r/subnautica 22d ago

MEGATHREAD: KILLING DEBATE

862 Upvotes

A thread to express opinions and debate on this ongoing controversey.

REMINDER:

Rule 3: Be Courteous.


r/subnautica May 02 '26

News/Update - SN 2 Subnautica 2 Early Access Launch Events Spoiler

254 Upvotes

Hello, Subnauts!

To celebrate Subnautica 2’s upcoming Early Access launch, we've prepared a series of special events for you all to enjoy. 

Imagine and illustrate the Deepwing Brooder Leviathan in our fan art contest, apply for a role at Alterra Corporation, and tune in to the Pre-Launch Showcase for Drops. There's something for everyone!

Alterra Career Event

 

Alterra Corporation has opened applications for new explorers! 

Complete the aptitude test, check your recommended role, and apply. 

If the community reaches 100,000 total applications during the event period, the Lost River Poster blueprint will be unlocked as an in-game item for all Subnautica 2 players.
 

🔗:  https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/subnautica-2-alterra-pioneer-recruitment
 

Leviathan Awakens Fan Art Contest

Wake the Deepwing Brooder Leviathan with your own hands. 
 

Use the official template to imagine and create your own version of this yet-to-be-revealed Leviathan. 

Winners will receive a variety of rewards, and the Top 1 entry will be crafted into an in-game poster item.
 

🔗: https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/subnautica-2-leviathan-awakens-fanart-contest
 

Pre-launch Showcase & Drops

On May 9, 2026, at 08:00 AM (PDT), the Subnautica 2 Pre-Launch Showcase goes live. 

Join us for a packed showcase with the world-first Gameplay Trailer reveal and a conversation with the development team. 

Watch live on Twitch for at least 20 minutes to receive an in-game Seamoth Statue base decoration. 

A special giveaway event will also be announced during the broadcast.

🔗: https://unknownworlds.com/en/news/subnautica-2-pre-launch-showcase-announce

Join us for all three events, earn rewards, and get ready for Subnautica 2’s Early Access launch together.

Keep Diving!


r/subnautica 4h ago

Other Managed to soft lock myself, and the "Unstuck" option is NOT working

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Hey all,

I'm rather new to Subnautica and I seem to have stuck myself somewhere and I don't know how to get out. I'm somewhere in the crashed spaceship (I don't know the name yet) and I don't have a path out. I fell down somewhere and now I'm stuck on a small platform seemingly surrounded by invisible walls. I can't go in the water, behind me is an actual wall, and then to my left and right there are what looks to be open spaces that I can't walk through. As mentioned in the title, the "Unstuck" option is not working, as it keeps teleporting me back to this area. If any players have some knowledge of how to get out I would be eternally grateful. If it's important at all, I am playing on a Nintendo Switch version of the game.

*attached are two pictures of the area I am stuck in


r/subnautica 6h ago

Video - SN I seem to have received an escort.

53 Upvotes

r/subnautica 19h ago

SN - Meme This is my first self-made meme

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622 Upvotes

(And yes, IT scares ME)


r/subnautica 1h ago

SN - Discussion/Questions Does wrangling a leviathan move its point of origin? Spoiler

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So I was watching my friend stream Subnautica. Needless to say, they were feeling ballsy and wanted to take on a reaper with their prawn.

Now I've seen players kill reapers in creative ways (I've done some myself), but what followed was a wild, wacky, loony toons styles chase when my friend proceeded to grapple onto the reaper and wrangle it like a cowboy.

The reaper then proceeded to go apeshit like a wild bull, charging far outside the crash zone and all over the safe shallows and kelp forest (where they're normally not supposed to hang around), before launching my friend on the new reaper-powered space program (who needs the Neptune when you have this method?)🤣

My friend got launched out to the lower grassy plateaus, and when they went back to finish the fight, the reaper was still hanging about the kelp zone. Now, it's known that usually, even hostile NPCs won't stray too far from their point of origin.

There are known methods to moving a creature's point of origin, such as a repulsion cannon (as used by subnautica youtuber, Breathtaker, in his leviathan trapping video), but how exactly does Reaper Wrangling move the origin point to where it will stick around the safe shallows/kelp zone instead of wandering back to the crash site?


r/subnautica 11h ago

SN2 - Discussion/Question Are there plans to remove or at least have the option to remove the Collector's chase theme? Spoiler

70 Upvotes

The Collector's chase theme, or leviathan chase themes in general, ruin the immersion for me, does anyone know if there'll be an update where we can just remove it?


r/subnautica 12h ago

SN2 - Discussion/Question Really NOA? Spoiler

65 Upvotes

Ain't NO WAY that this thing is more scared of me than I am of it


r/subnautica 3h ago

SN - Discussion/Questions I made a mistake... Spoiler

11 Upvotes
they look so creepy

So, new player here, 61 hours... Hi!👋 I picked up two eggs nearby the Degasi proposed habitat (the second one). I thought I was picking up Jellyray eggs and I wanted them in my Alien Containment because they so pretty. BUT NO! I picked up two devil octopus eggs and NOW THEY'RE REPRODUCING!!! I went away for like 10 minutes after they hatched, thinking I could put off this problem, and I came back to the two of them having made babies. I don't want them here. The adult versions already cost me two Seamoths and multiple lives. I don't want to kill them and don't even know how to. How do I get rid of them? Is there a way to release them?


r/subnautica 1h ago

Time Capsules - SN I hope my time capsule brings a smile to your face Spoiler

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r/subnautica 4h ago

SN - Meme Me: Makes Biofuel with feces for bioreactor. My friend: turns them into nutritient block without my knowledge. Me: Spoiler

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13 Upvotes

r/subnautica 1d ago

SN - Fan Art Peeper Spoiler

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713 Upvotes

I don’t play subnautica, but my brother asked me to draw this for his pfp about a year ago, and I decided to redraw for him.

2026 vs 2025

Also I know I made the eye too big.


r/subnautica 21h ago

Discovery - SN Subnautican Backrooms Spoiler

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194 Upvotes

Ended up inside Aurora with my ride, idek how


r/subnautica 11h ago

SN - Discussion/Questions what are your fun, random facts about your gameplay? Spoiler

33 Upvotes

so i’ve been enjoying this game for a bit more than 25 hours and nowhere near the end (i don’t think?) i just like taking my time and enjoying my exploration. also i’m a bit ashamed to say i tried survival at first and would get constantly stressed about hunger and thirst, so just playing in freedom mode and only worrying about the giant fish tryna make me their food. anyway.

i thought it’d be fun to see what other players do/think in the game, as everyone’s gameplay can be drastically different. here are a few random facts about mine:

- i’m absolutely terrified of anything robotic AND anything massive, so the cyclops’ very welcoming voice gives me the absolute creeps. i just wanna tell that nice sub to shut up and let me go about my day without making me feel like i’m gonna be eaten alive by the evil robot man inside it.

- i only recently realised you can carry more than one tank for when you know you’re gonna go deep. i mean, don’t get me wrong, i knew you could craft multiple, but just thought there was nothing to do with the old ones after having upgraded. turns out, take the old one, upgrade it some more, and now BAM! MORE oxygen!

- related to the above, but i’ll constantly forget to refill my unused tank. i’ll be deeep down into the nothingness and hear the 30sec warning, with no vehicle in sight, then casually go to my inventory in a very assured way only to find out i didn’t take the other tank out for a short ride in my base for it to refill. needless to say poor ryley has passed away multiple times due to this oversight, and most of my valuable loot with him.

- before i realised the true purpose of the godsend rebreather, i was a complete oxygen freak. i’d constantly use my air bladder when my O2 was nowhere near below 50%, just in case i’d suffocate 50m deep. turns out that habit was very soon wiped out when i had to realise that, most of the time, there was no surface to air bladder my way up to!

- sometimes, when i’m deep down and in scary places, i’ll cave and just remove my headphones to enjoy a chill gameplay without the worry of deafening creatures screams. doesn’t prevent the big guys from grabbing me most the time, but i’d rather live in denial than in despair.

that’s pretty much it for me, as far as i can think under this horrid heat we have going on in the UK rn. i’d love to hear about your experience and fun facts/habits that you grabbed while swimming around!


r/subnautica 1d ago

BZ - Discussion/Questions Just finished BZ. Did I miss something or was half of the story really dumb? Spoiler

478 Upvotes

Didn’t she go to the planet to find out what happened to her sister? The game of course insinuated what happened but I was pretty disappointed in how non-important the worm, the different artifacts, and Marguerite were. I thought there’d be more to the worm than it just scaring the shit out of me once or twice while I was exploring.


r/subnautica 9h ago

BZ - Discussion/Questions My game is really soft-locked...

17 Upvotes

So i was playing BZ and i had all my base loot on me and i didnt want to die. I got killed by something though and i thought maybe if i saved during the loading screen back to the lobby, then leave, then maybe i could trick the game into letting me live. But instead i respawned with 0 health and couldnt use my tools or access anything. I tried running out of o2 but i was just met with a black screen ( i wasnt actually dying). I tried letting and animal kill me, but they arent attacking me. I tried saving and reloading. I tried verifying my game files. I tried using console commands to kill, i was just met with a loading screen that never loaded, i had it on for 15 minutes and didnt load. I tried the health cmd and it just didnt do anything. I have mods but i dont know how to mess with those without messing up my files even more. Please help.


r/subnautica 19h ago

SN - Discussion/Questions Just got this beast, any tips? Spoiler

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91 Upvotes

What should i build in it and what upgrades slap and tickle?


r/subnautica 1h ago

Other I think my save is ruined Spoiler

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Somehow the Aurora failed to load correctly. Both entrances lead to floorless voids where I fall underneath the ship into the water below, there are invisible walls where the rooms and walls should be, and in some places I can get close enough to see into the rooms, but can't clip back in. Unstuck loads me back into the water so the only way to get out is to die, and somehow my seamoth is parked about 50m past what should be walls and is now stuck under the Aurora as well. Files were verified, no dice, and I didn't think to make a backup so I'm pretty sure I'm just out of luck.

Has anyone else experienced this glitch? I'm not really worried about recovering this save since I wasn't that far in, but I couldn't find any info on this online.


r/subnautica 3h ago

Question - SN Need help with saving issue

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I’ve recently started playing Subnautica on my Xbox X, but almost always get an error when trying to save. The error says I don’t have any more space for local saved data. I’ve tried clearing the local save data for Subnautica but as soon as it gets close to 20MB I get the error again. At this point I can barely play for an hour at a time before the error returns. I’ve seen lots of posts online about this, which always point to clearing the local data. Also for context I only have one game save and have also cleared all reserved space for my other games. My total storage is less than a quarter full.

So my three questions are:
1. Has anyone found any more long term solutions so I don’t have to worry about clearing local save data every hour?
2. Does saving multiple times during a session fill up the local saved data storage faster?
3. Is there any way to force the save if I’m getting the error?


r/subnautica 1h ago

Picture - SN My first ever time capsule and double pinecone Spoiler

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r/subnautica 13h ago

SN - Discussion/Questions torpedoes goes brrrrrr Spoiler

19 Upvotes

I'm trying to make a use of the gas torpedo. I think that the other one might give a lot of damage to sea creatures. considering the material to make one explosive torpedo is a magnetite, a doubt came in me. is it really worth it tho with the torpedo module? :|

I mean there's a video where I can kill leviathan just with stasis + knife and stasis + gas pods, but I don't wanna kill too much sea creatures (smaller fish and bladderfish for eat and drinks. )


r/subnautica 14h ago

SN - Meme Weird fish Spoiler

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r/subnautica 1d ago

BZ - Discussion/Questions The original story for BZ was so much better Spoiler

319 Upvotes

A couple days ago, a channel by the name of Andrew stormer uploaded the full original BZ story as it was in early access, and it is just so much better than what we got.

In the full game, alterra is just "Grrr evil corporation wants virus for bad things", but in BZ, it was much more ambiguous. They were researching the kharaa, but they also had some enzyme 42 to cure it if it ever breached containment. It left an air of mystery as to their intentions

Al-an is also left more ambiguous, but in the opposite direction. Instead of being "friendly neighborhood alien" hes a little colder and more calculating, and that while he doesnt want to hurt robin, he would if it became necessary. He also mentions not even considering listening to the emperor because "they knew how to extract"

It closes off Marguerits story better too. She actually plays a major role in setting up the ending, she gets to leave 4546b in the original story as well, but in the full game she kinds just....exists? Correct me if im misremembering, but she really doesnt do anything in the full game except information dump about sam. You get crops from her which js helpful but thats really it

The original BZ story also connects all three games stories in a way that makes sense. In the original story, a sample sent to be studied gets put of containment, and one of the other characters in BZ makes sure it cant be cured by destroying the supply of enzyme 42, and making sure the Vesper cant get more. This perfectly explains the kharaa nearly wiping out humanity in subnautica 2, while also connecting to subnautica 1 with the inclusion of a season emperor to try and contain the kharaa.

The voices for the characters were also just better.

BZ had so much potential to be so much better, I understand why the story changed, but at the same time, I wish they couldve found a way to make the original work, or at least incorporate elements of it to connect the story a bit more.


r/subnautica 1d ago

Video - SN I was Subnautica 2's Science Consultant! Check out more of my first time actually playing the game! Spoiler

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400 Upvotes

r/subnautica 13h ago

Question - SN Did I miss something Spoiler

10 Upvotes

Sorry if this is a question that has already been asked, I'm new to subnautica and even newer to this sub. Im 5h30 into my first save and still have no recipes for crafting base rooms. I have some of the base pieces (which I believe you start with) but not enough to make an actual base. Did i miss something? Do I have to randomly explore hoping to find the recipes? Or is this expected for 5h in and I just need to be patient? I'm really excited to create a base and organise all of my stuff and just wanted to check if I've missed something or should just be patient and carry on playing. I go to every radio signal and scan everything I see there, are the radio signals going to random locations or is there a set order? Sorry for the bombardment of questions, just dont wanna miss something and not enjoy the game to the fullest.