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Vine Turtle: Concept Art
I know I am a master artist but please shower me with compliments for my amazing MSPaint skills
The Vine Turtle would be a large sea reptile lazily swimming around the Kelp Forest. They play an important role in the Kelp Forest ecosystem, eating old Creepvine that grows too large, and distributing Creepvine Seeds to grow new Creepvine. Stalkers would often attack the peaceful Vine Turtle, but to no avail, as the Stalker's Teeth are no match for the Turtle's tough hide. Stalker Teeth would often break off, remaining embedded in the Vine Turtle's shell for the player to collect. They are also quite intelligent, and would recognize and become friendly to the player if they remove all the Stalker Teeth from its shell, opening up around the player and making happy noises when you're around. Due to the tough nature of their shells, they won't even mind if you grab onto their backs and hitch a ride as they swim around the Biome.
Behaviors:
Whaddyathink?
We need more large, peaceful creatures. Turtle friend could be such a creature.
The Vine Turtle would be a large sea reptile lazily swimming around the Kelp Forest. They play an important role in the Kelp Forest ecosystem, eating old Creepvine that grows too large, and distributing Creepvine Seeds to grow new Creepvine. Stalkers would often attack the peaceful Vine Turtle, but to no avail, as the Stalker's Teeth are no match for the Turtle's tough hide. Stalker Teeth would often break off, remaining embedded in the Vine Turtle's shell for the player to collect. They are also quite intelligent, and would recognize and become friendly to the player if they remove all the Stalker Teeth from its shell, opening up around the player and making happy noises when you're around. Due to the tough nature of their shells, they won't even mind if you grab onto their backs and hitch a ride as they swim around the Biome.
Behaviors:
- Eats and generates new Creepvine plants regularly. They would be placed on the ground underneath the Turtle at regular intervals, implying that it eats the Creepvine, then poops out the seeds, which also fertilizes them. To prevent deforestation, it would spawn a new plant shortly after eating one, and before eating another, so there is never a deficit of Creepvine for the player to Harvest.
- Would regularly swim to the surface for air, before returning below. this could be used by a player that has made Friends with the Turtle as a way to avoid drowning, as grabbing the turtle on its way up before the screen turns black could always teleport you to the surface.
- Would fold up into its shell when a Predator or Player approaches, becoming like a neutrally buoyant rock that can be shoved around but not damaged.
- Would spawn with 3-5 Stalker Teeth embedded in its back. These can be collected by the Player to make the Turtle friendly. New Teeth can be added to the Turtle's back if it is attacked again by a Stalker.
- Making the Turtle Friendly will have it open up around the player and make happy turtle noises. The Player can then grab onto the Turtle's back and ride it as it wanders around the Biome.
- If you attack the Turtle after making friends, it will swim off in one direction forever until it despawns. How could you betray your friend like that? You monster.
Whaddyathink?
We need more large, peaceful creatures. Turtle friend could be such a creature.
Re: 'BOREALIS RISING' - A Subnautica Story V2.0.
Drone DELTA moved cautiously, keeping to the shadows. It was heading for the Lava Castle's main medical bay, tasked with providing an advance assessment of the situation in there. The drone's spindly legs moved slowly but surely over a dense carpet of Kharaa biofilm, its proximity sensors alert for any threats lurking unseen in the pools of darkness ahead. Emergency lighting modules set into the central corridor's walls at sparse intervals emitted a feeble blue-white glow, achieving little more than making the surrounding darkness visible.
"Captain, DELTA is currently 50 metres south of the Med Bay. Biofilm density is increasing commensurately with closer proximity to this location. I suspect that this drone may have located a focal point of the Kharaa contamination. Unfortunately, this does not bode at all well for our prisoners. What are your orders, Sir?"
"Roger that, IANTO. Our first priority is to secure the atmospheric processing facility and commence decontamination. As soon as the airlock opens, Jenner and Pasteur will begin clearing a path through the worst of that biofilm. Once we're in place, DIGBY, JUNO and Gawain will head to the reactor room and see what can be done to get power back online in there. Even if it involves running a bloody extension cord back to the atmo plant. Whatever can be accomplished in the shortest possible time with minimal personal risk. Stay sharp, and don't take any chances. All set?"
Depressurisation cycle complete. The airlock doors slid open slowly, scraping off dense sheets of Kharaa biofilm as they retracted. The fragments fell with an obscene slithering, slopping sound, like entrails falling onto an abattoir's gutting table. We advanced cautiously, spread out in a vee-formation across the wide corridor. Héloise was clearly repulsed by the scene before her, although her over-riding expression was one of grim resolve.
"You certain you're okay, lass? We can take it from here, if you're not feeling up to it."
"Oui. I am perfectly fine, Alexander. I have seen worse than this." She replied. "Polyakov's work."
"All the more reason for you to avoid seeing what might lay ahead. You're certainly no shrinking violet, and for that I'm eternally grateful... Although you're still not quite one hundred per cent recovered from your illness. I'm only trying to spare you from the worst of it, that's all."
Héloise grinned ferociously, bunching Pasteur's right manipulator into a fist the size of a beach ball. Without warning, she whirled around and slammed it into a wall corner, sending a spray of basalt shards flying.
Okay. That's one way to make your point.
"Trés galant, ma Cher. However, I can still protect myself... As you can plainly see."
"Just making sure, Dear Heart. Not that there was ever any doubt, of course." I said hastily.
Jenner's left foot skidded nastily as it set down, although the suit's gyros compensated in time.
"Whoa. This biofilm's getting a wee bit tricky to walk on. I conjure now's as good a time as any to start misting. All units, MARTIAL protocol is enabled. Weapons hot. Héloise, set the flow-rate to one litre per minute and activate your suit's jets. Let's start clearing this crap out from underfoot."
"Affirmative, my dear Captain. I am at your command. Allons-y!"
"Captain, DELTA is currently 50 metres south of the Med Bay. Biofilm density is increasing commensurately with closer proximity to this location. I suspect that this drone may have located a focal point of the Kharaa contamination. Unfortunately, this does not bode at all well for our prisoners. What are your orders, Sir?"
"Roger that, IANTO. Our first priority is to secure the atmospheric processing facility and commence decontamination. As soon as the airlock opens, Jenner and Pasteur will begin clearing a path through the worst of that biofilm. Once we're in place, DIGBY, JUNO and Gawain will head to the reactor room and see what can be done to get power back online in there. Even if it involves running a bloody extension cord back to the atmo plant. Whatever can be accomplished in the shortest possible time with minimal personal risk. Stay sharp, and don't take any chances. All set?"
Depressurisation cycle complete. The airlock doors slid open slowly, scraping off dense sheets of Kharaa biofilm as they retracted. The fragments fell with an obscene slithering, slopping sound, like entrails falling onto an abattoir's gutting table. We advanced cautiously, spread out in a vee-formation across the wide corridor. Héloise was clearly repulsed by the scene before her, although her over-riding expression was one of grim resolve.
"You certain you're okay, lass? We can take it from here, if you're not feeling up to it."
"Oui. I am perfectly fine, Alexander. I have seen worse than this." She replied. "Polyakov's work."
"All the more reason for you to avoid seeing what might lay ahead. You're certainly no shrinking violet, and for that I'm eternally grateful... Although you're still not quite one hundred per cent recovered from your illness. I'm only trying to spare you from the worst of it, that's all."
Héloise grinned ferociously, bunching Pasteur's right manipulator into a fist the size of a beach ball. Without warning, she whirled around and slammed it into a wall corner, sending a spray of basalt shards flying.
Okay. That's one way to make your point.
"Trés galant, ma Cher. However, I can still protect myself... As you can plainly see."
"Just making sure, Dear Heart. Not that there was ever any doubt, of course." I said hastily.
Jenner's left foot skidded nastily as it set down, although the suit's gyros compensated in time.
"Whoa. This biofilm's getting a wee bit tricky to walk on. I conjure now's as good a time as any to start misting. All units, MARTIAL protocol is enabled. Weapons hot. Héloise, set the flow-rate to one litre per minute and activate your suit's jets. Let's start clearing this crap out from underfoot."
"Affirmative, my dear Captain. I am at your command. Allons-y!"
Beautiful screenshot showoff thread
Subnautica is easily one of the most "screenshotable" game I've ever played, and I've gotten a hoard of really nice looking screenshots. So I'm gonna show them off and invite everyone else to do the same.
Re: 'BOREALIS RISING' - A Subnautica Story V2.0.
@Bugzapper : I feverishly await the next post! Like many others, I've created an account on the forums merely to thank you for this awesome story! I discovered it just on chance earlier this week whilst looking into the "Dark zone", which I had really hoped we would have. And I have just finally caught up, reading on the slow times at work, sad times ahead!
You've certainly made my days progress much faster, and have brought Subnautica to the forefront of what I feel like binging my time on this weekend!
You've certainly made my days progress much faster, and have brought Subnautica to the forefront of what I feel like binging my time on this weekend!
Creature Suggestion Thread! (Add Yours!)
Just thought I'd start a little thread for people who want to suggest their own ideas for potential creatures in the game! 
In addition to my own suggestions and ideas, I will add EVERY creature idea suggested in this thread to the list below along with the relevant details. c:
(If you have any ideas for Flora or any sort of Plant like creatures, add them too!)
GO NUTS!
Creature Suggestions
Plants/Flora Suggestions
Suggest yours now and I'll add it. Doesn't matter what it is so long as it's a Subnautica Creature idea!
In addition to my own suggestions and ideas, I will add EVERY creature idea suggested in this thread to the list below along with the relevant details. c:
(If you have any ideas for Flora or any sort of Plant like creatures, add them too!)
GO NUTS!
Creature Suggestions
- Crustacean Bottom Feeder - A weak and passive bottom feeder to wander around slowly in search of food. Slow and small. - Me.
- Super Fast Fish - A hard to catch and extremely fast (Marlin like?) fish that yield semi-precious resources. - Me
- Camouflage Creature - A creature that can make itself look like its surroundings (not invisible). - Me
- Albinos? - Super rare pigment deprived versions of any creature. Can also hatch from eggs or be caught (depending on species). - Me
- Crab Tiger Shark - Shark creature with tiger stripes, armour and crab claws. - @Yargish89
- Stealth Squid - Squid like creature that turns invisible and sneaks up on the player from behind. - @Yargish89
- Rainbow Dolphin - Dolphin like creature that changes colours to scare away predators or entice prey. - @Yargish89
- Giant Sea Cucumber - Creature resembling a large sea cucumber roughly the size of a Sandshark. Uses tentacles to grab nearby animals and the player. - @Yargish89
- Black Cloud Swarm - Tiny carnivorous creatures that swim in swarms eating anything organic. Knife has no effect. - @Nautical_Nick
- Mimic - Can imitate and small fish such as the Peeper, told apart via colour differences. - @Nautical_Nick
- Zap Crab - Crab like creature that crawls on the seabed. Fires arc of electricity via claw when approached. - @Nautical_Nick
- Power Leech - Leech like creature. Attaches to bases and submarines and drains their power. Immune to stasis. - @Nautical_Nick
- Acid Dweller - Similar to the Crash. Lives in Acid Tubes and chases approaching players, shedding its outer shell as a damaging cloud. - @Nautical_Nick
- Camouflage Crab - Crustacean like creature that can render itself invisible. Eyes remain visible and glow at night. @Nautical_Nick
- Armour Crab - Heavy crab like creature with thick, nearly impenetrable armour. Uses its claws to smash approaching threats. - @Nautical_Nick
- Nest Building Spider - Sea spider creature that builds itself a home. - @beanZ
- Large Finned Whale - Subnautica finned whale concept art. - @hampus034
- Mind Control Creature - Creature with telepathic and telekinetic abilities similar to the Combine Adviser. - @Kouji_San
- Under Water Pond Skater - A creature that skates along the tops of dense brine lakes. - @Wish_4_Wishes
- Island Lizard - Fast lizard like creature that scurries into bushes when approached. Ambushes player along pathways on the island. - @Zisis
- Controlling Parasites - Smallish parasite herds that infect any number of creatures, turning them completely hostile to the player. - @ARCTIC117
- Sonic Eel - Eel like creature around 7 metres long in mid-deep waters. Uses pouch underneath its head to emit a screech that stuns/deafens player -@aft2001
- Tredicipus - Small, vicious octopus like creature with 13 long slender arms. Curious in nature, can penetrate un-enamelled glass damaging sea bases and Seamoths. Arm tips similar to Stalker Teeth. - @aft2001
- Canyon Crawler - A small, passive, crab-like creature that crawls along the sheer drops of the Blood Kelp entrances and the edges of the map. You can collect and cook them. - @Jamezorg
- Grapple Fish - A species that resemble leeches. They attach to the sides of your seamoth, cyclops and exosuit over time, and deal damage to the vehicles. You can knock them off with a knife. - @Jamezorg
- Peaceful Giant - Large Manta Ray/Whale type creature roughly the size of a Reaper Leviathan. Is passive and completely harmless. - @SWEET_DEATH456
- Koosh Mimic - Mimics Koosh plants to blend in. Waits for prey to pass by and will grab it with long tentacles, shovelling it into its mouth (shaped like a Crash pod.) - @ElMonstro
- Wreck Crab - Hermit Crab like creature that uses discarded objects as a shell, namely wreckage pieces. Eyes pop out when player approaches supposed 'wreckage'. - @ElMonstro
- Mineral Crab - Small crab creature that imitates ore outcrops. When attempting to harvest the creature scurries away. Can be harvested for minerals. - @ElMonstro
- Kelplion - Strange creature consisting mostly of a huge mouth. Waits in cave-like holes with kelp-like tendrils extended. Rockets towards prey that touch tendrils. - @ElMonstro
- Flickerfish - Small poisonous fish in the deep sea that eats Bloodvines. Flickers with light in odd patterns and is eaten by Ampeels. - @ElMonstro
- Lox Limpet - Small conical limpet with a mouth at the base. Attaches to sea bases and reduces hull integrity over time. Must be removed. - @ShadowyM
Plants/Flora Suggestions
- Acid Tube - Long tube with similar colour to acid mushrooms. Yields acid when harvested. Possible home for Acid Dwellers. - @Nautical_Nick
- Sea Trap - Venus fly trap like creature that traps small fish that get too close. Holds natural resource; Trap Sap. - @Nautical_Nick
- Catalyst - A yellow sphere that floats still over the Grand Reef and Koosh biomes. If you get too close they emit yellow toxins that deal damage to the player over time. - @Jamezorg
- Hang Roses - A flower that resembles a rose that grows on the edges of the floating island. These flowers droop downwards, and drop green juices into the water below. The water beneath flowers is green. - @Jamezorg
- Parasitic Fungas - Attaches to medium to large fleshy creatures. Causes the creature to not notice attacks and become placid. Can infect the player, but can be cut off. - @aft2001
Suggest yours now and I'll add it. Doesn't matter what it is so long as it's a Subnautica Creature idea!
Re: Can you think of any features that could be removed?
Healthbars
Ya you think you shoot good, try it without healthbars. Makes the game balanced.
Ya you think you shoot good, try it without healthbars. Makes the game balanced.
Re: The Story Of Julian. The One And Only Survivor Of The Rich Clan Airship.
alright, here it is:
I removed superfluous capitalization, changed some basic text to make sentences make logical sense, but for the most part I've left the basic story untouched. A few notes to @Julian1337331nailuJ: Capitalizing every word makes the text rather an eyesore to read. It stresses each word unnecessarily, confuses objects that should be capitalized, and muddles sentences- rendering them difficult to read. Once the capitalisations are removed, the story is actually pretty comprehensible.
Julian1337331nailuJ wrote: »Day 1: The day I got here. When I woke up, I was immediately surprised by the fact that the escape pod was damaged. It had been tested with everything and sustained no damage, but this? Impossible! I honestly said, "What could have damaged the escape pod? It’s impossible to damage it!" (Please don't be a Gramzi and annoy me about my grammar errors.) I sighed and left the escape pod.
The Aurora was what I saw first. "Wow. What could have happened to that?" Then I looked behind myself, and I saw the airship. When I saw the airship I said, "What!?!? WHAT!?!? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE AIRSHIP!?!?" I was surprised. Then I just decided to go into the water. How? Simple. Sprinting- and Jumping. When I had gone underwater (I'm a Lucario because why not.) I saw a Warper. Then I heard it through my suit’s radio, and it said: "Subject detected. Main task switched." I then get my main stasis cannon and I launch it at the Warper to get it to stay still, so I can’t be launched away. Then I get into the escape pod and go to its storage bay. Then I get the Base Building Kit and just get back out. Then I start building my base.
My base looks a lot different than everybody else's. It’s small at first. It has a basic Eternal Power Generator Model 1. The Eternal Power Generator can be upgraded. I always have my first models made without any materials needed. However, Despite being Second In Command of the Rich Clan (I was there then it started), the upgrades will take some materials. The tools were on emergency mode and you will need a supercomputer for them to be put off of emergency mode. However, that will need a lot of materials to make.
Day 2. I got a repair tool after a while of working in the base. When I got it I said "Yes! A repair tool!" I then went to the escape pod to repair it. When I repaired it I got a 10% material discount, meaning I can get things faster. It was then I realized: I might have forgotten about a possible explosion chance. However, I thought, it will take a few more days to have it explode.
Episode 1 ends here. You guys can change the episodes. If you want to join, you can, if you want other things to happen.
I removed superfluous capitalization, changed some basic text to make sentences make logical sense, but for the most part I've left the basic story untouched. A few notes to @Julian1337331nailuJ: Capitalizing every word makes the text rather an eyesore to read. It stresses each word unnecessarily, confuses objects that should be capitalized, and muddles sentences- rendering them difficult to read. Once the capitalisations are removed, the story is actually pretty comprehensible.
Re: When the next update?
Duff_McDuggin wrote: »Is it one hallway and a room for the exo, or a few rooms with some other assorted goodies to be found.
There are more rooms.
SPOILER!!!
There is a office area, a Cargo Container room, a Locker room, Bed rooms, Living quarters with the exosuit posters, Flooded rooms, a Cantina with the cat poster and the burning Exosuit room. There are two floors.
This is everything I know.
This is everything I know.
IndieDB Indie of the Year Award
Hello again everyone,
So some of you probably saw my last discussion on this forum attempting to get people motivated and all come to a common goal; to win Subnautica an award! Now last time, during the Steam Game Awards, it didn't go so well. This was to be expected considering people had their own opinions on which topic they wanted to nominate the game for and we were competing against massive games with fan bases 10x our size.
This time I think we have a chance to have Subnautica win an award, which I think we can all agree that it should win and get some more recognition because Subnautica is just a wonderful game.
We need your help to give Subnautica a fighting chance in this years IndieDB Indie Game of the Year Competition! I believe this competition is right up our alley; its smaller so we don't have to go up against huge games and since its only featuring indie games, which Subnautica is, it should be possible for it to win. Also Subnautica is up there with some of the best indie games I know, even in its unfinished state, so lets give this game and its amazing dev team something it deserves! Lets all come together as a community and do this!
All you need to do is click vote on this webpage and you are done:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/subnautica
I thank you, as I am sure the developers at Unknown Worlds do as well, for voting on Subnautica's behalf!
So some of you probably saw my last discussion on this forum attempting to get people motivated and all come to a common goal; to win Subnautica an award! Now last time, during the Steam Game Awards, it didn't go so well. This was to be expected considering people had their own opinions on which topic they wanted to nominate the game for and we were competing against massive games with fan bases 10x our size.
This time I think we have a chance to have Subnautica win an award, which I think we can all agree that it should win and get some more recognition because Subnautica is just a wonderful game.
We need your help to give Subnautica a fighting chance in this years IndieDB Indie Game of the Year Competition! I believe this competition is right up our alley; its smaller so we don't have to go up against huge games and since its only featuring indie games, which Subnautica is, it should be possible for it to win. Also Subnautica is up there with some of the best indie games I know, even in its unfinished state, so lets give this game and its amazing dev team something it deserves! Lets all come together as a community and do this!
All you need to do is click vote on this webpage and you are done:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/subnautica
I thank you, as I am sure the developers at Unknown Worlds do as well, for voting on Subnautica's behalf!
Re: Forum Information
So, why am I resurrecting this discussion that has been long dead?
1. Just to show how old this Subnautica forum, so we can reminisce about the olden days. I mean November 2013! That's just over 3 years ago! Subnautica wasn't even in early access if I remember correctly. Think of how far Subnautica has come since then, I don't even know if anyone in this forum even knew what this game would be like at the time. Now we have the Lost River, Sea Dragon Leviathans, an amazing fan story (Brought to you by @Bugzapper), politics of all things, and a community of great people. We should be proud of where we have come from, as we head for the future.
Merry Christmas!
1. Just to show how old this Subnautica forum, so we can reminisce about the olden days. I mean November 2013! That's just over 3 years ago! Subnautica wasn't even in early access if I remember correctly. Think of how far Subnautica has come since then, I don't even know if anyone in this forum even knew what this game would be like at the time. Now we have the Lost River, Sea Dragon Leviathans, an amazing fan story (Brought to you by @Bugzapper), politics of all things, and a community of great people. We should be proud of where we have come from, as we head for the future.
2. Bragging rights for resurrecting the oldest discussion on the site. That's another check for my bucket list.
Merry Christmas!
