Building a Prawn Suit - Subnautica: Below Zero Guide - IGN (2024)

Welcome to IGN's Subnautica: Below Zero walkthrough. This section will teach you how to build a Prawn Suit, which will make further exploration safer.

The Prawn Suit makes underwater exploration and evening mineral mining much easier, and the suit can access places the Seatruck cannot.

To begin, you will need to find four Prawn Suit Fragments. These are located in the Koppa Mining Site. To find out how to enter the site, check the Finding the Koppa Mining Site page.

Once inside, you will find several Prawn Suit Fragments have spawned on the levels of the mine. You will need to explore the various areas of the mine to scan them.

Once you have scanned all the fragments, the blueprint will automatically synthesize. The Prawn Suit requires one Plasteel Ingot, one Power Cell, one Enameled Glass, and one Computer Chip.

At this point you will have created almost all the required components before, except Plasteel Ingot. You can find most all the other metal resources, including Gold and Diamond, rather easily in the Koppa Mining Site.

Plasteel Ingot requires Titanium, an easily-gotten resource located in common Limestone Outcroppings, and Lithium. Lithium can be found in the Purple Vents, located near the Thermal Vents. This may well include your first encounter with a Leviathan, so you will want to be careful.

You can begin from your Drop Pod, but we will give directions from the original starting location of the game, from the island behind your Drop Pod. As the game progresses we will need to be more precise in location instructions and your Drop Pod location may vary slightly.

This is our starting location.

From here, head two clicks left of South, but not quite Southeast. You will pass Creepvine on your way to the edge of the Twisty Bridges. Continue until you see large, scarred rocks.

Close by you will also see a research dock with a broken, electric wire dangling down. Align yourself facing the ladder and continue in this Southeast direction.

You will need to navigate around the thermal vents, a little to your left, to avoid predators and collisions.

You will see the type of rock beneath you change, so hug this rock formation that sits between the deeper water to your left.

You will arrive and begin to see small Purple Vents. You can park here and exit to begin collecting the plentiful Lithium.

However, be warned! The Chelicerate Leviathan inhabits this region and will attack you. If you see it, swim to safety in the Seatruck and return when it has passed.

When you have collected the required Lithium, you are ready to return home and build your Prawn Suit for safer exploration. Remember your Prawn Suit will be built using the Mobile Vehicle Bay you previously used to build your Seatruck!

Prawn Suit and Prawn Suit Upgrades

The Prawn Suit makes underwater exploration and evening mineral mining much easier, and the suit can access places the Seatruck cannot. Check this table for each recipe and upgrade to the Prawn Suit in Subnautica: Below Zero.

Note these are not required for this portion of the walkthrough but are listed here for your knowledge.