Overview
On survival ModeSo you have finally found the ore you desperately needed and then a nasty denizen from the abyss gobbles you up or you drown, trapped in a wreck. You then re-spawn far away in one of your bases, and of course without the ore or whatever you found.This can be frustrating, although it does add challenge to the game. But honestly wouldn’t you rather restart the game at the spot where you actually saved the game and not having just wasted maybe hours of your time?What I did was this: I created two simple batch files. If you don’t know what a batch file is, it is probably because you didn’t grow up like I did using them in the 80’s when messing around with DOS. One Batch file copies the Subnautica entire folder “Unknown Worlds” to another folder I called “Worlds”. I call that “Subnautica copy.bat”. This batch file also deletes a previous copy of “Worlds” before re-creating another one.The second Batch file which I call “Subnautica restore.bat” removes the Subnautica folder “Unknown Worlds” and copies “Worlds” to a folder named “Unknown Worlds” .So, before making that risky dive to meet the possible embrace of a Reaper Leviathan in order to explore a wreck, you would first SAVE the game (hit Esc) THEN ESC again to pause the game and change the focus to the batch file (easy to Alt-Tab if running the game in a window…easier like myself if you have multiple screens) and double click “Subnautica copy.bat”. If you die and get re-spawned somewhere else, simply exit the game, double click “Subnautica restore.bat”, restart the game and you’re back to where you were before the dive or wherever.For safety sake, please make a copy of the original subnautica “Unknown Worlds” folder first. I also adapt these batch files to Raft if you also play that game.
Batch Files (two)
1. Subnautica copy.bat (or any other name so long as it ends in .bat and you know what it does)
In Notepad paste the following: (DO NOT paste the Asterisks)
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echo
RMDIR /S /Q Worlds
echo D|xcopy /Y “Unknown Worlds” Worlds /s/h/e/k/f/c
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Notepad will attempt to save it as ” Subnautica copy.txt “. Simply rename it later or at the time as Subnautica copy.bat
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2. Subnautica restore.bat (or any other name so long as it ends in .bat and you know what it does)
In Notepad paste the following: (DO NOT paste the Asterisks)
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echo
RMDIR /S /Q “Unknown Worlds”
echo D|xcopy /Y Worlds “Unknown Worlds”/s/h/e/k/f/c
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Notepad will attempt to save it as ” Subnautica restore.txt “. Simply rename it later or at the time as Subnautica restore.bat
WHERE TO PUT THESE FILES
Put both Batch files wherever the folder “Unknown Worlds” happens to be. In most cases it is in:
C:UsersusernameAppDataLocalLow. For easy access, you can make shortcuts to these on your desktop. If you do not see “AppData” in Windows explorer, Google how to reveal this.