Welcome to barotrauma the game you literally sit in a submarine and wait for your captain to do something. Or just bully them into banning you! But this part is a guide so let me do a bit of goofery!!!

1) Choosing a submarine

For your starter submarine you do not want the barsuk. Get the dugong as it is a much better ship (the humpback is ♥♥♥♥).

2) Actually playing the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game

First off for the missions you want to do a LOT of cargo hauling and maybe fauna extermination ones once you get the 3rd turret.

Do not go into the abyss or way too deep because if you go down there with no upgrades you will die to pressure like the Oceangate submarine.

While cargo hauling across the Cold Caverns or ice caverns whatever you want to call it you must attain MARKS which can be spent buying ♥♥♥♥ (typically useless ♥♥♥♥) but here's what you want to buy from basically most outposts:

1) Medical supplies (Typically being Opium or morphine with some bandages to heal most wounds)
2) Reactor Rods if you don't have at least 10
3) Ammunition (If there is piercing or explosive you should buy it)
4) Crafting materials
5) WELDING FUEL.

Now that we've gotten that ♥♥♥♥ out of the way we gotta talk about CRAFTING. (A fabricator is required for this ♥♥♥♥)

Crafting is not complicated as you just need some simple materials to make a literal railgun that uses reactor rods to destroy enemies to clown diving mask. But how do you craft these? Well uhh you get an engineer to do all of it for you as you do not have any skill and will literally make the item you want in 15 hours and 9 seconds!

Now you may be asking "What the hell do I need to craft?" well uhh you can craft basically anything and everything in the game (with the exceptions of a ton of items most of which being clothes) and goof around with them.

Crafting is fairly simple so just refer to the list I put of what you should buy from an outpost and utilize it + guns.

Wrecks should always be looted for materials.


How to thievery - The part where you steal from the outpost.

In many multiplayer lobbies stealing will be banned but don't be afraid to break this rule as long as you're not caught. The main things you want to steal are suits (better then diving ones), medical supplies, clothes (put these in storage containers), toolbelts, welding fuel, etc. However make sure all of the NPCs are outside the room you want to steal from and close the door to not allow them to see you steal.

You can drag them out by pressing "H"


But what class shall you pick? Well most of the time you'd need an engineer or a mechanic however the true ultimate class is the engineer. Unless the server has a mod that removes pressure from clowns but you don't know that yet.

Why engineer? Well you can literally build a radioactive reactor in your backyard that shoots beams of death out of nowhere by holding mouse 1 or simply just building a better suit and uhh thats all.
(Also will give you skill buffs)

"BTU WH Y INTOT CAPTIAN" well uhh ur tiny pea brain as captain is only useful for driving and giving orders.

"OKAYT BUT WHYN OT MEDIC OR MECHAKING" well uhh both suck more then the engineer

"OK TGHAT WABOTU ASSISTANT???" well uhh assistant can actually be OP. Now hear me out if you have a mod that removes pressure from clowns (basically reverting an update back in time and givin g clowns what they need they are the most tanky pieces of clown. Clowns are the best aside from engineers.

Security just makes guns.



Possible obtainable achievements in the cold caverns:

Win a round as [CLASS HERE]

Gaze into the abyss - Death sentence - Take a submarine to crush pressure and survive

A light in the darkness - Easy - Fix a beacon

Good as new - very easy - Fix anything

Don't you die on me - Easy - Heal somebody using CPR (Drown somebody and do cpr on them)

Extravehicular activity - Easy - Get lost from the submarine while being 500m away

Experienced seafarer - Easy - Just drive

Complete a certain mission achievements - Easy - Just do it as it isn't hard.

Getting clean - Easy - Eat way too much morphine then get some naloxene and you get it

Kill a creature - Easy - Just kill the creature.

I am become death - Medium - Get a nuclear railgun shell and shoot it at a huge creature while it's low for maximum goofiness

The funny cure thing - Easy - Give somebody husk and cure it

time to speedrun!!!


Upgrade your submarine to tier 2 and now lets get into upgrades (I should've explained this in hell V1.1)

Upgrades

Upgrades are essential to actually live in barotrauma because well you can make EVERYTHING overpowered including but not limited to SUBMARINE and more SUBMARINES. You can buy upgrades at the guy who has 2 arrows behind a green background.

Make the following a priority

1) Hull upgrades
2) Reactor upgrades
3) Mechanical upgrades/electronics

Okay that's basically a- *INSERT CHARYBDIS SCREAMING*

Well now you can actually go into the abyss and fight the demons that lurk in there. those being abyssal monsters who can one shot you and are way larger then your submarine.

If you want to kill them utilize nuclear bombs as they are WEAK and make sure their weakpoints are open. Well that's about it you can now do pirate missions and uhh yeah that's all ok bye and wait for V3.3

Possible achievements:

Where no man has gone before - Easy - Just progress.

This is fine - Medium - REACTOR GO KABOOM!

Nuclear blast survivor - Medium - Survive the thing above

Abyss murder achievements - Medium - just kill em

Smooth sailing - Easy - JUST SURVIVE

Defeat a ... submarine - Medium - They have the same submarine as you do just better and more people. (MOSTLY IT'LL BE RANDOM BUT STILL WILL BE JUST BETTER)

No fun allowed - Security's dream - Kill a clown (they must be in a clown suit and be an assistant)

Outpost "Liberation" missions - Medium - They're still pretty strong.

Hire a person achievements - Easy - Just fetch their asses and you get it.

Faction achievements (ascend, etc) - Security hates you - Do the faction respective missions and you'll do it.

Xenocide - Security's dream - Murder animals.