We continue our study of strongly unbounded colorings, this time focusing on subadditive maps. In Part I of this series, we showed that, for many pairs of infinite cardinals
$\theta < \kappa $
, the existence of a strongly unbounded coloring
$c:[\kappa ]^2 \rightarrow \theta $
is a theorem of
$\textsf{ZFC}$
. Adding the requirement of subadditivity to a strongly unbounded coloring is a significant strengthening, though, and here we see that in many cases the existence of a subadditive strongly unbounded coloring
$c:[\kappa ]^2 \rightarrow \theta $
is independent of
$\textsf{ZFC}$
. We connect the existence of subadditive strongly unbounded colorings with a number of other infinitary combinatorial principles, including the narrow system property, the existence of
$\kappa $
-Aronszajn trees with ascent paths, and square principles. In particular, we show that the existence of a closed, subadditive, strongly unbounded coloring
$c:[\kappa ]^2 \rightarrow \theta $
is equivalent to a certain weak indexed square principle
$\boxminus ^{\operatorname {\mathrm {ind}}}(\kappa , \theta )$
. We conclude the paper with an application to the failure of the infinite productivity of
$\kappa $
-stationarily layered posets, answering a question of Cox.