Crash Zone

This article is about the Crash Zone. You may be looking for the Crash Zone Mesas.

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Hazardous radiation detected. Fabricate a radiation suit to protect against undesirable side effects. File:CrashZoneIntro.ogg

― PDA, Dialogue

The Crash Zone is the biome in which the Aurora crashed, hence its name. It is characterized by rocky slopes and deep trenches covered with sand, and is littered with debris from the crashed spaceship. This biome is one of the eeriest biomes due to its open spaces and eight Reaper Leviathans. The Crash Zone is also currently the largest biome in Subnautica.

Description

The Crash Zone is located on the easternmost part of the map, surrounded by a Kelp Forest, Safe Shallows, the Bulb Zone, a Mushroom Forest, the Crag Field, and Grassy Plateaus. Located behind the ship is a trench created by the crash and littered with debris, which is also guarded by six Reaper Leviathans.

The safest way to cross the Crash Zone is to follow the Safe Shallows as close as possible, then stick to the shallowest parts of the Crash Zone. If attempting to enter the Aurora, it only takes a brief trip through deeper waters, although a Reaper Leviathan can frequently be found West of the entrance. The "landing" inside is shallow enough to provide some safety for embarking and disembarking. It requires a radiation suit and ideally should be done with a Seamoth, as there is a radiation field around the perimeter.

There is a large amount of dry land on the eastern side of the Aurora. This has plenty of Debris, Metal Salvage and a strangely large quantity of Skyrays but no flora.

There are few flora species in the Crash Zone, but a wide variety of fauna. The harvesting nodes typically found in the area makes the Crash Zone a good source for raw crafting materials.

Mesas

Situated behind the Aurora are six Mesas. They are submerged in a green, murky atmosphere and house a few species of Fauna, Flora and Coral such as the Redwort and Coral Shell Plate (which are found only in this area of the Crash Zone).

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• Brain Coral Sample
• Coral Tube Sample
• Gold
• Large Lead Deposit
• Lead
• Lithium
• Metal Salvage
• Quartz
• Salt Deposit
• Stalker Tooth

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• Boneshark
• Boomerang
• Eyeye
• Holefish
• Hoverfish
• Peeper
• Rabbit Ray
• Reaper Leviathan
• Reginald
• Sand Shark
• Shuttlebug
• Skyray
• Stalker

|-| Flora=

• Gel Sack
• Spotted Reeds
• Redwort
• Tree Leech

|-| Corals=

• Giant Coral Tubes
• Brain Coral
• Green Table Coral

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Gallery

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  Overview

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  Large debris found in the Crash Zone

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  Huge boulders located on the seabed

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  Deepest point of the Crash Zone

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  A large sand dune in the Crash Zone

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  A Reaper Leviathan in the Crash Zone

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  Some Spotted Reeds in the Crash Zone

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  The small section of land on the western side of the Aurora

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  The large eastern landmass

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  A Sand Shark in the Crash Zone

For a more complete gallery, visit Crash Zone/Gallery

Trivia

• Before the reorganization of fragment locations, parts of Cyclops and other fragments spawned continuously on the dunes on the port side of the ship, making the Crash Zone a great source for Titanium.
• The ambience is an edited version of the sparse reef ambience.
• It is the only biome to have more than one ambience sounds.
• There was once an entrance to an Inactive Lava Zone Corridor located beneath the Aurora. This has since been removed in the Ghost Update.