I Found a 2ND HELL-HOLE In a Forgotten Early Subnautica Build 

Subnautica was supposed to be scarier, than it is right now

i wish the underwater enterence into the aurora would stay it seems like a really cool idea

ah yes, top tier bacon content. - goes to aurora - discovers funny spike biome - witnesses a reaper party - goes to grand reef and stares in awe as he sees the unmatched power of the sun strike against the ocean with all it's mighty - discovers humongous hole that leads to literally nowhere - develops PTSD - Ends up in the backrooms

I like to think that the "Spiky biome" was a starting point for the dev to make the Gargantuan Leviathan. We know that only a small portion of the skeletal remains are visible in the Lost River, and it would make sense for a creature that large to leave more than just it's skull and very upper spine visible from its remains. Perhaps this was meant to be it's ribs, like in the Rotten Vale in Monster Hunter World, which is just a huge area of rot and decay which was created when another Super Large Leviathan Elder Dragon died and its remains eventually created the Rotten Vale.

The loot at the start in the lifepod was actually randomised back then. You could start with all sorts of useful stuff.

The unnerving ambiance and the vast open spaces in the early builds are what got me into the game; they are also the reason I don't ever get sleep....

I definitely remember watching Markipliers old playthrough and seeing him explore the old lava zone, very creepy!

Yes another bacon subnautica video with another hell hole!? This is going to be amazing

Sometimes I wonder how this game would play if the earlier versions of biomes were inserted into the new version, and if I'd have even more fun with it. Thanks for the exploration, Bacon!

So interesting to see that the lost river potentially wasnt an area and that the lava zone was potentially meant to be bigger and more open. I wonder if they intended to have a larger predator in the old lava zone. Maybe somthing more of a similar size to the gargantuan leviathan or it could have been to accommodate the sea emperor because wasnt she meant to be a predator in early builds.

Early subnautica scares me more than subnautica now

I loved your happy "bye! Bye!" Instead of your normal "bye bye..."

Imagine the spike biome isn’t naturally formed and an intelligent life form that hunts in the area chiseled the stone into spikes to ram their prey into while they hunt for food. That’s something I’d like to see more of, Subnautica creatures actively using their environment to hunt, kind of like crashfish

bro i wish more people explored early access builds like this

Bacon: *innocently exploring Floating Island* “I will never again trust this place of land after the first time we saw our friend there.” 2 random falling spadefish: “How about we scare the Jesus out of this dude?” Also, can we take a moment to realize those weirdly shaped spires look like the mandibles of the Reapers?

While it will probably take you a few episodes to get to, once you get to the Jan-2017 build (43604), make sure to check out what would become the Lava Lakes zone. When I was playing the game at that time, I accidentally clipped through the ground from the Safe Shallows. Since I was in my prawn suit, I just sorta just let myself fall for a bit until I saw something and was able to grapple back in-bounds. I don't know the exact coordinates, but the depth was 1458m; I appeared on a small shelf, and in front of me there appeared to be small rocks arranged into an arrow right off the edge. It seemed to be pointing down, and I tried to follow it at the time, but it just went to a sandy bottom. There might be similar things in the area, but I didn't check because the Sea Dragon or something destroyed my PRAWN and I had to seaglide my way to the surface.

This was about the time I started playing and yeah, coming across those deep holes were quite something. Especially if you were in survival and trying to find the bottom.

Oh yeah I remember this spot! I used it as my main entrance to the lava zone literally until they changed it, and then it was a huge hassle trying to find a new spot! I ~also~ remember there being a spot down inside the lava castle, I think before the facility was down there & maybe prior to the introduction of the sea dragons? But that big ol lava lake down there, there were just some straight up empty pits inside that appeared to go straight down into the void. I only encountered them on one playthrough, and on the next update they were gone. I could never build up the courage to dive down there... Just like last time, loving to see you doing these vids, they're so much fun!

Thanks for keeping this series alive, I love these games so much! These videos remind me of watching people play new updates all the time back then, each new update was so exciting, and seeing the game and the story develop was such a unique experience Also did you guys hear they‘re working on a new one? Made my year hearing about that 😍

Amazing Video. I recently got subnautica on my new PC. It's one of my first ever PC-Games and your Videos played a huge part in that.

Another great vid! I find early access Subnautica really memorable and nostalgic, I just love it so much.

I'm obsessed with your vids man! You put so much work and effort into them! Keep it up!

Wow i remember combing through old versions of the game trying to find that unfinished lava zone. Thank you for finding it as it was a memorable experience for me stumbling across it for the first time. Back in 2015 when i was playing survival i was using my new Cyclops to explore the grand reef, I remember being in awe of how otherworldly the biome was and for me i was like 16 and most things about the game were EXTREMELY unknown to me. As i was exploring with my Cyclops I just kept slowly going deeper until i found a huge cave opining that felt extremely out of place. When i came up on it i recalled how the entrance was truly massive for where it was in the biome. I thought it was a further extension of the biome or even a giant arch so i slowly went inside, not realizing how alien it was until the sea color changed. The flood lights of the sub just made it harder to see so i turned them off, then slowly as the game light adjusted i realized how unnatural the place was. Bulbous black rock everywhere devoid of color, only visible through the outline it made against the red stained water. I pressed on slowly, unsure of my surroundings and my feelings. The only feeling i was sure about; was that i do not belong here. I creeped on for what felt like an hour, slowly weaving my way through knocking against the basalt until at one point i became utterly lost. Unable to escape my predicament the only way to go was down, depleted of power i entered my seamoth abandoning my mother sub and found the most unsettling location i had ever seen in a game. What i now know as the backrooms, as i sped towards the bottom of the cave the round voxels suddenly giving away to 90* angles, cubes, and large void spaces. I was very much horrified and panicked. Panicking back and nearly loosing myself in an area i was never meant to see i find my way back to the unfinished lava zone to find a dead lava castle before me. At the time i was so freaked out by the experience i abandoned the play through and put the game down for a good chunk of time, not really playing seriously until it was 90% complete. While i think the new Subnautica is a far better game the older versions are far more empty and give a much better feeling of isolation and at times terror.

The purpose behind the fragment analyzer was to unlock blueprints back in the day. Back then, the scanner didn't exist, and fragments were items you could pick up, rather than what they are now. How it would work is that you would find the fragments in the world, take them and put them into the fragment analyzer, then wait a certain amount of time (I forgot how long, but I think it was like 5 minutes) and that was how you would unlock blueprints. I'm glad they removed it though, the old process sounds really tedious.

man i remember this point in the games development idk what update you could but you could spawn the sea emperor in . they were much smaller and had no animations. there was also i believe the starts of the sea emperors containment being added away back when it was just a deep hole in the lava zone. there used to be a command to go there. the old way open lava zone used to freak people out ,because of the emptiness , to the point of them getting lost in the vast nothing.

omg i havent watched your channel for so long since i basically quit playing subnautica around early september so good to see you!

You're playing the very first build of Subnautica I ever played. Nice to see all these memories. I miss the Reapers on the west side of the Aurora and the Spike biome.

Yay another Subnautica video! Love your videos bacon!

this was right around the time i seriously got into subnautica, so a lot of these particular builds are quite nostalgic to me

If you jump forward to the August 2016 build, the lava zone still looked like that but it had a massive dropoff somewhere along the floor where the sea emperor’s habitat would eventually be, but in this version it was just super dark water with what looked like a completely barren Safe Shallows inside it, no fauna or flora of any kind…except…there is actually something down there, and as far as i know, “Markiplier” was the only big Subnautica RU-vidr to ever find “him”

I love your videos and how you edit them!

Thank you for this fantastic video!

can't help being excited about your new videos, thank you for sharing about your never ceasing interest for this game to us

Im so excited for the first version of the lost river!!

When I played subnautica the spikes were so scary to me, it even looked like that they were moving

Ohh no, pretty spooky 👻

I've never played early access Subnautica (console player) but the hellhole leading into the early Lava Zone have been a favorite thing for me to learn about. Then you found the second one shown in the video. Anyway, I read on the Subnautica wiki that there were three entrances to the Lava Zone, two of which, if I'm not mistaken, are the previously mentioned hellholes. One in the Crash Zone (the first hellhole you talked about) and the second in the Deep Grand Reef. The third was located in the Dunes. I don't know any more information at the time, but I just thought it would be worth mentioning the Dunes entrance.

maybe the subnautica devs shoud think about a subnautica dlc that gives access to turn it into uncanny vally. just the most unhinged and scary version with liminal spaces as possible

Its crazy how not scary the dunes used to be

i had my first ps4 when i was like 6 and i had subnautica built in i was terrified when i got down into the lost river and couldnt escape just cried lol

never heard of that old aurora entrance but man i wish it still existed, its actually really cool, along with how it leads straight to the drive core

i feel like youre content is like subnauticas life support, because it wouldnt be as popular without youre channel

Thanks for the video and i can't wait the new Subnautica i will watch when the game came out. Of course im waiting your videos to watch Subnautica 3

Fun fact there’s still a hell hole in the base game I never hear anyone talk about it’s not directly into the lava zone but in the bulb zone there’s a hole that leads to the lost river at a point right next to a hole that is a drop into the lava zone so technically there still is one hell hole

At first I didn't even know you could get in through the front of the Aurora when I first started playing, the numerous Reapers definitely didn't help me want to find out, although they weren't as numerous, or as far southwest as they are in the build you're looking at here. The side entrance was the only one I knew of for quite some time, and even after I found out about the front entrance, I never used it until the update which removed the side entrance.

This gives me so much nostalgia of when I first played the game

Oh how I miss seeing these updates as they released, this was like a hit of straight nostalgia 😭

The madness continues, I love this series so much.

I like how those crystals in the first build are still somewhat present in the deep Grandreef today. I always wondered why they were there, since they sort of look out of place.

2014-15 is around the time I found subnautica and kept up with the updates until the finish.

7:38 eye stalks... Also i love that seaglide sound! I remember it, i wish they hadn't changed it... That quartz model may have been unfinished, but i still want it back

8:57 it is there, and it looks really cool in both versions! Tho I usually don’t go down there because of the amount of bonesharks there. I believe in the final game it also has a geothermal vent inside it. I remember building a base in the backrooms a little after the game had fully released. I used my prawn suit to get down there, and, after realizing I didn’t bring enough materials, got too freaked out and used the glitch to use the repair tool while inside vehicles to get my prawn suit to the 8192 meter depth limit and went back to the surface. I never went down there again. Now I have fears that size reference will be waiting if I go there again lol

I have the impression that in older versions there was greater optimization for higher quality, not counting the Protoyp 8 version where the lava biome was added for testing

Hell in Subnautica seems like something i would expect

that old hole is the shortcut to the engine room! I remember when I first found that, I was stoked

the last bacon is a real friend

great video man

I remember reapers being much more common in the first couple of Aurora updates. There was also a glitch, where if you used the terraformer to build a small island and build a base on it, get it's resistance to below zero, it would fill with water.

Man this is such a throwback for me

this man is single-handedly keeping Subnautica content on RU-vid alive ❤

I remember driving a Cyclops into something like that deep lava cave, or watching someone drive a Cyclops into it, and if I remember right at one time it actually went from one side of the map to the other as just a big cave underneath it all.

The green eyes on the reaper definitely convey the idea that they’re blind more than the current iteration, that being said the pure black on the current ones are equally as terrifying if you’re a new player and don’t realise if a reaper is roaring in the distance it most likely sees you.

2:34 if you didn't choose the music, i think this was likely the early sparse Reef, it is close to the island so it is possible... (I know alien expanse place more often in the dunes but the terrain formation says Sp. Reef) Or it could just be the crag feild like you said, come to think of it... All of the extremely weird rock formations in the early access builds, farlands, random pillars, etc. could have been the things that inspired the crag feild! Interesting...

i believe the 2nd hell hole you found was the one markiplier found!

as far as I remember, in one of the old versions there was a pillar stone structure like an island on which there were very strange and unusual sounds

im convinced with these old forgotten subnautica builds the next video will be bacon breaking into unknown world offices and stealing an early build

I can't even verbally describe how much I love your content ❤

These exploration videos of old builds are great, kinda feels a bit like Basilisk 2000 where you might discover some horrific cult stuff if you look too deeply. The ribs/claws/teeth reef was terrifying.

Man the texture of the floaging islands, it takes me back so much damn. I remember olaying Subnautica on my shitty Laptop and useing the Teraformer ti make a Tunnel from the lifepod to the lavazone. The old texture if those stones haunts me, I always hated it haha

I remember seeing the deep grand reef lava zone entrance in Sl1pg8r's old Subnautica series, he was going through it in a cyclops, but I'm assuming that was a later build since there was no lava bubble balloon things that inflate in this video.

Bro,you make my day better,you are best♥️🔥

Bacon so a build you should check out is the one where the seadragon was added to spawn in the world because the lost river was in the game and that "hell hole" was still in the game their were 2 entrances one to the lost river and one to the lost river and that build had a fully functional prawn suit i believe but the moon pool was horribly broken.

Those giant open caverns in the 2nd hell hole look awesome, hope we get something like that in the new game

That fishes rolling off the cliff got me dying 😆

“It’s even funnier the second time!”

I once got stuck in that side entrance and while stuck I was attacked by a reaper for the first time, it was terrifying 😂 it’s crazy to think I’ve been playing this game for a decade 💀

Dude honestly youre such a good youtuber, and i like how you take time on researching your topics and replying to EVERY comment, thats dedication keep it up dude!

6:38 😱 i love that title screen! If only they had kept it, or like after you've explored certain areas you got to set them as the background...

3:00 I think this is the version of Subnautica where they first realized they accidentally made a horror game and just decided to go with it.

BACON UR MY FAVORITE RU-vidR I LOVE THIS SERIES

nice video! :D its nice there are no scps/creatures on the island

Thanks bacon, very cool

3:02 i am one of the few who saw it start like this. Not only did i get early access (first fake Neptune rocket version) but I watched Thinknoodles's series on it. And his series in my opinion is the best because it gives you this certain feelings you can't get anywhere else. Even though i know you wont, i seriously recommend watching it!

2:00 "the gassy bases"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

thats so weird i remember having some wired dream that a new subnautica update had come out adding new stuff like a 3rd island and this exact entrance 4:46 yet i never saw it before! i also remember there being another base in the island like a precursor base inside the island i guess at least my dream was accurate about the entrance

The sea is Fascinating. Escpecialy the one of a new planet.

Hi i have been following you for a week and i think i might try this game out on switch.

Fun fact the entrance seen for the aurora is still there currently but takes way more effort to go to and doesnt lead to the engine bay

Last Bacon is the only creator to discover shit no-one else could.

My earliest Subnautica screenshot was March 2016. Watched some Markiplier videos of it before I bought it myself, was hyped for the finished game. I have a video messing around with some console commands back then, when the game had weird things like a specimen analyzer and terrain modification. Put a reaper in dirt jail.

I forgot how much I loved Subnautica!

The way he says, I do not want to be here shows how he goes out of his comfort zone to make cool Content

I believe that the underwater entrance to the Aurora is still there- kinda, because it’s used in the world record speedrun, been a while since I saw them tho

Man, I remember going down there in creative mode with my old MacBook when I was like 9. What a trip, man 😅

2:43 It MENACES WITH SPIKES like some Dwarf Fortress relic.

2:30 I believe these spikes were an early biome concept that, after being scrapped before retail release, were repurposed into the Thermal Spires found in BZ. Can't recall where I read that, tho...

i dont even know how you can find new content to make whit this game .how isnt this game fully explored? but that's cool!

Lots of scary stuff we won't miss.

imagine a subnautica game focused on horror. basically fuze it with iron lung. it would be game of the year in an instant

Mercury ore was meant for the cyclops fire suppression system, but was replaced by crystalline sulfur, likely being cut to simplify the recipe and being only used for a single recipe, leaving it with the same fate as uranium and magnesium.