🏠awesome-bases

[pseudo rain]

the new rendition of this base is much more organized

[pseudo rain]

^ this is just a pic of the old base so you know which one I'm talking about

[modern sonnet]

"awesome" (and cursed) balcony

[proper rover]

How did you do that??

[modern sonnet]

made a multipurpose room, a hallway and another room then stacked up on both and added hatches

[proper rover]

🤯

the new einstein

[ornate escarp]

Ehh not really. It's not a new technique.

[modern sonnet]

^ yea

[low harness]

Wide Engineer Brain

[proper rover]

I didnt know abt it in my 3 bz playthroughs XD

[ornate escarp]

Ehh don't worry. It was found in the EA process.

[thorny river]

cool

[keen oracle]

yo that's smart

[proper rover]

exactly

[fringe citrus]

Nomad?

Whats that

[pine quail]

I think it means they didn’t have a “permanent” base

[fringe citrus]

Ah

Makes sense!

[sour idol]

I haven’t done a poll in like 2 weeks I think. And I don’t really know where to build another survival base in floating islands biome. So I came up with this.

Do you prefer building closer to the surface or deep? (Sun for shallow, moon for deep)

[fossil quarry]

I often find myself building a base with a viewing room of the tree in lost river area

like....every save file i have lol

[proper rover]

Its a run where I only use the cyclops as my base

[fringe citrus]

That sounds cool!!

[proper rover]

Yeah it was pretty fun but I had to stop every now and then enough to build a small base to charge my power cells again since the power drains ridiculously quickly in the cyclops

[fringe citrus]

could survive off of batteries found in crates :3

[proper rover]

Yeah i suppose xD

[pseudo rain]

get coppee

copper

get mushroom farm

get creepvine farm

make battery

[sour idol]

Alright thanks to everyone who answered! Doing polls really helps me choose where or what to build in subnautica (and it’s fun!) so imma go build now. Thanks again!

[proper rover]

good luck xD

[keen oracle]

I like building stuff deep cause it feels more immersive

[pseudo rain]

Can anyone suggest an area or specific location to build a base (not Below Zero locations only Subnautica) and also an idea around it eg. Cove Tree Observatory. I am doing a new creative series that will include every area except; safe shallows, kelp forest, Void, Primary Containment Facility or Active/Inactive Lava Zones. If you do suggest I will pin a comment with your YT channel link and it will also be in the description. Thanks.

[compact hare]

I suggest Crag Field and Deep Grand Reef as they are very nice base locations. I also think that Sparse Reef and the Floating Island would be good places for a base. Some other locations i can think of on the top of my mind are: Jellyshroom Caves, Lost River Gargantuan Leviathan Fossil, Mushroom Forest and The Blood Kelp Zone.

[pseudo rain]

Every biome in this game is a cool biome

[ebon pumice]

^^

[pseudo rain]

the void ._.

a big no no

[placid timber]

Ill probably make this in my next huge base ( which it will be above ground) so ty for the idea lol

[wheat halo]

Mine was too big :/

[keen oracle]

to quote Div, "there is no such thing as a base being too big"

[finite loom]

actually, my Void Complex is my favorite base :/

[pseudo rain]

My old base

[modern sonnet]

bz is superior in terms of base decorations

[sour idol]

Yes

[pseudo rain]

Yeah, i dont have it but im aware of this

[finite loom]

still not too big, my mom had a bigger base at one point 😂

but that is very complex, i'd prolly get lost

my idea of a home is an I compartment with a mod station and a solar panel lol

[keen oracle]

my two largest bases are this one in survival

and this one in hardcore

the first one has 32 multipurpose rooms I believe, and the second has 24

named (from top to bottom) Abysstion and Deep Lab Zero

I plan to make even larger ones at some point

[proper rover]

[finite loom]

My biggest base is the Reaper Research Facility and the Deadzone Facility or my Unsafe Shallows base

[pseudo rain]

how do you make the safe shallows into the unsafe shallows?

[finite loom]

by spawning 25 crab squids and 2 ghost leviathans

let's just say I never bring my vehicles there anymore

[brave barn]

this bases are starting to look like an scp facilities

[finite loom]

bioshock

[brave barn]

I mean, you put everywhere an X section and sometimes a room.

[ebon pumice]

Why do your creepvines glow in the planters and mine do not

[hushed wedge]

My first base (:

[ebon pumice]

Sandstone chunk

[severe harbor]

Ok now that's a cool base

[severe harbor]

You play on freedom mode?

[hushed wedge]

The one without food yes

It’s my first time ever with subnautica so I wanted to start ez

[severe harbor]

I had to restart from scratch :((

[hushed wedge]

Ow

Why?

[severe harbor]

My completed Subnautica world damaged

I fully built the rocket

So I saved and logged off

When I logged back in the next day

The world got damaged

[hushed wedge]

That’s a bummer

[turbid river]

As part of a themed creative game of BZ (resettling 4546b), one of the bases I built was a small prison inside of the inactive volcano

[jolly shard]

My diving cube in the void (probably gunna use for growing outdoors for my garden)

My garden in the void

[turbid river]

I went a little overboard on mine. Following the theme, Alterra would need a steady food and water supply.

[jolly shard]

My god

You make my void cage look like nothing

How did u get the resources for that

[turbid river]

it's a Creative game

[jolly shard]

Oh

Mines survival

[turbid river]

yeah the amount of resources would be astronomical, considering this and the prison are only 2 of 4 major bases and another 5 smaller outposts

[jolly shard]

I decimated all the resources in the artic building my void outdoor garden

I have an indoor and outdoor

The indoor pictures are a little outdated

[turbid river]

I posted my research base in the BZ subreddit

[jolly shard]

I want to post on reddit, but it won't let me upload pictures for some reason

[turbid river]

that's odd. the Research base was 19 pictures

I think that was the max I could get away with

[jolly shard]

Hmmm

Building giant projects in bz is hard

Very much so in survival

And my game crashed

[keen oracle]

holy crap that is a lot of large rooms

what area is that?

[jolly shard]

Artic

Ik because my void bases are there

[turbid river]

It's the glaciers above the inactive volcano, close to Mag's greenhouse

the underwater part is a 6-tier water purifying tower, and 2 5-tier fish farms, with 2 moonpools for cargo transfers

[jolly shard]

You mean da hole

[keen oracle]

I would love to see someone do that in survival xD all that lead...

not to mention titanium

[turbid river]

I'd have to use the increased resource spawn mod lol

[keen oracle]

we should probably move to #below-zero-chat

[jolly shard]

Killed all the artics titanium building cube

[keen oracle]

mine looks so whimpy now lol

although to be fair it is only a starter base

I have a much bigger one planned for the Crystal Caves after I'm done my little on-land bunker I'm making

[wide mango]

||subnautica bases are good however if you opened this message yours is bad||

||that was a joke for reasons||

[keen oracle]

I really enjoy the decorative aspect of BZ bases

the large room glass dome is the best thing ever, I couldn't picture having any base without one except my little bunker which is literally just a single large room in a cave on land

also the multipurpose room glass dome, I wanted that so bad in Subnautica

[turbid river]

yeah, it was sad that we only had windows to work with

[keen oracle]

they work so nicely in bedrooms

10x better than an observatory

[turbid river]

this was my most recent survival base playing the randomizer in the og.

gotta say I am a huge fan of the Cyclops docking mod

[dim whale]

lol the other day i didn't know that you needed hull integrity bc i am kind of new to the game, and so my whole base flooded twice until i finally fixed the issue

[sour idol]

One of the reasons I don’t like the docking mod is shown in your base structure, the link tube hallway that has the dock. When building anything long tuby areas are awkward to look at. But the plant collection is cool, and overall I think it’s a pretty nice base

[turbid river]

it did make it a pain to move resources from my storage area into the cyclops for the long trip into the lava zones. back and forth, back and forth.

[fringe citrus]

Depression. I shouldve shared my hardcore base before i died at the lava zone 😔

[compact hare]

sad :(

[pseudo rain]

R.I.P in pepers

[sour idol]

[fringe citrus]

Lel

I need to play again but im actually really unmotivated

[carmine plover]

I Don’t have a base

[pine quail]

you are a mad man. this reply was made by the Bases are Superior Gang

[austere glacier]

that is truly an awesome base

[carmine plover]

I just started playing

[pseudo rain]

i generally have a small-ish base with a moonpool for my seamoth and powercell chargers, and i grind the cyclops as quickly as possible and make that my base.

works even better with a thermal module

[carmine plover]

I don’t have seamoth cos I just started playing

[pseudo rain]

have you repaired the lifepod

[carmine plover]

Yes

[pseudo rain]

has the aurora exploded

[carmine plover]

Yes

[pseudo rain]

check grassy plateaus for seamoth

[carmine plover]

K

[pseudo rain]

there is also 2 in aurora

[carmine plover]

I don’t have radiation suit

I’m trying to get it

I have one seamoth fragment tho

[pseudo rain]

get a moonpool, it keeps your seamoth safe and charges it

can find near keen's lifepod and mushrooms

[carmine plover]

Ok

[exotic otter]

i'm trying to find places with good views for my bases. i made one above the center of jellyfish caves/next to kelp forest, and one near the fossil/purple tree. any other ideas?

[fringe citrus]

Somewhere in the LR!

[exotic otter]

one near the fossil/purple tree
already covered!

[fringe citrus]

Purple tree?

OHH the cove tree?

My bad lmao

Grand reef looks gorgeous imo

[sinful pine]

Here is a tour of my base; what do guys think? A bit overboard perhaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZ7hQL48wk

[fringe citrus]

How about in the Blood Kelp zone?

Id love to see your bases too btw, if u could send them :D

[fringe citrus]

Ill watch when i have a free minute! Dont got headphones with me rn

[vagrant galleon]

i was showing my base and look who decided to come say hello 😂 it's from BELOW ZERO so just warning
https://clips.twitch.tv/GeniusRoughMochaPJSugar-2oLEpWcdp0RbjfqE

[pseudo rain]

What biome is this

[turbid river]

It's the Arctic zone to the east above the inactive volcano, and near Mag's greenhouse.

[proper rover]

nice base

[pallid gyro]

its in a nice environment

[proper rover]

Yeah on land is a nice place

Like the view as well!

But a few more windows would be nice as well

[keen oracle]

I'm gonna pull a Tony-a-Pony and do a poll here
I've seen a ton of people building land bases in BZ which leads me to think BZ is a lot more popular for land bases, do you guys prefer building underwater or on land in BZ? react with 🌊 for underwater, 🏔️ for land

[pallid gyro]

land

[keen oracle]

I do like the fact that outside hatches look like bulkheads and make stairs now, that's cool

on land at least

[pallid gyro]

yup

[proper rover]

Yeah in og the hatch looked out of place on land

[keen oracle]

land bases are cool but personally I prefer underwater in both games

[proper rover]

Yeah same here

[keen oracle]

I mean, it's called Subnautica for a reason lol

[proper rover]

It keeps the essence of the games

[keen oracle]

although BZ does have a lot more land elements than SN1 so I can see why more people like building land bases in that game

[proper rover]

Yeah Sn1 only had the islands as completely off land locations, and even then there are barely any good locations

It discourages you to build on land

[keen oracle]

my favourite biome in BZ is probably either the Crystal Caves or the Tree Spires, there's a few good ones it's hard to decide

[proper rover]

Mine is lilypads

Tree spires are also pretty cool ngl

[keen oracle]

we should probably move to #below-zero-chat

[fringe citrus]

Currently working on a base rn!! Will show when im done

[proper rover]

nice ping me here when you complete it!

[fringe citrus]

wil do :D

[exotic otter]

i built up my base and now i realize i'd rather my moonpool face 180 degrees around

[fringe citrus]

Lmao

[pseudo rain]

my teleport room

[fast quest]

https://imgur.com/gallery/vHwVJ4C

[uneven warren]

This madlad came up with his own terms & conditions.

And a gift shop!

[rain moon]

Woah!

That’s sick!

[exotic otter]

is it intended for water filtration to intersect with alien containment like this? would i be sorta "cheating" by building it this way?

[exotic otter]

why is it not letting me put multipurpose room here? terrain is clear

[agile lantern]

Maybe there is something in the moonpool

[compact hare]

yeah, your cuddlefish has like 2 mm less space because of it so its not intended

[exotic otter]

can't be, i didnt build anything inside

[exotic otter]

how do you position your tiger plants so they don't hit your base?

[keen oracle]

simple answer: don't plant Tiger Plants near your base lol

[wise bough]

This is actually an old picture, i made a cyclops, two moonpools, three prawns and two seamoths

The prawn design is actually pretty good and functional

Here is a slightly newer pic

[keen oracle]

Deep Grand Reef mega base tour coming tomorrow \o/

[neat violet]

that is really cool
well done

[ebon pumice]

It's too close to the ground on the left

[modern night]

pain

[lusty radish]

XD

[exotic otter]

looks like plenty of room to me :( i made it work out anyways

[fringe citrus]

Subnautica is funky sometimes with where things can and cant be placed

[magic heart]

my base project on the|| alien gun|| do i need to mark these as spoilers? i dont know.

[low harness]

Looks cool, and there’s not enough there to know where you are

[magic heart]

Ok

[proper rover]

pretty good 👍

Also how the hell do those thermal plants work

[keen oracle]

I didn't know you could even build stuff in here

[proper rover]

neither

I thought it would just be like the unbuildiness of the aurora

yes I did just make up that word

[magic heart]

I have a better question: how to the solar panels work there??

[lusty radish]

I don't think so beacuse it is probably under 100m (i don't remeber) ||roger roger||

[proper rover]

my man’s breaking the game

[lusty radish]

Maybe, as I said i don't remeber

Yes you are right I just checked it

[pseudo rain]

here my base not the best since i dont have much resources

[exotic otter]

Nice, i tried to build in the ||primary facility itself (not in the pool)|| and failed. Is there anywhere in the ||enforcement platform|| that you cannot build?

[midnight lance]

I made a base that was like 8 stories just filled with bioreactors

Sick base tho

Moon pool always a must

10/10

[keen oracle]

Base tour is finally here! : D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWrDCh1vUW0

[dire grotto]

This is incredible. I LOVE IT.

[magic heart]

Those panels are at 99m lol

[civic arch]

why i always cant put the pipeline on the base

[lusty radish]

Cool

[devout mica]

Heres my deep lily base,relatively small but its just a secondary base that i built for fun,first 2 pictures are just some large overviews of the base,3rd is the main living room,4th is the aquarium with some things from the area in it

there isnt much in the rest of the interior so its not worth showing

[pallid gyro]

this looks like something from a game trailer or something

i know right

if you make a lot of trips around the map

true

[keen oracle]

I love how packed full of stuff the bedroom is

it looks so cozy

[proper rover]

Yeah you should be proud of it

@devout mica

[devout mica]

thanks!

[turbid river]

The bedroom looks very fragrant, I like it!

[hollow sedge]

Cool base

[placid grail]

My BZ Base, unfortunately the size makes it hard to render it all in one shot lol.

it took so long to gather all the glass and find a way to support the structure.

[coarse wagon]

Try installing the Building Tweaks mod. Makes base building actually fun haha.

[whole sable]

Is there anyway to get those types of mods on the console version without completely breaking my console?

[coarse wagon]

Sadly, subnautica mods are for PC only.

[pseudo rain]

ima bout to go and try to build my own base'

[pseudo rain]

is there anything i should fix about my base?

[runic mortar]

no it looks cool its better than mine lol

[fast quest]

Maybe put some windows in that taller tower

[keen oracle]

Some advice for base building: if you can afford it, put everything on a bed of foundations. It'll make your base look more solid and anchored, give you places to put plants and also boosts your hull integrity slightly.

[pseudo rain]

ok i'll do that

[pseudo rain]

i need to find all that quartz lol but i'll do it

[ebon pumice]

I don't like how the foundations look

Because the multipurpose rooms don't center on them

If they did I'd use them

[ember zealot]

yeah foundations are a bit crusty

[supple saffron]

hey what do you guys of my little base ?Its not finished yet(Subnautica below zero)

[keen oracle]

dark theme 👍

[supple saffron]

^^

[keen oracle]

dark theme bases fit so well with the Twisty Bridges

on my second BZ playthrough I'm definitely gonna make my starter base there

[supple saffron]

good choice !

[plucky rover]

looks nice

[fast quest]

Got bored a while back and made this simple base in creative, posting here because why not

[keen oracle]

I really love that hanging part, I should use that technique in some of my bases I'd never thought of doing that before

[sour idol]

(I keep forgetting to do these)

I got a poll for u guys

Do you prefer builds giant bases with massive integrity or small simple ones like starter bases?

(Big square for big and small one for small)

[keen oracle]

both can be nice, I like the compactness and simplicity of small bases and they can also look really pretty, but at the same time I feel accomplished after finishing a huge base and I like having a lot of space to roam around in with everything I could want

if I had to pick one I'd go with big, though

[quick hollow]

b i g

[neat violet]

why so deep down

when you need a single piece of anything, you have to go all the way up grab then all the way down

[lime marsh]

why is the moonpool in the brine

[fallow storm]

heres te problem. if you make massive bases dont make them look like a mess of room and tubes actually make it look good ok

[winged storm]

Finished survival base

Will send pic tommorow

[proper rover]

Ping me when you do!

[winged storm]

@proper rover will do!!

[pseudo rain]

I built my base at the sea treaders path, was this a good choice?

[void chasm]

can you show a pic?

[pseudo rain]

Ill take one tomoorrow

But yes

[void chasm]

i would say it’s a good place since it has tons of resources

[pseudo rain]

Yeah, shale outcrops

Good for basic resources

But theres also a chance of getting infront of a seatreader and getting attacked

[pseudo rain]

Seatreaders uh.. take massive dumps u can put in the bio reactor

[winged storm]

base in lilly pads

@proper rover

[modern night]

nice

[pseudo rain]

Is @proper rover a enter the gungeon refrence?

[proper rover]

Nice job! I love the layout

[proper rover]

Yeah it is

[flint nova]

this isnt meant to be practical. I just wanted to build a nice looking base in creative

[winged storm]

Looking cool

I think you should do a larger version of that basic set up in the void

😁

[flint nova]

Bottom Floor: Essentials (Lockers, Fabricator, Radio, Modification Station)
Middle Floor: Food and Water
Top Floor: Relaxing and Aesthetics

[winged storm]

Cool

I think I can sneak a peak of top floor

Maybe some windows on one side 3 windows and the other half reinforcmenrs

This allows people.to.see.in and still remaining integrity

[flint nova]

its creative, so it doesnt really need to be practical

[winged storm]

I know

[flint nova]

this is how it looks at night

[winged storm]

settime 1900 command?

I made the base in creative

[flint nova]

i just waited, i had no idea the settime command existed

[winged storm]

And...

I calculated the resources

Wanan know how many my base took in survival?

[flint nova]

sure

im gonna use this creative world for cool bases

[winged storm]

115 titanium

Which was 3 lockers

And a hot

*bit

2copper 13 enameled glass, 22 glaaa

Ss

2 silver

13 lithium

3 table coral

And that's it

. . .

[flint nova]

thats a lot

[winged storm]

Glad I knew about the sub zero veins

C monkeys showed me a orw vein room

[proper rover]

they bring you resources used in your pinned recipes once ||al-an is in your head||

[flint locust]

oh rly? didnt know that

[pseudo rain]

Respect

[winged storm]

Qelli got alan

Rly

I was just looking for resources and

that sounds like a distress call

[void chasm]

my cyclops moonpool/charging station

[pallid gyro]

that is massive

[winged storm]

#cyclops dock

Better then aci

Built it to small

[void chasm]

wat

it’s big enough

[winged storm]

I know, but acis ten types of subnautica players built a Cyclops dock and built itcway to small

[proper rover]

yh I remember watching that xD

“And yes I did build my cyclops dock too small (chuckles)”

[pulsar saddle]

Current survival base :)

[proper rover]

Noice

[pulsar saddle]

Thank you

[jagged yew]

Does cyclopses count?

[keen oracle]

I'd say so yeah

[fast quest]

why would you need that many reactors

[void chasm]

ye why do u need many reactors

[pine night]

7 water filtration machines, recharging seamoth + PRAWN suit, and running a scanner room while fabrication & recharging batteries + power cells takes a lot of energy

its 100% overkill though

i just wanted a bigger base before i finished it

[void chasm]

who the heck needs 7 water filtration

i have 2 and i’m overflowing my water storage

[pine night]

m e

[flint nova]

creative blood kelp base

with a great view from the observatory

[vagrant pine]

looks really noice

[vagrant pine]

i have a still stillsuit a water filtration snow water maker and now my player is always hungry because reclaimed water makes you hungry (too much water)

[proper rover]

Yeah I wish there was a machine that would create nutrient blocks

[keen oracle]

how much power is that?

my hardcore base has exactly 10,000 (3 nuclear reactors, 2 bioreactors and 6 thermal plants) and I've got 5 water filtration machines and a bunch of chargers and other stuff

[pine night]

like 26K

[jagged yew]

You need maybe 2 nukes to do the whole game. Maybe swap out 1 or 2 rods each.

[pine night]

ik i was just bored and wanted a bigger base

so i decided more power

[keen oracle]

hardcore base tour

https://youtu.be/Pf0LfY-7kqo

[ebon pumice]

Love it

Tomorrow I might mess around in creative and try and make some huge bases

[pseudo rain]

Theres my base not the best but its good for survival

[pulsar saddle]

[pallid gyro]

thats a scam

[magic heart]

Bruh

[pseudo rain]

Nuke reactors 💀

[pseudo rain]

Nice becareful of the ghost

[flint nova]

its in creative

[remote arch]

imagine playing creative

[keen oracle]

creative is nice for testing stuff or making bases that you don't want to waste resources on in survival like super packed mini ones

[pallid gyro]

mhm

[tepid pagoda]

This.

[pulsar saddle]

Incredible 😂

[keen oracle]

I use creative for stuff like this

or this

[pulsar saddle]

Daym

[storm lion]

thanks for clarifying the location of the scanner room

[keen oracle]

someone else from Daily Dose of Discord I see

[pseudo rain]

Very useful base

[nova juniper]

nice base

[forest hill]

Got bored while quarantined...

[pallid gyro]

ok now i wanna build that on a realm next year

[ruby canyon]

love it! what a great base 🙂

[jagged yew]

Scanner rooms are really not necessary

If you need any material, just go to lost river. Theres a crap ton of big ores for pretty much every single material in the game

[forest hill]

Plus, there is Nickel.

[jagged yew]

Nickel is everywhere in lost river area

[turbid river]

I've only found scanner rooms necessary for stalker teeth and sometimes magnetite.

[heady jacinth]

I like setting them up anyway. I try to get sensor coverage everywhere...

[median summit]

can you base above the water?

[keen oracle]

yes

[jagged yew]

Yos

Its kinda difficult in the first game tho. Hatches are out of reach unless you build it in the right place

Bz is designed with it in mind so hatches have ramps.

[pallid gyro]

that and bz hatches are turned into bulkheads

[sacred wedge]

This is my current base on my first playthrough since ED

[fast quest]

That's a really nice place to put a moonpool

[sacred wedge]

Right? Thank you! I can actually fit an entire Cyclops under that Moonpool, but only barely

[steep jolt]

Am I wrong for always having 2 moonpools for both my sea moth and prawn suit

I see the point of 1 but I dunno

[fast quest]

I usually just stick with 1 but having 2 is perfectly reasonable

[sacred wedge]

Nah, you're not wrong at all. The only reason I don't have a second on this base is so that that trench below my base is fully accessible.

[stable dock]

just the beginning, still working on it

[vast rain]

would never live down there

sounds scary and evil

but good base

[stable dock]

its actually one of the safest sub-biomes

[vast rain]

which one?

[stable dock]

lost river tree cove, it's full with fauna but they're passive

[vast rain]

i thought the lost river had ghosts ?

AH

caps*

[errant geyser]

it does. but not the tree cove.

only certain areas have a ghost in it

[sour idol]

So I got asked a question at school during lunch once. It was with my group of other subnautica and/or below zero fans and we like to ask random questions to gain more knowledge on the game. (that sounded nerdy lol🤓 ) This group at lunch is how I usually get my ideas for polls, then I share the answers from here with my friends in the group.
So the question was- 'If there was ONE thing you could change about the building mechanics in subnautica or below zero, what would it be? 🤔

[crystal panther]

It's about the moonpool and it's the rotation changing the direction the vehicle docks in.

[tacit trench]

the scanner room not having the weirdest criteria to build ever

[jagged yew]

I made a p*nis base

Two moonpools with a t connector in the middle. Two I corridors and a multipurpose at the end

It was complete accident but still funni

[keen oracle]

for Subnautica, make it so that it's like BZ in that the legs of foundations, moonpools, ect. don't disappear if you go too far away and keep ladder/hatch animations regardless of base size
for BZ, being able to place multiple things inside large rooms without it only allowing you to place one and having to finish constructing it before building anything else cause that is really annoying

[half forge]

so true

[jagged yew]

The legs despawning and hatches are limitations of the game. They arent intentional design choices. They are required for the game to function properly

I think I would make where you can connect pieces more forgiving. So you dont have to be a full 20 feet from the nearest pebble to make a room

[jagged yew]

If thats the cove tree, there is nothing hostile there

[pseudo rain]

Here's mine

[keen oracle]

nice

that's a lot of nuclear reactors lol

[heady jacinth]

I use a lot of nuclear reactors in my bases, but usually not fueled. For relatively cheap ingredients, you get a huge energy storage. Pairs nicely with a big solar panel array, lets you build up a big reserve for the night.

[pseudo rain]

I'm mostly proud of my green room

[jagged yew]

Thats called creative mode

[pseudo rain]

Nope, I did it all legit

[meager rune]

Why so many speakers

[pseudo rain]

Audio is a bit wonky from certain angles

[keen oracle]

you can literally see his health, hunger, thirst, O2 and warmth gauges on the side showing that it's survival

[sour idol]

The overuse of things makes it kinda repetitive but functional at the same time. Overall I like it

[jagged yew]

I meant to say that usually a large amount of nuke reactors means creative mode. When people have access to unlimited nuclears they tend to have like 20

[keen oracle]

another little mini base I made in creative cause I felt like making a mini base : D didn't put as much effort into this one as the others

[pulsar granite]

still looks awesome

[keen oracle]

thanks!

[pseudo rain]

how did you change the colors of the base???

[fast quest]

The Control Room lets you do that, it's only in bz though

[pseudo rain]

sad

I don't have bz yet

[jagged yew]

All can be accomplished with 1

I ran a power cell charger, battery charger, fabricator, mod station, seamoth and prawn recharge, water filtration with a bio reactor and a single solar panel

Oh and a scanner room

[fallow haven]

Problem is that isn't below zero. Below zero has kelp forests, but not the green kelp forests. Plus, the control room isn't attatched to the base either.

Chances are it's either a mod, shaders, or a texture change. Either way, looks great.

[proper rover]

Noice! I really like your minibases

[proper rover]

It is bz. The control room is attached to the base and the kelp is red, which is bz’s kelp colour

[fast quest]

what does pale kelp have to do with base color

[fast quest]

and we can see that it is attached to the base in the last picture

[fallow haven]

Ohh, that one. I thought you were talking about the smaller one just above.

My bad.

[proper rover]

we all make mistakes, especially me and my ghost ping problem :3

[pallid gyro]

ghost ping problem?

[proper rover]

Oh when I reply to the wrong person

[pallid gyro]

got it

i thought you meant when somebody pings you and then deletes the ping

[soft veldt]

My room is looking pretty good

[proper rover]

Man I wish decoration mods were on Switch 🤕

[pallid gyro]

mods aint on console editions

[pine quail]

He didn’t say it was.

[pallid gyro]

yes, im aware of that

[oak tangle]

So everyone gonna ignore that cutie reaper?

[pallid gyro]

yup

[proper rover]

We’ve got a rouge reaper on our hands

[keen oracle]

thanks, I like making little ones cause they feel cozy if you do them right

[sour idol]

I made a mini base very similar to that- and it’s actually a working survival base that I used before making my bigger base in grand reef

[proper rover]

Nice dude!

[keen oracle]

cool

the wall planters add a nice touch

[elder sequoia]

Why are people so good at building things 🤔

[astral slate]

lol so true i suck at building fancy

[elder sequoia]

Dont lie

It's probably much better than I can do lol

[keen oracle]

I think this is the largest thing I've ever made in Subnautica lol

[steep magnet]

Why are foundations so ugly

[runic needle]

they look like sad american outlets

[pine quail]

you think they were happy to begin with?

[keen oracle]

it would be nice if the grey part was centred instead of on one side but apart from that I don't think they're too bad

[half forge]

i hate bases being so leggy

[pine quail]

leggy?

[keen oracle]

do you mean leggy or laggy?

leggy as in having lots of legs attached to the seafloor

[finite loom]

I hate both, personally

which is why I mainly build off large cliffs

[keen oracle]

I hate it when the legs disappear and the whole bed of foundations is just floating, I'm so glad that bug is fixed in BZ

[steep magnet]

There's a mod that lets you toggle the legs of different base modules

[pseudo rain]

Current base

[proper rover]

that is the bane of my existence

[pseudo rain]

Why do you need that many rooms?

I call 3 multipurpose rooms home

[keen oracle]

idk, I kinda prefer 31 myself

[tawny maple]

Whoa, what does it look like inside when you stack them?

[keen oracle]

they're individual, separated rooms but if you put alien containments inside you can see all the way down, it's really cool

[tawny maple]

I am late to the game, have not unlocked alien containment yet, on my first playthrough and have got my cyclops set up yesterday

[compact needle]

I can construct a cyclops but I'm choosing not to because I'm a cheapskate.

[wooden gazelle]

the main reason i got the game is to drive the vehicles

lmaoo

i might seem childish after that comment

[compact needle]

They fun. I got the game because I wanted something to entertain me for a while

[wooden gazelle]

i got it 3 days ago

so excited for the cyclops

[wooden gazelle]

espiecllay the cyclops;

[wooden gazelle]

oh thats nice

the game intertained me i didnt even realize

[compact needle]

Ywlea

[wooden gazelle]

if u want to i can stream my subnautica world to u

ill mute tho

and deafen

[compact needle]

Sure

U dont need to

[wooden gazelle]

join public voice chat

one sec lemme open the game first

oh it says i cant stream

i cant stream into any

oh thats sad

its ok

so uh any other way

i dont think so

[compact needle]

:/

[wooden gazelle]

maybe we could ask a team member to make us a chat quickly and delete it later

[compact needle]

Yea

[wooden gazelle]

@spiral flicker

[compact needle]

Ping

[wooden gazelle]

@sterile bridge

vinci perhaps i could add u quick and show u?

if ya good with that

[compact needle]

Yea

[keen oracle]

I doubt someone would just do that on a request

[ebon pumice]

My first bz base

Top thing is for my pet Pengling

[pulsar saddle]

nice

[jagged yew]

Where should I make a base in bz

[pseudo rain]

Wistfully gazing into the distance

I wish scanner rooms didn’t take sooo much energy

[jagged yew]

Im thinking either crystal caves or the east arctic with all the big icebergs

[pseudo rain]

Crystal caves would be pretty cool

[keen oracle]

I think almost every BZ player makes a base in the Crystal Caves at some point lol

[dusky folio]

i did one in creative... does that count?

[crystal panther]

I have yet to do that, I just have one massive base near the droppod

[maiden granite]

thoughts on observatory to see thermal vent ?

[pulsar saddle]

[pine quail]

Logically this is a health hazard. But this is a video game so that doesn’t matter and it’s cool.

[keen oracle]

WIP
ignore the off-centered multipurpose room tower, I'll fix that later

[grand marten]

is it ok if I post my base in creative

?

[glad folio]

yeah

[unborn light]

Man I’m so tempted to get below zero now just for the larger rooms

[half forge]

do it

it is worth it

[pseudo rain]

my not ready base

[pseudo rain]

Ayo

[keen oracle]

looks nice

[glossy bear]

[scenic trench]

Ded

[pseudo rain]

It’s giving cozy but open at the same time

[median summit]

help i need a base idea

[fast quest]

Build a walkway over a trench connecting two different areas maybe

[median summit]

my ss base is a mess

safe shallows

right under the lifepod

I am next to the big giant coral tube

also I am good at making outposts

[median summit]

should I make foundations for growbeds?

[fast quest]

Yeah I usually put my growbeds all on foundations

[median summit]

ok thanks

[fast quest]

Cyclops in my nomad run is looking pretty good

The lower deck is more functional, this is my first time trying out the autosort locker mod

[granite skiff]

Damn that looks fine!!

[exotic charm]

Interior in progress

[pseudo rain]

how did u get up there

[exotic charm]

I'm in top of the cyclops

[pseudo rain]

ahh ok anyway nice base

[exotic charm]

thanks

[keen oracle]

this is actually an interesting idea, I might try this sometime

also that Cyclops looks epic! great use of the decorations mod plus whatever other ones were used

[median summit]

wow

[median summit]

cool

[lethal ember]

Yo

[low harness]

Hover fish for scale

[pine quail]

wow that base is tiny. or is the hoverfish huge?

[uneven hound]

not awesome but here ya go

hol up lemme get it 💀

[unborn light]

Kinda dark but looking good
You got floodlight blueprints yet?
Might help light up the outside at night

[uneven hound]

I think i do, thanks for the info 🙂

[unborn light]

Wish you could paint lockers on switch
That looks so cool

[keen oracle]

normally I find the shallow/early game area boring for base building but in BZ I think the Shallow Twisty Bridges look cooler than the Safe Shallows in Subnautica

[proper rover]

Nice

[heady jacinth]

They really need to let us connect our bases' power...

[pulsar saddle]

I think you can get mods for it

[proper rover]

You can… if you want to run power cables across the map 🙃

[fast quest]

power transmitters still can't connect bases to other bases

Just things like solar panels or thermal generators to a base

[heady jacinth]

No... you can only connect a power source to the closest base or transmitter. I'm talking about networking bases together. Would also be useful for navigation, just follow the transmitter line

[proper rover]

Just use a beacon

[fast quest]

what do beacons have to do with power transport

[proper rover]

Oh yeah I see what you mean! I forgot power transmitters didnt do that, I haven’t played sn in a while

[proper rover]

“Would also be useful for navigation, just follow the transmitter line”

[median summit]

this is one of my favorite channels

[keen oracle]

same

[proper rover]

Yeah I love dropping in and seeing everyone’s bases

[pulsar saddle]

Same

[light hemlock]

good location ?

[glossy bear]

K

[pulsar saddle]

Yea

[jagged yew]

Yes

[proper rover]

Noice base and location

[crimson jolt]

Yes

[chilly sandal]

:0 those HD graphics though, those are such beautiful pictures! I wish I had that kinda resolution, but switch lacks a bit there due to it being switch… lol

[pseudo rain]

Still haven't decided if I will use this setup, but slowly coming along now!

[pulsar saddle]

Nice 👍

[sacred quarry]

Well, you're going to be much happier when you hear that quality of life changes that were made in Below Zero are coming to the OG game during and after they rework the old code to make everything better

[pseudo rain]

wait, bigger rooms are coming to subnautica????

[sacred quarry]

Wait I actually don't know about the bigger rooms one but the HUD when looking for materials and other quality of life things from BZ are coming to the OG one

[pseudo rain]

Also, my base has a glitched moonpool that can't be removed so I have to decide whether to move my base or start a new world 😢

[sacred quarry]

RIP

[pseudo rain]

What you guys think? Location too good so just restart?

[sacred quarry]

Where is it?

[pseudo rain]

the southeastern grassy plateau

[sacred quarry]

Maybe... How far into the game are you on that one?

[pseudo rain]

15-20 hours

Just recently got drill for prawn

[sacred quarry]

Ohh dang. I mean, if it were me i'd just make a new base but honestly it's up to you in the end

[pseudo rain]

The beginning takes so long but...I just want to build an epic base....

hmmm....

heading to #subnautica-chat

[sacred quarry]

Bet same

[feral nacelle]

hello?

[pseudo rain]

hi

[pseudo rain]

epic

[soft stag]

hi

[light hemlock]

new and improved base

[pseudo rain]

Brave to put a base down there

[thorny ridge]

me with Reinforced Diving Suit, Cyclops, Seamoth, Prawn suit all down there:
yes, they call me the destroyer.

and trust me it is definetely “hard” living down there

[pseudo rain]

I mean, the only real issue being down there is the brine but thats easy to avoid

[cerulean zodiac]

That spot in particular is actually very safe

All the big bad fish are elsewhere

[hard minnow]

Sick

[brittle needle]

Decided to hop on into creative and build myself a nice base, probably still a W.I.P

[modern night]

nice

[feral nacelle]

indeed

[pale robin]

a base i have (f11 didnt work ingame so i used cmd shift 3)

[proper rover]

Noice 👍

I like the location

[pulsar saddle]

[proper rover]

StOnKs

[proper rover]

Lovin’ it

[midnight lichen]

its on the largest floating island

[pulsar saddle]

[heady jacinth]

Largest floating island is a fave of mine, but I set it up as a smaller "waystation" base, just a lil food/water production, charging, and scanning.

[modern night]

what

[sharp glacier]

boy howdy, looks pretty close to the craters edge 😅

[static veldt]

WIP
gonna need tons of lithium

[cerulean onyx]

you know what would be cool?

a mod to build inside vent gardens

[keen oracle]

yess

I tried to do that when I first discovered them and was disappointed to find out that I couldn't

[cerulean onyx]

protected from the leviathans just outside

I mean, your seatruck won’t be but you will

[keen oracle]

you know what great use I've found for the Ventgardens
giant natural aquariums for hatched fauna

I'm gonna fill one with Monkes in my second save

[cerulean onyx]

oh lol

my base is to far tho tbh

[keen oracle]

I'm gonna make my main base in the Tree Spires right under a Ventgarden

it's my favourite biome in the game

[brittle needle]

Gonna work on another big build

Maybe like a small village type where not everything is connected

[unborn light]

Sounds great as long as you don’t lose track of them

[keen oracle]

if they're big enough to not be able to fit through the mouth you're good

[proper rover]

Noice dude!

More windows soon

[unborn light]

That’s a lot of multipurpose rooms lol

[arctic coyote]

Looks lovely

[proper rover]

You dont wanna know how much titanium it took

Plus ppl here have made bases 10 times the size!!!!

[keen oracle]

did I hear someone say a lot of multipurpose rooms? xD

[low harness]

I can feel the lag

[keen oracle]

surprisingly neither of those bases lag my game at all even on texture quality 4, I only get lag spikes if I hold my habitat builder when near or in them

[dry mesa]

the game is literally trying to get you to stop building

that is the next level

[slim radish]

I'm for sure going to make a base like this in the future!

My 1st base. Looks a bit like a toilet pipe cluster, but it's got all i need. Starter base for early/mid game

[keen oracle]

looks good

personally I've never been a big fan of bases that are mostly flat and supported only on legs with no foundations, they just look kinda bland or basic to me I guess and also too flimsy but a lot of people make their first bases like that so I won't criticize 😄

[half forge]

ready for pc upgrade so subnautica at 4k!

[heady jacinth]

I don't like the look of foundations... but I don't mind when I can't see them from outside the base. So most of my designs are squares of rooms and tubes with foundation in the center, holding grow beds.

I also usually build my bases at the edge of a steep drop-off with the moon pool hanging over the edge, makes docking and launching easier.

[keen oracle]

the only thing I don't like about foundations is the fact that multipurpose rooms aren't centred on them

[blissful dragon]

my base had 4 rooms in it. 2 multi stacked, a scanner and a moonpool.

very small

it was a good base though

[dim radish]

Wow, really good

[slim radish]

Just watch out that you don't fall down with your PRAWN when you have 0 upgrades hahaha

[heady jacinth]

Not too much of a cliff. Like, I can walk up in the PRAWN and boost up to dock. But high enough that the moonpool front legs are gone, so I can sail up easy in the Seamoth.

[slim radish]

Ah yeah i got the same, that works the best

[unborn light]

My small but pleasant garden

[blissful dragon]

Kewl

[proper rover]

Noice

[midnight lichen]

base behind aurora

reaper observatory

[cerulean zodiac]

I forgot that weird little island existed

[unborn light]

Wait there’s an island back there??

[fast quest]

Yeah, it doesn't have anything useful but it's there

[keen oracle]

the Aurora looks so much more massive when you put it into perspective with other things like a Cyclops or base right next to it

[pulsar saddle]

Agreed

[runic needle]

this makes me regret for making them extinct

[midnight lichen]

i also have void observatory and lava zone base in progress

[pulsar saddle]

Nicee

[sacred quarry]

They respawn though

[pulsar saddle]

Nope

Only ghost leviathans in the void respawn

[sacred quarry]

Oh dang, I thought they did

[waxen timber]

Now you made me want to go back to that island and instead of being marine biologist/submarine diver/scuba diver/mech operator/Non-Essential Systems Maintenance Chief be a botanist

[junior bramble]

New floors and more daycore are coming to the common room and kitchen coming soon

[pseudo rain]

Decided to quadruple the size of my base, yet to be finished.

[toxic harness]

why u need 3 moonpools?

[junior bramble]

1 min/max depth prawn for mining 2 min/max depth combat prawn 3 max depth seamoth for scouting and exploration

[toxic harness]

why do you need to initiate combat

[junior bramble]

I don't need to i simply need to have the option for aesthetic purposes

My cyclops has a wall locker label PDU mods as well and that's stocked with extra mods

[junior bramble]

Also some creatures are very dangerous and better off removed to ensure survival

[pseudo rain]

I remember in late early access, I made a base dubbed crabsquid paradise, it served as a research base for the creature. It. Lagged. Badly. Im guessing it was because of that ring of solar panels. (Made in creative)

[gray sail]

small update to my main base, added a foundation with some random trashes for no reason

I used PRAWN suit with propulsion cannon

[waxen timber]

That's actually a good use for it

[runic needle]

man get that enzyme 42

[bronze spade]

very nice and atmospheric

[pseudo rain]

Will improve on it soon.

[strong plinth]

Why is it that all my bases become circular

[wise anchor]

i need to stop breading sea monkeys but

[pseudo rain]

I honestly think they make it look more natural

[half forge]

very kool

[wise anchor]

theres 400 of them

[pseudo rain]

Ok. That’s cool

[heady jacinth]

I still want proper docking mechanics for the Seatruck and Cyclops.

Like, make a thing that installs in the moonpool and latches on...

[keen oracle]

looks great, I especially love the Sea Truck colour scheme

[wise anchor]

thank you 😄

[wise anchor]

ty 🙂

that was my survival world, i beat the game sadly

[arctic coyote]

You can still go back into the world

[wise anchor]

yeah but theres nothing else to do

[arctic coyote]

True 😔

[wise anchor]

😦

wait, i havent visited the void.

brb

my base is so laggy bc i have like 300 sea monkeys

[pseudo rain]

This is my new mega base.3 bedrooms, 1 seamoth, 2 prawns, 1 cyclops sub, nuclear reactor tower, alien containment tower, solar panel farm, scanner room(maxed out) growbeds indoors and outdoors, complete with moonpool platforms to catch prawns. Plus a bonus observatory office. I have day and night images of it. (Personally I think night is the best looking.)

[storm lion]

how do people get this much titanium

[waxen timber]

Probably wrecks and large titanium deposits

[keen oracle]

collecting scrap metal/deposits as you move the Cyclops around and store it all inside

[storm lion]

where are the areas where theres the most concentrated scrap metal

i imagine near the aurora

[fast quest]

There is a lot there in the Crash Zone, the side of the Aurora facing towards the lifepod is safe from Reapers as long as you don't go too close to the entrance at the front or past the thrusters at the back

[waxen timber]

Also wrecks

[keen oracle]

not really awesome because this is the only base I haven't finished (lost motivation because I want to start a new save), but this is as far as I got in my Crystal Caves base in BZ
reactor room

living quarters

greenhouse

there's a couple more floors but they're very unfinished, even the reactor floor I showed here isn't really "finished" by my standards

but I didn't really have much of a reason to complete it as I likely won't use it after this

[pulsar saddle]

[sand hound]

jeez i haven't touched below zero yet but the graphics are incredible compared to the original subnautica

[balmy mirage]

Yeah

[waxen timber]

And from what I see a lot of cool stuff for bases

[cerulean zodiac]

Yeah, there's a bunch of new base parts to work with, and possibly more on the way.

[merry rapids]

Rate my mountain base, its right ontop of a reaper spawn lol

[ashen heath]

its good, can we see the inside?

also that moonpool placement is terrifying

[merry rapids]

in the day

[merry rapids]

Sure

[merry rapids]

How so

[ashen heath]

its above a reaper

[ashen heath]

a bit empty but its cool

[merry rapids]

Yeah I haven't actually done much with the second story

[ashen heath]

and good luck getting those scanner cameras back in lol

[merry rapids]

I might turn it into a farm

Yeah lol

My next base is gonna be on the aurora

[modern night]

Chaer

[merry rapids]

baes

[jovial void]

so pro

[waxen timber]

Now I wonder, if you out moonpool on surface does it still have water?

[raw pawn]

If the moonpool is fully above water, it's empty.
I did it once, and it's hard to jump the seamoth into it

[merry rapids]

Rate my first Subnautica Below Zero base

[sacred quarry]

It's nice

[cyan knot]

yes

[jagged yew]

Cant see it

Btw is tree spires a good base location?

Im trying to make it a sequel of sorts to my og subnautica base in the mushroom trees biome

[cerulean zodiac]

If you don't mind Chelicerates, then yeah

[keen oracle]

absolutely

I'm going to build my main base there in my 2nd save

it's sort of like the Blood Kelp Zone / Grand Reef equivalent in BZ, although to me it gives off more vibes of the Underwater Islands

[solemn walrus]

so, i made a tunnel to the craters edge

[pseudo rain]

Its nothin crazy but felt like showing my hardcore base anyway, the bioreactor image is the part of the base in the grassy plateus and the second one is the part connected to it in the jellyshroom

[errant geyser]

how did you get that small locker like that? (first image)

[pseudo rain]

its from a mod called decorations mod, i think in those screenshots atleast thats the only modded thing though

i just put it there since it has more storage than the regular one and is smaller but normally id just have a wall locker

[errant geyser]

Ah, can I have a link to that mod?

[pseudo rain]

https://www.nexusmods.com/subnautica/mods/102

you already installed mods before? or not know how to do it

[errant geyser]

i'll just look it up

[pseudo rain]

alright, be sure to check the requirements too since it needs smlhelper

[errant geyser]

okie!

[silver bramble]

I made a glass tunnel to the void once.

Watching the ghosts get so close to the base that you start wondering if they'll clip is stressful.

[solemn walrus]

All for science

[pseudo rain]

I have a base in the underwater islands

I think that the underwater islands is the best spot for a base tbh

[hollow shell]

The game put a ghost leviathan there once, never thought of the place same again

[pseudo rain]

Its the one in the bk zone it wanders around the west border sometimes

But other than that its a very peaceful place

The only hostile animals are the bonesharks

And the suicidal cave crawlers in the island caves that jump through holes to their certain death in the geysers below

I was down there one time in a prawn mining and i saw one fall right into a geyser

Never laughed so hard before

The bonesharks are clueless and their aggro radius is very small

Where i live on the main island they dont even wander to

They are always on the edges or down below or up above

Ive seen them spawn camp peepers coming out of vents sometimes

Its pretty funny

Sorry for the rant 🤣 im pretty passionate about it

If you want all the details you can DM me

[reef torrent]

I have an urge to move my survival base to the floating islands now

[acoustic kernel]

Do it

[quartz mural]

my calm lil living quarters in my lil seabase

[haughty bone]

You can put plant pots on shelves? Damn I need to try that.

[pseudo rain]

you can

i only did that cause im too scared to go out and scan the blueprints for the shelf planter though (hardcore world)

[haughty bone]

Oh

I mean it’s more practical and it does look pretty cool. Gotta try that

[keen oracle]

I've tried to do this before and it didn't work 🤔 are you sure it's not a modded feature?

[pseudo rain]

well, i have a mod that lets me build anywhere but it was disabled at the time afaik

it could be something with decorationsmod im not sure

[keen oracle]

I feel like it might be

because it definitely didn't work when I tried it

and I have no mods except for Power Order

[pseudo rain]

I suppose it is then

Its not too major anyway since you can just place a shelf which is what i wouldve done if i had it

[unborn light]

Where the heck even is the shelf planter?

[pseudo rain]

i have no clue

im pretty sure its in underwater islands wreck or smt

but gulper leviathan is kill 💀

[hollow shell]

Actual footage of my brain wiring

[mild dew]

Wanted to get a good view of the jellyshroom cave

[pseudo rain]

Would actually be beautiful looking at the majestic crabsnakes chillin

[pseudo rain]

Was nothing insane but this base is now lost. Death by snake since I was desperate to get away from the reapers camping me

[quartz mural]

R.I.P.

[tame sluice]

hey i also made a jelly schroom cave base 🙂

[pseudo rain]

Imagine not making volcano base

[vast rain]

this is my storage and planter room i just finished grinding all the titanium for it

[bold kettle]

very fancy

what are you gonna plant

[vast rain]

idk probably some of the food from those islands

ive got some exterior growbeds with gelsacks and blood kelp and deep shrooms

[bold kettle]

smart

[vast rain]

im also gonna build a base in the tree with the ||ghost leviathan eggS||

because i killed the leviathan there i presume its probably even safer than the grassy plateus lmao

this is the whole thing its really bad because for a while i couldnt figure out how to connect different bases, i didnt know i had to remove stuff inside

[bold kettle]

tree is usually safe

[vast rain]

yeah i mean the surrounding area

like the entrance to it

[bold kettle]

thats a decent place to build

i like to do the underwater floating islands

pleasant to look at

[pseudo rain]

for me jellyshroom is the go-to for my first base

then maybe mushroom forest or koosh or underwater islands. then of course the lost river or blood kelp and lava zone

[bold kettle]

not a fan for jellyshroom cause its very cramped, but those first 3 are probably the best

koosh is great for energy, plus it looks great

[pseudo rain]

what i do is i put half of my base on top of the cave entrance to the jelly shroom, then add tons of vertical connectors for a 2 part base

[coarse raptor]

best koosh?

[waxen timber]

Koosh?

[pseudo rain]

bulb zone

it was called koosh in early access, names stuck with me

[fast quest]

wdym best koosh, there's only one

[heady jacinth]

My first base barely counts; its always a single X compartment right beneath the life pod. I even use the pod's fabricator. Just space for storage and later on, a battery charger. My first "main" base is either grassy plateau or shroom forest, with smaller "outpost" bases in the jellyshroom cave and floating island.

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Can I just say, we ought to be able to deconstruct abandoned structures and equipment like the Degasi habs? Like I know they're damaged, so maybe we only get half or a third the materials...

[languid sun]

Jellyshroom research facility!

[pseudo rain]

Where the farm room?

[arctic coyote]

That looks awesome

[languid sun]

farm room is the multipurpose room stack that connects the moonpool in the middle to the lower part of the base

also i must say, terraforming mod came in handy building this

[pseudo rain]

Ngl interesting design

[pseudo rain]

Im trying to make a base with a garden containing every single plant

[languid sun]

interesting

[keen oracle]

I've done this a couple times, it's not super difficult

makes for a very nice garden

[pseudo rain]

Shame you cant have anchor pods but still very nice looking

[languid sun]

which is why you build it in the grand reef

i think theres a mod for that? not sure

[pseudo rain]

Mine beginner bedroom.

[unborn light]

lol just one of those would take up an entire growbed

[pseudo rain]

Worth

[keen oracle]

I think the decorations mod lets you do that

you can even grow the Giant Cove Tree in a growbed which looks ridiculous xD

[pseudo rain]

Im ps4 and im B R O K E

[languid sun]

Void research facility! (could be called ghost leviathan research facility)

[keen oracle]

cool, I like the big wall of multipurpose rooms

[languid sun]

that's the support lol

so the ghosts don't wreck stuff

[pseudo rain]

Observatories where???

[languid sun]

nowhere

it counts as a seperate biome so you don't really get ghosts spawn

[proper rover]

Holy hell this channel has got so much good stuff in it

[worldly vine]

SPARSE Artic Base

[proper rover]

Noice!!!

[pseudo rain]

dang thats cool, I have a small garden

1 side for farming
1 side for cool plants

[lean nova]

I am using the Habitat Platform mod so I can sleep above Safe Shallows, and i didn't see anything on the mod server about sharing bases, can I still share it here?

[lean nova]

I know I'm super late, but sense when have observatories been a separate biome?

[low harness]

Since they were?

[arctic coyote]

How do you get bloodvine seeds?

[keen oracle]

you plant blood oil

[cerulean zodiac]

Its not the whole base, Ghost Leviathans still spawn nearby if you're inside it. Its just the observatories that are identified as their own biomes.

I think the devs did it to give observatories their own ambience track

However, this also has the side effect of not allowing Ghost Leviathans to spawn whilst you're inside one

[keen oracle]

it doesn't matter whether it's in the void or not, Observatories always count as their own biome

[waxen timber]

Wouldn't that make vehicles and ||architect's structures|| their own biome too?

[pallid gyro]

no, because creatures still try to attack you in both