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11 The Fabricator is the primary crafting station in Subnautica 2. It is a wall-mounted device that converts raw materials into tools, equipment, consumables, and base components. A corrupted Fabricator is bolted to the wall inside the starting Lifepod from the opening moments of the game. Once the player builds a habitat, a fully functional Fabricator can be crafted with the Habitat Builder for use in seabases.
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33 Role in Subnautica 2
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55 Subnautica 2 follows the franchise's five-stage crafting loop: Explore, Discover, Craft, Build, Survive. Players unlock new recipes by scanning objects with the Scanner and exploring the moon's biomes. Resource gathering uses resource nodes that drop typed materials rather than randomized outcrop chunks. The Fabricator is the central crafting interface from which the player assembles items from those blueprints.
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77 Lifepod Fabricator
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99 The Fabricator built into the starting Lifepod is corrupted at the start of the game. It can synthesize basic recipes from materials gathered in the immediate area but cannot access the full crafting tree. Restoring full functionality requires building a habitat-mounted Fabricator using the Habitat Builder.
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1111 Cooking and Food
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1313 The Fabricator can cook small fish caught around the player's starting biome. Eating uncooked or unmodified local fauna damages player health until the Digestion Adaptation has been acquired from the relevant Angel Comb. Cooked food restores hunger and is the primary food source in the opening hours of the game.
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1515 RecipeInputEffectCooked HalfmoonRaw HalfmoonRestores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption.Cooked HarvestmoonRaw HarvestmoonRestores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption.Cooked BluemoonRaw BluemoonRestores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption.Cooked GeordiRaw GeordiRestores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption.
1616 Specific hunger-restoration values shift with patches; current in-build values can be read off the cooked-food tooltip in the inventory. Cooked food spoils over time and should be eaten or stored before degrading.
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1818 Crafting Flow
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2020 Subnautica 2's craft loop runs through the Fabricator in five steps:
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2222 Gather resource-node materials from the surrounding biome.Scan technology fragments with the Scanner to unlock blueprints.Open the Fabricator at the Lifepod or a habitat module.Select the target recipe; missing materials are flagged so the player can prioritize what to gather next.Confirm the craft; the Fabricator consumes inputs and outputs the finished item into the player's inventory.
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2424 Roadmap Considerations
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2626 The Early Access 1.1 update is planned to ship fabrication improvements (interface and recipe flow), and the 1.2 update adds pinned recipes with color-coded missing-material indicators that surface in the HUD. See Early Access and Development Roadmap for the full roadmap.
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2828 Permanent Corruption Of The Lifepod Unit
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3030 The Lifepod Fabricator cannot be repaired or upgraded. There is no repair prompt anywhere in the game, no upgrade item, and no workaround that restores the Lifepod unit. Unknown Worlds built the corruption as a fixed progression gate, pushing the player out of the crash site and into base building rather than letting the starting Fabricator be patched in place.
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3232 Habitat Builder Unlocks The Replacement
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3434 Crafting the Habitat Builder auto-unlocks the Fabricator blueprint alongside a few other base essentials. Once the player has built and powered a seabase, a fully functional Fabricator can be placed inside it; that interior unit is what gives access to the full crafting tree.