Brinewing in Subnautica: Below Zero

BrinewingCarnivores in the game's databank. Rolled for each new game at 5 to 27 m deep.

Data: Subnautica: Below Zero game files (build of 12 Aug 2025), read and drawn by PinDrop. (c) Unknown Worlds Entertainment. PinDrop is fan-made and not affiliated with Unknown Worlds Entertainment.

Map of Subnautica: Below Zero with the Brinewing drawn on it
heat = where it can spawn (model)Open the map on Sparse Arctic Zone →
Class
Carnivores
Depth
5 m to 27 m
Spawns per game
about 134
Placed pins
none

“A medium-sized predator known to spit supercooled salt water to freeze its prey from afar.”

Assessment: Beware a full bladder

Brinewing, in-game databank. The studio's text, quoted short.

Where Brinewing spawns

Median depth 11 m; 10% of the modelled spawns lie deeper than 27 m and 10% shallower than 5 m; the baked slots that can hold it span 64 m to +43 m.

Areas where Brinewing can spawn
AreaSlots that can hold itExpected per gameShare
Sparse Arctic Zone9,939134

Spawn numbers are a model read from the game's spawner tables and 921,892 baked slots, not verified in a running game.

Brinewing egg

The spawner tables roll the egg about 53 times per game, most in Sparse Arctic Zone.

In the same places

The area Brinewing appears in most is Sparse Arctic Zone. What else spawns there:

About the Brinewing

The Brinewing is filed under carnivores in the game's databank. The files give it 9,939 baked slots that can hold it across 1 area groups, 134 expected spawns per new game, mostly in Sparse Arctic Zone, at 5 to 27 m deep for the middle 80%.

The files do not say how it behaves or what it can do to the player, so this page carries only the studio's databank text above. Depths are metres below sea level; coordinates are the game's world metres, x east and z north.

Spawn numbers are a model (slot tables), not verified in a running game. Placed pins are read as placed.