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0:00I ain't going to lie, I could not figure
0:02out how to write an intro for this
0:03video. So, here's 101 Subnotica tips.
0:07You swim ever so slightly faster when
0:09you're on the surface and also when
0:11you're not holding an item. The air
0:13bladder, once very underwhelming, got a
0:16pretty significant buff in the living
0:17large update. It now sends you up 175 m
0:21in just a few seconds, making it really
0:23useful in early game exploration.
0:26The air bladder can also refill itself
0:28in an unpowered base, allowing you to
0:30back in and out repeatedly for infinite
0:32air.
0:34The Pathfinder tool is really easy to
0:36make, and it can be quite helpful when
0:38exploring larger wrecks, especially in
0:40hardcore mode.
0:43As long as the sum of your hunger and
0:45thirst is greater than 150, you'll begin
0:47to slowly regenerate lost health.
0:50Raw fish don't go bad, so don't cook
0:53them until you're ready to eat them.
0:56You can overfill your hunger meter with
0:58a piece of food as long as you were
0:59below 100 hunger whenever you ate it.
1:01And if you do this with a nutrient block
1:03at 99 hunger, you can get all the way up
1:06to 174.
1:08You lose one point of thirst every 20
1:10seconds. And your hunger alternates
1:12between going down once every 20 seconds
1:14and once every 30 seconds, meaning it'll
1:17take 33 minutes for your thirst to fully
1:19deplete and just shy of 42 minutes for
1:22your hunger to do the same. Most fish
1:24are less reactive and way easier to
1:27catch at night. Reefback barnacles are a
1:30really easy and underrated source of
1:32early game copper.
1:34Similarly, the two thermal geysers in
1:36the safe shallows are a great place to
1:38get a bunch of sandstone.
1:40Try and start your base somewhere more
1:42out in the open. It'll give you a lot
1:44more room for expansion once you get
1:46more and bigger modules.
1:48Bases have a hidden power priority
1:50system where the base will always try to
1:52take energy from the power source that
1:54was built first. So if you build your
1:56renewable sources like solar and thermal
1:58first, you can use their free energy
2:01most of the time and this will allow
2:02your bioreactor fuel and reactor rods to
2:05last a lot longer. You can take out your
2:08battery when you're in a base and your
2:09habitat builder won't use any power.
2:12You actually drown at minus 8 seconds
2:14and not zero. And since this extra bit
2:17of air gets refilled automatically upon
2:19switching to a new oxygen source, if you
2:21time your air bladders and O2 tank
2:23swaps, well, you can actually gain
2:25yourself a few seconds of free air.
2:28Bladderfish can be consumed raw for an
2:30additional 15 seconds of air. Use dead
2:34batteries whenever you're crafting tools
2:35or power cells to gain a free full
2:37charge.
2:39If you're quick, you can kill crash fish
2:41before they have a chance to explode.
2:44Alternatively, if you swim directly at a
2:46crash fish, it won't be able to turn
2:48around fast enough in order to get you.
2:51One salt is essentially equal to three
2:53bladderfish since you can combine it
2:55with the limitless table coral in order
2:57to make bleach, and each [music] bottle
2:59of bleach makes two waters that refill
3:01you by 30, whereas a bladderfish only
3:03makes one water that refills you by 20.
3:06If you hold forward, up, and left or
3:08right at the same time, you can nearly
3:11double the seam off speed, which makes
3:13getting to places a lot quicker.
3:16Life putt beacons make really good
3:17built-in navigation points.
3:20If you want to mark someplace cool but
3:22don't have a beacon, write down how far
3:24you are from two separate way points. By
3:27heading back to where these distances
3:28are the same, you can essentially
3:30triangulate your way back to the point
3:32you marked.
3:34If you ever need to find your way to a
3:35set of coordinates and you're playing on
3:37console, mobile, or just don't want to
3:39use F1 for whatever reason, you can do
3:41so with just a compass and a beacon. To
3:43start out, you're going to want to find
3:44the northernmost tube coral that's
3:46sticking out of the water slightly. Then
3:48head northeast for about 40 m until you
3:51run into this small patch of green
3:52plants. This spot right here is 0 0, and
3:56you're going to want to go to the
3:57surface and mark it with a beacon. Then
3:59take a look at the coordinates you want
4:01to visit. Negative X is going to be to
4:03the east. Positive X is west. Negative Z
4:06is south. Positive Z is to the north.
4:08And you don't really have to worry about
4:10the Y-coordinate since whatever you're
4:12looking for is probably just going to be
4:13on the ground. Of the X and Z
4:15coordinates, you're going to want to
4:17pick the larger of the [music] two
4:18distances and start heading in that
4:19direction until you get that far away
4:22from the beacon. So, for example, if I
4:24were trying to find this wreck in the
4:25Sea Treader's path, I'd start heading
4:27directly west for 1,132
4:30[music] m.
4:31If you don't actually know what the spot
4:33you're heading to looks like, you can
4:35plug the X and Z coordinates into a
4:37triangle calculator and head towards the
4:39other coordinate until your distance
4:41from the beacon is the same as the
4:42hypotenuse. But if you do know what
4:44you're looking for, you can just head in
4:46the other direction till you eventually
4:48find it. You can find the game's two
4:50islands behind these big clouds of fog.
4:54As long as you're not playing hardcore,
4:55remember to actually save every now and
4:58then. The game has gotten significantly
5:00more optimized and less buggy over the
5:02years, but glitches do still happen, and
5:05losing hours of progress is never fun.
5:08Keep a close eye on your Seaoth's health
5:11in dangerous areas. A group of bone
5:13sharks can easily take half or even more
5:15of your Seaoth's health in just the time
5:17it takes to explore a wreck. A lot of
5:20wrecks actually share the same internal
5:22and external [music] layout, with only a
5:24few minor changes being made to things
5:26like what doors are blocked off. So, if
5:28you know how to navigate through one of
5:30these wrecks, you can pretty much
5:31navigate through them all. You can fit
5:34through this gap in this wreck in the
5:36northwestern grassy plateaus, allowing
5:38you to access some areas you'd normally
5:40need a laser cutter for, but this only
5:43works before the Aurora explodes, for
5:46whatever reason. The reinforced dive
5:48suit effectively makes you immune to
5:50fall damage since there's nowhere in the
5:52game you can fall that's even close to
5:54what it would take to [music] kill you.
5:57The reinforced dive suit also makes you
5:59completely immune to tiger plants.
6:02There's a handful of plants you'll need
6:03once for a one-off recipe, but creep
6:06fine, acid mushrooms, gel sacks, blood
6:08oil, and deep shrooms are the things
6:10you'll actually use in your day-to-day
6:12crafting. So, try to make sure you're
6:14growing them. In order for creep vine to
6:17grow with the seed clusters, you have to
6:19actually plant the seeds themselves, not
6:21just the raw creep vine. You can knife a
6:24gel sack twice, take it out of the grow
6:27bed, put it back down, and repeat the
6:29process to get infinite seeds.
6:32There's nothing preventing you from just
6:33heading straight to the floating island
6:35and getting all the plants and
6:36blueprints right away.
6:39If you don't have the blueprint for the
6:40indoor grow bed yet, you can farm indoor
6:43plants and outdoor grow beds up on the
6:45surface.
6:46Marble melons are arguably the best food
6:48in the game, especially in the Cyclops,
6:50where you can't use an alien
6:52containment.
6:53The best fish for food is the Reginald,
6:55and you can find them in all of these
6:57places.
6:59Acid mushrooms are a really easy [music]
7:01source of early game bioreactor fuel,
7:03but once you can farm them, the Oculus
7:05is by far the best.
7:08The breeding limit for the smaller alien
7:10containment units is 10, and for the
7:12larger ones, it's 18. You can tell how
7:15much space a creature will take up by
7:16how many spaces wide it is in the
7:18inventory. So, a small alien containment
7:21can naturally breed 10 1x1 peepers and
7:24only four 3x3 stalkers.
7:28Everyone knows you can get table coral
7:30in the safe shallows, but you can also
7:31find some in the bulb zone, crash zone
7:34meas, sparse reef, mushroom forest, on
7:36the backs of reef backs, and down in the
7:39lost river.
7:41When heading to the Aurora, you can pack
7:42a lot lighter than you might think since
7:45you're going to get a ton of food,
7:46water, batteries, and first aid kits
7:48from all the supply crates. If you have
7:51enough health, you can run straight
7:53through fire and take relatively low
7:55damage.
7:57You don't need a propulsion cannon to
7:58explore the Aurora. If you take the
8:00upper entrance, you can jump across this
8:02pile of debris or crawl around what's
8:05left of this walkway and drop down. You
8:07can also get up the left set of stairs
8:09in the prawn bay and climb over
8:11everything pretty easily on your way
8:12out.
8:14You can get a free Seaoth depth module
8:16in the Seaoth Bay and a Cyclops engine
8:18efficiency module in the drive room. The
8:22western part of the crash zone, from
8:23about the rear thruster to the part
8:25where the ship starts breaking up, is
8:27completely safe, making this a fantastic
8:29spot to farm metal salvage and even get
8:32stasis rifle fragments.
8:34Spamming your laser cutter saves a few
8:36seconds compared to cutting normally.
8:45Bleeders can be chopped off with a
8:47knife, hit off with a tool, or even
8:49punched off with nothing at all. The
8:52hull reinforcement module only protects
8:54against collision damage. It will not
8:56make your vehicles tougher against
8:58creatures. It's also completely useless
9:00for the prawn since that already doesn't
9:02take collision damage.
9:04You should pretty much always be going
9:06for scanner room range upgrades over the
9:09speed ones. The sparse reef and blood
9:12kelp trenches are easily the best spots
9:14to put a scanner room. If you let one of
9:17your camera drones get picked up by a
9:18local stalker, it can serve as a pretty
9:21good way to mark its nest.
9:23Tiger plants are one of the very few
9:25things that can actually damage your
9:27base. So, if your base keeps
9:28mysteriously flooding, that might be why
9:32you can salvage a stuck sea moth pretty
9:34easily by pushing it with a propulsion
9:36cannon and something large and heavy
9:38like a rock, seag glide, or ion cube.
9:42Wreck 2 in the southwestern grassy
9:44plateaus is ridiculously good. It
9:46doesn't require a laser cutter, and you
9:48can almost always get loads of battery
9:50charger, modification station, mobile
9:52vehicle bay, and propulsion cannon
9:54fragments.
9:56The sea treaders path and mountain
9:57island caves are both fantastic places
10:00to get shale. Sea treaders also can't
10:03attack you anymore. I think this was
10:04removed in the living large update, but
10:06for some reason it's still on the wiki.
10:09Reinforcements are both the cheapest and
10:11most effective way to increase hull
10:13integrity.
10:14Pretty much every vehicle upgrade that
10:16isn't a storage module doesn't stack,
10:19except for the Seamoth solar charger for
10:21some reason.
10:23If you pair swim charge fins with a seag
10:25glide, the battery will never run out.
10:27And since the seag glide doesn't care
10:29about your fins when determining [music]
10:30speed, you'll still move just as fast as
10:33if you'd used ultralglide fins. The crab
10:36squid EMP attack is only
10:37two-dimensional, [music] so to dodge it,
10:39just go a bit up or down. It's pretty
10:42well known that crab squids are
10:44attracted to bright lights. And if you
10:45read the datab bank entry for the bone
10:47shark, you'll be led to believe it works
10:49the same way. However, this isn't
10:51actually in the game for some reason.
10:53So, you're perfectly fine to leave the
10:54lights on. In a similar vein, the datab
10:57bank entry for the Reaper [music] says
10:59they use echolocation, meaning if you
11:01can hear them, they can see you. But
11:04this is also not in the game. So, unless
11:06the roars are super loud, you're
11:08probably going to be just fine. There's
11:10only three biomes in the entire game
11:12that actually have reapers. The
11:14mountains, dunes, and crash zone. Okay,
11:17there's technically also one reaper
11:18that's like 2 feet into the bulb zone,
11:20but if you're string that close to the
11:21crash zone, you're basically already
11:23asking for trouble. The game has six
11:26internal [music] levels to the Kra
11:27infection. Stages one and six are before
11:30you get infected and after you get
11:32cured, respectively, while stages two
11:34through four are all some level of being
11:36infected. Despite technically being
11:38infected at stage [music] two, warpers
11:40won't actually start attacking you until
11:42you reach at least stage three. And
11:44looking at the in-game triggers for each
11:46of these stages until you visit the
11:48Aurora Mountains or Lost River, you can
11:50effectively stay at stage two
11:52indefinitely, meaning warpers won't
11:54attack you. Make sure to check whatever
11:57tools you find in a time capsule. If the
11:59person leaving it was nice, you might be
12:01able to get some early ion batteries.
12:04This is every single spot that a time
12:06capsule has a chance to spawn.
12:09This might just be a me problem, but if
12:11you're trying to mentally navigate using
12:13the Aurora and the game's map, it can be
12:15helpful to remember that the Aurora
12:17actually faces about 45° to the
12:19northeast and not perfectly north like
12:22it can sometimes seem. The big wreck in
12:25the underwater islands is easily the
12:27most reliable spot to get Cyclops engine
12:29fragments.
12:31You can keep a second drill arm in your
12:32prawn suit storage and equip it to mine
12:34twice as fast.
12:36If you ever feel like you don't have
12:38enough storage in your prawn, you can
12:40put items inside of waterproof lockers
12:42and then pick these up with the prawn
12:43suit, which can technically give you
12:45unlimited storage depending on how many
12:47lockers you want to bring. The Rex in
12:49the Mushroom Forest and Sea Treader's
12:51Path, as well as the Mushroom Forest
12:53itself, are all really good places to
12:55get Cyclops Hall and bridge fragments.
12:58There's no point in putting a power cell
13:00charger in your Cyclops since it'll
13:02steal the same amount of energy from
13:03your main power cells in order to charge
13:05them. Unless, of course, you're getting
13:07power from the Cyclops thermal reactor.
13:10Ambules and crab squids are the two non-
13:12Leviathan creatures that can damage the
13:14Cyclops, but they tend to do so little
13:16damage that you can basically just
13:18ignore them. If you've aggroed a
13:20Leviathan and the Cyclops, your best bet
13:22is to turn off the engine, take the hit,
13:25wait for it to go away, and then leave.
13:27Trying to run away will only cause the
13:29creature to reagro, and you'll take even
13:31more damage.
13:32The Cyclops doesn't take fire or
13:34pressure damage when you're not inside
13:36it. So, sometimes it can be a good idea
13:38to leave, regroup, and come back once
13:41the threat leaves and you're able to
13:42repair. If you activate the Cyclops fire
13:45suppression system, run through the main
13:47hatch, and quickly hop in a vehicle,
13:49it's possible to get out before all the
13:51doors lock. The Cyclops engine doesn't
13:54consume any energy when you're not
13:55moving. It will still make noise,
13:58though, so be careful. The Cyclops
14:01interior and exterior lights also don't
14:03consume any energy. It takes 20 seconds
14:06for flank speed to start having a chance
14:08to start a fire and another 20 at normal
14:10speed for the engine to cool down. So,
14:12you can cycle between around 18 seconds
14:14of flank speed [music] and 22 seconds of
14:16normal speed to shave off some travel
14:18time. There are three different ways to
14:21remove lava larva. You can go out and
14:23knife them, take out all your power
14:25cells, and flick them off with the
14:27cyclop shield generator.
14:29If you like taking your Cyclops down to
14:31the lava zone, but always have problems
14:33with running out of power, consider
14:35making two ion power cells once you
14:37reach the alien thermal plant. You're
14:39going to need to make two of them for
14:40the rocket anyway, and they'll give you
14:42more than enough power for the rest of
14:43the trip.
14:45You're a lot more tanky than you might
14:47think. At full health, there's only one
14:49attack from one creature in the entire
14:51game that can one-shot you. And once you
14:53get a reinforced dive suit, even ghosts
14:56and reapers will need three hits to kill
14:58[music] you.
14:59Lava lizards and sea dragons are
15:01completely immune to the thermal blade.
15:04Since the observatory technically counts
15:06as its own biome, entering one in the
15:08void will cause all of the ghost
15:10leviathans to go away. There's a bunch
15:13of thermal spots dotted around the map,
15:15but the best ones are in the tree cove,
15:17the northern lost river, and the
15:19seafloor in the underwater islands.
15:22Uranites only use in making reactor
15:25rods. So, unless you're planning to
15:27build a nuclear reactor, you don't need
15:29to bother getting it. You only need 18
15:32cayenite, 11 nickel, and nine
15:34crystalline sulfur in order to be able
15:36to craft every item that uses them.
15:39There's only two spots in the entire
15:41game where you actually need a blue
15:42tablet, and only one where you need an
15:44orange one. So, you should only ever
15:46have to craft one blue tablet and never
15:49actually have to make an orange one.
15:51While I wouldn't recommend doing this in
15:53your first playthrough, there's nothing
15:55requiring you to actually visit this
15:57place. So, if you've been here before
16:00and already know the lore, you can just
16:02skip it. The stasis rifle may be the
16:05king of stunning things, but the
16:06repulsion cannon's also really good when
16:08you're caught off guard and don't have
16:10time to charge up a shot. The stasis
16:12rifle paired with about 30 to 40 gas
16:15pods is a dangerous but really quick way
16:17to kill a Leviathan.
16:20If you're trying to stun something with
16:21the stasis rifle, you can fire out a few
16:24quick bursts to make sure you get the
16:26initial hit and then you can charge up
16:28the full shot. Because of their small
16:31hitbox and relatively slow turning
16:33speed, reapers are ridiculously easy to
16:36strafe.
16:37Sea dragons can be pretty hard to dodge
16:39if you're out in the open, but your best
16:41bet seems to be to go directly at and
16:43under them. To find an entrance to the
16:46lava castle, head to either the north or
16:48south side. Look just above the final
16:51ridge before all the geysers start
16:52popping up and head to the left. To find
16:55an entrance to the lava leaks, head
16:57directly out from one of these entrances
16:59and veer slightly to the right.
17:06If you're traveling somewhere that's
17:08pretty deep within a dangerous biome,
17:09but you've either already been there
17:11before or know roughly where you're
17:12headed, you can travel there on the
17:14surface since most of the dangerous
17:16creatures tend to stay deeper down, and
17:18then just dive straight down once you're
17:20above where you need to be. There are
17:22four entrances to the Lost River. One in
17:25the northern blood kelp, one in the deep
17:27grand reef, one in the blood kelp
17:28trench, and one on the border of the
17:30mountains and bulb zone. Of these, the
17:33ones in the northern Blood Kelp and Deep
17:34Grand Reef are definitely the easiest to
17:36find. Both sitting next to prominent
17:38spots with built-in beacons. The Bloodl
17:41Trench and Deep Grand Reef are probably
17:42the safest entrances, and the one
17:45bordering the mountains and bulb zone
17:46gives the most direct route further
17:48down. If you ever find yourself needing
17:51a few extra ion cubes, you can get a few
17:53of them at the Sanctuary caches in the
17:55dunes, northern blood kelp, and Sparse
17:57Reef. And finally, if you're in hardcore
18:00and something doesn't go the way you'd
18:01like it, you can always take the
18:03coward's way out and force close the
18:04game to get back to your last save. I
18:06promise we won't say any mean things
18:08about you. Well, not to your face,
18:10anyway. Before I go, I just want to give
18:12a big thanks to all the people who
18:14suggested stuff for the list, but if you
18:16think there's something I might have
18:17missed, feel free to let me know. And if
18:20you managed to learn something new,
18:21consider liking the video, subscribing,
18:23and joining the Discord. It all helps
18:25out more than you might think. Anyway,
18:27that's all for me for now. Have a great
18:29day and I hope to see you all again very
18:31soon.

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