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Subnautica's Effective Builder wants your lockers to stop fighting you

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Image credit: A tightly aligned row of wall lockers inside a Subnautica base shown in the creator gallery. RunaY0 / Nexus Mods

Building an underwater home in Subnautica should be a relaxing little exercise in aquatic interior design. Until you spend ten minutes trying to line up a row of lockers and realize you're apparently incapable of placing two rectangles beside each other.

Six rectangular growbeds are arranged tightly in two rows on an underwater platform.
Six exterior growbeds form a tightly aligned grid in Effective Builder’s creator gallery.Image credit: RunaY0 / Nexus Mods

Effective Builder, from RunaY0, is an early attempt to make that process a little less aggravating. The mod introduces adjacent-object snapping, helping placed items sit neatly beside one another instead of requiring endless little positioning adjustments. The creator's screenshots show tightly arranged wall lockers and outdoor grow beds, which is exactly where this kind of feature could come in handy. You can toggle the behavior using the mouse scroll control, but this is explicitly a prototype, not a promise that every buildable object will suddenly cooperate. Even so, anybody who's ever stared at a slightly crooked row of storage lockers knows why something like this is worth keeping an eye on.

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