If you want to find everything yourself, without looking anything up, you'll want to find the fragments to build basic base pieces and a scanner room.

The scanner room checks for a resource you select within a range.

Build a scanner room in multiple biomes, and you'll start to see where all of the resources are throughout the world.

Besides that -- scan things and check your PDA. It'll tell you more about any resources it can make since some things require "samples."

Lithium spawns in Mushroom forest.

Rubies spawn in Bulb Zone, next to the hot water vent thingies. Watch out for bonesharks.

It totally depends on the sort of resource you are after. They are spread out all over. Usually specific resorces are found in certain places while others are found throughout.

Build a scanner room and a HUD chip, let it do your job

Go. Deeper.

I was gonna actually do that. But I did a quick google search and sure enough someone beat me to it a long time ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/kqzdmb/my_every_singel_time_when_i_am_looking_for_copper/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

You will be shocked at how many resources you overlook. Some are hidden in plants or outcroppings but some are just out in the open... you're like "how'd I miss that"?

I use my scanner room and the hud chip thing and I get tons of copper just make it search for limestone outcrops and place the scanner room in the kelp forest it works surprisingly well

I don't think it is more rare. You use copper a lot more often so you run out of it more than you do gold. As a result, you will also mine it out in one area more quickly, making it seem more rare.

However, if you use a scanner room to scan for limestone outcrops you will usually be able to find enough copper.

Somewhat, it will only scan in a relatively small area around it, but it's still large enough to include anything important you'll need early-mid game. If you're so inclined, you can build an outpost base in the biome officer Keens signal is in, which will cover the rest of the resources you'll need

Build scanner room, scan for limestone chunks. Profit.

That doesn't make sense, though. Copper and Gold drop from two different outcrops.

Scanner room with HUD upgrade makes resource gathering a snap.

ive hardly found any gold

I dont have enough titan, but i have lithium ans magnetite

go to the blood kelp trench, no vehicle, 20 minutes into a new save with a barebones l compartment as an outpost with just a locker and solar panel

forget batteries for your seaglide and swim to the surface, look down from right above the trench

or: get your maxed depth seamoth and go >!down into the deadzone without knowing!< what it is

^(i would not recommend either of these)

Have you been to the island where the drop ship was going to land? If not, go there and explore the caves. Bring two spare batteries and your knife. Then start hauling lithium, gold, diamonds and a few lesser minerals.

Head to Lifepod 19. Along the black walls in that entire area you'll find a TON of ruby. It goes down to 300 meters.

Only place I can think of is the place where officer keen's lifepod is

Sparse reef, it is right under the big floating island

First of all make a Seamoth depth module if you haven’t yet, then make a depth module MK2. For that you need magnetite which is found in abundance in the Jellyshroom caves (big glowing mushrooms), then if you want rubies, the first place off the top of my head would be the grand reef (go in the direction of the big cloud to the right of the Aurora)

Testing the game now, 4 hours into it. Thank you for this perfect guide.

This guide is perfect

You lost me at do not install any mods. As soon as I can download the gargantuan leviathan you best believe I will be!

Go back to the Aurora and look for the Seamoth Bay. There's a Seamoth upgrade there you'll want that you can just put right into the Seamoth. Once you have it, I'd also suggest you build a modification station in your base and look at the upgrades you can make. Should get you to the next areas after that.

I'd recommend going south (gave the aurora, go in the same direction the engines are pointing). Eventually, you'll reach a sprawled out wreck at about 230 meters, sparse reef. Park at 197 meters, and seaglide the rest of the way. You'll find the moonpool and vehicle upgrade console. Hope this helps!

Keep in mind that just because your sea moth cannot handle a certain depth does not mean that you can't. I can't tell you how many times I had to park my sea moth at 198 or 298 m and seaglide down another 100 to 150m to find something I needed.

Dont be afraid to get down there and dig around. If you bring enough oxygen with you and a rebreather , you can spend quite some time searching around.

Nailed it. It takes time. I have found the trash stream is about 24 tiles wide. Make a long row of 24 nets and before long you will have too much material.

Also underwater at islands is where the good stuff is, copper, scrap, seaweed etc.

You can either drop a shark bait on the other side of the island or just kill him and get a shark head you can wear and shark meat you can cook and eat.

Yeah, invest in a row of nets across your direction of travel. You may need an X of nets until you get the steering wheel. Otherwise invest in hooking crates and barrels.

I built a line of collection nets spanning the full 32 blocks that trash spawns around your Raft. I leave no trash behind.

I think the flotsam span is 28 squares, measures from the center of the initial 4 foundations of the raft. Make sure you mark the center of the raft with a marker (I use a half height pillar) or you WILL regret it later lol

For planks, plastic, and leaves, nets are a great investment that should pay off immediately. Try to have at least 4 extending in a row on both sides, as well as through the middle. Sail through a garbage patch and you'll have more than you know what to do with.

Just watch Splitsie's tutorials on YT. That's what everyone learns from. There is also a scenario in the game called "Learning to Survive." Play that as well.

Do the scenarios. Some works as a tutorial, but mainly they give you goals so it's not like you just do things aimlessly.

1. The first jump. (It shows basic controls and has a tiny bit of story. It is short too.)
2. Learning to survive. (Honestly, it's not as intuitive as it should be, but it is basically a tutorial of things you can do. Do yourself a favour and place a gps location at each task, name them after said tasks. Note: it can take a while to complete.)
3. If you have the Frostbite dlc, I recommend the Frostbite scenario too. It's not really tutorial like, but in general they did a great job with it. I had a lot of fun doing it.

Look up Splitsie on YouTube, his beginner's tutorial is basically the gold standard for starting and finding out the basics of the game. It is a bit dated, he made it a year or two ago, but it still holds up and gets you all the basic info you need.

Seems like everyone uses Splitsie to get started, so that's not a bad choice.

https://www.youtube.com/splitsie

Splitsie's vids first. Then if you're still hungry, check out some of Beeblebum's stuff.

My advice for learning in general is to set a specific (smaller) goal or task and focus on just that, e.g. small miner w hydro thrusters, rather than just "build something"

Nocost?

Console-->nocost

Console-->fastbuild

F1 or F3 then click enable console (hold tab to bring up mouse control)

If on console.. no idea?heh