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I love how even Nordvpn has gotten the Kharra Virus

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

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 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

I can’t wait to see gameplay for this.

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

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

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.

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

this is definetly gonna bring life back to this game

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.

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!

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

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

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 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

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'd love to see single cell biome

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.

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

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

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

I feel like having swarms of plankton around the islands would make sense, with a lot of creatures this big in real life, like whales and stuff, they usually feed on swarms of shrimp/plankton via filter feeding. Having a large filter feeder out in the void as a friendly creature would probably be really interesting as well.

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

an angler fish leviathan is MANDATORY for the deep dark void

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!

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

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!

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

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

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

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

4:25 look at this extinguished gentleman

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!!

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

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!

im very exited for this mod !

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

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!

thank you aci for using my idea i love your videos

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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!

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.

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

This video fills me with pure joy.

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

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

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!

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

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😅

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

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

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

Can The ghost leviathans follow you onto the islands?

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

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.

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?

Cant wait to try it! You all doing an awesome job😍

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.

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.

That's fire. I'm very excited of this coming out!

I love the idea of giving the squids hats

Good to see the mod is progressing :D

This is so cool!!! I'm really happy to see this concept go to life! I was afraid, that the previous videos wouldn't garner enough attention and that this would only remain as a concept... 😅😅😅

yooo this is starting to look very cool! really hope u keep the eye with the teeth that would be awesome and terrifying

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

❤nice progress you are doing guys!! Congratulations

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.

you NEED to add the sunbeam wrecks

I’m actually really excited for this mod to come to fruition. I’m very excited to play the shard that releases soon!

THIS LOOKS SO 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.

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

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

A scanner drone would be nice, not having to spend 30 seconds right beside a giant mouth of teeth to scan it.

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

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.

Keep up the Amazing Work!!!