Progression order for Early Access. Build these first, unlock everything else second.
Updated for Early Access build — May 2026. Verified recipes only.
Four stations, unlocked progressively. The Fabricator is always available — everything else requires crafting or scanning first.
Tools, equipment, food, electronics, and basic materials. Your most-used station throughout the entire game.
Available immediately inside your Lifepod from the start of the game.
Refines raw ores into ingots. Produces Strong Acid and Biofuel. Required for almost all mid-game crafting.
Place inside a habitat. Requires:
Titanium Ingot, Plasteel Ingot, Strong Acid
Places base modules in the world — walls, rooms, airlocks, and power sources. Required before you can build any base at all.
Vehicle upgrades and suit modules. Required for Tadpole depth upgrades and advanced suit modifications.
Scan the blueprint in the world, then build inside a habitat at the Habitat Builder.
Tadpole depth upgrades, suit modules
Pin recipes before diving. Open the Fabricator, hover any recipe and pin it to your HUD — required materials show on-screen while you explore.
First-hour checklist. Complete these in order before attempting mid-game areas.
Required for Scanner, Flashlight, and powering the Welcome Center Biolab. Craft this before anything else — it gates multiple first-hour items.
Required to unlock almost every other blueprint. Build this second, immediately after the Basic Battery. Nothing else unlocks without it.
Required to harvest plant-based resources. Without it you cannot gather Fibrous Pulp, Lucifer Rotsac, or most organics — which means no Fiber, Rubber, or Mild Acid.
Required to build any base. Place a small base near your Lifepod before exploring far — you need it to build the Processor later.
First major dive upgrade. Significantly extends oxygen, enabling access to deeper zones that are out of reach with the default tank.
Faster swimming means more ground covered per oxygen bar. Cheap to craft and the time savings compound over every dive.
Dark zones below 100m are impassable without it. Required to access caves and deep biomes where Silver, Gold, and Lithium are found.
Fiber Mesh, Rubber, and Glass are the bottleneck materials for early progression. Stock extras before attempting mid-game equipment upgrades.
Verified Early Access recipes. Click a tab to browse by category.
Searches all categories at once. Press / to focus.
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Mild Acid | 2× Acidic Raion Pouch1× Copper |
| Salvaged Titanium | 1× Metal Salvage |
| Glass | 2× Quartz |
| Enameled Glass | 1× Glass1× Creature Enamel |
| Fiber | 2× Fibrous Pulp |
| Fiber Mesh | 2× Fiber1× Strong Acid |
| Rubber | 2× Lucifer Rotsac |
| Grease | 1× Lucifer Rotsac |
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Survival Multitool | 3× Titanium |
| Flashlight | 2× Titanium1× Quartz1× Basic Battery |
| Scanner | 2× Titanium2× Quartz1× Basic Battery |
| Habitat Builder | 2× Titanium1× Glass1× Basic Battery1× Copper Wire |
| Repair Tool | 1× Titanium Ingot1× Wiring Kit1× Basic Battery1× Sulfur |
| Sonic Resonator | 1× Basic Battery2× Titanium Ingot2× Lead1× Wiring Kit |
| Wakemaker | 1× Silver1× Wiring Kit1× Grease1× Basic Battery |
| Air Bladder | 2× Titanium1× Rubber |
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Basic Fins | 2× Rubber2× Fiber |
| Improved Fins | 1× Basic Fins1× Fiber Mesh2× Conduit Crystal |
| Standard Air Tank | 2× Titanium1× Rubber2× Silver |
| High Capacity Air Tank | 1× Standard Air Tank1× Plasteel Ingot |
| Ultra High Capacity Air Tank | 1× High Capacity Air Tank3× Troilite3× Atacamite |
| Rebreather | 2× Fiber Mesh1× System Chip |
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Basic Battery | 2× Copper1× Acidic Raion Pouch |
| Advanced Battery | 1× Conduit Crystal1× Strong Acid1× Silver Ingot |
| Copper Wire | 2× Copper |
| Power Cell | 2× Basic Battery1× Strong Acid1× Salt |
| Entangled Power Cell | 1× Conduit Crystal1× Strong Acid1× Gold Ingot1× Troilite |
| Wiring Kit | 1× Silver1× Copper Wire |
| Advanced Wiring Kit | 1× Wiring Kit1× Gold1× Sulfur |
| System Chip | 1× Wiring Kit2× Quartz |
| Dedicated Core | 1× Advanced Wiring Kit2× Quartz1× Strong Acid |
| Output | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Titanium Ingot | 3× Titanium |
| Copper Ingot | 3× Copper |
| Silver Ingot | 3× Silver |
| Gold Ingot | 3× Gold |
| Germanium (Silver) | 2× Silver |
| Germanium (Lead) | 2× Lead |
| Plasteel Ingot | 2× Titanium1× Lithium |
| Mangalloy Ingot | 1× Titanium Ingot1× Atacamite1× Troilite |
| Strontium | 2× Celestine |
| Strong Acid | 2× Necrolei Cyst |
| Biofuel Block | 5× Fibrous Pulp3× Pent2× Crab Feces |
| Recipe | Ingredients |
|---|---|
| Full food & water recipe list coming with Update 1.1 data — check back after the patch. | |
Air tanks upgrade in a chain — Standard → High Capacity → Ultra High Capacity. Don't scrap old tanks. Each upgrade consumes the previous version as an ingredient.
Quick reference for the materials needed in the first and second tier of crafting progression.
| Resource | Where to Find It |
|---|---|
| Titanium | Rock outcroppings near the Lifepod. Most common resource in the game — found in all shallow biomes. |
| Copper | Inside underwater caves and on cave walls, yellow tint. Common in shallow cave systems. |
| Quartz | Sandy seafloor areas. Clear crystalline formations, easy to spot in open water. |
| Silver | Mid-depth rock formations. Gray metallic nodes, requires diving past 80–120m. |
| Gold | Deeper zones. Rare rock nodes, found below 150m. Check hydrothermal areas. |
| Lithium | Deep biome rock formations. Required for Plasteel Ingot — farm once you have the Standard Air Tank. |
| Lead | Mid-depth sediment layers. Often found alongside Silver deposits. |
| Fibrous Pulp | Ocean plant life. Requires the Survival Multitool to harvest. Found in shallow reef areas. |
| Lucifer Rotsac | Organic creature drop found on seafloor fauna. Harvest with the Survival Multitool. |
| Acidic Raion Pouch | Orange egg sacs near cave entrances. Visible without a tool — pick up on approach. |
| Metal Salvage | Wreckage and debris fields. Yields Salvaged Titanium when processed at the Fabricator. |
Build a Basic Battery first (2× Copper + 1× Acidic Raion Pouch), then immediately use it to craft the Scanner (2× Titanium + 2× Quartz + 1× Basic Battery). The Scanner unlocks almost every other blueprint in the game and is the single most important item in the first hour.
The Fabricator is available from the very start of the game inside your Lifepod. You do not need to craft or unlock it — it is your default crafting station and is accessible immediately after the opening sequence.
The Processor refines raw ores into crafting ingots (Titanium Ingot, Copper Ingot, Silver Ingot, etc.) and is the only station that can produce Strong Acid and Biofuel Blocks. It must be built inside a habitat using 2× Titanium, 1× Mild Acid, and 1× Copper Wire. Almost all mid-game and late-game crafting depends on Processor outputs.
Titanium is found in rock outcroppings near your Lifepod — it is the most common resource in the game and appears throughout all shallow biomes. You can also process Metal Salvage at the Fabricator to yield Salvaged Titanium. Rock outcroppings respawn over time.
There are four crafting stations in Early Access: the Fabricator (Lifepod, available from start), the Processor (built in a habitat, refines ores), the Habitat Builder (crafted at the Fabricator, places base modules), and the Modification Station (built in a habitat after scanning a blueprint, handles vehicle and suit upgrades).