Subnautica 2 Materials — Full List
Raw resources and crafted components used in recipes.
50 total
| Name | Biomes | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Acidic Raion Pouch | Gelatinous pouch full of weak acid with properties useful in fabrication. Pops if punctured — drops are time-limited. | |
| Advanced Battery | Solid-state, high-capacity battery with a silver-carbon anode. Lasts roughly 3x as long as a Basic Battery. "Battery better." | |
| Advanced Wiring Kit | Specialized wiring for sensitive electronics. Do not examine closely. No user comprehensible parts inside. | |
| Atacamite | Copper-arsenic ore with a bright turquoise streak. Locked deep enough that you will likely need a Sonic Resonator to break the harder deposits. | |
| Axum Bacterial Culture | Live alien bacterial sample. The biological key to the Metal Farm — without it, you cannot automate metal extraction. | |
| Basic Battery | Portable energy supply. Replace often. The universal power input for every handheld tool. | |
| Biofuel Block | Compressed biofuel block. Burns in the Bioreactor for the highest sustained indoor power output in the game. | |
| Celestine | Pale crystalline mineral ore, strontium-bearing. The Karakorum tier gate — most mid-game tech chains pass through it. | |
| Conduit Crystal | Rare crystalline conductor that grows on rock walls and cliff faces. Arguably the rarest early-game material — you will spend a full play session hunting your first stack. | |
| Copper | Cu. Element 29. The basic conductor for nearly every early-game electronic recipe. | |
| Copper Ingot | Compressed copper ingot. | |
| Copper Wire | Conductive wire for basic electrical work. The most-reused intermediate in the entire crafting tree. | |
| Coral Shavings | Fine coral shavings harvested from broken coral. Used in specialized recipes. | |
| Crab Feces | Excretion of large crab fauna; surprisingly high organic content. Yes, this is a real crafting resource. | |
| Creature Enamel | Hard biological material harvested from the tooth clusters at the base of Needler Mango plants. Sharp on the harvest. | |
| Dedicated Core | A discrete microprocessor to control complex electronic systems. Can sustain basic AI functions, in the same way an iron lung can sustain a person. | |
| Enameled Glass | Reinforced glass. Designed to withstand greater levels of barometric pressure. | |
| Entangled Power Cell | Ultra-high-capacity solid state mobile power source. Exploits phase conjugation in gold-sputtered optical fibers for quantum advantage. | |
| Fiber | Organic fiber. Closer to plastic or latex than cellulose. The cloth-equivalent of SN2 crafting. | |
| Fiber Mesh | Strong mesh of plastic fiber. Resembles vinyl. | |
| Fibrous Pulp | Soft plant fiber, harvested by hand. The bulk-feedstock material for almost every fabric/water/food chain. | |
| Germanium Ingot | Compressed germanium ingot, refined from silver or lead. | |
| Glass | Aligned quartz crystal. Hard, clear, tough — and the universal window/hatch material. | |
| Gold | Au. Element 79. Used in advanced electronics for its corrosion resistance and conductivity. | |
| Gold Ingot | Compressed gold ingot. | |
| Grease | Fatty soap and mineral oil. Multiple applications. | |
| Lead | Pb. Element 82. Dense metal for shielding and weights. | |
| Lithium | Li. Element 3. Reactive metal used in high-density alloys. | |
| Lucifer Rotsac | Bioluminescent rotting plant sac. Pops on contact. Glows blue in the dark. | |
| Mangalloy Ingot | Manganese-iron alloy ingot. Required to bootstrap automated metal harvesting. | |
| Metal Salvage | Debris from a human habitat or vehicle. Easily converted into raw materials in a Fabricator. | |
| Mild Acid | Mild raion-derived acid. Used in processor chains and biolab work. | |
| Necrolei Cyst | Biological cyst harvested from Necrolei formations — large purple weed-like organisms anchored to the seafloor. | |
| Pent | Pentagonal mineral chunk. Sparse documentation — may be a placeholder name pre-patch. | |
| Plasteel Ingot | Titanium-lithium composite ingot. The pressure-grade alloy used for deep-tier air tanks. | |
| Power Cell | High-capacity mobile power source. For large structures or vehicles. | |
| Quartz | Silicon Dioxide (SiO₂). For silica glass and optical memory. Often makes up most of a planet's crust. | |
| Rubber | Flexible, tough insulator derived from biopolymers. Squeak-rubber, technically. | |
| Salt | NaCl. Halite. Culinary and sanitation applications. | |
| Salvaged Titanium | Crudely convert salvage into raw Titanium. The fastest Titanium source in the first hour. | |
| Silver | Ag. Element 47. Excellent conductor. Applications in computing, medicine, and nanotech. | |
| Silver Ingot | Compressed silver ingot. | |
| Strong Acid | Concentrated acid, very dangerous. Used as a metal cleaner and catalyst for fabricating advanced electronics. | |
| Strontium | Refined strontium, processed from Celestine. The Modification Station unlock material. | |
| Sulfur | S. Element 16. Yellow crystalline non-metal. | |
| System Chip | A self-contained system-on-a-chip built around a microcontroller. Compact, energy-efficient mobile computer. | |
| Titanium | Ti. Element 22. Ideal for underwater construction — the backbone of nearly every building and tool recipe in the game. | |
| Titanium Ingot | Compressed titanium ingot. Compact storage and a precondition for almost every late-game tool. | |
| Troilite | Iron-sulfide mineral. Dark metallic sulfide. The deepest 'final' mineral most players unlock. | |
| Wiring Kit | Conductors, insulators and harnesses for basic electrical work. |