Fat lot of good that does you most of the game huh. Yeah, and eventualy you can build a rocket. And stuff like this is an interesting case study in complacancy and being willing to excuse awkward design because eventually you can throw enough materials at it to forget the problem exists. The power system in Subnautica has always been 'Enough to get the job done'.

A single light in the long run is worse than ten water filtration machines, because at least eventually the water filtration machines will STOP. So if you install even a single light, you are in permanent drain land. (Think about that every time someone brags about how the can tooootally run water filtration machines that needs 2,350 energy for a single 15 minute cycle, with only one bio reactors.) That 500 max capacity is because they are glorified back up batteries that only help if your base sits quietly using zero power for long stretches at a time. But has a slow as mollases power output of 25 energy per minute. And that's if there is literally nothing else draining power fromy your base.Ī bio reactor works at night. So you need multiple, full charged solar panels, to run a SINGLE light during the night. Turn on all your lights in your house and leave them on all day every day, because heeeeey lights don't take up that much power! Stop complaining about that power bill, don't you know the power plant has more electricty where that came from?Ī solar panel has a max capacity of 75. Roughly 1 energy per second sounds like nothing much, if you have no idea what you are doing. If the wiki is still up to date, a single spotlight (and floodlight) takes '3 energy every 3 seconds, of 60 power per minute'. You could cut the power drain of lights in half and the same underlying problem would remain. Honestly it's down to the 'Haha, constant power drain!' in a game where only one power source is fully self sustanining.

Still though, if it really does take 1 whole thermal plant to power a single light that's crazy.

Once I started really going after quartz I had more than I could use. Nuclear really solved my problems I just had to get over using the glass for it. Originally posted by DonJuanDoja:It probably does use too much but my bases are usually overpowered eventually anyways with multiple powersources.

Subnautica cyclops draining power