After YEARS 

:D Ayyy! This is my time capsule that I sent off YEARS ago in my first playthrough- The fact that you've found it so far ahead in time is- kind of comforting- I hope all that uranite helped with some things. (I had a bit too much after i explored the lost river)

​@C0RP0 i think we all have we to much urinate😂

@you missed Ik bro, it's all I found! Want Nickel? No, you get urinite Want Ruby? Nope, urinite

Y'know, I was playing subnautica on PS4 once and while evading a stalker I made it fold in half. Me and my cousin joke that it got kicked by the PC

I FOUND THE SAME TIME CAPSULE AS THAT ONE

That's high quality legacy content.

I'm gonna do the same, continue the legacy.

“so let it be written, so let it be done”

Don’t worry I found one a while ago with the same message and I continued the reaper revenge story.

Dam I hope that I can get one so I can face my fear and kill the reaper

The cuddlefish are incredible. How the cuddlefish fare in your save?

@@ProfNeils i send cuddlefish in bioreactor

@@human4885 YOU MONSTER

That.. is so sad.

@@ProfNeils my only thing with them is that you can't put them back into the aquarium

The lava zone gives some pretty warm regards...

*metal gear rising soundtrack intensifies*

@@ADuckInBlackbro is about to teach that ghost the rules of nature

​@@legolord4483Bro about to suplex a FUCKING LEVIATHAN

@@legolord4483 hes his own master now

THAT is a capsule I hadn't heard of. Creative, and also 🤦‍♂️sheesh!

Y…Yo 😳

i mean... he's right tho

Lmao I got this one too

💀

That's pretty excellent.

I dont know if i should be sad for a guy or laughing to death

The fact that he really doesn't had enough and completed the Game to take time for preparing that capsule 😂

I found one with a picture of a dead dragon leviathan and a ghost leviathan together and said am tired of this game

OMG YOU FOUND MY TIME CAPSULE FROM 2 YEARS AGO OMG

Damn man. I wonder if he expected anyone to find the message. On the one hand, you want to give something like that space, on the other I'm filled with a lot of questions, you know? As game developers we make these things that mean one thing to us, but they weave together with so many stories.

Damn, what did it say? I'm intrigued

@@RiceCake5 wish I could just upload the screen shot but here's the message. Dear jake, Last Thanksgiving we sat at the table talking about this game and laughing, you seemed so happy I loved this game as much as you did. You told me you never got to play it and I hope you would have. Earlier this year you left and I wanted to come back on and finish this save I started for you, it's almost Thanksgiving again and it won't be the same without you. I wish wherever you maybe you are at peace, miss you dude. To whoever may read this, If you read the top part and still reading this, hi. I wish you are doing well, check up on friends and family, even the one always seem happy and smiles alot. If you are in a bad place, reach out. But if you can't, I get it. Who cares if another light goes out? I do. You matter. I found this capsule near pod 13, honestly was not expecting this message

@@tonyliu6749 damn... that's sad.

@@tonyliu6749 it's too early for me to cry 😢

Right? I'm seriously hoping that they revisit the time capsule mechanic for Subnautica 3. It doesn't have to be exactly the same, but the storytelling is still such an amazing element so many years in.

Reminds me of Nier Automata. Once you finish the game, you can delete your savefile in exchange to help other people.

@@lonewolfhero3526how exactly does it work?

This one comment makes me want to start a new game so bad...

When I started reading it it was the same as one I published but the ending is different

​​@@ProfNeilssameeeeeeeeeeeee Edit: fuck it i'm gonna do it

I'm not sure but I think I made that one

Imagine getting a reply to your time capsule, "Larry was delicious."

i am pissing myself laughing at this, the poor fish oh my god

My goodness I would feel like such a jackass! 🐟🐠

OMFG

Ohhhh crap-- oh shit uhhhh-

That's lovely.

Its really cool because that might have been mine. I sent one out with a thermoblade and some food with that message.

@@krambir753 idk who but someone somewhere got mine, I packed in as much as I possibly could with high tier minerals. Took a photo of the spaceship and said: to anyone who finds this. It is possible to survive. Don’t go gentle into that silent night.

​@@Hrrrrrrrrrreng my man, dont ever use that quote again. It hits way too deep for some reason lol.

bro dipped out lmao

Achievement unlocked: the good brownie karmic loop. What a crazy, serendipitous exchange of Subnautica capsules.

she was in the aurora lol

I really love the cat poster.

I gpt that same one

Peeper noooo! (seriously though thanks for the story I chuckled).

Rofl

NOOOOO, Nooo.. nooo.

I mean at least he will be in your heart in a way

@@justing2516 💀💀

What an amazing, and ironic find. These things are so cool.

How the fuck

That's the emergency provision I'm in need of pretty constantly.

@@ProfNeils truly.

Hard agree. I really, really hope the time capsules make it into Subnautica 3.

I got one similar, it was in Russian and was something along the lines of "hope these help you" and it had a stasis rifle and a flameknife

lol - I can't tell if it's suitably grim or a troll. I got another after this that was swim charge fins, someone's twitch handle, and what was maybe a bunch of their twitch subscribers? I checked out the channel and it was all in Spanish. Still tempted to go wave at the guy with my limited command of the Spanish language.

@@ProfNeils Google translate is a thing man go hit em up haha

“I guess this is it”

@@leeaylabarry3195 i think i got the same capsule as you

Did you know you can get copper and silver off the back of reef backs

copper's a bitch to find, at least for me

​@@ultrakid8497 If someone didn't i'd be worried.

Bro thank you so fcking much

@@ultrakid8497 No. I didn't. Knew about the plants, but that's it.

Here's to Daryl, may he forever fog up the windows of our Blood Kelp Observatory.

Hope you don’t kill Daryl ;-;

Very extremely solid capsule.

Good reference

HOLY SHIT I THINK THAT WAS MY CAPSULE

I hope he found a good home. I would love to find one of those guys.

Was it just a cuddlefish? Mightve been me that found it...

Yo I got yours

I got yours!!!

hey bro i actually found that capsule!!!

lol, awesome. That sounds like a really creative capsule. Glad to hear Mr. HOV is in good hands.

DUDE THAT WAS ME TY

​@@Rookie8266 THE WORLDA COLLIDE

You rescued Hugz.

Kill them kill the ripper now

Bioreactor

@@stradorious4467 i hate you btw

nah man the reaper was the guard

Nah u ain't tripping the game doesn't tell you they are from people,since I never found my own I assumed they were loot drops

I only made the connection cuz I found one with tons of grammar issues and it wasn’t written in the same style as the messages in the game, figured it had to be from a player

@Wompus I saw one in a yt video by smant and it had paragraphs

Huh, well darn because I sent one out not know that was the mechanic. It states disjfjdjamxjxmshk38nfsl and just has rotting fish in it. Sorry to whoever got that

There are also some drops from the devs But they are either rare or are always there I remember getting one with a picture of the dev team and a thanks note to all of them

Me too. People here have talked about getting goofy ones, but even then I think that would pair really well with the serene, inspirational ones.

Goofiest time capsule I got was called “I love BBQ” or something. Before the devs added a filter so it had prop cannon and ion battery’s. The funny part was the image which was a screenshot of the mad-lad using the prop cannon to hold a cave crawler into a fire on the Aurora wreck. The description was presumably a recipe for cooked cave crawler.

@@jmmarksman73 lmfao that's amazing

Neebs gaming: This is my piss! (Bottle of water)

Yeah well its endgame so we dont lose anything by giving away.

Imagine a capsule with 6 cat posters...

I played on hardcore so that might have something to do with it

Enjoy this free uranium!

Think that may have been me

You mean stay hydrated?

wait, "stay thirsty my friends" isnt that from the most interesting man in the world?

@@faland0069 Yeah, pretty sure; the guy from the Dos Equis beer commercials right?

I got one that said 'stay hydrated' with a single fancy water inside

Those are all legitimately incredible.

​@@ProfNeilsno way you replied to 2k comments 😮

There's a comment thread here that might be the same story? It's crazy to think that this mechanic allowed people to tell so many different stories, and those found their way to our experiences of the same game.

@@ProfNeils it's insane on how many people can have the same encounter with a story and then leave their own story for others to read is insane. Subnautica was insane for this.

@@Nexus_Simulations im not sure how they could have brought it into below zero, I'm sure it's a TON of dev work, but I sure missed it

@@ProfNeils me neither

Oh man.... Subnautica is a perfectly stable game with no issues whatsoever /s

I remember cruising along on xbox when wreckage just.... Spawned around my seamoth. On the floating islands. That was a just barely.

@@ProfNeils my prawn suit fell through the floor and out the bottom of the world, I was able to recover it after getting some new prawn suit upgrades and somehow I had infinite 02 (please belive me) and just use the grapple arm to fly around the subnautica back rooms for a while

That could be super useful for a Subnautica speedrun

On Xbox my prawn clipped into a tiny cave entrance in the safe shallows it took me 5 batteries a lots of stress and 1 failed attempt using a reaper plus 4 hours to finally figure out o just had to boost with my grapple at a certain point then slowly it pulled me out and once it dislodged it was like a cannon and it launched me a bit good thing that was endgame so if I had to get rid of it the only pain was the sentimental value of that prawn suit as all my vehicles that save were my first ones

I'm sorry for your loss. Hopefully some folks find your time capsule.

Yes he didddd, and with a lot of love for the game. 10/10 Perfect capsule.

How's Jeffrey doing?

​@@ProfNeilshe got eaten by a rouge stalker when I tried to get a picture of him

​@@_hurgletPFFFFF HAHAHAHAHAHA sorry

@@_hurglet JEFFREY NOOOOOOOOO!

@@_hurglet NOOO MY HOVERFISH (thanks for trying to look after my boy

dude that prawn arm early game? respect to whoever left that.

That third one sounds like one I made. It was basically “Your amazon order ABX165: 1x PRAWN drill arm, 2x cargo module, 1x Jet upgrade. Thank you for your patronage!” I don’t know if anyone ever got it though.

LUCKY IM 6 AND 45 MINS IN I HAVENT GOTTEN ANYTHING I just fixed teh ship, too...😢

Whatd the stasis rifle pod say you remember?

pal gems dont exist in subnautica...

You're the second person to say that! That's crazy to think there could be one right under the pod.

It really is a creative, thoughtful community.

It can add so much to a playthrough, especially given it's a single player experience. Getting that extra burst of player-driven storytelling, from other players, is so nicely implemented.

Cool. Thanks for sharing that. :P

Maybe talking about the sea emperor?

@@tsutsuyuasuifroppy5764the capsules are player made

Did you send him down?

My friend found a capsule with a peeper saying "take good care of it" HE FUCKING ATE IT

So true. I'm always thinking the cat poster is the ultimate s tier loot, but maybe it gets to someone who's not going to decorate. Ion batteries are awesome, but maybe someone likes the struggle. I really love getting something where you can tell real care was put in. The other person was certain you were going to get a kick, and that itself tells a pretty cool story.

Someone commented that their dad found his own capsule a few years after his last playthrough.

I launched one and had taken screenshots because I was proud of the message, only to hop back in a month or so ago to find it lying next to the Quarantine Enforcement Platform, which is what the picture I put in was of.

I found my own time capsule after 2 weeks

I mean, they're supposed to be pretty smart right?

Super good advice IMO. The story and experience are so fantastic, definitely try to avoid spoilers.

So on this save I found a couple more before finishing the game. One had the exact loot you're describing, except it said something like, hello my fellow archaeologists, I've left some goodies for you! But like... the creativity and good-spiritedness of them (even some of the troll ones, some of what people describe would take a LOT of work!) it's just pretty cool imo.

The sheer terror of the creature concepts do not disappoint in Subnautica.

@@ProfNeils imagine picking up this cool underwater survival game you've never seen before, looks really pretty, lots of adorable creatures, havent even seen the kelp forest or blood kelp yet. And then whilst you are playing you find a cool little capsule with a picture from a player...of a fucking massive underwater dragon shooting fireballs in near blood-red water with underwater lava pools dripping around it

These are amazing. I'm curious what the second story installment was all about, but love that someone took time to get into history and a love of life and beauty. Thanks for sharing these!

I'm curious to know who this “bone-chan” is

Same. It feels like incognito window territory.

@@ProfNeils just learned bone-chan is a graphic novel series about a bone shark school girl and her daily life.

So it begins.

LET IT BEGIN

Hard agree. I would LOVE to see more mechanics like this in other games, and truly hope that Subnautica 3 includes a time capsule mechanic, whenever it's finally released.

Hey my buddy g00n always names a random friend Harold too! I hope he lived a long life in a spectacular aquarium.

As someone who helped the Reddit Hoverfish go on tour, I only know my first Hoverfish as Gary.

Wait I got a time capsule the other day with that exact stuff in it, i still got the hover fish in the aquarium

That's awesome! It's a small world, after all.

I ALSO FOUND THIS ONE

Continue the legacy

That's such a supportive time capsule!

RIP ion cells. May they live on in memory.

Sending the good time capsule vibes! I had played through at least three times, doing about everything in the game, and had never, ever, seen one. This was near the lifepod, in the ruby-encrusted volcanic area.

I just finished my first playthrough and I found 3 time capsules. I was like oh neat a feature they put in. Maybe like old people that died on the planet or something. Nope actually irl people that finish. I got a seaglide with an ion battery in the first one Second had some lithium and copper Third had I think some large water and nutrient blocks

They are so damm rare

I’ve found like 6 in one play through. They only spawn in certain biomes in the same slot that things like limestone and ruby spawns in. Best hotspot for me was the dunes, with half of all of the ones I found.

@@kepler6873 6?

There's a whole thread here on the "Continue the Legacy" capsules. I guess there are a few variants, all from folks continuing the legacy.

I actually found one more in there. This first one seemed to open the floodgates!

X6

I found TWO in that trench, one in the same spot and another further down and to the (idk whether it's north or south, east or west so I'm just gonna say right)

That kind of gameplay journaling is so awesome to me, and honestly the format for some of my favorite RU-vid storytelling in the survival genre.

A novel? Kinda hard considering how limited text for those is (its still pretty long but I found myself hitting limit when writing tips for player that finds it)

There's a real unfolding that happens with the game's narrative. IMO totally delightful.

Yeah, right now Subnautica 3 is apparently slated to be an RTS title -- which could be interesting but I'll be surprised if it's the same vibe. In a way, that's kind of nice for the original Subnautica because it gets to stay that quirky, scary world that you can come back to every so often. But I hope someone does find the chad loot, even if that's not strictly what they're making right now.

@@ProfNeils 3????!!!!! 0_0

@@ProfNeils am excited

Dang! Yeah I have hundreds of hours into the game, and only first found one in... 2022. From comments though, I'm curious if they maybe patched it recently to help make them more plentiful.

Ive played the game 4 times but ive never found one, replaying it rn and i highly doubt ill find one lol

@@christianfisher8085 Honestly the trick is, Don't actively look for them, I found all of mine while looking for other stuff

@@Jordi47 an attempt will be made

@@Jordi47 i literally just found one, your advice helped, thank you kind human

Nice. I love how many folks comment on how they got just the right message or loot at just the right time. It's so dang wholesome.

That's awesome. It boggles my mind how much depth and storytelling Unknown Worlds found with one little game mechanic.

Hey Unknown Worlds, could I get this guy's time capsule next? In my current game I just got one that said time capsules were too op, so here's a scanner.

I had seriously left so many before finding this one. That ruby area where I'm at sounds like a good place to look -- but in the comments here folks have even said that they've found capsules in the safe shallows and around some other pods.

@@ProfNeils I've found so much there that's crazy

On so many levels it's cool.

Absolutely, much love to Unknown Worlds for a game that pushed the medium forward.

Ahaha, I love that message. And kyanite is so incredibly nice to get in a capsule.

I made similar text to my time capsule and sad something like that "dont be an asshole,be a giver"

I love those guys. My favorite animation is the high five.

@@ProfNeils I think mine is the magic trick

Wait, was the only item a cuddle fish egg, I think I got yours!

@straightvibin6972 Does it contain 2 hats and an Aurora figure? I think I got your capsule don't worry, I got your friend cuddle fish he was safe and sound in the Tree Cove where I set a base there and playing with the other cuddle fishes.

@kwistarplus-3189 No way! I'm not completely sure about the hats tbh but I definitely remember the aurora figure. And in the off chance you did get mine I'm very glad to hear the cuddle fish is ok. Thank you for doing that for him.

Time capsule inception. Did he leave himself some good items??

@@ProfNeils Eh, nothing he didn't already have, heated knife, fins, only thing extra was a cuddlefish egg lol edit: misremembered, he had tank and fins on him, not in the time capsule, was 2 years ago mb

Absolutely love finding the cuddlefish eggs. Extra posters are also pretty great for the survivor who has everything.

Nice, paying it forward is so satisfying with these capsules.

I come back every year or so, but yeah even for something as replayable as Subnautica it is pretty impressive.

The heartfelt and the creative capsules are honestly my favorite. S-tier loot is nice, but a good theme is even better imo.

It's really rare and made from players

@@gebah_afb can i ask how do player gave time capsule i dont play the game :)

@@gebah_afb can i ask how do player gave time capsule i dont play the game :)

@@nas9717 at the end you build a rocket to escape the planet and there's a time capsule. You put all the stuff you want there and at the end of the game the capsule is launched and other players cna have it.

@@bruhmoment3478 dang it actually creative never seen some single player game have something like thanks for ingfo

Right? Since posting this I've heard so many creative, strange, beautiful and personal stories shared about this one little facet of its player-driven storytelling.

Yeah I come back to it often, and I haven't gotten used to the reapers yet!

Agree. I love it. Even most of the trolly ones show so much creativity and forethought.

I found one with this text

@@mentagou oh? Nice :0