Subnautica 2

Find the next useful step.

Practical guides grouped by the job you came here to do.

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01 / Start here

Your first hour: tools, oxygen and a useful return trip

A route through the first equipment gates, with short gathering trips.

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Tools

01 / Tools

Craft the Scanner and keep it charged

Exact first-tool ingredients and the battery conversion.

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Find three Wakemaker fragments and swim faster

Three shallow scan stops and the full-Fabricator recipe.

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Mine large deposits with the Sonic Resonator

Solve the “unknown tool” gate and clear Bloom Biofilm.

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Unlock the Repair Tool with two scans

Current scan count, fragment choices and repair ingredients.

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Resources

01 / Resources

Early resource routes from the Lifepod

Landmarks for Silver, Acidic Raion, Rubber and Fibrous Pulp.

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Survival

01 / Survival

Extend your dives with tanks and Air Bladders

Starter oxygen recipes and the next upgrade gate.

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Building

01 / Building

Unlock Habitat Builder and make a powered base

The two Welcome Center scans and the first construction priorities.

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Vehicles

01 / Vehicles

Build your first Tadpole and keep it running

Fragment options, dock clearance and the vehicle recipe.

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Progression

01 / Progression

Clear Angel Combs for Heat Tolerance and Axum Vision

Two progression gates, their tools and the order of operations.

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Find Zip’s black box and open the Tadpole Pens

Follow the hot-cave route without taking the Tadpole past its rating.

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Multiplayer

01 / Multiplayer

Co-op, revives and inventory sharing

Use Buddy System features and diagnose the common mismatches.

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Updates

01 / Updates

Current patch, changed guides and Early Access limits

Buddy System Hotfix 1 is the published baseline.

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Tool

01 / Tool

Starter-kit calculator: what do you still need?

Combine Scanner, Air Tank and Air Bladder recipes into one gathering list.

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