Jar Sponge

-| Property | Value |-|---|---|-| Type | Anchored |-| Category | Sponges |+| Property | Details |+| :--- | :--- |+| **Type** | Anchored |+| **Category** | Sponges |  -A **Jar Sponge** is an unimplemented Lifeform.+![Jar Sponge render](Jar Sponge render.png)  +A **Jar Sponge** is an unimplemented lifeform in Subnautica 2.+  ## Databank Entry   **Symphon pithos**, the large jar sponge. A filter-feeder that produces antibiotics and other chemicals in bulk. Possibly a runaway crop.   ### 1. Sponge morphology Like both Protean and Earth sponges, a simple animal without organs. Pumps water in through pores and out through its central aperture, filtering nutrients.   ### 2. Pharmacological factory A single strain of symbiotic bacteria produces potent antibiotics which kill other microbes. The sponge itself uses genes apparently transferred from extinct symbiotes to produce large amounts of a single chemical—such as antibiotics, resins, plastics or steroids. This chemical product pools in the jar's center.   ### 3. Runaway crop? The jar sponge's wide, accessible aperture and pure chemical product suggest it may be a crop.   ### 4. Alternative hypothesis The jar sponge may have been selected by a forager which tended to destroy smaller or less chemically productive sponges.   **Assessment:** a possible sign of re-wilding after the collapse of agriculture.   **Trivia:** in the original Greek, the myth of Pandora's box actually refers to a pithos (jar).