How To Get Aerogel In Subnautica?

Aerogel in Subnautica is a reasonably advanced material you’ll need to craft your base’s essential items, machines, and structures. Getting Aerogel isn’t easy to make, but if you follow this guide, you can indeed create one.

Subnautica is an action-adventure game developed and published by Unknown Worlds Entertainment. Subnautica was initially released on December 16, 2014.

Players in the game control a non-essential systems maintenance chief- often called the janitor inside the Subnautica community – who is the only survivor of the spaceship crash on an alien planet where the game is set. 

The game is available on platforms like Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox One.

What is Aerogel in Subnautica

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Aerogel is a light porous gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with a gas. This results in a substance with incredible heat insulation. It is an advanced material and is crafted with a fabricator. It is crafted with two materials. 

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How To Get Aerogel in Subnautica

To get Aerogel in Subnautica, you must just turn to the handy Fabricator in the player’s Lifepod.  A Fabricator is one of the pre-built interior modules in Lifepod 5 and the only one that remained unusable after you crash-landed on the planet.

So, in order to get the Aerogel in you need to craft it in Subnautia with the help of two items Gel Sacs and Rubies.

Materials Needed To Craft Aerogel

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You need to obtain two materials to be able to craft an Aerogel

  • Gel sacs
  • Rubies 

You won’t get these items randomly. You need to find them.

Gel Sac

This is the first ingredient you need to make Aerogel in Subnautica.  You can find this material within deep caves attached to walls. They can be spotted by the purple orbs on their circular body.

You can find this material in these biomes:

  • Blood kelp zone
  • Bone fields caves 
  • Deep grand reef 
  • Dunes 
  • Grand reef 
  • Lost rivers 
  • Bone fields 
  • Corridor 
  • Ghost canyon
  • Ghost forest 
  • Tree cover 
  • Mountains 
  • Northwestern mushroom forest 
  • Sea treader’s tunnel caves 
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Rubies

This is the second ingredient for creating an Aerogel in Subnautica. Rubies like gel sacs can also be found easily if you know where to look for them, and once you are at the right place, look for white rocks with four red spikes peeking out of them. You can usually find them near thermal vents.

You can find rubies in the following locations:

  • Blood kelp zone 
  • Bone fields caves 
  • Bulb zone 
  • Blub zone caves 
  • Crash zone mesas
  • Deep sparse reef
  • Dunes
  • Grand reef
  • Grand reef caves 
  • Inactive lava zone 
  • Lost River
  • Corridor
  • Ghost canyon 
  • Ghost forest 
  • Tree cove
  • Junction 
  • Mountains corridor
  • Mountains caves 
  • Seatreader’s Tunnel cave
  • Underwater islands caves 

Items You Can Craft With Aerogel

Once you find the two materials to craft Aerogel, you can use them to prepare several different and valuable items.

  • Stillsuit
  • Thermal Plant
  • Water Filtration Machine
  • Prawn Suit
  • Seamoth Torpedo System 
  • Prawn Suit Torpedo Arm 
  • Cyclope Fire Suppression System 
  • Cyclops Decoy Tube Upgrade
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This is all you need to know about Aerogel in Subnautica for more similar content do check our Subnautica guides section.

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