How to get the Sonic Resonator and mine in Subnautica 2

Subnautica 2 mining: A Sonic Resonator on a table inside a pristine base. — (Image credit: Unknown Worlds)

Early on in Subnautica 2, you'll be grabbing ore by hand. It's painfully slow, and you can't mine the big ore veins you'll come across with your basic tools—it'll say an "unknown tool is required". That's where the Sonic Resonator comes in.

This heavy-duty mining tool can blast large ore deposits like titanium, silver, and lead with ease, letting you collect valuable materials en masse—which you'll need once you start building bases and more complex tools. You can also use it to destroy Bloom Biofilm.

How to get the Sonic Resonator and mine in Subnautica 2

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Subnautica 2 mining: A player swimming towards the Old Habitat, using the Wakemaker. — This is the Old Habitat where you can find three Sonic Resonator fragments.(Image credit: Unknown Worlds)

You need to scan just two Sonic Resonator locations to unlock it as a craftable blueprint. These are the locations I've found, and it's more than enough:

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There are two inside the Old Habitat around 370 meters to the north of the Lifepod, where you'll find Quaker's black box for an early task.
- The first is directly to your right when you enter the door.
- The second is directly ahead of you when you enter the building, next to a toppled table.
One on a desk inside a cave just a few meters away from the Lifepod if you head 345° north.
There's another one in the overturned crate just behind Wander's black box at the Spider Dome, around 240 meters southwest (240° on the compass) of the Lifepod—you're looking for a giant coral dome that resembles a spider.

Subnautica 2 mining: A player looking at a large block of titanium, about to mine it using the Sonic Resonator. — (Image credit: Unknown Worlds)

Once you've unlocked the blueprint for the Sonic Resonator, you'll need the following materials to actually craft it:

1x basic battery (also required to recharge it)
2x titanium ingots
2x lead
1x wiring kit

While you can find titanium ingots by opening caches, you're best off building a Processor to refine them yourself. Likewise, you can craft wiring kits using one piece of silver and a copper wire. And I found the small chunks of lead you need (remember, you won't be able to break the large blocks yet) in a ravine about 250 meters northeast of the Lifepod.

Return to a Fabricator in your base (not the basic one inside the Lifepod) to craft your Sonic Resonator. To mine, all you need to do is swim over to a large ore vein and charge up the Sonic Resonator to smash it into chunks, which you'll automatically collect provided you have inventory space.

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