I use planters with creepvines as terrain and wreck markers. If there's a wreck I've fully explored, I'll put a planter with creepvines so I know (from a distance) that I'm done with that wreck.
Gives off a nice bit of light so i can put it in a cave somewhere and it lights alot of it up if its a place i usually go towards without needing flares or other man made light sources
Lantern fruit are great for bioreactors in small bases. They grow quickly and you don't have to worry about replanting them. Just put one in the same room as the reactor and you can just pop one in every now and then.
Dick Kurtz even with reinforcements? (I have no tiger plants and can’t find any, I was simply intrigued by a comment I found on a video I was watching.
ClaigeannCCDA the tiger plants will attack you and fi you have a reinforced suit and you are in the water, the spikes will bounce you off and land on the house, were it can break the hull
i sliced up one of those plants..i got 4 or 6 of those seeds..when i do plant them..i'll have to put them somewhere they will not keep shooting at me..but maybe shoot those stalkers haha
I wouldn't be against a cooking update to the game where you can make proper 'meals' with some of these items. Like creepvine samples and a peeper to make a sushi roll or something.
The blood oil is actually very efficient fuel for the bioreactor, also the melon or the Bulbo tree. (all 420 power) So you can make cured Reginalds (490 energy value) instead for away missions. The best fish to grow efficiently for reactor purposes would be the Oculus (630).
I made a string of what I call lighthouses with grow beds and can use them to travel anywhere in the game without a sub and never run out of food water or air. Plant 1 Creepvine for the light one Brain Coral or 2-3 in deeper areas for the air and fill the rest with gel sacks, gel sacks don't give a lot of water or food each but they don't degrade like the other food and if you plant them every few hundred meters it's more then enough! This makes it so you can basically never return to base or your sub, it is impractical to actually go all they way down this way but being able to extend the length of your outings for as long as you need speeds things up considerably!
If you plant the yellow nodules from the creep vine instead of the creep vine sample you will get creep vines that also produce the yellow nodules in your grow bed.
The only thing you need outside your base is seed cluster, blood oil, deep shroms, and gel sacks. For the Hatching enzymes you only need to make once so no point in planting a whole plant.
I use 6 creepvine in grow beds as lampposts to map the way between various bases. Spread them out so you can only just see the next when you get close to one, put one creepvine in initially and then backfill when it's fully grown.
You forgot one important function of all plants: power production. I would love to see a tutorial on how much power you can get from different kinds of plants.
I didn't forget it as much as ignored it. The plants are easy to produce for power, but their power values are not as high as the fauna provide. My personal favorite for the bioreactor is Reginalds. Easy to produce a lot of them in a single alien containment, and they provide a good amount of power.
The advantage to using plants is that it is cheaper in resources and space to use aquatic plants than it is to build an alien containment, or several, depending on how many bioreators you want to run. Several beds right outside a hatch to your reactor(s) can be cheap, renewable power. I don't know what plant is the best. I just use creepvine clusters, as they double as free and bright exterior lighting
I once tried to feed a few aquatic plants to a bioreactor, and it consumed them instantly, giving off basically no power. I wonder if it depends on how fast you use the power (I had a nuclear reactor and 7 thermal plants going constantly, as well as a few solar panels, and it was barely enough to keep my base running).
Just want to say that this was a very well made video. Especially bc you didn't spoil anything which could've been easy. I already knew most of it, still interesting though.
I never use 4x4 indoor grow beds. 4 pots take up less space, can be placed in corners, in a row, beside doorways, etc. Much more versatile, and the extra titanium is cheap.
I still want to do a playthrough without any base apart from the life pod, playing as some sort of botanist. I will just need the exterior growbed, place "highways" lit up with creepvine clusters, having brain corals for oxygen and gel sacks for nutrition. Obviously I will need to build the Cyclops in the very end, but everything else can be done with just that.
When it comes to farmable material, I like to use oculus for my power, and Reginald for my food. I use water filtration plants for hydration as well. Plant wise, I like to plant a full bed of tiger plants near my scanner room to protect my camera drones from Stalkers. I also make full beds of acid shrooms, deep shrooms, gel sacs, creepvine seed clusters and bloodvine. I always have one last planter devoted to growing bulb bushes, sea crowns, and eye stalks. I never really bother with land plants, though.
If/when you play "Subnautica: Below Zero," you will find that the "northern polar seas" are a bit different. A few of the "southern ocean sea" plants can be found, but others are not.
I haven't confirmed it with planters yet, but some wild plants are bioluminescent enough to power solar panels! Useful when you don't want a bio-reactor that must be maintained but can't use thermal.
Am loving your videos, MSG. So far, I've been unsuccessful in producing power by using bio-luminescent plants. What did you discover about this in ~your~ testing?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this doesn't work. Solar panels in Subnautica don't detect the light of the surrounding area, they only detect how close to the surface they are. If your base is below somewhere around 250 meters underwater then solar panels will not work no matter what. Apologies for being late to this comment
Fun Fact: You can actually put exterior grow beds on top of base compartments. You can comfortably fit 5-6 of them on top of just a multipurpose room, so your exterior garden could be built directly over your interior garden. ~_^
Rouge cradle is more like rooj cradle, its french for red. Also a few of the 'useless' aquatic plants like the membrane tree are used in the end game to create the enzymes
regarding creep vine, if you plant the creep vine sample, you will only get creep vine. if you plant the creep vine seed cluster, you will get seed clusters growing with the creep vine
I’m really upset I’m getting into this game like, 5 years late and have been missing out. I’m almost exclusively watching your videos now for tips and stuff
i think i didn't realize i could slash mushrooms to get more mushrooms until my second playthrough. and i think someone watching had to point it out to me.
I have two Alien Containments, one for Oculus and one for Reginalds. Reginalds are extremely good food, giving you +44 when cooked or cured. Oculus meanwhile only provide +30 food; However, in a bioreactor, a single Oculus is good for 630 energy, versus 490 from the Reginald. Admittedly, the difference isn't huge, so having just one big tank for both food and fuel might be easier. This is just how I do it. The simple fact is, the Oculus is the single most energy-dense fuel for the bioreactor in the game. By this I mean that when you divide the energy value by the number of storage slots that fuel takes up, the Oculus is far and away the highest. Sure, you can accurately say that Gasopod has a higher absolute value; But the Gasopod takes up as much space as four Oculus. Same story for all other flora and fauna in the game, none is higher or even equal to the Oculus. Reginald isn't far behind, but they're still in second place. These might be changes that happened between Early Access and current-day, but this is how it goes today. I only got Subnautica recently, sue me.
According to the creepvine seed cluster wiki creepvine planted by the player will grow seed clusters. But according to the creepvine wiki only when you plant the seed clusters themselves, not when planting the samples.
The only plants I actually use are; Creepvine, blood vine, acid mushroom, deepshroom, jellsacks, melons, and bulbo trees. Everything else is kind of superfluous, aside from a specific 5 plants you need samples of late game, for a blueprint, you'll know what i'm talking about when you get there.
And technically every plant is in the utility section, because you can put them into the bioreactor to create energy, this is the cheapest and best energy source for me 😁
All these plants need to have some sort of buff effect... the problem is that there are so many edible plants, but only the Lantern Tree and Marblemelons are actually useful and ecomonic.
Before eating them, slash them with your knife, to get the seeds of that plant/food. Then you could plant the seeds you’ve got and then you could eat the food itself.
Plants I've grown I think the best for food and water would be the Chinese potato get it on the island with the observatory and multi-purpose room that's on it it's right there with the multi-purpose
I prefer using creepvines for food and water. Yes it takes up alot more slots, and is only F5 H2o1, they are MAGNITUDES more common and expendable than gelsacks.
Looking for other S-naut info I just happened to see this - and LITERALLY was wondering about farming! Perfect Timing! I haven't been playing long - 2 days ~ 30 hrs (i'ts ok, I don't have a problem, I can quit anytime, honest!), I did have one thought about the Brain Coral, if several were placed under a moonpool, would the increased air take the load off the pump, thus freeing up more energy? Or is energy not even a problem at later stages?
I don’t really see the ghost weed eye stalk or sea crown as utility plants because they’re only used for the hatching enzymes (which you only really need to make once) Edit: except the sea crowns save the sea crowns!!!!!!
This video is now outdated. The Creepvine does give yellow bulb sacks for Lubricant but if don't pick the bulb sacks, the bulbs actually give a nice underwater yellow light area. I use the Creepvine as an outside perimeter light source to my bases.
I know this is a random not related question to this video, but I know you will have the answer I need. Do the autosort lockers work in subnautica below zero, or just subnautica? Thanks for your time!
I have never let my base flood bad enough to test this, but I would expect it would be base around the oxygen availability. If the plants are submerged for too long I would expect it to harm them in some way.
I use planters with creepvines as terrain and wreck markers. If there's a wreck I've fully explored, I'll put a planter with creepvines so I know (from a distance) that I'm done with that wreck.
That is a GREAT idea!
You are a genius!!
Honestly, best tip ever!
Oh that eould save on gps markers!
Oh that is clever.
I will politely steal your idea, sir, if you dont mind.
Imagine if the tiny jellyshrooms could contain tiny crabsnakes that would come out and pinch your finger for 1% damage!
that would be so freaking cute
@@santiagoreussi5490 and freaky, but mostly cute
Biters look like very small crabsnakes
@@lyonidus3073no they dont the biter is a shitbox and the crad snake is a different shitbox
Those are acid shrooms
Six years on, and this is still the only Subnautica gardening guide I can find. Good job Mr. Spicy!
Just wanted to say that😂
You can plant creepvine sacks and get a different creepvine
I do this. The clusters also give a nice ambience around your garden.
Plus unlimmited seed clusters
why they made it this way
Gives off a nice bit of light so i can put it in a cave somewhere and it lights alot of it up if its a place i usually go towards without needing flares or other man made light sources
michael
It's a great way to get both res NY planting the sacks
@@theggamer538 because the seeds give off light, one may prefer having the plant with no seeds
You can grow creepvine seed clusters, but you have to plant the seed clusters, not the samples
Yes I found that out shortly afterwards. Seems strange you would need to plant the exact same thing two different ways though.
Beat me to it. :)
Cheap exterior lighting too as it uses no power.
you can plant the sample in full release
PuppetMasterPlayz Logan OMG Thx!
Lantern fruit are great for bioreactors in small bases. They grow quickly and you don't have to worry about replanting them. Just put one in the same room as the reactor and you can just pop one in every now and then.
I think I killed the one tree in the mountain base. Are there others on the islands ?
@@Natedawgontheright looking at the wiki there should be a few at the lower base on the floating island.
If you plant the tiger plants next to your base they will breach your base hull at some point.
Dick Kurtz even with reinforcements? (I have no tiger plants and can’t find any, I was simply intrigued by a comment I found on a video I was watching.
Caleb go to Lifepod 19 to the left you will see a ton of Eye stalks and 2 tiger plants.
ClaigeannCCDA the tiger plants will attack you and fi you have a reinforced suit and you are in the water, the spikes will bounce you off and land on the house, were it can break the hull
i sliced up one of those plants..i got 4 or 6 of those seeds..when i do plant them..i'll have to put them somewhere they will not keep shooting at me..but maybe shoot those stalkers haha
@@johnbanks4761 but what about stalker teeth?
This video was very helpful. Also, this playlist contains the best Subnautica game info by far. Short, clear and purposeful. Good work.
This is what it should have been called:Gardening 4546B
Yep
Nice
Gardeningちをちり𓆉☠︎︎𓁹𓂀☹︎01101001101-_-_/_-/_
I wouldn't be against a cooking update to the game where you can make proper 'meals' with some of these items. Like creepvine samples and a peeper to make a sushi roll or something.
Step 1: Grow Marblemelons
Step 2 : That’s it tbh
Step 3: Do all of the swim swims
That’s exactly what I thought! Until I realized the knife is completely broken in the switch version. 😂😂
Chinese potatoes are my current go to.
The blood oil is actually very efficient fuel for the bioreactor, also the melon or the Bulbo tree. (all 420 power)
So you can make cured Reginalds (490 energy value) instead for away missions.
The best fish to grow efficiently for reactor purposes would be the Oculus (630).
Unotch gel sacs are better
I made a string of what I call lighthouses with grow beds and can use them to travel anywhere in the game without a sub and never run out of food water or air. Plant 1 Creepvine for the light one Brain Coral or 2-3 in deeper areas for the air and fill the rest with gel sacks, gel sacks don't give a lot of water or food each but they don't degrade like the other food and if you plant them every few hundred meters it's more then enough! This makes it so you can basically never return to base or your sub, it is impractical to actually go all they way down this way but being able to extend the length of your outings for as long as you need speeds things up considerably!
If you plant the yellow nodules from the creep vine instead of the creep vine sample you will get creep vines that also produce the yellow nodules in your grow bed.
The only thing you need outside your base is seed cluster, blood oil, deep shroms, and gel sacks. For the Hatching enzymes you only need to make once so no point in planting a whole plant.
Yeah. Plus the containment facility has portals to zones near the plants.
his accent is so western hes already an expert in gardening in a unity game
Southern not western
@@gman2949 maybe he meant from a international standpoint
This man actually gets straight to the point. Very rare to see nowadays so you’ve got a subscriber!
Looks like 3 years later this info is pretty spot on. Looking to watch your other videos as I need them in my playthrough.
a single planter bed with 4 jaffa cups provides more than enough material to fuel my bioreactors and I rarely need to refill them.
I use 6 creepvine in grow beds as lampposts to map the way between various bases. Spread them out so you can only just see the next when you get close to one, put one creepvine in initially and then backfill when it's fully grown.
You forgot one important function of all plants: power production. I would love to see a tutorial on how much power you can get from different kinds of plants.
I didn't forget it as much as ignored it. The plants are easy to produce for power, but their power values are not as high as the fauna provide. My personal favorite for the bioreactor is Reginalds. Easy to produce a lot of them in a single alien containment, and they provide a good amount of power.
I'd hever put a living creature in a bioractor! Who am I, a monster?
The advantage to using plants is that it is cheaper in resources and space to use aquatic plants than it is to build an alien containment, or several, depending on how many bioreators you want to run. Several beds right outside a hatch to your reactor(s) can be cheap, renewable power. I don't know what plant is the best. I just use creepvine clusters, as they double as free and bright exterior lighting
I once tried to feed a few aquatic plants to a bioreactor, and it consumed them instantly, giving off basically no power. I wonder if it depends on how fast you use the power (I had a nuclear reactor and 7 thermal plants going constantly, as well as a few solar panels, and it was barely enough to keep my base running).
You need to fill it up with gel sacks (not the seeds) they'll last very long
Also, he loves your accent
FunStuds lol I'm from South Carolina I have the same Accent
Ik this is a old video but I didnt know you could plant the air bubble reef thing, that is gonna make this game easier lol
Thx
A marblemelon and a half can fully charge a bioreactor very fast in about 3 to 4 minutes.
They take up as much space as four Reginalds/Oculus though, and don't even provide as much power as just one Reginald.
if you want to get the creepvine seeds for lubricant, you plant one of the yellow seeds you pick.
I showed my friend one video, he loved it...
Just getting shot the whole time by the tiger plant 😂 thanks, very informative.
Just want to say that this was a very well made video. Especially bc you didn't spoil anything which could've been easy. I already knew most of it, still interesting though.
I never use 4x4 indoor grow beds. 4 pots take up less space, can be placed in corners, in a row, beside doorways, etc. Much more versatile, and the extra titanium is cheap.
To the new people playing now like me u can plant creepvine seed clusters to get their clusters
I like how you say, “Blood Vahns.” Wasn’t looking at the screen when you said it.
I'm like a year late but hey
This was made on my birthday
I, too, am year late, but happy birthday.
Huh, this was made on my birthday too.
@@bucket1442 i am 2 years late, happy birthday
I still want to do a playthrough without any base apart from the life pod, playing as some sort of botanist. I will just need the exterior growbed, place "highways" lit up with creepvine clusters, having brain corals for oxygen and gel sacks for nutrition. Obviously I will need to build the Cyclops in the very end, but everything else can be done with just that.
You can actually use all the seeds for the decoration plants to make power in a certain generator
The Minecraft cube earned my sub. Thank you for your wisdom Mr. Spicy
When it comes to farmable material, I like to use oculus for my power, and Reginald for my food. I use water filtration plants for hydration as well.
Plant wise, I like to plant a full bed of tiger plants near my scanner room to protect my camera drones from Stalkers. I also make full beds of acid shrooms, deep shrooms, gel sacs, creepvine seed clusters and bloodvine. I always have one last planter devoted to growing bulb bushes, sea crowns, and eye stalks.
I never really bother with land plants, though.
I honestly didn't think about gardening lol. Added this to my list of things to do.
Love your videos! I just started playing and enjoying it very much!
Thanks. I was having trouble deciding what plants I needed to put in my Alien Containment full of Crabsquids in order to have them feel more at home.
If/when you play "Subnautica: Below Zero," you will find that the "northern polar seas" are a bit different.
A few of the "southern ocean sea" plants can be found, but others are not.
Thx for the tips. Playing this during quarantine 2020.
I haven't confirmed it with planters yet, but some wild plants are bioluminescent enough to power solar panels! Useful when you don't want a bio-reactor that must be maintained but can't use thermal.
I will have to check into that and see if it works with the planters.
Am loving your videos, MSG. So far, I've been unsuccessful in producing power by using bio-luminescent plants. What did you discover about this in ~your~ testing?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but this doesn't work. Solar panels in Subnautica don't detect the light of the surrounding area, they only detect how close to the surface they are. If your base is below somewhere around 250 meters underwater then solar panels will not work no matter what. Apologies for being late to this comment
@@supremegrimmy it used to work, but an update changed it.
plant creepvine clusters you can so grow them i use them for ambient lighting.
You need to make sure to plant the seed pod, otherwise you don't get the light.
Fun Fact: You can actually put exterior grow beds on top of base compartments. You can comfortably fit 5-6 of them on top of just a multipurpose room, so your exterior garden could be built directly over your interior garden. ~_^
Best bioreactor fuel I've found is sea treader poop. Weird. But lasts super long!
if you plant the creepvine seeds (the ones you use to make oil you will have creepvines that produce it as well
You can use the speckled ratters for a bioreactor
Rouge cradle is more like rooj cradle, its french for red.
Also a few of the 'useless' aquatic plants like the membrane tree are used in the end game to create the enzymes
Noone ever calls it the right name.
regarding creep vine, if you plant the creep vine sample, you will only get creep vine. if you plant the creep vine seed cluster, you will get seed clusters growing with the creep vine
If you plant creepvine using a seed cluster it will grow seeds as of thw full release
I’m really upset I’m getting into this game like, 5 years late and have been missing out. I’m almost exclusively watching your videos now for tips and stuff
Great guide, thanks for that.
GEL SACKS ARE A PLANT?!?! I CAN PLANT THEM?!?! OH MY G O D
The reason I use the lateen fruit is because you don’t have to replant it
Gardening in subnautica while my backyard is deadland
Awesome video man. This was super helpful
i think i didn't realize i could slash mushrooms to get more mushrooms until my second playthrough. and i think someone watching had to point it out to me.
Thanks buddy! I learned a lot.
In my creative gameplay, i made various bases, i built one in a island for a plant research bas, more like a museum, thanks
I have two Alien Containments, one for Oculus and one for Reginalds. Reginalds are extremely good food, giving you +44 when cooked or cured. Oculus meanwhile only provide +30 food; However, in a bioreactor, a single Oculus is good for 630 energy, versus 490 from the Reginald. Admittedly, the difference isn't huge, so having just one big tank for both food and fuel might be easier. This is just how I do it.
The simple fact is, the Oculus is the single most energy-dense fuel for the bioreactor in the game. By this I mean that when you divide the energy value by the number of storage slots that fuel takes up, the Oculus is far and away the highest. Sure, you can accurately say that Gasopod has a higher absolute value; But the Gasopod takes up as much space as four Oculus. Same story for all other flora and fauna in the game, none is higher or even equal to the Oculus. Reginald isn't far behind, but they're still in second place.
These might be changes that happened between Early Access and current-day, but this is how it goes today. I only got Subnautica recently, sue me.
Your subnautica videos are awesome. 👌
11:20 for the creep vines if you plant the seed you will get it to produce seeds if you only plant the stalk then it dosnt produce seeds
I like taking deep shrooms with some ghost weed.
According to the creepvine seed cluster wiki creepvine planted by the player will grow seed clusters. But according to the creepvine wiki only when you plant the seed clusters themselves, not when planting the samples.
Super helpful thanks!!
You're welcome
Gel sacs are one of the best sources of power in the game
The only plants I actually use are; Creepvine, blood vine, acid mushroom, deepshroom, jellsacks, melons, and bulbo trees. Everything else is kind of superfluous, aside from a specific 5 plants you need samples of late game, for a blueprint, you'll know what i'm talking about when you get there.
And technically every plant is in the utility section, because you can put them into the bioreactor to create energy, this is the cheapest and best energy source for me 😁
Excellent guide
very informative video. Wish you show the stat of the onland fruits, but no worry i look them up. thx
Omg this helped me soooooooo much!! Thank you sooo much!! :D
Love your intro song 😍😍
And the content that comes with it
thanks for the help
You can plant the creepvine sacks to make more.
The rogue cradle provides a lot of illumination, but I can’t find any on reefbacks
All these plants need to have some sort of buff effect... the problem is that there are so many edible plants, but only the Lantern Tree and Marblemelons are actually useful and ecomonic.
The Bulbo Tree is also very useful and economic as well. Gives 10 water and 3 food per swipe at it, and you can plant 4 per indoor growbed.
Noob question & you sort of mentioned it when you talked about the melons, but do the plants grow back if I pick and eat / use them?
Before eating them, slash them with your knife, to get the seeds of that plant/food. Then you could plant the seeds you’ve got and then you could eat the food itself.
Plants I've grown I think the best for food and water would be the Chinese potato get it on the island with the observatory and multi-purpose room that's on it it's right there with the multi-purpose
You can eat gelsacks, bulb bushes and creepvines.
If you plant the creepvine seed cluster it will grow the creepiness with the cluster
Thanks
This guy sounds country. Nice video it helped me so much
I prefer using creepvines for food and water.
Yes it takes up alot more slots, and is only F5 H2o1, they are MAGNITUDES more common and expendable than gelsacks.
Here in 2022, tiger plants do enough damage to kill bonesharks at least. Around 30 seconds to a minute while it was being hit by 2 - 3 plants
Looking for other S-naut info I just happened to see this - and LITERALLY was wondering about farming! Perfect Timing!
I haven't been playing long - 2 days ~ 30 hrs (i'ts ok, I don't have a problem, I can quit anytime, honest!),
I did have one thought about the Brain Coral, if several were placed under a moonpool, would the increased air take the load off the pump, thus freeing up more energy? Or is energy not even a problem at later stages?
On my current playthrough im going to try to collect and plant all of the plants
The decorative ones I use as bioful
Acid Mushroom = Most effective or Fungal Samples
Harmful Plants?
(Dropping Stinger, tiger plant, ETC.)
I get you can’t grow dropping stingers but you can spawn them.
I don’t really see the ghost weed eye stalk or sea crown as utility plants because they’re only used for the hatching enzymes (which you only really need to make once)
Edit: except the sea crowns save the sea crowns!!!!!!
There are a couple that all those useless Plants that can be used for the hatching Emzynes for the emperor leviathan eggs
This video is now outdated. The Creepvine does give yellow bulb sacks for Lubricant but if don't pick the bulb sacks, the bulbs actually give a nice underwater yellow light area. I use the Creepvine as an outside perimeter light source to my bases.
I know this is a random not related question to this video, but I know you will have the answer I need. Do the autosort lockers work in subnautica below zero, or just subnautica? Thanks for your time!
I just want to make a garden for my cuddlefish
GREAT video !
good information...thank you
If your base gets damaged and floods does it harm the indoor plants?
I have never let my base flood bad enough to test this, but I would expect it would be base around the oxygen availability. If the plants are submerged for too long I would expect it to harm them in some way.
No it does nothing to them
@@spencertasso1533 That makes for an interesting roleplay idea...
The decoration ones can still be utilized as bio fuel in an emergency
If you plant the creep vine clusters, you get them on the actual plant
Had no idea you could plant gel sacks.