It totally depends on the sort of resource you are after. They are spread out all over. Usually specific resorces are found in certain places while others are found throughout.

Lithium spawns in Mushroom forest.

Rubies spawn in Bulb Zone, next to the hot water vent thingies. Watch out for bonesharks.

If you want to find everything yourself, without looking anything up, you'll want to find the fragments to build basic base pieces and a scanner room.

The scanner room checks for a resource you select within a range.

Build a scanner room in multiple biomes, and you'll start to see where all of the resources are throughout the world.

Besides that -- scan things and check your PDA. It'll tell you more about any resources it can make since some things require "samples."

Build a scanner room and a HUD chip, let it do your job

Go. Deeper.

I'd love to use this in my world but I'm struggling a bit with deciphering the info in the spreadsheet? Am I dense or what

I used same trick, but with picture of biome map .. I used to have it in cyclops's helm so I could look at it while navigating 😄

Very neat trick.

I plant vine in front of my moonpool entrance over 50m to make like a entry vector

does this work for switch?

Explore, get a beacon w u anytime and mark the zones or just memorize. Its not that hard actually Scrap = any biome and close to wrecks Gold and silver =Rounded rock and rock wirh spikes Etcetc

Combination of scanner room and just exploring. The beauty of Subnautica is that you never know what you'll find when you explore.

There are several types of biomes, but scan for resources. You don’t need to remember, but follow where the story leads you.

Exploration. Experience. And sometimes scanner rooms.

In most cases you don't necessarily have to go looking for specific resources. As you follow the PDAs and radio messages and other story progression hooks, the game will typically lead you to most of the places that have the new resources you need.

Example: A PDA you find on the >!floating island!< leads you to >!the Degasi base in Jellyshroom!< where you find magnetite. The beacon for >!lifepod 19 !!Sunbeam plotline!< leads you to the >!mountain island !<where you find shale and lithium and such.

Explore and memorise

Head to Lifepod 19. Along the black walls in that entire area you'll find a TON of ruby. It goes down to 300 meters.

Only place I can think of is the place where officer keen's lifepod is

Sparse reef, it is right under the big floating island

First of all make a Seamoth depth module if you haven’t yet, then make a depth module MK2. For that you need magnetite which is found in abundance in the Jellyshroom caves (big glowing mushrooms), then if you want rubies, the first place off the top of my head would be the grand reef (go in the direction of the big cloud to the right of the Aurora)

Wouldn't >! sea treader's path!< be best for gold, lithium and diamonds?

Underwater Islands has tons of large gold deposits all around it

No, but they have barnacles on their backs you can pop for copper and silver.

They help you realize you're in safer open waters

NO, BUT THEY HAVE BARNACLES ON THEIR BACKS YOU CAN POP FOR COPPER AND SILVER.

It’s not worth trying to loot them because they usually only give copper or something else (I forgor) and they’re also extremely loud and annoying

The glowing blue things will give you like 80% copper and 20% silver

Go for the barnacles!!

Deep twisty bridges. Another great location is the mesas and cracks of the Thermal Spires

Deep twisty brigdes but be carefull of the squid shark

Below the twisty bridges. You can get o2 quite deep and reach the bottom with your seaglide

I remember using flags everytime I saw a resource output, and I vaguely remember there being much more than there is on the map. Im not sure though, it's been months since I've opened the game 😅. Might have a look later

>!I still haven't figured out the reason for going into the room / lab that requires the orange tablet. There are 3 ion cubes... Like, ok?!<