Where to Find the Cure for Kharaa Bacterium in Subnautica?

TL;DR The cure for the Kharaa bacterium is obtained by interacting with the Sea Emperor Leviathan and its juveniles, which produce Enzyme 42. This interaction occurs in the Alien Thermal Plant after you progress through the story.

Sea Emperor Leviathan and Enzyme 42

The key to curing the Kharaa bacterium lies with the Sea Emperor Leviathan and its juveniles. The adult Sea Emperor produces a weak form of Enzyme 42, which is distributed by peepers throughout the ecosystem [3:1][5:2]. However, the enzyme produced by the juveniles is much stronger and effective in curing the infection [5:4].

Progressing Through the Game

To reach the point where you can obtain the cure, players must navigate through various locations including the Disease Research Facility and the Alien Thermal Plant. The game provides clues rather than direct coordinates, so exploration and depth upgrades for your vehicles are essential [4:1][4:4]. Once you reach the Sea Emperor's chamber, you will witness the hatching of the eggs and the release of Enzyme 42, which cures the player [2:1].

Role of Peepers and Ecosystem Survival

Peepers play a crucial role in slowing down the spread of the Kharaa bacterium by carrying small amounts of Enzyme 42 from the Sea Emperor's prison to the open ocean [3:1]. This mechanism has helped keep the infection at bay, allowing some life forms to survive despite the widespread devastation caused by the bacterium [3:10].

Understanding the Lore

The lore surrounding the Kharaa bacterium suggests that the planet experienced a mass extinction event when the bacterium was first released [3:10]. The surviving life forms are likely descendants of those that adapted quickly or were naturally resistant. The narrative implies that the Sea Emperor's juveniles are critical to restoring the planet's ecosystem [3:3].

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[SPOILER] Questions about a certain bacterium..

Posted by [deleted] · in r/subnautica · 6 years ago

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Just got cured of Kharaa and was wondering if the five little muffins I released are supposed to cure the rest of the world?
The last Emperors (who may or may not have been immune) at best starved from Kharaa killing everything so what's different this time?

Is it because they breed so rarely there were no young ones around to stop the Kharaa?
If so then what happens when they grow to old to produce the cure and if they haven't eradicated the Kharaa yet?
Since the cure doesn't cross generations what's to stop new fish being born and previously cured areas being reinfected?
Can the Kharaa continue to survive in areas it has eliminated all life?

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ryttu3k · 6 years ago

Oh, neat questions! The timing could work out, I think. We know that the Sea Emperor was already on the oldish side at 1600 when she was captured, and that Kharaa has existed in the ecosystem for about a thousand years, so if curing works faster than infecting, they can do it in that time frame. It also depends hugely on how widespread the infection actually is.

At the moment, regarding Kharaa, I have two theories:

Kharaa isn't actually as widely spread as previously assumed. The crater is actually tiny, it's only 2km x 2km. Many people could swim that completely unaided in less than an hour, and that's not even including Seaglides, Seamoths, or especially Cyclops. We know that the Arctic mega-biome is packed with life and biodiversity, and there's no physical way for it to evolve just in the span of a year or so. (There's also bigger issues with the timeline as well, given that it took the Aurora over a year to reach the planet in the first place, but that's beside the point.) So, it's possible that Kharaa was a local catastrophe, perhaps kept constrained by oceanic currents. Getting shot down in the crater is entirely due to the Precursors having built the QEP there, it'd actually be safer landing just about anywhere else on the entire planet.
Kharaa isn't as lethal as otherwise assumed. A high dosage of it will kill pretty quickly, yes, but a pretty high dosage of practically anything will kill. It's possible that the Precursors were particularly susceptible to it, and since it was killing billions of them, they assumed it was a much more widespread crisis. Of the wildlife on 4546B, however, some organisms were more vulnerable to it (including possibly the microbial life the Emperors fed from), high dosages tended to be lethal, but otherwise most inhabitants of the ocean were more or less okay. We can extrapolate on there being varying degrees of infection, too - Danby somehow shows symptoms within three hours, Ryley would likely start showing them within a few weeks, but the Degasi crew survived for much longer (Paul Torgal's first log says it's been five weeks alone since the crash, and Bart's last one says that he hasn't seen sunlight in 'months', and they only start showing symptoms in the DGR).

Honestly, if it was as virulent and immediately lethal as the game made out, then it's possible the entire ocean would have died long before the Aurora crashed, enzyme peepers or not.

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[deleted] · 6 years ago

With your first theory we know that around the crater is a giant dead zone where the kharaa wiped out all life so the area affected is much larger than the just crater. Also we see in a snippet of dlc below zero that you are able to take a sample of kharaa from a leviathan skeleton showing it is more wide spread than even the dead zone.

As for your second theory the game also claims the biodiversity of the area has severely diminished showing its capability against a wide variety of creatures. Also you said it might be from being exposed to too large a quantity at once but when the Kharaa was released it was from one infected fish escaping into the ecosystem so it wouldn't have been any higher a dose than now.

I do like your theory on humans being more resistant sometimes; I think it probably varies more with humans because of the Degasi reports. If you have anymore ideas please share them.

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ryttu3k · 6 years ago

'Giant' could be relative, though. Like, a dead zone the size of a continent would be enormous and devastating, but would it be planet-wide? Hard to say, and the impression I got from the rocket launch video is that the Arctic is probably on the other side of the planet altogether.

Was it just from one fish? The Sea Dragon rammed the facility, and if they were studying it, it's possible they had like... entire vats of the stuff. The actual biology is a bit messed up anyway, admittedly, so a certain amount of fudging around it still needed.

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ladyderpette · 6 years ago

Here's how I understand it:

-Kharaa was introduced to 4546B by the Precursors. They were trying to study it in an isolated containment facility until one of them pissed off a sea dragon. The dragon sank the facility and the bacteria samples got out into the ocean, infecting everything.

-The infection wiped out a huge chunk of native plant and animal life, resulting in giant barren patches all across the planet. This in turn began wiping out the sea emperors -- not because they were infected, but because they began to starve as their food sources died off.

-The Precursors finally found mom leviathan but she was already old by that time and the enzyme she produced was pretty weak. It could keep the symptoms at bay but it couldn't outright cure the disease the way a concentrated source could. To make matters worse, Enzyme 42 proved to be unstable to begin with and decayed at a rapid rate.

-There's a couple in-game mentions that the sea emps aren't doomed. It's entirely possible there's still a few stragglers out there -- after all, if the juveniles are thriving, it must mean their food source (plankton) has recovered. Alternatively, there may still be some eggs somewhere that just need the proper nutrients in order to hatch. Either way, theoretically the juveniles can have families of their own someday. Or they can inbreed, I guess. ._.

-A lot of real world diseases have a bad habit of dying out because they kill their hosts a little too well, so presumably there's no kharaa in the dead areas because there's nothing left for it to reproduce in. Depending on how much dead space there is and how far the juvies are able to range, they might be able to purify everything given enough time. The cure can't cross generations but if kharaa can't reproduce it can't keep going. The juvies have 1600 years to cure the planet so I guess it's plausible that they could wipe the bacteria out. :P

-Humans seem like they're weirdly resistant to kharaa. Not immune, but at least resistant. Unless you're Danby.

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[deleted] · 6 years ago

I think the reason their food source (plankton) has recovered is because mama emperor was keeping the Kharaa at bay in the crater. As far as eggs just waiting to hatch there would still be the problem of if they aren't born in the crater they'll hatch in an entirely dead zone and stave to death as babies. However there is dlc in the arctic with a whole ecosystem only 10 years later so i'm not sure.

With the five emperors around today laying their own eggs that can continue the curing mission there might be a problem depending on whether they lay eggs after or before their enzyme 42 degrades and then who knows when they'll actually hatch and by then the kharaa could have retaken the cured zones if it takes to long, wiping out the emperors food source once again.

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[SPOILERS] is there any way to make a vaccine for the Kharaa bacterium BEFORE actually finding and unlocking the sea emperor eggs?

Posted by SomeGuy356 · in r/subnautica · 5 years ago

please i just want to get it out of the way

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purritolover69 · 5 years ago

no? That’s the point of the game, that’s the thing you’re working towards. I can tell you’re in the more boring segment right now. Trust me, it gets better

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SomeGuy356 · OP · 5 years ago

its just, ive made a seamoth with really good upgrades and an Exo Suit with really good upgrades but i dont know what else to do AND ive gone to the lost river A MILLION TIMES. ive found everything there is to find in the aurora, i know nealry all the lore BUT I DONT KNOW HIW TO PROGRESS. I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE THE HELL THE ACTIVE LAVA ZONE IS. AAAAAAAAAAAAHH

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bhamv · 5 years ago

Would the phrase "giant tree in the Lost River" mean anything to you?

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roelieboy204 · 5 years ago

Look on youtube for the locations

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bhamv · 5 years ago

No.

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SomeGuy356 · OP · 5 years ago

well shit

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xawesomeguy101x · 5 years ago

You can get all of the ingredients for it, but you can’t make it until you meet the Emporer

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How did the planet survive the kharaa bacterium for so long?

Posted by C3CC10___ · in r/subnautica · 2 years ago

If you look at the various logs throughout the game, the main story events with the precursors happened over 1000 years before the main subnautica events happened. How did the planet survive kharaa for so long? The fauna only start getting noticeably infected during the events of the game.

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National-Society-606 · 2 years ago

The fauna have been getting infected and dying of Kharaa the entire 1000 years. The enzyme just keeps it in check. There are real mechanics for this in the game. If you feed an infected animal an enzyme peeper or two it will cure them, I have head cannon that the peepers help slow the infection in Riley as well (even though obviously it does nothing in game) plus the leviathans have natural resistance to kharaa as well since none are infected and many people believe Marguerite eating (presumably shit tons of reaper meat) on her way to sector 0 is what cured her.

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Zachg298 · 2 years ago

Everything outside the volcanic plateau that the game takes place on is an ecological dead zone because the Kharaa killed everything. Only the small map area survived because of the sea emperor and the enzyme 42 being distributed by the vents and peepers. The enzyme doesn’t fully cure them because the emperor is very near the end of its life and the enzymes are “unstable” which is also why the precursors failed to make a vaccine

I think it’s perfect as an explanation for the games border

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Leonard_Church · 2 years ago

How did life survive in Sector Zero then?

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Zachg298 · 2 years ago

below zero takes place years after the events of the first game and presumably the stable enzyme 42 made it all around the planet after the release of the sea emperor babies so I’m just gonna say that somehow whatever wasn’t extinct was able to return

I guess also since the Kharaa was originally released onto the planet at ground zero in the first game by the precursors maybe that area was affected more severely and sector zero was able to stay more intact or the infection spread slow enough for the creatures to adapt and be more resistant

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Zachg298 · 2 years ago

I should say I haven’t played below zero lol so I’m just going off the lore from the original and the wiki

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kadaj808 · 2 years ago

The game does make a point to mention that only very small amounts of life have actually survived on 4546B. Surviving isn’t the same as thriving so. It’s fairly likely that all life on the planet actually would have gone extinct had Ryley not freed the leviathan babies.

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_secretshaman_ · 2 years ago

Wow this story/narrative is much deeper or complex than I ever imagined. I have not finished the game but have been playing on and off for a long time (I got stuck at one point then recently back into it, prepping my cyclops and prawn for my first lava adventure.. need kyanite). So I was ok with seeing a few spoilers to get more of an idea of what’s down the road to keep me intrigued..but some of this stuff I’m reading sounds like game of thrones epic story telling type ish. Not even upset I ruined the surprise for myself

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_secretshaman_ · 2 years ago

Definitely planning to play it through so I can understand what this has been really all about. I’ve never played a game so vague in mission objectives and mysterious like this (Journey is the closest comparison I can think of because it gives you no instructions). My mind is blown when I find a whole new bio dome hidden right under my nose. I truly don’t know how anyone has gotten through this without some sort of yt assistance along the way.

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tarcoanvaahg99 · 2 years ago

So everyone is talking about the peepers and the sea emperor, but I think the warpers helped slow the process because they hunt the infected down as we know about their comms in the radio.

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kadaj808 · 2 years ago

I believe the canon reason is that peepers enter the sea emperor’s prison through the alien vents scattered throughout the sea and carry small amounts of the kharaa cure back out to the open ocean which slows the progression of the bacterium

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ConfusedGeniusRed · 2 years ago

Is this why you can find peepers with a sparkly trail behind them? I caught one and put it in my aquarium

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Zealus24 · 2 years ago

The enzyme carrying peepers mostly, they managed to slow down the disease long enough for life to continue. But there is an entry the PDA notes that says around 1000ish years ago (or whenever the outbreak first started) there was a mass extinction event. The lifeforms we see in game are probably descendants of the few lifeforms able to adapt quickly to the disease or survive long enough for the enzyme to be spread.

But yeah according to the PDA the planet had a mass extinction event and the planet likely barely survived.

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Help! [Spoilers]

Posted by NcX2015 · in r/subnautica · 5 years ago

So just discoverd the Alien Research Facility, I have a Prawn, Cyclops, etc. However only the base depth upgrades on them so far. Reading the Wiki page it says

Ryley goes to the Disease Research Facility, and discovers the nature of Kharaa and realizes that he is infected.
After the incubation period for Kharaa is finished (two weeks, at this time), the coordinates for the Alien Thermal Plant are received.

I Havnt receievd any coordinates for the Alien Thermal Plant, is there something else i need to do?

Think i need to get nickel for the depth upgrade, is it in the same place the disease research facility was?

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ProSnowflake555 · 5 years ago

Nickle is usually found in the lost river, the green place with rivers of more green, but not next to the research facility. You want to backtrack a bit, up the what I call “Waterfall of safety“ and into the main river areas. Around the sides of the river nickel can be found.

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PumpkinSkeet · 5 years ago

I never got coordinates. My PDA just said it was 1200m deep

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kellym1982 · 5 years ago

You don’t get coordinates. You get a clue in a pda file about the depth. Most of the story lives in the pda entries so be sure to read them.

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ravenorx · 5 years ago

As far as I remember you actually get a big ping that says "go here" you just have to keep exploring and going deeper so finding any depth modules is now imperative to continuing the story. Hope this helps!

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NcX2015 · OP · 5 years ago

Oh okay thank you!

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

you actually just receive pings for lifepods and some other random stuff, but theyre never any deeper than 300, depth limit upgrades are a must have, since the end game lies at about 1600, some entrances are very close to the last lifepod signals you receive, if you manage to find a big hole that has some very odd and big fishes you probably made it, unless you receive the message ''entering ecological dead zone'', then you should just backtrack immediatly, i suggest using seamoth's sonar to scan for a big hole, and then maybe leave a beacon there for later exploration

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Luift_13 · 5 years ago

Go to the alien thermal plant and you will receive the localization of the last sanctuary (you will need a prawn depth module mk 2 and i reccomend the grappling arm)

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NcX2015 · OP · 5 years ago

Yeah i dont have the coordinates for the alien thermal plant is my point

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Lore question (SPOILERS)

Posted by daskrip · in r/subnautica · 2 years ago

Spoilers below

I'm confused as to why the rest of the Sea Emperors died off. We know there wasn't only one.

From the wiki:

Almost all of the Sea Emperor Leviathans died when the Kharaa Bacterium was released as it killed off their food source, leaving only the one captive adult and the eggs it was discovered with. As the only source of Enzyme 42 on Planet 4546B, her and her children are the keys to cure the Kharaa Bacterium.

So why did this food source die off, given that those other Sea Emperor Leviathons should have also been producing Enzyme 42, which, as we've learned, is what's keeping the entire ecosystem in the game alive?

I'm hoping that the explanation isn't that only this one single Sea Emperor produced the enzyme.

I guess my current running theory is that the shape of the volcano crater keeps the enzyme highly concentrated in a relatively small (2km x 2km x 1.5km) area, whereas it would be too spread out in the rest of the world for the effect to be strong enough to keep the fish alive.

Edit: I see now that that theory doesn't make sense given info from Below Zero (which I haven't played): the ecological dead zone covers the entire planet, and always has.

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Mc-MeepMeep · 2 years ago

It’s only the juveniles that make enzyme 42, so I’m Guessing the sea emperor was the only one with fertile eggs when the food source died and needed more time for the eggs to hatch, so the precursors preserved her.

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daskrip · OP · 2 years ago

If it's only the juveniles, then what's keeping the ecosystem in the game alive?

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Lady_Hiroko · 2 years ago

The adult does produce the enzyme however at an extremely weak state (a misconception that they don't at all). Hence why they tried to force the juveniles to hatch but couldn't as theirs were stronger and thus more effective. So they fed the Peepers this weak enzyme and had them disperse around the ecosystem trying to at least keep it contained as much as possible. However, that was merely a band-aid. It only slowed the infection down but not cure it completely.

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Mc-MeepMeep · 2 years ago

Probably just the bacteria hasn’t spread to everything and killed everything yet. Also I think the peepers with the gold trails help but I’m not 100% sure on how they work

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[No Spoilers] Imagine a third subnautica game where Alterra harnesses the Kharaa bacterium and uses it for bad

Posted by HydraGaming2018 · in r/subnautica · 3 years ago

And you drop off in a part of 4546B where a super secret facility sits underneath the surface with labs, live experiments and voice logs of live human test subjects being injected with the strain and recorded how the body reacts to it. Think of it as Subnautica x Nazi Nova 6 experiments from Black Ops 1. O.O

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Space-Cat-02 · 3 years ago

I like the idea. Hope the Dev release third Subnautica

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[deleted] · 3 years ago

And You Escaped Last Second To 4546B, And Need To Some how Bring The Cure To Earth So You Can Stop Aterra.

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KWhip8393 · 3 years ago

I was hoping the next installment would be either continuing robins journey with Al-An or with the continuing of Alterra mischief with something else. Maybe some new planet or perhaps in space? Connecting it with something like the show Lost In Space.

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Limp-Bacon · 3 years ago

One of the facilities at the bottom of the dead zone?👀

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Asa8811 · 3 years ago

A lot of room down there for far more than just some Ghost Leviathans

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upset_foreskin76 · 3 years ago

Anything would be better than the continuation of below zeros story. It would also be great to see an enhanced 4546b. They could also add new leviathans as a result of mutation from the kharaa (if alterra experimented/enhanced the virus).

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[SPOILERS] [SPOILERS] [SPOILERS] If I cure myself of the Kharaa Bacterium, can I catch it again?

Posted by Torintime · in r/subnautica · 5 years ago

So I have a plan to not cure myself and stick my arm back into that alien thing until I have finished with the Neptune Rocket because I fear that if I cure myself now, I will have to travel all the way back to the alien medical place if I get sick again. But I'm tired of Warpers. They're terrifying and such a pain to deal with, and I don't know if I will die if I wait too long to cure myself. So now I'm wondering, can I get infected again if I have been cured? Or, maybe I just get multiple antibodies or something so whenever I get sick I can cure myself again? I really don't know, I 'm pretty new to this game and still don't know how the story goes. I've already traveled to the Lost River, watched Sunbeam get destroyed, and got the message saying "This planet is under quarantine." The farthest I've gone with the Neptune rocket is the Neptune boosters. If you could help me without spoiling the ending as much as possible, I would really appreciate it.

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dodgyhashbrown · 5 years ago

Not an expert, but my understanding is that the state of infection is triggered by certain story events. The disease isn't actually hanging around in the water. Once cured, I don't think you can be reinfected without using console commands.

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Theminecraftkid1 · 5 years ago

Warpers will also no longer attack you if you are cured btw. You dont need to worry about them. They just kinda stare at you from this point on.

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StarKill3r68 · 5 years ago

You cannot get re-infected. It's a cure

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

Once you cure yourself you can’t get infected again, the kharaa can’t kill in game but you don’t have to worry about getting it again after curing yourself

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Idea for a darker ending to the game

Posted by [deleted] · in r/subnautica · 6 years ago

This basic idea revolves around the escape ship you build at the end of the game and the Kharaa bacterium. In this scenario the Kharaa infects the player more slowly and it takes longer to find a cure, and so the protagonist has more time to think about why they're trapped on an alien world and world they left behind. He thinks about how the company he works for is going from world to world looking for resources to exploit for his species and that inevitability led him to be stranded here. And about how he wasn't really happy with his life aboard the Aurora or his job.
So he decides he won't be going back to his planet or back to his old life. Instead he cures himself of the Kharaa bacterium and then places numerous samples of it and infected organisms on board the escape ship, to be found by the crew that was supposed to rescue him. The crew will travel to other humanoid worlds looking for a cure and infecting other humans, maybe even to Earth.
The protagonist will reactivate the Quarantine Enforcement Platform so that no one will ever be able to come back to Planet 4546B to punish him for his crimes or find a true cure. And that's the gist of it.

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“I’m not happy with my job and life as I am being payed very little and feel exploited...

ClEaRlY tHe OnLy ReAsOnAbLe ThInG tO dO iS tO dEsTrOy AlL oF hUmAnItY wItH aN aLiAn DiSeAsE wItH nO oBvIoUs CuRe!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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[SPOILERS] what to do next with bacteria

Posted by Vantablack_GG · in r/subnautica · 5 years ago

Plz tell me in the less spoileristic way how to cure the bacteria and continue the story, i know there are at least 3 missions in the game: seal radiation, cure yourself of the bacteria, and go home. i already explored the aurora and sealed it, i think the only way to proceed is to go to the degasi base 500m underground but its surrounded by warpers and crabsquids i got killed once and it was pretty scary o_o, do i have to try again or can i do something else, or is the degasi lore completely separated from the alien lore?

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SlamduncAZ · 5 years ago

Look for a cave system with green brine at the floor. Follow this cave system until you reach an area with lava in it. Search in that area. You’ll know what you’re looking for when you find it. Make sure to search thoroughly.

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sleekfish1 · 5 years ago

You need to go to the lost river. From there you should find your way. There is an entrance to it in the cave with the degasi base. The base has a cuddlefish which is adorable.

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KageKnight87 · 5 years ago

What most people don't realize... The whole skit with the Degasi is entirely optional. You don't have to do it at all. Find the Lost River and go deeper. If you don't want spoilers, this is the best advise you can get. Most noobie players go through the Degasi because one of the easiest places to enter the Lost River is near one of those bases, very close in fact, but again without stating any spoilers, I can't say much else.

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PM_ME_YUMMY_BOBS · 5 years ago

The easiest to enter is in the northern bloodkelp imo

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D_A_R_K_NESS · 5 years ago

Northern blood kelp is actually the hardest. Warpers and crabsquids everywhere, along with a ghost leviathan. And the area the northern blood kelp leads to a part of the lost river that's called the ghost forest, and it's filled with river prowlers and a ghost leviathan.

Meanwhile, the blood kelp trench only has ampeels. It's the safest option without a doubt.

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fricky_ricky · 5 years ago

Go to the lost river, its near life pod 19. Stock up on suplies and make sure your prawn/cyclops/seamoth can reach 900 meters before going. it might take multiple trips to do everything you wan't there but don't give up. You don't have to go to the degasi bases but i would recommend it, i find their story facinating. Gl!

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abraxasknister · 5 years ago

Least spoileristic you say?

Answer: I'm not going to tell you how you can cure yourself because that's one of the last things to do. Don't fear it, the infection won't do anything.

You didn't mention sunbeam. Have you visited the inside of an alien structure at sealevel to the very north of the map? If so, and if you visited the captains quarters, the plan should be straightforward:

find way to alien structures at 800m and 1200m, explore them
800m thing researches about the disease, one might find insight on how to cure oneself there
once cured disable enforcement platform to allow spacecrafts to launch and land again
inside the captains quarters one finds the plans for an escape

Means the only thing missing is a way to 800m which might open up the way to 1200m.

People always tell beginners immediately about the lost river as the way to go deeper but I think this is completely unnecessary and even a bit too much. The things people miss very often that help them to find their way down:

not paying enough attention to their PDA entries, therefore missing the entry about the alien buildings
not explore the 50-150m radius around interesting locations, therefore
not finding the big hole in the ground north of lifepod 12, or south of lifepod 5, or at the ground of the trench, or the trench itself which could be found by exploring the surroundings of lifepod 13 (the sparse reef)
the whole degasi saga leads one pretty directly towards the lost river

As we see, it's completely sufficient to just tell people to read the PDA and explore the surroundings of lifepod 5, or 12, or 13. 13 is my favorite because it could possibly lead you to both degasi or trench, so double chances.

edit: meant 2, not 5.

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I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS THING FOR AN HOUR AFTER KILLING A CRAB, WHY AND HOW IS IT THERE

Posted by Academic_Ride3544 · in r/dontstarve · 4 months ago

As soon as I made another boat, I suddenly noticed this on the map, why is it here?

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Main_Event_1083 · 4 months ago

It sunk on an ice platform instead of falling into the sea. Apparently they have mechanisms like how we players teleport to a nearby island when we drown.

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Wonderful-Reach2198 · 4 months ago

If I remember right, there’s a chance when it’s falling that the game believes where it falls is an invalid position, but given it’s an essential item it has a backup to treat it like a player drowning and forcing it onto a nearby landmass.

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unbolting_spark · 4 months ago

I thought when this happened it would by default respawn at the portal

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Lostneedleworker1 · 4 months ago

Sometimes with specific things it will. Like how pearl will just respawn at her house and for that, they just treat it like a player.

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Asleep_Ad_7974 · 4 months ago

"Oh golly, I hope the item that I need will be easy to see and find" The humble pine tree:

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Actual-Forever-184 · 4 months ago

If the boat sinks with have heavy object on it, it will be teleported on a closest land

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seawiiitch · 4 months ago

Off-topic but I love your pfp. Im addicted to that minigame.

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xDwurogowy · 4 months ago

That's just straight up not true. heavy objects become pinching winch spots

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Actual-Forever-184 · 4 months ago

This may differ depending on the object. I'm not sure how it's for normal figure, but knobbly tree seeds or parts of shadow pices, won't sink

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Bluefox_3 · 4 months ago

Its a bug with ice platforms that ck makes and it doesnt plant itself in water it just ploop and now its somewhere on mainland

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Where to find the cure for kharaa bacterium in subnautica

Key Considerations for Finding the Cure for Kharaa Bacterium in Subnautica:

Location of the Cure: The cure for the Kharaa bacterium is found in the Primary Containment Facility, located in the Lost River biome.
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- You need to have the Prawn Suit or Seamoth to navigate through the Lost River and reach the facility.
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Story Progression:
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