Cryptosuchus in Subnautica: Below Zero

CryptosuchusCarnivores in the game's databank. Rolled for each new game at 5 to 103 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 Cryptosuchus drawn on it
heat = where it can spawn (model)Open the map on Purple Vents →
Class
Carnivores
Depth
5 m to 103 m
Spawns per game
about 50
Placed pins
none

“The cryptosuchus is a large shark-like beast, easily identifiable by its carapace of thin, bony plates.”

Assessment: Avoid, but can be handled in a pinch.

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

Where Cryptosuchus spawns

Median depth 33 m; 10% of the modelled spawns lie deeper than 103 m and 10% shallower than 5 m; the baked slots that can hold it span 399 m to +0 m.

Areas where Cryptosuchus can spawn
AreaSlots that can hold itExpected per gameShare
Purple Vents20,01628
Thermal Spires12,03823

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

Cryptosuchus egg

The spawner tables roll the egg about 23 times per game, most in Thermal Spires.

In the same places

The area Cryptosuchus appears in most is Purple Vents. What else spawns there:

About the Cryptosuchus

The Cryptosuchus is filed under carnivores in the game's databank. The files give it 32,054 baked slots that can hold it across 2 area groups, 50 expected spawns per new game, mostly in Purple Vents, at 5 to 103 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.