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After you reach the surface and get to work making your new aquatic habitat a home, your Subnautica 2 adventure hits a snag: You can't digest any of this planet's lifeforms. Whatever fish you catch and gobble up, even if cooked, throw up warnings about " digestive incompatibility ." Mercifully, Subnautica 2 leaves the physical consequences of underwater indigestion to our imaginations, but you will have to solve this problem to progress.

How to digest food in Subnautica 2

You'll have to do this again to acquire the digestive enzymes you need to consume the plasticy flora and fauna around you.

Explore your surroundings: As you explore and collect resources, you'll receive notices that your Noetic Adviser—aka NOA—has new observations for you. Access NOA via the Wheatley-like orb in your lifepod.

An early NOA message titled "Missing Colonists" will inform you that there are 26 missing colonists for you to track down.…