Pick your playstyle. Get the best active + passive combination for Early Access.
Updated for Early Access build — May 2026. 15 biomods, 1 active slot + 1 passive slot currently available.
Select a playstyle to auto-fill the best loadout below.
Triggered manually with SHIFT / L3. You can only equip one at a time.
Always active. Update 1.1 will add more slots — plan ahead below.
Plan your crew's biomods for coordinated play. Each role fills a different gap — coverage warnings appear when the team has blind spots.
The Subnautica 2 roadmap confirms Update 1.1 will expand the number of passive Biomod slots. Here are the combinations to aim for when that drops.
Detect resources through terrain, maximise dive time, and hide from Leviathans while planning your next move.
Food, water, and hunger fully automated. Dash handles emergencies. Focus entirely on building and exploration.
Built for hostile deep biomes. Threat Sense warns you early, Bioluminescence frees your tool slot, Discharge handles anything that gets close.
Based on community consensus. S = use always, A = strong, B = situational.
Click a column header to sort. Active biomods use the teal indicator; passive use blue.
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In the current Early Access build you can equip one active biomod and one passive biomod simultaneously — two total. Update 1.1 is confirmed to expand the number of passive slots, enabling multi-passive loadouts like the ones shown in the Future Planning section above.
Progress the main story until the NOA Blackbox signal appears on your HUD. Travel to the Cicada Wreck in the EVA Prep area and scan the degraded Bioscanner at the bottom of the wreck. Then craft it at a Modification Station. The Bioscanner is required to unlock most non-default biomods — see the loadout builder above for which creature you need to scan for each mod.
Dash (active) + Camouflage (passive) is the strongest general survival loadout in Early Access — Camouflage hides you from Leviathans while still, Dash exits the situation when you need to move. For exploration, Sonic Echo + Oxygen Control is optimal. For resource farming, Sonic Echo + Dermal Garden maximises productive time per dive.
Camouflage makes you completely invisible to predators — including Leviathans — while you are completely stationary. The moment you move, the effect breaks. It is unlocked by scanning a Bullethead with the Bioscanner and is rated S-tier because being still while invisible completely fools the aggro system of every predator in the current build.
Yes. The official Subnautica 2 roadmap confirms Update 1.1 will expand passive biomod slots, allowing multi-passive loadouts. The Future Planning section above shows the three recommended builds — Ultimate Explorer, Full Survival, and Deep Raider — to aim for when that update drops.