyclops. Not sure about the Battery Charger. Second, I highly recommend always keeping the Thermal Reactor module installed; there are lots of geysers spread throughout the whole map, and if you were ever running a little low on power, just park it ontop of a geyser and wait for a recharge, perhaps while getting out and doing stuff. Said geysers are nearly everywhere, and they are basically refuelling stations on their own. That way you don't have to worry about power cells, just don't run yourself dry, maybe keep one fresh set of cells on-hand for emergencies. On the topic of growbeds and plant pots, there's a certain amount of food that's just overkill and this is getting pretty close. You only need enough food to last you until the next plants grow as you can't take the plants with you (they'll rot) and they really don't take that long to grow. I would say two small pots full of marblemelons would easily sustain you indefinitely on both Food and Water, and if you were really paranoid about accidentally eating all of them, do a 3rd small plant pot just in case. That said, you still need the vehicle upgrade console for the PRAWN Suit's upgrades, so you will actually need a base somewhere in the world that you can build said upgrades with. Though to be honest, all of the upgrades you build with said console (with the exception of just one: the thermal reactor for the PRAWN) take, at worst, Nickel and Crystallized Sulphur, both of which can be gathered with a Seamoth (though just barely). Once you make all of those, you're free of needing a stationary base entirely as the depth modules' upgrades are actually built at the modification station that you can place in your cyclops. Also want to point out, that unless you're speedrunning the building of the Cyclops, it is highly unlikely that you will have any radio messages left to receive by the time you actually build the cyclops, assuming you're not going Creative Mode.
Here is my set up: entering through the storage area has a fabricate and med kit, and lockers, after the launch bay I add a memory area (epic picture of a dead reaper leviathan) engine room I leave alone, and the area where you enter the sea moth/prawn I add as crew quarters and the little room with the huge hatch, I block off so you can’t enter through there, in the bridge I add some extra seats and the area with the huge hatch is the captains quarters, and each area has a radio
Thanks for the advise! But I would put the coffee maker and vending machine because of infanite food and water, and WHERES THE KEEP CALM KITTY POSTER!?!?!?!?!?!?
The thermal reactor module can work in any biome that has thermal vents, not just the lavazone, ( Lost river junction, safe shallows, grand reef, and many more ). Proving that the cyclops can revive charge anywhere, sure not as much, but still charge
It's what I did lmao I build 12 of them and had enough to go to the lava zone stay there for a bit and come back, I still built a small base down there to charge them
I have 3 power cell chargers and using the thermal reactor module, it allows my cyclops to stay charged at full power while charging my reserve power cells. Something to keep in mind, only start charging the power cells if you're in an area hot enough to charge your engines back up because 3 cell chargers will drain you fast without it
Based on what I’ve seen others do, and from what I’ve read on the wiki, this is about the most efficient way to spec a Cyclops. One thing I want to ask, though: do you still need to build multiple of an upgrade to get the full effect (example, four Cyclops power efficiency modules for full effect)? Or were they all changed to be like the Depth Modules (one version upgrades into the next)? If they were not changed, then I hope that’s something added in the next game.
The Cyclops could have had some upgrades be a permanent physical addition, aided by the hab builder. Fire Suppression, Docking Bay Auto Repair, Decoy Magazine, and arguably Power Efficiency could all be things that have a physical presence in order to save slots. And, again arguably, the Shield and Thermal Generator could be limped in here as well.
I know this is an older video, but you can put solar panels on the cyclops. It doesn’t directly charge the cyclops’s active batteries, but i takes care of the other things in there (cell chargers, medkits, etc.)
That is true though that would mean hauling the Seamoth everywhere instead of the Prawn Suit. Overall the Prawn Suit is much more usable while you are traveling, and you can also use the Prawn Suit to recharge your power cells by equipping the Thermal Reactor upgrade and going to a geothermally active area.
That's true. And at one point in the past you could place Solar Panels on the Cyclops as well but that was removed for obvious reasons. It wouldn't surprise me if a new solar module gets added for it at some point in the future.
Both the PRAWN suit and now the Cyclops have Thermal Modules for recharging. Using the PRAWN suit though means only one cell at a time being recharged, and it's a bit slow for my taste. It will work as an alternative method though.
I had 3 watermelon gardens in the vehicle room, and stored material for a sensor room, a normal room, bio powerplant, charger and some jaffa cup seeds so that i can mine and charge anywhere
Yeah, in reality, the charging power cells would actually take more energy from the engine cells to charge because there is always energy loss in the transfer. They really should have a solar and a thermal energy mod for the cyclops so you can charge your power cells both ways, then you wouldn't have to worry about putting in a recharge station and the energy source would be external and actually make sense.
My planter has 4 glow pod trees. Each tree spawns at least 8 pods, and each pod is about 10 food. Wven though the water is only 3 or somethin, it grows so much so fast that I've over plucked and haven't ran out. It's a set it and forget it food source.
Hear me out guys, I don’t think you actually NEED a base setup to charge your cells. What I do is have a few lockers dedicated to “base materials”. Those lockers are full of materials to make one multipurpose room, a bio reactor (Or your preferred easy power method), enough to build a few power cell chargers, a locker or two, and a hatch. That way, you can stop your cyclops anywhere and just build your base up quick and easy! Also, I would recommend that you ditch the ground planter due to how big it is. There are a few spots on the bottom level and top level of the cyclops where you can fit several wall planters to put seeds for food. Also, you’re going to go kinda crazy with being stranded on that planet, so I recommend an aquarium to store some fishy friends!
In the room between the bridge and docking bay you can actually put 6 standing lockers on either side if you rotate them 90° and you can stil put some stuff on the wall next to it.
Honestly the charging base is only necessary before you get to the Lava Zone. Even after you get back to the surface, any thermal vent would recharge your cyclops.
on survival i fit a modification station, a bed, a locker, 6 wall lockers, 4 med fabricators, a fabricator, a coffee machine, 5 power cell chargers, 4 battery chargers, a bin, and a stay calm cat poster all in the middle bit then i put 2 growbeds near the decoy tube
I only had a cyclops never a big base. I had a back up solution of course so i didnt lose my whole save if my cyclops was destroyed and for some reason i didnt have a recent save, but saving is easy.
I like to think of myself as a practical man. I have static bases with scanners, battery chargers and food farms in strategic locations for resupply and storage of excess material. I take my Cyclops wherever i go with a pravler or a seamoth in tow depending on the objective at hand.
My fears of the deep sea are the strongest i have, this game is a true horror game for me, being inside the Cyclops brings me comfort. I also like to play with buttons.
Flintlock am I the only one that has shown zero fear from all these monsters I’ve encountered?
I usually just make 1 base that I go to everytime, powered by solar panels and thermal plants (Usually close to the grand reef or the safe shallows, since they always have thermal vents and lava geysers, not to mention some basic resources I can easily gather just outside my base). I hate making multiple bases, since making them in the first place is a pain. Then I turn my Cyclops in to a sort of base. No fabricators, chargers, anything that uses power because I don't like having my Cyclops getting drained and possibly getting my ship stranded in the middle of the ocean. But I do make a farm and up the storage for resources.
My main bases are located in safe shallows very near to lifepod 5, in the SW grass fields near lifepod 17, and in the Giant tree cove in lost river. Powered by solar panels, heat sources and nuclear reactors. This setup gives me a clear and compact routes to most areas of the map and safe places to sort my shit out at.
I dislike long travel, i like to have a place to seek cover from nearby. Especially when leviathans or the lost river are involved.
In addition to that i have tiny scanner bases powered by bioreactors wherever needed for finding databoxes and materials. I have a locker with the components at the ready for quick deployment.
That first Leviathan attack in the cyclops is spooky.
Flintlock but... this game isn’t that long. Why do you need all that to finish the game
3:40 Guys, it even has Wi-Fi!
I didn't even notice it looked like that there
MLG Lad actually that would be service
MLG Lad im assuming it’s using data
😂😂😂
Lol
It would be hilarious if at the end of the video he had three seconds of footage of his cyclops being destroyed while he screams “NOOOOOOO!!!!!”
Save button is your friend, use it wisely
@@ouassimzayani8806 worst thing to see as a subnautica player: QUIT: are you sure? Last save was 3h 47 mins ago.
@Quassim ZAYANI hardcore mode 💀💀💀
@@zzztriplezzz5264 i once did that, i got a cuddlefish egg and died, spent 2 hours and 30 minutes trying to get it back with a scanner room before realising i couldve just quit and rejoined 😭
I live in my cyclops. I added a vending machine, power cell charger, battery charger, bed and a coffee machine.
It really works!
Where do i find a cyclops at i cant find them
@@darkoni95 You find fragments scattered around. You need three for the hull, bridge and engine respectively. Then you need a bunch of lithium and titanium and a mobile vehicle bay.
Got mine done yesterday, it really is a sight to see when it gets built :D don't do it in the shallows, though....
English Guy4 cyclops battery drains like crazy if you add a power cell charger...for me it felt like they drained faster than they charged up so a net loss I guess
Chargers in a cyclops? What i did was charge my seamoth in a moonpool and swapped the 100% battery with a dead one from my cyclops 6 times. Then later it was faster charging with the prawn suit because it has two power cells :>
Channa Wijetunga back when the cyclops was relatively new power cell chargers were way op, it only took 17 energy points to fully recharge an empty power cell, which gets you a profit of 183 power, infinite power lol, I used this to sustain the cyclop’s energy needs back then, they’ve fixed this since then
So basically what you have is a storage locker with a steering wheel and propeller?
Clemson Driver yes
Lol yeah xD
Yup.
80% battery storage.
No
So I bought this game because I have a deep down crippling fear of ocean depths and giant sea creatures.... I'm so addicted and I love it so much. I think my wife is getting aggravated lol
Now try it with VR.......
@@sergjim2377 don’t even start 🤣🤣🤣
ive beaten it 12 times, and the deadzone still scares me, nothing will ever be scarier in subnautica
@@sergjim2377 there is VR!?!
@@gargillaape5292 I don’t know why it doesn’t scare me. Maybe it’s because I have actively gone out to kill the leviathans on my own free will, instilling a sense of control.
I find the sonar incredibly handy when going on an expedition to the lost river
The brine is easy to follow, personally I see this as a waste of power cells :/
@@shittttttt8016 not in the entrance with all the trees. It's sometimes hard to keep track if those.
Also, you can have infinite power if you pop a prawn suit with a thermal reactor onto a thermal vent, and use it to charge the cyclops' batteries
WelshCrusade yeah I guess you are right, I never use that entrance I usually use the grand reef one and that’s easy to navigate without any support on your cyclops you just need silent running past the ghosty
Same, its easier to not get a hull breach or crash!
Fact: the coffee machines are a cheap infinite source of water. Ur welcome
They may be infinite but are extremely slow. I also do not like them for the specific reason that they are infinite and should not be.
There are no coffee machines in subnautica, there's only decaf and that doesn't count. If there was real coffee on 4546B I would have no reason to go home or anywhere really.
The water filtration machine though could be useful considering you get salt for food and water
Not mad about the coffee machine's rate of hydration tho... Personally water purifier, and 👉🏽 salt 👈🏽 Salt + tube coral = 1x bleach. 1x bleach = 2x disinfected water from the fabricator, and 1 bleach takes less space in your escape pod storage than 2 bottles of water 😎. Before you even get a water purifier aim for as much salt as possible. Tube coral is easy, you can hack at the tube anywhere, not just the plates, and it NEVER runs out. Salt is common on the seabed near the seaweed forests, and in the red grass areas. Also, once you can upgrade to the thermal knife, cured (salted) fish is less important, as the knife kills and cooks fish. Going deep? Catch a few live Reggies or Peepers and take them along, and hotknife them when you need to eat, they give +food & a small +water as opposed to -water for salted fish. New game & desperate for food & water? Eat the green kelp samples for food & water, but be quick as it goes off pretty fast. Once you have growbeds and Bulbo trees / marble melons your worries are over. Oh and another interesting thing, if you're in an area with a lot of Reggies or Peepers, catch them and let them go by your habitat, they'll stay there and you can utilise them later. Oh and never ever get into your Cyclops if you have a cuddlefish following you. Your little waterbro can get stuck in the sub & die, and can also mess up the clipping of your Cyclops, causing you to fall through the sub to the seabed with indoors physics pretty much shagging your game as it happens more and more often after the first time.
Give him the entire solution to the game, why dont ya :)
did anyone else think that the locker glitch actually looked kinda cool from the outside
Bucket 'O Anxiety yA
Looked cool
Bucket 'O Anxiety yeah!!!!!
me
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I remember when we used to be able to build a solar panel on top of the Cyclops, that was always awesome :D Shame it was a bug and they fixed it lol
I always have a static base now, for recharging batteries and growing food. But I still spend more time in the seamoth or prawn.
James Kaplonek you could just add that upgrade that charges the cyclops in hot water and just sit near a vulcanic or hot spot to replenish the cyclopses battery and then you wont need a static base
Logan Wolfbane but if you are just using it as a mobile base, you dont need speed.
James Kaplonek maybe make spots to attach them like astroneer?
It is really strange that Cyclop can't recharge by solar. Probably devs didn't add this option because of balance
@@DartLuke exactly that, they took it out because having solar power on the Cyclops made a lot of players hang around too long near the surface rather than taking it down which is what its real purpose is.
9:18 gee. I never knew you liked wall lockers. I mean, after seeing the bottom floor, I thought you hated them.
Lmao
🤣 lmaoo
And then it explodes with everything inside
Tip: Have a whole section of storage filled with water (preferably water fabricated from bleach due to ease of access and how much can be made). This is to allow the planters to be filled with more filling plants such as potatoes. If you don’t want to do this, then load up on marblemelons in planters.
You can also be like me and have two planters filled with potatoes and eat every single one when you’re almost dehydrated to death :D
I like marble melons more coz it’s not like you’re gonna find coral tube samples everywhere when you run out
i do that with lanterns cus they require no maintenance or replanting
Subscribed the second I saw you subtitle your videos. Thanks for taking the time to be as accessable as possible
Note you CAN get infinite power on your cyclops. For each Efficiency mod you make things cost less. So instead of costing you 200 to charge a powercell of 200, you can make it 180, at a 10% discount. The effect stacks however it means you have to constantly cycle the cells, due to your only getting the discounted % back as returns
Just an advise, energy cell recharger inside the cyclops is a little useless, it drains the same energy amount from your cyclops to recharge the same at the power cells, the easiest way i like to do is get the thermal reactor module and park the ciclops right above a hotspot, theres also one on safe area, so you can recharge your power cells directly from the cyclops power cells bay.
Yeah its not recharging but transporting energy that way. I dont understand how people are so STUPID to think it would work 😂
A good place to put an outpost is the lost river. You can charge the cyclops at thermal vents, gather the plentiful resources, progress the story, etc.
You can simply restock yourself with a vending machine and 4-6 coffee machines ; )
Yes you can but OMG that's a lot of hassle.
MrSpicyGaming it's free tho, no fish catching or energy cost ;) Click all coffee machines twice, then go get snacks to eat, coffee will jump in your inventory wherever you are, with enough coffe machines you can get 48 water （6 machines）in one go
+李昊
But then again you could always just build an alien containment and breed reginalds. It'll give you so much food that you won't even know what to do with it all. It's a lot more efficent since they dont take up much space and you can take them wherever you want.
Plant bulbo trees inside the cyclops and every base and you're set for life. They give a fuck ton of food and water at the same time.
melon are so much better (+14/+12 VS +8/+10 for bulbo) and for less space in growbeds ;) bulbo are too long to grow compared to melon (in the end, melon is just the best of all)
Been watching these, since I'm a 26 hour scrub, and these are extremely helpful! I appreciate peeps like you, new sub. :D
Charging ion cells in the Cyclops has indeed been patched. You will need to make at least one base to stop at for charging your cells.
Get the Thermal charge Mod for the cyclops then just park on or near a heat source (lava or thermal vent). Voila all your stuff is charged at about the rate of a single solar cell, but more than fast enough to charge your batteries and powercells and keep your vehicles charged.
You can do one better. Have the thermal upgrade on the prawn-suit and give the prawn 1 empty (or partially charged) powercell and walk it to/in some hot water. Especially useful for thermal vents that the cyclops can't reach (at least not the 60 degrees Celsius part). Take some extra empty cells on your person and swap them as you go.
@Jessen :D how do you manage? I've tried it but I just sucks the energy out too fast
Dunno I play rn and I can recharge my cells at my cyclops
4:02 that looks pretty cool actually. Like a logo or smth
Adidas Cyclops
If you use a seamoth with solar chargers or a prawn with thermal reactor you can self sustain completely
My own version of the Cyclops Base is similar, but has notable differences. First was a lot less lockers, I never once had to make extra lockers outside of the entrance and locker area except for specific things I'll get into in a second. Also, I kept one resource per locker except for a few that were labeled PRECURSOR or CREEPVINE which contained anything I could make or get from that; SILVER contained wiring kits also and COPPER had copper wire too. Used prawn suit to gather materials if I ran low.
From the control area , I added a standing locker on the right side of the sub next to the big hatch for extra or unused equipment like propulsion cannon, fins, the radiation suit after I fixed the leaks. I also added a lab counter on the left side of control room behind the hatch for decoration.
Just past the hatch, I had my single person bed with two pots with the chinese plants on either side of the it and an Aurora poster above it too, all on the left side. On right side of this area, I had two standing lockers, one for misc tech and the other for health, food, and water. Alongside these where a fabricator, modification station, a battery charger, and a power cell charger. A health kit thing remained mostly untouched above the hatch side of this small area.
In the main area of the ship, I had a trash can and a coffee maker (mostly decoration) on the front left side of the ship, vending machine on the front right (also decor), aquarium on the elevated part near the middle hatch across from the access for storage and upgrade for the prawn suit, and a grow bed filled with the marblemellon plants for food in front of the creature decoy thing. A storage locker next to the creature decoy held all my batteries, power cells, and of course the decoys. On the walls of this area was misc posters and a radio that looked more like a router because of how it interacted with the wall.
Last thing I had was that kitty poster above the engine. I had the thermal upgrade in the cyclops so I can charge power cells and batteries in heat areas without worrying about power. Other upgrades were the shield, sonar, efficiency, depth, and I can't remember what else, but probably the prawn repair one. Never used the fire suppression system tho, never went full speed and used the shield to avoid attacks.
Overall, my cyclops became my home. I had only one base the whole game that I stopped using after I got the cyclops; I never even really made a temp base although I had two lockers dedicated to such a thing.
Temp base included a single corridor, hatch, battery and power cell chargers, glass for windows, two flood lights, and it was all powered by a thermal generator and one of the power conduits if it was needed.
I love when you go to the lost river and a ghost blows up you ship
Try this on Seamoth. Unlimited powaaah! (and fun!Especially electrocuting levi's)
1.Depth module
2.Hull reinforcement
3.Solar charger
4.Perimeter defense system
5.Ion battery
You can electrocute Levis?
@@syncto_ Yup. Makes them let go of your Seamoth if you're swimming away from one. Saved mine when it got caught by one awhile back.
@@tiberiumcapoo5093 Ah i didn't know thanks
you forgot to talk about what happens to stuff when cyclops gets destroyed :p
Make sure to save
n that is the most factual statement
old video
i have a cyclops for safer areas and one for the more dangerous areas ones stocked the others made for short trips and after use is parked in a small cave area where its safe they both have a prawn docked
so if one goes i still have the other ill only exit and load my last save if i lost something important
I just have a moonpool with cell and battery chargers with solar panels in the safe shallows. And I have a seamoth in the moonpool. Just a simple station setup idea.
EDIT: You actually can put a modification thing, not the whole station but the table type one (I don't know what it's called) inside a cyclops.
modification station
he was talking about the vehicle upgrade console that you make depth modules and other stuff with
@@Prushka crap that was what I meant
No way, it's impossible !
@@Prushka how do you do it?
That would be so helpful
This was a great tour. Playing Below Zero with the great and much more practical truck rn, I still kinda missed the customizable experience from the Cyclops. Loved to see how you put the interior to good use. Had my bed and planters and even the Fabricator in the same places back then. It was nice to see, so thank you.
I've been playing like crazy to figure out a way to make my Cyclops a mobile base. This helped a lot. Thanks!
Be careful, the locker/Cyclops bug means you're gonna have a bad day sooner or later.
i love how his intro looks like the intro to a 2012 flash game
Just picked up this near-ancient game Black Friday 2023. I actually have a nice cyclops but on multiple occasions have watched as these storage lockers disappear off the walls. One time I was outside the sub and was able to watch them fall off into the sea. It appears that they some buggy behavior around the skin of the sub where fish and scarier things can cross over into the sub and things on the walls (added by the user) can occasionally go into the water.
I was thinking of this myself glad someone is trying it out
the way i do it: have enough storage for basic things, and 2-3 lockers designated to an 'emergency base' if i need to set up a small camp somewhere. a vending machine, 3 coffee machines, a bed and upgrades: thermal reactor, efficiency, depth mk3, repair module, hull reinforcement, sonar. if you pilot it correctly you wont even need the fire suppression system. the emergency base stuff should be for a large room, hatch, power supplies, water, indoor growbed, fabricator and battery+power cell chargers. the vehicle should always be a prawn suit.
The cockpit would be completely bare, save for a fire extinguisher, a wall locker full of spare extinguishers, a fabricator, and a coms setup, the room just be hind the Cockpit would be the living quarters, with a coffee machine and a vending machine, the room just aft of that would be the med-bay and grow room with some over flow storage of med kits as well as battery/power cell chargers, then the engine room would have all of the items stored up in it that are pertinent to the Cyclops like upgrade modules, and some fire suppression items as well as a few spare repair tools, then the lower room just aft of the entrance would be the main storage room, the room just under the engine room would be for more over flow storage, and in the main airlock room, there’d be several “dump-chests” (wall lockers) for any resources I need to get out of my inventory quickly.
Also, one of the chests in the foreword airlock would be filled with the resources required for an outpost. The Cyclops would also be outfitted with a Prawn Suit for mining, or a sea moth for exploration and escape.
There would also be a “main base” but the cyclops would be a fully outfitted mobile base so if the main one fails I’m not caught up shit Creek with out a paddle.
I like the lockers there is it looks like your very own symbol
a bit late to the thread but thought I'd point out a few things. first you can place things much more densely than that, I have four lockers, radio, batt charger, trash, mod station, and more just up in the front section. Second, the best source of food and water is bulbo trees, just a row of three pots will keep you permanently fed and watered. (tho you may want 4) I have a base with a huge peeper aquarium (5 level) and water filter and that keeps my cyclops lockers stoked with salted peepers and bottled water for prawn excursions, so I have no need to keep live fish onboard. You can also place 6 lockers up front beside your fabricator, and four pots for edible flora variety at the VERY rear of the ship on the upper level. (to keep melons, taters, bulbo, and lantern) Thanks for the idea on where to place the bed, that works well. Another good suggestion is to keep a full set of fully charged ion cells handy "just in case".
This cyclops is more equipped than my base :v
The Cyclops can't do quite everything, but, TBH, you can easily use the PRAWN and portals to quickly zip to a shallows base for access to a moon pool, if you have any sense. Upgrade the PRAWN jets, use grappler, and mount thermal module, and you can quickly travel in style. It is also a good idea to deploy beacons at the portal arches.
if only the cyclops could cary the prawn and the seamoth at the same time
I wish it was an upgrade
There is no reason for it to note be able :(
If you could only still put solar pannels on the Cyclops.
your wall locker has a nice cyclops
Look im the opposite u like wall lockers and i like to fill up my multipurpose rooms with mazes of freestanding lockers
I like wall lockers because I can label them. Two for titanium, one for gold, one for silver etc. Although I suppose you can remember which is which
I always order my freestanding lickers in the same way:
Titanium
Glass
Copper
Sandstone
Shale
Deeper stuff(e.g. kyanite or crystalline sulfur)
Sustenance(food and water)
Tools
Organic materials
Alien stuff
Samon17044 lickers
I'm the same but I've got 10 multipurpose rooms filled with the standing lockers just incase I need my storage (Dont do it, it drained my resources and I still have like 5 not filled)
@@welshcrusade9837 I make it
Titanium
Electronic
Survival
Sorry for late three year,anyway you earn my respect for making this video
Tried this once when I first got my cyclops. I moved all of my stored items onto my cyclops and then saved. Went for a stroll and didn't know there was ghost leviathans in the dead zone.... Cyclops and all my items gone.
Why didnt you load your last save?
Him: now you might need more wall lockers...
Me: That's too many as it is!
Fun fact: i forget what theyre called, but there is a plant you can get from the mountain island that gives you 10 water. Just one of those in a growbed and boom, water problems disappear.
Edit: theyre called bulbo trees
Pierce M. Marble melons are far better
Btw if you get the cyclops engine efficiency upgrade and you get ion power cells you can recharge power cells in the cyclops. You can do it without those but you get the best with them
Cool really useful! It helped me with my expeditions
hahaha I love the way you say Magnetite "Magna-tot"
You totally can turn the cyclops into a mobile Base.
Yes.
I been living inside mine from the very beginning.
The only inconvenience is the Power Cells.
But you can Recharge them if you have a seamoth with solar charge module.
It can be a basic-bitch self-sustaining base. You can live in your cyclops. I put a bed, indoor growbed filled with marblemelons, lantern fruit trees, and a chinese potato plane.
The bridge has 2 wall lockers with water and medkits in it, and i have a medkit fab above the door.
The room behind the bridge has a bed, vending machine and coffee machine in it.
You can equip the thermal charger module and stop at a vent somewhere to recharge.
You can't equip a vehicle mod station. But you can equip a repair station, and have a locker or two to keep various modules so you can change them as needed.
And last but not least, i have 2 wall lockers in engineering, filled with power cells.
Took a while stocking everything up, but it was worth it.
Again, it's a basic base. But it is indeed a, key word: *self-sustaining,* base.
I cant believe I slept on this game for so long. These videos helped Me so much Thank's!
I have a full wall locker *FULL* of power cells *(they are fully charged)*
i place chargers above door inside engine room.
best survival tips ill trow in the mix would be fight nature with nature.
acid shroom seeds.melons.firefruit.waterplant.creepvine and brain coral is your best friends.
melons mostly because they give both food and water and 1 seed only take 1 slot and can grow 4 in a small flowerpot.
brain corals can be used for refill stations for air and best of all used as elevator shafts with full air supply.
bubbles goes all way to surface and this way you have full tank when reaching bottom .
creepvine is a free light source. put 6 in a cropplot and you can light up a base with it.
also a good free way to mark checkpoints with air at cave diving.
recommend using the X shaped pipe for "drop base" since it only 2 titanium and can hold alot of lockers and even a plantpot with melons. make hatch ontop.
firefruit i use for bio reactors in deep tunnels. its a one time planting and it yield plenty to fuel base.
place a seperate plot with some acid shrooms so you can make emergency batteries if needed.
this way you can do it as a no sub challenge and just use cyclops as surface vessel.
also prawn is only needed to farm a few ion and for blue tablet.
and yes. its easy to reach emperor this way. you attract less attention and get to see way more of map.
i only do no sub runs .
try it.. i highly recommend it.
you can also befriend a local stalker by feeding it some peepers. after some it will bring you gifts.
oh yeah. and in beginning save your 0% batteries and powercells and use them for crafting equipment and powercells.
when crafting , 2 dead batteries can become a fully charged powercell.
a great tip for before finding chargers.
12:32
I dont know if it was not the same then, or if you know now, but when a cyclops gets destroyed, the wreckage sinks to the seabed right where it was. It always stays there. Basically the only difference is theres no power, no oxygen, and you cant move it. You can still access any storage that you have in the cyclops. It also drops some metal salvage too.
Although the destroyed model for the cyclops is always the same. The back is torn off, the cockpit window is broken open, and one of the vehicle bay doors is ripped off. I truly wish that one day the destroyed model will reflect how it was destroyed.
:(
ya know if the cyclops explodes everything inside is done for
Pinkie exit game
Load game
thank you
Don't forget whatever is attacking your Cyclops you can just grab a satis rifle and a knife and go to town on dat ass
have you heard of common sense like a sheild generator shields you from leviathan class flora and if you every now and then... chill at a thermal geezer or vent then easy dub you just made a sustainable power supply for said cyclops
@@orbe5533 Leviathan Class Fauna* Flora refers to plant based organisms or fungi.
so that storage locker section that glitches through the wall while unintended makes the cyclops look even cooler especially if you recolor the lockers... neat... I'll keep it in mind for amazing reasons
I always use my Cyclops as a mobile base. All I do when I start out is I stock up on rare materials (uranite, ruby, silver, nickel ore, etc.) and materials you can only find in the Kelp Forests, such as Seed Clusters, Creepvine Samples, and Stalker Teeth. Also, you have to see to it that you actually plant the vines as often as you can or you'll kick yourself if you ever need some Fiber Mesh or Bleach for whatever reason and have to go all the way back to the Safe Shallows just to get 4 or 5 of them.
I also see to it that I build all the upgrades I need for the Cyclops before I start moving towards the lava zones. The Thermal Recharge upgrade is invaluable early on since it can be used as early as the Safe Shallows at the small underwater volcanoes.
The biomes in-between Inactive Lava Zone and Safe Shallows have a tendency not to have a lot of the stuff you require in order to build bases and other things you need further on into the story.
Critical Role Highlights Hey what's the current state of the cyclops with regards to the damage it takes and it's survivability? I see lots of people complain about it but they're from a few months back
5:06 if you put the standing lockers in that spot you can fit _fourteen_ of them in that little mid-section! Just rotate them side-on.
He has the “hey cletus” accent hahaha
i put my fabricator in the area where you put the plants. also i made that area kind of a food area with a coffee machine, vending machine, radio, med kit fabricator, and a locker with fish and other stuff. the part above the docking bay is where i put my indoor kind of garden area and bed.
I am now downloading subnautica
@Blaise Dermot DELFORCE no definetly not it takes more then 5 months to download
@@pelleschwarzberg8848 lool
In mine in the room you put a crap ton of lockers in I put wall planters on the walls and made a marblemelon farm, in the room next to that I have med kid fabricators all on the walls, nothing in the engine room, in the docking room I have lockers, standing lockers, modification station, fabricator, battery charger, and other things. In the room between that and the room with the steering wheel I have a bench with fruit trees (forgot what they’re called) on both sides and an aquarium cause why not, and in the room with the steering wheel I have another farm on the walls, radio, trash bin, a couple more standing lockers, and some decorations.
Ok, so you can build stuff on the inside... can you put solar panels on the roof outside? (apparently an update has removed this posibility).
Or some other kind of power generation?
Yes they did remove the solar panel option quite sometime ago from the Cyclops. Initially your power generation option will be a temporary base for recharging. However, once you have the scans and materials you can also use the Seamoth's Solar module, the Prawn Suit Thermal module, and the Cyclops Thermal module as ways to recharge power cells. However these are a bit slower than a well powered base with a couple of power cell chargers.
Well you can use a seamoth with the solar power cell upgrade to get all your power cell charged.
what the Cyclops lacks in order to become a "main base" is power generation and water filtration, plus some invisible walls on top of most.. well, walls, make the wall mounted furniture float mid-air and that's a -1000 style points to me.
My cyclops just has some energy cell chargers underneath the engine room (mostly for the looks, I don't use them to charge the cells as it just doesn't work), classic interior planter in front of the decoy storage, two medkits (one on the bridge and one in the locker rooms, right behind the front door), aquarium with a bench in front of it that's facing 3 vases and a display with some fancy screenshots and a standing locker on the leftmost side to house my gear.
Under the engine room I also have a wall locker with some beacons and light wands to highlight some areas even though I never use it, but it's still piece of mind.
Love your accent.
i’m three years late on this but i just started subnautica and i refuse to watch anyone else play bc i can’t get enough of that accent
That is way to much storage if you manage to fill all that up in survival I'll be very surprised
I have filled that much storage up many times in survival. Just takes time and good placement of a scanner room.
Cyclops: *blows up*
Him: ah sh*t, here we go again
That is why I use silent running
He talks like a cowboy xD
Would like to comment that this video was done during Early Access, but overall it's still a decent guide, though a few things have changed: IIRC, you can no longer build a Power Cell Charger inside the Cyclops. Not sure about the Battery Charger. Second, I highly recommend always keeping the Thermal Reactor module installed; there are lots of geysers spread throughout the whole map, and if you were ever running a little low on power, just park it ontop of a geyser and wait for a recharge, perhaps while getting out and doing stuff. Said geysers are nearly everywhere, and they are basically refuelling stations on their own. That way you don't have to worry about power cells, just don't run yourself dry, maybe keep one fresh set of cells on-hand for emergencies. On the topic of growbeds and plant pots, there's a certain amount of food that's just overkill and this is getting pretty close. You only need enough food to last you until the next plants grow as you can't take the plants with you (they'll rot) and they really don't take that long to grow. I would say two small pots full of marblemelons would easily sustain you indefinitely on both Food and Water, and if you were really paranoid about accidentally eating all of them, do a 3rd small plant pot just in case.
That said, you still need the vehicle upgrade console for the PRAWN Suit's upgrades, so you will actually need a base somewhere in the world that you can build said upgrades with. Though to be honest, all of the upgrades you build with said console (with the exception of just one: the thermal reactor for the PRAWN) take, at worst, Nickel and Crystallized Sulphur, both of which can be gathered with a Seamoth (though just barely). Once you make all of those, you're free of needing a stationary base entirely as the depth modules' upgrades are actually built at the modification station that you can place in your cyclops.
Also want to point out, that unless you're speedrunning the building of the Cyclops, it is highly unlikely that you will have any radio messages left to receive by the time you actually build the cyclops, assuming you're not going Creative Mode.
3 years and I still find new stuff!
Here is my set up: entering through the storage area has a fabricate and med kit, and lockers, after the launch bay I add a memory area (epic picture of a dead reaper leviathan) engine room I leave alone, and the area where you enter the sea moth/prawn I add as crew quarters and the little room with the huge hatch, I block off so you can’t enter through there, in the bridge I add some extra seats and the area with the huge hatch is the captains quarters, and each area has a radio
Thanks for the advise! But I would put the coffee maker and vending machine because of infanite food and water, and WHERES THE KEEP CALM KITTY POSTER!?!?!?!?!?!?
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The thermal reactor module can work in any biome that has thermal vents, not just the lavazone, ( Lost river junction, safe shallows, grand reef, and many more ). Proving that the cyclops can revive charge anywhere, sure not as much, but still charge
Couldnt you just keep building more and more power cells if you wanted? I know its not practical but you technically could
It's what I did lmao I build 12 of them and had enough to go to the lava zone stay there for a bit and come back, I still built a small base down there to charge them
I have 3 power cell chargers and using the thermal reactor module, it allows my cyclops to stay charged at full power while charging my reserve power cells. Something to keep in mind, only start charging the power cells if you're in an area hot enough to charge your engines back up because 3 cell chargers will drain you fast without it
I built a farm in my cyclops and i never starve or thirst wherever i go, it's very sustainable
I added in a coffee machine, a bed, a vending machine, 4 lantern plants, some lockers.
I love that he covered up the lockers that are built into the cyclops
ONE Objection where the planter is and that stuff you can use that spot as a bedroom and at the same time use it as a room for basic needs
Based on what I’ve seen others do, and from what I’ve read on the wiki, this is about the most efficient way to spec a Cyclops.
One thing I want to ask, though: do you still need to build multiple of an upgrade to get the full effect (example, four Cyclops power efficiency modules for full effect)? Or were they all changed to be like the Depth Modules (one version upgrades into the next)?
If they were not changed, then I hope that’s something added in the next game.
The Cyclops could have had some upgrades be a permanent physical addition, aided by the hab builder.
Fire Suppression, Docking Bay Auto Repair, Decoy Magazine, and arguably Power Efficiency could all be things that have a physical presence in order to save slots. And, again arguably, the Shield and Thermal Generator could be limped in here as well.
I like standing bases cause of the alien containment unit, I mostly rely on Reginalds for food and Oculus' for Bio-reactor power.
I know this is an older video, but you can put solar panels on the cyclops. It doesn’t directly charge the cyclops’s active batteries, but i takes care of the other things in there (cell chargers, medkits, etc.)
You can use the seamoth solar module to charge your power cells
That is true though that would mean hauling the Seamoth everywhere instead of the Prawn Suit. Overall the Prawn Suit is much more usable while you are traveling, and you can also use the Prawn Suit to recharge your power cells by equipping the Thermal Reactor upgrade and going to a geothermally active area.
and now the cyclops has a thermal module as well
That's true. And at one point in the past you could place Solar Panels on the Cyclops as well but that was removed for obvious reasons. It wouldn't surprise me if a new solar module gets added for it at some point in the future.
Also I think the PRAWN has its own thermal power module
Both the PRAWN suit and now the Cyclops have Thermal Modules for recharging. Using the PRAWN suit though means only one cell at a time being recharged, and it's a bit slow for my taste. It will work as an alternative method though.
I had 3 watermelon gardens in the vehicle room, and stored material for a sensor room, a normal room, bio powerplant, charger and some jaffa cup seeds so that i can mine and charge anywhere
Fun tip if you move your lockers a bit apart you also get to use the cyclops built in lockers
Well there could be an alternator in the engine or something idk
humphrey707 that would need to break the laws of conservation of energy to work. Since you would be wanting a perpetual motion machine.
an alternator on an electric motor ???
why the fuck did nobody think of that before ?!
Yeah, in reality, the charging power cells would actually take more energy from the engine cells to charge because there is always energy loss in the transfer. They really should have a solar and a thermal energy mod for the cyclops so you can charge your power cells both ways, then you wouldn't have to worry about putting in a recharge station and the energy source would be external and actually make sense.
noenergy
A very long time ago that was a thing that was removed from the game.
My planter has 4 glow pod trees. Each tree spawns at least 8 pods, and each pod is about 10 food. Wven though the water is only 3 or somethin, it grows so much so fast that I've over plucked and haven't ran out. It's a set it and forget it food source.
wow that base you built just outside!!!!
4:00 you can actually use that to make a sort of stripe pattern on your cyclops if you want
Are you a cowboy?
Cuz you have the same accent as one
Edit:not trying to be rude
@@cajun6316 you're 10 months late bud
OverTheRainow mhm
How is being called a cowboy rude? Us cowboys work harder than most people you see in a semi large town or city
Hear me out guys, I don’t think you actually NEED a base setup to charge your cells. What I do is have a few lockers dedicated to “base materials”. Those lockers are full of materials to make one multipurpose room, a bio reactor (Or your preferred easy power method), enough to build a few power cell chargers, a locker or two, and a hatch. That way, you can stop your cyclops anywhere and just build your base up quick and easy! Also, I would recommend that you ditch the ground planter due to how big it is. There are a few spots on the bottom level and top level of the cyclops where you can fit several wall planters to put seeds for food. Also, you’re going to go kinda crazy with being stranded on that planet, so I recommend an aquarium to store some fishy friends!
Amazing video love ur accent. Also I just subscribed after watching this one video
In the room between the bridge and docking bay you can actually put 6 standing lockers on either side if you rotate them 90° and you can stil put some stuff on the wall next to it.
your accent made me sub ^^
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slaps cyclops roff - this bad boy can hold soo much wall lockers
Honestly the charging base is only necessary before you get to the Lava Zone. Even after you get back to the surface, any thermal vent would recharge your cyclops.
on survival i fit a modification station, a bed, a locker, 6 wall lockers, 4 med fabricators, a fabricator, a coffee machine, 5 power cell chargers, 4 battery chargers, a bin, and a stay calm cat poster all in the middle bit then i put 2 growbeds near the decoy tube
I only had a cyclops never a big base. I had a back up solution of course so i didnt lose my whole save if my cyclops was destroyed and for some reason i didnt have a recent save, but saving is easy.