Databank

Databank

505 PDA entries · 420 with authored text · 180 with hero art.

Showing 60 of 505 entries · 505 total · 4 categories

Bases

Databank category · 40 of 46 shown

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B

Basic Basebuilding

Hello. I am Zygimantis Tarvydas. Formerly EVA engineer on Mongolian Steppes. Now lead diver of this mess.

Battery Terminal

Battery Terminal

A charging rack for personal batteries. Draws excess power from the habitat — will not function in a power shortage. Larger power cells used in submersibles and heavy equipment require their own speci

Biobed

Biobed

The "Shanti Essentials" biobed is a ruggedized scanner/fabricator for human bodies.

Biolab

Biolab

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

Bioreactor

Bioreactor

A bioreactor generates power from organic matter and local chemistry. The bioreactor's nanomachine culture (derived from the colonist's own body) decomposes organic matter into methane to burn with ox

Corridor

Corridor

Titanium corridor. End user must supply a hatch and external power supply. If powered, generates a breathable atmosphere from seawater. Provides a basic field worksite or the first step towards a larg

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Exterior Wall Light

Light is a critical resource for human work — and a dangerous industrial byproduct. Artificial light sources disrupt the natural behaviors of ocean life, attracting or driving away or native organisms

Fabricator

Fabricator

Fabrication technology is the power to rearrange matter at the molecular level. It catalyzed the great expansion from Earth, and remains the backbone of the modern world.

Hatch

Hatch

The "Super Barrique" selective passage portal allows for simultaneous two-way, multiple-crew traffic between a pressurized interior and a dangerous exterior. This eliminates the need for lengthy mecha

Hydroelectric Turbine

Hydroelectric Turbine

Named for a legendary laundress, the "Nausicaa IV" hydroelectric turbine transforms moving water into power. Ocean currents turn blades, which spin the rotor of a polyphase generator to create electri

Interior Door

Interior Door

Bidirectional through-bulkhead indiscriminate ambulatory/atmospheric portal. Dual mode function (open and closed).

Interior Wall

Interior Wall

A titanium partition. Dividing undersea habitats into watertight compartments is a proven survivability technique. Dividing living spaces into purpose-oriented compartments may help colonists focus on

Keep Calm Poster

Keep Calm Poster

Calm, rational behavior helps your AI advisors predict and pre-evaluate your future decisions. Do not take your circumstances personally. Remember that an effective system can subsume all critique int

Locker

Locker

The basic prefab locker (sold as the "Cachet" in the Alterra blueprint catalogue) comes default on all Alterra habitat builders. The Cachet is guaranteed to secure several kilograms of bulk cargo agai

Moonpool

Moonpool

An opening in the habitat's lower hull for direct entry by divers and submersibles.

NoA Terminal

NoA Terminal

This is a limb of the Noetic Advisor system. The NoA architecture consists of limb nodes (like octopus arms) governed by a minimal central executive, the Administrative Nucleus (ANu-NoA) aboard the Ci

Power Capacitor

Power Capacitor

The IEEE 180-compliant "Fallback" power storage allows a habitat to bank power for use in the event of a shortage. Shortages may occur when the sun sets, fuel runs out, new systems are installed witho

Power Cell Terminal

Power Cell Terminal

A dual-purpose, heavy-duty power cell rack. Like the battery terminal, it recharges stored power cells with base power.

Power Transmitter

Power Transmitter

The "Vaporway" wireless power pylon uses IEEE-compliant microwave beams to link power supplies to distant customers. Chaining multiple pylons together allows for effectively lossless power transmissio

Processor

Processor

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

Reaper Statue

Reaper Statue

A statuette of the 4546b reaper leviathan, a predator made famous by Ryley Robinson's memoir 4546B: SURVIVING THE IMPOSSIBLE. As of last survey, flourishing in the ecologically renewed oceans of its h

Reaper Statue

Reaper Statue

A statuette of the 4546b reaper leviathan, a predator made famous by Ryley Robinson's memoir 4546B: SURVIVING THE IMPOSSIBLE. As of last survey, flourishing in the ecologically renewed oceans of its h

Roof Antenna

Roof Antenna

Dual-mode UHF/sonic antenna mast. (Radio nonfunctional when submerged.) Helps habitat AI systems communicate with remote beacons, drones and other habitats, although even with modern DOUBLE JANUS prot

Roof Antenna Large

Roof Antenna Large

"Earle IX" sensillum. Named by Alterra Junior Trainees for a pioneer ocean conservationist. Contains spectral cameras, passive sonar, sonic modem, current whiskers, chemical sniffers and other instrum

Roof Cylinder

Roof Cylinder

A basic hydrophone. Cooperates with base scanner station to analyze sonic returns from the environment. To avoid complex fabrication requirements, it uses legacy technology, limiting its range and sen

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Roof Listening Dish

A spread-spectrum quiet active sonar mount and SQUID/cold atom interferometric antenna. Automatically networks with onboard scanner station.

Roof Panel Large

Roof Panel Large

An external access point for diagnostic systems. Intended only for nearfield communication with MAC drones. Sealed to prevent human interference.

Roof Pump

Roof Pump

Pumps help habitats clear their bilge spaces and circulate seawater for sampling and resource recovery. Seawater is useful for thermal management, radiation shielding, and life support — biobeds gathe

Room

Room

The Alterra 'Greybox' is a scalable pressurized habitat. Registered as a modular shipping container under ISO 6346:2200, the Greybox must be equipped with a hatch and power supply by the end user. Alt

Scanner Station

Scanner Station

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS

Sea Moth Statue

Sea Moth Statue

A statuette of Alterra's bestselling Antara-Zoinkoff Seamoth, a single pilot sea-space vehicle. Popular as a parasite craft and utility launch on larger vessels, the Seamoth was judged too wide for Ze

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Sensor Pod

Sensor arrays inside a protective casing, deployed to monitor and measure the status of the Protean ocean and communicate the acquired data back to the colony. Stand by for further updates.

Small Ceiling Light

Small Ceiling Light

Internal lighting is critical to a consistent sleep/work cycle and to general health. Deprived of light, pioneers may enter an altered psychological state with negative mission outcomes.

Solar Panel

Solar Panel

Silicon photovoltaic cells transform sunlight into energy. Although less efficient than modern quantum dot cells, these entry-level panels can be fabricated with basic materials like quartz.

Spotlight

Spotlight

A high-lumen industrial spotlight. Automatically tracks nearby motion. May trigger behavior changes in native organisms, including repulsion, attraction and aggression.

Thermal Plant

Thermal Plant

"Hotpot Bite" thermoelectric generator. Hybrid two-stage design, using a rotor to capture energy from rising hot water and a solid-state Seebeck generator to produce current from temperature different

V

Vehicle Fabricator

A heavy-duty industrial fabricator designed to assemble components into a small to mid-size craft, including submersibles, aerospace craft, overland transport and workmechs. The vehicle fabricator lac

Wall Panel

Wall Panel

Double-size "Daly's Delight" flat-pack systems rack. As the name suggests, it specializes in chemical and health monitoring, including radiation dosimeters and seawater assays.

Wall Unit Large

Wall Unit Large

Larger titanium rack for miscellaneous systems. The housing is large enough for a solid-state neutrino detector, which can assist scanner stations in mapping the deep crust.

Wall Unit Small

Wall Unit Small

Small titanium rack for electrical and sensor systems. Negligible power draw. May be mounted inside or outside the hull. All fabricated structures contain integral data, plumbing and wiring: these rac

Active Investigations

Databank category · 16 entries

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A

Anita

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

A

Anita 02

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

C

Chap

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Iso

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

P

Protected Zone Salvage Sites

From the Protected Zone base camp:

Q

Quaker

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Ruby

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Ruby 02

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Singh

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Singh 02

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Tadpole Pens NoA

The Tadpole Pens NoA node supported a simulation of colony surgeon Sophie "Butcher" Boucher.

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Wander

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

W

Wu

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Zip

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

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Zip 02

Locate this blackbox and investigate the circumstances of the colonist's death.

T

Tadpole Pens NoA

Locate and access this NoA node for further information.

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Adaptations

Databank category · 3 entries

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D

Digestion

Life in this unknown ocean shares its basic genetic code with Earth. DNA letters code for amino acid words, which are joined into strings like sentences to create proteins. Pioneers can also look forw

H

Heat Tolerance

Although your AEP suit can protect you against acute hot water burns for a limited time, prolonged exposure will cook your tissue like a sous vide pork tenderloin (simile flagged for review). Human pr

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Pressure Tolerance

At 100 meters below the surface, the pressure on your body is over ten times what it is on land—like an elephant standing on every square inch of you. Humans must breathe air under equal pressure or t

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Databank category · 1 entries

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Survival Guide

Until contact with the colony or the *Cicada* is restored, your survival is in your hands.

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About the Subnautica 2 Databank

The Databank is Subnautica 2's in-fiction encyclopedia, accessed through your PDA. Every creature you scan, every black box you recover, every colonist message you read and every story beat you trigger unlocks a databank entry. Each entry carries a title, long-form body text, an optional hero image and one or more category tags.

The Early Access build ships 505 entries spanning indigenous life, sessile and mobile fauna, the Axum alien civilisation data downloads, colonist logs, black boxes, personal messages, points of interest and geological surveys. Around 420 entries have authored body prose at launch. The remainder are stubs Unknown Worlds will fill in throughout the two to three year Early Access window. Use the With body text toggle in the browser above to filter to entries with finished prose.

Story-goal gates and unlock conditions are preserved in the data we surface here. If you missed an entry in-game you can read it on the wiki, but the entry pages also list what triggers the unlock so you can chase it down on a fresh save without spoilers.

Search runs against every entry even when only the first page is rendered: titles, body text and slugs all match. Type a creature name, a colonist name like Nahema or Anita, or a key concept like Proteavirus to jump straight to the relevant dossier.

What does each databank category contain?

The most populated buckets in the Subnautica 2 PDA library. Filter the browser above by clicking a chip, or use the cheat-sheet below.

CategoryWhat it coversEntries
Indigenous LifeCreature dossiers from PDA scans, behaviour, biology, biome.98
Data DownloadsAxum alien-civilisation downloads: architecture, language, history.97
UnknownEntries without a specific category tag.50
BasesIn-fiction architecture and base-piece dossiers, with build notes.46
ColonistsNamed-NPC profiles and personal records for the Pioneer crew.29
Points of InterestLandmarks, wreck sites, alien structures and notable seabed terrain.29
Geological DataSurveys of the planet's seabed, ore deposits and tectonic features.22
ToolsIn-fiction tool documentation surfaced from the PDA library.17

Subnautica 2 databank questions

01What is the Subnautica 2 databank?
The databank is the in-game PDA encyclopedia. As you scan creatures, recover black-box recordings, read colonist messages or trigger story beats, entries unlock and join your PDA library. Subnautica 2 ships 505 entries spanning creature dossiers, colonist logs, geological data, Axum alien glyphs, personal messages and points of interest.
02How many databank entries are in Subnautica 2 at launch?
The Early Access build contains 505 entries. Around 426 have authored body text. The rest are stubs that Unknown Worlds will fill in as Early Access progresses. The largest categories are Indigenous Life (99), Data Downloads (97), Sessile Life (60), Bases (49), Mobile Life (43) and Colonists (42).
03How do I unlock databank entries in-game?
Entries unlock through multiple paths: scanning creatures or fragments with the Scanner tool, recovering black-box recordings from wreck sites, completing story beats, reading colonist messages, and triggering environmental events. Each entry in this wiki lists the unlock condition the game uses, so you can spoiler-check or track down something you missed.
04Why are some entries marked Awaiting text?
Those entries ship in the live build with a placeholder description rather than authored prose. The asset still exists in-game, the in-fiction text is just not finalised yet. Unknown Worlds will replace placeholders throughout the two to three year Early Access window. We mark them clearly so you can filter them out with the With body text toggle above.
05How does the databank differ from Subnautica 1?
Subnautica 1's PDA library used the same Indigenous Life / Lifepod logs / Story progression buckets. Subnautica 2 expands the system with new categories tied to the Axum alien civilisation, the NoA noetic-advisor AI, and a richer colonist-message thread that drives the story. Black Boxes and Personal Messages are new entry types specific to Subnautica 2's narrative.
06Is the databank the same as the PDA Logs?
Almost. In-fiction Subnautica 2 distinguishes three things: the PDA is the wrist-mounted device, the Databank is the text encyclopedia of dossiers and entries, and Logs (sometimes Audiologs) are the voice recordings left by colonists and NoA. This wiki page indexes the Databank: scanned dossiers and triggered text entries. Audio logs surface inside their related entries when they exist.