As you’re playing Survival an important game mechanic to bear in mind is that every time you enter your lifepod or a base you built, it saves your inventory: if you die after that point you keep everything that was on you the last time you were in a base (plus one item of anything you picked up since then).

That also means that once you have a habitat builder, if you carry 4 titanium and a quartz, you can make yourself a tiny unpowered base wherever and whenever you like to use as a sort of portable save point. Without power you’d still drown but you won’t lose anything. Handy!

When you use bladderfish for water, catching 1 bladderfish and using the fabricator once gives you 20 water. When you use bleach (coral tube samples plus salt), you only need to find the salt (plus locate one coral tube, which should always be easy in the Safe Shallows), then 2 fabricator uses gives you 60 water. No contest.

Make and learn to use an Air Bladder. BIG help.

Enjoy!

Bleach is easy to make and will end any dehydration problem you’re having. Reginalds are the best fish to eat or preserve. Marblemelon and Bulbo tree are the best plant food sources. Bulbo are better mathematically but either is more than sufficient. Cyclops is great and all but don’t feel like you must use it much less take it to endgame areas. Don’t go behind the Aurora unless you want lots of hugs. Good luck.

You don't need any.

Subnautica is a game about exploration and discovery, the less you know the better

Carry a spare couple of beacons with you. When you find something cool you can drop them.

Your PDA lets you turn off beacons/signals to avoid your HUD getting cluttered and disorienting, and you can even colour them (I use green for bases, blue for vehicles, orange for points of interest and red for BadOhNoDoNotGoHere).

No your first comment was more than helpful just the extra survival mechanics so I'm prepared everything else I will remember after few hours playing thanks again

Floating island is a priority. Scan building get gun scan grow bed pick melons for food

If you slash a stalker with your knife it'll leave you alone for a bit too.

Thanks for your advice anyway. I never know that repair tool can be used to repair broken lifepods. I always leave after collect data and info. Haha. After playing this game for 16hrs I still feel that I am a new player at the beginning.

Spoiler free. Tagged spoiler. Hmm

"will tempt the stalker to ‘sharpen its teeth’ " Nice. I like how you worded it.

Defiantly try to build a base quickly and maybe try to get the seamoth pretty early. That’s the best I can come up with. I remember there being a thermal vent near where you start and I powered my base in my second game off of that. Worked really well.

Do not eat the Hoverfish

I got a tip Don't die

Be vegan. dont eat poor fish and stop drinking water from fish :D

Rush to the floating islands once you have your scanner and seamoth. Provides all the basic blueprints for a self sustaining base.

Always carry a beacon or two to mark places that you want to come back to. Name the beacons

Once you set up a scanner room, pick the cameras up and drop them in a locker

If your health is at the max the only creatures that can one shot you are late in the game, so carry one or two medkits at all times. Other than that the most dangerous creatures are the reapers. You can avoid these by not loitering on their home turf - (front, back and east side of the Aurora, the back of the Mountain Island and the Dunes). If you do encounter one, head for the surface and *strafe* as you go - you will usually outwit the stupid fish AI. Finally, you could add the defence module to your Seamoth - reapers will drop you like a hot potato once you activate it.

Bring your sea moth to a complete stop before exiting.

Keep an eye on your oxygen.

Carry fresh peepers to throw at reapers if they get too close.

My best tip for hardcore is don’t die because then you lose your world :)

Food: go to the degasi island. Water: Bleach Creatures: Have medkits and keep moving when swiming. Get the reinforced suit. Leviathans: Run.

I always have to remind myself to bring med kits, and always have audio whenever possible

You can also punch every living thing enough times to kill it. The drill sucks for murderlating wildlife, but just straight punching a Sea Dragon Leviathan will make it regret ever being milted.

I did not know that

I always just used my drill arm.

That’s crazy

bro blipped

We need GOALS for the fragments. Wubby said Minecraft being goal orientated is how he kept with it.

>Laser Cutter (Grassy Plateaus - the short red grass near the shallows). We can then revisit the aurora and get the remaining goodies from there (required to progress).

>MoonPool >!mushroom forest to the far west!<

>Modification Station Possible to find on the seabed in >!mushroom forest<!

>Cyclops >!Some are in the mushroom forest to the far west(low danger). Others can be found along the ridge that runs behind the Aurora(high danger). Be brave and go with an empty/secured inventory)!<

Bonus: >Battery Charger (Grassy Plateaus)

>Power Cell Charger - this isn’t needed today. You can recharge your power cells in the moonpool until you find the frags for power cell charger.

Death and inventory: Your inventory is “secured” when you enter a habitat. Any mats you pickup between exiting a habitat and death will drop. You keep the blueprints/scan progress on death, so trade your life for some unlocks.

You really want to avoid letting your vehicles explode. Save scumming is recommended if you don’t want to do extra farming.

##TLDR

1. Get laser cutter from grassy plateaus.
2. Go west to the >!mushroom forest!< biome because there are a lot of key things to scan there.
3. Cave system between safe shallows and grassy plateau(wubby briefly swam in before unlocking rebreather in week 1 or 2)

BUILD BASE ASAP. easier to hold materials

look for seaglide fragments

Never scan yourself.

Go deeper. Headphones! Have fun

Once you can build a scanner room and a HUD chip for it your life will become much easier. Build it near as many biomes as possible.

Learn what a reefback sounds like. If you hear something in the distance that isn't a reefback it's probably bad. In time you'll know what I mean by this.

Most useful plants will produce one or more seeds if hit by a knife. There are pots and gardens for crops you will eventually be able to build. Grow acid mushrooms, deep shrooms, and gel sacks.

Marble melons and Bulbo trees are the best food sources. When you find marble melons, those are the only ones you'll see in the game. Make sure you get seeds from them.

Most predators are attracted to lights. Once you get a prawn suit you can turn those off by removing the left power cell. Everything else has a switch for that.

Creepvine and its seed pods rot quickly. Turn them into lubricant, rubber, and fiber mesh ASAP.

Most predators won't kill you if you're holding a peeper in your hand. You'd be surprised how well this works.