About Alpha Vanilla Subs
From Steam WorkshopAll the vanilla submarines but with multiple quality of life changes, additions and mild structural changes; adding a bit of workshop spice to the vanilla experience while staying balanced. This mod…
All the vanilla submarines but with multiple quality of life changes, additions and mild structural changes; adding a bit of workshop spice to the vanilla experience while staying balanced.
This mod makes the following changes and includes the following workshop mods:
- Smartdoor for automatic doors that close and require a button press in the event of a hull breach.

- A modified version of Smart Hatches, including a discreet set-and-forget switch to toggle between automatic or manual door operation on a per hatch basis. Set the light to green for automatic hatches, or red for vanilla-like manual hatches. Both will close and require a click in the event of fire or hull breaches.

- A modified Ultra Optimized Perfect Airlock that was hand placed for each individual sub and uses two pumps alongside duct blocks for quick pressurization to and from the subs.

- The UFO Support Drone attached to every sub. This is a balanced and fun drone that doesn't have any weapons, but can give the captain something to do while the away team works and it's great at scouting caves. Gets destroyed pretty easily, but can be repaired with a welding tool.

- The Wi-Fi monitor assemblies from Wifi Camera. They are best used alongside the wifi cameras mod so that you can watch your away team through camera helmets, but the monitors easily work with any wifi device for CCTV purposes.

- Color coded reactor fuel percentages added to the reactor's "screen" for every submarine.

- Metrics to the captain's terminal and other monitors on larger ships, also color coded at certain percentages/depths.

- A modified FDF-Chopper Shuttle that can be driven manually or with wi-fi, currently attached only to the Kastrull.
- Gun positions remained the same, but gun periscope positions were moved for better quality of life and labeling of where each turret is located.
- Better lighting in general and most subs without fabricators/deconstructors/medfabs had them added and linked to the appropriate storage.
- Subs that did not have a top/bottom airlock were given one when it was feasible, all subs with bottom airlocks were given docking hatches attached to the main sonar for docking to beacon stations, etc.
- Because of the extra additions, the price of each Alpha sub has been increased by 3000mks from its vanilla counterpart.
Thanks for checking out the mod, and have fun! Please do let me know if you run into any issues or errors. If you enjoyed the workshop mod additions to the submarines please also follow the links and give those mod creators some love!
Upcoming Features:
- A cosmetic pass on every sub to spice things up a bit using Decotrauma's awesome item assemblies. 
Check out my other mods!
Omega Vanilla Subs - If you're looking for a more vanilla experience without all the structural changes or extras, but keeping some quality of life.
Bigger Deconstructor - Increases the Deconstructor input from 3 to 8 slots, so you can break down more of that junk laying around in one trip.
Station From Beyond Auto - If you use Stations From Beyond but want to have automatic doors at all of the great outposts they made.
Stations From Beyond Dynamic Europa Auto - If you want to use Stations From Beyond alongside Dynamic Europa and have automatic doors for all the outposts from both mods.
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 3 yr ago.
Alpha Vanilla Subs on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Not available. One-click install isn't available for this game's mods yet. Download it and upload it to your server in Files.
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Barotrauma — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 2024-02-07, released 2024-02-07
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of Alpha Vanilla Subs.
Run Alpha Vanilla Subs on a Barotrauma server
Deploy a server above, then upload the file in Files.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Compatibility
- Game
- Barotrauma
Verified at the source
- ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-10Open ↗
- ✓AuthorEtto, as published on Steam Workshop
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
