Blue Barnacles (Subnautica)

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Blue Barnacles
Tab	Flora
Biome	Primary Containment Facility's Aquarium Primary Containment Facility's Pipe Room
Debug Spawn	bluebarnacle bluebarnaclecluster

Blue Barnacles are a flora species found exclusively in the Primary Containment Facility Aquarium and Alien Vents rooms. Blue Barnacles come as Blue Barnacle Clusters, and singular Blue Barnacles.

Appearance

Blue Barnacles resemble clusters of real life Barnacles, embedded in a calcified, dark gray base. They have a maw with a light turquoise bioluminescent glow. Despite resembling barnacles of Earth, they are a flora species.

Gallery

• Screenshots
• Concept Art
• Other

Close up shot

Bioluminescence

Clusters of Blue Barnacles in the Primary Containment Facility Aquarium

A cluster of Blue Barnacle

A tank in the Pipe Room with Blue Barnacles

Twisty Bridges' Concept art, featuring Blue Barnacle Clusters

More Twisty Bridges' Concept art, showing Blue Barnacle Clusters towards the bottom

Blue Barnacles on the official Flora sheet of Subnautica

Early developer screenshot

The two types

Trivia

• Real life barnacles fall under the Fauna category, however, on the official Flora sheets for Subnautica, they are listed as Flora.
• Blue Barnacles are remarkably similar to the Barnacle, which is a harvesting node found exclusively on adult Reefback Leviathans.
• The Blue Barnacles were originally intended to be featured in the Twisty Bridges biome.
  • They were eventually featured in this position in Below Zero's Twisty Bridges biome.