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Fabricator
May 23, 2026 at 02:34 PM
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Recipe | Input | Effect |
|---|---|---|
Cooked Halfmoon | Raw Halfmoon | Restores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption. |
Cooked Harvestmoon | Raw Harvestmoon | Restores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption. |
Cooked Bluemoon | Raw Bluemoon | Restores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption. |
Cooked Geordi | Raw Geordi | Restores hunger when consumed. Digestion Adaptation prevents the health damage from raw consumption. |
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.
Subnautica 2's craft loop runs through the Fabricator in five steps:
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.
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.
