Subnautica 2 Crafting Recipes Reference (Early Access)

Crafting in Subnautica 2 spans hundreds of recipes split across the Fabricator, Processor, Habitat Builder, and Vehicle Fabricator. Knowing exact ingredient costs before you dive saves trips back to base and prevents wasted oxygen on the wrong resource node.

Basic materials

These intermediate components feed almost every other recipe. Fiber Mesh, Rubber, and Glass are the bottlenecks for most early progression.

Tools

Tools gate progression more than any other category. The Survival Multitool is the prerequisite for harvesting plant-based resources, and the Sonic Resonator is required to crack large mineral nodes, including Troilite.

Equipment and oxygen tanks

Air tanks chain into each other, so don't recycle older versions until the upgrade is built. The Ultra High Capacity Air Tank consumes a complete High Capacity Air Tank plus deep-zone minerals.

Electronics

Wiring Kits and System Chips appear in nearly every advanced recipe. Stockpile Copper and Quartz aggressively before attempting the Tadpole Dock or any Habitat Systems builds.

Processor recipes (ingots and refinement)

The Processor handles smelting and chemistry. Build it inside a habitat using 2x Titanium, 1x Mild Acid, and 1x Copper Wire. Germanium has two alternate recipes, one from Silver and one from Lead.

Food and water

Prepared meals restore more hunger than cooked variants and stay edible longer. Sugar of Saturn is a common sub-ingredient for desserts and condiments, so keep Lead and Salt stocked.

Cooked single-ingredient fish (Halfmoon, Harvestmoon, Bluemoon, Quadrate, Geordie, Electric Geordie, Hoverthorn, Black Hoverthorn, Pneuma) each use 1x of the matching raw creature.

Consumables

Base pieces and habitat structure

The Habitat Builder handles all structural builds. Foundations like Corridors and Rooms run purely on Titanium, while glass-heavy pieces such as the Half Round Room and Moonpool require dedicated Quartz farming runs.

Production and habitat systems

Power generation and storage

Thermal Plants demand Gold and only work near hot vents, while Hydroelectric Turbines need fast-moving water. Solar Panels are the cheapest early option, but only function near the surface.

Vehicle fabrication and docking

Storage and lighting

Utility deployables

Cultivation and plantables

The Metal Farm is the only way to passively generate metal resources and requires reaching the northeast alien zone to collect an Axum Bacterial Culture.

Furniture and decoration

Almost every chair, table, poster, and decorative jar uses small amounts of Titanium or Copper. Posters universally cost 1x Titanium each, including the Keep Calm, Just Keep Swimming, Safety First, Scout Ray, Zezura, New Life, Painted Tree, Pioneer Program, CHBC Live, and Lost River variants.

If a recipe doesn't appear in your Fabricator menu, the blueprint hasn't been unlocked yet. Equip the Scanner and search wrecked colony habitats, sunken equipment, and lit underwater structures, then return to the matching crafting station once the recipe registers.