🏠awesome-bases

[patent shadow]

dang

[cerulean zodiac]

I didn't think you could have too much storage

but that might be nearing the limit

[patent shadow]

how is your base not flooding with all those windows and glass

[simple summit]

Grand reef base

[sour idol]

That’s a cool photo with the leviathan and all the vehicles

Cool base too

…Thats a lot of glass

Has a base ever saved your hardcore world like this?

[patent shadow]

you probably want to reload

[keen oracle]

a lot of reinforcements 😛

most of the inside of the "garage" area made of compartments at the bottom is lined with them

[patent shadow]

ahhhh

[keen oracle]

and yes I made this entirely in survival with no cheats

xD

[patent shadow]

how long is that save?

[keen oracle]

over 120 hours

[patent shadow]

my god

[pallid gyro]

no kidding...

[keen oracle]

that's my survival one, I also have a hardcore one with slightly more play time

and another large base

[patent shadow]

you, sir, are a gamer

[keen oracle]

my 430 hours of play time is nothing compared to some people, Sh4dow (if you know who that is) has over 2k 😛

no idea what you do with all of that time but I guess people find ways to use it lol

[patent shadow]

I have, like 100 in the game

[pallid gyro]

and here i thought i spent too much time gaming...

[patent shadow]

ikr

[keen oracle]

next to Minecraft, Subnautica is my most played game

I don't have nearly as much time in most of my other games, I'm not like those people who have several thousand hours in multiple games

I probably don't even have 1k hours in Minecraft tbh, I'd estimate it's probably somewhere between 600 and 800

[patent shadow]

I don't know my minecraft time, but probably my most played game as I've had it since like 1.3, but my most played steam game is bloons monkey city with nearly 400 hours

[keen oracle]

this is my main hardcore base

I'm still unsure as to whether this one or my survival one used more materials, I should try to calculate that sometime

also

those are my hours

[dull dock]

U are a sussy Baka

[serene zealot]

I cannot understate how upset I am that a Cyclops dock never came to fruition.

I'd have loved making a huge space for it

[waxen kettle]

How do u dock a submarine

[serene zealot]

They did put out a concept art very early on in development

But on top of that, people have made mods for it...

[waxen timber]

I'm pretty sure in the update on their website they said that they might do it(or even moon pool)

[cerulean zodiac]

I know there is a new Seatruck dock being added to Below Zero. I doubt the Cyclops will get one in SN though.

[light pike]

We can always hope :)

[serene zealot]

Tbh, the same goes for the seatruck modules.

If they could clip in as a temporary corridor, I'd love that. I get so annoyed when they drift off or I have to empty the storage after a long trip

[cerulean zodiac]

According to a YouTube video I watched recently, the new Seatruck dock is apparently in BZ's experimental mode right now. It even has space for a group of Seatruck modules inside, though I don't know if you can enter them whilst they're docked.

It's unfinished, but it's mostly functional

[keen oracle]

dang that's pretty cool

I still don't know how to access experimental mode lol, and I'm not sure if I want to either cause idk if has the potential to mess up the existing game in any way or how you'd switch between the two easily

[cerulean zodiac]

Pretty sure Experimental is Steam-only. If you have the Steam version, you go into the betas area in the game's properties menu and select it

As for existing saves, you can just not play on your normal saves while using Experimental. Same works the other way around.

[haughty oak]

whats the deal with lockers????

why do you need so many?

[patent shadow]

who?

[haughty oak]

i see so many people asking if 300 lockers is enough storage. Like why would you need that much?

[patent shadow]

resource gathering and then base building

[haughty oak]

fair point but that amount of storage is still overkill

[cerulean zodiac]

Okay, maybe 300 is a few too many, but there's nothing wrong with having loads of storage

[patent shadow]

I think 20 wall lockers and 12 lockers should be enough for a regular player

[haughty oak]

i still don't see why you would need that many. In my most recent Subnautica below zero playthough i only had 5 lockers.

[patent shadow]

just to have it, or a massive resource thing

[cerulean zodiac]

Depends on how much resource farming you do, I suppose

[patent shadow]

and most of them probably aren't really that practical

[haughty oak]

Yea thats my thinking.

[cerulean zodiac]

But yeah, you don't need a hundred lockers or more.

[patent shadow]

however, the cyclops you need at least that bottem portion with lockers of some sort for transporting and stuff

[haughty oak]

And also, id rather prefer to build a base close to resources that i will need so i don't have to spend too much time gathering resources.

[haughty oak]

Thats a fair point. The Cyclops argument is understandable as you dont want to constantly return to the surface to gather materials.

[patent shadow]

if you want to have resources near, you might wanna be somewhere near the lava zone because ILZ has a lot of drillable places

[haughty oak]

yea the lava zone is pretty good but i dont like it that much

id rather preffer the biome above it as it is still close to materials on the surface and to the lava zone and i think it is more aesthetically pleasing

[patent shadow]

I have my base at the cove/ghost tree and I go down to get stuff in bulk, besides, they're portals near there

[haughty oak]

good point, didnt consider that

[serene zealot]

That's an argument for lava castle area base though, portals to all zones are very close

And base integrity isn't proportional to depth so no worries there

[patent shadow]

it isn't?

[proper rover]

It is

[strange stump]

where should I put a creative base?

[keen oracle]

ah ok, I do play on Steam
so you can just switch back and forth between normal and experimental? and I would assume in experimental you'd need to make new saves as it wouldn't load the regular ones, or do they still show up but you just can't access them in experimental?

[serene zealot]

It is?
I never noticed... In that case I stand corrected

[patent shadow]

putting a moonpool at my base 900m almost takes 10 hull point things

[waxen kettle]

I have moonpool right on 900 also lol I keep seamoth in it

[keen oracle]

yall ever have one of those bases where if you're not careful enough docking your Seamoth you go under max crush depth for a couple seconds before getting docked xD

[patent shadow]

no, I built my moonpool for my seamoth a little bit too high up for that

[gilded grove]

I just tried experimental and my save was still there and fine. The seatruck dock was kinda useless imo. I personally didn't care for it. They also added a base attached pump like in the first subnautica. Only differences I noted. Then I uninstalled back to normal and my saves were fine.

[cerulean zodiac]

You can load a pre-existing stable save in experimental, but it permanently converts it to an experimental save.

You might be able to convert it back to a stable save if the game receives an update and you to switch back to stable then.

Not 100% sure on that though

I'd recommend keeping your stable and experimental saves seperate though, incase something in experimental breaks

[keen oracle]

yeah that seems logical

[gilded grove]

Yes

I just checked and it will convert your save! Guess I gotta stay on experimental now

I think its only IF you save in game but Im not 100% becauyse my subnautica 1 save if good but one below zero Ill need to reinstall experimental

To be clear: I installed experimental on both after beating both games. Only tried experimental on Below Zero. Didn't care for it. Uninstalled experimental on both. Now I can't play my Below Zero save without reinstalling experimental, but I can play my Subnautica 1 save no problem.

[keen oracle]

I'm assuming the save you couldn't play without reinstalling experimental was one that you played while you were in experimental

[cerulean zodiac]

Yes

[gilded grove]

yep

[polar dawn]

first message in this server! here is a base i had worked on for about 5 hours. im still not finished. im very new to subnautica, this is the third base ive built (creative) and also the biggest one.

[patent shadow]

is this modded or experimental? I see BZ parts

[polar dawn]

experimental

i had to choose between BZ base pieces or mods, bc the game did not like having mods and experimental at once

[dusty inlet]

Can you pictures of data bank entry’s on picture frames

[patent shadow]

That’s probably mods

[keen oracle]

you can put anything in a picture frame

no mods required

so long as you put the image in the file where the PDA screenshots go

I've put databank entries in that way by saving the images off the wiki then putting them in that file, it'd be nice if there was an easier way though

[polar dawn]

yeah thats what i did

i found out i could put any picture i wanted in the game and had a lot of fun with it

[patent shadow]

@hot cosmos storage

From what I remember about 24 wall lockers and 12 lockers

[hot cosmos]

Where ur base at

[patent shadow]

Cove/ghost tree

[haughty sequoia]

So this is my bedroom. I've put a lot of stuff into the aquarium so my question is will the creature from the green egg kill the others? Btw I also released some into wildlife :)

[patent shadow]

I don’t think that things in containment attack each other

[gilded grove]

They don't fight. You get an achievement for releasing a cuddle fish once it's grown btw.

[patent shadow]

Did you just copy and paste

[haughty sequoia]

I'm uhh play bz

[urban sail]

Cuddlefish arent in bz

[gilded grove]

Didn't notice it was bz

[cerulean pulsar]

day 2's hardcore base

[patent shadow]

Nice

[gilded grove]

This is what the Degasi crew would have accomplished had they not died or whatever. The biggest tower is a full aquarium. Kind of interesting to swim up and down it. All Degasi bases are connected in the most efficient way possible I think. The base continues all the way to the Tree Cove with small bases in between at the predator looking fossils, main large fossils, and alien research facility. I'd post more pics but I think this is enough unless anyone wants to see the rest.

[patent shadow]

Yes please, I’d like more

Also, where reinforcements?

[waxen kettle]

Prob creative

[keen oracle]

that's quite the tower you have there, good to see some larger scale bases now and then

is this creative or survival? I'd guess creative but having built large stuff in survival I wouldn't be surprised if it was that either

[gilded grove]

First time really going all out in creative. It get's ridiculously slow to build though as your base gets bigger. Pretty much why I stopped.

[keen oracle]

yep, I know that feeling 😛

[gilded grove]

After the underwater Degasi base it heads into the lost river. The first split (left) goes to the predator fossil alien sanctuary, the other goes to the giant fossil room with the ghost leviathan. The next split is between the alien research facility and the Tree Cove in the smaller fossil room. I tried really hard to change depth only when needed so everything is smoother. Some of the picture quality might not be great because I lowered my graphic settings to try to build faster 😂

[gilded grove]

If you look close at the tower you can see its only supported by ONE vertical column, lmao. I

[hot cosmos]

How much glass did you use

[gilded grove]

Anything that can be is. This is creative tho. I do a lot of glass in survival too

Gotta keep it glassy 👉

[hot cosmos]

Yea

[hot cosmos]

Dont mind my dad at the background

[thorn sentinel]

after several revisions and updates heres my new and improved main outpost

[patent shadow]

Nice

[obtuse basin]

Is this in the first game?

[polar dawn]

yes, im using experimental mode

[fast quest]

Yes, it's at the floating island which is in subnautica

[obtuse basin]

Ah. I saw the large room and got confused

[fast quest]

experimental is not available for console versions though unfortunately

[obtuse basin]

Nooooooo

Rip

[jagged yew]

So if the Degasi survived, the player’s pc would die.

[restive ocean]

Yes

[worldly wind]

holy thats big

[worldly wind]

big and cool

[gilded grove]

thanks

[quartz dove]

Do you guys also get the lag of death after adding/removing pieces from a larger base?
I am at something like almost a minute freeze when i try to add/remove something (corridor, airlock, planting bed, ...).
Tho on the other hand i can walk from one island to the other and visit the Aurora topside in between.

[gilded grove]

Ya I don't think theres a way around it. Having to redo things becomes a nightmare especially if you're OCD

Towards the end of my base I was browsing the web/listening to music on one screen and building on the other. Multiple screens ftw

[serene zealot]

As much as I love the look of big bases... I just find them a bit of a waste. I run out of things to take up space with any more than 4 large rooms
Storage, cool looking room, greenhouse, aquarium going through 3 of the rooms

But then I'm a strict thermal power person, so I save space therr

[patent shadow]

Make big aquariums, and a bedroom or observatory

[fading slate]

My base near the cove

not finished yet

[mossy folio]

My base in Safe Shallows doesn't feel safe.

Does that count as an awesome base?

[steep fiber]

The ghost is not weclome here, kill it and assert dominance

[keen wind]

He croosin. But yes, not safe.. At least no more Stalkers, maybe?

[keen oracle]

dang and I thought I was the only one who got a Ghost in the Kelp Forest once 😂

[patent shadow]

Let’s just hope his partner goes to get him back

[gilded grove]

Another fun one in creative

[strange jungle]

do you have a pic for efficient power plants? I have a slight energy problem 😅

[pseudo rain]

just have a few thermal plants down by a thermal vent and you'll be set for power on a decently sized base

[strange jungle]

can you show me an image? i made that to but my power drops every night down to nearly dead 🙈

[pseudo rain]

I don't have my switch near me plus it's nearly 2am, I'll try to get an image tomorrow morning if no one else gets an image before me

[strange jungle]

i life in another time zone ist nearly 8am at my place sry wish a good night to you 😉

[pseudo rain]

It's fine mate, i probably won't be asleep until 3am anyways so it's not bothering me at all

[strange jungle]

ok 👍 thanks for helping

[pseudo rain]

Np

[keen wind]

WOAHH

[waxen kettle]

U can tell that spots near the vents that u can place thermal plant are the hottest with the GUI in corner of screen

3 should be enough for bases that aren't super extra (scanner room, water, a few containments, moonpool)

For mine at leasr

also can use a bioreactor and put Reginald's/oculus or lantern fruit for additional if thermal can't keep up temporarily

[obtuse basin]

If you can, use nuclear

It generates so much power so quickly. If you have two or three, you’re set for a good while

[patent shadow]

I’ve never though about building at the gun, smart idea!

[mossy folio]

I'm happy-ish to know I am not the only one to have had this problem.

[obtuse basin]

Someone build a base around the entire map

[waxen kettle]

bioreactor

[obtuse basin]

No. Bioreactor sucks

Nuclear is simply the best

Trust me, it may be expensive, but it is definitely worth it

[keen wind]

i catch way too many fish so bioreactor ftw in my case

[obtuse basin]

But your constantly having to put fuel in, and it still doesn’t put out nearly as much energy

[patent shadow]

Gel sacks

[waxen timber]

Thermal if you can

[keen oracle]

I would disagree, yes it doesn't give nearly as much energy as a nuclear one but at the same time a bioreactor has renewable fuel that's super easy to obtain, whereas nukes you have to replace reactor rods which might start to get expensive depending on how much power your base typically consumes

I usually use both, with the bioreactor as my immediate power supply and nuclear reactors as a power tank in case I need to do something super energy consuming

that way you don't have to make new reactor rods nearly as often and it's way more economical

[obtuse basin]

Hmmm

Wait… do different things yield different energy levels

[waxen timber]

Rods contain absurd amount of power, so I think most of the time it shouldn't be bad

[waxen timber]

What?

[gilded grove]

The best fuel for the bio reactor is sea treader poop

At least in the first Subnautica

[steep fiber]

It's a good thing my bio base is right next to the treader path

[gilded grove]

Thermal and Solar are my go to, zero maintenance. You can find reactors on the aurora and some other wrecks. A mix of different energy sources is the best imo

[patent shadow]

25k,(or 250k) when you can have like 5k in a bio reactor full of gel sacks and have it be renewable

[waxen timber]

Absolutely not

[patent shadow]

Can you choose which power generator is to be used first?

[pallid gyro]

not really

[gilded grove]

You're right. Shows how much I use a bioreactor. Seatreader poop is decent at 300 energy, but after looking up the energy values farming Bulbo Trees, Bulb Bush, or Blood Oil would seemingly be the most efficient route at 420 energy each. I didn't know you could feed it hatched eggs either.

[waxen timber]

From what I remember gel sacks are generally even better while still easy to farm (fish are harder) because of taking just one slot

[gilded grove]

Daaang yep. 245 for one, sooo 980 as opposed to 420 for the same space.

https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Bioreactor_(Subnautica)#Flora_(Marine)

[gilded grove]

A full Bioreactor of gel sacks will last about 1.5 hours being constantly drained. A full nuclear reactor will last about 5.3 hours being constantly drained.

Also "Power is drawn from the oldest generator first, regardless of the type of generator."

Not sure about BZ, this is for the first one

[gilded grove]

^

[waxen timber]

BZ is probably the same

But I'm not sure about that in case if my main base.
I have a thermal power plant quite far so I use the power things, but when I enter the game it connects with a delay. So I'm not sure if it would still count as oldest or newest.

[patent shadow]

Why was my nuclear reactor being drain when my bio was there first

[gilded grove]

Maybe you rebuilt and forgot. I'm getting that info from here https://subnautica.fandom.com/wiki/Energy

[patent shadow]

Dang, my base is weird

[keen wind]

bet, mines a big tube with a scanner room

[patent shadow]

Wha

[keen wind]

seriously

thats my base

[patent shadow]

I have a big central spire with alien containment, my bedroom, and bio/nuclear reactors.I plan to make another one that’s like it without the power

And maybe two more

[gilded grove]

Found this is a steam thread "when you load the game, it loads your nearest vicinity first. if your thermal plants are somewhat further from the base, they don't get loaded right away. that should be the reason for what you see."

That's a pain in the a$$

[gilded grove]

pics or it didnt happen

[patent shadow]

You think having them like 100m away would make them not load?

[keen wind]

console 🤷

[gilded grove]

touche

[keen wind]

but im just bad at finding multipurpose rooms 😔

[waxen timber]

Makes sense. But then how does the game count them?

[gilded grove]

Find the Degasi Crew

[keen wind]

Probably a really smart idea....

.....if i had a moth and could go that low

im not good at this game but i love it to bits.

[gilded grove]

You can use multiple air tanks btw. Switch them out when you're almost out of air. Might help get that little extra distance.

[keen wind]

Wait- that- works??? Im probably the most unintelligent player.

[gilded grove]

Took me a bit to think of it

[gilded grove]

Make sure to refill both when you surface!!! I've made the mistake of forgetting to switch at the surface and went back down with a backup that was empty and died

[keen wind]

D: I'll try to remember- The only way I've died is drowning, but all I lost was lead, so it wasn't a biggie.

Either way I got my lead back.

[gilded grove]

It happens. In speedruns they strategically use drowning

[keen wind]

That's true, I've seen multiple speedruns like that.

[gilded grove]

It's like you have a teleporter at your base always lol

[keen wind]

Unless you dont have a bed, lmao, but if you build close to the pod, its fine

[gilded grove]

I never noticed this, just read it, but anytime you enter your lifepod/base/cyclops your inventory is "secured". Meaning if you go back out and die, any items that were "secured" won't be dropped.

[keen wind]

Oh wonky! I'll have to see that-

[gilded grove]

Never tried this trick either, just read it lol: "quickly building a single I Compartment and a Hatch on the seabed can be a valid tactic to secure the player's inventory if they are about to die. "

[worldly wind]

pls rate my base its my biggest creations ever

[pseudo rain]

no windows 💀

[worldly wind]

ok

base update

[brazen remnant]

Beautiful!

[worldly wind]

i use 5 hours to place rooms and corridors and the furniture 💀

[brazen remnant]

Check out mine. Took me at least 20 hours just getting the materials

[worldly wind]

very cool

[brazen remnant]

Thanks

[worldly wind]

i am living on the lost river forever

[brazen remnant]

So far youre doing a great job

[timid thistle]

Very Good

[keen oracle]

creative or survival?

[rough knot]

What is that

[keen oracle]

something from a mod

looks like the Alterra Hub modpack if I'm naming that correctly

[pseudo rain]

I think that's a FCS large solar panel but I'm not sure

[strange jungle]

It works thanks i set up seven of theme and my energy is up and running plus two bio reactors running on horseshoe nuts currently i dindt get the Aquarium in this run yet

[strange jungle]

Nuclear is an option but i was told uranium ist realy limited on below zero so i want to relay on regrowing energy 😅 for the main game i definitely take that option

[lilac dome]

My base couldn't fit in 1 screenshot XD

[worldly wind]

oversized base

[worldly wind]

ayo mod

[timid thistle]

Yes is a mod

[worldly wind]

cool

[worldly wind]

i guess imma install one

[lilac dome]

Built it throughout story

[hot cosmos]

Holly 💩

[obtuse basin]

Bz I’m not sure about, I haven’t played the game. I was mainly talking about sn.

[patent shadow]

I have found too much uranium tbh, I barely picked any up

[waxen timber]

I made a ton of rods because I had to wait (so decided to do something)

[patent shadow]

Also the rods you get from the murcury

[strange jungle]

Whats the murcury?

[patent shadow]

Mercury my bad

[strange jungle]

Ah ok understood

Im not that far in to the game still trying to figure out how to get in to this greenhouse facility thingi i found on one of the icebergs

[teal zodiac]

To get access you need to do something that is part of the storyline.

[keen pecan]

They’re talking abt the satellite

I don’t think it is in the game normally

Unless they’re a control room attachment

Also the large aquarium is in the mercury 2 right?

[patent shadow]

Alien containment and in below zero yes

[fast quest]

What satellite

[keen pecan]

This

[fast quest]

And also the experimental branch that has the large rooms doesn't support mods

ah

[keen pecan]

Ty

[fast quest]

I didn't see that they were replying to someone, I just thought they were talking about the message above

[patent shadow]

I don’t know which part though

[keen pecan]

I think u have to cut to it

I just want to farm chocolates

[leaden minnow]

Really awesome base

[keen pecan]

What’s the orange and blue one at the top? Never seen that one b4

[brazen remnant]

The what

[keen pecan]

The orange and blue fish at the top of the karaa tank

[patent shadow]

The ghost leviathan?

[keen pecan]

That one

[patent shadow]

Oh, spade fish

[keen pecan]

Oooooh it just looks weird from that angle

[cerulean pulsar]

alien & fauna research base (in creative ofc, im just having fun)

[patent shadow]

Nice

Can we get a day shot

[half vapor]

in progress

[thorn sentinel]

For the timeframe of sunbeam that’s impressive

[patent shadow]

I mean, you can also just not use radio

[thorn sentinel]

True

[patent shadow]

I’ve seen playtroughs where the gun is deactivated before sunbeam event

(Also speed runs)

[pseudo lodge]

then the sunbean just goes "oh nvm we wont land bye"

[cerulean zodiac]

Something about debris in orbit

To be fair, the Neptune did need a dedicated shield to get through said debris.

[patent shadow]

Yeah

Wait, didn’t they already encounter the debris field, it was in that one message about being sorry after he was mean

[gilded grove]

(Documents leaked by unknown persons) - Alterra Operation KFP status update: Outpost FreeByrd running smoothly. We've successfully bred the fear of heights into the Penglings through selective breeding and other various means when needed. Any who do jump are quickly put into the bioreactors. This ensures 100% that their fearless genes will not spread. Currently we have over 200 bred this way housed in 3 spawning aquariums and an outdoor recreational area. They have provided all the energy we could ever need for base power and surface exploration as well as being absolutely delicious. We have kept the mission as secret as possible as to not effect our relations with the Precursor Race. We know how they feel about these types of things. Our search for target MM continues. Over.

[keen wind]

Is that a- A hotel!?

[keen wind]

:O Don't hurt the Penglings!!

[gilded grove]

I'm just a messenger trying to get the truth out about Alterra. They want you to think it's a hotel, it's more like a prison.

What did you expect from a galactic corporation?

[keen wind]

Not much. But come on, Penglings are so cute, how could they do that?!

[patent shadow]

They’re alterra

[gilded grove]

They do it every day to multiple species across multiple galaxies, including humans here on Earth. This is the nature of the organism we know as the Alterra Corporation. We don't know exactly who or what they are, but they've been around for a very very long time and they're masters of enslavement.

[keen wind]

Fair, they don't care about anybody other than themselves. (I think that was stated somewhere)

[patent shadow]

They didn’t release facts about the aurora and sunbeam getting powwed(refer to BZ)

[keen wind]

Oh that's weird!!

[gilded grove]

Powwed?

[keen wind]

Covering up what happened for some reason

[patent shadow]

Boomed

[keen wind]

Blown up by the QEP

[gilded grove]

ahh lol

[patent shadow]

If you play BZ, most of the pdas are in Koppa mining site

[keen wind]

Haven't played yet, trying to go in almost entirely blind.

[patent shadow]

Oops my bad

[keen wind]

I know some of the things, like the ||Frozen Leviathan and Marguerit|| but almost nothing else

[patent shadow]

Shall I tell you about-

[keen wind]

Uhhhhhmmmm no-? I didn't have this whole 'going in blind' thing with Subnautica 1, so I want to know nothing about it :>

[patent shadow]

You wanna know one of the first things you learn?

[keen wind]

UhhhhHH sure?

[patent shadow]

Your sister died “due to her own negligence” and the company you are an employee of got bought by alterra

[keen wind]

Yeah, I know about the Alterra-Xenoworx things, but I didn't know she died due to 'her own negligence'-

[gilded grove]

The plot thickens!

[keen wind]

the plot is as thick as stew

[patent shadow]

You can infer what she died from if you look at madias logs

[jagged yew]

Alterra isnt necessarily evil for the sake of being evil. Theyre just extremely money hungry being one of the richest megacorporations in the galaxy. And they will go to sometimes quite extreme lengths for profit.

[keen wind]

That's true, but what they do for money can be considered evil

[gilded grove]

Evil and good are subjective, they have no actual basis in reality.

[jagged yew]

They conform to the transgov charter so they arent doing anything considered illegal (at least not to the extent that it could reach the public eye) but probably do everything they can for more money.

[steep fiber]

A friend of mine bragged about making the penglings extinct by throwing all of them into the bio reactor, he said he never found another on the whole map after.

[jagged yew]

They respawn tho

[steep fiber]

Maybe he lied then, i dunno

[keen wind]

holy- nnNNOOOooOooooOOo

[hot jacinth]

Why do they want scared penglings? Do they want to make sure that they never evolve to fly?

[gilded grove]

The ice shelf is a natural cage if they're afraid to jump off.

Most, if not all of those penglings, probably have never been in the ocean as well. All they know is captivity.

[primal cipher]

What h guys think

[gilded grove]

Lookin cool. I personally don't use those platforms unless I absolutely need them for hull integrity which you don't need to worry about above sea level. I'm pretty sure you can float an entire base in the air if you really want.

I did this insane base in creative on that island. I love the little lagoon in the middle.

[primal cipher]

Thay hold my prawn

Suit

[quartz nacelle]

Why is it so tempting to make a base on that island now

[patent shadow]

imo I don't like bases on islands, its too far from water

[quartz nacelle]

I do like my current tree cove base and it's a lot of work to make another base now. Also in survival

[patent shadow]

same

[patent shadow]

mines not that big yet, I'm play BZ rn

[quartz nacelle]

I dunno what else I can do to this. I pretty much done everything but it still feels like there is something missing

[quartz nacelle]

Yeah it took quite a while. I also used mods at the end cuz I got tired from collecting materials

[patent shadow]

a 15 story tall aquarium

[quartz nacelle]

Damn, mine is two storey. I could make it larger yeah.

[patent shadow]

I have like a 8 story maybe, then my bedroom and a observatory to look at the eggs

[quartz nacelle]

Nice! I have observatory setup right at ghost levithan eggs

[patent shadow]

think thats the best pic I have of it

[quartz nacelle]

That's gorgeous!

And that is large sheesh

[patent shadow]

yeah, planning on making it go around and having 4 more of those pillars

[quartz nacelle]

A pillar on each side would be cool

I see very less windows tho

But I see the lack of re inforcements

[patent shadow]

yeah, glass is hard as hack to come by, and I used most of it for my 6 story aquarium

reinforcements are going in the two rooms at the bottom of the pillar, and the top one on the side

[quartz nacelle]

True! Two big problems have always been titanium and quartz.

Those biomes were filled with only lithium

That's why I used mods cuz I wanna get the base done

[patent shadow]

I have like 8 lockers of titanium rn, quartz is almost out I think

[quartz nacelle]

There must be drillable quartz somewhere maybe in lava zone

Also here's my observatory

[patent shadow]

lights

[patent shadow]

yeah, I almost exhausted that though, from what I can see, I have to go like to the other side of the ILZ to get them

[quartz nacelle]

Better watch out on those perky dragons

[patent shadow]

attack them once and they run

It took me about a hour to scan one because he kept running

[quartz nacelle]

I killed one before scanning it

Was a tough fight.

[patent shadow]

how

[quartz nacelle]

I died quite a few times

Prawn suit

[patent shadow]

stasis and knife

[quartz nacelle]

Someone said to me that thermal knife don't do any damage to lava zone creatures including sea dragons

[patent shadow]

regular knife then, itll be pain but probably easier

[quartz nacelle]

Yeah probably

Have you played experimental yet

[patent shadow]

no, and don't really want to

[quartz nacelle]

I went to tree cove in that and made a large room base

[patent shadow]

nice

[quartz nacelle]

This is just an copy of my below zero base.

Design wise

[jagged yew]

Man I cant wait for bz parts on switch.

[patent shadow]

base in the works

[keen wind]

ooo

[lavish mango]

can you use below zero buildings on the first subnautica?

[quartz nacelle]

In the experimental beta, yupp

[lavish mango]

@lavish mangoOk will it come to the orginal game without experimental?

and how do i find the experimental?

[quartz nacelle]

It'll come to the original game in a future update

I think you need a code to access it or something. I don't remember but you can ask in #subnautica-chat

Actually nah. Just need to go to properties in steam then betas and select it from the dropdown menu

[lavish mango]

@quartz nacellecan i get experimental on epic games also?

[quartz nacelle]

Nope

Steam only

[lavish mango]

ok thanks

[ornate escarp]

Can confirm one ghost to another.

[lavish mango]

I hope the below zero buildings very sone will come to the first subnautica

[ornate escarp]

The SN2.0 Update will be released AFTER the BZ2.0 Update.

[keen oracle]

do you know if the BZ base pieces in SN1 will be available in all gamemodes, or just creative?

[ornate escarp]

All gamemodes.

You obtain all of the new blueprints by unlocking the Multipurpose Room.

[keen oracle]

ah I see

I was hoping that'd be the case, I thought it was only creative for some reason

you can bet I'll be putting a mp room dome on here as soon as the update releases 😛

[ornate escarp]

I'm gonna be honest with you...

I forgot about the Glass Domes.

[keen oracle]

I love them

[pseudo rain]

how do you have large rooms in base game

[quartz nacelle]

Scroll up

[keen oracle]

it's an update coming to the game soon

[pseudo rain]

ah, thanks

[keen oracle]

currently accessible in experimental mode

[pseudo rain]

It's not Subnautica 2?

Not a separate game?

nice

[patent shadow]

this is my lilypad base rn, any tips/suggestions

[ornate escarp]

Hmmm...

🤔

Needs more Whale.

[patent shadow]

I tried, they don't give good shots

[light pike]

Love this but it's so cursed

[ornate escarp]

Nah not really.

Also... may I borrow that dollar?

[light pike]

Lmfao

It's just so weird having below zero parts in subnautica

[ornate escarp]

Kinda cool tho at the same time.

[light pike]

Yea trying to build the most compact base that can hold everything, and grow everything indoors without having to leave

Thinking about putting this down in the inactive Lava zone

[ornate escarp]

Also... the descriptions for the added base pieces are floofing atrocious.

[light pike]

Oh I never read them in my excitement lol

[keen oracle]

add a tower

[patent shadow]

Yeah, debating to add either a multipurpose room alien containment tower or the large room tower, and if multipurpose underwater or above water

[rigid leaf]

https://youtu.be/UlVEnAWiOXM

[light pike]

My base plans for when 2.0 comes to subnsutica, this it's going to be a great self contained base

[patent shadow]

my titanium storages are hurting while burning

as well as about everything else

[light pike]

Oh I forgot about having a storage room in my base hmmm, need to rework somethings

[heady jacinth]

Are those multipurpose rooms connected to the large room below?

[pseudo rain]

I'm pretty sure they connect via the hallways out the side, large rooms don't connect to multipurpose from the top of bottom

[serene zealot]

Sadly...

[fast quest]

Yeah I wish they'd done more with connecting ladders through rooms

[pallid gyro]

it would be cool if there was vertical connections between rooms

[fast quest]

would've been cool to put a ladder between a large room and a multipurpose room like that, or between 2 large rooms that are perpendicular to each other

would've been harder to code though probably

[gilded grove]

I like using aquariums as basically elevators and ditching ladders when I can.

[patent shadow]

yeah, probably good idea

[light pike]

No sadly

I wish they did, maybe they can take inspiration from no man sky

[snow willow]

My home, glitched cuddlefish, and stil a wip

[patent shadow]

im wondering: should I wrap my base around the cove tree with rooms or with tubes and rooms at the corners?

[nova burrow]

my base currently. i have plans to move the greenhouse room from the second floor to its own multipurpose room. ill prob end up putting a nuclear reactor on the second floor when i get that. all also remove the bioreactor from the first floor when i do that lol

[marble frigate]

Hold up, is that seatruck docked in the first picture?

new update?

[thin socket]

Yup, they are adding a new dock for the Seatruck

[marble frigate]

Oh, that's amazing!

[sharp tangle]

Is that modded?

[nova burrow]

Nope

[sharp tangle]

How did you make the seatruck go in the base like that

[nova burrow]

Seatruck dock

[sharp tangle]

How do I get that

[nova burrow]

It’s not in the game at the moment but if you switch to the experimental branch on steam you can get it early

[sharp tangle]

Oh

Well I'm on switch

[nova burrow]

Well hopefully it will come soon! It seems like it’s almost done. There’s just some funky collisions by the door

[sharp tangle]

Oh ok

Also

Do you have to scan for the building?

[nova burrow]

I got it unlocked when I unlocked the moon pool

[sharp tangle]

Oh neat

So now the moon pool is only good for the prawn suit?

[nova burrow]

Yea

[sharp tangle]

Neat

[nova burrow]

It’s nice to have a dock made for the seatruck tho lol

[keen oracle]

playing survival on experimental?

[nova burrow]

yup

[patent shadow]

Risky

[nova burrow]

eh

only almost lost my save 3 times in the past week

[keen oracle]

I hope you make backups 😂

[patent shadow]

Exactly, risky

[nova burrow]

i sure dont

[keen oracle]

I backup my hardcore save, actually all my saves any time I make major progress on them

in the first game that is

well I back up my BZ saves too but I don't have a hardcore in there yet

[nova burrow]

im working on relocating my entire base to the lilypad area

im going at it for about 4 hours now

almost done

the most annoying part will be getting new reactor rods for my new base lol

[keen oracle]

reactor rods aren't that hard to get

so long as you know where to find uranite

Tree Spires has plenty

[nova burrow]

i think i have enough uraninite to make 4 more

not sure about other materials tho lol

[keen oracle]

at least titanium is renewable in BZ

even if the process is incredibly slow

[nova burrow]

this is my current progress on my new base

[keen oracle]

l o n g

[nova burrow]

oop some if the base unloaded

there we go

[keen oracle]

how's the Seatruck dock working for you

I haven't tried it out yet myself

also can you connect two of them to each other to make a longer one? or is that not an option

[nova burrow]

very good, the only issue i have with it is the area with the control panel in it isn't colored correctly and the colliders by the bulkhead are a little funky

[nova burrow]

it only has 1 connection point

[keen oracle]

aw man

I wanted to be able to make a long dock lol

[nova burrow]

lol

[keen oracle]

well it is still in development so it's not fully polished yet, it's in experimental still for a reason

[nova burrow]

if you have a long seatruck, some of it will just hang out of the dock

[nova burrow]

yea lol

[keen oracle]

or have a small bank of bocks next to each other

that could actually look quite cool

*docks not bocks lol

[cerulean zodiac]

I heard from one YouTuber that there's supposed to be an extender module, but I'm not sure how credible they are

[nova burrow]

oh really? that could be interesting

[keen oracle]

they should make it so you can park the modules in backwards

so you can back the truck up to a tube, clamp the modules on then drive off

[cerulean zodiac]

Bit awkward to access the upgrade slots and power cells that way

[keen oracle]

would make it more modular though

[cerulean zodiac]

Yeah, it would

Heck, the Devs could add both

[keen oracle]

cause the way it currently is, you can't really have different tubes for different modules without having a Seatruck for each one

so I hope that gets changed in some way to make it more accessible

I don't like the idea of the Seatruck being stuck in the tube with all the modules behind it and the only way to get it out is with them all attached

[nova burrow]

this looks nice lol

[keen oracle]

I love the glass dome so much

I need that in SN1

[nova burrow]

i think there adding it

[keen oracle]

pretty sure yeah

[nova burrow]

i know there adding the large room and the bulkhead on dry land

[keen oracle]

heck as soon as they add that I'm slapping one on the tower in my hardcore base

[nova burrow]

i dont have sub1 on steam so i cant play the experimental branch lol

[cerulean zodiac]

I've gotta play BZ again sometime

[keen oracle]

I've been frustrated with it lately cause it keeps having really bad lag spikes and I don't know why

I hope it's just my pc and not the game itself

[cerulean zodiac]

To me, it doesn't feel like there's as much to do as there is in SN1, so I stopped playing for awhile

[nova burrow]

ive been noticing some stutters in my game recently too

[cerulean zodiac]

BZ seems to struggle more than SN1 on my PC

[keen oracle]

it ran better at first but just recently it's gotten worse

[cerulean zodiac]

Anyone got any unusual base building spots for either game?

[keen oracle]

oh I can name a few

under the ||Alien Thermal Plant|| for one

I have a little base there, right on the lava

[cerulean zodiac]

Ok, that is unusual

[keen oracle]

in one of those Crash Zone mesas

[cerulean zodiac]

I've just come up with one; the volcanic sea floor under the underwater islands

[keen oracle]

inside one of the 4 ||Alien Arch|| caves

[cerulean zodiac]

I've built there before. It's a nice spot

[keen oracle]

or on the floating rocks around the big island

I have a base there in my hardcore, I'll bring up a pic

very unique base location

[cerulean zodiac]

That's a cool spot

[keen oracle]

that area of the map is so underused

it's got great scenery and a really cool vibe to it

[cerulean zodiac]

One of the big reasons I prefer SN1 over BZ is just how vast the map feels.

I've been playing since the reapers were first added in early access and even now I can still find new nooks and crannies to build in

[keen oracle]

yeah

sometimes I'll go around in areas like the Deep Sparse Reef and there'll be spots I've never physically been in before

these little coves are really nice looking

I could totally see a tiny base slotted in there

[nova burrow]

how did you get the rocks there? terraformer?

[patent shadow]

No, I think they are there

[nova burrow]

really?

are there floters on them?

[keen oracle]

yeah

basically an underwater asteroid belt around that giant floating island

[nova burrow]

huh, never saw that before

[keen oracle]

really cool spot

[nova burrow]

yea

[keen oracle]

I've since removed most of the lights since they were expending way too much energy for my solar panel grid to deal with

actually I don't think I even had that hooked up when I took those screenshots

[nova burrow]

is this creative or survival?

its really good

[keen oracle]

hardcore

thanks

[nova burrow]

💀

[keen oracle]

believe it or not my hardcore save has 120+ hours and I'm still going strong

that's one of my 4 bases

and it's the 2nd smallest one xD

[nova burrow]

bro what 💀

your a mad man lol

[keen oracle]

this one's the smallest, it was my starter base

I like the coziness of it

[nova burrow]

thats a nice starter base

[keen oracle]

: )

Mushroom Forest is an underrated building spot

[deep belfry]

lost river base anyone?

[keen oracle]

I called that base the "Underwater Treehouse"

[deep belfry]

lost river probably the best farming spot in the game

just take a prawn suit with a drill arm and its free everything basically

[keen oracle]

I like the Tree Cove but I've never made anything elsewhere in the Lost River, idk I just don't like the green aesthetic for a base location

it is great for resources though

I go down there all the time

[deep belfry]

theres a spot near the teleporter thats pretty hidden away

[keen oracle]

this is my main one in the Blood Kelp Trench, the 4th and largest one is a Reaper containment in the Dunes which I'm still in the process of building, no idea when it'll be finished

[nova burrow]

how has that not flooded yet lol

[keen oracle]

lots of reinforcements

[nova burrow]

where lol

[keen oracle]

they're all up that tower at the back

behind the one in the middle

[nova burrow]

ohh makes sense

[keen oracle]

the middle one in this image

you can see the outlines of the reinforcements in the walls

[nova burrow]

yea

[keen oracle]

probably one of my favourite shots of it

I love the Blood Kelp Trench

such a dark, ominous place

perfect for a main hardcore base

[deep belfry]

might just be me but below zero has alot more places to build

[keen oracle]

I would disagree with that

[deep belfry]

especially below the ventgardens

[keen oracle]

SN1 has a bigger map and more biomes

although I do agree that BZ has some pretty cool base building locations

[deep belfry]

BZ has the above water spots too

[keen oracle]

the Tree Spires is my favourite

[nova burrow]

BZ has more places that look amazing but the OG has more locations

[deep belfry]

to be fair SN1s map is like 30% dunes/aurora wreckage

[keen oracle]

my top 3 base-building biomes in SN1 are the Grand Reef, Blood Kelp Zone (either one although personally I prefer the trench) and the Bulb Zone, which I have yet to make a mega base in

[nova burrow]

but theres also large underground places too

[keen oracle]

and of course the Dunes is great for stupid things like this 😂

don't ask how many hours of grinding it took to get all that titanium

I have a hard time finding decent quantities of it anymore 😛

Cyclops for scale

[deep belfry]

lost river or the aurora wreck are just infinite titanium farms

[keen oracle]

until you've drained both of them xD

which I almost have at this point

[deep belfry]

you think you drained the entire lost river?

[keen oracle]

I've been through the whole LR and and I can't find large titanium deposits anymore

[deep belfry]

theres gotta be a few thousand titanium at minimum there

[dusky steeple]

dont the big piles respawn after a while???

[keen oracle]

sadly no

[deep belfry]

could be a switch only thing

[dusky steeple]

install a mod then

[deep belfry]

they respawned on the switch for me

a bunch of them were in the brine too

[keen oracle]

I'm sure there's a few left that are either impossible to get or hiding from me but I've definitely gotten the vast majority of them

[nova burrow]

i thought that outcrops respawned when you reload a save

[keen oracle]

I wish they did 😂

imagine how OP that would be

[dusky steeple]

time for you to go thru the subnautica backrooms for that 1 titanium left in your world

[deep belfry]

i mean they do respawn on switch im pretty sure

i have like 8 glass storage units of titanium on my cyclops

not including what i used for bases

[keen oracle]

ironically the part of the Subnautica map that actually looks like the backrooms doesn't have any titanium as it's under the void lol

[dusky steeple]

lol

best chace ya have is that automation and well living mod

[keen oracle]

I've been through all the major biomes that are loaded with titanium deposits
Crash Zone, Lost River, Inactive Lava Zone, Bulb Zone, Kelp Forest, Save Shallows...

wait the Kelp Forest only has scrap my bad
same with Shallows

[dusky steeple]

maybe check under floating island

that place usually goes deep

[keen oracle]

I don't think there's any titanium deposits there, mostly gold and uranite

[dusky steeple]

maybe some stones there

[keen oracle]

we should move to #subnautica-chat

[nova burrow]

old base gone D:
but im almost done with the new one :D

[patent shadow]

youre on experimental right?

[nova burrow]

yea

[patent shadow]

maybe thats why your base is gone

[nova burrow]

no i removed it lol

i needed most of the materials

[patent shadow]

understandable

[ornate escarp]

I really wouldn't play your "treasured" savefiles on the experimental branch since there's a chance that you save could be corrupted and unplayable.

So... I'm just gonna hope you made a backup.

[nova burrow]

eh alright, i'll make a backup lol

backup made lol

[gleaming basin]

That's actually mad. Good effort haha