Fabricator (Subnautica)

The Fabricator is a placeable item which can be used to craft food, equipment, tools and machines from resources, as well as to refine raw and crafted materials.

The Fabricator can be constructed with the Builder and placed inside the Cyclops or a Seabase Module. In addition there is one located in the player's starting location, the Escape Pod. The Fabricator can not be re-built in the escape pod after being deconstructed using the Builder tool.

The fabricator menu has an auto-close feature, after it has crafted an item (you hold "shift" button to prevent this), and that allows player to reopen menu during the fabrication.

The Fabricator will drain Energy from whatever it is built inside. If energy levels drop to 0% then the Fabricator cannot be used. The Fabricator does not require energy to operate in Freedom Mode or Creative Mode.

There is a mini-Fabricator built into the Seamoth Upgrade Console that crafts Seamoth Upgrades and Seamoth Vortex Torpedoes.

Fabricator crafting sections
The Fabricator has five main recipe categories:
 * Resources
 * Basic Materials
 * Advanced Materials
 * Electronics
 * Survival
 * Water
 * Cooked Food
 * Cured Food
 * Personal
 * Equipment
 * Tools
 * Deployables
 * Submarine

Mini Fabricator have two main recipe categories:
 * Seamoth Upgrade Modules
 * Seamoth Torpedoes