Update History (Below Zero)

This article is about Update History (Below Zero) in Subnautica. For the related article on the Below Zero Wiki, see Update History (Below Zero).

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This page serves to chronicle Subnautica: Below Zero's update history from launch to present.

PC

EARLY ACCESS 1 - Release

30 January 2019 - EA1 [CS#9561]

File:Subnautica Below Zero Early Access Trailer

Early Access Trailer

• Subnautica: Below Zero is released into public Early Access on Steam, Epic Games, and Discord
• Alterra Bases
  • Research Base Cappa
  • Research Base Omega
  • Research Base Zero
  • Rocket Island Base
• Biomes
  • Arctic Kelp Forest
  • Frozen River
  • Hoverzone 3
  • Methane Ice Caves
    • Methane Ice Caves Base
  • Rocket Island
  • Thermal Spires
  • Twisty Bridges
• Drop Pod
• Exchanger Rocket
• Fauna
  • More fauna from Subnautica
  • Pengling
  • Pengwing
  • Titan Holefish
• Heating Gel
• New characters
  • Jo Jeffreys
  • Maxim Plenty
  • Robin Goodall
  • Sam Goodall
• Precursor Bases
  • Alien Research Site Zero
  • Sanctuary Zero
• Precursor Bounty
• Story Items
  • Biosample
  • Bioscanner
  • Colleague PDA
  • Kharaa Sample
  • Orange Tablet
  • Outpost Omega Research Notes
• Supply Drop
• Tools
  • More tools from Subnautica
• Vesper Station
• Includes ~2 hours of story content and an unfinished map

11 February 2019 - 1.1 [CS#9892]

• Mini-patch including bug fixes and minor changes
  • Changed Rocket Island signal text
  • Supply Drop can be used while falling
  • Pengling hold animations
  • Hot Springs model
  • Improved Frozen River appearance
  • Added two Icebergs to the Shallow Twisty Bridges
  • Increased Titan Holefish oxygen recharge time to 40 seconds
  • Reduced Titan Holefish oxygen from 100 units to 30 units
  • Added Thermal Lily glow/heat effects
  • Removed broken Hoverpad drop
  • Picking up Habitat Builder gives its blueprint
  • Optimized clouds
  • Added clouds command
• Exhaustive list of changes can be viewed here

EARLY ACCESS 2 - Seatruck Update

7 March 2019 - EA 2 [CS#11193]

File:Subnautica Below Zero Seatruck Update

Seatruck Update Trailer

• Aquarium, Battery Charger, Power Cell Charger
• Deep Twisty Bridges
• Mobile Vehicle Bay
• Moonpool
• Sea Truck
  • Modules (Fabricator Module, Storage Module)
  • Upgrades (Afterburner Upgrade, Horsepower Upgrade) (Unlock Sea Truck)
• Rocket Island revamp
• Sea Monkey
• Squidshark
• Thermal Spires
• Much, much more
• Update page

EARLY ACCESS 3 - Snowfox Update

24 April 2019 - EA 3 [CS#13740]

File:Subnautica Below Zero Snowfox Update

Snowfox Update Trailer

• Heat Fruit Plant
  • Heat Fruit
• Improved Weather
• New Fauna
  • Arrow Ray
  • Brinewing
  • Chelicerate
  • Feather Fish and Feather Fish (Red)
  • Nootfish
  • Snowstalker and Snowstalker Baby
  • Triops
• New Biomes
  • Alterra Mining Site
  • Glacial Basin
    • Jeffreys' Bunker
    • Snowfox Base
  • Purple Vents
• New Sea Truck Modules
  • Sea Truck Docking Module
  • Sea Truck Sleeper Module
• Snowfox
  • Snowfox Hoverpad
• Recipe pinning
• Update page

13 May 2019 - Micro-Update

• Fix to prevent issues saving or loading while docked in Moondock
• Fix for Snowfox bug while mounting too quickly causing players to get stuck
• Snowfox Hoverpad no longer requires power
• World-streaming improvements to Glacial Basin & Twisty Bridges allowing for smoother in-game loading
• Update page

EARLY ACCESS 4 - Spy Pengling Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Spy Pengling Update

Spy Pengling Update Trailer

5 June 2019 - EA 4 [CS#15125]

• Almanac Artifacts (Exploration Site, Monument, Obelisk, Water Analyzer)
• Cold Suit
• Improved weather
• Spy Pengling
  • Camera
  • Inventory
  • Remote
• Sea Truck Perimeter Defense
• Sea Truck Teleportation Module
• Temperature
• Tether Tool
• Tree Spires
• Ventgarden
• Update page

EARLY ACCESS 5 - Arctic Living Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Arctic Living Update

Arctic Living Update Trailer

17 July 2019 - EA 5 [CS#16498]

• Active Mining Site
• Booster Tank
• Control Room
• Flashlight Helmet
• Jukebox
  • Jukebox Speaker
  • Jukebox Disks
  • Seatruck Sleeper Module jukebox re-enabled
• Large Room
  • Large Room Partition
  • Large Room Partition Door
  • Large Room Glass Dome
• Marguerit Maida cutscene 1
• Mineral Detector
• Multipurpose Room Glass Dome
• Prawn Suit
• Return of many more base parts from Subnautica
• Update page

18 July 2019 - Hotfix

• Ion Battery blueprint now unlocks upon picking up an Ion Cube
• Fixed bug where Prawn Suits were stuck in the Moonpool

EARLY ACCESS 6 - Ice Worm Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Ice Worm Update

Ice Worm Update Trailer

17 September 2019 - EA6 [CS#19404]

• Alterra Communications Tower
• Arctic Spires
  • Arctic Spires Cache
  • Ice Worm Debug Area
• Bioreactor
• Chinese Potato Plant
  • Chinese Potato
• Crashed Ship
• Deep Lilypads Cave Cache
• Escape Rocket
• Frozen Leviathan
• Full story rework
• Ice Worm
• Lilypad Islands
• Marblemelon Plant
  • Marblemelon
• Meteor Storm of Act I
• Power Transmitter
• Prawn Suit Drill Arm
• Purple Vents Salvage
• Purple Tablet
• Recipe of Seatruck changes
• Research Base Omega
• Safe depth of Seatruck Depth Upgrade MK1 is 350m instead of 400m
• Ship Wreck Salvage
• Snowfox Hop Module
• Table Coral Sample harvest quantity changed to 1
• Thumper
• Vehicle Upgrade Console
• Weather-based Pengwing behaviors
• Update page
  

EARLY ACCESS 7 - Deep Dive Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Deep Dive Update

Deep Dive Update Trailer

27 November 2019 - EA7 [CS#21847]

• Alterra Shuttle
• Al-An's Vessel
• Alien Robot
• Big Plant 01
• Crystal Caves
  • Crystal Caves Cache
• Data Chip
• Deep Purple Vents
• Fabricator Caverns
  • Fabricator Base
• Glacial Connection
• Shadow Leviathan
• Cryptosuchus
• Flower Spores
• Glacial Connection
• Hivemind
• Jellyfish
• Kelp Root Pustule
  • Seeds
• Locker
• Snowfox Base
• Marguerit Maida's Base
• Marguerit Maida cutscene 2
• New Architect Artifacts (Fossil Analyzer, Greenhouse, Mineral Distillery, Satellite)
• New Seabase Modules
  • Fridge
  • Shower
  • Sink
  • Toilet
• Observatory
• Prawn Suit Propulsion Cannon
• Prawn Suit Torpedo Arm
• New Vesper Station Model
• Spiral Plant
• Story updates
• Thermal Plant
• Twisty Bridges extended
• Uraninite Crystal
• Voice acting for almost all transmissions
• Much more
• Update page

EARLY ACCESS 8 - Lost Ship Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Lost Ship Update

Lost Ship Update Trailer

19 February 2020 - EA8 [CS#24222]

• Afrikaans language support
• Al-An's perception of Architect Bases and Architect Artifacts

• Aurora Borealis at night
• Brinicle
• Creature Eggs
• Crystal Plant
• Deep Lilypads Cave
• Exterior Growbed
• Gamma correction added to options
• Hydrochloric Acid
• Ice Bergs
• Ice Fruit Plant
  • Ice Fruit
• Indoor Growbed
• Leafy Fruit Plant
  • Leafy Fruit
• Mercury II
• New menu option
• Seatruck Fabricator Module now has a storage locker
• Snowfox HUD update
• Sparse Arctic Rework
• Trivalve
• Update page

EARLY ACCESS 9 - Frostbite Update

File:Subnautica- Below Zero Frostbite Update

Frostbite Update Trailer

30 April 2020 - EA9 [CS#27520]

• Addition minor Alterra installations
• Architect Teleporters
• Calls (Dialogue)
• Cold Mechanics
• Completely new intro and story
• Edible Twisty Bridges Mushroom Chunk
• Environment Polish
• Frozen River Plant 02 item
  • Seeds
• Glacial Bay
• Glass Compartment (Unlock the Window)
  • I Glass Compartment
  • L Glass Compartment
• Improved Weather
• Improved UI
  • Cleaner PDA text
  • Hotbar power indicators
  • Status indicators
• Major Glacial Basin rework
• Metal Salvage
• New Ice Worm Animation
  • New animation of Ice Worm hunts Snow Stalker
  • Player will be got down from Snowfox by Ice Worm
• Player can hold tools while running
• Quantum Locker
• Recyclotron
• Sea Monkey can offer gifts when Al-An's consciousness in Robin's brain
• Snowballs
• Snowfox Ice Worm Attack Reduction Module
• Spicy Melon Salad (Unlock by Scanning Marblemelon Plant)
• Spiral Chunk
• Stasis Rifle Removed
• Surface Beacon
• Thumper model
• Water Purification Tablet
• Update page

EARLY ACCESS 10 - Salad Days Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Salad Days Update

Salad Days Update Trailer

25 June 2020 - EA10 [CS#30171]

• Architect Artifacts signals
• Architect Phase Gate Facility
• Arctic changes
• Arctic Spires changes
  • Ice Worm Boneyard
  • Ion Cube Cache
  • New research site of Spy Pengling
• Brute Shark and Titan Holefish Eggs
• Communications Tower changes
• Deep Purple Vents changes
• Glacial Bay bridge to Arctic Spires
• Hydraulic Fluid
• Ice Bubble
• Kyanite
• Lantern Tree
• Modified Mineral Detector recipe
• More Story Additions
• Marguerit's Greenhouse
• New type of Posters
• Parallel Processing Unit
• Player Emotes
• Prawn Suit Depth Module (Unlock Prawn Suit)
  • Prawn Suit Depth Module MK1
  • Prawn Suit Depth Module MK2
• Recyclotron
• Snow Stalker Improvements
  • Feeding of Snow Stalker Baby
  • Reaction to Flare
• Test Override Module
• Thermos and Coffee Vending Machine changes
• Thumper 3.0
• UI Scaling
• World Map
• Updates to Delta Station, Outpost Omega, Parvan's Bunker, Phi Robotics Lab and Research Base Zero
• Xenoworx PDA
• Update Page

EARLY ACCESS 11 - Stranger Pings Update

File:Subnautica Below Zero Stranger Pings Update

Stranger Pings Update Trailer

13 August 2020 - EA11 [CS#32698]

• Accessibility improvements (Highlight)
• Achievements
• Alterra employee profiles
• Arctic changes
• Aromatherapy Lamp
• Artifact pings
• Crystal Caves changes
• Deep Lilypads changes
• Environmental storytelling
• Executive Toy
• Feeding of Snow Stalker (Snow Stalker Fruit Plant)
• Kharaa Antidote
• Light Fixture Removed
• Marguerit's tech site
• Missing icons added
• Necklace
• Recipes of Architect components changes
• Removed Hoverzone 3 from the world
• Rock Puncher improvements
• Seabase stairs
• Spicy fruit salad (Unlock by knifing a Snow Stalker Fruit Plant in Marguerit's Greenhouse)
• Squidshark electrical attack
• Terrain fading improvements
• Vortex Torpedo
• Update Page

EARLY ACCESS 12 - Relics of the Past Update

File:Subnautica- Below Zero Relics of the Past Update

Relics of the Past Update Trailer

29 October 2020 - EA12 [CS#37024]

• Ancient Ornamental Plant and the Polycage
• Antennae Seed and edible Antennae Fruit
• Aquarium and Plant Shelves are scannable again
• Creature Eggs (Arctic Ray, Brinewing, Crashfish, Cryptosuchus, Glow Whale, Jellyfish, Lily Paddler, Pengwing, Pinnacarid, Rock Puncher, and Squidshark)
• Buildable Alterra Employee Beds, Executive Desk, Snowman, and Wall Planter
• Carried Beacons now always drop upon death to help the player locate dropped items
• Complete Voice Acting
• Creature rideability disabled for Lily Paddlers and Pinnacarids
• Crystal Caves Crystal polish
• Deep Lilypads Cave Cache Makeover
• Delta Island dock changes
• Discus Fish
• Exchange in locations for the Architect Tissues and Architect Skeleton
• Exploration Site changes
• Extra UI tips
• Finalized Flora Names
• Finalized item icons
• Finalized World Map
• Fred's Shaving Kit
• Glacial Connection changes
• H₂O of Filtered Water is 25 instead of 20
• Moonpool, Stillsuit, Swim Charge Fins, and second Booster Tank Data Boxes
• PDA Pause Feature
• Posters
• Prawn Suit Grappling Arm
• Repulsion Cannon removed
• Robin Ayou player model update
• Seatruck Modules Polish
  • Increased storage capacity with the Seatruck Storage Module
  • Ion Cubes can be used 3 times to teleport to a Seatruck Teleportation Module
  • Increased module hauling speed
• Talking character portraits
• Void Chelicerate Reskin
• West Arctic changes
• Update Page

Teeny-Tiny Update

4 December 2020 - EA12.5 [CS#39027]

• Art performance optimization
• Complete Databank, tooltips, names, descriptions, and PDA text.
• Eye Jellies new name
• Gas Torpedoes
• Improved Creative Mode
• New Icons for the Feather Fish, Feather Fish (Red), Rock Puncher, and Rock Puncher Eggs
• Lots of new Music
• Story presentation improvements and databank organization
• Streaming and memory optimizations
• Tons of bug fixing, world polish, and merging
• Updated Robin/ player model
• Weather quality option
• Update Page

EARLY ACCESS 13 - Seaworthy Update

File:Subnautica- Below Zero Seaworthy Update

Seaworthy Update Trailer

25 February 2021 - EA 13 [CS#42690]

• Air Bladder now gives 15 O2 instead of 10

• Arctic Spires Architect Elevator
• Crystal Caves Cache Rework
• Complete OST
• Credits button accessible through the main menu
• Enhanced Prawn Suit
  • Storage Module readded (Unlock Prawn Suit)
• Gamepad and Rumble Support
• H₂O of Disinfected Water is 35 instead of 25
• Large Resource Deposits added to World Edge, and Arctic
• Mercury II Crew Logs
• Sanctuary Zero Signal
• Scanner Room energy cost reduced
• Small Stove
• Steam Cloud Support
• Tons of Bug Fixing
• Unlockable Flare blueprint
• Update Page

Final Release

• Release Date May 14th 2021

Console Release

• Release Date May 14th 2021