Mobile Vehicle Bay

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The Mobile Vehicle Bay is a deployable item that allows the player to construct vehicles. It can be crafted by using the Fabricator. It takes up nine inventory slots while in the player's inventory.

The player must scan three Fragments to obtain the Blueprints for the Mobile Vehicle Bay. These can commonly be found in Wrecks.

1 Uses
- 1.1 Controls
2 Recipe
3 Uses in Crafting
4 Data Bank Entry
5 Gallery
6 Trivia
7 References

Uses

Controls

Action	Mouse & Keyboard	Xbox One	PlayStation 4
Board/Use/Pack Up	LMB

When released by the player, it will float to the surface and unfold itself. It can then be boarded. Using the interface, the player can construct a Seamoth, Cyclops, or Prawn Suit if they have the required materials and blueprints.

The base of the Mobile Vehicle Bay houses four fabrication drones that will activate themselves and float above the Mobile Vehicle Bay when the player approaches. When the player selects a vehicle to construct, the fabrication drones will swarm out in front of the Mobile Vehicle Bay to build the vehicle in the time it requires, showing its progress in the same fashion as using the Habitat Builder.

The player can pick up the Mobile Vehicle Bay by looking at the metal platform and pressing the correct key.

It is currently possible to deploy and trap the Mobile Vehicle Bay under a Moonpool, allowing vehicles to be constructed at any depth.

Spoiler alert: The following section contains story related material.
The Mobile Vehicle Bay can also be used to construct the Neptune Launch Platform if the player has the required blueprint.

Recipe

Uses in Crafting

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Data Bank Entry


The mobile vehicle bay is a deployable station equipped with fabrication drones, designed to construct small research and exploration vehicles from raw materials. It is a common tool in almost all industrial, scientific and colonization operations.

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Trivia

The Mobile Vehicle Bay was originally called the Constructor.
If dropped by the player, it will float to the surface and unfold.

References

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Items in Subnautica

Raw Materials

Acid Mushroom • Alien Feces • Baby Leviathan Enzymes • Blood Oil • Cave Sulfur • Copper Ore • Creepvine Sample • Creepvine Seed Cluster • Crystalline Sulfur • Coral Tube Sample • Deep Shroom • Diamond • Fungal Sample • Gas Pod • Gel Sack • Gold • Kyanite • Lead • Lithium • Metal Salvage • Magnetite • Nickel Ore • Quartz • Salt Deposit • Silver Ore • Speckled Rattler • Stalker Teeth • Ruby • Table Coral Sample • Titanium • Uraninite Crystal

Seeds and Spores

Blood Oil • Bulb Bush Sample • Bulbo Tree Sample • Chinese Potato • Creepvine Sample • Creepvine Seed Cluster • Lantern Fruit
Acid Mushroom Spore • Blue Palm Seed • Cave Bush Seed • Deep Shroom Spore • Eye Stalk Seed • Fern Palm Seed • Furled Papyrus Seed • Gabe's Feather Seed • Gel Sack Spores • Ghost Weed Seed • Grub Basket Seed • Jaffa Cup Seed • Jellyshroom Spore • Marblemelon Seeds • Membrain Tree Seed • Ming Plant Seed • Pink Cap Spore • Pygmy Fan Seed • Redwort Seed • Regress Shell Seed • Rouge Cradle Seed • Sea Crown Seed • Speckled Rattler Spore • Spiked Horn Grass Seed • Spotted Dockleaf Seed • Tiger Plant Seed

Crafted Resources

Basic Materials	Bleach • Enameled Glass • Fiber Mesh • Glass • Lubricant • Plasteel Ingot • Silicone Rubber • Titanium • Titanium Ingot

Advanced Materials	Aerogel • Benzene • Hydrochloric Acid • Polyaniline • Synthetic Fibers • Hatching Enzymes

Electronics	Advanced Wiring Kit • Battery • Ion Battery • Computer Chip • Copper Wire • Power Cell • Ion Power Cell • Reactor Rod • Wiring Kit

Food & Water

Drinkable	Coffee Americano • Disinfected Water • Filtered Water • Large Filtered Water • Reclaimed Water

Fish	Bladderfish • Boomerang • Eyeye • Garryfish • Holefish • Hoverfish • Oculus • Peeper • Reginald • Spadefish • Spinefish

Raw	Bulb Bush Sample • Bulbo Tree Sample • Chinese Potato • Creepvine Sample • Gel Sack • Lantern Fruit • Marblemelon

Processed	Nutrient Block • Snacks

Personal

Equipment	Compass • Fins • Fire Extinguisher • First Aid Kit • High Capacity O₂ Tank • Lightweight High Capacity Tank • Pipe • Radiation Suit • Rebreather • Reinforced Dive Suit • Scanner Room HUD Chip • Standard O₂ Tank • Stillsuit • Ultra High Capacity Tank

Tools	Air Bladder • Flare • Flashlight • Habitat Builder • Laser Cutter • Light Stick • Pathfinder Tool • Propulsion Cannon • Repair Tool • Repulsion Cannon • Scanner • Seaglide • Stasis Rifle • Survival Knife • Time Capsule • Thermoblade

Deployables

Beacon • Creature Decoy • Grav Trap • Mobile Vehicle Bay • Seaglide • Waterproof Locker

Upgrade Modules

Cyclops	Creature Decoy • Cyclops Decoy Tube Upgrade • Cyclops Depth Module MK1 • Cyclops Depth Module MK2 • Cyclops Depth Module MK3 • Cyclops Docking Bay Repair Module • Cyclops Engine Efficiency Module • Cyclops Shield Generator • Cyclops Sonar Upgrade • Cyclops Fire Suppression System • Cyclops Thermal Reactor Module

Prawn Suit	Engine Efficiency Module • Prawn Suit Propulsion Cannon • Prawn Suit Torpedo Arm • Prawn Suit Grappling Arm • Prawn Suit Drill Arm • Prawn Suit Jump Jet Upgrade • Prawn Suit Thermal Reactor • Hull Reinforcement • Prawn Suit Depth Module MK1 • Prawn Suit Depth Module MK2 • Storage Module • Gas Torpedo • Vortex Torpedo

Seamoth	Engine Efficiency Module • Hull Reinforcement • Seamoth Depth Module MK1 • Seamoth Depth Module MK2 • Seamoth Depth Module MK3 • Storage Module • Seamoth Solar Charger • Seamoth Perimeter Defense System • Torpedo System • Seamoth Sonar • Gas Torpedo • Vortex Torpedo

Scanner Room	Scanner Room Range Upgrade • Scanner Room Speed Upgrade • Scanner Room HUD Chip