Following Subnautica (2018), Subnautica: Below Zero is the second instalment in the series. It is set two years after the original and follows a scientist as they smuggle themselves onto a frozen planet to investigate the circumstances surrounding her sister’s death. As with the previous game, there is a plot to be had here if you so wish, but you can also just choose to interact with the environment in any way you see fit. What better way to do this than try out the top 10 Subnautica: Below Zero mods and see how they change and evolve the experience for you personally?
10. No Shiny For You
Hypnotised by shiny things in the players hands, Sea Monkeys will try to rob you and put whatever they steal to use for their own purposes. It’s incredibly annoying but luckily this mod removes the Sea Monkey’s ability to do this.
9. Fast Loading Screen
Pretty self-explanatory. The fast-loading screen mod allows the game to load faster. Leaving less space between periods of loading; pretty neat, right?
8. Map Mod
Another one of those ‘does-what-it-says-on-the-tin’ mods. Subnautica: Below Zero can at times be labyrinthine to navigate. This mod alleviates that by adding in a proper map to use to orient oneself during gameplay. Another welcome addition that honestly, we have to wonder why it wasn’t in the game to begin with?
7. EasyCraft
Subnautica: Below Zero – like its predecessor – lives and dies on its crafting. A great number of players find the crafting system too complex and it often puts them off even trying to play the game past the first hour. This mod changes that by streamlining the crafting process. It does this by making certain ingredients for blueprints automatically. Definitely a load off of your mind when you have much more pressing issues to deal with.
6. More Quick Slots
Subnautica: Below Zero excels in many ways. One of the ways in which it does not, is the dreadful lack of quick slots. Quick slots help to make the experience less stressful and more user-friendly, and having to deal with the number which one does in the vanilla game, demonstrates this. You start with 5 slots. This is fine for anyone using a gamepad, as that is easily mapped and the reasons for it are understood, but with a PC? It is an entirely different question.
A keyboard has far more capacity than this. The mod understands this, and doubles your ‘quick-slot’ possibilities to 10. Very useful when you’re in the middle of nowhere and scrambling for a particular tool!
5. Advanced Inventory
The inventory is another point of contention where Subnautica: Below Zero falls short. You would think with a game as heavily focused on collection and crafting, that the inventory would be sizable or even adequate. It is not. Luckily, the Advanced Inventory mod allows you to make full-use of the functionality on the PC. Scrolling becomes easier and the whole experience is far more optimized.
4. SnapBuilder
Snap-building is something which has been a part of construction games since time immemorial. It is irking then to see, that the vanilla Subnautica: Below Zero did not come with this functionality. This mod adds a grid system and enables much more precise building and customisation. Nothing better than the ‘CLICK’ when a piece is slotted into place and completes your base.
3. Better Scanner Room BZ
Arguably one of, if not, the most important modules in the Seabase. The scanner room always seemed lacking in the vanilla game. The Scanner Room BZ mod helps maximise the Scanner room potential in a huge way, and serves to highlight its importance for the player’s journey.
2. Terraforming Ability 
What better way to customize your gameplay experience than being able to shape the world around you? Well, in the vanilla game, you couldn’t, this mod adds that ability. Your base can finally represent you visually in all your weird-and-wonderful glory, isn’t that just great?
1. Senna’s Seatruck Mod
It tops lists around the world for very good reason. This mod is absolutely outstanding and comes to us from prolific and popular modder Senna. The Seatruck is an integral part of the Subnautica: Below Zero experience as it allows for a mobile command centre to be established. This however, is a very slow vehicle in the vanilla game and lacks certain key-features. These features are added by this mod, they are; Speed upgrades, depth upgrades, armor upgrades and storage upgrades. Definitely worth the download if you feel the Seatruck lacking in the vanilla game.
And there we have it, the top 10 Subnautica: Below Zero Mods. Each adds a wonderful twist to the gameplay, and some even build on mods we saw in the original Subnautica. The wilds and wonders of Subnautica: Below Zero are not without their quirks and this list will ensure you get to experience them all. Which arguably is something you would like to experience, compared to the hyperthermia I am about to experience once I step foot outside of my base. Isn’t this wonderful winter wonderland the perfect place?
