No, there is no reaper leviathan in that arena.

https://subnauticamap.io/i/Sparse_Reef

Use this map to help guide you. Keep in mind that Sea Treader's Path and Grand Reef are in between Lifepod 19. While there aren't any leviathans in those areas, there are Ghost Leviathans in The Grand Reef, so don't tread to far out.

But lifepod 4 there might be a reaper nearby

It’s fine there because the sparse reef has no fish

As a general rule you can just use your ears, you will hear them screeching long before they are anywhere near you.

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

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.”

The one on the back of the aurora is quite easy to find

Though usually it finds you

Near to the aurora crash, usually close to the nose of the wreck

Far side of the aurora is practically guaranteed

Aurora

There's also generally one on the northwest side of Mountain Island, in between the island and the Floating Islands. Go further northwest to the northernmost part of the Blood Kelp and there's at least one Ghost Leviathan who lives there, but that isn't quite a Reaper.

And AFAIK there are two back on the far side of the Aurora. One hangs out around the nose; one is on the far right side (starboard).

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

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/

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

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

Yes, the very northern part.

Generally if you stay on the north side of the island, you'll only run into bonesharks until you get to the beach by the platform. I usually see the reaper on the south side of the island, by the base of the mountain. I just build a scanning room on the island and set it to track reapers. With range upgrades, you can see the location of at least two of them and they are easily avoided.

TLDR: the reaper can also spawn inside the caves, so be careful

I thought i'd be a really smart cookie by using the repulsion cannon to move the seamoth into the cave pool to explore the thing unbothered.

Barely 60 meters deep and coming back to the moth after checking the cave walls for any ore formations i just see a sinuous red and white thing swimming by me.

That mfker spawned INSIDE THE CAVE just to disimbue me of the notion that i was some sort of system breaking genius

Next time he sees me i'll be full of medpacks and a thermal knife

Mostly the reapers will stay a bit away from the island so if you hug the wall you’ll probably be fine but that’s still reaper territory so you’ll want to keep moving in case one gets to close. Anything that is in the mountains biome proper is risky as there are a lot of reapers hanging out there.

they roam around quite a lot so no way to tell really

The end of the game has you nearby when you take the >!teleporter to/from the Primary Containment Facility - the one inside the large Alien Containment with the Sea Emperor!< - and I don't recall any reapers. I took my cyclops and seamoth there a lot of times. There is a reaper on the eastern side of the island at about 140m depth, so as long as you don't swim to the right/east when exiting the docking area you should be fine. There are, however, more than a few Warpers.

You should genuinely contact devs. But if you want it in the game it can't be a direct reference to the reaperm this is a perfect idea

lowk the most fire thing

You bastard...you killed Sammy!

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

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.