Do Reapers (or any other creatures) Respawn After Death?

[Tabitha]

Do Reapers (or any other creatures) Respawn After Death?

I have yet to attempt to kill anything...aside from cave crawlers or something very small. While I have progressed fairly well (I have the Prawn Suit, Moonpool, Cyclopes, etc.) I have not really made it to some of the more difficult places. I just recently took my first, very cautious, trip to the Lost River. I am kind of taking my time progressing.

I noticed, when I have ventured to the Subnautica Wikia, it has a list of where the known Reaper locations are. If I were to kill them...will they be gone forever? Or, do they respawn after a certain duration of time?

[Zemecon]

Yes, Reapers do respawn after they die. You might need to wait a bit or restart your game for that to happen but every creature in Subnautica respawns now. Their bodies also despawn upon reaching the seafloor, which may or may not have had something to do with their being able to respawn soon after.

[elipod]

Originally posted by Salinité:

Yes, Reapers do respawn after they die.

Huh? I spent minutes knifing that reaper and 2 medkits. Let me check.

/update
Still dead, no body. At least not in stable, and at least not soon or after restatrt.

[Agrorix]

That'd probably be a bug soon to be fixed for I can't think of any creature not respawning.

You deserve a chocolate medal for your try though.

[Cesspitsid]

grappling hook and drill arm takes the reaper down mega fast xD

[elipod]

Originally posted by Cesspitsid:

grappling hook and drill arm takes the reaper down mega fast xD

Yes, knife is more early game solution.

What we're duicussing here is whether they respawn and whether they should. I think they shouldn't. From lore perspective, player can ruin ecosystem as Degasy survivors discussed. Gameplaywise this would allow sealife genocide as valid playstyle.

I read somwhere that only eaten fish does respawn, not murdred one, and so far was under impression: that's the case. But I never really checked. At least, if reapers respawn, they are not found at same exact location they were found and killed before.

Crabsnakes in shroom caves could be fitting for testing, caves are small and it's fairly easy to track them all down except for maybe odd one, stuck in the wall. And if days later I return and see a whole new bucn, then yes they are respawning.

[Squeal Like a Pig]

Reapers do not respawn.

At the moment only small creatures respawn, not larger aggressive sharks and leviathans (if killed by the player)

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by Squeal Like a Pig:

Reapers do not respawn.

At the moment only small creatures respawn, not larger aggressive sharks and leviathans.

I personally hope they will eventually, myself. Genocide doesn't seem like a very fitting playstyle for Subnautica, IMO.

[elipod]

Originally posted by Squeal Like a Pig:

Reapers do not respawn.

At the moment only small creatures respawn, not larger aggressive sharks and leviathans (if killed by the player)

Man, you saved, like, a populaton of crabsnkes.

[Taymar]

so i pulled a reaper by accident way too close to my base... spent atleast 20 mins trying to kite it back... no result.. so i decided to try and kill it... and i did. or i think so.. so do they respawn and if they do. where do they spawn? close to their original location or where it was killed? anyone have any info?

[lanakila7eo]

Originally posted by Taymar:

so i pulled a reaper by accident way too close to my base... spent atleast 20 mins trying to kite it back... no result.. so i decided to try and kill it... and i did. or i think so.. so do they respawn and if they do. where do they spawn? close to their original location or where it was killed? anyone have any info?

I killed a few in the dunes and they haven't come back. They're quite enjoyable to brawl. People say grappling arm and drill arm, but I've had more luck with just a grappling arm and punching with the regular prawn arm. The best reason to use the grappling arm is that the reapers have a tendency to push you into the void while they have ahold of you, leaving you to fall into the abyss upon releasing. If you have them grappled, they'll pull you back up.

They might respawn after an update but who knows.

[Taymar]

Originally posted by lanakila7eo:

Originally posted by Taymar:

so i pulled a reaper by accident way too close to my base... spent atleast 20 mins trying to kite it back... no result.. so i decided to try and kill it... and i did. or i think so.. so do they respawn and if they do. where do they spawn? close to their original location or where it was killed? anyone have any info?

I killed a few in the dunes and they haven't come back. They're quite enjoyable to brawl. People say grappling arm and drill arm, but I've had more luck with just a grappling arm and punching with the regular prawn arm. The best reason to use the grappling arm is that the reapers have a tendency to push you into the void while they have ahold of you, leaving you to fall into the abyss upon releasing. If you have them grappled, they'll pull you back up.

They might respawn after an update but who knows.

cool. i used seamoths shock thing about 6 times and after that stasis rifle and stabbed it :D

[lanakila7eo]

Yeah those reapers don't know what they're messin with ha

[Ricky]

No, reapers do not respawn. It might come with an update, but leviathan creatures does not respawn. Only small creatures. If you look up in chat, Creator of this game said it. I also spend like 2 hours restarting and playing game, trying to find out if he respawn, but nothing. He's clearly dead. (:

[ThatGuyJimmy]

is there a prey/pred ecosystem? Do the creatures interact with eachother? If not.. killing the large ones doesn't matter. (There should be an AI ecosystem)

[elipod]

Originally posted by JimmyVape:

is there a prey/pred ecosystem? Do the creatures interact with eachother? If not.. killing the large ones doesn't matter. (There should be an AI ecosystem)

There's predator/prey hunting interaction, but not a real ecosytem. Preadators do not die from hunger and do not multiply. Prey does respawn. And I never seen leviathan hunting anything, but player.