How big is the subnautica world?

[Drop]

im having quite a bit of fun with it, but i havent really ventured away too far from my escape pod

[Nyello]

It is pretty large in my opinion. There's multiple biomes and you are even able to travel down underground. The wiki has more info about each biome and where it can be located if you want more info.

[Drop]

thank you

[ImHelping]

As a heads up, the map just stops about roughly short of 2000 meter from the lifepod in any direction. While that can take several minutes swimming, if you are in a Seamoth or Seaglide you can cross the whole map horizontally in short order.

Though that's "Driving from one area to the next". Going down into the lava biomes takes longer from needing to find the entrance tunnels in the first place, especially if you've not been there before.

The map isn't exactly anything you could call small, and calling it tiny is giving it too little credit to the work put into placing stuff.

But it's also not all that large either, which is much more notable on a second playthrough when you are no longer spending 3/4 of your travel time aimelessly wandering about.

[cswheele]

if u have a question of where u r there is a nice little feature in early access that can help orient you. pressing f1 will pull up an info console. not sure if u can interact with it, cant remember honestly. there is a line on it with the word biome. if the spot listed on that line is void. u have left the map area. there isnt anything to explore in this area. basically the ground will turn to a shear drop off to endless abyss. if u go past 1700m down good bet u r exiting the map area

[cswheele]

also there are some maps on the steam forums here. but be wary in using them as it may hurt a beginners experience.

[Alice]

though i want to say the map has no ending, you can build anything in void as well, imagine a globe full of water and you swim inside,perhaps 1500^3 isnt that big if you want more.

[MasterHowl]

The map is approximately 4000 meters across and the deepest part story-wise is just shy of 1500 meters down. If we assume an approximate shape of a rectangular prism containing the entire world map, that would be 4000m x 4000m x 1500m = 24,000,000,000m or 24 million km cubed. That is over estimating a bit, so you could probably pin that to closer to 20-22 million km cubed. I'd say that's a pretty big map.

[Ravo]

Originally posted by soloistpro:

24 million km cubed

Your math is a little off there. 4km² * 1.5km = 24km
But 3d space isn't really important in 90% of the game. There's the sea floor, then there's water, then there's nothing above the water. So the best way to think of it is only in 2D, where ~18 - 20 square kilometers is a good estimate. when given the useful areas of the lost river and ILZ that overlap the seafloor above them.

[!??!]

Originally posted by Ravo:

Originally posted by soloistpro:

24 million km cubed

Your math is a little off there. 4km² * 1.5km = 24km
But 3d space isn't really important in 90% of the game. There's the sea floor, then there's water, then there's nothing above the water. So the best way to think of it is only in 2D, where ~18 - 20 square kilometers is a good estimate. when given the useful areas of the lost river and ILZ that overlap the seafloor above them.

He wasn't exactly wrong, but he was calculating with cubed meters so he would have had to do 24,000,000,000*0.000000001 = 24km³. Have I just committed a crime?

[MarkJohnson]

It's at least 3km x 3km x 3km. Maybe 4km x 4km x 4km at most. but I'm pretty sure 3km cubed.