Subnautica Below Zerowas fully released on July 28, 2025, after a successful period in early access. Following the positive reception of the originalSubnautica,the sequel reintroduces many of the same core gameplay elements and mechanics. Both begin with a crash on 4546B and require players to fight to stay alive inpredator-infested waters. Both games also let players craft vehicles to allow them to delve deeper or branch further.
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Unsurprisingly, creating vehicles on an alien planet is easier said than done. Like anygreat open-world game,Subnautica Below Zeroprovides minimal hand-holding and guidance, letting players explore the enormous 4546B ocean in any way and any direction that they choose. Though this offers agreat sense of freedom, it can also make it tricky to understand how to progress. For anyone having trouble crafting vehicles or implementing their upgrades, here is a guide to making every vehicle in the game.
Updated on July 15, 2025, by Jack Pursey:Subnautica Below Zero’s enormous ocean can make it very difficult to track down certain resources, especially when players aren’t sure where to look. So although it’s all well and good knowing how to build the Subnautica Below Zero vehicles, tracking down the required materials can be a frustrating challenge. Thankfully, the game’s world is separated into distinct areas that contain their own sets of common resources. The areas can be distinguished by their visual designs, which is handy as there is no map feature in the game. For those who would rather have a map to refer to,there are a few onlinethat can offer a helping hand, making the areas mentioned below easier to find. To offer players a helping hand with finding some of the most frequently required resources for the Subnautica Below Zero vehicles, we’ve added a table that details the least dangerous areas to find them.
Where To Find The Most Common Resources
As mentioned above, here is a table detailing three of the least dangerous locations to look for some of this list’s most common resources:
Copper Ore (used for Copper Wire and Batteries)
Creepvine Seed Cluster (used for Lubricant and Silicone Rubber)
Arctic Kelp Forest
Seaglide
The Seaglide isthe first vehicle that most players will craft. Though it doesn’t provide the player with any extra protection, it greatly increases their speed, making hunting for early-game resources far easier. Moreover, it allows players to delve deeper in the ocean, as the increased speed means that the player can shoot back up to the surface if their oxygen is nearing depletion.
The Seaglide is also very helpful as the player equips it like an item, rather than it being something that they must find and manually take with them. This is one of the greatest benefits of the Seaglide, as it means players can whip it out in a hurry when they see one of the game’s predators approaching, helping them make a speedy escape.
Resources & Items Needed To Craft The Seaglide:
Seatruck
The Seatruck is a new vehicle introduced inSubnautica Below Zero.The vehicle is initially very similar to the Seamoth, but it differentiates itself by letting players add extra attachments, essentially making it a hybrid of the Seamoth and the Cyclops from the original game. This makes the Seatruck an excellent vehicle to prominently use in the mid-game. Players can quickly zip between biomes while also having a portable base to craft essential items.
Much like the Seamoth, the Seatruck has a specific crush depth. This is very important to know, as descending further than the crush depth will, as the name suggests, start to crush the vehicle. The Seatruck starts with a crush depth of 150m, but as detailed below, this can be increased to a whopping 1000m.
Upgrades And The Items Needed To Craft Them:
Afterburner- Gives the Seatruck a temporary speed boost functionality.
Depth Upgrade MK1- Increases the Seatruck’s maximum crush depth to 3oom.
Depth Upgrade MK2 -Increases the Seatruck’s maximum crush depth to 650m.
Depth Upgrade MK3 -Increases the Seatruck’s maximum crush depth to 1000m.
Horsepower Upgrade -Increases the Seatruck’s speed when two or more modules are attached.
Perimeter Defense Upgrade -Shields the Seatruck with an electrical field to deter predators.
Prawn Suit
The Prawn Suit (Pressure Re-Active Waterproof Nano Suit) is a returning vehicle from the original game. It’s able to walk on the ocean floor with its large, human-like legs, offering a different perspective on underwater travel in the game.
Much like the Seatruck, the Prawn Suit comes with its fair share of upgrades and additional modules. Unlike the Seatruck though, the upgrades require fragments to be scanned, while the modules don’t.
The Prawn Suit isn’t as helpful as it was in the originalSubnautica, but it’s still well worth building for two reasons. Firstly, it makes the player very tough to kill, thanks to its ability to take a ton of punishment and be quickly repaired if needed. Secondly, the player can use the Prawn Suit to kill underwater creatures, either by using its robotic arms to punch or by utilizing one of the upgrades listed below. Killing enemies inSubnautica Below Zerois well worth the effort, as they don’t respawn.
Storage Module
Snowfox
One of the most significant new features inSubnautica Below Zerois the arctic biomes. The biomes let players take a break from exploring the ocean’s depth, though they come with their own set of problems. Thankfully, players don’t have to explore the large biomes on their own, as they can dash through the snow on a new vehicle, the Snowfox.
The Snowfox isn’t as complex as the Seatruck or Prawn Suit and doesn’t have anywhere near the same amount of perks and upgrades. Still, the Snowfox is worth the effort to build, as zipping through the artic biomes will save a ton of time, and also reduce the player’s chance of hypothermia.
