Mobile Vehicle Bay (Subnautica)

Overview

The Mobile Vehicle Bay is a deployable item that allows the player to construct vehicles. It can be crafted by using the Fabricator. It takes up nine inventory slots while in the player's inventory.

The player must scan three Fragments to obtain the Blueprints for the Mobile Vehicle Bay. These can commonly be found in Wrecks, or in crates scattered around the Kelp Forest.

Fragment Locations

• Seabed
• Kelp Forest
• Wrecks
• Grassy Plateaus
• Safe Shallows

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Uses

When released by the player, it will float to the surface and unfold itself. It can then be boarded. Using the interface, the player can construct a Seamoth, Cyclops, or Prawn Suit if they have the required materials and blueprints.

The base of the Mobile Vehicle Bay houses four fabrication drones that will activate themselves and float above the Mobile Vehicle Bay when the player approaches. When the player selects a vehicle to construct, the fabrication drones will swarm out in front of the Mobile Vehicle Bay to build the vehicle in the time it requires, showing its progress in the same fashion as using the Habitat Builder, although a large difference between the two is that you can place blueprints with the Habitat Builder even if you don't have the required resources.

The player can pick up the Mobile Vehicle Bay by looking at the metal platform and pressing the correct key.

It is currently possible to deploy and trap the Mobile Vehicle Bay under a Moonpool, allowing vehicles to be constructed at any depth.

Spoiler Alert

The Mobile Vehicle Bay can also be used to construct the Neptune Launch Platform if the player has the required blueprint.

Controls

Recipe

Crafted in the Fabricator:

• 1x Titanium Ingot
• 1x Lubricant
• 1x Power Cell

Uses in Crafting

The Mobile Vehicle Bay is used to craft:

• Seamoth: Glass, Lead, Plasteel Ingot, Enameled Glass, Advanced Wiring Kit
• Cyclops: Aerogel, Diamond
• Prawn Suit: Computer Chip

Spoiler Alert

• Rocket Base: Requires 4 Computer Chips

Data Bank Entry

The mobile vehicle bay is a deployable station equipped with fabrication drones, designed to construct small research and exploration vehicles from raw materials. It is a common tool in almost all industrial, scientific and colonization operations.

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Personal Propulsion

Construct a Seamoth How to obtain: The player has to build a Seamoth.

Ordered the Prawn

Build a Prawn Suit How to obtain: A Prawn Suit must be built in order to obtain this Achievement.

40-foot Sub For One

Build a Cyclops How to obtain: The player must own a Cyclops.

Leave Only Time Capsules

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

Launch the Neptune Rocket How to obtain: The player must find the blueprint, and construct the Neptune Escape Rocket, and escape from Planet 4546B.

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Trivia

• The Mobile Vehicle Bay was originally called the Constructor.
• If dropped by the player, it will float to the surface and unfold.