The crash zone has 10 reapers. 6 of them are located on the south end of the Aurora.

Probably the dunes for reapers. Or the void.

I'd say the Dunes, iirc there's 11 reapers there, permanent ambiant noises

I love the idea of a levitation observatory! Post pics!

Google should have at least 2 different interactive maps that show the leviathan locations

If you want a bunch of one type I’d say dunes or crash zone. Void for ghost. I don’t think there’s really anywhere that has reapers or ghosts close enough to see both from one spot.

Which one of the 24 or so Reapers do you want to meet?

When you go straight from your base to Aurora it should be there, then you should hear roars and see him guarding, dont get too close to it because when you can hear him he can see you, so its pretty dangerous.

He should be in the area around Aurora. Maybe you just missed him. Try going behind Aurora, thats where I first saw him.

Go to the front of the Aurora, if you don’t see any there then your games broken

You can finish the whole game without seeing 1

If you want to meet reapers then stand on your starting life pod and face the Aurora, now turn 180 degrees to save the opposite direction. Swim forwards until you find a sandy biome called the Dunes.

You can also easily find one by heading to the aurora and circling all the way around it, reaper should spot you before you see/hear it.

You bastard...you killed Sammy!

No. No Leviathan with specific locations (anything not in the void) respawn. IIRC, crabsquid don't, either.

Every time the cache is reset (which it will because you will either run out of resources or update the game) they respawn. And there’s lots. Two I belive around the Aurora, some in the mountains, and more in the dunes.

In what area because in the dunes I’m pretty sure their are 11 reapers there

There are a total of 22 reapers I think

I found all my rubies in the sparse reef

The mountain area has a great many. I never explored that area beyond the land mass itself

Here's a great interactive map for Subnautica, that shows off all the leviathan spawns, as well as all the biomes, if you're intetested:

https://subnauticamap.io/

They have specific spawn points and do not respawn once killed. They can however follow the player into other biomes where they might stay instead of returning to their original spawn point. Hope that clears it up for you.

Yes it can move to other biomes usually by following the player, very rarely does it happen on its own. Also they will stay there until they follow something back.

Really? You come in the most reaper-populated area in the game and ask if there are places with no reapers?

A guy just made a base there and posted it 7 hrs ago.. should ask them in the post.

I’ve never seen a reaper get close to the meteor crater. Here’s a leviathan map:

https://www.reddit.com/r/subnautica/comments/81dyuf/names_for_all_the_leviathans/

don't care for that area. safe shallows for me thanks!

Yes, the very northern part.

I too once used to be terrified just like you, I infact have thalassophobia. So this game used to terrorize me. All you gotta do is just take a deep breath and try to face em. Once u actually encounter them, you could find a way to avoid them.

If you wanna avoid reapers, try not to stray around the front and back end of the aurora crash site. If u follow a specific path, you could enter the spaceship without encountering a reaper.

As for the dunes, your PDA will warn you about multiple leviathan class creatures, so your best bet then would be to back off. Dunes is basically a biome which is dark and of low visibility.

At one point (spoiler alert), you will come across a landing site, try not to stray far from that island into the open space, there's reaper out somewhere there.

If you get a defense perimeter upgrade for your seamoth, you can easily deal with reapers.

Cheers.

I can post a map if you like, otherwise if the water gets dark, it's because the void hides terror.

Dunes. Your PDA will warn you.

Aurora.

Mountains, which is connected to the Dunes and near a story critical location.

You know what they say!

“If the water is brown, then get out of town.”

“If the water is dark, it’s no walk in the park.”

“If you’re in the sand dunes, you should hide in a groove (or just leave).”

“The mountains suck.”

They are in the Aurora crash site and the sand dunes between the safe shallows and the kelp forest

Reapers, while being extremely iconic to Subnautica, always seemed out of place to me. Both the Dunes and the Crash site are desert biomes, but I can't associate reapers with sand

Then I saw a particular creature in Below Zero that didn't really belong to an ice biome, but would fit perfectly in a desert landscape, while the reaper would fit well with the frozen scenery

Reapers live in zones with low visibility so they take advantage of echolocation. The dunes are dark and sandy, so is the crash zone and the mountains are open enough to allow manouvering and also closed emough that they can hunt.

Other zones are too shallow, too open, too shallow, visibility is too high or too canyon like.

I think reapers originated in the mountains. They pass the vibe check there. And, consider, they hunt based on ecolocation. There isn't anything loud in the mountains for them to centre themselves on, therefore they had to have originated there.

They travelled to the dunes as a result of the impact event there long before even the precursors were present on the planet. Their devastation of the local ecosystem is probably partially responsible for the creation of those dunes. Hell, you can even see half-buried tree mushrooms that imply that the dunes weren't always around.

As for the Aurora, the crash was doubtlessly even louder than the meteorite impact earlier. Hence, all of the reapers present in that area. And we see the same duneification events as in the earlier dunes. It isn't quite as far along, but it's clearly still happening.

>Where do reaper leviathans really come from?

When reaper mommy and reaper daddy really love each other...

They seem to live anywhere deep enough to comfortably fit them, and where there are no other big leviathans nearby.