Subnautica's Forgotten 3rd Island

What do you think?

[UserName-zhco]

Perhaps it's just the ground torn upward from the impact, like when you drag your finger through sand and it makes a raised trench. As for the non-existent island in the trailer, it looks much further out than either the mountain of floater islands, maybe another volcano?

[phcgamer]

I challenge you to put a base here in your survival world.

[williammacpherson]

We need to ask the bigger questions...
Why does the aurora look like a peeper?

[adollene]

that island could have been the thing that kept the aroura from falling into the void!

[idfkhowtodraw]

3:25 this is just a theory after all

A GAME THEORY

[scalarknight]

I think this might've been an island, because in one of the logs you discover, the captain says he's going to try to make a "controlled descent" and it would make sense to try to land on an island, because landing on an alien island is probably preferable to landing in an alien ocean, given that humans are much better runners than swimmers. Basically, I think that the captain knew that the oceans would be full of dangerous fish, but spotted an island and decided to try his luck on landing safely on a place his crew could navigate relatively well on.

[lisahenry]

It's a really interesting theory, and it's something I never really considered. I always thought that the bits of land were just parts of the seabed that were pushed out of the water from the impact, since the water at the crash zone, especially by the middle of the aurora, seems to be pretty shallow. It has been a while since I've fully explored the first game, so I may get some details wrong.

Against the side of the aurora that faces the player's lifepod, there's a pile of sand near the back that sticks out of the water, and I'm pretty sure on that side of the aurora it's just sand, both above and below the water. Because the island on the other side is rock, it makes me think that, if there was an island, then it was a very small one, not much bigger than what we can explore now, and the aurora just hit the side of it (then the sand is from the seabed)

As for the reapers, I'm not sure I agree with the idea that they stay around islands, as the 3 areas I remember them in is the crash zone, the mountain island, and the dunes. Their presence on those places can be explained by how the reapers move towards sound (the sound from the crash, the sound from the gun, and the sound of the large wreck landing) but that raises some questions like where did the reapers stay before the crash? Just near the mountain island? If so, then it can make sense why some would travel to the crash zone because of the noise (and possibly because they realised there was a lot of food there) and it's close enough to be realistic. However, from what I remember, th dunes are pretty far from the aurora and mountain island, so it doesn't seem reasonable that the reapers heard the impact from the wreck and travelled all that way. The island theory wouldn't work here either because there isn't an island in the dunes. (is the dunes where that meteor hit? Because if so, the sound from that could suggest the reapers were there long before the crash. I'm pretty sure we also don't know where the degasi landed, so that could have caused the reapers to move too).

The only thing I can't find an explanation for is the cave crawlers on the aurora, as the rocky land next to the aurora doesn't seem to be large enough for the number that's on the aurora, but I'm also not convinced yet that a larger island existed in the crash zone. I may have to play the game again and investigate around the aurora more (on creative, definitely not survival lol).

Sorry if this doesn't make much sense to read, I'm trying to get my thoughts out as they come and I'm not good at thinking about stuff like this while also trying to write so others can understand it.

While writing this, it did make me have to think about how the aurora landed, which made me realise that I actually have no idea how all the wrecks actually ended up where they are. For example, the dunes wreck. The dunes are pretty far from the aurora (at least how I remember it) and so that wreck must have fallen from the aurora from quite high above the planet in order for it to have landed there. Also, where did the wrecks come from? Before the explosion, the exterior of the aurora seems pretty intact, so where abouts on the aurora did the wrecks come from? Also one of the lifepod messages (I think ozzys) mentions they were hit by the seamoth bay, but when we go on the aurora, the seamoth bay is still in the aurora, and I don't remember there being a part of the seamoth bay that seems to be missing.

Back to the 3rd island idea, I do really like it, but I just don't think there's quite enough evidence to support it yet, at least not in any way other than a very small bit of land which only loosely fits the definition of island. Hopefully my ramblings aren't too difficult to understand, I may try rewriting them once I've slept and probably thought about it and done some research instead of relying on my poor memory. Speaking of sleep, right now it's about an hour until midnight where I am so happy new year and hope your 2021 goes well.

[Lunarcreeper]

My theory why reapers live near the aurora:

They heard the crash and came there looking for food and just decided to stay there

[SpeedyMouse]

that's actually super cool i didn't know about that.

[tddornPlays]

For the trailer you also need to remember that the Aroura didn't just hit the planet and stop, it skidded along the bottom for awhile. You can see this on the map where the crag field is. So the island could have just been off screen turning the trailer.

[bumper]

One thing that bothers me though is that It isn't just sand, it's also rock which would make it seem to be a part of an island that was there before but in the trailer there is no island.
It couldn't has been ejected because it isn't made out of broken down materials its made out of solid rock and I don't think that solid rock can be warped and ejected like that.

[snakebae]

there used to be another island in the earlier builds on the left side of the aurora. there were strange sand structures on it. anyone remember that?

[noahwillis]

As a subnautica veteran who knows literally everything about it this is a really good theory

[Dhalin]

I think it's even more interesting that while you're walking around on this island, your feet make the thunk thunk thunk noises as if you were walking on metal in some places (like 3:29).

[cheekykieran_]

This popped in my recommend, well done. Also thanks for the theory, it makes alot of sense

[dehydratedwater]

This island wasn’t there before it crashed because it’s ground that has been pushed up by the crash. It’s a neat touch that they put it into the game.

[Iceyyyyylol]

the levathins or however u spell it are attracted to loud sounds they hang out near the gun since it is quite loud when about to fire and when they fire they were attracted to the aroura when it crashed

[JJGamer]

Well, there is the fact that this might have been the volcano, and it was almost completely destroyed by the Aurora. I can back this up by the fact that if i remember correctly, back in the old days of Subnautica there was a hole under the Aurora that connected to the unfinished lava zone.
Edit: Also there is the fact that the Aurora is constantly shaking in the inside and the outside, now you could say oh its from the ship its self, but it never stops. So that would back up the theory of the fact it landed on a inactive volcano, that might be starting to be active because of the Aurora exploding

[imgoldenright]

Good theory on that...but can we just point out that he was attempting to ride the bird

[CesarDSalad]

The reapers heard the noise from the crash and came to the aurora (the cyclops even had a silence feature to get reapers away) and the crabs are there because they eat the humans even said by the scanner saying that human tissue was located there from survivors or people entering (anyone dead would of dissolved)