Can You Beat Subnautica With No Vehicles? 

Trying out something a little different. This video was a long time in the works but I figured now was the best time to finally finish it up. Oh, and go play Subnautica if you haven't.

Him taking 20 hours to complete the game Me taking 40 hours to leave the shallows

This video in a nutshell: “And I drowned”

"Did a little bit of handfishing" * Gasopod going mach 2 through the water in the background *

Theres enough Ion cubes in game so you actually didn't need the prawn suit. Heads up for next time 🤙

This is cool until you realize that the neptune rocket is a vehicle

Seaglides are a vehicle btw but without them, it's impossible this is what Google says when u search "Vehicle" it says A piece of mechanized equipment, and seaglides are mechanized equipment but idc

I know I am late but there is 24 ion cubes you can manually pick up. There is 3 special alien caches and then the ones at the actual bases

Welcome to "how to drown!"

Pressurized, space-age metal vehicle: "You went too far down, and now I'm crumpling like a tin can!" Your squishy body: "If I had a long enough snorkel, I'd be perfectly fine!"

He use the rocket to leave the island so technically he lost but I applaud you

"Can you beat subnautica with no vehicles" Me : *laughs in speedrun*

Seaglide isn't a vehicle, its like saying a skateboard is a vehicle.

1:22 bro that gaspod in the background

It’s crazy how leviathans are just not a problem anymore when you don’t use vehicles.

He actually didn’t have to move the prawn suit! There are several other ion cube caches around the map that you can go to

With the extra ion cubes at the sanctuaries, the Prawn was unnecessary, and I'm going to say that using the Cyclops as a big expensive fabricator doesn't count. :P

Going to the lost river be like “boys get the pipes”

I think having to build the Cyclops for its shield is an acceptable "yes, but no." Needing the prawn to drill however does break the run.

When you realise the rocket is technically a vehicle: “The game was rigged from the start”

You could get a cyclops shield generator from a time capsule, so theoreticaly it should be possible.... But it would take ages.

5:54 Betsy wasn't happy

I did this, too. Here are my tips from the current version: ・If you're OK with taking advantage of glitches, utilize 'Super Seaglide'. Speedrunners access this by flooding a normal compartment; it's slower but easier to do it by flooding a Moonpool. Build the Moonpool away from any other structures, power it, then add windows until you start to get cracks. Once you see the water level inside rising, you can take away the windows as long as you don't repair the cracks. Powering it keeps a small pocket of air at the ceiling. To use, swim up into it, top off your air by bobbing against the ceiling, and then exit down and out using the Seaglide - you'll be going super fast! Powered interior fixtures like Fabricators and Battery Chargers will work fine, and you can even grow surface plants in the flooded space. Super Seaglide will remain active until you breach the surface or enter a habitat; swimming carefully to a depth of 0 meters will get you surface air. ・To get air where you want it without building a hab, plant Brain Coral in Exterior Planters (get plans from the Floating Island, or from in wrecks). To dive deep, I made a chain of planters with Brain Coral and Creepvine Seeds. When the Creepvine is fully grown, it shines out in yellow light visible at a distance. This saved me from having to memorize routes or build tons of beacons - I just swim towards the light. Stacking multiple Brain Coral will let you refill your tanks faster; multiple Creepvines makes more distinct light. Of course, you don't need to carry all that at once - 2 Titanium to build the planter, one of each plant to seed it, then do other things while they grow. Go back later and replant cuttings from the adult flora to fill it out. If you're using Super Seaglide, this has the added benefit of letting you refill air without dropping speed. ・You can also plant Gel Pods or Bulb Bushes for exterior food and water. For Gel Pods, plant an adult one, cut it once for a seed, then take the adult back into your inventory. When you pick up the adult, it restores to full 'health', so you can cut it as many times as you need by repeating this process. ・The Seaglide has a constant speed, no matter what you're carrying. Ordinarily, tugging extra O₂ tanks slows you down incrementally - but not while the Seaglide is active. If you know you're going to some... structure... where there is air, you can make an extra long trip by bringing a spare O₂ tank and switching it out while swimming. Just remember to switch between tanks once you make it to the air - the used one will not refill if it is not equipped. Swim Charge Fins will also recharge a Seaglide while you're using it, with no loss of speed...until you switch to another tool, that is. ・The Lost River is the deepest region where you'll find plenty of Limestone for Titanium; there is a little loose in the Inactive Lava Zone, but starting at the Ghost Tree it's almost all in drillable form. I love building up a base next to the Ghost Tree: It's pretty, there are no predators, and it's got Limestone, Sandstone, and Shale. If you like that spot, too, plop a Thermal plant right at the apex of a hydrothermic pillar and use it to power a Scanner Room (with a Hatch) set to scan for Limestone. It saves on what you have to bring with you. Inventory Use: 12 Ti + 2 Cu + 1 Au + 1 Coral + 2 Magnetite + 1 Aerogel + 1 Quartz + (optional 4 Scanner Range Mods) = 20/24, plus a build tool.

Mobile vehicle bay makes vehicles, doesn’t make sea glide, therefore the sea glide is not a vehicle.

You are better than some you tubers with 10 million subs I wish people could see your talent bro

Can we just appreciate this mans went 700+ METERS DOWN WITH A 135 OXYGEN TANK

Pretty sure you can find the cyclops shield gen in the game without having to craft it? Also Ion cubes could be spared by not activating teleporter. Still tho neptune rocket prevents a genuinly no vehicle run from being possible.

And I drowned.

The neptune rocket is a vehicle, therefore it is imposible to complete subnautica without using vehicles

My answer before watching the video: very unlikely but probably possible

Really liked this video. Think you did a great job with it

We need more utubers like you

this video feels like it was made by a professional youtuber keep it up m8 :D

legend because he only used the high capacity oxygen tank

I thought by no vehicle, homie is gonna fly out of the planet using floaters and return to planet

Probably the only game I actually take screenshots in, and I take a lot

no, no i cannot. I'd be too afraid to get into the water without a exo made of metal for protection.

you can also use exterior grow beds and brain coral for air sources

"Its very spooky game, It's a very atmospheric game, It's a very gorgeous game" - EphiTV Me Wondering why he forgot that its a very piss your pants game : hmmmm

I love the part where you said “then I drowned.”

You might have been able to got to the grand read and get the cash instead of the prawn suit, but it’s fine you did what you thought you could

I love how the first vs subsequent playthroughs of the game are, First playthrough: Frantically trying to find something you didn’t even know existed Subsequent playthroughs: Breezing through the game with ease because you know where everything is

Try beating subnatica without touching water 🤔

The only recorded use of air pipes, July 1st 2019, colorized

me who entered just to see the alien facility places

no, bc you need cyclop shield module to make neptune (rocket)

This in a nutshell: Seamoth (and maybe prawn) is optional

"Annnd I drowned" was your most used phrase

Mate you’ve got some true patience. I would’ve given up before even getting to the first island

you can get more ion cubes from caches. but there's nothing to bypass getting the cyclops for sheild generator

i wouldn't count the cyclops use, because the crafter is in basically in everything, so I wouldn't count it

Imagine if subnautica was randomly generated. That would be the perfect exploration game.

Wait a second technically you can’t beat the game without using vehicles because the Neptune rocket would be considered a vehicle and that’s the only way to beat the game So technically no you can’t beat the game without vehicles

I did this run before I even saw this video. I did a hardcore world, and didn't *pilot* a single vehicle (I say pilot, as it is necessary to *build* the cyclops and the rocket. I wouldn't really count launching the rocket as piloting a vehicle). I can testify, though, most of the time that I spent in the run was traveling back and forth, ferrying items from my main base to my relays positioned deep in the lost river and lava zone. Fortunately, I was able to get enough Ion cubes from facilities and caches to beat the game *and* make an ion battery for my seaglide. But other than those differences, it was pretty much the same as you saw in the video.

This sounds like an awesome challenge! As a player who LOVES Subnautica and would say by this point, I’m really good at it and would say it’s one of the games I know+play best, this(and the no base run especially) sound like challenges I’d love to try. I think I’ve pretty much done no base runs before but I could be wrong and might have actually built some but to make sure I’ll still give it a try someday. Death run sounds fun (excruciating) too, like survival in Fallout 4, another favorite :))

I haven't finished the game, and can just started the video - I can already answer. Yes (IF #1 you can endure it, and #2 someone was nice enough to put a Cyc Shield Generator in a time capsule you come across) Otherwise, no. You can't get everything you need w/o a Cyclops. if you build an air-base every swim distance of about 1000m. That includes vertical And horizontal, but not anything else that slows you down, like forced turns. By the time you're making 10 stops for air along the way to the lower layers, knowing you'll need ot make 3+ trips to get enough there to build all you need (can't drill those nice titanium deposits w/o a prawn)... you'll need some theraputic medications to stay sane.

To build the rocket you have to build the cyclops

I did this but with inly the cyclops all i dtarted with was a repair tool the knufe and a scanner as well as a fabricator on board as i wasnt allowed bases either not even the lifepod

Legend has it that the prawn suit is still down there, silently weeping.

I figured out how to solve the super long loading screen when starting a new game: Initially I had my game installed on my HDD, just a normal hard drive disk. When I reinstalled it onto my M.2 NVME SSD, it loaded much much faster. If you guys have an SSD and Subnautica is not on there, I'd highly recommend it. It cuts down loading times very very significantly.

9:10 20 hours?! I finished Subnautica after 60 hours without any challenges

It is possible to beat this challenge and there is 1 solution but its really hard..... RNG T I M E C A P S U L E S

Honestly this video should have more views and you should have more subscribers. This is a quality video.

Except for the cyclops shield module, you could totally have done the entire game without vehicles! If you wanted more ion cubes without mining them, you could go to all the sanctuaries too.

How to make this a drinking game: Take a drink each time he dies

Absolutely impossible. Why? Coz we cant survive 600+ depth

The shield generator can be found in a time capsule, and the ion cubes were lost in the death at the cuddlefish lab, totally possible.

Did it without dying or prawn suit. :)

If you don't count the neptune rocket and cyclops as vehicles yes you can do this if not you're screwed

buT wAiT nEPTunE RockET iS ALsO a vEhiCLe

Really, you put a seaglide in the time capsule? You villainous troll!

Nice!

You could do it if a time capsule had ion cubes and a cyclops shield generator

the rocket is a vehicle

In speedrunning, we technically complete the game without any vehicles. You don't need the prawn suit to finish the game. There are enough ion cubes in alien caches in the world to build multiple rockets. The cyclops however is necessary. That is true.

I’m fairly sure you could finish the game without a vehicle if you got extremely lucky with a time capsule

a quick tip that could've helped; making multiple oxygen tanks and swapping them in your inventory when depleted refreshes your O2 meter

The 26 ion cubes that spawn around the world are not enough...?

Without looking at your sub count I would think you would have at least 100k subs, this is a really good video and I don’t know why you don’t have more subs

I may have got ur time capsule I got a sea glide at 37 percent

I agree that the seaglide isn’t a vehicle, vehicles are what you make with the mobile vehicle bay. But The Neptune Escape Rocket IS a vehicle ;) Also we’ll say the prawn suit was a one time thing and the cyclops you didn’t even drive.

I watched the whole video... Aaaand I drowned.

Are we just gonna ignore the fidget spinner in the back at 1:22

I didn't exactly know what you meant by "beating without vehicles" so I thought you would end it when you cured the disease bc I knew the Cyclops is required for completion

When i tryed going to the floating islands, I got mobbed by afew bone sharks... maybe i just got unlucky but havnt gone back there yet. Good video too and an interesting challenge to try in this game, shame you cant really pass this one..

The first thing that came into my mind when I saw no vehicles in the title (unless you are doing a speedrun of the game that is and still take your time to explore and do stuff), was "man I'd built so many outdoor growbeds with braincorals so I wouldn't need a base every few hundred metres" and now that I'm done with the video I'm left wanting to try that myself since you didn't use any... (o.o )

Haven’t watched it all yet, but no because the top of the Neptune needs the cyclops shield module, which can only be made in the cyclops Edit: what would ya know, i was right. Although, a time capsule could have it if ur REALLY lucky but eh, oh well. Same with the iron cubes

You actually can get a cyclops shield mod (2024) without a cyclops, I got my shield mod before I even unlocked the cyclops

Well I Guess you Can’t Really Beat Subnautica Without Vehicle’s.

I just completed my own no-vehicle run, my main takeaway was that vehicles hinder my progress more than helping it. The vehicles take so much time and effort to build and upgrade, if all you're trying to do is finish the game then I honestly will continue to do my runs without vehicles. I ended up building a few bases, I think 4. 1 as my main base in the blood kelp zone, 1 in the Lost River for scanning and obtaining nickel, and crystaline sulfur, 1 in the inactive lava zone, and one that I would pack up and take with me for scanning. all of these bases comprised of a multipurpose room, bioreactor, and scanner, as well as fabricators when needed and storage when needed. all in all I found that the lack of vehicles shocked me with how little extra difficulty the run added. as long as you pack an extra o2 tank, the risk of drowning is honestly very low. just make sure you know where you are going or what you are going out to do before you set off. I'm still pretty new to the game and wasn't really trying to do this as a speedrun and this was only my 4th run but it ended up being 7 hours and 45 minutes, by far my fastest run.

Somebody should make a mod that adds a somewhat small leviathan into the floating islands to add some danger to a place that seems like it should have it

Ducking sweet idea for a vid bro!

Ah yes, the prawn suit seamoth, the seamoth and the cyclops

If you want to die of alcohol poisoning, take a shot every time he says "And I drowned."

I know that this video is an older one, but I just did a bit of a speed run last night. Went in through the Bulb zone with 2 High Cap/3 Regular tanks, Rebreather, Scanner, Fins, and 2 Purple Tabelets. Went all the way down into the Lava zone and into the Geothermal base. Got the Blue tablet and Ion technology. Found a single Ion Cube, which I used to open the Teleporter into the big weapon base. Now I have a quick way into the Geothermal plant and can pick up Kyanite to build another Blue Tablet. Once that is done, I will get the Reinforced suit from the wreckage in the Bulb zone, get my tanks all together and go cure the disease. Then I can play/explore, basically from the beginning, without having to deal with warpers.

this was basically my experience. I didn't realize how handicapped I was making myself and I ended up getting far enough in the game that I fully scanned ghost and reaper leviathans as well as the blueprints for every vehicle in the game. I figured that all I really needed was the LifePod. after a while I discovered this seam off and I just had to stop playing for a bit out of frustration with myself lol

SO FUN FACT ABOUT VEHICLE DEPTH LIMITS The water that constitutes the majority of the human body isn't compressed by depth while you're diving like air is What this means is that theoretically speaking with big enough supply of special gasses (oxygen is toxic at depth and the nitrogen in the air we breathe becomes narcotic) and enough exposure protection from the cold, there's actually no limit to what a person can physically dive to Submarines on the other hand which are basically submerged pockets of air, are compressed by the water at depth; meaning you can only go so far with them before the hull starts to crack

Gist of the video: "...and drowned"

In theory, this is impossible. The neptune rocket is a vehicle, and officially you only beat the game when you use the Neptune Rocket.

So, after thinking to myself, and reading a few comments, I've came to the conclusion that is possible to complete the game without crafting a single vehicle. Fixing Issue #1 (Prawn Drill): I think you know how to handle this by now. Fixing Issue #2 (Shield): Get incredibly lucky and obtain a time capsule with one inisde.