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Surge Jelly
August 6, 2026 at 02:59 PM
Created page with appearance, behavior, habitat, and uses sections (2026-08-06)
The Surge Jelly is a drifting jelly in Subnautica 2 that defends itself with electricity. It is not aggressive and never chases a diver, but it discharges a shock through the water around it when approached, in a radius roughly twice its own size. Scanning it contributes to unlocking the Homing Sense biomod.
Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
Class | Jellies |
Disposition | Defensive; shocks at close range |
Reported habitat | The Dolerite Spires, the Power Plant area of Karakorum, and open water in the Shallows |
Biomod link | Homing Sense, unlocked together with the Hammerhead scan |
The Surge Jelly is light blue with bright pink dots ringing its bell and a distinctive arrow-shaped stinger below, patterned in yellow and purple. It drifts through open water rather than anchoring.
The entry, generated under the name Staurobrachia capacitor, is emphatic that this is a single animal rather than a colony, with tissues far more specialized than any Earth jelly. Two rigid fins contain wire-like electrocytes that build voltage measured at 400 to 1000 volts at one ampere, enough to kill a human. Traces of radioactivity and high-temperature waxes in its tissues point to deep-ocean, hydrothermal origins, and nearby jellies appear to communicate through their electric fields. The assessment is blunt: minor danger in close contact, fascinating research prospect from a distance.
Scan from maximum range; the shock only covers the water immediately around the bell.
Scanning both the Surge Jelly and the Hammerhead unlocks Homing Sense, which points a diver toward powered seabases without needing a beacon.
