![]() Stumble upon them, and you can fill your boots with precious metals!Īnd that's not the only precious thing they offer. Gold, diamond and lead can all be easily gathered once you've found their path and gained the equipment necessary to descend to their depths. Because as they forage, they bring up rock from the seabed containing some of the most precious elements in the game. That stomping works well in our favour, too. They're herbivores, and aren't going to make a snack of you, but they'll certainly make it clear that you're not going to be making a snack of their kiddies. They rear up on their hind legs and their proboscis-like mouth-leg will give you an almighty kick. If you get too close to their young, their protective instincts kick in, and indeed kick out. My absolute favourite thing about the Sea Treader is connected to that stomping. When they reach a fertile feeding ground, they stop and gather in a circle for a splendid festival of stomping. These 30m giants stamp their ways across the sand and rock in their groups, and their vast rear two legs and similarly sized mouth/front leg thump at the ground, stirring up sand and rock. On top of that, their movement is wonderful. More than that, they herd for a reason - their young (and they're the only other creature to have young, along with the Reefbacks) are surrounded by the mature, so they're protected from predation. But the Treaders are deliberately herding creatures, moving together as they complete their mile-long migration across the sea floor. Other creatures bunch together, but that's more as a result of the game's localising them to certain sections of the play area. Because to my eyes, the Sea Treader exhibits far more interesting behaviour than any other creature in the game.įirst of all, they live in herds, which I think is unique in the game. It's ambivalent, until it's fiercely protective. The Sea Treader occupies a more interesting middle ground between the benevolence and malevolence of the other two. It is in the class of Leviathan, which also contains the game's astoundingly peaceful and comforting Reefback's - vast behemoths that are part whale, part turtle, with an entire ecosystem living on their backs - and the utterly terrifying Reapers. And most wonderful, in the whole game, is the Sea Treader. But while many of both groups certainly exist in the game, there is a whole other section of the marine biology - the creatures that are there to be wonderful. A slightly lesser game would have thought to have the aquatic beasties either there to be eaten, or to eat you. So much of Subnautica's charm comes from the wisdom with which the sea creatures are designed. These titanic crustaceans(?) are a herd of complete joy. ![]()
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