Spinner Fish in Subnautica: Below Zero

Spinner FishSmall herbivores in the game's databank. Rolled for each new game at 55 to 181 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 Spinner Fish drawn on it
heat = where it can spawn (model)Open the map on Lily Pads →
Class
Small herbivores
Depth
55 m to 181 m
Spawns per game
about 444
Placed pins
none

“A bizarre fish with star-like fins which it spins to generate propulsion.”

Assessment: Edible

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

Where Spinner Fish spawns

Median depth 101 m; 10% of the modelled spawns lie deeper than 181 m and 10% shallower than 55 m; the baked slots that can hold it span 600 m to 16 m.

Areas where Spinner Fish can spawn
AreaSlots that can hold itExpected per gameShare
Lily Pads3,174354
Arctic Kelp1,71191

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 Spinner Fish appears in most is Lily Pads. What else spawns there:

About the Spinner Fish

The Spinner Fish is filed under small herbivores in the game's databank. The files give it 4,885 baked slots that can hold it across 2 area groups, 444 expected spawns per new game, mostly in Lily Pads, at 55 to 181 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.