TL;DR To upgrade your Prawn Suit, build a Vehicle Upgrade Console (VUC) in your Moonpool using the Habitat Builder. This console allows you to craft and apply upgrades like the drill arm and jump jet upgrade.
Building the Vehicle Upgrade Console
The first step to upgrading your Prawn Suit is to construct a Vehicle Upgrade Console within your Moonpool. This can be done using the Habitat Builder [2:4]. The VUC functions similarly to a fabricator and is where you can create various vehicle upgrades once you have the necessary blueprints
[2:1].
Finding Blueprints
Before crafting specific upgrades, ensure that you have collected the necessary blueprints. For example, the Prawn Suit arms require their own blueprints, which you must find before construction [2:1]. The Vehicle Upgrade Console blueprint itself can often be found in databoxes located in several wrecks, such as those near Lifepod 19 or in the Sparse Reef
[5:1].
Crafting Upgrades
Once the Vehicle Upgrade Console is set up, you can craft different Prawn Suit upgrades. Common upgrades include the drill arm, torpedo arm, and jump jet upgrade. The recipes for these should be available by default in the VUC once you have the console installed [5:2].
Tips for Using the Prawn Suit
When equipping your Prawn Suit with new arms, consider leaving one arm free to pick up smaller items like diamonds or lithium [3:3]. Additionally, be mindful of the power usage of your Prawn Suit, especially when exploring deep caves, as running out of power can leave you vulnerable
[3:6].
By following these steps, you can effectively upgrade your Prawn Suit in Subnautica, enhancing its capabilities for deeper exploration and resource gathering.
Where do I upgrade it. I want to make the drill arm thing but I can’t find where to make it. I unlocked the fragments and have the materials needed but where do I build the laser arm and apply it.
Moon pool with the upgrade console?
Can’t get the prawn suit in it
Why not?
I have all the recourses for it, but I don’t know where to build it
The upgrade station in the moonpool
I have a moon pool, and the prawn suit is parked, but I can’t find an upgrade station
Try building this on one of the walls in your moonpool https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Vehicle_Upgrade_Console
You have to build the upgrade station using the habitat builder
In the void
You need to find the blueprints for the upgrade station and then build it. It works similar to a fabricator and it has the vehicle upgrades you want.
You also need blueprints for the prawn suit arms themselves.
But i have a question though, where is it's name written at ?? Ive been lookin around and couldnt see it lol. Any tips for using prawn suit ! A new player here, just barely 12 hours in 🥰
What did you name it? My seamoth is OceanGate (probably too soon), and my prawn is TBD but I'm thinking Jerry P.
very cool but make sure to leave one arm normal so you are still able to pick up smaller items (like diamonds, lithium, etc.)
Yeah... Learnt that just now as i tried torpedo and drill arms
Nothing like the first time you roll up to an aggressive life form in a prawn. Not so awesome when it runs out of batteries deep in caves surrounded by said aggressive life forms.
Be careful, as it is common to assume that you have limitless power.
I need months of training 😞
Nah, just self discipline
The name isn't written on the suit I don't think, but it'll show up as whatever you name it as a marker when you're far away.
Isn't it up at the top on the side? Correct me if I'm wrong
So I took the advice to heart and drove my seamoth all the way from my cyclops in lost river to my base to swap it for the prawn suit with no upgrades except drill arm. Now I have the prawn suit in my cyclops but I realize I can‘t craft the mk1 upgrade.
My vehicle console is 1200 meters above my current location don‘t tell me I need that to craft the Prawn mk1 upgrade…
You parked your clops in the river? Can you get it out or is it stuck there forever?
I always left mine at the entrance and just brute forced my way through with prawn 😂
my cyclops I brought through the blood kelp trench lol I only learned about the big entrance in the grand reef later.
Im still proud of myself for pulling that off
I took mine down to the lava lake my first playthrough. It never came back out lmao.
Pretty easy to navigate once you learn the right paths. I would always take my cyclops to the lava zone and then get infinite power with the thermal generator
The mountain entrance is plenty big enough for the cyclops, and leads directly to the drop down into the lava zone.
All you have to do is sneak the cyclops past Jerry, which isn’t that hard, just a little nerve-wracking
I can normally find everything I need to unlock the moon pool >!on the ledge above Keene's lifepod!<. The vehicle modification station is always the last databox I find so unfortunately I can't help with that.
You can definitely find the materials you need to build a moonpool and vehicle upgrade station down there tho!
yeah that whole turning off achievement thing is annoying, Because I had to use them since my auruora bugged and didnt fix (I just blew it up again)...
Sir, I have to kindly ask you to change your flair. Cutefish eggs don't belong into the bioreactor
Question, I’ve accidentally opened devconsole quite a few times—literally because it’s the stupidest easiest combo to end up pressing the buttons for, on controller it’s both bumpers and the use button. I say this because both bumpers are used to control up/down, and if I want to pick something up while also trying to stay in one spot by controlling up/down—on several occasions I’ve hit all 3 accidentally and made the devconsole pop up.
HOWEVER, I’ve never put a command into it and always just closed the console screen immediately and kept playing. My question to you is, since this is the case, and I’ve saved my game since, are achievements turned off for that world?
Honestly this ones on you. I mean its a modification station not a crafting station 😭
I mean, it is literally called modification station. It upgrades existing items, not crafts new ones.
Can someone please help me find the prawn suit jump upgrade in subnautica, NOT SUBNAUTICA BELOW ZERO. I've spent the last hour trying to youtube and Google its location but all I can find is information about below zero.
You craft it in the Vehicle Upgrade Console. The recipe should be available by default.
Well well well, aren't I the dummy.
Thank you stranger.
Glad to help.
This ^^
You don't have to find a fragment or databox or whatever. It should automatically be available as soon as you build a VUC in your moonpool.
If you don't yet have those:
Wher do I craft it ? I have it unlocked but I don't know where do I craft it
You need to have the vehicle upgrade station in the moonpool to make prawn and seamoth parts and modules.
All right i'll try this
There is a console thingy on the wall on the left side as you look at the wall that you can access that lets you make modules and prawn arms. Think you can have it in any room doesn’t need to be a moonpool actually. I have always just put it in a moonpool
I think you craft it in the Vehicle Upgrade Console
ever since i saw marg's prawn in BZ, i thought it would be cool that you yourself could do what marg did, kill a chelicerate and harvest its mandible from its corpse by knife or drill arm or something like that, and maybe for a future update for subnautica 1, you can use a reaper's pincer once killed, same harvesting method, i know this has probably been posted alot, but i dont scroll this sub much, and wanted yall's thoughts on it.
I mean Id like more customization for vehicles but I dont think this is the way to go. It also doesnt really fit the devs vision to encourage you to kill leviathans (hence why few real offensive weapons exist). Margeruit gets to do it because shes badass.
They won’t update sn 1 unless if there’s a bug so major they can’t ignore
U know that this sub isn't only about bz so that title doesn't make sense
The games 10+ years and most people will come here after not before playing.
I personally would really like to see a habitat builder arm and repulsion arm, so that you can build bases and stuff in safety.
I keep hearing on forums that prawn suit is built from the mobile vehicle bay, but it doesn't show up, also I tried to spawn it in from console after enabling it and it didn't spawn.
You need fragments of prawn suit to scan to get the blueprint
There was a message at the beginning of your game that’s stored in your PDA that will explain fragments and why you need them. Should be under the log messages tab or the data bank tab. (Could be both.)
Data bank entry.
>Warning: blueprint database corrupted
>Damage to your PDA's hard drive has corrupted approximately 80% of stored survival blueprints. Blueprints may be reacquired by scanning a salvaged technology using the handheld scanner, or by downloading plans from a ship-board databox. In the circumstances these assets will most likely be found amongst wreckage from the Aurora.
It was one of the first messages you received at the very beginning of the game. It’s easy to miss the first time around in all of the chaos.
LIke everything else in the game, you have to scan the fragments. You will be able to get them all in one place. No hurry. It's more of an endgame vehicle. The Seamoth will be enough for a while.
Try the aroura prawn bay scan all fragments and then go onto the mobile vehicle bay
You have to get the fragments in the auroa
I actually found some fragments in other areas much safer. I think I found one or two fragments in a wreck in one of the areas with red grass, or the mushroom forest (or near them).
Get either 20 fragments or 4 larger ones in the >!Aurora Prawn Bae!<
Have you scanned it?
I recently posted about getting my PRAWN suit stuck in a wreck like an idiot, so I streamed myself trying to free it. This is a short video I put together showing how I did it, hope you enjoy!
(If you liked the video, maybe check out my youtube, Under A Rock Gaming)
This was fun. Congrats on getting Vault Boy back
Thanks on both accounts!
How can people travel with damaged vehicle? I always get out by the smallest damage too (espescially with the seamoth)
If its around 50 I will get out, but even at 50 the prawn suit will only take 20 or so damage from a Reaper, so I feel fine cruising around at 85. Plus (aside from getting stuck in a wreck) I'm not too shabby at breaking ankle-fins of topside leviathans.
Spot on Gollum 🤣
😂 Thanks friend! Come by my twitch - Thunderandbatarangs on Sundays, I do a fair few voices/accents in the adhd mess I call a stream
Justice for the Vault Boy!
Heck yeah!
I was told there would be no math.
this was way more entertaining than it should have been. good job commentary and editing.
Thank you so much! I was up later than I should have been editing it lol
I am far past exploring the aurora, I have a cyclops and a decent base, explored (hopefully all of) the lost rive, etc. Throughout my play through I have not come across any of the 20 parts that I apparently need to create the prawn suit. Is this normal or do I need to do some back-tracking? I’ve found several of the different arm attachments as well but am clueless on how to obtain the actual suit and would like to avoid having to google it.
Go back to the Aurora, you only need to scan the 4 fragments in the prawn bay
Thanks, thought I scanned them all the first time around but I guess I missed one. Feel like the 0/20 was a little misleading, don’t see how that relates to scanning one suit I thought I was looking for 20 different parts
It's best to clear the fire on the water filled prawn room. There is at least one mod in the prawn consoles.
That's because you're scanning big fragments. You can find arms in some wrecks, they give you fewer scan "points".
the 20 small parts a re a bit of a red herring, but that shouldn't lead you to ignore the big parts and if you scan those, you immediately notice that they are worth more.
There's like one or two outside the Aurora and it's kind of glitched that if you scan it before you get the ones in the Aurora it acts like you have to scan a TON of them.
About midway. If you've explored the Aurora, you walked right past the prawn fragments you needed to scan. In the prawn bay.
You only go past the prawn bay if you're getting "that one specific thing," not to repair the drive core, which i assume is what OP would have been doing at this stage. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Oh, right. I always go through from bottom to top, so even if I'm coming back later for that, I go through he prawn bay anyway.
Its really youre own pace although most people get one after going to the aurora, but i got the third seamoth upgrade before getting one
You can get it a few hours in if you really want but you don't really need it until you're going to the lost river
I also had to go to Aurora a second time, but not for the prawn suit, but because I forgot to repair the reactor leaks. Then I accidentally found 4 suits and I got it. It's easy to find. There is a little fire, but not a big problem. I don't know why there stays 0/20.
Also, I love how you play without Google. The game is supposed to be ultra difficult, not everyone to go with coordinates and to have the Seamoth, the Cyclops and the Prawn after only a couple days of playing.
how to upgrade the prawn suit in subnautica
Upgrading the Prawn Suit in Subnautica: Key Considerations
Upgrade Modules: The Prawn Suit can be upgraded with various modules that enhance its capabilities. Key upgrades include:
Materials Required: Each upgrade requires specific materials. Common materials include:
Fabrication: Upgrades are crafted at the Prawn Suit Upgrade Console. You need to build this console first, which requires:
Finding Blueprints: Blueprints for upgrades can be found in various locations, including wrecks and research facilities. Make sure to explore thoroughly to gather all necessary blueprints.
Storage: Ensure you have enough storage space in your Prawn Suit to carry materials for upgrades while exploring.
Recommendation: Prioritize upgrading the Drill Arm and Jump Jet Upgrade first, as they significantly enhance your resource gathering and mobility, making exploration much easier. Always keep an eye out for materials while exploring to streamline the upgrade process.
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