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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Beacons and signals: mark a location and find your way back
Two published Beacon scan stops, construction recipes and PDA signal controls, with current HUD and multiplayer fixes.
Tools
Craft the Scanner and keep it charged
Exact first-tool ingredients and the battery conversion.
Find three Wakemaker fragments and swim faster
Three shallow scan stops and the full-Fabricator recipe.
Mine large deposits with the Sonic Resonator
Solve the “unknown tool” gate and clear Bloom Biofilm.
Unlock the Repair Tool with two scans
Current scan count, fragment choices and repair ingredients.
Resources
Early resource routes from the Lifepod
Landmarks for Copper, Silver, Lead, Salt, Sulfur, Acidic Raion, Rubber and Fibrous Pulp.
Build a Metal Farm and keep Troilite renewable
Unlock the three scans, connect power and preserve the mineral needed to start production.
Celestine, Atacamite and Troilite: routes from the Alien Ruins
Three separate trips for depth progression and the turbine’s processing chain.
Collect Lithium for oxygen gear and Plasteel
Mine large deposits, prepare for the Great Jaw or hot caves, and keep a raw sample for a Metal Farm.
Collect Silver for your first tank, tools and electronics
Choose a cave approach, collect loose Silver before the mining tool, and budget raw ore for Wiring Kits and later production.
Collect Copper for batteries, wiring and your first base
Find early Copper near the Lifepod, recognise large veins and count the Copper inside your crafting components.
Collect Lead for your first Sonic Resonator
Find loose Lead in the northeast ravine, gather the two pieces for your mining tool and return for large veins later.
Collect Salt for Power Cells, food and water
Find loose Salt near Chap’s cave, recognise later dead-coral deposits and reserve supplies for the recipe you need.
Collect Sulfur for your first Repair Tool
Find loose Sulfur beyond the Welcome Center, recognise larger deposits and check the Repair Tool recipe disagreement.
Collect Gold in the eastern hot region
Prepare Heat Tolerance, recognise Gold near the crashed colony ship and choose how to collect each deposit.
Collect Creature Enamel and craft Enameled Glass
Find white-spiked deposits near the Alien Ruins, mine them with the Sonic Resonator and make glass for your next upgrade.
Survival
Oxygen upgrades: tanks, Air Bladders and the Rebreather
Tank recipes, a Rebreather fragment route, crafting requirements and disputed ingredient totals.
Creature survival: escape tools and Leviathan encounters
What to do when spotted, which old tricks changed, and when to abandon a scan.
Food and Digestion: Anita’s route, cooking and growbeds
Fix Digestive Incompatibility, make early meals, and turn gathered ingredients into expedition food.
Drinking water: Water Slugs, Processor recipes and thirst
Make water near the Lifepod, compare later options, and recover from dehydration.
Healing: First Aid Kits, Fiber and Medical Gel routes
Craft an early 50-HP kit, harvest Medical Gel safely, and prepare for injury or a co-op revive.
Portable Oxygen Generator: unlock, build and use it
Two Great Jaw scans, the Habitat Builder recipe and battery-powered oxygen refills, with published output values and clear limits.
Building
Unlock Habitat Builder and make a powered base
The two Welcome Center scans and the first construction priorities.
Storage: locker recipes, portable hauling and Tracking Tags
Choose base storage, carry gathered materials home, and keep track of a dropped locker.
Fabricator and Processor: unlock stations and make your first ingots
Fix the fully functional Fabricator message, scan a Processor and turn gathered materials into Titanium Ingots and Strong Acid.
Scanner Station: unlock it and mark nearby resources
Two published scan locations, construction ingredients and your first resource marker, with power and scan troubleshooting.
Vehicles
Build your first Tadpole and keep it running
Fragment options, dock clearance and the vehicle recipe.
Tadpole upgrades: depth, recipes and a useful four-slot loadout
Find the Mk. 1 depth upgrade, install modules and avoid the unconfirmed Mk. 2 search.
Scout Ray or Haul: chassis scans, recipes and docking
Choose speed or cargo, and build the chassis at the correct station.
Progression
Spoiler guide
Clear Angel Combs for Heat Tolerance and Axum Vision
Two progression gates, their tools and the order of operations.
Spoiler guide
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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Repair the Power Plant and open the Observatory
Follow the Axum progression chain, restore the turbine and solve the control-room sequence.
Inventory upgrades: Biobed terminals, Endurance and hotbar slots
Claim permanent carrying-space upgrades and avoid confusing them with tool slots.
Multiplayer
Co-op: host handoff, save codes, revives and item sharing
Separate a shared save from a session invitation, check branch compatibility, and use Buddy System co-op features.
Updates
Current patch, changed guides and Early Access limits
Early Access 1.2 and October 6 Buddy System Hotfix 2, with older fixes and planned content kept separate.
Crashes on startup after an update: check community mods
A cautious, source-led check for Subnautica 2 failing to start after a patch when community mods were installed.
Tool
Starter-kit calculator: what do you still need?
Combine Scanner, Air Tank and Air Bladder recipes into one gathering list.
Power
Recharge batteries and Power Cells without rebuilding your tools
Two charger types, Old Habitat scans, recipes and a departure check.
Base power: generators, transmitter connections and outages
Build reliable power, diagnose a broken link and estimate reserve time from your HUD.
Entangled Power Cell: the deeper scan and crafting recipe
A later vehicle-power option, with the reported 305 m scan landmark.
Biomods
Biolabs: unlock Biomods and more passive slots
Start at the Welcome Center, then check regional labs and Bioscan progress.
Biomod loadouts and scan requirements
Choose for the next trip, then check the species needed for your unlock.
Equipment
Spoiler guide
Bioscanner: Iso wreck route and upgrade recipe
Find the fragment, scan a Modification Station and begin Biomod research.