Either build a base nearby with a power cell charger or put the power cellls on a vehicle and use a moon pool to charge them. A bit slower would be using a solar charge mod on a seamoth and swapping power cells (requires daylight and being near the surface).

I'm assuming you dont have the thermal charge mod for your cyclops (or at least no thermal vents nearby)

You could bring more energy cells, make charging stations all around, its just your preference

It is very important to create bases in far away locations in order to maintain your Cyclops' power supply. You can also store extra power cells in the Cyclops, so that you can simply replace dead power cells. I am not a bot, but rather a second account created by u/arashio7. Was this comment helpful? If so, upvote it. If not, downvote it.

just bear in mind the subfief console continues to split cells between powered down generators (it's a bit annoying)

1. Does using less power than your max draw actually effect the duration of your fuel for power generators?

2. I don't remember seeing an option to power down a crafting station, am I just blind or do you disassemble them?

Pretty sure they pause consumption if powered off manually. They only continue to consume the filter if the water circuit is full and no water is being generated as there is nowhere to store the new water. At least they did a few weeks ago when I last tested this then proceeded to build 20 large windtraps.

As everyone already said, turn off unused stuff AND THE EXTRA GENERATORS to save fuel, since the generators are dumb and will keep running.

Some less obvious things:

• Refuel all is a simple, even split. It does NOT autobalance, so if you manually put some fuel in some generators, those will end up with more. Either max fill them all or empty them all then refuel all to get them evenly filled
• As you said, weakest link - the time displayed is the time until the amount of power generated drops below the amount required. If your generators are not evenly filled, you might see this increase when machines are turned off, as the generator that is the weakest link chances.
• Fuel and omni generators take 1 hr per fuel, while directional and spice take 1.5 hr per fuel. This means the first two can last about 20.83 days (500 hours) while the latter can ksdt 31.25 days (750 hours)

This also works for Omni directional generators if you have Diddy amounts of lube :)

Using this method allows you to hide and wall-in your generators. I hid like 15 generators in dead spaces throughout my base for the aesthetic.

Takes forever to make, water intensive, sand gathering sucks and will suck more in the future. Batteries are easy and I have the refinery slots still up so why not.

hell yeah. an "All On/off' switch would save me a ton of time. as it is now, I run around my base for like 10 minutes to make sure all the stuff is off before I log out for the day (saves me a ton of fuel).

Do you not have a buggy yet?
I haven't bothered with turbines, and instead just have a fully staked base.
Fully staked base gives you 80 production items to put down, and I just have 40 fuel generators for 3000 power. I'm halfway through duralluminum and i still have like... 500 power left available with a total of 59? production items used.

with the buggy the fuel blocks give you like 400 fuel with the first one, buggy cutteray mk5 gives you like 600 something. takes only 500 to fuel for 20 days, and I haven't tested it with the turbines, but if you have fuel in your circuit, you can just shove all your fuel into one container. After doing that, you can go into your fief-console and just hit fuel all generators, and it will automatically distribute fuel to every generator evenly.

unless you have a ton of people living in a singular base and aren't taking advantage of building dedicated subfiefs for production, I don't even understand why you would use the turbines tbh.

I'm pretty sure that's intentional, otherwise you would barely need any fuel at all to run your base.

There is a flour sand deposit in Western Vermillius Gap that's really close to the rock, a lot of it is outside worm detection range. I drive a buggy there and gather like 6k in just a few minutes. I get where you're coming from with your post, but If you hate gathering flour sand I highly recommend finding that deposit, it's in the southeast of the zone.

I have a feeling most people in this thread have never tried thermal+power extenders.

You put 4 thermal plants into the vents, route power to your base (you can do it no matter how far they base is, power extenders work far and they are cheap) and you're all set. Forever. 0 maintenance.

They will give enough power even if your have 4 water purifiers, 10 batteries charging and you're crafting non-stop.

I usualy use the Bioreactor and i put acid mushrooms, they last for quite a long time imo. Sometimes i add random things like rotten things and fishes if i caught too much. I have a garden near my base with acid mushrooms so i always have them near to replenish the bioreactor when i need it. I do the same thing with Below Zero, but it was the ribbon plant instead of the mushrooms.

Edit : typo

I place a nuclear reactor then never check it again

Solar panels

A bioreactor and a grow bed full of basically anything (melons for preference, or a couple pots of lantern fruit) is adequate for pretty much anything I've ever needed (when it's dark and the solar panels don't work), unless I forget and leave the scanner running overnight while I'm away from the base.

• Bioreactor also requires nothing special in the way of materials, just titanium, a little silver (wiring kit) and a lube. Nuclear plants require lithium, an advanced wiring kit, and uraninite for the rods.

ETA: to clarify, I suggested Melons, because they're easy to grow in quantity, and worth 420 per melon (2x2), and also useful for topping up your hunger/hydration whenever you stop by the base.

• Mushrooms have higher energy density (acid mushrooms and deepshrooms are the same) at 210 (1x1) (840 energy for the 4 you could fit in the 2x2 slot a melon takes up), so if you have exterior grow beds, that's more efficient, you just can't grow them in the same room as the reactor (or eat them).
• Once you get Alien Containment, breeding oculus gives you by far the best energy density (630 per 1x1 slot!!), but peepers (420) or reginalds (490) work great, too. You can fill a whole locker with them in practically no time if you just let them go to town in a big containment unit...
  • With 16 inventory slots full of oculus, that's over 10,000 energy, which is about half as much as a nuclear reactor rod (and no need to go find any uraninite).

In the lost river, I usually opt for a thermal reactor for a charging base in the Grove.

I built a nuke reactor once and felt kind of ridiculous, tbh. It was just crazy overkill. It produces power at about 5x the rate a bioreactor does, and has 2500 storage. With 4 full reactor rods, you have up to 80,000 energy on tap. Plus it's kind of loud.

ETA: for speed running (at least in any%) you pretty much never need more than a couple of solar panels.

ETA2: if you can't seem to keep the base powered, take a hard look at what you're running. The scanner sucks a lot of power if you leave it scanning. The water purifier does too, but only when it's running (it stops once it's full). Those are about the worst unless you're charging something in the moonpool, too.

My ship still looses power every once in awhile I use the typhon and have one reactor upgrade so i calculated for it and the power still fluctuates occasionally

how are you making those images? that's not what the wiring ui looks like iirc

Could you help with getting the docking hatch below the Orca act as a normal hatch instead?

What do the 1500 and 1100 in the battery controller "represent?

Just want to understand why this works

4 of my friends just got the game and we have been playing together every night for 2 weeks. This is an absolutely GODSEND to me right now. THANK YOU!

> Any ideas to make it even more OP?

• Set the HP of all the walls to 999999
• Set the capacity of all the capacitors and batteries to 999999, their max recharge speed to 999999, and their efficiency to 1.00
• Increase the spring stiffness of all the guns to 999999
• Increase the spring damping of all the guns to 999999
• Increase the rotational speed of all the guns to 999999
• Increase the range of all the electric discharge coils to 999999
• Increase the oxygen generation rate to 999999
• Increase the pump speed of all the pumps to 999999
• Increase the reactor's max output to 999999, its meltdown delay to 999999, and its fire delay to 999999
• Decrease the reactor's fuel consumption rate to 0.0000

that looks fun, i really like the bottom hatch in the ballast, i assume it floods unless the ship is stationary. cool idea. super OP shape

Ballast flora mode for the holds, or am I going to have to wire this mess up?

EK has some cool stuff you could use. Entire walls that act as doors to use as armor, dedicated gunner turrets with nice windows (WW2 bomber style)

How in the world did you set it to catch fire?!?

Neeeeeerd: I too enjoy wiring but I make troll projects like the good ol emp button next to the door button.

Glad you found the joy of wiring in baro.

using a mem and subtraction component, set the mem value to 100 and wire the second input to the charge% out on a battery

then wire the subtraction output to the charge rate pin of the battery

boom, voltage regulator

Ive been trying to learn wiring so I can turn often unused rooms into impromptu ballasts. That and the auto reactor but I havent found a good guide to start with. Mind sharing your learning material to a wire noob? XD

The engine speed limiter can be used to prank the captain via gaslighting by shaving off max speed by one or two percent each round until it’s like 75% of max thrust. And then you install a button for them as a speed booster, when infact it just a temporarily disables the limiter

As other have said, you need to scan a battery charger or get the electric fins BUT:

Especially in the early game copper is extremely sparse from my experience and you can easily run out. In Subnautica 1 if you craft something it always has a full battery. You can exploit this.

A scanner costs 1 battery and 1 titanium. If you take an empty battery and craft a scanner you can use the 1 titanium to essentially „recharge“ it.

Cheaper than making new batteries but does have the downside of leaving you with a bunch of empty scanners

You can make new batteries instead of entirely new tools, and a >!battery charger!< blueprint is something you can >!scan in fragments!< >!(though you won't be able to build it in your life pod)!<

This group use to be so good about spoilers... What happened? 😭 Ruining the game by not making them discover it for themselves

You can pop out the battery and replace it with a new one. I think it's R on PC, X on Xbox.

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The best way I found was to start off with solar, and when you have resources to build out and have all kinds of rooms, switch to a bio reactor and fill it with coral tubes. They’re super easy to get and you will have an unlimited supply of them

In my first play through, I used strictly solar until >!I got the cyclops!<, then I tore all but 1 tube, 2 hatches, >!6 power cell chargers, and 2 battery chargers!< and juuuust enough solar to keep it all running. Then, I got >!the cyclops thermal generator!< and tore the rest of my base down.

Solar is perfect for a starter base and a main base close to the surface. Just make sure to have enough that you don’t run out of power in the middle of the night.

Thermal is my favorite but it’s limited in where it can be used. They have fast power generation that never slows. Find a thermal vent and you can cover it in thermal plants for near endless power.

Bioreactors are pretty nifty. No matter where you are, you can get power. Dead Zone? No problem. The cold, lightless depths behind the Aurora? No sweat! Just make sure to bring a few seeds so you can keep feeding it. Slow power generation so don’t expect to run much, even with a few.

Nuclear is hands down the best power in the game. It has the best of both Thermal (fast power gen) and Bio (no area limits) plus it sips gently off of the fuel you give it. The only time in my over 600 hour of playtime that I ever built and used Nuclear Reactors was when I built a base in the Dead Zone. The Reactor and the Fuel Rods aren’t cheap... it gets difficult to justify when you already have a thermal plant or two and a farm around your bioreactor.

Start with solar and work your way to bio if you have fish and stuff