Hey there. Prawn is supposed to me used as a tool to explore deeper regions and gather resources. Its easiest to get the Cyclops and transport your suit with it and exit when you'll reach your destination.

Pretty much don’t use it until you have the grapple and jump boots. Once you do, the sea moth becomes pointless

Once you get the grapple arm and jump jet upgrade, it becomes a lot easier to move around

You can unlock the grapple arm and jump jet booster to get around easier

Hey there! Welcome to Subnautica!

The lack of buoyancy is a feature of the prawn suit to navigate the sea floor. It's why it has such a high crush depth and is really difficult to destroy. Each of the vehicles you have are designed to navigate a specific kind of environment and learning how to use the right tool for the right job becomes very important to learn and deal with.

It's a pain to dock and get any real lift besides the jumpjet it's equipped with but if you plan your expeditions right, it might be the best vehicle in the game.

I just use the prawnsuit i dont have anything better to do

The prawn is more or less useless mobility-wise until you get a grapple arm, then it's the best thing in the world.

I never bothered finding the cyclops parts on my 1.0 playthrough and just used the grapple prawn for the entire game.

I honestly didn't use the PRAWN much until I needed to go below 900m. That's around when you finally have access to all the things you need to fully upgrade it too, so. Keep seamothing on, if you want to.

^(PRAWN is fun once you get the hang of it, but it also runs into a bunch of bugs that the Seamoth doesn't.)

Hey bud, gonna just drop this here, it's the result of many many hours testing the prawn suit.... here goes!

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Honestly, it bothers me that more people don't experiment with the prawn suit.

It's unbelievably good.

These videos are all of the original Subnautica game!

Unmodded, in real time & are over several rigs with varying performance.

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Edit: Holy crap, I've been testing exclusively in the prawn suit for 6 months now! Weird.

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Click here to watch Propulsion Arm Basics (DEFENSE)

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Prawn Suit Propulsion Arm Basics (OFFENSE)

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7 Bases in 7 mins, very very far apart (prawn is fucking faaaast)

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MOVEMENT SPEED // Change in thinking (hahahahaha) (Newest video)

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Superjump! (Early vid)

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Techniques for moving above water ( 10/10 satsifying)

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Hyper speed Prawn suit

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Oh man, one time i got out of my prawn suit while moving and it collided with me and did damage.

I wasn't even really moving all that quickly, I was just IN THE WAY.

I got to thinking, can i do damage with the prawn suit from momentum alone?

Holycrapballs yes, after testing for a few hundred hours i'm crazy excited. It's completely satisfying.

You can one shot almost all creatures that are not leviathan class!

(I've struck a dragon so hard it flew over 100m away. Think about the force required to do that)

Want to see a video of that ?

Good bye boneshark (Double grappling hook as a weapon)

Killing with no weapons x2 (bonesharks)

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In the process of being completely obsessed with this game, yet totally petrified by the horror of 360 ° s of total vulnerability in a dark foggy underwater alien fishbowl... Fuck.

I've screamed like a lady a lot in this game. Let me give you an example I guarantee will put a smile on your face :I must be out of my MIND

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I discovered that it felt really good to move so fast that the critters couldn't catch me.

Special credit to u/Godofashes ; his Extremely High Quality Video God of Ashes Speed Test allowed me to connect the dots to ignite the fire that began all my testing.

He even went out of his way to share his absolute mastery of how the engine functions which gave me the insight to test these things with some confidence. So thanks man! The community thanks you! <3

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Honestly, I've written all of this out before, if you find the subject interesting you can explore the topic in the original context :

6month old PSA on prawn suit basics (informational post as well as video) ( all still accurate)

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Creepvine clusters are worth it (info + vid)

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How to do everything FASTER (lots of info to read)

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Prawn Suit Airtime Volume 2 (Visual guide) Chill video, easy to absorb what i'm doing.

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I'm always taking requests & my current project is a massive battle arena spanning Hundreds of meters.I actually completed it 24hours ago and will need advice on what to populate it with.

Here is a teaser photo of the magnitude of the base, lol 9500 power, over 800 meters TALL, i have no fucking idea how wide. it's more tall then connected and huge. it's like a circuit around the area. allowing me to move within it at any speed at any time in any direction always. I lovvvvvee it. So please, check out the view from the top portion :

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https://i.redd.it/xfh5p6xlz6e21.jpg

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I've tested 12 reapers 4 dragons 100 bone sharks, 75 crabsquid, 25 gasopods Simultaneously

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Tested 500, yes Five-hundred reaper leviathans (mostly to benchmark new rig) : Making it rain

Tested 1000 Crabbysnakes! Totally not thread from pern

I've forgotten rest, let's check the original post : https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/aaq549/battle_royale_double_grappling_arm_challenge/

Lol at comments. Okay guys, this feels like a good place to stop. I leave these things in your hands, to enjoy and explore as I have.

Honestly, you can make a lot of mistakes that will cost you fps but if anyone has even a remote interest in recreating stuff i can make an all in one what NOT to do vid. just ask. Cheers!

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That's all folks. <3

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I keep hearing on forums that prawn suit is built from the mobile vehicle bay, but it doesn't show up, also I tried to spawn it in from console after enabling it and it didn't spawn.

Try the aroura prawn bay scan all fragments and then go onto the mobile vehicle bay

You have to get the fragments in the auroa

Get either 20 fragments or 4 larger ones in the >!Aurora Prawn Bae!<

Have you scanned it?

The upgrade station in the moonpool

In the void

You need to find the blueprints for the upgrade station and then build it. It works similar to a fabricator and it has the vehicle upgrades you want.

You also need blueprints for the prawn suit arms themselves.

How can people travel with damaged vehicle? I always get out by the smallest damage too (espescially with the seamoth)

This was fun. Congrats on getting Vault Boy back

Spot on Gollum 🤣

Justice for the Vault Boy!

I was told there would be no math.
this was way more entertaining than it should have been. good job commentary and editing.

I just tale my prawn suit into the portal. I mean one would imagine that in an scenario of being in an ancient alien facility and taking their teleporter to who knows where that you would want to be inside of a giant mevh suit. What if it teleports you into outer space? 

i take it with me because i need a beacon if im collecting resources and get lost

But what will we do without regularly scheduled prawn suit stuck posts?

This comment has two videos on potential fixes, but I think they only work if the PRAWN suit is at least partially sticking up out of the floor.

https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/1dunupu/comment/lbhxykv/

Early on with prawn suit it has less value but as you progress it is important. Get used to using it especially with grapple and look out for upgrades.

Drill and grapple are important.

I don’t have a cyclops yet, but it’s probably the best way to transport it around

Move diagonally and use the jump jets, that'll solve most of your movement problems.

Most essential are drill and grapple. Grapple especially

For me once I got a feel for moving around with the prawn suit and grapple arm, it became my primary submersible for any deep missions. it's also much easier to dock in the cyclops using the grapple.

It's a sandbox game, plot is completely optional. Play like you want, do whatever you like. Except putting cuddlefish eggs into a bioreactor, that's a crime.

Just go deeper, and follow Dory’s advice…

The answer is always deeper.

Go deeper, and have fun with your prawn. It is the most fun vehicle in the game.

i just jumped out of the jellyshroom cave with the basic prawn suit, its not that hard.

Well I lost a Prawn suit down there recently and need to get the grappling hook thingy for the Seamoth to get it back. So be careful what you wish for.

That is not a bad idea. The grapple arm is not necessary to get back out, though. There are a couple of spots where you can just jump jet your way out.

Yes, I did the same and I called them "Innie" and "outie".

I havev 2 PRAWN suits. One on the surface at my main base and one that pretty much stays in the lava areas. Then I use portals to get back and forth.