Subnautica 2 Guide: How to Find and Farm Creature Enamel
The name is a total trap. Don't go swimming after massive apex predators expecting to pull their teeth out.
The game calls it "Creature Enamel," which logically sounds like something you carve out of a dead leviathan. In reality, it's just another stationary mining node you blast off the side of a cliff. You absolutely need this stuff to craft Enameled Glass, which is the exact material required to upgrade your Tadpole's depth module. Before you waste hours searching the wrong biomes or getting ripped apart by hostile fish, I mapped out the exact coordinates and gear you need to farm this efficiently.
Preparing for the Expedition
You can't just paddle over to the Enamel deposits in your starting gear. This material sits deep inside an incredibly dangerous zone.
First, you must bring a Sonic Resonator. You can't pick the Enamel up by hand. If you haven't built one yet, check out my Subnautica 2 Lead Location guide to find the materials required to craft it.
Second, you really shouldn't attempt this without a Tadpole vehicle. The journey takes you 1,400 meters east of your Lifepod, straight through a trench guarded by a massive Collector Leviathan. If you get grabbed, the Tadpole will absorb the damage and save your life. Finally, pack a few flares. The specific area where the Enamel spawns is infested with Needler Mangos that will constantly fire projectiles at you. Tossing a flare distracts them long enough for you to mine in peace.
Finding the Enamel Husks
The node you are looking for is called an Enamel Husk. It looks like a glob of blue-green tar with three long, white cylindrical teeth sticking out of it.
The Best Farming Spire
The highest concentration of Enamel Husks sits in the alien biome. To find it, start at the Alien Ruins waypoint (which you unlock by finding the keycode in the Tadpole Pens). From the Alien Ruins marker, pilot your Tadpole roughly 250 to 300 meters straight South-Southeast.
You are looking for a massive stone spire that stretches from the ocean floor all the way up to about 170 meters deep. The sides of this cliff face are littered with Enamel deposits. Pull out your Sonic Resonator, fire a charged blast at the Husk, and you'll typically pull two pieces of Creature Enamel per node.
Be incredibly careful about your depth here. Many of these nodes sit below 250 meters. Since you don't have the depth module yet (which is exactly why you're farming this material), taking your Tadpole past 250 meters will crush the hull. You have to park the vehicle above the crush depth, hop out, and swim down manually to grab the deeper nodes.
Setting Up a Forward Scanning Base
If you want to strip the entire biome clean without blindly searching the cliffs, you should build a forward operating base.
You just need a single powered room with a Scanner Station. Drop it near one of the natural underwater currents so you can power it with Hydroelectric Turbines, as I outlined in my Subnautica 2 Power Grid guide.
If you want to pack the exact materials in your Tadpole storage before leaving home, here's your shopping list for a fully functional scanning outpost:
Once the base is powered, fire up the console and select Creature Enamel. It will pinpoint every giant tooth sticking out of the rocks within a 600-meter sphere, letting you grab exactly what you need to craft your Enameled Glass and get out of there alive.
Still struggling to survive on Proteus? Check out my complete Subnautica 2 Guide Hub for base building tips, resource maps, and more.
