drew all the (living) (regular) bz leviathans

Development of the Ventgarden for Subnautica: Below Zero.

I always liked the idea of worlds within worlds.

no peeper leviathans or gargantuans

opinions on subnautica? More specifically the c r e a t u r e s?

Subnautica is def one of my GOAT video games. The exploration is really unparalleled, and the soft touch guidance storytelling of the original game is an absolute masterclass into how to pace an open world game while still giving the player near complete freedom. Below Zero is also fantastic for the more polished engine, the world, and the new creatures, but the story really suffers, and the land portions feel clunky. I adore the creatures in Subnautica, and honestly, I adore the ones in Below Zero even more. In general, I think Below Zero has better environments and creatures, and the biomes flow more smoothly into each other. It's a shame about the story, though. I will say, though, the quality of the first Subnautica falls off once you get to the lava zones, though, and I have an entire ramble of why I think that, but the rest of the game makes it more than worth it. All that said, I can't pick a favorite little guy in the games, so I'm just gonna rattle off a list of creatures from the games I think are my favorites:

-Hoverfish. Lil babies! :D

-Crabsquids. Make the game feel REALLY terrifying -Sea Treaders, love the idea of massive migratory creatures on the seafloor. They should've had a longer route, though. -Ghost Leviathans. They feel more iconic than the reapers imo

-Pinnacarids. Swooshy swoosh

-Titan holefish. Love the mola mola vibes

-Rock puncher -lily paddlers

-ventgardens, LOVE the concept of entire ecosystems within their body Sorry, I just love those games so much. Maybe I should replay them lol

oh neat, i didnt know the baby ventgardens could float this far out

Hey mer anon and I have world building to share. Megs pod lives in a huge cave system thats under an old city that the last leader found. The pod uses the city itself as a decoy for any attacks against them and if the thing attacking manages to get into the cave system they'll collapse the tunnels around where it entered and leave it there to die. Shockwave leads his own pod and is missing an arm. Shockwave pod lives on you know the reefbacks and ventgardens from subnautica the creature I'm thinking of is like a mix between the 2 of them and Shockwave figured out how to get them to move when and to where he wants. Starscream has his own pod and is mates with skyfire haven't decided if Skywarp and thundercraker are his brothers or besties yet. Starscream home base is an island well under an island mostly cause he likes the fruits that grow there.

You had me at reefbacks and ventgardens. Those two are some of my FAVORITES. I love living creatures that are also their own unique mini ecosystems. I'm crossing my fingers they'll add another one in the upcoming game

You and mer anon have got some great ideas! Feel free to keep launching them at me ^-^

"Ventgarden" - Subnautica concept art by Alex Ries (2018) via ImaginaryAliens

Favourite leviathan in below zero?

I have a list of favorite to least favorite:

#1: Glow Whale (I mean, it's glow whale how can you not love this thing?)

#2: Ice Worm (scary, but cool animations and design!)

#3: Shadow Leviathan (good scare and choice of colors are awesome)

#4: Ventgarden (super creative idea but looks a bit unbalanced honestly)

#5: Chelicerate Leviathan (cool idea, but doesn't quite live up to reaper leviathan)

#6: Void Chelicerate Leviathan (literally just the chipping paint equivalent of the Chelicerate lol)

i love subnautica but dude is it buggy as shit lmao although! its one of its charms since its funky most of the time ESPECIALLY when its not happening to you. like i had a peeper stuck in the corner of my lifepod just rotating?? and it would close its eyes when i would come close or a shine light on it and open them back up when i go away or close the light. or like when a poor spadefish or boneshark gets yeeted across the ocean for no reason. is it funny to look back on a warper coming out of the sea to you like some fucked up little mermaid or a chelicerate busting through a ventgarden to attack you? sure. but is it fucked up in the moment? NO. the latter happened to my sister while i was there to emotionally support her on her way to get alan's whateverthefucks lmao. she loves and prefers below zero majorly over the og mostly because it was the first one she played and she grew attached to it over the beta,, she hates where they ended up with the finished product. i played like half an hour of it in the beta decided it wasnt for me. i get SUPER jealous of the seamonkeys and the mineral detector tho. ayoooo rip to you consolers but im different B) pc is superior in the way it literally lets you fuck around with however you want and you bet i Will Play God whenever applicable! what else do you play? also now that we are talking about games i have to tell you. i love you and and your writing. but the feelings ive felt when i read you put him in plat............. my boy should have been at least diamond from the start im still in tears from that chapter i still havent recovered to this day how could you do my boy like this. how could you doubt his epic gamer skills and gaming time management issues like this. please explain yourself before my entire life falls apart at your feet. also me, an adc main, reading "accidentally kill the large-"

my boy was holding it in by shEEr power of love. especially after they nerfed the fuck out of adc to the point mfs will be rolling up the lane with double ap or a fucking yasuo. why is there always a fucking yasuo on enemy bot lane. and why do they all share the same zombie braincell. yone did not die for this bullshit. and to answer your question it depends on where im sending the question from lol. like on mobile there is like a 300? i think? character limit while on mobile and something similar on pc if i go to your blog site and choose ask from your theme. but here is the thing. if i go to your blog from tumblr/user instead of user.tumblr, then click ask, it literally gives me the same box as if im making a post. so no text limit whatsoever and i can freely send pics and stuff, pretty neat B)

nah i think at the end of the day doing whatever makes you the most comfortable and happy regarding the uploads is the most important! i just liked having multiple days of something nice to me ya know? not necessarily the fact that it was split. and i love them both!! the reason i call it texas touya fic is because one, when i started reading tomura was still more like on the sidelines and it kinda stuck two, it rolls of the tongue easier than texas tomura i guess? but i love them both T-T both as texans and in general! oh and dont worry ill probably bore you till you tell me to go away or something and and and! have a nice day!

I almost wish my game was as buggy as yours sounds. It sounds hilarious and game enriching. Mine doesn't like to glitch up but that probably because I played on PS4 and 5. Right after original launch of plain Subnautica, I got to the lava castle but the containment area wouldn't load so I had to start a new save. Hours down the drain.

^legit me after going through the entirety of the game again. Reapers, warpers, ghosts, and sea dragons biting chunks out of my ass all over again. But it was soooooo fun. It's one of my fave games.

OMG the backseat support gamer!!! I had one of those too for my second play through of oh Subnautica! Good on you to emotionally and psychologically hype your sister for the spookiness. I really liked below zero the first time I played it since I was just super hyped to have more Subnautica period but playing them again, you can definitely feel a substantial difference in atmosphere and replayability. Below zero just felt cramped and not as scary while Subnautica was open to terror from any direction. I totally understand your first experience being your favorite though. Whoa! You played it in the beta??? That's awesome! I'm but a lowly console peasant (until I get my PC fixed 😈) so I had to wait for console release.

OMFG DUDE. I was literally going to make him diamond II or even master BUT I didn't want a mega mind gamer in the comments to be like "erm, tomura wouldn't be diamond. It's hard to get to diamond!!11!" So I lowered his stats and you know what's CRAZY?! Me and a friend were talking about this exact issue and she brought up how he should have been at least diamond and I said the exact same story lmao. So I will go back and edit him into diamond 💀 he deserves it. The CS steal is so real 😔 so uncalled for. So unsophisticated. Okay but playing yasuo is fun, going against a yasuo is cancer. The wind shield is op. (When I'm playing against a yasuo) but sucks balls and blocks nada when I play him. (It's a zombie braincell hivemind that we all take turns with)

You're a Tumblr pro dude. 💀 I hadn't used it since 2015 so I'm still getting the hang of it (it doesn't tell me when I get notifs btw so I'm sorry for leaving you hanging for TWO WEEKS)

It legit means so much to me that you find so much joy in my writing and have stuck with it even with the long periods between updates. I appreciate you and the time you put into talking to me. It means a lot to me and you're the coolest anon I know.

Oh! And other games I play are pretty much anything 💀 I try to not get into competitive games like overwatch, Apex, or CSGO because I get EXTREMELY competitive and start screeching like a wounded animal. I used to play league religiously until my PC broke and my laptops can't run it (it can but it's like I'm either crashing or playing on PowerPoint) so I'm saving to get a new processor so I can play again! I mained ADC (jinx and Ashe, sometimes Tristana) or Annie on mid (LOL) BUT other than those, I prettyuch like anything. My fave games are Horizon Zero Dawn, Fable 2, Binding of Isaac, Assassin's Creed 2, and Minecraft! I play lots of survival games like ark, the forest, 7 days to die, and so on. I like simulation games Sims (obviously), house flipper, power wash simulator or even farming simulator 💀. You name a game, I've either played it or know about it.

They are my loves. They are my special boys and I care deeply for their fictional existence. As Texans, futuristic jerkwads, and in general.

No way will you ever bore me. If anything, I'll bore you

ANYWAY I will literally talk forever if given a chance 😬 thank you for talking to me! I'm always so excited to hear from you! I consider you a good friend at this point. How long has it been? Like 3 months? Maybe more???

All (Living) Leviathan from Subnautica: Below Zero

Subnautica Mermay Day 22: Ventgarden

Pet the ventgarden! Eh... well... An attempt was made!

Suggested by my lovely sibling, who jumped out the seatruck to scan this beauty as Jeff was steadily approaching us. We then proceeded to be stuck in a chasm we had wedged the seatruck into, but we got out eventually! After Jeff the Chelicerate no-clipped through the wall and nearly ate us... 

But it was fine, we were fine!

built my base pretty much directly on top of a Chelicerate spawn On Purpose, and one day This Happened

Welcome to Ventgarden Base. Please enjoy the guided tour.

Here we have the central room of the base. Powered by a nuclear reactor, as well as a pair of bioreactors and an external thermal generator, this room is divided into two. Crops grow on one side of the room, whilst storage for materials are present on the other. At the fair end of the room is a water purifier machine, as well as a jukebox.

This is the Control Room for the base. Here we maintain our power levels, as well as hull integrity.

This is the Moonpool, a facility used to dock and recharge our vehicles when not out on endless adventures. Currently docked is the Seatruck ‘Harbinger’.

This is the alien containment room. Here we house the various specimens we have hatched from eggs found around the arctic regions of planet 4546B. Do not worry, they are all friendly.

And last but by no means least, here we have the bedroom overlooking the eponymous Ventgarden, for which the base is named.

Thank for you taking the guided tour of Ventgarden Base. Please feel free to help yourself to some of our spicy peppers on the way out, as well as a free bottle of purified water from our machine. Coffee and vending machine snacks are also available as an alternative.