🏠awesome-bases

[civic ruin]

I know I can't deconstruct. But I'm constructing.

[honest sundial]

it's not supposed to let you do that either

if there's something in the way, you shouldn't be able to connect or build something in that space - like you can't put a window or another base module where you put the vehicle upgrade console

[reef lotus]

always have backup rubies man

[honest sundial]

I always have a whole locker with a sign above it saying "shinies" full of diamonds and rubies - because you need them an awful lot

[civic ruin]

Now I got half locker of rubies and one full locker of diamonds.

[stoic aurora]

Rubies I agree

Diamond though?

They usually come as a "aw cmon, I just want lithium" early game to me :p

[honest sundial]

you need them for a lot of advanced gear later

the drill arm alone needs four

[stoic aurora]

Yeah but in total you need what, 15 diamond for a playthrough?

while I'm always running out of lithium

I guess my fondness for deep bases shows a bit

[honest sundial]

but

there's loads of lithium in the Mushroom forest? big and small deposits both? I usually do two runs with a Prawn that has 2 storage modules and I'm set for the entire game

[stoic aurora]

I generally do an early trip to the strider leviathans as first source of lithium, before even getting a prawn

I kinda like having a big base and I prefer adding lithium-based reinforcements over bulkheads and the like

[quick juniper]

In the early game I go to the quarantine enforcement platform, caves there are full of lithium

[stoic aurora]

yeah that one works too

depends on my mood generally tbh

I just like the striders they're so cool

and the wreck there has some cool stuff iirc

(as well as an entrance to a sanctuary, but that's only important if you care about the lore)

[reef lotus]

striders?

[lilac rapids]

I think they mean sea treaders

[stoic aurora]

yeah didn't recall the name

sea treaders leviathans

I knew strider sounded weird

[reef lotus]

oh the sea treaders

[blazing ferry]

In my creative file of Subnautica, I had to remove a room so that a Sea Treader could carry on. It wasn't smart enough to go around. XD

I put the room back once it left.

[stoic aurora]

Lmao

That's one way to annoy them I guess

I don't think I even started a creative playthrough tbh, I guess I'm a masochist who finds spending a lot of time just drilling titanium therapeutic or sthg

[hasty cloud]

^

[honest sundial]

I like creative for testing base concepts, but other than that...not really. For some reason bases built in survival tend to be better, more lived in, more plausible because you gotta get from a to b and having short paths is kind of important because huge, labyrinthine builds look cool but are a pain to actually navigate

[stoic aurora]

Only labyrinthine part in my survival base is the aquarium part

But yeah I agree, when you need to actually play in a base, you tend to taek practicalities into account, while in creative that'd arguably be less important

[hasty cloud]

ilike to cram beds into hallways

in a T junction a bed fits

[stoic aurora]

I like my beds to be near an aquarium

I suppose my bedroom blueprint is generally unimaginative

Bed, windows, bar table, coffee machine, a couple lantern trees, and a desk + chair + aurora miniature combo :p

[reef lotus]

i always place the plushie on my bed

it looks awesome

and yeah i dont like creative aswell for the same reasons

[stoic aurora]

Plus again, I don't mind the mining trips

they're kinda calming

So it means terraria 1.4 will release before so I should have time for a vanilla playthrough and a moded playthrough before below zero 😄

[honest sundial]

bed goes into observatory. always 😄

[reef lotus]

oh yeah deff

i do like placing planters in observatories tho

so usually its a 50/50

[honest sundial]

I like putting external planters outside of windows - looks great looking out

[hearty cave]

HAH! Found it again, old lava zone base. Save's long gone, but darn was that thing my favorite living place. Named the three sea dragons that float around the castle.

[hearty cave]

Think I posted the rest on here years ago. No idea how long discord cashes things.

[forest hill]

Sweet mother of Mary and Joseph

[hearty cave]

Made custom picture frames too. Center tower was hydroponics with an executives quarters on the top floor, farthest back tower was the laboratories and alien containment, back right was the dormitories and personal storage, and the small frontal tower was the mess hall and recreation rooms. It was a darn good base.

[blazing ferry]

Nice base, Ithharr.

Do those annoying leeches latch on to bases, or only vehicles?

[reef lotus]

looks good the glass coridors are a bit to long for my taste but it looks awesome!

[hearty cave]

Not that I know of Nerdy. Only ever had them attach to the cyclops and the prawn. Would occasionally need to lure the jerk sea dragon that lived by the lava waterfall away but that was about the worst of it.

[pseudo rain]

My Cyclops base in SN1

lots of plants

all from the floating island

Also, on the wall you cant see in the first photo, I have two battery chargers and a wall locker.

[hasty cloud]

Why no bed

[forest hill]

He doesn't need sleep. He's a boss

[pure holly]

XD

[pseudo rain]

Sleep is irrelevant

Also I forgot about beds

I might add one somewhere

Idk, I never use them

[cedar wharf]

whyd you block the decoy tube?

[alpine flicker]

It's still reachable

[blazing ferry]

Nice set up. All I usually put in my Cyclops is a fabricator, and a grow bed.

[pseudo rain]

@cedar wharf I put ming plants in front of the decoy tube instead of two more lantern trees so that I could reach it.

[cedar wharf]

oki

[reef lotus]

the legs r horrible

looks good tho

[oak haven]

nothing I can do about the legs tho

[reef lotus]

make it lower or not on a cliff :p

[oak haven]

I aint about to rebuild this whole base

and part of the reason its elevated is for the moon pool

[lilac rapids]

Why do u have so many hatches

[forest hill]

You got bored of walking around to find an exit

[zinc lava]

The more hatches and windows the better

Gotta flex that hull integrity

[reef lotus]

have it at 0.01

[zinc lava]

^

[outer python]

Why didnt you hang the moon pool off the ledge then? Its built in space!!

[reef lotus]

^

[oak haven]

My hull integrity is like 170

[forest hill]

357

[oak haven]

Dang

[forest hill]

Big base

Big lag

[oak haven]

The moon pool was build for both a sea moth and a prawn suit

[outer python]

Yea... jump jet and grapling hook... you can get anywhere

[civic ruin]

I think to get rid of legs, you can chain your components either higher or horizontally so it's really far from below, then deconstruct the intermediary components. That's how I got my Tree Cove base to 870m.

[pseudo rain]

You can try to use foundation platforms to fix the leg problem. Sometimes those platforms will just float randomly. It might work, but I'm not sure. It just depends on how the platforms interact with the environment.

[echo coyote]

a small,simple base

though,inside..

[pseudo rain]

Oh shoot

Impressive

Can you even reach the stuff in the back like the radio, and modification table?

[reef lotus]

damn impressive

also yeah can u reach the stuff at the back?

[echo coyote]

yes

you can

once you enter

you stand on the bed

you can walk on the bed

and reach the stuff in the back

[pseudo rain]

Wow

Nice

[echo coyote]

thx

[pseudo rain]

I am thoroughly impressed

[reef lotus]

me 2 man

[echo coyote]

i wonder if i can fit it inside a single corridor

[empty sand]

If you remove some pots, definitely

[echo coyote]

oh yeah

i'll make a full base

on a small island

TADAAAA

[reef lotus]

thats sick

storage tho

bit on thye low side :p

would be the perfect base for my nomad world

[echo coyote]

well

there's alot of storage

like 5 lockers

[reef lotus]

3 things?

i see 4

3*

[echo coyote]

oh yeah there's 4

not 5

one is over here

the whole island

a snowman is included

[reef lotus]

thats sick

im gonna eventually build on the island or around it

[echo coyote]

ok

here

just so you know where the island is

jeez this will be great

ok

bridge to the main island? DONE

now,moonpool

done

[reef lotus]

Moonpool?

show

[echo coyote]

ok

i love responding lately

lemmejust put signs

here it is

right at the enter

so

where should i make a base now?

[reef lotus]

u could have made a corridor with a bunch of vertical tubes from ur scanner room and coridor base thing

[tropic cliff]

I wonder if you could make a scanner room high enough where it detects no ground

🤔

[pseudo rain]

I see no god up here
Other than me

[stoic aurora]

Okay nearly done

Now I just need to farm one or two full prawns of quartz and extend the glass tunnel all the way above the lava

[outer python]

nice

[pseudo rain]

Awesome! I love how the lights from growbeds interact with orange-y light from the lava! Super cool!

[civic ruin]

Is this right outside PCF?

[stoic aurora]

Yup qbit

Wanted to see how bad the pressure/depth was on integrity

And the answer is : it's goddamn horrible xD

[civic ruin]

Does the big boi attack your base?

[stoic aurora]

Nah the big boi is a good boi

He just spits fire at me sometimes when I'm going through but that's fine

Lava lizards are an annoyance tho

[echo coyote]

yes

[cyan epoch]

any cool below zero bases?

[dull galleon]

Yeah, but none that I made

[river whale]

RandomGit u russian?

[reef lotus]

id say so from the text

[forest hill]

@river whale I speak some Russian...

[pseudo rain]

Rude

[pseudo rain]

Im wondering why the last picture of an awesome base is 16 messages up

[zinc lava]

17*

Git gud

[forest hill]

Hol up... The bot doesn't detect Russian insults @river whale...

[pseudo oracle]

@forest hill watch the language please

[echo coyote]

buildin' another base

[echo coyote]

TADAAA

also yes im russian

but this is just a small part of it

the whole thing

and the POOL OF DOOM ™

[sweet spoke]

Why you don't put hatch

[echo coyote]

i did

[sweet spoke]

I don't see it sry

[echo coyote]

well

its so long

that you cant see it

lemme get down rq

here

also

that ladder

[sweet spoke]

Oh
How many meter deep ?

[echo coyote]

uhh

cant tell

[sweet spoke]

It's surface base ?

[echo coyote]

erm

i started it underwater

but got it above the water

my next project will be the bridge from the lifepod

to aurora

and both islands

[daring dirge]

is it a good idea to make a base-way in survival from Aurora to the sea emperor? 🤔

[sweet spoke]

no

[daring dirge]

but why? 😄

[sweet spoke]

Your rich of titane ?

[daring dirge]

no))

[echo coyote]

its impossible

[pseudo rain]

item titanium 3000

In console

[sweet spoke]

item titanium OVER 9000

[pseudo rain]

Lol

[echo coyote]

its impossible cause you cant make a tunnel into the PCF

[sweet spoke]

PFC ?

[echo coyote]

primary containment facility

[sweet spoke]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

[pseudo rain]

you can but it wouldnt be a tunnel per say.

[waxen solstice]

how do you build modules outside of water? only with console commands?

[lilac rapids]

You’ve got to either stack them or go off of an existing surface above water, such as an island or a very shallow foundation

[waxen solstice]

well, stacking one level up is easy, what about next?

[lilac rapids]

I guess you build a compartment heading out, build a hatch on top, and then pop out, make the thing, go back in, deconstruct the hatch, and then the compartment, then build a ladder, repeat

[blazing ferry]

@echo coyote I see you also made a practical Tower of Babel.

[echo coyote]

yep

[blazing ferry]

Not sure what kind of elaborate base I'll come up with in Below Zero's creative mode.

[peak vale]

Im working on the pillar of agelion, (may or may not have ||stolen|| The idea from RandomGetGud)

[stoic aurora]

Current status of lava base : coffee break room and interior garden done! (including all types of vegetables for a varied diet!)

Also yeah that glass corridor + observatory kinda looks phallic. But I wanted to gaze lovingly at the environment without seeing my moonpool x)

[reef lotus]

lookin good

[forest hill]

Looking hot

[pseudo rain]

smokin' hot

[honest rover]

that base gives quite a warm welcome

[jovial lodge]

A little bit of heaven right in the middle of hell ^^

[dull galleon]

Wow

[limpid raft]

was that done on survival? If so that is a lot of glass

[dull galleon]

Glass is so expensive, especially if you don’t have a ||prawn suit|| with ||drill arm||

[forest hill]

I'm still surprised how you found enough resources for so many multi rooms

[sage parrot]

or the quartz for all of those windows

[steady grotto]

spending too long on it is my guess

[civic ruin]

Quartz is quite abundant in the blood kelp walls.

[maiden apex]

i call it: the donut

[rough glade]

how does one enter said donut?

[still quest]

you don't enter donuts

[quaint phoenix]

The donut Is the best base here

[limpid raft]

its the pandorica

[blazing ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/fobidden-homer-simpson-the-simpsons-fobidden-fruit-gif-13772070

[steel prairie]

So when you guys build a base what is in it

[echo coyote]

decorations

radios

fabricators

storages

bio/nuclear reactors

water filtrations

[steel prairie]

what about a moonpool

[echo coyote]

but its not inside the base

its outside the base

[honest sundial]

PLANTS

ALL OF THE PLANTS!

that's what I put in my base 😄

oh, and the alien containment thingie full of all of the fish

[reef lotus]

plants yes

plants and location make ur base like 10x better

[stoic aurora]

Generally
-A storage room (lockers on every wall)
-A crafting room (mod station, recharge, fabricator, health packs, windows, trash bin, generally situated above the locker room)
-A food alien containment (full of reginalds)
-A decorative alien containment (varied fishes, mesmers, etc)
-A bedroom above the decorative containment (bed, desk, miniatures, lantern trees, coffee machine, etc)
-An observatory (chair, lightswitch, coffee)
-A garden (potatoes, melons, bulbo, lantern)
-Multiple exterior planters (shrooms, gel sacks, blood oil, creepvine, decorative flowers)
-Two moonpools
-Thermal plants if possible
-If not, nuclear or bioreactor
-If bio, one alien containment full of my most hated species of the moment (generally crabsnakes or crabsquids)
-One purification room with 2 to 4 water purification thingies depending on how fancy I'm feeling
-Lots of spotlights if in a dark area

-a scanner room

And I think that's mostly it

[lilac rapids]

Moonpool, thermal reactor for power/ bioreactor, nuclear often costs too much to maintain for a base that isn’t near the surface, marblemelon, lantern trees, and bulbo trees to power the bioreactor/ be a sustainable food source, a bed to pass time(to let things charge, grow, etc.), creepvine, blood kelp, deep shrooms, acid shrooms, and gel sacs in the exterior growbed, some wall lockers, fabricator,

[proper heath]

I use alien containment for a food storage so i dont have to go outside lookin for a fish for 2 minutes.

[honest sundial]

observatory bedroom. bed plus one glowy plant of your choice 😄

[dire stratus]

A world I built a whole bunch of bases in. Decided to put some lore behind it all.

Altera following the return of Ryley Robinson, decided to create a dedicated presence on the planet 4546B. They set up a number of bases each dedicated to a specific task that the corporation was interested in in regards to the planet.

Pictures of the bases are in the google document attached below. I did this to keep the chat from being absolutely flooded due to the high volume of pictures. Hope you all enjoy.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mkKTrV043e9FLvX3rdAHrWYEqldPz2ZF4IVDMJKT7-g/edit?usp=sharing

Please do be kind as this took a great deal of time and I had to work with depressingly low amounts of FPS (Later in the project about 20 FPS was the norm and the game crashed frequently)

[primal tide]

oof

The bases look pretty nice

[dire stratus]

Thank you.

[primal tide]

I like that you made lore for each base and stuff

I always wanted to do that for my bases

Did you make these in survival or creative?

[dire stratus]

Creative

[primal tide]

Cool

I do most of mine in creative too

[dire stratus]

I hate to think of the resources needed to make all of them 😅

[forest hill]

Use nocost...

[primal tide]

I use creative because I just want to focus on building the base

I don't want to worry about creatures and stuff killing me or worrying about food.

Its just easier to do it in creative

Sometimes I switch to survival after though

[reef lotus]

it isnt easier in creative imo

in survival or freedom u make ur base from start to beginning

it makes it easier to make a base imo bcuz u dont make stuff u dont need or not enough

idk hard to explain

[primal tide]

what

are you saying that survival/freedom is easier because you you don't make extra stuff?

Like you only make what is necessary?

[stoic aurora]

The point is

When you build in survival, you'll likely LIVE in that base, and play in it

so it usually makes you end up with bases that feel more organic

that feel more practical

made to be useful, not just for the cool factor

then again, I'm a terrible example of that, because most of my survival bases are DEFINITELY majorly cool-factor-driven

[lilac rapids]

When you build in survival you usually build to the bare minimum, so that you can conserve resources and make sure you have resources readily available nearby

[primal tide]

I see

In survival the bases are practical and not oversized

that makes sense

[reef lotus]

thank u shalti

my whole brain just died when i tried to explain it

[stoic aurora]

@lilac rapids that one is only true in your first playthrough though

Personally all my bases are made in survival, even modded ones, 'cos I find mining in subnautica weirdly calming

But as I get to make them with the ressources I mined (usually 3-4 full prawn worth) they get built stage by stage, and I still "live" within

My only "impractical" base is probably my aquarium park, with like 10 alien containment for one (big) species each and one mixed one with one of every single fish. But it was a nice challenge! (Also I stripped the shallows and a couple other zones, including the dunes, of quartz, to get enough :p)

[pseudo rain]

Have any of you guys finished subnautica

[empty sand]

Yep, me

[honest sundial]

several times, yes.

and I agree with @stoic aurora - survival bases tend to have a more lived-in feel and tell the story of your game. Where you go, what you bring back, what you spend time on etc.

I usually plan out basic base concepts (location, style, layout, proportions) in creative, but I found that while the core idea remains the same, they subtly tend to change for the better in survival.

[stoic aurora]

I mean, owly, I'd imagine most of the people just messing around with base building have finished the game at least once

[honest sundial]

I didn't 😄

[stoic aurora]

😮

I tend to like having all the recipes / materials available before going into base building, regardless of the game

that said for terraria, one could argue that you get all the base building stuff before lost river

uh

subnautica

(was thinking of liking to go post-moon-lord in terraria before really making stupid bases)

[honest sundial]

I went in blind, and when I was about to build a base, I started a creative thingie to choose a spot and to get the hang of how it all works. Because figuring that out in survival with having to eat and drink at the same time is just stressful

[stoic aurora]

ah yeah I never really played in creative

except to get better at grappling

[honest sundial]

So that became a thing. I'd come up with a base concept, hop into my creative test world, build the bare bones of it to figure out roughly where everything goes, and then I'd start a survival game to actually build build it with all the details and whatever comes to mind

[stoic aurora]

yeah I just like figuring things out and frankly I didn't mind the eating stuff

[honest sundial]

cue the big disappointment when I found out that you can't build on the bulb bushes like you can in the mushroom trees 😭

[stoic aurora]

always had a bulbo tree at hand anyway

[honest sundial]

I had such a great idea for a base that sits on one of the big ones

[stoic aurora]

yeah too bad, had the same reaction

that and the floater thingies

probably my favourite two biomes in terms of general colour

[honest sundial]

the mushroom forest is a great place, but the water is so murky you don't have much of a view 😦

but the bulb bushes are pretty and so are amp eels

(and one thing bothers the hell out of me - that modules aren't centered on foundations

WHYYYYYYYYYY

it makes it so hard to build symmetrical things)

[stoic aurora]

Yeah that's one of the reasons why I stopped using foundations

[honest sundial]

also that you only can connect things in four set directions

makes it hard to build in a way that fits into a natural landscape

like following the shape of a cliff

[rocky nexus]

for me, i look at a subnautica map, decide 'where shall i build the base this runthrough' before i even start the game

helps me figure out what do i need first, all that sorta thing, like if i'm gonna build in a more dangerous zone, or a deeper zone, then i want the seamoth before i go make my base

[reef lotus]

foundations sUCk bcuz they arnt centered but i do get why

the normal tubes (forgot the name) are centered on it

they are more made for tubes than for multi rooms

which sucks imo

[quaint phoenix]

Degasi could place their bases in middle of foundations.... And look what happened to them!

[reef lotus]

thats 100% worth it

[honest sundial]

agreed

[stoic aurora]

I'll virtually always have at least one early game base at the geyser

access to thermal vents is generally a strong criteria for my choice of location x)

[reef lotus]

me2

[echo coyote]

base behind the aurora

[lilac rapids]

You are an absolute madman

You have the stones to build behind the aurora

You are clearly the superior being here

[echo coyote]

its actually not that scary there

[reef lotus]

besides the 1 reaper

[echo coyote]

yeah

actually 3

one at the engine

one behind the nose

one behind the..

middle?

yes

i have reached absolute height

[forest hill]

I think the 3rd was to the right

[echo coyote]

base on the aurora

has a nuclear reactor

4 alien containments

ladder to the island

(so i can supply resources/fish etc)

1 bio reactor

1 scanning room

[stoic aurora]

creative or survival?

is it even possible to build so high in the air in survival?

[echo coyote]

creative ofc

i would've had to dump barely every single resource on the planet to make that ladder

[forest hill]

Why are there compartments scattered around?

[echo coyote]

uh

i used it to climb up on the aurora

like

how would've i got up there

[stoic aurora]

I mean

There was that dude who made a 1500 depth ladder

in survival

in the crater's edge

the aurora isn't higher than that :p

[rocky nexus]

how did he manage that in survival?

[stoic aurora]

well

[pseudo rain]

Gamer level skill, courage, and lots of resources.

[stoic aurora]

he had a LOT of patience

then again there's a lot of titanium to be mined in the ILZ

(/drilled)

Right now I'm still enlarging my deep base's size, and every time I go out to drill I find 3-4 titanium veins neatly packed somewhere in a nook

Also as a side note I believe metal scraps respawn

not sure tho

[rocky nexus]

not saying how'd he get the resources, i figure that's the easy, if tedious, part, it's more, 'how did he build that big a ladder in a place where at least 3 leviathans will be trying to eat you if you spend too long there?'

[stoic aurora]

stasis rifle

basically

you shoot the stasis rifle at the ladder conduit

and it gives you a protective bubble

[rocky nexus]

ah, fair enough, keep forgetting that exists, since i almost never use it

[stoic aurora]

It's pretty useful when you just want to build and not kill stuff

Building near the PCF, I keep stasising lava lizards whenever I do serious amounts of exterior work

[brave heart]

smart

[fringe hearth]

@echo coyote cool base! how long did it take to build?

[echo coyote]

erm

around 4 hours from the start

first beating the fear

then making basic stuff

then decorating everything on the lower base

then makin a bridge

and then foundations and hallways ladder

and then the base deco and the ladder

[honest rover]

So guys

have you ever tried making a base

that you can enter

only

by riding one of those birb things on land

that would be so cool and such a waste of time

[forest hill]

No

The chances of a SkyRay landing right wherebypu want it to are basically 99% impossible

Where you***

[queen belfry]

so how do I share a picture here from the PDA?

ok I'll explain it first, one cylinder with a hatch, a fabricator and a radio. Not an awesome base, but my first base

[reef lotus]

u click on the share button in the screenshot menu

then it pops up on steam

can go to like show on disk or something then copy paste

[pseudo rain]

I call it "the outpost"

[forest hill]

Neat

[pseudo rain]

I'm planning to move but I'm not sure where and how because I only have the little submarine and I don't even have the therma energy things to make energy

[forest hill]

Move to the Grand reef

Or the LR

[rocky nexus]

LR around the big tree can be pretty good, lotsa mats, just make sure to take a bit of lithium to reinforce bulkheads with

[pseudo rain]

Ok

I just need to find the battery charger and the things to upgrade my submarine

The problem is that all the guides are from over 1 year and the map has changed... :(

[lilac rapids]

You’ve got to remember that subnautica is an old ish game, and maps from a year ago can still be up to date

[pseudo rain]

Nope

The map changed

At least as far as I've seen

[lilac rapids]

How old is the map you’re using

[pseudo rain]

Newest steam version

2 days old haha

[lilac rapids]

Just google the map of the steam one doesn’t work

That’s always a valid option

[pseudo rain]

You can Google the map with the items on it lol?

[lilac rapids]

Yeah

[pseudo rain]

[lilac rapids]

You can google pretty much anything

Or just google “subnautica [thing you’re trying to find] location”

[pseudo rain]

Helps

I think I wanna start a new game tomorrow because I accidentally started in normal mode without hunger and thirst damn it

[lilac rapids]

F

[stoic aurora]

Eh, doesn't change that much in the end

Hunger and thirst management is subnautica is pretty much a routine you quickly ingrain

it's a bit annoying in the first couple hours I suppose, but once you have either planters or sufficient salt generation, it's mostly a 3-6 inventory slots (depending on how long the trip you're planning is going to be) handicap when compared to freedom

Don't get me wrong I only play survival / hardcore, but it's not as daunting as it might seem

[queen belfry]

cool base

but the colours

but really cool base

but the colours

[uncut tiger]

What colors would you like to see? I picked those because they would be easily visible at large distances. I plan to expand with a few more colors.

I don't particularly like the purple. Too dark and saturated

[queen belfry]

I mean, you could use jusy one colour. Those ones clash too much imo

[uncut tiger]

The upper base is so big right now that it takes about 2 minutes to the change the color. The bottom one is much easier to modify: 5s for changes.

[queen belfry]

cool

[forest hill]

That's purple? I thought it was blue

[past mulch]

yeah no that's definitely purple

Or as the sophisticated people would say: Violet

[reef lotus]

coloring ur base is just wrong in so many ways

i love the original colors

[forest hill]

Dang

Then my color blindness is getting worse

[uncut tiger]

If I kept them gray, you wouldn't be able to see my base due to snow, especially 200m+ away

[echo coyote]

my new base

has a farm of stalkers

peepers

oculus's

boomerangs

bulb thingies

creepvines

acid mushrooms

also has a ladder that goes all the way to the surface

[reef lotus]

why the ladder to the surfuce and the foubntations

without it would be ebic

yeet

[honest sundial]

I think the ladder connects to the other half which is on the Aurora @reef lotus 😄

[echo coyote]

no,it doesnt connect to the one on aurora-

ACTUALLY

i'll do it

also foundations cause i 'accidentally' spawned a few reaper/ghosties

[wise fossil]

lol

[echo coyote]

i remember

i once made a bridge from the void

to the aurora

[wise fossil]

cool

I'll try to do that in my subnautica series

[echo coyote]

reached sparse reef already

why am i doing this to my pc

[wise fossil]

Ur killin' it

[lilac rapids]

Don’t kill it completely

[umbral bobcat]

sasuke

[uncut tiger]

Name not related

[deft bronze]

Building up to the Vesper? wow

[ornate escarp]

Nice

[pseudo rain]

Epic

[forest hill]

Wow. The Vesper looks like a pease of garbage floating just like garbage wouldn't

Up close

[uncut tiger]

The Vesper will be updated in the future. This is placeholder model

[lost shoal]

I still love using the dev console to make the island by the front of the aurora a huge base. I should see if I still have a picture of an old base from the very early access when that was an available thing without cheating

[rocky nexus]

the one with the multipurpose rooms on top of the mountaintops?

[uncut tiger]

The other island. Mountain biome

[rocky nexus]

that's what i mean, has a couple mountaintops

[waxen solstice]

hmm.. did anyone try to connect two bases electricaly?
did they become one electric wise? integrity wise?
i wonder about making long range grid project 🙂

[rocky nexus]

far as i know, you cannot connect 1 base to another...

i mean, you'd haveta be VERY good at placements to do it

[waxen solstice]

yeah... just tested it - if you already joined power source to one base, new power connectors wont even get connected 😦

seems that planetary grid project got canceled 😦

[uncut tiger]

Kontaro: not quite. The one with the multipurpose room is the Floating Island. The one with the giant alien laser is the Mountain Island.

[rocky nexus]

no, someone built a base going up the mountain island, since it has a pair of peaks, they stuck a multipurpose on top of each peak, with tubing linking them together, not the degasi wreck

[white gorge]

it aint much, but its mine

[pseudo rain]

Now this is an avengers level base

[past mulch]

It kinda looks like a giant peeper

[pseudo rain]

true

my base is the best
it has a part of the sea emperor inside of it

[stoic aurora]

I built at roughly the same depth

except I regularly get a sea dragon clipping through it

much funnier 😄

[cobalt mason]

Do leviathans attack bases?

[lilac rapids]

I believe so, unless you’re in an observatory then they leave you alone

[sweet spoke]

@pseudo rain how ???

[rocky nexus]

Sub1? they won't attack if yer in a base, they ONLY attack Cyclops if it's in the void or if it's making noise

[pseudo rain]

@sweet spoke no idea. I was just showing my sister the game, and I decided to built a base right where the sea emperor decides to sit.

[sweet spoke]

Why me I can't build here 😢

[pseudo rain]

odd

[quaint phoenix]

This is my base. I like to call it 'The Doggo'

[dull galleon]

Nice 👍

[waxen solstice]

i feel that you'll have a lot of followers with that design, spawned in random places 😄

where your power comes from though?

[fading linden]

solar panels as ears

[cobalt mason]

Bork

[waxen solstice]

my classic max depth seamoth parking spot

[quaint phoenix]

Nice

[white gorge]

Why so many multipurpose rooms

[patent kiln]

yes

[pseudo rain]

why not

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[waxen solstice]

last time i did it without most of them, joining by vertical connectors... that looked ugly 😄

now i can build alien containers inside, and plant green vines for full length, with outside windows where seeds glow

[dull galleon]

I like how the base is just called : Deeper

[pulsar pulsar]

make the ultra oxygen tank, 135 isn't enough...

[waxen solstice]

i rarely walk without seamoth/prawn, so 135 is just right 🙂
huge one will slow down, atm i dont even use seaglide to free up inventory, so speed and knife is my survival 😄

Re: Deeper - it's just deeper than Down Below in ILZ

instead having single huge base i've got so many of them it takes 30 seconds after i see game screen for them all to report powering up >.<

[crude light]

ooo thats cool

[quaint phoenix]

Duuude

Thats cool

But do u have the rooms filled with anything?

😄

[queen belfry]

so one time I made a base that was 50 MPR with containment chambers so it was just a void of containment chamber

[uncut tiger]

Umm, yeah. You can totally see that all the rooms are filled.

BZ now runs quite well and there are barely any performance issues with using large bases. On the other hand, MODIFYING large bases takes forever. It takes > ONE MINUTE to add or remove any piece to the green base.

[primal tide]

I like how there are different colors for different parts of the base, like there are different sectors. Green for food production, blue for research, etc.

[ornate escarp]

Wait

What happens if you connect to bases together

When they are different colors

[forest hill]

...

@uncut tiger Give it a shot... You're the one with lots of colors...

[uncut tiger]

They don't connect at all.

[forest hill]

Thought so

[pseudo rain]

That would be good for making bases close up without connecting

[uncut tiger]

In fact, different bases all align differently, so you can have them at weird angles to each other. This is also how you can build bases that go through each other.

[pseudo rain]

It'd be VERY helpful for me

[forest hill]

Cool

That's to keep noted

[ornate escarp]

Oof

[pseudo rain]

I hope on getting Below Zero soon, I've got some sick ideas for bases already

With all the land and everything

[ornate escarp]

Do y’all have a Upgrade room?

BTW

[forest hill]

An Upgrade Room?

[ornate escarp]

Large Rooms

[pseudo rain]

Whats that

Uh

[ornate escarp]

Best idea ever

[pseudo rain]

The biggest room I ever had was a multipurpose room

[ornate escarp]

It’s 4x larger than a multipurpose room

[pseudo rain]

WOAH

Who even needs such a big space

[ornate escarp]

Base builders

[forest hill]

I do

@ornate escarp By Upgrade Room do you mean an entire multi room just for upgrades?

[ornate escarp]

Yeah

[forest hill]

No need for one... I just dump an upgrade table in my room and live happily ever after.

[ornate escarp]

Unsanitary people

[uncut tiger]

See that clear room between the 4 moonpools? That's the new Large room. Roughly 4x as large as the MP room

[queen belfry]

||is that the one marguerites reaper skull is in?||

[echo coyote]

why do you need moonpools in the sky

[uncut tiger]

Because having orbital drop Exosuits is awesome (though they end up falling through the ground since the game can't draw the ground fast enough)

[echo coyote]

wait

how would you even get the exosuits there

[lilac rapids]

Climb

[vivid jacinth]

Tears, time and turmoil

[uncut tiger]

Build a structure right below the moonpool. Spawn an exosuit. Climb up.

[undone sleet]

Now you just need to park a cyclops up there. Hmmmm where should we put it.

[lilac rapids]

Make a holster for the cyclops

[forest hill]

There is no Cyclops in BZ

Unless moded

Modded

[patent mortar]

Moo

[knotty hemlock]

.

[ornate escarp]

Moo?

[rose flume]

Shall we keep it a bit on topic guys? 🙂

[ornate escarp]

Large room is a good addition to the game, Change my mind

[primal tide]

How could large room be anything but a good addition

[lilac rapids]

It couldn’t

[lilac rapids]

Nice

[pseudo rain]

I like it

Nice

[quick helm]

thx

[reef lotus]

That looks awesome!

[primal tide]

Woah that base looks so nice!

[thorn talon]

#memes-and-media for this, @coral bison.

[coral bison]

srry

[sweet spoke]

Strange base...

[reef lotus]

Got any pictures up close and from the inside @quick helm?

[quick helm]

I'lyes

Yes I do

[queen belfry]

where is a good place for a home base in regular subnautica?

[lilac rapids]

What kind of equipment do you have

[queen belfry]

haven't found the lava zone yet, but I have found the river

no depth modules on anything, but all the vehicles

everything important for a base

[lilac rapids]

Probably the shallows

Plenty of resources around

Or you could do it in the grand reef, less resources, but access to LR

[queen belfry]

I do have a grand reef base, but it is really simple should I work on it?

[lilac rapids]

How simple are we talking?

Like what’s your power source and such

[queen belfry]

it is

1 mr, one hatch, one radio, one thermal plant

next to a smoke-vent thing

[patent mortar]

I have a base by the engine of the aurora

[lilac rapids]

Yeah, I’d recommend adding a moonpool to your base, maybe add another thermal plant, and just farm titanium and copper for a hot minute

[queen belfry]

alright

i have a lot of copper in my cyclops

but my prawn is umm...

it's on the research facility

[patent mortar]

#subnautica-chat dude

[queen belfry]

help for bases

[patent kiln]

this is to post pictures of awesome bases, not help with bases

[queen belfry]

hmm

ok, I got the help i need

[patent mortar]

This is my base in my main world

[echo coyote]

so big

[patent mortar]

uhh

wat

[echo coyote]

its too big

i mostly have a x hallway

and a moonpool

and a multipurpose room w a bioreactot

late game

[trail temple]

Read title channel, it’s not Standard minimal bases

[echo coyote]

yea im just saying

that its big

[quaint phoenix]

It doesnt matter if its big

it must be awesome

its not "big bases"

[quaint phoenix]

Im beggining to build a iceb(erg)ase!

[echo coyote]

ah,i see youre a man of fog off aswell

[quaint phoenix]

and weather off

[rocky nexus]

oh, did they finally add in the wall mounted foundations? would be nice to build on the icebergs like we were promised 😄

[honest sundial]

everything is better with plants, but it'll do for now ^^

[patent mortar]

Symmetry

[honest sundial]

different angle - and yes, my sense of humour is almost twelve.

[patent mortar]

wut

what's funny

[honest sundial]

the name of the base 😄 it says something really immature in German

it translates to "fart hollow" which is a slang term for "bed" in my region

[patent mortar]

k

[pseudo rain]

Fart hollow

Sexy

[primal tide]

ahh yes

I too refer to beds as f a r t h a l l o w s

[pseudo rain]

Oof

[pseudo rain]

In my dimension, we refer to beds as quad legged energy refueller

[reef lotus]

damn thats eBic

[rain jolt]

f a r t h o l l o w

[uneven trellis]

Crusader Guilliman#8691 has been warned

Reason: Zalgo usage

[sweet spoke]

RIP

[stoic aurora]

Another pic of the best boi

[tranquil dagger]

Is that the best boi tho?

[stoic aurora]

yes

he eats lava lizards

lava lizards are jerks

so he's the best boi

(I don't know if he actually eats lava lizards, I hope he does)

https://imgur.com/a/ZiKg5B7

full set if anyone wants to see x)

(had to rearrange a bit, order got messed up during upload for some reason

[sweet spoke]

@stoic aurora this is the best boi

[stoic aurora]

Idk I prefer the design of SDLs over Reapers

[honest sundial]

they are both very good

but the Good Boy is more adorable

but Smiling Huggy Boy is good too.

[echo coyote]

the deep arctic base

fed by two bioreactors and two nuclear reactors

[patent mortar]

that smol

and why do you need 4 moonpools

there's only a seatruck and prawn suit

[echo coyote]

uhh

who cares

also yeah smol cause i wanna spawn alot of leviathans around

k,two chelis spawned

4 shadows spawned

oOH

[patent mortar]

spawn lots of ice

ice worms

[echo coyote]

how

[patent mortar]

idk

[primal tide]

thats a nicely decorated base

im jealous of the big rooms

[quick helm]

Thx

If you can see the reactor is phased with the room partitions

[primal tide]

ohhhh

I didn't even realize that

[quick helm]

lol

[primal tide]

that looks so god

[quick helm]

i figured that glitch out back in subnautica

you can do so many cool things with it

[uncut tiger]

That's a really nice base

Are you using a mod to place items on tables/shelves?

[quick helm]

No

Im using the spawn command

the wiki has a page dedicated to item id's

[forest hill]

You live in Tony's Marine Base

Well, actually you just created it...

[quick helm]

Who is that?

[forest hill]

Tony Stark?

[quick helm]

He has a marine base?

[forest hill]

Nope

I just said you invented it

😂

[lilac rapids]

This is indeed a bruh moment

[quick helm]

Funny thing is Tony Stark / Ironman is my favorite marvel hero

[forest hill]

We have something in common

[quick helm]

Look in meme pic n vid channel

[pseudo rain]

How do i put maps downloaded from Internet

[orchid marten]

Good question

[wise fossil]

the problem is

i dunno

[dull galleon]

Yes

[echo coyote]

the base in the mountains

really close to underwater islands

runs by solar panels and bioreactors

the solar panels are at the surface for max. light

[reef lotus]

modded stuff i asume

[echo coyote]

yea

the driller and the other thing is modded

oo

a tc

[reef lotus]

oo a tc?

[echo coyote]

yes

ima post it in subnautica chat

[reef lotus]

what does

oo a tc even mean

dOEs it even mean something lol

[echo coyote]

yes

a time capsule

tc - time capsule

[reef lotus]

oh

[echo coyote]

sparse reef base

powered by bioreactors,current 'collectors', and a few solar panels

the panels are at the surface,again

[reef lotus]

looks good is that at the lava entrance from the tree?

[round silo]

yeah

[reef lotus]

ebIC

[echo coyote]

it indeed is ebic

[pliant peak]

i think my base looks cool

[reef lotus]

looks cool a bit too many legs tho

[pliant peak]

k

[lilac rapids]

No moonpool?

[reef lotus]

probs isnt at that stafe

[reef lotus]

oOoOoo looks cool

[quick helm]

I like this one cause your kijnda looking at it from above and below surface

My moonpool

[low shadow]

love your pic

[lilac rapids]

Who’s the mans in the corner

[uncut tiger]

Yeah. Pbots is an artist.

[quick helm]

The guy in the corner? @lilac rapids

That's my Boyfriend

[forest hill]

Oj

Tmi

[quick helm]

Nah

[opaque nexus]

Woa it's the most biutiful base i've never seen

At the night it's... Wonderful !!!

[quick helm]

Thx

[primal tide]

Woah holy crap that is a really good picture

[ornate escarp]

Ok guys

Since they are adding Bathroom stuff to below zero

I want to lots of bathrooms

[past mulch]

It would be a great feature if you could flush fish down the toilet as well.

[pseudo rain]

@quick helm I have the biggest question going through my head right now, how did you manage to get glass compartments?!

There aren't any glass compartments in Subnautica: Below Zero.

[uncut tiger]

You use the console code to unlock them. You have to unlock by their ID

https://youtu.be/ldfW9KDW93w

[reef lotus]

de vesper is tiny lol

[pseudo rain]

Yeah, lol

I went into freecam once and saw it was tiny

Hard to tell when on the ground though

[reef lotus]

yuh

[pliant peak]

I made a base over water lol

[alpine flicker]

You should make a glass pathway over to an observatory in the reaper's patrol area

[blazing ferry]

I never would've thought to build there. Then again, I scare easily with a Reaper, and a Warper near there.

[sweet spoke]

Cure = no warper

Creative + invisible cheat = no reaper

[blazing ferry]

That is true with the former. But it's very seldom that I pots around in creative.

[late minnow]

Reaper doesn't bother you up here

Its a for fun base really

[lilac rapids]

Yknow what sucks

The observatory counts as a different Boone

Biome

So all the creatures and stuff just leave you alone

[valid anvil]

#subnautica-modding Theres a mod that changes that @lilac rapids

[woven bramble]

here we go, here my base

[winter quiver]

I've never built my base anywhere else but the Safe Shallows. 2 reasons.
1. It's like a Minecraft house, you develop and build all around the place you've pick and see the time and effort you've put into for a beautiful home.
2. I'm too damn chicken to build anywhere else.

[valid anvil]

This is my base design for the lr cove tree

[blazing ferry]

That's the first time I've ever seen anyone make a schematic for their base.

[lilac rapids]

Whats up with the foundation that isn’t touching anything

[uncut tiger]

External garden

@woven bramble Pretty brave of you to post your desktop. If I did that, you would all see my "Definitely not porn" folder.

[jovial lodge]

@uncut tiger best way to hide your private stuf ^^

[cedar merlin]

http://prntscr.com/ptaugh

Why I got it downed to 3

so it's all clean and crispy OwO

[cedar merlin]

just the basics

top floor bedroom middle floor chest room bottom floor work room

[woven bramble]

Lol Yeah i don't have anything to hide on mine so

[valid anvil]

@lilac rapids WDYM? The foundations are touching something the other foundations + the green are for gardens

Ive got OCD so making a base is not as easy as you think, i have to have a plan on my second screen with all the PRECISE material numbers etc xD Just how i am @blazing ferry

[lilac rapids]

You didn’t say that green meant garden so I didn’t know what it was lol

[echo coyote]

one of the bases at the floating island

[sage parrot]

oh man, who left those flippers just floating about?

[valid anvil]

😂

[cedar merlin]

OwO

[brittle island]

Wish there was a dock for the cyclops

[pseudo rain]

Me too

[blazing ferry]

I can imagine a Cyclops dock being quite expensive to make.

Lots of materials, I'd imagine.

[quaint phoenix]

Just to keep the usellessest submarine safe

[trail parrot]

Eh, maybe a little U bend cradle that caught the front of it and allowed the player under-access via ladder to the front port while charging it? Then it could apply as 'base' and be protected by 'monsters don't nom bases'?

[sweet spoke]

Meh

[cedar merlin]

lol

[wise gull]

my lifepod 17 base more perspectives coming

Grand Reef Base right next to the proposed degassi habitat

[high quartz]

right near the reaper @late minnow

[late minnow]

Eh, not too much. I can't quite see Billy from it

I can hear him though

[lilac rapids]

Creative?

[winter quiver]

yea

[lilac rapids]

Nice

[pseudo rain]

you can make a cyclops dock

just make a bunch of those tube things

[outer python]

the whole point of a cyclops dock is to charge it and not have to swim out n into your base

[crisp escarp]

during a moment I believed that was in survival and i was so scared about the time you should have spent in the collect of the materials

but it is still a magnificient base gg

[modern ice]

my base is so fancy it has two forklifts

[quick helm]

Omg I wanna Be You!

[modern ice]

😊 thank you

[reef lotus]

forklifts?!

holy crap!~

[obsidian quiver]

niceeeeeeeeee

[lilac rapids]

Dang that’s a cuss word

[valid anvil]

lmoa

[pliant peak]

@wise gull it looks like if the life pod 17 people survived and built that base lol

[blazing ferry]

🎵 "~He triiied to kill me with a forklift!~" "Huzzah!" 🎵

[pseudo rain]

A base I built in Creative for funnsies:

[high quartz]

@late minnow That means that he can see you, but because your in the base he cant get to you.

[late minnow]

Not necessarily. They don't use echolocation as the pda suggests, though that would be an awesome mechanic

[wise gull]

@pliant peak thanks m8 i thought it was a nice lil utility spot

[lethal yoke]

@modern ice and a metric crapton of gel sacs

[modern ice]

Never enough

I lost my first Seamoth with mk2 depth and storage to a reaper on my search

For the first sac

[late nest]

lmao is building a base nearby with 4 moon pools as well

i just think it sucks that you cant connect compartments sideways on multipurpose rooms like why only 90, 180, -90, -180 degrees and not any 45, 135, -45, -135 degrees

[bright hill]

@late nest +1

[teal falcon]

I can go on the aurora thanks to my base

[echo coyote]

pfft

normie

did you ever make a ladder from the back of the aurora to the top of the aurora and a full base ontop of it

[teal falcon]

oh no ... good idea i will do it maybe

[forest hill]

I remember that

😂

[dim junco]

@pseudo rain that looks awesome!

[valid wraith]

nice

[pseudo rain]

@dim junco Thank

[ornate escarp]

Toilets

[reef lotus]

good ted talk

[modern ice]

I kinda hope they add it in below0 I mean why should Margurie be to only one to have a toilet

[ornate escarp]

They are

It’s buildable in Experimental and it has sounds XD

[blazing ferry]

Nice setup.

[reef lotus]

id put storage and fab ontop of eachotjer

same for greenhouse+filt room

[plush sonnet]

Chad move: build a base in the aurora before fixing the radiation

[lilac rapids]

Why wouldn’t you just put the bioreactor in the greenhouse and the fabricator in the storage room

[pastel sedge]

Aesthetics, probably

[forest schooner]

Built in Early Development Build 16255 Apr-15

Inside is just a Fabricator, a Fragment Analyzer, and lockers.

[valid wraith]

thats pretty cool

[lavish bramble]

There’s this streamer called ToolTime and his base IS GIANT

[forest schooner]

Giant is very impractical.

To complicated to easily traverse along with too far spread of resources.

[pastel sedge]

Many visually appealing things are impractical, but oh well

[lavish bramble]

That’s true but it looks sick

[warped nebula]

Disconnected rooms, each with its own individual purpose

The middle does have ladders connecting the levels though, just for ease of access

[dense herald]

An outpost I built in the Crystal Caverns.

[past mulch]

Gorgeous

[high quartz]

is that below 0?

[solemn chasm]

yesh