Games that involve a lot of crafting often require the player to do a lot of exploring in order to collect rarer and rarer resources as one progresses up the tech tree. To make the best tools and devices, survival games like Subnautica task gamers with delving deep into various biomes to loot precious metals and gems.
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Rubies are a red crystal-like substance that is needed for quite a few basic and advanced crafting recipes, so players should always keep an eye out for these crimson gems as they harvest natural goods from the ocean-covered planet.
- Blood Kelp Zone
- Bone Fields Caves
- Bulb Zone
- Bulb Zone Caves
- Crash Zone Mesas
- Deep Sparse Reef
- Dunes
- Grand Reef
- Grand Reef Caves
- Inactive Lava Zone
- Lost River
- Mountains Caves
- Sea Treader's Tunnel Caves
- Underwater Islands Caves
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These spiky red stones appear near thermal vents, so be sure to stay near those while exploring some of the biomes listed above. Divers should consider looking for Rubies at night, as they glow slightly, which makes them stand out easier in the dark than during the day.
- Fabricator
- Vehicle Upgrade Console
- Cyclops Fabricator
- Habitat Builder
- Modification Station
"A hard, blood-red gemstone, made of aluminum oxide. Rubies may be processed in order to leverage their structural integrity in advanced vehicle construction and modification. Assessment: Essential for advanced fabrication."
By simply looking at what Rubies are used to make, players will see that they are essential for creating both basic and advanced technologies. Fabricators are always immensely useful, as without them the player would not be able to craft important items.
Devices that allow one to upgrade and build vehicles, as well as structures, also need Rubies, making these red gems precious for many reasons.
While Rubies are vitally important to many aspects of the game, there are a lot of other Raw Materials that players should seek out for their building needs.
- Acid Mushroom
- Alien Feces
- Baby Leviathan Enzymes
- Blood Oil
- Cave Sulfur
- Copper Ore
- Creepvine Sample
- Creepvine Seed Cluster
- Crystalline Sulfur
- Coral Tube Sample
- Deep Shroom
- Diamond
- Fungal Sample
- Gas Pod
- Gel Sack
- Gold
- Kyanite
- Lead
- Lithium
- Metal Salvage
- Magnetite
- Nickel Ore
- Quartz
- Salt Deposit
- Silver Ore
- Speckled Rattler
- Stalker Teeth
- Table Coral Sample
- Titanium
- Uraninite Crystal