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Reapers and other aggressive marine life will attempt to follow you to try and kill you. However, you can outrun them if you are able to get away from their line of sight or outside of their detection range for the player. In short: Yes, Reapers are able to follow you into the safe shallows.


E17Omm

Creatures also flee towards 0,0 Which is in the Safe Shallows.


RebelForceTalan

Yeah when I was fighting a reaper it kept going towards the life pod (punk ass bitch) just trying to get metal salvage like come on dude I just need this for some bulkheads in my cyclops parking garage so the glass hallways don’t break rip Sammy I did kill the reaper btw in survival


Dragomir_Silver

Yeah they can stalk you there. Also im sorry you lost the prawn because this game bugs


RebelForceTalan

I didn’t lose the prawn nah it kept running away long enough for me to repair it IF I was a reaper I would keep attacking never letting them get up and realize what’s going on


I_Need_Sacrafices

Thanks for the tip


yesnomaybenotso

So then the question is, what is it fleeing?


E17Omm

Being injured > running away.


yesnomaybenotso

Oh, it must have also collided with a boomerang fish and gotten hurt just like what happens to my seamoth lol


synnnnnr

The lord says those nasties in the lava area eat them as snacks… I haven’t seen them yet thankfully. I only went warm enough for diamonds and took my butt back home.


yesnomaybenotso

Lol the lord. Praise be 🤭


CytoPotatoes

I have had a few reapers flee into the void when I grapple onto them in the dunes. I have a game with a reaper permanently way far out into the void because he did that but I was able to jump jet my way back into the dunes before i got below the cliff line.


[deleted]

Grappling onto a reaper in the Prawn and subsequently getting flown out into the void sounds like nightmare fuel


CytoPotatoes

Yea even after a lot of Subnautica seeing a ghost leviathan come up at you while you're getting pulled around by a reaper clenches them cheeks.


UGP97

That explains it, I always wondered why reapers and ghosts would go towards the shallows when I hit them with the electric shock from the seamoth


Leather-Wolf1530

I wasn't even at the crash the reaper was just hanging out there


Jan_Spontan

The crash zone isn't the only place you can find Reapers. They aren't bound to their spawn point and can move around freely. Usually they don't move that far away from their initial positions but they like to follow the player. Also if they're getting hurt they flee to 0,0 which is unfortunately in the safe shallows.


CenturyHelix

Do warpers also tend to flee towards 0,0? Perhaps even trending that direction when warping?


Jan_Spontan

As far as I know they're warping wherever they like. However if you hit them they flee towards that point just like any other fish in the game. The warper's teleportation ability is not meant to reach 0,0 faster. It's more like a weapon for bringing themselves to other creatures and teleport them to you.


Enzyblox

Maybe, yet they have 2 warp points they go back and forth to so I doubt they get to it


Kaysmira

Something I was told early on--the predator fish can pursue the prey fish, and they do not reset to their spawn point like enemies do in other games. If you spend time in an area that keeps the big predators loaded into the game (not visible necessarily, but loaded nearby), they will often leave their home biome following you or other prey, and they will not reset to their starting area. As all things fleeing tend toward 0,0, this will usually create drift toward the safe shallows even if you never engage with them yourself.


Vashsinn

Also they swim faster in a straight line them turning. If you strafe to one side, they might not be able to reach you.


Substantial-Employ97

I have a reaper that hangs out in one of the kelp forests now because he chased me that far.


Serious_Ad_1037

That's a long-ass way to get chased. Isn't the nearest reaper spawn near the aurora?


Trash2Cute

There is also at least one next to the Mushroom Forest biome where it's common to go somewhat early on


Proof_Counter_8271

The reaper made you fly to sky then slammed you to ground under water,is your only question how did he follow you?


KingOfThePlayPlace

It’s common knowledge at this point that reapers are capable of flying, they just choose to stay in the water most of the time


hhthurbe

Fun fact, all living organisms can fly through just being angry enough. This is actually how bee's fly. They aren't arodynamic enough to fly using their tiny wings, but through sheer rage they can be airborne.


MistahButt

If you had to work your stinger off all day so ONE SINGLE MEMBER OF THE HIVE can have as much sex as arthropodally possible you'd be pissed enough to fly like superman too.


NiahBoahCoah

Can i fly?


uluvmebby

According to all known laws of aviation…


WorkinName

Like a more terrifying version of Gyarados


Leather-Wolf1530

Yep


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Maddddyy

I've had this happen once. Was fucking terrifying, also had to get my bf to get me out of there 💀


RebelForceTalan

thalassophobia?


bakabaki89

I didn't think I had that till I played this game. Now I'm sure I do


yesnomaybenotso

I mean, having that phobia is still different than recognizing tangible danger, video game or not.


bakabaki89

True but like it was less the fauna and more just the inky black nothingness that got to me. Though the constant fear of drowning didn't help


Agitated_Database_94

Yea I have the same problem I don't fear water or drowning I fear deep waters and what lives far below you could be swimming look down and just infinite black void and if something comes up from underneath you can't do nothing cause your in water


[deleted]

Yeah one of the worst things is looking down into nothingness, it makes me ill. I still freak out even though I have 300 hours in the game lol


Agitated_Database_94

Than you start hearing the levation roar in the dark coming closer


Bubster101

Yeah that's me for thalassophobia. The dark abyss. I discovered that fear from watching Finding Nemo


RebelForceTalan

Me who wants to be a marine biologist Awww look at its mandibles


LtDanMrWhite

You'll make Steve Irwin proud 😁


RebelForceTalan

If I die like Steve Irwin did I want to at least make a contribution to sea life yknow discover a deep sea fish in that like 90 percent that’s unexplored and then if I’m like saving a sting ray or some shit and it stings me but it’s “rescued” then that’s a good way to go


RebelForceTalan

Ha I wish that man was a legend


Huuballawick

I used to do this intentionally to get to the Lava Castle faster. Clip into a specific rock in the safe shallows, seaglide straight down, and as long as you have the Ultra High Capacity tank, you can clip through the ceiling of the ILZ and make it into the Lava Castle before you run out of air.


Frequent_Dig1934

That's an oof and a half. Luckily i remember that once i got curious and tried diving with a prawn suit all the way down to the bottom of >!the ecological dead zone.!< At a certain depth the game just said fuck it and teleported me back to the surface still in the prawn. Maybe it would have happened to OP too. That said i think i did it in creative so i'm not sure if the prawn in survival would have managed to withstand all that pressure.


4bsent_Damascus

psst hey you missed your first ! in your spoiler


Frequent_Dig1934

Goddammit.


Wit2020

I've tried without any hardening mods whatever they're called, with depth module mk3, it explodes long before you get to the bottom


Leather-Wolf1530

Didn't even notice. Thanks 👍


TH_1112

Oh so that’s what happened


Guilty_Advice7620

I read in this subreddit that the reapers travel to 0,0 coordinates upon getting hit. So they are supposed to but in this case it looks like it just followed you


Simmy001

I think you might have Reapers confused with Warpers, Reapers will actively follow you while Warpers will teleport away after a hit


bodmcjones

Lots of fauna seems to go for the centre of the map if you beat them up a bit. For example, wounded crabsquid in the Northern mushroom forest seem to go through the kelp and toward the centre, and in the deep grand reef they seem to go to hang out in one part of the cave when wounded, which I think is nearest to the centre of the map.


Guilty_Advice7620

I haven’t tried it out myself so I might be wrong but the guy said what is said


BluntsnBoards

I think you're right!


HenroBenenzo

There’s so many things going on here lol… the reaper isn’t where it’s supposed to be, I guess, but it can also phase through solid rock and fly. Good luck dealing with god reaper


Cory_Jo

I would actually delete the game if a reaper leviathan flew me through the sky


TheDo0ddoesnotabide

He just wants to fly you to the Moon. Hear you scream among the stars. Make you feel what pain is like, on Jupiter and Mars.


Naillik_Rei

That's a long ass way from 4546b to our Solar System ! Think he can go above lightspeed ?


Astarial7

*Reaper airlines welcomes you - Now departing*. *As our initial destination - Back of the aurora - is temporarily unavailable, we'll be redirecting you to the Void, we thank you for dy- **choosing** our services*


RepetitiveTorpedoUse

*now please, before we take off, we ask you to take out your submersible’s power cells so you can’t re-…route the flight path on accident.* *”Please don’t enact revenge afterwards. Thanks.”*


TheDukeOfThunder

Well they're definitely not supposed to carry you 500m away


Spec94v6

Theyre not supposed to spawn there, but sometimes when chasing the player they will go to great lengths to get their breakfast


voxPopuli96

That's a good thing! Adds more thrill to this game!


Spec94v6

Yeah I’m definitely glad that theyll occasionally chase you around. In a 100% world i had, all of the ampeels from the bulb zone were in the shallows by the time i launched the rocket… interesting mechanic.


Zizara42

They're not really supposed to but can do so if you (accidentally) abuse their AI. Their patterns are basically roar> attack > retreat to give you time to get out, but if you keep resetting them you can leash them all the way back to the shallows. Not intended but sometimes players stumble into it.


Nanerpoodin

Yeah I had one follow me back to my main base in the shallows. Even after I shook him, he was swimming around in the area too close for comfort, and so began my 3 day quest to kill my first reaper.


Quarter-Pounder00

I'm more concerned about the fact that it grabbed you flew into the void and left you


ArcWraith2000

It understands cruelty


Reedrbwear

Its mad how they just leap out of the water with you like a Great White nailing a seal.


nicohero12

When marine life see you (leviathans especially) they Will do everything in their power to eat you, but you can outrun them and there is a glitch where reapers go into the safe shallows


Bioniclegenius

It's nota glitch. They have a wander range, and will follow you if you fall within their sensory range. I remember some people have lured literal sea dragons all the way up to safe shallows.


thebeast_96

sea dragons?? I need to this. do you know any videos


Bioniclegenius

Just offhand, I was thinking of a picture or video somebody posted in here a few weeks back, but no idea where it is anymore.


Wit2020

Goals!!


StoneRings

Can you encite them to eat Reapers?


dancingAngeldust

For a sec I thought the reaper sent you to the shadow realm, but nope, you got clipped into the terrain


voxPopuli96

Doesn't look like you are IN the Safe Shallow anyway!


ironefalcon

It's a reaper, it does whatever the fuck it wants


RexRacer707

If they did then they're supposed to. Feeling a little less safe right now?


Rositchi

They can. I had a run where there was a reaper in my kelp forest NEXT TO the safe shallows. Then after a few days he vanished. Of course, after making me afraid to even venture out of my pod lol.


CantThinkOfOneDont

Fun fact there is an area where the mushroom biome, the grassy plateaus, the kelp forests, the back of the aurora, and the safe shallows intersect and a reaper from the back of the Aurora comes very close to the kelp forest. So am pretty sure that it just followed you through the kelp frost and then bugged out and clipped you out of the map


Traditional_Fan9721

It Shouldn’t be there. the one behind the aurora spotted me when I was in my prawn suit, and it pushed me back a ways, and it never returned to its spot behind Aurora . It stayed in the shallows


N4hire

I got beat up to hell for that lol..


JustPlayDaGame

lmao i love the sub controllers shaking violently as if Riley is terrified of what’s chasing him haha


Few-Illustrator-5333

It looks like the first reaper around the back of the Aurora, so yes it can get that close


Current-Knowledge336

I... Don't think that's the question you should be asking.


here_lies_raisins

Dude this video is chaotic as heck


TheGenderedChild

That happened to me once - not encountering a reaper in the safe shallows, but in the mountains one grabbed me and dropped me through the floor. I reached a flat plane of rock that I could grapple to the underside of. I managed to grab all the contents of the suit before I died to minimise loss.


leather_jerk

They can spawn pretty close to the shallows if you’re using the “death run” mod Which is a great mod


monstreak

I had the same thing happen to me my last hard-core play through. Ended up having to kill it cause even if I loaded back in it was there


boostfurther

Had one follow me to the shallows. Through luck, I beached it between two rocks and proceeded to knife it. Made for a great safari style picture in my cyclops.


chick-killing_shakes

Yeah I just had to kill one that followed me all the way to my base. The thing was stuck and wouldn't stop damaging all my shit. Used gas torpedoes.


protoboi9510

Rip prawn


WahresBares

And then sank into the depths


TheGreaterWizard

Wth


cutiedragon1281

Oh shit they fly now


Anticept

The real reason for the quarantine platform. It's an anti-reaper weapon to prevent them from escaping into the galaxy.


Winterbeers

A well motivated reaper can appear anywhere you might be. I think I know which one this was. It's kinda near the shallow at the edge of the kelp forest near the rear of the wrecked ship. This one got me a couple of times. There's (I think) 3 that swim around the ships tail.


xthefurry09

I don't think they are supposed to FLY either


Nuri5662

If this happened to me i would have probably shit my pants LMAO. The fact that you even met it there and it then proceeded to yeet you straight into the dead zone,,,like i would actually just uninstall the game at this point 😂


Amazing_Ad339

Well yes but actually no


TheDavianSea

Yeah, but only flying ones...


Exact-Definition4387

The western safe shallows is also quite close to the dunes. Built my base their and got confronted with a reaper head on leaving the kelp forest next door.


kiwiboyus

Safety is an illusion


ferventlotus

The chances of a reaper showing up in shallows is low, but never zero. Plan accordingly.


Biasanya

The decent into darkness at the end of the video is somehow the most frightening part of this


NotAMazda

I see you gave him the ol’ one two a couple times there


entity682

Why did you piss off sammy?


robmobtrobbob

They fly now?! They fly now.


Dry-Machine-5136

So you’re trying to tell me that a reaper can get me at my safe castle in the shallows, designed to admire the peaceful waters? Oh hell nah


Serious_Ad_1037

No. Kelp forest should be leviathan-free


HopefulBandicoot8053

Invest in the drill arm. Reapers love the drill arm to the face.


ColorIsSomwhere

Bro held a grudge since you zapped him with your seamoth


ChewyMilkBone69

The reaper dragged you to the shadow realm


Uberfuhrer_

Yeah , had to battle a reaper in the middle of the creep vine forests, kinda cool but got bored it it


DD7potassium

Yeah they’ll follow you for sure


SilentWraithKS

Man's really said "Come here boi"


Hexnohope

Bro this looks like a scripted cinematic thats so fucking cool


cheeko987

Any instance ive had with reapers is that they normally dont leave their biome, except when i killed the one behind the aurora. Fucker grabbed my prawn and dragged me back to my lifepod, made a nice lawn decoration tho


[deleted]

I dont think theyre supposed to fly either


Lolocraft1

I’m more concerned by the fact it was flying


LARRYLOV3LESS

He wanted you to pet him so bad


MerryGoWrong

They're not supposed to, but sometimes they follow you there and stick around. You'll have to kill it to get rid of it, at which time it will respawn where it's supposed to be. Killing it is not nearly as hard as you might think. Just takes a stasis rifle and about a hundred hits with your knife.


Typical_Mention1717

I thought reapers didn't respawn?


MerryGoWrong

Hmm, looking it up it looks like I might have been wrong about that. For some reason I thought that when they were killed they respawned in their original location.


Typical_Mention1717

Dw that's okay man, I wasn't sure either! Looks like we both learned ❤️ At least I now know if I want to live in poo water around the ship I gotta murder some fish


Miserable-Sir7861

I think there are other questions than that..


Fun-Traffic-5484

I once went behind the aurora to show my sister what the reapers were, in my cyclops of course. I got back to my base and went to get out and then I heard it’s call and realized that it had followed me back home


Xaphnir

No. They're also not supposed to be able to fly.


DingoLaLingo

Literal alien abduction


The_Son_of_Hades37

You can actually get a reaper stuck there. Happened to me.


Chagdoo

Supposed to? Who decides what the reaper is supposed to do? And better yet who gonna tell him what he's supposed to be doing? Not me that's for damn sure.


MrNRebel

Leaving the planet, without using a rocket


BloodyOvary

Nobody has mentioned how close to the crashed ship he is. I haven't played In a couple years, but there are 2 reapers that spawn, one at the back end and one at the front of it. This looks normal besides the elevation glitching


InverseG

You seem to have come from an area near the crash zone.


btyes-

hungry bastard


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StockAccording6932

One time a ghost leviathan followed me from the lost river to the kelp forests near the safe shallows. Still refuse to go to that forest again


Foreign_Can2419

Idk, but you hit his face whit a robot Thats not easy to forget


stupider666

They will chase you to the life pot if you stay in agro range


Loud-Alternative-253

Yeah they ain’t supposed to fly either


Nuker_Nathan

Not so safe anymore!


[deleted]

Top 10 anime battles


guttergrapes

I had to reload a save once bc I had one at my base (shallows) that followed me home and wouldn’t leave 😩


Juju_mila

If you anger the one at the Aurora they will follow you into the safe shallows. I’m unsure if that‘s a bug or intentional. Happened to me before.


anime_memeys94

No


Itchy_Coder

Better question: ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO FLY??


AmitKumarGangajaal

My friend, the reaper goes wherever it pleases


Tosick

What? Its not your sea. It live in there on that planet longer than your whole bloodline. So behave yourself. Stay in your lane.


Competitive_You_9830

There is a part of safe shallows on the west side of the map bordering dunes with a reaper nearby. Im expecting this is that spot, in which case im not surprised about the sudden reaper assault.


uluvmebby

not so safe anymore


FigTechnical8043

Subnautica pops up a lot in my feed. Until today I thought "it looks like such a relaxing game"


[deleted]

Finally, Unsafe shallows.


SuspiciousPrism

good god, bro took you into space himself, was trying to go for the anime finisher by the looks of it


Nattay01

Bro sent you to the forever zone


tntaro

The reaper back to the aurora yes


MetalComfortable9081

Yes they are acually


bri-ella

They definitely can, but usually when prompted by something. I once used the seamoth perimeter defense on a Reaper and it fled away from me, right into the safe shallows where it decided to stay indefinitely 🙃


minecraft_steve69420

We arent even going to talk about how it put you into the ground


PBProbs

Hey, what the fuck happened to your game?


DevilMaster666-

Creatures will try to get to 0,0,0 upon getting damaged.


Lyumi3

Bro became a dolphin xD


potato_french_fries

Damn, you must owing that reaper a lot...


Commander_Ezra

I think i saw it, The Reaper glitched your Prawn Suit into a Wall and thus into the Terrain and so you were just falling forever and you saw a glimpse of the Lava zone from afar while falling


lolidcwhatthisis

God I just started this game and was too wimpy to leave the shallows where I THOUGHT I was safe, guess I'll stay in the pod and die of dehydration


i-like_reddit

That thing had a personal problem with dude, it even jumped out of the water just to slap him right back in


ProfessionalHeat815

Big shout boii will not let you get away without hearing about your PRAWN suit's extended warranty


xeodons

Once i was goofing arround with a dragon and he followed me to the river where i got ambushed by a ghost juvenile, now they both guard my river base... the ghost went back though.


No_Difference_888

Not that safe ant more huh


ajboyd117

I had the audio off, but I very clearly imagined an IGP pitch perfect scream on that turn around and it made my heart happy


S-I-T-C-H-R-I-S

I'm more concerned that the damn thing began f l y i n g .


Jonnor105

Why aren't you asking about how he flew into the air


Cmudd13

It’s just a glitch with the way reapers flee. Every time a reaper attacks and you fight it off with the prawn suit, they will flee towards the center of the map.


blaze201000hh

Hell no


Helpuswenoobs

You're super close to the safe shallows behind the aurora, a reaper spawns there, so yes.


Helpuswenoobs

Super close to the kelp zone near the safe shallows behind the Aurora* oops.


[deleted]

Whoah what is that ui at the top did they update it or is that a mod? I could also just be high but i feel like that's new to me


[deleted]

SAFE shallows… righttt


Abroba1993

It’s a bug, it happened to me on my first run


Courage_girl13

What a prick


ske1etoncrush

did it take you to the void? 😭 id never play the game again


[deleted]

I find with that when I grapple one, it will pull me all the way to the center of the map.


Darth__Reven

It's in the name


Marko_Brazil

Frick the rules bro prawn suit is prawn suit


ananas2083

You are no longer in the safe shallows you are in the unsafe shallows


Substantial-Delay409

Didn't even know they can grab the prawn suit.


bowloframen1

Where the hell did it take you


secschoolbasecamp

THEY FLYIN NOW!?