Hoopfish in Subnautica: Below Zero
Small herbivores in the game's databank. Rolled for each new game at 15 to 363 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.
- Class
- Small herbivores
- Depth
- 15 m to 363 m
- Spawns per game
- about 4,193
- Placed pins
- none
“Small, school-mentality prey fish with a unique method of propulsion, and a distant relative of the bladderfish.”
Assessment: Edible
Where Hoopfish spawns
Median depth 115 m; 10% of the modelled spawns lie deeper than 363 m and 10% shallower than 15 m; the baked slots that can hold it span 465 m to 2 m.
| Area | Slots that can hold it | Expected per game | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tree Spires | 7,480 | 1,631 | |
| Twisty Bridges | 26,870 | 1,500 | |
| Lily Pads | 5,626 | 727 | |
| Arctic Kelp | 2,134 | 201 | |
| Other areas | 2,018 | 134 |
Spawn numbers are a model read from the game's spawner tables and 921,892 baked slots, not verified in a running game.
In the same places
The area Hoopfish appears in most is Tree Spires. What else spawns there:
Silver
Gold
Uraninite crystal
Boomerang
Red Feather Fish
Arctic Peeper
Feather Fish
Spinefish
Arrow Ray
Triops
Spinner FishAbout the Hoopfish
The Hoopfish is filed under small herbivores in the game's databank. The files give it 44,128 baked slots that can hold it across 5 area groups, 4,193 expected spawns per new game, mostly in Tree Spires, at 15 to 363 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.