Red Feather Fish in Subnautica: Below Zero

Red Feather FishSmall herbivores in the game's databank. Rolled for each new game at 91 to 699 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 Red Feather Fish drawn on it
heat = where it can spawn (model)Open the map on Tree Spires →
Class
Small herbivores
Depth
91 m to 699 m
Spawns per game
about 3,387
Placed pins
none

“The red feather fish is a deep water variant of the more common feather fish. Its coloring helps it blend into the deeper and darker waters where there is less red light penetration. As a result, red and black fish are less visible to predators.”

Red Feather Fish, in-game databank. The studio's text, quoted short.

Where Red Feather Fish spawns

Median depth 299 m; 10% of the modelled spawns lie deeper than 699 m and 10% shallower than 91 m; the baked slots that can hold it span 1000 m to +0 m.

Areas where Red Feather Fish can spawn
AreaSlots that can hold itExpected per gameShare
Tree Spires56,9131,989
Crystal Caverns8,333991
Fabricator Caverns6,591252
Koppa Mining Site1,075110
Purple Vents53445

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 Red Feather Fish appears in most is Tree Spires. What else spawns there:

About the Red Feather Fish

The Red Feather Fish is filed under small herbivores in the game's databank. The files give it 73,446 baked slots that can hold it across 5 area groups, 3,387 expected spawns per new game, mostly in Tree Spires, at 91 to 699 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.