Misadventures in avoiding spoilers.

BobtheBoggler

I thought I'd share a few quirks of Trying to play Subnautica as spoiler free as possible, and hope to hear of others doing similar things.

I'm going preface this by Pointing out a few things:

• I heard about this game long before I started playing it, and tried to know as little about it as I could before it came out. (I failed. I saw gameplay videos and thought it was out, and was too hyped to not play it.)
• Wide open spaces make me very uneasy. Combine that with my aging setup lagging and not loading some areas right away lead me to be pretty jumpy.
• Most of these happened before I ever died in survival. I didn't know what would happen if I did and I didn't want to.
• I had NO IDEA that the cyclops was invincible at the time, or that creatures don't attack your bases.
• I hadn't found the compass and learned to orient myself by the aurora. I was very surprised when I learned the aurora, in fact, wasn't facing Mostly north.
• I Looked at maps and wikis at times to try and get the gist of where some places and things were, while still avoiding spoilers. This usually involved blocking parts of the screen and/or quickly glancing over texts.

Now that you can understand why I thought/did some of these things (I hope), here are a few that made me feel like an idiot.

• I spent hours in the underwater islands zone looking for multipurpose room fragments.
• I thought there was only one of every biome besides SS, KF, and GP.
• That and the lag the zone caused led to the idea that the mushroom forest was massive, and the mythical invisible wreck that appeared out of nowhere, only to seemingly vanish when I came back to loot it.
• It also meant I would give up and go strait to my base when ever I ran in to a biome that was "supposed" to be somewhere else, figuring I was lost and looking in the wrong area.
• This wasn't helped by the fact I would go around laggy areas (MF, Wrecks, anywhere with vents) instead of through them, giving me reason to doubt myself and making strait line navigation difficult.
• I searched the "lava zone" at the bottom of the underwater islands for seadragons for far to long.
• I figured that I must be in the "Inactive lava zone", and some people said they're easier to find in the active lava zone.
• I searched the "Inactive lava zone" at the bottom of the underwater islands for the entrance to the active lava zone for far to long.
• At least 3 different reefback egg hunts were held, and a lot of spadefishes were hatched.
• I only learned about the jelly shroom cave from the wiki and maps, and thought it was a set of long tunnels all leading to a large central cavern with a survivor base. I didn't want to get lost there, so I never went.
• I thought there were only 2-3 reapers in the game, and they just patrolled a huge area. I thought the dunes reaper was tunneling through the sand.
• I never got anywhere close to bottom of the dunes for fear of tunneling reapers. I avoided the deeper sandy areas around the aurora for the same reason.
• I hatched around 5 ampeels because I thought I could somehow harness them to power bases.
• After realizing Stalkers couldn't give teeth until released from containment, I thought I had to do something similar with ampeels.
• I kept a triple-decker containment tank filled with ampeels, because I didn't want to experiment and risk dying or loosing my base, and didn't know if they would shock me in the tank.
• I built a second containment tank because the first one was full of eels.
• After I realized ampeels wouldn't hurt me in the tank, my belief that they would die if I left them in containers made releasing them a safe way from my base a long process.
• I thought the Prawn suit couldn't boost-jump at all without it's jet upgrade, So i waited to build it until I found Kyanite and sulfur.
• The unfinished and hard to navigate state I found the mystifying lost river in made me suspect everything bellow the giant "waterfall" was a sort of easteregg. The Giant Egg convinced me of this.
• The crashed borg-like ship of what made the warpers, the impossibly massive skeleton, and inaccessibly deep (by seamoth) drop off behind the tree were just imagination ticklers with no real explanations.
• Satisfied with the easter-egg cave, I went back to my cyclops, confident the reason I didn't see any new outcrop types being the developers wouldn't put needed materials in a secret bonus area.

There are probably more that I don't remember. I know that for some reason I was avoiding the grand reef like the plague, and I don't remember why. It might have just freaked me out to much. Did anybody else do things like this? (I sure hope so.)