Western Grassy Plateaus look for a big ol’ hole, keep going down and slowly make your way right in the ravine, around 600 metres down there should be an entrance with a light green hue. Best part? No “Raper” Leviathan 😁👍

One end by the white plants with the red round thing you use for making something another acces point by the blue round low plants.

Not very clear sorry.

no WHAT leviathans???

edit: i’m making that my flair

No what? 👀

I just tried seeing what happends if i go in a certain way with my sonar constantly and saw a gap and found it (bad idea i use most of my batteries from cyclops)

You shouldn't be able to kill or stasis leviathans

Also, Ben prunty is the best composer by leaps and bounds, and as long as subnautica 2 doesn't use AI for anything, and keeps him as the composer... It will probably be worth it.

lukewarm ngl, I think the lack of darkness makes the lost river lose its scare factor.

If not more. Base building/housekeeping are fun as hell and I like the seatruck/module idea.

I also like having all the stuff to do on land. I do wish there were reasons to HAVE to build a terrestrial base, and that the prawn suit didn't make the land-based stuff so easy.

Ya, one of the coolest areas ever, the juxtaposition of the blood kelp right before makes it even better.

This is SUPER important to me. Seriously. Its like the game design was at odds with itself. You can't build everything until just before the point where you no longer need it. I often find myself wishing the designers would have allowed me to build early and the base hub and cyclops become a longer part of the game. I get why they did it: You don't spend time in the water as much once you get the cyclops, which changes the experience from fear of the unknown to fear of hitting things.

I think the solution is this: make exploring more rewarding. That way if you are enjoying your base building you don't get done just as you finish the game. "side content" and DLC where there is another story that starts from your base would be fun.
Also:
Why didn't people like the sea truck? Cyclops is largely a mobile base. Customize! Among other things. I liked the seatruck but didn't like "trucking" back and forth and HATED the warp box implementation.

Its always my deep base build spot. I build just outside of the waterfall. I use a large room and then at the end I throw an observation room with a bed in it s I can watch the ghostie swim around.

plus it adds a bit of danger to build right net to that ghostie.

Yes, that one spawns near the entrance in the blood kelp zone. I think it's the only one in the biome though.

Nothing juvenile about that one. One fully grown one lives in the BKZ, and two in the Grand Reef.

There are, of course, three juveniles in the lost river, and the three adults in the void.

An adult lives in the blood kelp. He looks a little too far up to the surface.

a good spot to stay - now get your dagger and kill that motherf*cker

is it just me or are juvenile ghosts kinda chill?

One in the blood kelp and one in the Grand reef. I prefer the one in the blood kelp it’s by the life pod that can be found in the blood kelp.

Theres also one in the bulb zone but the blood kelp entrance is the best for nickel

To partially avoid spoilers, I will give advice in the form of riddles.

> Where can you get both reaped and shocked?

> Spheres, Squids, and Seabases

> An open wound that breaks the skin

> Are squids hematophobic?

Hope this helps!

The entrances to lost river are in both blood kelp zones the deep grand reef and the bulb zone

Blood kelp entrance is lovely once you kill the ghost leviathan in there

Preference originally was near the last lifepod where I think most of us first find lost river.

Now, it just depends on where I am in the game. After a certain point when I have most of the schematics unlocked, I’m looking for homestead locations and I’m probably not coming back up for air until time to go.

Or…. Until I run out of brain corral.

Tbh, I'm kinda confused by your reference of "open grand reef" being separate from "deep grand reef"? The grand reef and deep grand reef have the same entrance, and it's in the deep grand reef. There's only 4 entrances: dgr, bkt, nbkf, and mc(bulb zone).

Tbh I've used that as my main entrance a few times and only ever seen it once in a previous run. Latest run it was the only one I used, and I didn't see it at all, and the baby in the entrance there disappeared after I played leviathan rodeo for a bit.

I’ve used the Blood Kelp entrance because if you stick to the left side of the cavern you can avoid dealing with the Ghost and it’s closer to the Giant cove Tree entrance down into the inactive lava zone.

I only use the one under the floating island, because it saves me a beacon

Stasis rifle can be found on the main island

I recomend bringing a melon farm or ALOT of water, as far as I know theres no source of it down there, also extra Cyclops power crlls

I mean, you don't need the stasis rifle, I didn't even use it until after I'd beaten the game. Propulsion is technically optional but it's convenient for getting your Prawn unstuck and for exploring somewhere else.

So what's in the lost river? Basically everything. Nearly every material is available down there and it is awesome, but you're going to need the Prawn's drill to access most of it. It's also the only biome with nickel, which will eventually be important. Oh, there's also ghost leviathans, so yeah, be ready to dodge those.

As for what to bring? Prawn with a drill at minimum, but it's a lot more convenient if you shuttle it around in a Cyclops. You just need to get that Cyclops past the ghost. A shield generator helps a lot. Sonar isn't needed but it's real nice for the upcoming areas. You'll also want material to do some building, all the stuff down there will need to go in lockers. Once you start going deeper than the lost river, carry that propulsion cannon around, just in case.

I prefer the deep grand reef one, but I take a few buoys as you can get lost trying to find the entrance.

My fave is the one on the left to the life pod under 500 meters in th3e bloodkelp zone

Each Blood Kelp, the Bulb Zone Mountain Border and the Deep Grand Reef

Blood kelp trench

There is an entrance in the northern blood kelp zone, one in the blood kelp trench, one in the deep grand reef and one on the border between the mountains and bulb zone.

I find the grand reef one easiest but that's the only entrance I know how to get to so..

The entrance by cto Yu's lifepod(2?). Hug the left wall of the cave and take the waterfall down.

Big hole between bulb zone and mountain biome.

Blood kelp trench.

Head west south west from the safe shallows until you find the blood kelp area. Follow that trench to the western entrance.

There’s a Blood Kelp zone north-northwest of your life pod, it borders the Dunes and a Mushroom Forest. It has a deep hole that’s bottom leads directly into the Lost River.

There's an entrance very close to the Degassi sea base nearest the Floating Island. Pretty much just find that and then keep going deeper. Other than that, there's always coordinates, since you've already been checking out spoilers. This map is spoiler-licious, but it's also super handy: https://subnauticamap.io/

About 1km north from your life pod, you're in the right spot when you passed a grassy plateau going down to a blood kelp zone. Room enough to get the cyclops thru (though it's a bit tricky to navigate through the "forest" to get deeper). There's also a venting system on a rock peak nearby (entrance is down the left flank, life pod in your back).

There's one directly south of lifepod 2

Underwater. You're always going to be going deep to get to the Lost River. I first found it right after finding the Degassi Seabase while searching for gelsacks.