The first VOID ISLANDS, creatures & Hydra in game! | Subnautica: Call of the Void devlog #1 

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I love how even Nordvpn has gotten the Kharra Virus

I have a ton of respect for you showing "mistakes" in these videos, and not just polished pre-rendered content. It's amazing to actually see these added features as works-in-progress.

Dude I've been yearning for more subnautica/ocean exploration games. This is beginning to look pretty dope.

I love that you’re trying as much as possible to stay true to how the devs designed their creatures. Like, this is actually going to feel like an official DLC. Can’t wait

feedback: you will need a biome that is and feels safe to make the player take a mental break resulting in them feeling more terrified at the next encounter with danger due to the sudden contrast

Verticality may help a lot to make space in the limited map size. And parts of the base game Crater slope are too sudden of a drop, so you may be able to make the slopes more gradual with half-collapsed deep volcanic cave fissures (as sanctuary areas or predatory nests inside). Creature-wise...the twice-cut Dragonfly Bird deserves love. It could maybe flying between the Mountains and the Floating Islands, giving a natural direction to those locations. Compatibility-wise, ideally, Call of the Void would make use of the space around the Western map (Dunes/Sea Treaders Path), while Return of the Ancients would use space around Eastern Map (the Crash Zone/Crag Field/Bulb Zone)

Cool creature concept: The corpse fall shark. its a shark that looks like an irl whale fall. most are actually corpses which give a resource, maybe their bones could act like a weak crystal, but some of the corpses are still alive and will ambush you when you come to close. i imagine they let some small fish feed on their skin to sell the illusion knowing that it will be worth it when they catch some larger prey. i think one of the tells that it is still alive is if a certain type of fish is feeding on it or not so that observant players can tell if it is really dead. it would probably live in sparse environments and have a fetid white coloration. thank you for reading this, hope you like my idea

3:52 Yes oh my god yes craft able novelty hats for this little guy and taming mechanic 100%

An idea for a new leviathan: Hermit Leviathan If you dive underneath some of the islands (for some insane reason), some of them may have been partially hollowed out by a giant crustacean who now calls it home. Using its craggy exoskeleton and claws, it plugs the holes it digs into the islands and camouflages itself so you can't see anything unusual. When a suitable prey item swims close enough, it snaps out and grabs them in its pincers before dragging it in towards its mouth. I think this could be a really cool obstacle, especially if you put a resource exclusively available on the bottoms of the islands.

I had a dream once, where I was stuck on the edge of the void in the subnautica world. And as I’m looking down this pure white serpent with some weird corals on it comes up, stares at me, and then proceeds to chase me down and eat me. Terrible dream woke up drenched in sweat lol

I can’t wait to see gameplay for this.

for the jellyfish it could be fun if there is an ancient version, thats overgrown and therefore looks like an island from afar

this is definetly gonna bring life back to this game

Hi, i love the idea of call o the void🥰. My little idea could be that on the farthest island could be skeleton of the void chelicerete, you would get PDA saying that it is fresh skeleton that was eaten alive.

The fact that he went out of his way just to add nordvpn "fish" shows how much effort he puts into videos!

dude, im so happy to sea you finally able to work on a project like this ive been a huge fan of yours ever since i got into subnautica and was always mildly hoping that you could put all of your creativity and ideas into something amazing like this looking forward to what you have for everyone next!

I think a natural powersource could be cool: Like when you get really deep you dont want to build a base everytime. I think some Sort of energy Chrystal (sorry for my bad english) could be a good Solution. I imagine that you need a specific module to charge up at the energy chrystals and then it works kind of like a heat reactor in the lava zone. Greetings from Germany

Imagine owning a giant base in the void clusters between multiple islands that would be cool as heck

Just seeing these first couple of fishes and the unfinished terrain with the droning, distinctly alien and somehow mesmerizing music in the background is reminding me of how I felt when I first saw the early builds of Subnautica. You seem to have a very good understanding of what makes this game special. Keep up the good work.

I’m glad you took my recommendation from the last video to talk about the smaller fauna😊

so glad i found you man. im gonna be here to support this as much as i can. if i can get my hands on some money i swear im gonna support this coz this is amazing. this is quite literally everything the playerbase adores the og subnautica for. love what you have going

I haven’t seen your channel in a while but when I came across this series I really loved it. I hope this becomes a real thing sometime

What the hell!? The Guardian Spider is THAT BIG!? It can tear up the Aurora if it wanted!

This project is fucking amewsome, I never knew what this actually was supposed to be when I saw the trailers, truth be told I never expected you will pull this off! Good luck with the project, I'm very excited!

Maybe the jellyfish could be a different type of Floater/Ancient Floater? Instead of hooking on the islands it’ll just float around and its tentacles will give shelter to symbiotic fishes like anemones and clownfish!

I'd love to see single cell biome

This is incredibly exciting. It's great you're even getting sponsors for this as well!

Would like to see if void editor would be ever as popular as hammer

What if you add the _"Alpha Ray"_ which is the ancestor to all rays. It lived in deep biomes and was good at adapting. Sounds like a great addition to The Void!!

Creature idea: the vanta Ray. Similar to the glow Ray or the ghost Ray. Except instead of glowing it is vanta black to avoid predators and only becomes visible in a cuttlefish pattern when eating other fish.

It would be cool to have a little bug that scampers around the islands and acts as both a little food source, and maybe makes little nests that have some resources in them, perhaps resources that don't naturally spawn anywhere else on the islands, like rubies, so players dont have to keep running back and forth to their main bases.

imo it’d be cool (but also a bit tricky since it’d need some custom voice acting) to add a sunken lifepod on one of the void islands. also, a really cool easter egg would be a scannable bit of damaged metal plating with degasi partially written on it. scanning it would give the player a tiny bit more (albeit noncanon) degasi lore, as well as showing what the ship looked like.

i'm very happy that people are still caring for this awesome game

I have an idea for one of the Hydra modules. What if you could build small crystal-powered drones that you could use to explore areas, kind of like the Scanner Room cameras, except with the ability to aggro leviathans so that you could lure them away from areas. I also feel like the cameras should be able to pick up resources, kind of like an underwater version of Below Zero’s Spy Pengling, so maybe the drones could be used to gather rare resources? Hope you like this idea!

You know what, I've been (quietly) extremely skeptical of tne viability of this mods scope and with the addition of custom terrain and fish models a lot of that skepticism has melted away. Nice work!

There was a concept art for a void leviathan named "The Silence", it looked like a reaper leviathan who adapted to the void and when hunting, it would use something to create a 0 noise zone around him and attack whatever was making noise

4:25 look at this extinguished gentleman

I have to say I'm so exited for this I'm a huge fan of subnautica and all of this we've seen so far is amazing and I can't wait to SEA more of it in game like this over time

Ngl the void boomerang looking different when a light is shining on it is actually pretty cool for a concept for a void creature

Spiraling candycane snake, whats next? Checked picknick blanket laviathan?

I think a human sized creature that builds and hides nests that the lurker prays on so that the lurkers hunting strategy makes more sense

One one hand, I’m really excited to explore the work you have in store and how you’ve changed up the base game. On the other hand… I have gotten comfortable memorizing the layout of the original game and I’m still terrified of ocean exploration. Still, this looks worth checking out! I just learned about the hermit squid, so this fella makes up for the impending trauma I might endure from the expansion!

Damn this mod is looking sweet! You and the team have really put in the effort, Aci!

Daaamn, I just rewatched the deep dive series and trailer last night, now this drops today

adding a lifepod or 2 from when the aurora crashed would be a cool side story

We need hermit squid to have customisable hats. SERIOUSLY WE NEED IT

im very exited for this mod !

6:37 "master chief would you mind telling me what you're doing in call of the void"

1:15 honestly the void islands look even more ominous/terrifying without the floaters. Maybe keep some like that!

I may be a bit late to this but I have two ideas Your swimming to the next island, and it looks like a safe place, bright plants and food sources, and crystals everywhere. But as you get the close, the Mirage falls and you see a dangerous forest, and tentacles from the plant reach out the grab you and/or your sub. If you manage to escape, another creature is waiting to take you down instead. I thought this might add to the "thinking your safe for a moment but your really not" vibe to this mod. For a creature idea, it's a smaller creature but it could be cool. The Acidfish looks a Lionfish, but a longer tail and longer fins. It's main scales are gray or black, and it's accents being gray-blue. You don't see this creature as it blends in well with its surroundings, to protect its self from predators, but if you go to close, it sprays an acid around its self as a defense, damaging the player and giving a slow damage affect even after you get away from the area. Hope you like these!

The islands at the beginning are quite good, especially since you've got the Hydra right above one of them. And if you can place a hat on the hermits then that would be quite adorable!

an angler fish leviathan is MANDATORY for the deep dark void

I just love that you love the game as much as I do. What I would also add is changing the recepies for regular items like knife, repair tool etc. We all start the game and we know exactly what to do for the first 2-3 days in subnautica before we start the jorney. Something like Realistic Craft 2.0 mod I think it would give a DLC-like update like this a fresh new look.

I mean.... that's the Avatar tree. And obviously the cave secret is giant underwater spiders. But, I love the fish designs, and I appreciate how much work is put into this! The Hydra ship looks amazing!

I love the hermit squid! We need more cephalopod like creatures in Subnautica!

Damn you are soooo fast with that. I was already hyped while I thought we would like wait another 1-2 years until the first released bits of the mod. And now you drop 2 WEEKS. AWESOME!

a siphonophore type creature drifting through the open water away from the islands in the void could be cool, maybe with some sorta more alien look, maybe it could be as simple as a big siphonophore tube with bioluminescent patterns on it, maybe blinking across its long body looping around itself and then part of it going down into the darker water, they could be properly moving or maybe just be static but have multiple models of different positions and visual patterns on em

You could do a plant island a plant so big. It's like a tree coming up from the void But it releases toxic gas out of certain points, so you can't go deeper to see. It's just the head you're on

My idea for a creature would be something like a pursuier. Something that is actually hunting you. Always lurking around. I imagine it like this: You first read of this warper prototype. But it was a failure and the facility got shut down. But there is a point in the facility that you need to restore power to get to. Maybe because the elevator isn'T working or so. Anyways you restore power but unfortunately you also restore the Prototype version. While it can't warp you, it does hunt you. So it can even trace you back to your base. Lurking around. When you are in your base and have windows, you will sometimes see him outside in the distance, staring at you. Once you look at him, he will retreat. But he will learn, and at some point he will be able to even enter your base, so if you are not prepared he will get you in your base. But there will be defence mechanisms in place that you can install that will protect you (dunnot what though) Or an octopus that spews out ink or something like that and oscures your vision. Attacking you in the dark.

And you're even adding new music?! 😯 I couldn't have hoped for better! 👏 That's really cool!

My guy, what you're making is literally better than what UW themselves had done on Below Zero. Huge fucking props to you and the team, I'm more excited for this than for Subnautica 3.

Something I think you could use for a creature/the story of your mod are the warpers, they are intelligentsia and where without precursor supervision for 1000 years, maybe you could do something like a village of warpers, or small society, when you are infected you will until be attacked, but when you cure the planet you can interect with they like trade (can be similar of trade with piglings on Minecraft) or do Other things, hope I help😅

A cool idea would be to add the shard runner that was cut from below zero. With a palette swap, I think it would fit quite well in the caves or maybe between close islands.

Perchance you could add something like the lost river where theres some sort of green/blue liquid in little pools. maybe even dedicate special creatures to the pools perchance

There could be another huge leviathan that is armored with rock or cystals so the player mistakes it for an island and it eats them. Bonus idea #1- a giant isopod-like creature that crawls around on islands feeding on the carcasses of leviathans. It could produce excrement that might be a crafting material Bonus idea #2 A bioluminescent amoeba-like creature that hides on the ground and wraps itself around the player to dissolve it with digestive fluids.

It's amazing that you succeeded in adding terrarin outside of the base map!

I hope you realize just how much people love this. I saw others literally posting your videos on the official Subnautica Discord Server so it would get attention... I joined them.

Ah, the music sounds great, fits right in I think. The models that are done look GREAT too, and...hm. This shard thing might actually get me modding Subnautica finally. It'd be really interesting to test in that way.

Maybe you could pull a little bit of inspiration from Below Zero with cold; the deeper and further out you go, the colder the water gets (like reverse lava zone). With the cold, you could either get a new type of suit to keep you warm outside bases/Hydra, or have some sort of heat generation that lets you swim by it, being thermal vents (which wouldn't make sense given the islands' disconnection from the planet's core), underwater versions of Thermal Lillies, or even a swimming creature that somehow producec heat.

This video fills me with pure joy.

I don't know about anyone else but the concept of a large morray-like eel creature stalking me in deep dark water terrifies me. It could have lights on it that mimick harmless schools of fish to be unassuming. I would love to see something like that.

The Hydra needs to play funky music while it’s being destroyed, just like the Cyclops, nothing like having a rave while everything around me collapses into nothingness

Coming back to your channel after years I did NOT expect anything like this! This is so cool! Cant wait to play it

Think the idea of a reefback as one of the islands could be very cool

an idea for a creature is the void dragon. the concept for the ice dragon inspired this. it is bigger than the frozen leviathan. it looks kind of like a combination of the sea shocker, thunderdrum, and deathsong from how to train your dragon, but it is completely black with white bioluminescent spots. it is an ambush predator, and if you can lure another leviathan to it, it will go for that instead of you, and each time you do this, it has a one percent chance of taming the thing. supposedly, it is a distant relative of the gargantuan leviathan.

Can The ghost leviathans follow you onto the islands?

There should be a penalty for moving long distances away from, or even between the islands. Like the rare chance that a giant tentacle comes up from beneath and grabs you as you swim between islands. This giant tentacle attached to some even more giant, unknown leviathan below, of course. But it's so random when it attacks, and very rare, so you can never really know when it's coming.

I think an angler fish type creature would be very cool, it could also be really huge!

Legit one of the things I have been the most hyped for in while :)

I have a creature concept: floater mimics. Basically it looks like an ancient floater but it will attack you if you get too close. I can be detected by rumbling and unusual sounds.

Dont know how difficult it would be, but a tiny hermitsquid for the alien containment would be adorable

I have a suggestion for a creature, I think maybe a fish with a grapple like tounge that it can use to not only pull in the player but it can use it to travel rapidly between void islands

I think it would be cool to have a creature that messes with sound, maybe it could make the water completely silent apart from your breathing and its roars. Or something more low key, I just think that it would be really terror inducing.

This looks so cool already, I am really excited for when its finished! As a creature idea; I am very scared of the sea and everything I cant see. The void was always something that made me anxious, so image you swim above the endless pit, you look down and you see nothing but a face staring at you. You cant quiet make out how big this creature is, or what it will do. Just a blank stare, eyes following you and lingering in the dark. No outlines, no nothing, until you get closer and realise... its just the top of a shell. Like a big crab that has developed a pattern on its back to mimic a predatores face, to scare off other lifeforms. If i saw a big grin underneath me i would cry and panic, doesnt matter if its glowing or just seamlessly blending into the dark. Your imagination always pictures the most scary outcome, its good when you are not sure whats out there. Your mind will make you scared, it will do the rest. Anyway you all are doing amazing work, keep it up!

this so mindblowing to actually see inside the game!!!! goodluck to the entire team, i hope things go well :D

Maybe something rare that stalks the player from the shadows would be cool. I'm not thinking of a leviathan, I mean something more human-sized. A persistence predator which attempts to wear down the player with venom, or catch them off-guard. Kinda like a cross between the Bracken from Lethal Company, and Herobrine. Should really mess with your head- make you think you're seeing things. It should also remain a total secret. No appearances in any promotional material or references of any sort outside the game. A fun surprise :)

i hope all creatures can be obtained in the aquarium, that's my own personal pleasures. Not sure about Leviathan eggs though, people has been wanting that kind of stuff for a while, there's not even a mod for it! But it's your mod so, good luck with that

I love the idea of giving the squids hats

thank you aci for using my idea i love your videos

Creature Concept: Plumeopod Data: Upon the void islands, strange feather like vines wrap around the strange alien trees and droop from the underneath of said islands. These are Feathervines. These vines shine a spectacular purple with orange dots and are the food for many herbivores, large and small. The vines also have extreme resistance to water pressure and should be harvested if one wishes to acquire a new upgrade. However, some of these vines are nothing but lies from the deceptive Plumeopod. Plumeopods are one of the oldest lineages of "Squid" on Planet 4546B, and it is quite evident as well. Unlike some of its relatives, such as the Crabsquid or Hermitsquid, this species looks the most similar to more earthen squid species, most notably with the positioning of the eyes and internal anatomy. But such similarities get washed away the more one learns about this creature. They burrow headfirst into the ground where one of these Feathervines would normally anchor too and impersonate them, wraping around trees and everything. Next it will wait for prey to try and take a bite out of it, or at least get close to it. Then, it erupts out of the ground and quickly ensnares its prey, grabbing it with its suckers and coiling around it as its beak starts to indulge in its meal. This is done with 2 very long feeding tentacles, which may be upwards of 40ft long in some specimens! The Plumeopod detects prey through an abundant number of external nerves which allow it to sense prey up to 10ft away. This paired with an abnormally intelligence makes them a very deadly threat, even if not a leviathan. The closest creature I can think of that's as dangerous as the Plumeopod is, ironically, the Squidshark. But they have one big giveaway that tells one of their presence. Due to their intelligence, they can feel excitement. This makes them quiver in excitement when food is nearby, which, while not scaring most prey away, is a clear giveaway that the Feathervine you see is indeed an imposter. It's strange, really. Why are these things so intelligent? It seems strange in a way. They feel almost... domesticated, like an earth pig or dog. Could the precursors have used these things as... pets?

you NEED to add the sunbeam wrecks

I am, Horrified at the concepts of the mesmir Leviathan....and yet SO excited for it. The small one's hypnosis was enough to make me super un-nerved, specially as I was playing in vr, so a MASSIVE mesmir doing so....

I can’t wait for this mod and I’m so happy that a early access version is releasing soon. But don’t rush the mod it wouldn’t be fun if there were many bugs

Fantastic job Aci. Developing is hard work and it looks like y'all have been killin it!

I think he should make a seatruck-like thing that gets bigger as you add compartments and not longer

Really glad to see progress! I wish you and the team good luck in this great adventure ahead full of hard work and frustrations but im certain, with a massively terrifyingly awsome experience at the end! :P

The only reason why I didn’t skip theNordVPN is I want to have this mod come out

Are there plans to add a type of void bladderfish/water source variant? Granted having a small farm in the sub would probably suffice but it's always nice to have options

Yall have made so much progress. Keep up the grind.