*Sees a sand shark going crazy, trying to bite anything* "They are so cute! Well, cute may not be the right word to describe them. But I like their energy". Love that positivity XD
in case people don't know: the original version of Subnautica didn't have recipe pinning, showing battery life with a bar, etc All of that is from Subnautica Below Zero, which first introduced all those quality of life upgrades. Later, the company updated the original Subnautica to also include all of those features.
Also backported from _Below Zero_ are pointers to beacons on the edge of your vision as well as the large room blueprints. (You may have noticed the latter seemed to come out of nowhere when you scanned... I think it was the multipurpose room on the floating island? Yeah, that didn't happen originally. They had to make them "piggyback" that way, since there are no large rooms in the pre-built habitats you find in this one).
I think she went a little overboard with the reinforcements, TBH. It's not reality where you would need every square micron of the surface to be strong to withstand the pressure. The game has a fairly simple way of determining the integrity of a habitat: There is a single number that goes up when you build a reinforcement or foundation and down when you build anything else (by different amounts according to the item), and as long as that number is positive, the habitat won't spring a leak unless something rams into it. And the game gives you an update on the integrity every time you build or remove something that changes it, so you should be okay as long as you pay attention. Importantly, although depth does matter, for the most part _it doesn't matter where you build something in the base._ A reinforcement or foundation protects the whole base even if it's just in a corner somewhere. So there's no need to reinforce every single wall that you can.
Small QoL hint: If you knife mature Gel Sacks only twice (!), you will collect two seeds as expected, and the remaining sack can still be picked up and used to fuel your bioreactor. That's a bit more efficient than stabbing the Gel Sacks until they pop.
@@MentalEiva I think that from a technical standpoint, it qualifies as a minor exploit of the game mechanics. Speaking of which, one of the better known exploits in Subnautica is that one can craft using empty batteries (empty batteries plus rubber equals charged powercell). Helpful in early game.
@@MentalEiva I don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but if you build another room directly on top with another containment unit, they will connect into one big one!!! 🤩
You can't build the water filtration machine on walls with reinforcements. Also, your cuddlefish would probably be even happier outside of the alien cont. unit. 🙂
@@MentalEiva Also, you can release any creature that's hatched inside the containment unit, and none will be agressive toward you. But it can cause a mess with other fishes around, of course. For example, don't ever release crashfishes near you base :D
Three tips that you may or may not have come across yet: 1 - You found the blueprint for "Swim Charge Fins" at some point. They charge handheld items (flashlight, etc.), while you swim. Not too exciting, BUT... the Seaglide counts as a handheld item, and you actually charge the Seaglide *faster* than the battery drains. The Seaglide will never lose power while wearing those fins. Also, you can put a really low battery in the Seaglide (from another device) and charge that battery while swimming around, and put the fully-charged battery that was in the Seaglide into that other device. It's basically a portable battery charger. 2 - Salt. Another use for salt is to make "cured" foods, instead of cooking them. Cured foods take away a little bit of water (only like -2), but the foods last forever - they will never spoil. 3 - You can put up to 4 storage modules in the Seamoth, to give you a total of 64 extra storage spaces (each module is 4x4, or 16 total spaces). If you're just going to go to the island to collect a bunch of fruit, or various items, and you don't plan on diving to deep areas, this can be a good configuration for something like that. Also, you can bring along the depth module with you, in case you decided you want or need to go below 200m. Those modules can be swapped out anywhere, so as long as it's with you (in your inventory, etc.), you can just swap it out as needed/on the fly.
I recommend taking a sample of every plant you find and planting it! You never know what might come in handy! The membrain tree is one of my favorites too - I always have a few planted outside my base 😊
There is one plant you might not want to put near your base. I did that once. Once. It should be easy to guess which one but... trying it can be entertaining anyway!
Another fun episode. Had me stress eating chips when you left your seamoth with the lights turned on at the degassi habitat at 500m. Luckily the emp guy were more focused on your flashlight than the seamoth. Also fun seing you warped out of your seamoth, and yes, that can be quite stressful. Tips below, no story spoilers: For a cheap outdoor lighting solution for your base, you may plant some creepwine Seed clusters. But don't overdo it as it can be quite bright. And the aquarium can hold quite a few smaller fish. I have a few cuddlefishes in my aquarium now, along with a crash fish and some more fishes. You also might want to explore inside the aquarium, middle bottom, a bit.
I love creep vine lighting, especially deeper down where they can be really atmospheric ^_^ Bit odd that they can be blinding in a multipurpose room with no windows though 😆
Haven't looked that far into the episode yet, in case you may have figured it out. Make another room above your alien chamber and then create another alien chamber in it. Be amazed!
The ability to pin blueprints was added to the game after the release of Subnautica Below Zero which had them first. The same patch added the status bars to inventory icons for battery charge or food spoilage. (also first seen in BZ)
There's a few different ways to charge power cells for your seamoth. First, when you find and scan fragments, you can build a charger for them. Second, put a dead cell into your seamoth when it's below the moonpool. You should still be able to ascend and when it's picked up by the moonpool the base will charge the cell in it. Third, you could build the solar charger for the seamoth and leave it parked near the surface. As each cell charges, swap it out for a dead one so you have spares for deep dives.
33:07 - *“Oh, I forgot that one bleach water gives you two; I made a lot of it. Well. That means that we're not gonna die.”* Whoah! Are you sure you want to tempt the fates like this? 😉 34:27 - *“Let's check on our babies.”* Others have probably already told you this, but when you go into the alien containment unit, you can pick up the cuddlefish and release it in the ocean outside your habitat. It will remain there, and you can now interact with it. It's _adorable._ 36:40 - *“Wait, don't go too close.”* Good instincts. I have lost several Seamoths from them clipping into the terrain and becoming inaccessible, before I learned this habit. 44:44 - *“I'm taking all the water, though. There is no way I'm leaving anything.”* "Once died of thirst, twice shy," as the old saying goes. 😉 57:34 - *_“Nooo!_** Fuck.”* And now you know why everyone hates those annoying warpers. They teleport you straight out of your safe metal cocoon and in front of their creepy scythe-hands, _just_ when you thought you were getting away. The bioreactor always produces 50 units of energy per minute. Different plants and fish have different amounts of energy content, which means that they last longer or shorter, under the extraction rate of 50/min, but they do not cause the reactor to produce more energy or do it faster. You can also release manually caught fish into the containment unit. If you have two or more of the same type of fish in it, they can start multiplying in there, up to a certain space limit.
I like to build the Alien Containment in the Large Room instead of the Multipurpose Room. It's bigger, but also there's more space around the hatch so I don't get stuck just walking around.
Those bleeder things that latch onto your arm, a knife makes short work of them. In an emergency, gel sacks are edible and give you a little water. They don't decompose in storage. The repulsion cannon works on monsters.
Lantern fruit is great for the base......You can place the fruit in the bio reactor and you don't need to replant it. It is also a great source of food I think. melons are liquid but need harvesting with a knife to get seeds.
i find melons and bulbo bush to be the best food and water sources. for food on the way, cured reginalds are ideal. for bioreactor, oculus are the best.
If you placed the deepshroom in the planter before you hit it, it wouldn't have hurt you. You can plant the fully grown plant just like the seeds just as storage.
Acid mushrooms are actually pretty good as far as energy sources go if you're trying to keep your base vegan. I'd use the gravtrap and load it up with peepers and garyfish, but growing acid mushrooms in a grow bed works too.
@@MentalEiva Make sure you tell them to not follow you everywhere though! You also missed another alien tablet (if I remember correctly) in the same room where the second cuddlefish was. An orange one.
@@MentalEiva Always scan a new tablet before taking it, otherwise you don't get a recipe to make more. Luckily that one you don't need any more of, others you will need more. You can always drop an item somewhere safe to scan it.
You can hatch all eggs in the containment unit - all fish are passive towards the player character as well as each other as long as they are in the containment. When released into the wilds they stay passive towards the player (with one exception: the Crabsquid which turns hostile immediately and behaves like regular crabsquids when released) but resume their normal behaviour towards other fish. Cuddle fish in particular should be released into the wild because you can interact with them outside the base. The pinning of recipes was originally just a function in Below Zero but was integrated into the first game with the Live Large update that also added the large room. Edit: Alien containments built in large rooms are much bigger in size. You can also expand the size of the contaiment by building another room on top and another containment inside - the containments will connect into one large unit, also increasing the amount of creatures you can have inside. This is repeatable which means you can make your containment unit really big if you want to. You can also plant some plants inside - the floor of the containment is actually a growbed. Edit 2: You can take seeds from a large variety of plants, both land and sea based. In addition to the ones used for crafting or food you can make really pretty gardens with a good mixture of plants. Knifing mushrooms that are planted in a growbed does not hurt you btw. Edit 3: It was a good decision to go to the Aurora early - not because you loose it eventually though. The reason why it is important is that the radiation zone does actually expand over time. If the drive core is not repaired and given enough time the radiation zone eventually covers the entire map. Edit 4: Before using the scanner room - build the scanner room hud chip at the console in the scanner room. You can also upgrade the room itself - I wouldn't bother with a speed upgrade though (the scan speed is more than fast enough anyway making this upgrade pretty useless) and use 4 range upgrades instead.
Thank you, I'm enjoying your playthrough. I was distracted during the first few minutes waiting for your cat to fall off the chair with all that vigorous rubbing.
I really enjoy this more relaxed videos. Building, organizing, collecting, that kind of stuff. Thanks. I don't remember why you decided to remove the large room. It's particularly useful for the alien containments. In large rooms, they are bigger. If you make two floors and place one alien containment just on top of another, they combine, so you can get even more space. That's true for both, large rooms and multipurpose rooms. I think you may enjoy more space to keep your creatures. Also, you can create dividers inside large rooms, thin walls to separate it into smaller rooms so you feel better inside. Some Subnautica players find the large rooms too big. But I can't live without them XD, I really enjoy the extra space. It's much better than making some complicated laberinth to keep all your stuff. In one large room you can place both the alien containment facility and a biorreactor, and you probably have still space for the water filtration machine. That's comfort, don't let people tell you otherwise :D
I got rid of it when I was making reinforcements not knowing that the whole base is already reinforced, so I’m thinking to get that large room back now:)
Put powercell in your seamoth and put it in moonpool.....It will recharge. You can also just unlock the powercell charger. By searching through wrecks.
Seamoth sonar - one of the most useful upgrades imo 😊 Btw. if you are concerned that the alien containment is too small, you can make it bigger. If you place another room on top of the current one and put a containment inside, they will actually connect. Also the alien containment in the large room is bigger.
I recommend collecting seeds or samples from every weird plant you find, even the ones that don't seem to have a purpose. A few of them become useful in the late game and you'll have to make long trips all over to get those plants unless you have an example in you main base garden.
Putting just two of any fish in an alien containment will allow them to breed. Meaning, endless food without the hunt. The containment unit is larger in a large room and it can fit two of them
I'm not sure if you've noticed yet, or if anybody has mentioned it, but when you're placing a building item (a room piece, solar panel, etc.), if you use the mouse scroll wheel, you can rotate the item to face a different direction before you start building it.
The large room and the glass domes for the large room and the multipurpose room as well as the feature to pin recipes are features backported from subnautica below zero. That's why you got all these blueprints when you scanned the multipurpose room. Originally you would just get the M.P. room. Also when you build the alien containment unit inside the large room, you get a bigger one, but that's also not original, of course.
Hehe, theres so much to do in this game, it's easy to get "sidetracked" with any particular activity whether that is exploring, farming, collecting, organising or building...
You don't need so many reinforcements. You just need to keep the base structure balance above zero. Windows, hatches, filtration machines, something other items that mentioned that reduced structure should be taken into account. I believe you have 60+ points right now, so you can remove some of reinforcements. In the episode with large room after you put just first reinforcement it was enough and you was need just to fix holes with repair tool. You can't put water filtration machine on a wall with reinforcement. About power. Everything that consumes power, consumes it with a speed, and total speed can be higher than the sources are producing. To keep power balance, your sources (bioreactors, solar cells, etc.) should produce power with either higher speed, or with a speed enough to live temporarily when they off (e.g. solar cells not generating at night). Sources has a capacity, like accumulators, you might have already noticed - 1 solar cell adds 75, 1 bioreactor adds 500, I don't remember about the others. The built order is matter. If bioreactor was build first and then power cells, it takes energy from bioreactor's accumulator first, so that the solar cells are not working for you until the bioreactor's accumulator is empty (that means your bioreactor is empty already). Do a planning. You might have noticed that everything that fabricates something, consumes few points of power. Battery charger - too. Moonpool consumes when it powers up the docked transport, e.g. your seamoth. And... there is a mention about power consumption of water filtration machine in the databank. ;)
lots of people already said what im about to say, so maybe my advice is to built some lights around your base so you can see your base better in the night. not super important but I always like to see my base in the night with some lights.
Okay here is something you should know The Prawn Suit has 4 arms The torpedo arm which just does what the name says The propulsion arm which is just like the a more powerful propulsion cannon but it can also shoot things that you have stored in the Prawn so you might accidentally shoot something important and never find it again The grappling arm which acts as a grappling hook The drill which drills large clusters of resources you find around the map and is the only arm besides the base arm which does melee damage Note: other than the base arm non of the arms can pick stuff up
@MentalEiva , you can Plant big indoor plants besides, the edible fruit trees. it only need 4 huge plants to power your bioreactor. Visit periodically to replenish the power source of plants on it.. it takes too much time collecting acid mushroom 16 slots to fill
Power in subnautica is actually pretty simple to understand. First off, location for solar panels changes nothing. Solar energy output in the game is purely based on depth placed with a slight change based on the biome you placed it in. Shining lights at it and placing next to anything bioluminescent will do absolutely nothing. Power also has a priority system based on the order you placed them. Basically if you place solar panels on your base first then place a bioreactor, the bioreactor will only make power when the solar is spent during night. If you place the bioreactor first then place the solar the solar will only run when the bioreactor is empty. Because of this it's always best to place solar panels first or you're wasting resources. Beyond this you just need to think about the energy production rates. Solar is by far the weakest of these only producing around 30 energy per minute accounting for day and night and only having a capacity of 75 energy. The bioreactor has a bigger buffer of 500 energy, but the production rate is actually pretty slow at only 50 energy per minute so having heavy energy using items like the scanner room or water filter will require more than one bioreactor. A nuclear reactor in comparison basically beats everything for lunch with a capacity of 2500 and producing 250 energy per minute. Downside to that is that nuclear reactors are not cheap and the fuel kinda sucks to get.
NOT A SPOILER** Here are a cpl ideas u can use to power ur base more efficiently using what you have unlocked thus far. The Bioreactor is a great way to amp up early base builds, and will suffice your power needs for low energy components (Radio, fabricator, Battery charger, first aid, etc.). The Bioreactor will technically work if you fuel it using Mushrooms, but the better choice is to stock up on Peepers using a grav trap if needed, and feed these into the Bioreactor. They will last much much longer as fuel and rarely does it need to be attended to. I honestly do not know if it supplies more power, but I AM certain this simple swap will provide power longer than an acid mushroom. Chat pls share if peepers supply more power, or if just longer time. Also, add several solar panels as a fail safe if base has access too the sun. There may or may not be blueprints that provide you with the tools to supply all the power you will need, with minimal upkeep. I think you scanned Thermal Plant, u must build power transmitters to run the power to base... If you find a safe place hot enough to build 2nd base.... Alien Containment for ur base is much bigger in a large room, and u can make the containment taller by building additional rooms above, and then build the containment on 2nd floor too. you will thank me.
I think I figured out the power situation that work good enough thanks to all the comments under the previous vid. I’ll probably make a bigger containment unit though:)
@@MentalEiva U know that the game settings allow the option to pause the game when using the PDA? Since you will soon make a large room alien containment, you need to know. having 2 of the same fish species in a containment together will reproduce. be wary too many fish loaded into the game at the same time has caused me a huge drop in frame rate. maybe this has been fixed in a patch, i have not played in 12 months
Peepers last longer but the bio-reactor has a constant energy production rate no matter what source is used. In general the more "calories" something has the longer it lasts in the reactor (although of course we don't see the food value for things like acid mushrooms!). Peepers are excellent because they have a high food value. I don't want to spoil it but there are better fish that can be used. Fish can also be bred in captivity and multiply (hope that isn't too much of a spoiler).
SPOILER WARNING for talking about bioreactor functionality: Each plant seed, plant piece, egg, fish and some other stuff has a certain energy value. This does not mean that the reactor produces energy faster, it only lasts longer. The energy production rate is always one energy every 12 seconds regardless of fuel type. The worst energy source is gel sack seeds with a value of only 7 per seed - a bioreactor filled with 16 gel sack seeds only produces a total of 112 energy before it is empty. The best energy source is the Occulus (the small peeper relative from the Jellyshroom Cave) - each Occulus has an energy value of 630 and they only take up 1 space each for a total of 10.080 energy. Which means having a containment unit only for Occulus breeding is a good idea for the bioreactor. Peepers are pretty good as well. They have an energy value of 420; a reactor filled with 16 peepers has a total reserve capacity of 6720. Acid mushrooms have an energy value of 210 and therefore a reactor filled with 16 acid mushrooms is worth 3360. Personally I like to use Lantern tree fruits - they are not exactly the best ressource with a value of 210 anda total capacity of only 840 for a full reactor, but you can simply but a plant pot with a lantern tree next to the reactor and refuel whenever needed by simply picking a few more fruits due to the unlimited fruit production of lantern trees. It should be mentioned that the highest individual value is crabsquids and ampeels with 770 each, however due to their size they are not a great source because only a single one fits into the reactor. Occasionally I use hatched crabsquids as fuel because I really don't like these things. As a general rule: - Seeds are pretty terrible as fuel. The best ones are Writhing Weed seeds with a value of 140 each, for a total reserve of 2240. - Stuff from the "other" category (Sea Treader poop with a value of 300 but requires 4 space, lubricant value of 20 and stalker teeth value 70) is middling at best. - All coral samples are pretty bad with a value of 70 each. Brain Coral samples are the worst out of these because they also require 4 space, and Table Corals are wasted in the reactor because they are required for computer chips. - Eggs are a middling source; the larger eggs should be avoided because only 4 fit into the reactor but even the best eggs (Mesmer eggs with a value of 175 for a total of 2800) are one lower side. - Land plant samples are not the best either, but as mentioned above the ease of access compensates for that because you can grow them right next to the reactor. - Marine plants are only a middling ressource as well and they have to be grown outside, making them less valuable. - Fish are the best source, with large fish hatched in the containment being less valuable due to space requirements and edible fish being the best (including the occulus as best fuel possible). Second best is the Reginald with a value of 490 btw.
Ok, first and most importantly, you obviously have a gamer cat there, you should ask what she wants to play 😄 And in no particular order - With regards to farming, you found that you can put some things in the outdoor planters already fully-grown. The good thing with the shrooms is if you cut them when they're in the planter, you don't get the acid cloud so it's safer. I think the reinforced suit is protecting you from this, I don't think most people have that before they start farming! Secondly, you know how you can get three seeds from a Gel sack? If it's in the planter, you take two seeds, take it out and put it back in, it resets the count and you can get another two, and another, etc. You can fill up whole planters that way, but I can see how you could feel like it's cheating lol I love how you were drinking coffee at the same time as your character 😆 I had no idea you could punch the parasites, I always just sliced them off with the knife which I permanently have in quickslot 1 😄 You can stack alien containments in stacked rooms, that is, if you build them directly above each other they automatically connect 😁 I guess it's because you were forewarned, but I've never seen someone warped out of their vehicle for the first time so calm about it! Most people doing reactions are stunned/panicked and disoriented for a few seconds 😆 The PDA wasn't glitching. The guy just likes to read his knife instead sometimes, gripping by the burning hot blade. Everyone needs a hobby! I'm looking forward to the next episode, *finally* you encounter a reaper 😆
Completely off game topic here.. KITTY! We see a lot of your cat in your recordings so was just wondering what his/her name is? Also nothing quite like your first playthrough of Subnautica, an amazing experience I wish I could revisit.. Do enjoy it! Loving your playthrough😃👍
Hard way to learn that chopping stuff when your inventory is full destroys stuff and you get no seeds. Acid shrooms are usually under the blood vines out in the wild, and by themselves sometimes down deep in the lost river.
Slicing the plants inside is somewhat glitchy. You have to move around and keep slicing. Sometimes it seems you are further than you should be able to slice them. The devs did make the seed growing slightly less intuitive than other systems. I hope they fix it for Subnautica 2. Also I believe the blood oil has the one of the highest production rates inside the Bio-reactor. You're defo one of the less squeamish players I've watched ...keep exploring, you are getting there.
Whenever the large room update came out i went CRAZY with the alien tank, i build a 4 stories one, alternating sides, It was so cool. I also had a 7 stories regular multiporpose room iust bcs i wanted to see if theres was a limit to it
@@MentalEiva honestly i think you should just do a big one, bcs they will breed and fill it up. Also, i believe you should be able to build ladders in them, they can be tricky to snap sometimes.
@@MentalEiva that is exciting 😁 you’re in for an insane ride with Outer Wilds as well! Definitely avoid spoilers if you can with it, it’s quite the experience 🙂
Idk if u found out about this cause I am very behind on videos but if you put another room on top or bottom of the aquarium room than add another aquarium to the new rooms the aquariums should join together to make one big one.
You can see the Chinese potatoes around the base of the plant. If you take too many, you have to re-plant it, but if you only take the extra potatoes, the full grown plant will stay and grow more potatoes.
@@MentalEiva The melons are my favorite. They provide a lot of water and food, and they grow pretty quickly. In a small pot, you can plant 4 melons, knife one for the seeds, take the other three, plant the seeds for next time.
The way power works aand how its getting used in the habitats are abit strange and u cant really do mutch about it as the power dosent drain equally from all sources but instead based on in what order u build them. The way it works is that the first power generating item u build will always have its power consumed first and only when that is empty will the next get used. So if u got 2 solar cells u dubble your total power storage but the 2nd cell will do nothing untill the first is empty. This is important to know especially if your base happen to have 2 or more different power generation methods. If for example u have 1 passive power generator like a solar vell or a geothermal vent then try to build that first before u add a Bioreactor or a Nuclear reactor. That way u wont have to constantly be filling it up with bio resources becouse it wont be using its power untill the solar cells or the geothermal cant keep up. More so for the bioreactor becouse if u somehow managed to drain even just 1 nuclear rod from a reactor then well done to u. If u swap them around then the bioreactor will be first in the chain and constantly be draining its power and needs to be refilled while your passive power generator isent getting used atall untill the bioreactor runs dry.
You can hatch all of the creature eggs in one containment. They're docile if Only the other creatures stay inside the containment.. you interact or play ONLY with the cuddle fish if you release them outside the base.. please don't release the rest of the other eggs outside of your containment unit
@@MentalEiva 5 should be right. I found 4 of them and i think i do know where the 5th might be, but i tried to avoid that region 😅 They aren't easy to find though, the two you got now should be the easiest to find if you're playing it for the first time without spoilers.
You're doing great! But you have WAY TOO MANY reinforcements on your base. You only need AT MOST 2. A single reinforcement adds 7 hull integrity to your base. As long as your hull integrity is above 0 you won't get structural integrity problems. You aren't able to place the water filtration because it's colliding with the reinforcement on the wall. Just remove all but 3 of your reinforcements from your base and you'll be fine. Also - just have 1 multi-purpose room and 1 large room. Place the alien containment in the large room with a hatch. The alien containment will be much larger in the large room; you don't need that much base.* Also - craft the single potters for Marblemellon. It's much easier to chop them with your knife. As you found out, the indoor growbed makes it really hard to cut the marblemellons. Eat 3, then chop the 4th to make 4 seeds. Re-plant the seeds back into a single pot. Rinse and repeat. *NOTE: Not at all a reference to the Meghan Trainor song.
thank you! Yeah people have told me that that’s an overkill with reinforcements😂 but I didn’t know it was messing with the water filtration, good to know!
@@MentalEiva oh you'll know the Dunes because The PDA will tell you that "there are multiple Leviathan class creatures are you sure it is worth it?" There are 11 reaper leviathan's in that area
I freaked out the first time I heard that. I paused looked around and was immediately like aww crap directly behind me was a reaper up close and personal I was in the sea moth and high tailed it out of there at top speed. I was no way no how. That was huge scary and in my face. @@MentalEiva
cutting shrooms doesnt hurt u if they are already planted. u can plant an adult mushroom and then cut it for spores. the containment unit can hold 10 creatures. u can enlarge it if u build it in several floors stacked. creatures with 2 or more individuals will reproduce on their own. u can plant water plants in the containment unit, as it has a planter. at 50:45 why u dont scan the leech creature? ever? btw u should scan the glowing peepers there. u can kill the leeches easily with a knife...much simpler than anything else. u can cut the melons but its not always easy as your reach is limited. u dont need them in the water..or on the growbeds...but it might be easier. u can also plant creepvine seeds and grow your own creepvines! and yes also acid mushrooms...but there are plenty. i prefer to cut the gel sacks twice, plant those, then take the gel sack for use for aerogel. cutting it again will destroy it and give only 1 seed...which is not a good idea. u can also plant bulbo bushes for their water content. pretty nice. i would recommend oculus for bioreactor instead of gel sacks...but your choice. i would recommend storing the water u get and using it only on away missions. at your base u can eat your own grown food for water instead... cured reginalds are the best for away missions, or use the thermoblade to cook fish wherever u r. reginalds are usually near the pillars in the red grass areas. u should read about the stasis rifle and try it. try both quick shots and charged shots. i personally think quick shots are best to get a hit (ideally up close and to the head), and then follow up with a charged shot up close, for maximum duration.
Now that you're using alien containment, here's a few tips that can take a while to discover: If you put 2 of any species of food fish in there, they'll breed. This gives you an easy source of food in your base. Reginalds are one of the best for food value. Tanks can span multiple decks so if you stack a bunch of rooms and put containment tanks in each, they'll connect for a very deep tank. You get a larger oval shaped tank if you build in a large room. You can grow sea plants like gel sacks, blood kelp, or deep shrooms in them. When you hatch large fish like stalkers, sand sharks, or whatever, you can pick them up into your inventory and take them outside your base to release them. They tend to hang around your base and are not hostile towards you. (But may be towards other sea life) Hope this wasn't too spoilery.
@@MentalEiva Twitch is awesome, but I actually enjoy watching plays like this without the distraction of chat. I'm so glad you're doing it this way! It's distracting enough knowing you're on camera and having to talk! Thanks again for all the cheap entertainment.
@@OedwakYou may think that Twitch is awesome. I very much disagree. I think that Twitch is a toxic environment which attracts the worst kind of audience. Also, playing on a live stream means that the streamer will divert attention from the game to the audience, and that the audience will try to influence the streamer's playstyle and decisions. TH-cam backseating is bad enough, but it doesn't hold a candle to the junk going on during live streams. What's more, Twitch means that streamers need to follow schedules which causes pressure, stress, and time zone related problems. In short: I despise Twitch.
@@Lucius_DeBeers I guess I was trying to be a little bit diplomatic toward the twitch fans out there, but I'm really with you. I also wasn't making any comment about the business practices or anything. I should have just generalized my comments toward streaming in general regardless of platform. They're all pretty much evil!
Great video; hopefully you will experiment with the scanner room next time. Don't forget to use the 2 scanner room robots (name?), as they "seed" the areas they pass through for additional scanner detections. BTW, I would vote against you streaming your game-play. IMHO, TH-cam streamer VOD content is annoying to watch. One of the nice things about your play-through is that you are able to devote your full attention to the game, rather than being in constant conversation with chat (loaded with inane comments and bad game-play advice...).
I keep forgetting about scanner room😬 No worries, there’s no way I’m streaming any time soon, cause I don’t have the equipment for it and I think if I ever do that’s going to be games that I know very well or hogs😂
Hi! I played subnautica when it was in early access, and now it is the first time I play it as the complete game, what a difference... I found your videos and play it as you do, but your progress is so fast. I always try to get all technology available, before I go deeper. But not you, no, you dive in the deep, defenseless between terrifying monsters in total darkness. And you never forget to mention how scared you are, while you search the biggest dangers.😄 Its very funny to watch 👍. If you want to see something, that could scare you a little bit more, then take Francis and go to the Aurora at the point where you can enter the wreck. Then look north, the bottom of the ocean goes deeper there and seems barren, empty. There you hear it...a scream that lets you freeze. And then activate the sonar of Francis and look what it finds out there, not far away. 😱 I'm curious if you try to scan it...👀 I already know the game, but the atmosphere is always scary, they did a great job. Pretty, nice, colorful in daylight and the shallows, and the opposite in the deep. You said in Episode 6 or so, english is not your native language. Mine either, I'm german. Where do you live? (If you like to say it) There is nothing in the channel data. Oh, did you find out the thing with the base structure stability? There is a value for the structure, if you build something it changes this value, positive or negative, this is what you must be aware of. If it goes negative (-1 for example) the base collapses as you had it the first time with the large room. Then it is necessary to build a reinforcement, or more. Look in the blueprints, there you find the numbers and values. This playthrough is really entertaining und funny 😃😄 I try to keep up with you 👍
Thank you so much! Oh I went behind Aurora but I didn’t take Francis, was too scared to lose her😂 that episode is going to be up in a couple days. My accent is Russian, this is where I’m originally from:)
@@MentalEivait was wise not to take it there. actually their attracted to it and attack it well that and the sea glide. Your sooo super brave so your next video deals with run of my worst fears? That'll be a great video.😅
@@MentalEiva 😊 I'm sorry, I was wrong about the base integrity values, you don't find them in the blueprints! They are just displayed directly after you build something, for a few seconds. But you can look them up in the subnautica wiki website. 🤓
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*Sees a sand shark going crazy, trying to bite anything* "They are so cute! Well, cute may not be the right word to describe them. But I like their energy". Love that positivity XD
😂 I want to have them in my containment unit!
@@MentalEiva Their eggs are easy to find, but I won't tell you where. I think it's more fun like that.
in case people don't know: the original version of Subnautica didn't have recipe pinning, showing battery life with a bar, etc
All of that is from Subnautica Below Zero, which first introduced all those quality of life upgrades.
Later, the company updated the original Subnautica to also include all of those features.
It’s really nice that the devs are still constantly trying to make this game even better!
Also backported from _Below Zero_ are pointers to beacons on the edge of your vision as well as the large room blueprints. (You may have noticed the latter seemed to come out of nowhere when you scanned... I think it was the multipurpose room on the floating island? Yeah, that didn't happen originally. They had to make them "piggyback" that way, since there are no large rooms in the pre-built habitats you find in this one).
13:05 - the water filtration needs an empty outside wall. The reinforcement on that wall is blocking it.
thank you!
I think she went a little overboard with the reinforcements, TBH. It's not reality where you would need every square micron of the surface to be strong to withstand the pressure. The game has a fairly simple way of determining the integrity of a habitat: There is a single number that goes up when you build a reinforcement or foundation and down when you build anything else (by different amounts according to the item), and as long as that number is positive, the habitat won't spring a leak unless something rams into it. And the game gives you an update on the integrity every time you build or remove something that changes it, so you should be okay as long as you pay attention. Importantly, although depth does matter, for the most part _it doesn't matter where you build something in the base._ A reinforcement or foundation protects the whole base even if it's just in a corner somewhere. So there's no need to reinforce every single wall that you can.
The cuddle fish gets even cuter when you put it in open water; it'll stay near your habitat
"We have enough titanium"
Oh you sweet, sweet summer child.
😂😂😂
Small QoL hint: If you knife mature Gel Sacks only twice (!), you will collect two seeds as expected, and the remaining sack can still be picked up and used to fuel your bioreactor. That's a bit more efficient than stabbing the Gel Sacks until they pop.
Didn’t think of that either, but that makes sense😅
@@MentalEiva I think that from a technical standpoint, it qualifies as a minor exploit of the game mechanics. Speaking of which, one of the better known exploits in Subnautica is that one can craft using empty batteries (empty batteries plus rubber equals charged powercell). Helpful in early game.
Drone dupe exploit is so good simply by rebuilding the scanner room, some simple non game breaking oversights by the devs
Your happiness thanks to and love of the babies made me so happy! Hatching the eggs is so fun and exciting!!
They’re the best! I now want to have a bigger containment and more of them😭😂
@@MentalEiva I don't know if anyone mentioned it already, but if you build another room directly on top with another containment unit, they will connect into one big one!!! 🤩
You can't build the water filtration machine on walls with reinforcements. Also, your cuddlefish would probably be even happier outside of the alien cont. unit. 🙂
Yesss it was the best decision to let it out although I was very worried!
@@MentalEiva Also, you can release any creature that's hatched inside the containment unit, and none will be agressive toward you. But it can cause a mess with other fishes around, of course. For example, don't ever release crashfishes near you base :D
Try setting your mouse a little less sensitive might help in thighs doorway etc
@@scallach or crabsquids. Or if you do, save first then see what it does (unless you didn't want that base anyway) 😆
Three tips that you may or may not have come across yet:
1 - You found the blueprint for "Swim Charge Fins" at some point. They charge handheld items (flashlight, etc.), while you swim. Not too exciting, BUT... the Seaglide counts as a handheld item, and you actually charge the Seaglide *faster* than the battery drains. The Seaglide will never lose power while wearing those fins. Also, you can put a really low battery in the Seaglide (from another device) and charge that battery while swimming around, and put the fully-charged battery that was in the Seaglide into that other device. It's basically a portable battery charger.
2 - Salt. Another use for salt is to make "cured" foods, instead of cooking them. Cured foods take away a little bit of water (only like -2), but the foods last forever - they will never spoil.
3 - You can put up to 4 storage modules in the Seamoth, to give you a total of 64 extra storage spaces (each module is 4x4, or 16 total spaces). If you're just going to go to the island to collect a bunch of fruit, or various items, and you don't plan on diving to deep areas, this can be a good configuration for something like that. Also, you can bring along the depth module with you, in case you decided you want or need to go below 200m. Those modules can be swapped out anywhere, so as long as it's with you (in your inventory, etc.), you can just swap it out as needed/on the fly.
Ohhh, thank you! That’s definitely some new info for me!
I recommend taking a sample of every plant you find and planting it! You never know what might come in handy! The membrain tree is one of my favorites too - I always have a few planted outside my base 😊
There is one plant you might not want to put near your base. I did that once. Once. It should be easy to guess which one but... trying it can be entertaining anyway!
@@Oedwak nah, who doesn’t like to live dangerously? 😂
Try some mushrooms from the mushroom forest.
That’s exactly what I did next time!
@@Oedwakas long as you have the reinforced suit, they don't hurt you
Another fun episode. Had me stress eating chips when you left your seamoth with the lights turned on at the degassi habitat at 500m. Luckily the emp guy were more focused on your flashlight than the seamoth. Also fun seing you warped out of your seamoth, and yes, that can be quite stressful.
Tips below, no story spoilers:
For a cheap outdoor lighting solution for your base, you may plant some creepwine Seed clusters. But don't overdo it as it can be quite bright.
And the aquarium can hold quite a few smaller fish. I have a few cuddlefishes in my aquarium now, along with a crash fish and some more fishes. You also might want to explore inside the aquarium, middle bottom, a bit.
thank you sm, that was a fun experience that I would like to never go through again😂 and thank you for the tips, that’s very handy!
I love creep vine lighting, especially deeper down where they can be really atmospheric ^_^
Bit odd that they can be blinding in a multipurpose room with no windows though 😆
Yes! Cuddlefish! I am way too excited about seeing the cuddlefish.
They made me so happy!!
@MentalEiva , command the Cuddle fish to stop following you if you go to the depths of the Lost river...
They kinda look appetizing for predators🤭😁
Haven't looked that far into the episode yet, in case you may have figured it out. Make another room above your alien chamber and then create another alien chamber in it. Be amazed!
The ability to pin blueprints was added to the game after the release of Subnautica Below Zero which had them first. The same patch added the status bars to inventory icons for battery charge or food spoilage. (also first seen in BZ)
There's a few different ways to charge power cells for your seamoth. First, when you find and scan fragments, you can build a charger for them. Second, put a dead cell into your seamoth when it's below the moonpool. You should still be able to ascend and when it's picked up by the moonpool the base will charge the cell in it. Third, you could build the solar charger for the seamoth and leave it parked near the surface. As each cell charges, swap it out for a dead one so you have spares for deep dives.
thanks! I think I’ve found the charger so I might build that as well if I don’t forget
33:07 - *“Oh, I forgot that one bleach water gives you two; I made a lot of it. Well. That means that we're not gonna die.”*
Whoah! Are you sure you want to tempt the fates like this? 😉
34:27 - *“Let's check on our babies.”*
Others have probably already told you this, but when you go into the alien containment unit, you can pick up the cuddlefish and release it in the ocean outside your habitat. It will remain there, and you can now interact with it. It's _adorable._
36:40 - *“Wait, don't go too close.”*
Good instincts. I have lost several Seamoths from them clipping into the terrain and becoming inaccessible, before I learned this habit.
44:44 - *“I'm taking all the water, though. There is no way I'm leaving anything.”*
"Once died of thirst, twice shy," as the old saying goes. 😉
57:34 - *_“Nooo!_** Fuck.”*
And now you know why everyone hates those annoying warpers. They teleport you straight out of your safe metal cocoon and in front of their creepy scythe-hands, _just_ when you thought you were getting away.
The bioreactor always produces 50 units of energy per minute. Different plants and fish have different amounts of energy content, which means that they last longer or shorter, under the extraction rate of 50/min, but they do not cause the reactor to produce more energy or do it faster.
You can also release manually caught fish into the containment unit. If you have two or more of the same type of fish in it, they can start multiplying in there, up to a certain space limit.
Thank you so much! The warpers are my number 1 enemy right now, so annoying😂
I like to build the Alien Containment in the Large Room instead of the Multipurpose Room. It's bigger, but also there's more space around the hatch so I don't get stuck just walking around.
I want to have that too but I’m a little hesitant to grind the resources for the large room again😅
@@MentalEiva - oh, and remember to use the mousewheel or [ ] to rotate the large room when you place it.
@@MentalEiva You can expand the container in hight: build it up on another (you need the added up building too of course)
I usually put a pair of peepers or reginalds in there so they breed. Cured reginalds are good for those long expeditions.
Those bleeder things that latch onto your arm, a knife makes short work of them.
In an emergency, gel sacks are edible and give you a little water. They don't decompose in storage.
The repulsion cannon works on monsters.
Lantern fruit is great for the base......You can place the fruit in the bio reactor and you don't need to replant it. It is also a great source of food I think. melons are liquid but need harvesting with a knife to get seeds.
i find melons and bulbo bush to be the best food and water sources. for food on the way, cured reginalds are ideal. for bioreactor, oculus are the best.
When the Warper teleports you, you can attack him with your knife.
^ This is the way.
Didn’t think of that, thank you!
If you placed the deepshroom in the planter before you hit it, it wouldn't have hurt you. You can plant the fully grown plant just like the seeds just as storage.
Acid mushrooms are actually pretty good as far as energy sources go if you're trying to keep your base vegan. I'd use the gravtrap and load it up with peepers and garyfish, but growing acid mushrooms in a grow bed works too.
i love the cuddlefish! you can play with him if you put him outside!
Omg!!! That’s great news!
@@MentalEiva Make sure you tell them to not follow you everywhere though! You also missed another alien tablet (if I remember correctly) in the same room where the second cuddlefish was. An orange one.
@@patrickdoh6589 i took the orange tablet the first time, no worries!
@@MentalEiva Always scan a new tablet before taking it, otherwise you don't get a recipe to make more. Luckily that one you don't need any more of, others you will need more. You can always drop an item somewhere safe to scan it.
@@MentalEiva Awesome! Oh and I subbed, sorry for being late!
You can hatch all eggs in the containment unit - all fish are passive towards the player character as well as each other as long as they are in the containment. When released into the wilds they stay passive towards the player (with one exception: the Crabsquid which turns hostile immediately and behaves like regular crabsquids when released) but resume their normal behaviour towards other fish. Cuddle fish in particular should be released into the wild because you can interact with them outside the base.
The pinning of recipes was originally just a function in Below Zero but was integrated into the first game with the Live Large update that also added the large room.
Edit: Alien containments built in large rooms are much bigger in size. You can also expand the size of the contaiment by building another room on top and another containment inside - the containments will connect into one large unit, also increasing the amount of creatures you can have inside. This is repeatable which means you can make your containment unit really big if you want to.
You can also plant some plants inside - the floor of the containment is actually a growbed.
Edit 2: You can take seeds from a large variety of plants, both land and sea based. In addition to the ones used for crafting or food you can make really pretty gardens with a good mixture of plants.
Knifing mushrooms that are planted in a growbed does not hurt you btw.
Edit 3: It was a good decision to go to the Aurora early - not because you loose it eventually though. The reason why it is important is that the radiation zone does actually expand over time. If the drive core is not repaired and given enough time the radiation zone eventually covers the entire map.
Edit 4: Before using the scanner room - build the scanner room hud chip at the console in the scanner room. You can also upgrade the room itself - I wouldn't bother with a speed upgrade though (the scan speed is more than fast enough anyway making this upgrade pretty useless) and use 4 range upgrades instead.
thank you so much! That makes things a little more clear, we’re building a big containment unit then for everybody!
Thank you, I'm enjoying your playthrough. I was distracted during the first few minutes waiting for your cat to fall off the chair with all that vigorous rubbing.
I love cats and I was distracted by the playthrough from the cat😂,. Tell us their name
Ahh yep, that’s Baska the cat, she has some serious sand shark energy sometimes😂
I really enjoy this more relaxed videos. Building, organizing, collecting, that kind of stuff. Thanks.
I don't remember why you decided to remove the large room. It's particularly useful for the alien containments. In large rooms, they are bigger. If you make two floors and place one alien containment just on top of another, they combine, so you can get even more space. That's true for both, large rooms and multipurpose rooms.
I think you may enjoy more space to keep your creatures.
Also, you can create dividers inside large rooms, thin walls to separate it into smaller rooms so you feel better inside.
Some Subnautica players find the large rooms too big. But I can't live without them XD, I really enjoy the extra space. It's much better than making some complicated laberinth to keep all your stuff. In one large room you can place both the alien containment facility and a biorreactor, and you probably have still space for the water filtration machine. That's comfort, don't let people tell you otherwise :D
I got rid of it when I was making reinforcements not knowing that the whole base is already reinforced, so I’m thinking to get that large room back now:)
Put powercell in your seamoth and put it in moonpool.....It will recharge. You can also just unlock the powercell charger. By searching through wrecks.
She got this at the end of this video, just needs to build it.
Yep, Tony mentioned it, but I’ve found the power cell charger:)
Seamoth sonar - one of the most useful upgrades imo 😊
Btw. if you are concerned that the alien containment is too small, you can make it bigger. If you place another room on top of the current one and put a containment inside, they will actually connect. Also the alien containment in the large room is bigger.
Excellent tip! And with them stacked there is more room for... er... something to grow from the bottom. I think that's vague enough.
Yesss, I’ll eventually expand it to a large room and stack it, cause I want to have sand sharks!
I recommend collecting seeds or samples from every weird plant you find, even the ones that don't seem to have a purpose.
A few of them become useful in the late game and you'll have to make long trips all over to get those plants unless you have an example in you main base garden.
Wow that’s exactly what I did in the next episode!
Good instincts. I'm looking forward to the episode.
Putting just two of any fish in an alien containment will allow them to breed. Meaning, endless food without the hunt. The containment unit is larger in a large room and it can fit two of them
Grav trap kinda solves the issue too, but thanks for the tip!
@@MentalEiva gotta leave the hab for that and it's not always useful when building your next base in deeper water
New subnautica video dropped, i can go and eat then. Rly fun playthrough btw, keep it up.
thank you✨
I'm not sure if you've noticed yet, or if anybody has mentioned it, but when you're placing a building item (a room piece, solar panel, etc.), if you use the mouse scroll wheel, you can rotate the item to face a different direction before you start building it.
Yep, I know about this one thanks!
The large room and the glass domes for the large room and the multipurpose room as well as the feature to pin recipes are features backported from subnautica below zero. That's why you got all these blueprints when you scanned the multipurpose room. Originally you would just get the M.P. room. Also when you build the alien containment unit inside the large room, you get a bigger one, but that's also not original, of course.
Ohhh, got it!
Hehe, theres so much to do in this game, it's easy to get "sidetracked" with any particular activity whether that is exploring, farming, collecting, organising or building...
Yesss and it’s all interesting on it’s own:)
3 things you need to play subnautica.
1. An inquisitive mind
2. Good planning
3. A f*ck tonne of titanium
You don't need so many reinforcements. You just need to keep the base structure balance above zero. Windows, hatches, filtration machines, something other items that mentioned that reduced structure should be taken into account. I believe you have 60+ points right now, so you can remove some of reinforcements. In the episode with large room after you put just first reinforcement it was enough and you was need just to fix holes with repair tool.
You can't put water filtration machine on a wall with reinforcement.
About power. Everything that consumes power, consumes it with a speed, and total speed can be higher than the sources are producing. To keep power balance, your sources (bioreactors, solar cells, etc.) should produce power with either higher speed, or with a speed enough to live temporarily when they off (e.g. solar cells not generating at night). Sources has a capacity, like accumulators, you might have already noticed - 1 solar cell adds 75, 1 bioreactor adds 500, I don't remember about the others. The built order is matter. If bioreactor was build first and then power cells, it takes energy from bioreactor's accumulator first, so that the solar cells are not working for you until the bioreactor's accumulator is empty (that means your bioreactor is empty already). Do a planning.
You might have noticed that everything that fabricates something, consumes few points of power. Battery charger - too. Moonpool consumes when it powers up the docked transport, e.g. your seamoth.
And... there is a mention about power consumption of water filtration machine in the databank. ;)
lots of people already said what im about to say, so maybe my advice is to built some lights around your base so you can see your base better in the night. not super important but I always like to see my base in the night with some lights.
Oh yeah, good idea!
Okay here is something you should know
The Prawn Suit has 4 arms
The torpedo arm which just does what the name says
The propulsion arm which is just like the a more powerful propulsion cannon but it can also shoot things that you have stored in the Prawn so you might accidentally shoot something important and never find it again
The grappling arm which acts as a grappling hook
The drill which drills large clusters of resources you find around the map and is the only arm besides the base arm which does melee damage
Note: other than the base arm non of the arms can pick stuff up
Nice, thank you!! I’ll built the prawn suit when I build cyclops!
@MentalEiva , you can Plant big indoor plants besides, the edible fruit trees. it only need 4 huge plants to power your bioreactor. Visit periodically to replenish the power source of plants on it.. it takes too much time collecting acid mushroom 16 slots to fill
I played this game too much. Could tell the creature by looking at the egg. Looks like you are properly set up.
Power in subnautica is actually pretty simple to understand. First off, location for solar panels changes nothing. Solar energy output in the game is purely based on depth placed with a slight change based on the biome you placed it in. Shining lights at it and placing next to anything bioluminescent will do absolutely nothing.
Power also has a priority system based on the order you placed them. Basically if you place solar panels on your base first then place a bioreactor, the bioreactor will only make power when the solar is spent during night. If you place the bioreactor first then place the solar the solar will only run when the bioreactor is empty. Because of this it's always best to place solar panels first or you're wasting resources.
Beyond this you just need to think about the energy production rates. Solar is by far the weakest of these only producing around 30 energy per minute accounting for day and night and only having a capacity of 75 energy. The bioreactor has a bigger buffer of 500 energy, but the production rate is actually pretty slow at only 50 energy per minute so having heavy energy using items like the scanner room or water filter will require more than one bioreactor. A nuclear reactor in comparison basically beats everything for lunch with a capacity of 2500 and producing 250 energy per minute. Downside to that is that nuclear reactors are not cheap and the fuel kinda sucks to get.
Yep, people have already explained it to me in the comments but thanks for the tips!
29:25 if you want to make that look better, you could get the "build snap mod", it just makes it so building stuff looks better
NOT A SPOILER**
Here are a cpl ideas u can use to power ur base more efficiently using what you have unlocked thus far. The Bioreactor is a great way to amp up early base builds, and will suffice your power needs for low energy components (Radio, fabricator, Battery charger, first aid, etc.). The Bioreactor will technically work if you fuel it using Mushrooms, but the better choice is to stock up on Peepers using a grav trap if needed, and feed these into the Bioreactor. They will last much much longer as fuel and rarely does it need to be attended to. I honestly do not know if it supplies more power, but I AM certain this simple swap will provide power longer than an acid mushroom. Chat pls share if peepers supply more power, or if just longer time. Also, add several solar panels as a fail safe if base has access too the sun.
There may or may not be blueprints that provide you with the tools to supply all the power you will need, with minimal upkeep. I think you scanned Thermal Plant, u must build power transmitters to run the power to base... If you find a safe place hot enough to build 2nd base....
Alien Containment for ur base is much bigger in a large room, and u can make the containment taller by building additional rooms above, and then build the containment on 2nd floor too. you will thank me.
I think I figured out the power situation that work good enough thanks to all the comments under the previous vid. I’ll probably make a bigger containment unit though:)
@@MentalEiva U know that the game settings allow the option to pause the game when using the PDA?
Since you will soon make a large room alien containment, you need to know. having 2 of the same fish species in a containment together will reproduce. be wary too many fish loaded into the game at the same time has caused me a huge drop in frame rate. maybe this has been fixed in a patch, i have not played in 12 months
Peepers last longer but the bio-reactor has a constant energy production rate no matter what source is used. In general the more "calories" something has the longer it lasts in the reactor (although of course we don't see the food value for things like acid mushrooms!). Peepers are excellent because they have a high food value. I don't want to spoil it but there are better fish that can be used. Fish can also be bred in captivity and multiply (hope that isn't too much of a spoiler).
@@Oedwak Reggies are great.
SPOILER WARNING for talking about bioreactor functionality:
Each plant seed, plant piece, egg, fish and some other stuff has a certain energy value. This does not mean that the reactor produces energy faster, it only lasts longer. The energy production rate is always one energy every 12 seconds regardless of fuel type.
The worst energy source is gel sack seeds with a value of only 7 per seed - a bioreactor filled with 16 gel sack seeds only produces a total of 112 energy before it is empty.
The best energy source is the Occulus (the small peeper relative from the Jellyshroom Cave) - each Occulus has an energy value of 630 and they only take up 1 space each for a total of 10.080 energy. Which means having a containment unit only for Occulus breeding is a good idea for the bioreactor.
Peepers are pretty good as well. They have an energy value of 420; a reactor filled with 16 peepers has a total reserve capacity of 6720.
Acid mushrooms have an energy value of 210 and therefore a reactor filled with 16 acid mushrooms is worth 3360.
Personally I like to use Lantern tree fruits - they are not exactly the best ressource with a value of 210 anda total capacity of only 840 for a full reactor, but you can simply but a plant pot with a lantern tree next to the reactor and refuel whenever needed by simply picking a few more fruits due to the unlimited fruit production of lantern trees.
It should be mentioned that the highest individual value is crabsquids and ampeels with 770 each, however due to their size they are not a great source because only a single one fits into the reactor. Occasionally I use hatched crabsquids as fuel because I really don't like these things.
As a general rule:
- Seeds are pretty terrible as fuel. The best ones are Writhing Weed seeds with a value of 140 each, for a total reserve of 2240.
- Stuff from the "other" category (Sea Treader poop with a value of 300 but requires 4 space, lubricant value of 20 and stalker teeth value 70) is middling at best.
- All coral samples are pretty bad with a value of 70 each. Brain Coral samples are the worst out of these because they also require 4 space, and Table Corals are wasted in the reactor because they are required for computer chips.
- Eggs are a middling source; the larger eggs should be avoided because only 4 fit into the reactor but even the best eggs (Mesmer eggs with a value of 175 for a total of 2800) are one lower side.
- Land plant samples are not the best either, but as mentioned above the ease of access compensates for that because you can grow them right next to the reactor.
- Marine plants are only a middling ressource as well and they have to be grown outside, making them less valuable.
- Fish are the best source, with large fish hatched in the containment being less valuable due to space requirements and edible fish being the best (including the occulus as best fuel possible). Second best is the Reginald with a value of 490 btw.
Ok, first and most importantly, you obviously have a gamer cat there, you should ask what she wants to play 😄
And in no particular order -
With regards to farming, you found that you can put some things in the outdoor planters already fully-grown. The good thing with the shrooms is if you cut them when they're in the planter, you don't get the acid cloud so it's safer. I think the reinforced suit is protecting you from this, I don't think most people have that before they start farming!
Secondly, you know how you can get three seeds from a Gel sack? If it's in the planter, you take two seeds, take it out and put it back in, it resets the count and you can get another two, and another, etc. You can fill up whole planters that way, but I can see how you could feel like it's cheating lol
I love how you were drinking coffee at the same time as your character 😆
I had no idea you could punch the parasites, I always just sliced them off with the knife which I permanently have in quickslot 1 😄
You can stack alien containments in stacked rooms, that is, if you build them directly above each other they automatically connect 😁
I guess it's because you were forewarned, but I've never seen someone warped out of their vehicle for the first time so calm about it! Most people doing reactions are stunned/panicked and disoriented for a few seconds 😆
The PDA wasn't glitching. The guy just likes to read his knife instead sometimes, gripping by the burning hot blade. Everyone needs a hobby!
I'm looking forward to the next episode, *finally* you encounter a reaper 😆
thank you so much! I don’t remember if anyone warned/spoiled me about the warpers, it might’ve been just a fight or flight response😂
@@MentalEiva You mention in the video that someone commented on it ☺
When's the cat creating a channel? 🤔😛
@@neural_jam ah then it was spoiled yeah. My cats don’t need another channels, they already occupied mine:)
The Reinforcement was in the way of the water filtration system.
Makes sense now, thank you!
Completely off game topic here.. KITTY! We see a lot of your cat in your recordings so was just wondering what his/her name is?
Also nothing quite like your first playthrough of Subnautica, an amazing experience I wish I could revisit.. Do enjoy it! Loving your playthrough😃👍
I have 2 cats, the one in this video is Baska and the smaller grey/peach colored one is Motka! They are both girls:)
Thank you so much🫶🏻✨
I put the cuddlefish into my bioreactor.
Your average Alterra employee ⬆️
Congratulations you contributed to the extinction of cuddlefish, what do have to say
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Hard way to learn that chopping stuff when your inventory is full destroys stuff and you get no seeds.
Acid shrooms are usually under the blood vines out in the wild, and by themselves sometimes down deep in the lost river.
Yep, but I got them back next episode exactly from the Lost river😅
Slicing the plants inside is somewhat glitchy. You have to move around and keep slicing. Sometimes it seems you are further than you should be able to slice them. The devs did make the seed growing slightly less intuitive than other systems. I hope they fix it for Subnautica 2. Also I believe the blood oil has the one of the highest production rates inside the Bio-reactor. You're defo one of the less squeamish players I've watched ...keep exploring, you are getting there.
thank you sm, I’ll plant more blood oil then!
Whenever the large room update came out i went CRAZY with the alien tank, i build a 4 stories one, alternating sides, It was so cool. I also had a 7 stories regular multiporpose room iust bcs i wanted to see if theres was a limit to it
Omg, that sounds so fun! I was thinking to build more floors, but I didn’t know how to use them😅
@@MentalEiva honestly i think you should just do a big one, bcs they will breed and fill it up. Also, i believe you should be able to build ladders in them, they can be tricky to snap sometimes.
I made bigger containments further in the playthrough, not sure you saw that yet:)
@@MentalEiva i'm working trough them, just started a few days ago and i'm kinda addicted ahaha i even started to play subnautica again T-T
@@murilowsful understandable! I want to make more bases everywhere and that also doesn’t seem healthy😂
Eivaaa I need to see you playing "Still Wakes The Deep" and "Subnautica Below Zero" after the Subnautica gameplay ofcc
Below zero is definitely in the plans! I’ll put Still wakes the deep in the list as well:)
@@MentalEivaOuter Wilds 🤞
@@TrayTerra this one comes right after Subnautica:)
@@MentalEiva that is exciting 😁 you’re in for an insane ride with Outer Wilds as well! Definitely avoid spoilers if you can with it, it’s quite the experience 🙂
@@MentalEiva Pleasee avoid spoilers from Still Wakes The Deep, coz it haves a really nice story :) (but it's a horror game btw, idk if you'll like it)
Idk if u found out about this cause I am very behind on videos but if you put another room on top or bottom of the aquarium room than add another aquarium to the new rooms the aquariums should join together to make one big one.
I hit the gel sacks with the knife for seeds before picking them up.
That’s way more convenient, I should try that too:)
You can see the Chinese potatoes around the base of the plant. If you take too many, you have to re-plant it, but if you only take the extra potatoes, the full grown plant will stay and grow more potatoes.
Ohhh, got it now! I think I replanted some in the next episode
@@MentalEiva The melons are my favorite. They provide a lot of water and food, and they grow pretty quickly. In a small pot, you can plant 4 melons, knife one for the seeds, take the other three, plant the seeds for next time.
u couldn't put the water filtration machine on those walls cuz the walls had reinforcements :)
got it now, thanks!
you should read what the pda says about the Cuddlefish!
Oh yeah!!!! Completely forgot to do that, thank you!
If you don't know how to use something you built, remember you have a databank with information about a lot of things.
Yesss didn’t even open it this time, need to remember about it:)
The way power works aand how its getting used in the habitats are abit strange and u cant really do mutch about it as the power dosent drain equally from all sources but instead based on in what order u build them. The way it works is that the first power generating item u build will always have its power consumed first and only when that is empty will the next get used. So if u got 2 solar cells u dubble your total power storage but the 2nd cell will do nothing untill the first is empty. This is important to know especially if your base happen to have 2 or more different power generation methods. If for example u have 1 passive power generator like a solar vell or a geothermal vent then try to build that first before u add a Bioreactor or a Nuclear reactor. That way u wont have to constantly be filling it up with bio resources becouse it wont be using its power untill the solar cells or the geothermal cant keep up. More so for the bioreactor becouse if u somehow managed to drain even just 1 nuclear rod from a reactor then well done to u. If u swap them around then the bioreactor will be first in the chain and constantly be draining its power and needs to be refilled while your passive power generator isent getting used atall untill the bioreactor runs dry.
Enjoying these a lot. Super chill. Do you stream btw?
thanks a lot! No streams for now, but maybe in the future:)
@MentalEiva , There are 3 in total cuddle fish eggs in the game. I think you missed one beside the alien containment at the proposed Degassi habitat
I got it in the end of episode 7, I’ve seen comments about 5 cuddle fish eggs though
You can hatch all of the creature eggs in one containment. They're docile if Only the other creatures stay inside the containment..
you interact or play ONLY with the cuddle fish if you release them outside the base..
please don't release the rest of the other eggs outside of your containment unit
@MentalEiva , if you want another, you can have a larger containment unit in a large room,; if you only love to?
I am superfly enjoying the playthrough 👍😬
@@MentalEiva 5 should be right. I found 4 of them and i think i do know where the 5th might be, but i tried to avoid that region 😅
They aren't easy to find though, the two you got now should be the easiest to find if you're playing it for the first time without spoilers.
You're doing great! But you have WAY TOO MANY reinforcements on your base. You only need AT MOST 2. A single reinforcement adds 7 hull integrity to your base. As long as your hull integrity is above 0 you won't get structural integrity problems. You aren't able to place the water filtration because it's colliding with the reinforcement on the wall. Just remove all but 3 of your reinforcements from your base and you'll be fine. Also - just have 1 multi-purpose room and 1 large room. Place the alien containment in the large room with a hatch. The alien containment will be much larger in the large room; you don't need that much base.* Also - craft the single potters for Marblemellon. It's much easier to chop them with your knife. As you found out, the indoor growbed makes it really hard to cut the marblemellons. Eat 3, then chop the 4th to make 4 seeds. Re-plant the seeds back into a single pot. Rinse and repeat.
*NOTE: Not at all a reference to the Meghan Trainor song.
thank you! Yeah people have told me that that’s an overkill with reinforcements😂 but I didn’t know it was messing with the water filtration, good to know!
There is a Cuddle fish in the Dunes.... If ur brave enough to get it
What’s the Dunes, how do I find it?
@@MentalEiva oh you'll know the Dunes because The PDA will tell you that "there are multiple Leviathan class creatures are you sure it is worth it?" There are 11 reaper leviathan's in that area
@@jackjokers3533 oh how wonderful😭😭
I freaked out the first time I heard that. I paused looked around and was immediately like aww crap directly behind me was a reaper up close and personal I was in the sea moth and high tailed it out of there at top speed. I was no way no how. That was huge scary and in my face. @@MentalEiva
@@AmandaRoberts-bi6tm sounds horrible😭 but the cuddle fish though…
cutting shrooms doesnt hurt u if they are already planted. u can plant an adult mushroom and then cut it for spores.
the containment unit can hold 10 creatures. u can enlarge it if u build it in several floors stacked.
creatures with 2 or more individuals will reproduce on their own.
u can plant water plants in the containment unit, as it has a planter.
at 50:45 why u dont scan the leech creature? ever? btw u should scan the glowing peepers there.
u can kill the leeches easily with a knife...much simpler than anything else.
u can cut the melons but its not always easy as your reach is limited. u dont need them in the water..or on the growbeds...but it might be easier.
u can also plant creepvine seeds and grow your own creepvines! and yes also acid mushrooms...but there are plenty.
i prefer to cut the gel sacks twice, plant those, then take the gel sack for use for aerogel. cutting it again will destroy it and give only 1 seed...which is not a good idea.
u can also plant bulbo bushes for their water content. pretty nice. i would recommend oculus for bioreactor instead of gel sacks...but your choice.
i would recommend storing the water u get and using it only on away missions. at your base u can eat your own grown food for water instead...
cured reginalds are the best for away missions, or use the thermoblade to cook fish wherever u r.
reginalds are usually near the pillars in the red grass areas.
u should read about the stasis rifle and try it. try both quick shots and charged shots. i personally think quick shots are best to get a hit (ideally up close and to the head), and then follow up with a charged shot up close, for maximum duration.
Oh you’re in for a treat with next episode and the stasis rifle😂
You can grab two coffees at once ;-)
whaaaaat I need to check that next time!
The cat is so cute in the headphones, what's her/his name??
Not sure which one you saw in this video, I’ve got 2 of them - Baska and Motka:)
Now that you're using alien containment, here's a few tips that can take a while to discover:
If you put 2 of any species of food fish in there, they'll breed. This gives you an easy source of food in your base. Reginalds are one of the best for food value.
Tanks can span multiple decks so if you stack a bunch of rooms and put containment tanks in each, they'll connect for a very deep tank.
You get a larger oval shaped tank if you build in a large room.
You can grow sea plants like gel sacks, blood kelp, or deep shrooms in them.
When you hatch large fish like stalkers, sand sharks, or whatever, you can pick them up into your inventory and take them outside your base to release them. They tend to hang around your base and are not hostile towards you. (But may be towards other sea life)
Hope this wasn't too spoilery.
Thank you! Good to know about creatures behavior in and out of the containment!
What's your twitch?
I don’t have a twitch channel
@@MentalEiva Twitch is awesome, but I actually enjoy watching plays like this without the distraction of chat. I'm so glad you're doing it this way! It's distracting enough knowing you're on camera and having to talk! Thanks again for all the cheap entertainment.
Did I say cheap? I mean inexpensive! There's a difference! This is *quality* entertainment at a low price!
@@OedwakYou may think that Twitch is awesome. I very much disagree. I think that Twitch is a toxic environment which attracts the worst kind of audience. Also, playing on a live stream means that the streamer will divert attention from the game to the audience, and that the audience will try to influence the streamer's playstyle and decisions. TH-cam backseating is bad enough, but it doesn't hold a candle to the junk going on during live streams. What's more, Twitch means that streamers need to follow schedules which causes pressure, stress, and time zone related problems. In short: I despise Twitch.
@@Lucius_DeBeers I guess I was trying to be a little bit diplomatic toward the twitch fans out there, but I'm really with you. I also wasn't making any comment about the business practices or anything. I should have just generalized my comments toward streaming in general regardless of platform. They're all pretty much evil!
Great video; hopefully you will experiment with the scanner room next time. Don't forget to use the 2 scanner room robots (name?), as they "seed" the areas they pass through for additional scanner detections.
BTW, I would vote against you streaming your game-play. IMHO, TH-cam streamer VOD content is annoying to watch. One of the nice things about your play-through is that you are able to devote your full attention to the game, rather than being in constant conversation with chat (loaded with inane comments and bad game-play advice...).
I keep forgetting about scanner room😬
No worries, there’s no way I’m streaming any time soon, cause I don’t have the equipment for it and I think if I ever do that’s going to be games that I know very well or hogs😂
Hi! I played subnautica when it was in early access, and now it is the first time I play it as the complete game, what a difference... I found your videos and play it as you do, but your progress is so fast. I always try to get all technology available, before I go deeper.
But not you, no, you dive in the deep, defenseless between terrifying monsters in total darkness. And you never forget to mention how scared you are, while you search the biggest dangers.😄
Its very funny to watch 👍.
If you want to see something, that could scare you a little bit more, then take Francis and go to the Aurora at the point where you can enter the wreck. Then look north, the bottom of the ocean goes deeper there and seems barren, empty. There you hear it...a scream that lets you freeze. And then activate the sonar of Francis and look what it finds out there, not far away. 😱
I'm curious if you try to scan it...👀
I already know the game, but the atmosphere is always scary, they did a great job. Pretty, nice, colorful in daylight and the shallows, and the opposite in the deep.
You said in Episode 6 or so, english is not your native language. Mine either, I'm german. Where do you live? (If you like to say it) There is nothing in the channel data.
Oh, did you find out the thing with the base structure stability? There is a value for the structure, if you build something it changes this value, positive or negative, this is what you must be aware of. If it goes negative (-1 for example) the base collapses as you had it the first time with the large room. Then it is necessary to build a reinforcement, or more. Look in the blueprints, there you find the numbers and values.
This playthrough is really entertaining und funny 😃😄 I try to keep up with you 👍
Thank you so much! Oh I went behind Aurora but I didn’t take Francis, was too scared to lose her😂 that episode is going to be up in a couple days.
My accent is Russian, this is where I’m originally from:)
@@MentalEivait was wise not to take it there. actually their attracted to it and attack it well that and the sea glide. Your sooo super brave so your next video deals with run of my worst fears? That'll be a great video.😅
@@MentalEiva 😊 I'm sorry, I was wrong about the base integrity values, you don't find them in the blueprints! They are just displayed directly after you build something, for a few seconds. But you can look them up in the subnautica wiki website. 🤓
@@peterboehm277 thank you, I got it now✨