# Subnautica: Below Zero Teeny-Tiny Update

- Product: Subnautica: Below Zero (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/subnautica-below-zero)
- Vendor: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
- Date: 2020-12-04
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/848450/view/2914355656270849329
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/subnautica-below-zero/releases/2020-12-04-teeny-tiny-update

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- **changed** — Completed encyclopedia, tooltips, names, descriptions and PDA text
- **changed** — Improved streaming and memory optimizations using Unity Addressables, octree pruning, and related techniques
- **changed** — Optimized art performance through material and mesh complexity reductions, LODs, culling, and VFX optimizations
- **changed** — Improved story presentation and databank organization
- **changed** — Updated final soundtrack with new music manager
- **changed** — Improved Creative Mode
- **added** — Added weather quality option
- **changed** — Updated early game immersive training
- **changed** — Updated Robin and player model
- **fixed** — Fixed collision, materials, loot, and spawn issues

Hello, Subnauts! A new update has just been released for [Subnautica: Below Zero](https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/). Though this is not a major Early Access update (consider it a half-way mark between [Relics of the Past](https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/subnautica-below-zero-relics-of-the-past-update/) and our next major update!), it does contain a ton of bug fixes, optimizations, and polish to the world.

Hopefully, this update will serve as a hold-over through the holiday season and make your Early Access experience that little bit more polished!

Here are all the changes included in this update:

##### Changelog

-  Complete encyclopedia, tooltips, names, descriptions and PDA text.

-  Streaming and memory optimizations (Unity Addressables, octree pruning, etc)

-  Art performance optimizations (material and mesh complexity reductions, LODs, culling, VFX optimizations)

-  Story presentation improvements and databank organization

-  Final soundtrack with updated music manager

-  Improved Creative Mode

-  Added weather quality option

-  Updated early game immersive training

-  Updated Robin / player model

-  Tons of bug-fixes and general polish (collision, materials, loot, spawns, model fixes, anim blending fixes, z-fighting fixes, base ghosts and construction issues, missing effects, etc)

##### Follow Below Zero development

You can find out about upcoming updates in all sorts of ways. Sign up to the [Development Newsletter](https://unknownworlds.com/subnautica/newsletter) to receive word every time an update is released. Follow the [Unknown Worlds](https://store.steampowered.com/developer/unknown-worlds) and [Subnautica: Below Zero Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/games/848450) groups to get a notification on Steam. You can also:

- See update sneak peaks by following [@Subnautica](https://twitter.com/subnautica) on Twitter

- Get live source code changes by following [@SubnauticaSCM](https://twitter.com/subnauticascm) on Twitter

- See update news on (https://facebook.com/subnautica)

- Watch update summary videos on (https://youtube.com/subnautica)

- Satisfy underwater Instagram craving by following [@Subnautica](https://instagram.com/subnautica)

- See our task lists & milestones on (https://favro.com/organization/35200a08dbbad85b26102638/0d9378db42299691bb14c708)

- Chat with fellow divers in the [Subnautica Discord](https://discordapp.com/invite/subnautica) server

Enjoy, and happy diving!

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