Glow Whale in Subnautica: Below Zero

Glow WhaleLeviathans in the game's databank. Rolled for each new game at 13 to 177 m deep. 6 are placed by hand between 44 to 100 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 Glow Whale drawn on it
Placed in the world (6)heat = where it can spawn (model)All 6 placed Glow Whale pins on the map →
Class
Leviathans
Depth
13 m to 177 m
Spawns per game
about 53
Placed pins
6

“Glow Whales are communal leviathans approximately 30m long, often found swimming in the open ocean and occasionally breaching the surface.”

Assessment: Passive, harbors barnacles and algae.

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

Where Glow Whale spawns

Median depth 87 m; 10% of the modelled spawns lie deeper than 177 m and 10% shallower than 13 m; the baked slots that can hold it span 400 m to +0 m.

Areas where Glow Whale can spawn
AreaSlots that can hold itExpected per gameShare
Lily Pads49,67844
East Iceberg Zone34,4588.8

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

Placed by hand

6 Glow Whale objects sit at fixed coordinates in the game files. They are exact, not modelled.

Where Glow Whale is placed
AreaPlacedDepthPositionMap
East Iceberg Zone183 mx 580, z -435Show on map
Lily Pads144 mx 562, z -683Show on map
East Iceberg Zone1100 mx 746, z -365Show on map
East Iceberg Zone159 mx 693, z -554Show on map
East Iceberg Zone152 mx 930, z -743Show on map
East Iceberg Zone144 mx 922, z -474Show on map

Glow whale egg

The spawner tables roll the egg about 48 times per game, most in Lily Pads.

In the same places

The area Glow Whale appears in most is Lily Pads. What else spawns there:

About the Glow Whale

The Glow Whale is filed under leviathans in the game's databank. The files give it 84,136 baked slots that can hold it across 2 area groups, 53 expected spawns per new game, mostly in Lily Pads, at 13 to 177 m deep for the middle 80%. 6 are placed by hand.

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.