What is at the bottom of the world?

[LostManAbroad]

So when you travel to the edge of the map you find a cliff that just goes down a long, long way. I accidentally dropped off it with my prawn suit but I died long before reaching the bottom, partially from ghost leviathans and partially from reaching the Prawn's hull crush depth. There isn't a way of reaching the bottom without cheating but I was wondering if anyone has found a way to cheat the game just to see what is down there.

According to the wiki the cliff goes down 8000 metres. I am just wondering if the developers actually created a floor at the bottom or if the graphics just end. I know if I was one of the developers I would have built something at the bottom just for the fun of seeing if some player thinking outside the box (and outside the rules of the game) could get down there to see it.

[miklkit]

There is nothing down there. A little more than 8000 meters down you get teleported back to the area of your lifepod.

[DJ Febrezee]

The game tries to tell you not to go out there, then turns you back by force by cramming leviathans in your face.

[Amanoob105]

Down there you can find two things (not counting the "things" that will be trying to kill you). Water and darkness.
More or less in that order.

If you look about youtube for some videos from back in the EA days (and before the devs put in the 8000-8500 meter depth limit) you can find people that did look to see what there was.

Two guesses what things they found.

[LostManAbroad]

That is a little disappointing. Expected but disappointing none the less.

[B〄F Altonator]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Down there you can find two things (not counting the "things" that will be trying to kill you). Water and darkness.
More or less in that order.

If you look about youtube for some videos from back in the EA days (and before the devs put in the 8000-8500 meter depth limit) you can find people that did look to see what there was.

Two guesses what things they found.

You could find an area under the map sort of like a ceiling that you could grapple onto with the prawn

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by LostManAbroad:

That is a little disappointing. Expected but disappointing none the less.

Sure, but also realistic. Just about anything that would end up at that level would succumb to the oceanic pressure and go *pfft* in a rather messy fashion. No finding Nemo down that far.

[LostManAbroad]

Not technically true. It is amazing where life chooses to grow. I saw a David Attenborough documentary about a type of barnacle that lives on the side of volcanic outlets at the bottom of the ocean where there is no sunlight and where the water is over 450 degrees in temperature due to the volcanic activity.

[Amanoob105]

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

Originally posted by LostManAbroad:

That is a little disappointing. Expected but disappointing none the less.

Sure, but also realistic. Just about anything that would end up at that level would succumb to the oceanic pressure and go *pfft* in a rather messy fashion. No finding Nemo down that far.

Well, not Nemo but even on our planet you can find life down at such depths.

Though, then again. Our planet doesn't have the kharaa to kill off everything too far away from where the *spoiler* is and where the *spoiler*'s can get to, to *spoiler* the *spoiler*.

[Cougarific]

Don't listen to ^these guys - there's a huge hidden treasure room down there packed with one-of-a-kind loot and blueprints - you just need to find it.

Go down to about 1900m and look around. If you don't find it, go deeper and keep looking.

If you haven't found it after 3 or 4 hours of searching - keep looking! It's totally worth it!

[LostManAbroad]

Hooray!! I figured they were lying. Off to do some treasure hunting!! Yeah right.

[Cougarific]

I had you going for a second?

[LostManAbroad]

You wish.

[404_Not_Found]

There IS land about 3000 meters down that stretches for a bit before the map permanently drops off into an infinite abyss. It's even possible to build down there if you hate yourself or just really like loud neighbors.

There's nothing down there but ghosties and sadness though, so not really recommended.

Also you guys should look up the midnight zone, or the oceanic trench. Fairly certain the blood kelp trench is kind of inspired by both of those things anyway, although these are much deeper down in real life.

[LostManAbroad]

What amazed me was finding out that there actually are real rivers at the bottom of the ocean, like in the Lost River biome. I saw a documentary about them. They are a real weird phenomenon. If fish try and swim above them but get too close to the surface then they lose their ability to remain upright in the water. As odd as Subnautica can be, Earth can be and infinitely stranger place under the water.

[Double Deez Nuts]

in a vid i saw there actually is a bottom where that guy tried to build a base