Beds (Subnautica)

Beds are a Miscellaneous Item that can be built using the Habitat Builder. They serve as indoor decorative amenities that can be slept in. Three variants exist: the "Basic Double Bed", the "Quilted Double Bed", and the "Single Bed". The only difference between the Basic Double Bed and the Quilted Double Bed is that the quilted bed has a linen spread over its foot-end. The Single Bed is a smaller, cheaper variant with only one pillow.

Variants

Basic Double Bed

Category: Miscellaneous Items Description: A double bed.

Acquired From:

• Fragments: Found in Aurora, Wrecks, Bulb Zone, Mountains, Grand Reef, [Degasi Seabases](/wiki/degasi-seabases), Jellyshroom Cave, Deep Grand Reef.
• Debug Spawn: bed1

Quilted Double Bed

Category: Miscellaneous Items Description: A double bed with a beautiful gray linen spread.

Acquired From:

• Fragments: Found in Aurora, Wrecks, Bulb Zone, Mountains, Grand Reef, Degasi Seabases, Jellyshroom Cave, Deep Grand Reef.
• Debug Spawn: bed2

Single Bed

Category: Miscellaneous Items Description: A single bed.

Acquired From:

• Fragments: Found in Aurora, Degasi Seabases, Deep Grand Reef.
• Debug Spawn: narrowbed

Placement

Beds can be placed either in a Cyclops, a Multipurpose Room, an Observatory, a Moonpool, or a Scanner Room. A few Beds can be found inside a Wreck in the Mountains. There are also Beds inside the Aurora; and one can also be found right below one of the Jellyshroom Cave entrances in the Degasi Seabase.

Uses

Beds are not just a cosmetic item - facing the bed brings up a context prompt, and "using" it allows the player to have Ryley Robinson go to sleep. This advances the in-game clock by a set amount, including advancing all timer-based actions (ex. recharging batteries or waiting for plants to grow). While sleeping, food, water and oxygen levels are frozen; Ryley is completely safe during this period, even if he falls asleep in a burning Cyclops or an unpowered base with no air.

The short animation for sleeping is of Ryley laying down followed by a fade to black, and then a short animation where he sits up and stretches. There is an invisible cooldown timer of 10 minutes on the action, during which the player cannot have Ryley sleep again. Otherwise, the player can sleep at any time as long as the timer is not active. Beds will prevent you from sleeping if the Aurora has not exploded; possibly a feature inserted to prevent the skip of the drive failure all together.

The type of bed used has no mechanical effect on sleeping and is purely cosmetic.

The bed is helpful for bases with low energy production, as docking a vehicle inside a moonpool to charge and then sleeping will usually fully charge the vehicle (though it depends on the vehicle's power level) without Ryley dying from oxygen deprivation. This only works at night.

Energy is frozen while sleeping, while usage is not; thus giving infinite energy during the time spent sleeping.

Recipe

Crafting Station: Habitat Builder

Gallery

Basic Double Bed placed in a Seabase

Quilted Double Bed placed in a Seabase

A Single Bed placed in a Seabase

A Bed in an Observatory

Highpoly model from Sketchfab (Quilted Double Bed)