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The Most Dangerous Creatures in Subnautica

Subnautica is an adventure, survival game that lets players dive into a vast underwater world filled with alien lifeforms and unknown creatures. Subnautica has its own, unique ecosystem for players to discover, including predators to watch. And here are some of the most dangerous animals you might want to avoid in the game:

Crabsnake

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The Crabsnake in Subnautica is an aggressive creature that has long, serpentine body with two long translucent fins along sides of its body, which emits a violet bioluminescent glow. The most dangerous thing about the Crabsnake is the small pair of fangs in its mouth along with a large pair of black-tipped claws around it.

Sea Dragon Leviathan

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The Sea Dragon Leviathan or more commonly known as Sea Dragon. Currently, it is the largest aggressive creature in Subnautica. It is a large, aquatic species that has adapted to volcanic environments. Although it’s body mostly resemble the Sea Emperor, the Sea Dragon Leviathan is smaller and is known for its dark green colored skin.

Crabsquid

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The Crabsquid is a carnivorous lifeform with a body made of two layers: a translucent bulbous sac and a brown-green squid-like mantle. You can usually find it in the Blood Kelp Zone and the Deep Grand Reef. This creature is best known for its ten limbs. Some of them have pointed tips, the others have fins, while the two shortest ones near its mouth are pincers.

Reaper Leviathan

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The Reaper Leviathan is currently the second largest aggressive lifeform in Subnautica. You can find this creature in the Aurora, Crash Zone, Dunes, and Mountains. This colossal creature has a long and muscularly built body with four caudal fins and two pectoral fins. It usually emits a loud and menacing roar that you can easily hear from a great distance.

Warper

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The Warper, unlike the other creatures in Subnautica, is a cyborg life form which can open a teleportation gate. What makes the Warper dangerous is that it can shoot projectiles that can cause lots of damage. It has a purple, cloak-like membrane that covers its translucent pale blue body.

Sea Treader

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The Sea Trader may perhaps be a defensive creature, which makes it more dangerous when threatened. Its body consists of a large torso with long, double-jointed back legs. If you try to swim in front of it, the Sea Treader will automatically attack you.

Ampeel

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The Ampeel is an aggressive lifeform usually found in the Koosh Zone and the Blood Kelp Zone.  This massive, serpentine creature is known for its powerful zaps of bio-electricity. The Ampeel’s shocking attack can deal 15% damage, while it’s bite can take away 45% from your health bar.

Stalker

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The Stalker is a carnivorous lifeform usually found in the Kelp Forest. It is a giant creature that possesses an elongated, fusiform body, and a long snout similar to a crocodile. Upon close encounters, the Stalker will immediately attack the player. Each bite from this creature can deal 30% damage, so be cautious when exploring the Kelp Forest.

For those of you who haven’t tried Subnautica yet, the game is available on Steam for Windows and Mac OS X gaming desktops and laptops. It also supports Oculus Rift that allows players to experience it on VR.

47 thoughts on “The Most Dangerous Creatures in Subnautica”

  1. one the sea treader is super easy to avoid and not that strong all it dose is 40 but who cares is so slow and another thing the Stalker is tamable and not that strong compared to the Ghost Leviathan and why is the ghost leviathan not on this list its more dangerous that the reaper!!

    1. I agree big time, honestly, this also was made a bit ago. Maybe they didn´t update it soon enough or took it from their own knoledge.

    2. I know right they shud seriously add the Ghost to this the Ghost is actually the second, and everyone thinks the ghost leviathan is weak and this youtube video said that the reaper is able to kill a ghost but the ghost is more powerful.

  2. and the Drooping Stingers do 50 damage in 3 seconds and you might say its easy to avoid if you swimming away from something you could run in to one and that could be game over and plants are creatures to. that is my statement and i am the same person from before.

    1. i worked really hard to get the seamoth and the first time i go really far from base i ran into my first reaper leviathan and it destroyed my seamoth 🙁

    2. wont put in my email or name but i think the most scariest one is the crab squid because that triggers my arachnophobia big time

  3. I WAS IN SURVIVAL AND IT TOLD ME THERE WERE POSSIBLE LEVIATHANS BUT I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT THOSE WERE SO I KEPT GOING BUT IT FLUNG ME IN THE AIR AND I DIED

  4. What about the Sea Emporer, although it isn’t hostile now isn’t it supposed to be agressive, correct me if I’m wrong.

    1. I know that this might sound stupid, but can you kill a leviathan? Or can you only attack of with the stupid survival knife?

      1. You can kill them. It takes between 75-100 knife hits with the upgraded version of the knife so probably 150-200 with the regular knife. The best way to fight em is to jump out of your vehicle and use the gun that slows things down. Get a tiny shot off when it rushes you, then go straight to its side and shoot a full charge into it. Swing 15-20 times then shoot it again. Repeat until it is dead.

  5. Me and my friend have a world and we somehow escaped a reaper… Buuuuuuuut our seamoth was destroyed. We haven’t been playing for that long but we discovered a lava biome. If you know how to get the multipurpose room reply to this.

      1. the floating island?
        if it has a degasi seabase it’s the floating island it has floaters
        ALL under it anchent floaters yes!

  6. OK the ghost leviathan is definitely the 2nd most dangerous leviathan (only behind Reaper leviathan), let me explain why.

    -it has 3000 more health than the reaper leviathan

    -It does more bite damage than the Reaper Leviathan

    -It also has a more strange/random hit box, so it’s harder to freeze with the stasis rifle. So killing it is actually harder

    -It’s shriek sound is creepy as hell, even worse than the Reaper IMO. It sounds like death and Hell itself

    The only reason the reaper leviathan is slightly worse, is because the reaper leviathan is harder to see, and there are more reaper leviathans on the map than there are ghost leviathans

    But when you actually decide to confront and try to kill one of these bad boys, the ghost is way way harder.

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