Subnautica 2 Creatures

Shallow reefs

Bioluminescent grazer used as a portable light source.

Open shallow water

Common edible fish with a four-lens eye cluster.

Shallow coral plains

Common shallow-water grazer scanned for early biology data.

Open water

Common edible fish with a crescent body profile.

Coral domes

Small periscope-eyed crab observed harmlessly from above.

Mid-depth open water

Inflatable filter feeder used as a soft current marker.

Plateaus

Edible four-finned fish common across plateau biomes.

Reefs and ledges

Drifting reef grazer scanned for biology XP.

Shallow caves and tunnels

Soft cave dweller scanned for biology XP and harvested for organic mass.

Open water

Edible fish common across the upper open layer.

Bloom-infested zones

A short-finned cephalopod warped by a Bloom-borne RNA virus.

Mid-depth open water

Slow-moving filter feeder that signals danger upstream.

Coral domes

Reclusive armoured crab that ambushes from coral cover.

Coral Gardens shallows

Geordie variant that delivers short electrical pulses on contact.

Mid-depth Coral Gardens

Picky mid-tier predator that focuses on a single prey type at a time.

Deep open water

Filter-feeding tube colony that hides smaller prey inside its body.

Plateaus and open water

Floating sessile-mobile hybrid that releases an irritant cloud when grazed.

Open mid-water

Mid-size jelly-like organism whose tendrils sting on contact.

Open water

Ring-shaped jelly that pulses outward as a defensive ring of sting cells.

Open water

Jet-propelled hunter that ambushes from below at high speed.

Open water

Adult Snorkleback drifts the open layer; defensive when crowded.

Open water and currents

Pulsing jelly whose surge accelerates a swimmer in its drift direction.

Open water and ledges

Paired ray species that hunts in coordinated pairs.

Alien ruins

Stationary alien sensor drone that calls in Defenders on contact.

Open shallow water

Swarm predator that rams in tight, fast formations.

Open shallow water and coral plains

Armoured herd herbivore with a heavy-ramming threat response.

Mid-depth ruins

Pack hunter with strong scent tracking around alien ruins.

Wreck interiors

Interior-pressure wreck dweller that bites through hull integrity.

Reefs and shallow caves

Spined predator that fires barbs at short to medium range.

Reefs and shallow caves

Smaller cousin of the Needler that swarms instead of sniping.

Open sand flats

Burrowing ambush predator that strikes from below the sand.

Bloom-infested zones

Sessile colony that releases roaming infectious drones.

Deep open water

Younger Shiver still dangerous, but encountered higher in the column.

Reefs and ledges

Long-tongued reef ambusher that snatches prey from short range.

Alien ruins

Mechanical guardian patrolling alien ruin perimeters.

Deep wreck arenas

Solitary tyrant cephalopod that hoards hard-shelled prey.

Deep void around 5,000 metres

Pack-hunting void leviathan operating in pressure zones survival has no answer for.