Do Resources respawn?

[zebra03]

I know the fish respawn but what about ores? And other things like the metal scrap

[PrimeSonic]

It's the age old question.
And from the findings of many players, it looks like they actually don't.

Some natural resources might grow back, like mushrooms and coral.
But mineral type resources seem not to, forcing you to move to a new location rather than stay in one spot for the entire game.

[Corvus]

Nah, they don't. It was never an intention from the designers for this to be a sandbox builder.

[believor in Prawn]

Originally posted by Alexstratos:

It's the age old question.
And from the findings of many players, it looks like they actually don't.

Some natural resources might grow back, like mushrooms and coral.
But mineral type resources seem not to, forcing you to move to a new location rather than stay in one spot for the entire game.

pretty sure that is the exact oppisite

[Denim Chicken]

I have played through five times and never seen a resource that I have taken grow back. I don't understand why people say they do. My friend who plays also confirmed this.

Creatures will now respawn after being killed by another creature or the player. This feature was in high demand by you, the players! Thank you for your continued feedback to support the development of Subnautica.

So only confimed that fauna respawn.

[zebra03]

I think It some resources are abundant in the world

[Cryten]

I know the coral tubes resources regrow regularly. I used to farm them for the real basics when ever I returned to base. Also the metal that you find around the stalkers seems to come back. I cant confirm it of course but I have returned to the same stalker fields after a week in game and found more.

Im like 100% sure on the coral tubes because I remember this particular formation where the tube opens up into a cave and has a central raised column with several resouces on it surrounded by 2-3 crash fish. And I have collected from both the tube and that cave several times.

[Amanoob105]

Some do. Some dont. Findings tend to vary between players.

Limestone, sandstone, quartz, fish (so long as you don't over do it with the fishing), scrap metal and salt all respawn.
Just very slowly. As in "real world days worth of time slowly". Key point, that.

Table corral can turn up on the backs of reefbacks as so could also, technically, be said to respawn. Along with the barnicals you find on them that contain more copper and silver.
But the chances of you running out if table corral is very low with how much of it there is in the world

Shale you can get without end if you find a seatreader. Also seatreader poopy.

All plants can be grown in beds. And later all fish can be bred (just not in the fish tank you start the game with, you need the big one for that).

And if you go looking in the world outside of the safe shallows you can always find more of anything you could want more of.

[miklkit]

I remember minerals respawning in the large coral tube 10 months ago, but those games lasted over a year game time.

Currently nothing has respawned but I'm only up to day 187.

[The K1ller Bear]

I found that Nicole ore respawns thankfully because I died with a lot of it and came back later there were their but I think smaller less valuable resources don’t or if they do it takes forever idk

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by The K1ller Bear:

I found that Nicole ore respawns thankfully because I died with a lot of it and came back later there were their but I think smaller less valuable resources don’t or if they do it takes forever idk

Resources do not respawn.
This has been discussed 100 times.
They are taken from the pool and their distribution is drawn within one small piece of the map.

You can check this by collecting everything from a small piece, restart the game, collect a second time, run a third time and the map will be empty and the fish collecting scrap will be standing still.



Is it seen by someone. Who closes a five-year-old misleading topic ???


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[Ignis]

Resources do not respawn. Some fishes do and some resources are newly created (teeth, shales from the sea treader).

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