Speckled Rattler (Subnautica)

The Speckled Rattler is a small, terrestrial flora species. It is found in abundance on the Floating Island.

The player can either pick it up by hand or hit it with a knife in order to harvest four Speckled Rattler Spores from it. Both can be planted in an Exterior Growbed, an Indoor Growbed, Plant Pots and Plant Shelves.

It takes 400 seconds (6:40 minutes) to grow a fully mature Speckled Rattler from a spore.

Both models only have 15 Health and will be destroyed after a single Knife hit.

The Speckled Rattler is inedible and is mostly meant for decoration. Both the spores and the item can be used as fuel for the Bioreactor. Outside of this, it has no use in crafting.

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The Speckled Rattler can also be found on the Mountain Island around and leading up to the Alien Arch. They are also found scattered inside the Crag Field Alien Arch Cache.

Appearance

The Speckled Rattler resembles certain types of fungi, such as the Purple Morel. It has a round cap covered with dark purple dimples, emitting a dull bioluminescent purple glow, growing on a thick stem.

Day-time view

Bioluminescence

Energy Value

• Speckled Rattler: 140 Energy
• Speckled Rattler Spore: 14 Energy

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A brittle land-plant containing large spores which generate a characteristic rattle when the plant is shaken. This may act to ward off predators, or even encourage predation as a means of spreading the spores.

Gallery

Close-up of the different models

Speckled Rattlers with other Flora species

Speckled Rattlers and Pink Caps on the Floating Island

Size comparison with the player

Trivia

• The Speckled Rattler was originally called the Purple Rattle.
• While the Databank entry mentions the Speckled Rattler emitting a rattle, this is never heard in-game, neither by standing near or picking up the fungi.