Celeb Glow
general | April 26, 2026

Can I control the lights in my Subnautica base?

I'm a big fan of A E S T H E T I C in the survival crafting games that I play, and I like spending time making things look nice. One of the bigger annoyances for me is how BRIGHT my base is, with every room being lit up like the sun at all times.

Aside from my base losing its power source, which comes with other rough tradeoffs like a lack of oxygen, is there any way to control the light sources in my base?

1 Answer

Not in the vanilla game (other than losing power.) But you can install the light switch mod and use e.g. the lamp from the decorations mod to provide "mood lighting", or "outdoor" lights shining through windows - or bioluminescent flora in the ACU.

And of course you can customize Cyclops into a base. It has an interior light switch.

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