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11 The Houndgar is a small, aggressive squid-like creature in Subnautica 2, most often seen swimming in groups alongside the far larger Marrowbreach. The pairing is the point: community documentation and the in-game databank describe the two species as hunting partners, and a sudden flash from a Houndgar squad is usually the cue that a Marrowbreach strike is coming.
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33 Appearance
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55 The Houndgar has a dark blue body marked with bright blue bands. Its head carries a single pair of dark eyes and a crown of arm-like tentacles that can flare open to produce a blinding flash. A pair of larger fins sits behind the head, with three pairs of small finlets along the tail. The PDA databank tentatively classifies it as Teuthis courser, the hunting dog squid.
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78 Behavior and the Marrowbreach Partnership
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910 Houndgars swim in squads around a Marrowbreach. When the group notices prey, the Houndgars flush it from hiding and dazzle it with a bright display, marking the target for the Marrowbreach's poor eyesight, then take scraps from the resulting kill. The databank describes the arrangement as a running negotiation: squads that find good prey keep their Marrowbreach fed, and a Marrowbreach that shares its kills keeps its squad. The same membranes between the Houndgar's arms double as a camouflage surface, with millions of chromatophores painting motion patterns that hide its approach.
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1112 For divers the practical lesson is simple: treat a Houndgar light show as an attack warning. The databank flags the display as a sign of an imminent Marrowbreach ambush, and the safest response is to break line of sight and move before the larger partner commits.
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1314 Habitat
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1516 Community documentation centers Houndgar sightings on the Graveyard, the same deep pocket of the Coral Gardens region that holds the densest Marrowbreach population.
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1718 Scanning and the Chum Cloud Biomod
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1920 Houndgar DNA feeds one of the game's distraction tools. Bio-sampling a Houndgar, together with a toxic sponge, unlocks the Chum Cloud biomod, which releases a cloud of bait that pulls nearby predators away for a few seconds, a shorter-lived alternative to a thrown Distraction Flare.