Achievements
Achievements are a feature of Subnautica and Below Zero. There are 17 achievements in the first game and 13 in the second. Achievements that are relatively easy to obtain are listed in green, medium difficulty in yellow, and harder to obtain are listed in red.
In both Subnautica and Below Zero, if the console is opened and Console Commands are used, Achievements will be permanently disabled for the save, unless the player quits the game without saving. You can reset your achievements in the Steam version using the Console Command ResetAchievements. Note that this CANNOT be undone.
Achievements by Game
Subnautica
Getting Your Feet Wet
Description: Dive for the very first time
How to obtain: The easiest Achievement to earn, one must simply exit Lifepod 5 via the bottom hatch or jump into the water via the top hatch.
Settling in for the Long Haul
Description: Build a habitat
How to obtain: The player has to construct a Seabase module, which requires the Habitat Builder to build.
Extinction Event Avoided
Description: Repair the Aurora's Drive Core
How to obtain: The player has to fix the breaches in the Aurora's drive core.
Ancient Technologies
Description: Find the Enforcement Platform
How to obtain: The player has to reach the Mountain Island and find the Quarantine Enforcement Platform.
Personal Propulsion
Description: Construct a Seamoth
How to obtain: The player has to build a Seamoth.
Ordered the Prawn
Description: Build a Prawn Suit
How to obtain: A Prawn Suit must be built in order to obtain this Achievement.
Seaside Living with an Ocean View
Description: Find the Degasi habitat on the floating island
How to obtain: The player has to discover Degasi Seabase on the Floating Island.
Follow the Degasi
Description: Find the Degasi habitat in the jellyshroom cave
How to obtain: The player must discover the Degasi Seabase in the Jellyshroom Cave.
Seamonsters
Description: Find the Degasi habitat in the deep grand reef
How to obtain: The player must find the Degasi Seabase in the Deep Grand Reef and pickup PDAs there.
"Man's Best Friend"
Description: Hatch and release a Cuddlefish
How to obtain: The player must find one of the scattered Cuddlefish Eggs around the world, Put into alien containment, hatch it, and release it.
40-foot Sub For One
Description: Build a cyclops
How to obtain: The player must own a Cyclops.
Follow the Lost River
Description: Find the Disease Research Facility
How to obtain: The player has to discover the Disease Research Facility in the Lost River.
Thermal Activity
Description: Find the Thermal Plant
How to obtain: The player must discover the Alien Thermal Plant inside the Lava Castle.
Fourteen Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Description: Find the Primary Containment Facility
How to obtain: The player must find and enter the Primary Containment Facility in the Lava Lakes.
Optimal Health
Description: Cure the infection
How to obtain: The player must communicate with the Sea Emperor Leviathan and hatch the Sea Emperor Infants in order to obtain Enzyme 42. The player must complete the entire healing cutscene in order to obtain the achievement.
Leave Only Time Capsules
Description: Create and deploy a time capsule
How to obtain: A Time Capsule must be constructed and left in the world for another player to discover.
Go Among the Stars
Description: Launch the neptune rocket
How to obtain: The player must find the blueprint, and construct the Neptune Escape Rocket, and escape from Planet 4546B.
Subnautica: Below Zero
Drop in the Ocean
Description: Locate your Drop Pod.
How to obtain: The player must locate/enter the Drop Pod in the Twisty Bridges.
Like Riding a Bike
Description: Ride a Snowfox.
How to obtain: Construct a Snowfox on the Snowfox Hoverpad and ride it.
Truckin'
Description: Construct a Seatruck.
How to obtain: The player must build a Seatruck.
Spy Pengling
Description: Construct a spy pengling.
How to obtain: Scan and fabricate a Spy Pengling.
Necessary Repairs
Description: Repair the bridge.
How to obtain: Repair the bridge in the Glacial Bay using Hydraulic Fluid.
Xenobiology
Description: Encounter a sapient alien lifeform.
How to obtain: Find Sanctuary Zero and initiate the download sequence in the storage cube's chamber.
Another Survivor
Description: Find Marguerit's home.
How to obtain: Locate and enter Marguerit Maida's Base.
Pirate Radio
Description: Disable Alterra communications.
How to obtain: Insert the Test Override Module into the Communications Tower's maintenance port. Then head back down to the tower's terminal and select [Enter Test Mode].
Out of Mind
Description: Construct an alien vessel.
How to obtain: Construct Al-An's Storage Medium at the Fabricator Base.
Jukebox Hero
Description: Install a jukebox.
How to obtain: Construct a Jukebox inside a base using the Habitat Builder.
Dressed For The Weather
Description: Construct a cold suit.
How to obtain: Fabricate and equip all parts of the Cold Suit.
Finding the Cure
Description: Use the antidote.
How to obtain: Eliminate the Kharaa Pustules on the Frozen Leviathan by using the Kharaa Antidote.
Into the Unknown
Description: Leave 4546b.
How to obtain: Leave for the Architect planet with Al-An