Gather for a recipe
Reserve biological ingredients for the next craft: Rotsacs for Rubber or Grease, pouches for batteries, and Necrolei Cysts for Strong Acid.
Flora hub
Subnautica 2 Flora & Harvestables
Find useful biological ingredients, recognize hazards and choose plants for your base. Some plantlike organisms are animals; use the pickup or scan name to distinguish materials with different crafting uses.
Before harvesting: decide whether the material is for food, equipment or planting. Keep a small planting reserve and unlock Digestion before relying on local food.
Choose what to gather
Keep planting stock
Before processing the entire haul, set aside a sample for a Growbed when that plant can be cultivated.
Harvestable plants
Explore and gatherPlant or plant-adjacent pickups used for food, water, rubber-like materials, acids, or crafting chains. Match the pickup name to the ingredient your recipe needs.
Hazard flora
Explore and gatherPlants, coral, and stationary organisms that affect route safety, visibility, acid exposure, or scan priority. Give hazardous organisms room while scanning or passing them.
Navigation flora
Explore and gatherLarge silhouettes, glowing plants, and repeating coral forms that help players return to a base, route marker, or biome edge.
Scan and identify
Explore and gatherScan plants and resource nodes to learn their role in the surrounding ecosystem.
Flora and resource nodes
Use these plants and resource nodes to plan harvesting, avoid hazards and choose useful scan targets.
Angel Comb
Confirmed routeThe northeast Angel Comb unlocks Digestion, allowing local food to support longer trips.
Acidic Raion / Acid Raion
GatheringCollect Acidic Raion Pouches for the battery chain; Medical Gel Sacs are a separate medicinal pickup.
Lucifer Rotsac
GatheringRubber-material route and glowing plant pickup near the southwest Lifepod arch.
Necrolei Cyst
GatheringStrong Acid ingredient that can also be planted in a Growbed. Reserve a planting sample before processing the haul.
Cradle Shootroot
Route contextFind Lucifer Rotsacs around this organism; keep a Rotsac if you plan to establish a Growbed planting.
Coral Mash
Food unlockCoral-route Fabricator food craft that restores +65 Food once unlocked. Useful before longer cave or wreck trips.
Toxic Sponge
Hazard floraPoisonous early cave hazard that releases bursts with gaps between sprays. Give it distance before passing.
Mimic Pylon
Electric lifeformPlant-like electric lifeform that can shock careless approaches. Scan from distance and avoid contact when health or oxygen is low.
Northwest Angel Comb
Heat ToleranceClear the viral growths with a Sonic Resonator and interact with the Comb to unlock higher heat tolerance.
Related pages
Growbeds and Planting
Choose planting materials and preserve useful samples.
Food and Water
Plan Digestion, cooked food and hydration for exploration.
Rubber and Grease
Split Rotsacs between the two early equipment materials.
Heat Tolerance
Clear the northwest Angel Comb before volcanic trips.
Resources
Material categories, gathering routes, and patch-sensitive recipe notes.
Items & Materials
Search biological resources, tools, equipment, vehicles, and route-sensitive items.
Biomes
Connect flora scans to zone routes, risk, and base planning.
Lifeforms
Bridge fauna, leviathans, flora, and databank entries.
Flora FAQ
Which plants should I collect for early equipment?
Lucifer Rotsacs supply Rubber and Grease. Acidic Raion Pouches are used in batteries, while Medical Gel Sacs support medical crafting. Check the pickup name before reserving ingredients.
How do I choose a gathering route?
Use the linked routes to find the plant or resource, then match your supplies to the recipe you want to craft.
Can I plant Necrolei Cysts?
Yes. The Buddy System update added Necrolei Cyst planting in Growbeds. Reserve one for planting before spending the rest on Strong Acid.