Try to find the crashed lifepods of other crewmembers. All of those pods are near an interesting area which is worth exploring, thats how the game guides you. You get the location of these via your communicator.

Double check your radio transmissions, explore the beacons you get and the surrounding area. Some of the life pods are meant to lead you to the deeper locations in a round about sort of way. The warping was likely hostile fauna. Watch out for them, but they're not a huge threat.

Some events are triggered by you either scanning or building certain items, so make sure you scout around.

Sounds like a Warper found you; they patrol various areas and can pull you out of a SeaMoth or >!Prawn!<, but not a >!Cyclops!<. They can do some damage to you on their follow through attack, but the warp shock is basically the worst of it. Try to not attract their attention and they'll go away on their own, or sometimes hostile fauna will attack them.

Why not just find out yourself? Also did your screen in text say “warping”?

Entries in the Clues and Codes section of your PDA should give you a rough idea of the places and depths you should be aiming for in the long run.

As others have said, transmissions should guide you to areas that either introduce new biomes/resources, or to fragments and databoxes with useful technology, especially in regard to being able to go deeper.

The Degasi bases, if you haven’t explored them. I know they have some blueprint parts in the surrounding area that may be needed still, especially the second base. The third one will be close to an important area. Explore all around their stuff and it’ll help out.

Also, I believe if you went to the Sunbeam’s rendezvous it should put you near another really important area. Won’t explain for sake of spoiler, but you’ll know where I mean if you have been.

And if in doubt, go deeper. Unless you get a message about “ecological dead zone”, that’s the map border and it is not the place to be lol. Good luck!

If you look across the horizon atop the lifepod you will see two patches of clouds higher than the rest. These are the islands. That's all I can give you without spoiling anything, make sure to read the pda's you find.

Goodluck!

You see that huge alien facility nearby? Maybe wander around in there, scan everything you can scan (and actually read the PDA entries), see if there are any more of those nifty purple tablets lying about on (or under) the island...

That's a start.

(And no, I'm not trying to be snarky, lol. Sorry if that came across that way. I personally failed to read those PDA entries well enough after exploring that facility, so I missed a few clues about what to do next)

When in doubt about how to progress, keep exploring deeper. As for the cyclops fragments, once you have completed all 3 sets, you can make the cyclops itself as a whole using the same vehicle fabricator you used to make the seamoth. You don't actually make the individual parts of the cyclops separately.

First things first, make the vehicles

2nd, explore

3rd, go deeper

Go deeper.Dont go to the edges of the map, just go deeper inside of the map using caves.You will see parts of story

Check your PDA. There should be entries in there about alien stuff that should point you where to go. Also the logs of the Degasi survivor's.

The game hides all sorts of clues and tips in your PDA

Always remember, go deeper. Explore biomes you've never been. If it's scary, you're doing the right thing

Look for scary places, and spots to go deeper

Check through your notes in your menu! There should be references to relevant locations you haven't visited yet, try to find them! If you fully explored the island the sunbeam was due to land on you should have some info.

You spoiled yourself, but maybe a spoiler tag for others?

Don't matter how far you are

You're just fine. The nice thing about this game is progression isn't linear. You can take as much or as little time as you want.

Explore deeper. I dont want to add spoilers here for you. But if you've done the sunbeam event then theres a certain building you should have explored. After exploring it you'll have pda entries telling you basically to go deeper.

Some of the story triggers are timed some are trigger by certain things like going below a certain depth or exploring a certain biome for example

I assume you’ve had all the stuff with the sunbeam happen, so the only way to progress the story is get the Prawn suit, and go to the other alien bases.

Ham and cheese, and go deeper. You’ll understand the meaning of that from a PDA, but mostly just go deeper.

After you've seen the Sunbeam explode you literally just have to go further down. At a certain point you'll find something that will make your PDA tell you to self-scan for the bacteria which will progress the story. After that continue going deeper until you meet the Sea Mama. At that point you only have to do like one or two more things and then you can leave the planet safely. While you're doing that also collect materials to build the launch pad. Once the launch pad is built you'll get radio messages with new blueprints and stuff

Yeah, so basically the Sunbeam lands, and when you go aboard, it explodes and you die. That's it, game's over and the credits roll. Oh, and also it deleats your save file so you have to start over.

lol, not to spoil anything, but yes you should go to the sunbeam rendezvous. Very slight spoiler: You don't die and there's important game-progressing things to do there.

from a lore perspective: yea, its pretty important.

from a gameplay perspective: the event itself isn't important, but the location is very important. go there and place a beacon

Go to the landing site. You won't regret it. It's also fairly important for the story.

The Sunbeam landing site is important for many reasons in the game, not the least of which are resources you can collect. Not only do you want to go there to meet them, you will want to take your time exploring the site. You want available storage to carry what you get there.

The event itself is important for reasons of lore and is much better to witness in person. You will not be at risk from that event.

Something you should know. The waypoint the game gives you is only going to exist until the countdown expires. Once it is gone, so is the waypoint, unlike all of the life pods that you can still reactivate beacons. If you have the ability to craft beacons, make sure you leave one there. If not, watch closely how you get there so you can find the location again. You will absolutely need to go back again.

Possible spoiler. Be on the lookout for an available food source, it might just change your game.

It's not abnormal.

Basically, Subnautica's story isn't presented to you in a linear manner. You uncover it bit by bit at your own pace and in your own order for that playthrough. So, for example, if you've been checking your radio regularly then the Sunbeam event will happen sooner. Whereas if you ignore your radio, then there's a good chance you won't get the Sunbeam event until much later.

All of these story elements will come together at the end, so don't worry if things seem to happen "out of order" early on. It won't affect your progression in the game.

This is not “bad” it just means you get more of the information quicker. I don’t know if this is normal but I also got the alien base before seamoth. Don’t worry too much. All in all play it how you like it’s your play through. Happy swimming!

Subnautica is an open world game. There is no "wrong" progression

You do you. Since this game don’t have much set points everyone’s experience will be different. For example, in my first playthrough I discovered certain bases in odd order and spent half of the game without seaglide.

And you don’t really need multipurpose room earlier in the game.

First things first the story does not have a set path

The Sunbeam event will happen around a week or two of in-game time. If youre new, youre most likely still learning

The floating island however, the one you got some 20h in, only happens when you go visit Officer Keen's lifepod (I think thats his name? Its at 300m deep in the Sparse Reef) and if you didnt go to Keen then you will never get the marker for the floating island

Subnautica has one large overarching storyline; the players journey, with two sub-plots; the Aurora survivors and the Degasi

Neither of those sub-plots, or even the main plot, is forced upon you. They are simply smaller stories scattered around: youre not forced to interact with them at all for the main plot

Did you receive a transmission regarding some plans that were sent to the Aurora? You talk about having a Prawn suit, so I’m guessing you have been there. If not, you should go there, get the plans and deal with the radiation problem.

Definitely try to follow the Degasi survivors. If you didn’t find the signal to their next location while at the Floating Island, you missed finding a PDA that was lying on a path

The problem with that question is that the event you're talking about isn't tied to your progress in the story: it's a time-based event.

It's purpose is to direct you to the place it happens at and there you (should) have found clues to other locations for you to find (they're in your PDA). You'll have to find a way to go deeper.

Where stone is black as night and kelp is white as snow the maw shall await you. Purgatory an insane realm of unatural color and ghosts of the dead. A single tree will be your guide into hell itself

When all else fails; dive deeper.

If you've explored the entirety of Floating Island, you should've found a PDA that leads you to the next degasi seabase.

Start there. There's another PDA there that leads you to another place.

Beyond that, make sure you're following all the radio beacons you get, and keep an eye out for cave openings in the 300-600m range that lead into oh, say, larger cave systems at even greater depths.

You're going to want a mk3 depth module on your seamoth, and a perimeter defense, and at least the mk1 depth module for the Cyclops.

When in doubt, go deeper.

After the sunbeam the radio stops being what drives the story, build tools, explore and wait, those are the triggers for new radio messages, but if you don't know what to do, probably there are some pods and bases you haven't checked out.

Look for the blood kelp trench, which is, well, a trench, and its surrounded by grassy platues and sparse reef. Once you've found it, load up your cyclops and try to fit in down into the trench. You'll find something very interesting, and remember, always look deeper.