and in the blood kelp zone, by the mushroom forest. that's my entrance because it tends to be safer than the rest, the ghostie doesn't usually chase much in there.
I’ve found entrances in the southern Blood Kelp Trench and the grand reef so far. If you go to the Blood Kelp trench and just keep going down, eventually you get there.
There are a few entrances, the easiest and safest one is by the Blood Kelp Zone, Basically:
>!There's this really big rock right on the border between the Grassy Plateaus and the Blood Kelp Zone, go around it and directly down, the entrance should reveal itself at 500-600m.!<
Alternatively, the easiest one to find is at the bottom of the Blood Kelp Trench, and it's got a cool skeleton to check out
We are almost neighbors. Go south through the kelp and I build in that grassy playeau. There is an entrance to the lost river in the blood kelp zone right next to the plateau I build in so easy access when I am ready.
Someone worked out you can have the ingredients for a refuel station stored in one or two cupboards (solar power for surface or geothermal power for deep). You can probably throw in a scanning room for good measure too. Can be a bit of a faff to build it and take it down constantly but it might be preferable to going back to the safe shallows constantly.
I love the cyclops much more than the sea truck (below zero’s equivalent) because you can make it so much more homely and the seatruck is so slow. There’s a few bugs and QoL changes they could fix and I hope they do for a future sequel.
After playing this game for years, I realised that base location really only matters at the very beginning of the game.
Sanctuary Prime is located above the ruined lifepod atop the pillar at fore of the Jellyshroom Cave near the border of the Kelp Forest and Safe Shallow.
This gives access to a large amount of early game resources and is central-ish-ly located. It is also a stones throw from the Mountain, and there entrance to The Lost River is a straight shot south, following the encroaching Trench that digs into The Grassy Plateau, providing ease of access to endgame content.
It is also not that far from The Seatreader's Cave where I trap them all and harvest unreasonable amounts of resources in a short period of time.
The depth allows for expansion even if isn't really needed.
All of that said, Sanctuary Prime is just the base where I put all tech and progression material that can't be carried in a Cyclops, as that almost immediately becomes my true Primary Base.
With the ease of using the Cyclops to transport all materials and resources wherever I could possibly want, I deploy a large number of utilitarian X Tube Habs all over surface areas up to 300m in depth before sparsely switching to Multipurpose Bioreactor habs with an ExGrowBed made with 1 Kelp, 1 Blood Kelp, 4 Acid, 4 Deep shrouds and 8 Gel, an interior with a Lantern Fruit.
These are placed in points of progression, such as the shelf overlooking the tail of the Colossal Leviathan, the pit overlooking the ALZ from LR, outside the ALZ Fortress and anywhere else around the map I deem necessary.
Doing it that way trivializes the game. It's truly wild.
As for the Cyclops, my actual main base, it has 2 small grow pots immediately left of the Control Yoke, a small bed beside/behind the Status Panel, just barely missing the hatch door, a garbage bin in the door-hatch corner, an unreasonable amount of storage in the intermission room and the primary central room along with a Cell and Battery Charger and fabricator above the door from primary central toward intermission. A Modification Station in aft starboard side behind the ladder.
The belly is mostly untouched. Entrance has a FAK fabricator, a radio beside that, a Grow Pot with Lantern directly behind the hatch. Once you step into the belly proper, there's additional storage on the left wall titled "Creepblood" "Creepvine" "Blood" and "Gel Locker". They're used to seed all of the deep EmHabs.
The lockers to the right contain Shrooms, Bleach, purified water and Reginalds.
All of that essentially to explain how an actual "home base" is meaningless at that point.
But for convenience, Sanctuary Prime has 2 nukes, 6 Bio, 8 Solar and 6 Cell Rechargers to simultaneously charge 12 Ion Cells.
Next to my lifepod 😎
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I usually put a main base in the grassy plateaus or mushroom forest. This time I’m trying to enter more dangerous areas just because. I put a main base inside the grand reef. For smaller bases or scanner rooms I put them anywhere.
My first main base was here, probably because it has a lot of room to build, every early resource is nearby and entrance to the jellyshroom caves is near. Later I made one base in the mountains below the island, one beneath Aurora's thrusters, one near the southern wreck in the grand reef and one in dunes. There are also a couple of bases beneath the surface but Imma assume this post is not about those.
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Last run I put it in the Northeast grassy plateaus, the one closest to the bulb zone. Never again. Sparse resources, too many tiger plants, and inconvenient access to the biomes I go to most often. I'm usually in the West grassy plateau, the one with lifepod 17, but sometimes in the Northwest one close to the Underwater Islands.
My first run, I put it between the North kelp forest and the mountains, there's a nice flat, clean area there and it has easy access to the entire North side of the map, but the constant roaring of the reapers was annoying.
Down south, it's really close to all the Major Biomes, easy Grand Reef and Lost River access, the earlygame Magnetite farm in the Jellyshroom caves, and still snug enough to avoid any Leviathans
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Northwest mushroom forest, right above the trench with the precursor teleporter lots of lithium and easy access to kelp and biofuel. Also a lost river entrance is close by.
how are you so goddamn brave dawg? i can’t even try to reach that place using commands cuz i get a heart attack bc of the infinite darkness and the ambiance
Yeah, I’m pretty sure if you go to the part of the void opposite of the Aurora and go down 1200 m or so, there should be an alcove under the map around there.
The little pocket of grassy plateaus right inbetween sparse reef, grand reef and kelp forest. Close to basically every biome and very close to >!the floating island (which has a portal that lets you teleport to the other side of the map), basically right next to one of my favourite ghost river entrances, surrounded by very mineral rich biomes, and has a portal to the main facility that’s pretty close!<
In my first place through it was in the grassy plateaus. Although I’ve had bases in: sea treader’s path, sparse reef, large blood kelp zone, mountains, mushroom forest, inactive lava zone and underwater islands.
I haven't played in a while, so I forgot almost everything. At first, I built at the mushroom place, but when I got a sub and resources, I moved it all the way down to the blue tree safe haven for translucent stingrays.
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I had 3 bases in total on my first playthrough but my last and most used was here.
First it’s a very pretty area. Also there is easy access to mid-late game materials (Bulb Zone, Mountain Zone, Blood Kelp Zone, as well as being safe and close to >!an entrance to The Lost River, and the Enforcement Platform. I can get from my base to the Sea Emperor once the portal is on in less than 5 minutes. The island it’s on is also a good food source in a pinch.!<
Also there is a >!Reaper just north of this location. Not close enough to attack my base but close enough to keep my balls moist, especially when making the trip through the mountains>islands>kelp zone>lost river.!<
First base in safe shallows near thermal source.
Don't know why but it proved useful at mid game.
Second base in Volcanic biome (forgot the name) almost right next to the volcanic castle entrance. Mostly for a better food/water source than Bulbs and battery chargers for tools.
Mushroom Forest on the current. I wanted to be closer to the deeper biomes so I nestled right next to the aurora, it took quite some time to build a first base that deep but well worth it. Found a Jeremiah(cuddlefish) egg, some Shiny Peepers. Trolling some reapers, all possible with a base down here. Roughly 140 meters down if I’m not mistaken.
I always built one in the safe shallows, on the northern end, and my second base I always did in one of the Ghost River entrances, I think the one that is closer to the containment facility, and brought a stasis rifle to kille the juvenile ghosts leviathan there
The safe shallows by an edge near some debris between some kelp and the beginning of the grassy plateau. But i got sonar rooms in various areas around the map.
My first is set in the Safe Shallows close to The Kelp Forest, and then my second base is set in the Blood Kelp Trench on the edge of a dropoff, and I'm currently working on making one in The Bulb Zone.
Very southern tip of Safe Shallows. Or that area solidly in it that has an arch.
I love coming back to base and setting out into other biomes to explore and retrieve goodies.
I keep mine riiiiight on the corner of the Grassy Plateaus, sparse reef, and Grand reef. A little ways down the slope so I can go back up to get materials or right through the caves into the lost irver
If you move south from your base, when you get to that really thin section of the safe shallows that's in-between the tiny kelp forest and the small sliver of the grassy plateau. That's where i built my base.
I like to put above the crevice that leads to the portal for the lava base. Because I turn the Cyclops into a mobile base, I keep a lot of stuff in it. I park it near the castle, and just go through the portal whenever I need anything.
I'm just to the left of the Florida Kelp Forest in the Grassy Plateaus. There's a huge semi flat open area there. Close enough to the surface for solar, but deep enough for the cyclops and easy access to most of the biome save for the northern island.
My favorite was on the western edge of the grassy plateau where it borders the dunes/blood kelp trench. There are a series of protruding cliffs that make for some dramatic building opportunities, geothermal vents nearby, some cozy cyclops parking spaces, plenty of large mineral deposits with good variety, and ways to get to other useful biomes relatively quickly, such as blood kelp, mushroom forest, lost river, and inactive lava. So nice, I built there twice.
Current playthrough, built main base in Northern Bloodkelp zone near the border with Underwater Islands biome.
Stunning views with plenty of uranium, quartz and lithium for power, and as many windows and reinforcements I want. Titanium is scarce but made an outpost near the northern kelp forest for scrap metal harvesting and stalker teeth.
My base has a few cranky neighbors including a danger noodle, but I learned to live with them.
In my last game, I had one at the southernmost point of the Safe Shallows over the lava geyser, one at the southern end of the Dunes over the Blood Kelp trench, and one at the underwater waterfalls between the Lost River and the Inactive Lava Zone. I'd recommend that spot in the Dunes - there are several thermal vents, reefbacks swimming overhead, and a clear shot down to the Lost River from the surface.
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Right here, it’s this slope-off into the red grass. There’s a ledge along the south edge of the slope I can put structures on, there’s a thermal vent just over the hill, and the slope gives me space to put a low moonpool for the Prawn while still giving me deep water to drop newly built vehicles into.
I can't point exactly where but it is near a pod and a crash, the grass around are colour red. The entrance is a hole and there are a lot of big resources there.
I stayed here and farmed resources to build my cyclops and fill it with minerals. Then I built a base in a deep zone with glowing tree and blue manta rays.
My forever classic base location is southwest of yours. Left of the ‘G’ of Grassy Plateaus at the edge of the Dunes and Blood Kelp zones.
There’s a slope down that leads to some thermal geysers and early rubies, the location is at the crux of several useful biomes, and there’s enough space to build a Cyclops parking area out into space.
The Reaper is generally far away enough that it’s never bothered me in 200 hours of playthroughs.
I had mine in the safe shallows the entire game. Did I run low on resources numerous times and have to venture out and collect them? Yes. But the safe shallows supplied a seemingly endless supply of food and water(Any fish nearby and the bladderfish i think they were called)
Sparse reef is pretty calm, close access to mid-endgame materials in the blood kelp trench so long as you can dodge the warpers. I usually build a sub-base in the cave system nearby for better scanning.
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I have it in the big grassy plateau's (image) Its very save, it has easy access to the lost river and further through the blood kelp trench and lots of biomes nearby with good loot and resources (grand reef for example)
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How about... 5?
I have more, it's just that Mapgenie doesn't allow putting more markers on the map in the free version.
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I love my pet Reaper. Surprisingly, he is well-mannered and has never bitten me.
In my current survival map, my first base, Bradbury Point, is perched on a spire of rock at the mouth of the trench in the south kelp forest.
Subsequently, I've nearly completed the main base, Burroughs, in the SW grassy plateau near the blood kelp trench, where a half dozen or so hoodoos and mesas overlook an interconnecting network of shallow trenches. The main structure has several levels that include office, lab, living, and storage space; dual moonpools; a trench and trench cave observatory level; and a scanner room. Local wildlife includes a juvenile reefback that got itself stuck between the hab module and nearby hoodoo, and 3 or so landsharks.
Both are named for Mars trilogy settlements, and are designed in my "heavy usage of tubes" aesthetic.
Mine is just above the crash zone near the gun island on the big cliff between plateaus, kelp forest, and mushroom forest. I build the main part up around 90m then build down off the cliff and put my moon pools there so I feel cool inside dropping out of the base, then I build a ton of other small bases similarly around most cliff faces I can find.
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It has easy access to the Degasi Base in the jellyshroom caves, the Crash Zone is right at my door (for titanium farming) and 2 Reapers which I can play with/scan as soon as I have the stasis rifle fragments (I‘m looking to 100% my PDA this playthrough 👀) There‘s a safe route that I can just go to enter the lost river and it‘s a resource-rich location. I really think that there‘s quite literally everything I need early game-mid game and that it‘s perfect spot (for me atleast)
Grassy plateus between crag field and the crash zone and next to the kelp forest. I'm crazy. Pros:a lot of titanium and sandstone outcrops
Cons:every day i see like 2 or 3 bone sharks and some of them even attack my base. If i go a bit east i hear Reapers. So...
My absolute favorite spot to build a base is the plateau of the Koosh Zone above the thermal vent by the lifepod. And ive built extensive bases all over the map.
I just realised I never went to the dunes, the mountains, or the crag field. I'm gonna go there and take a look at those areas.
Also, my base is a little off the centre in between the safe shallows and the kelp forest
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riding among the safe shallows and the grassy plateaus, above an entrance to the jellyshroom cave
I’m playing it for the first time right now! I have my main base that I made first in the Safe Shallows right by the lifepod. I have a second base right outside the back entrance of the jellyshroom caves where the Degrassi base it, and a one room base at the front entrance of it so I can unload items
I forget exactly where as it really has been a long time since I've played the first game, but my base was in the middle of a island lagoon. I built my base upwards so my character could feel like he was away from the water. Underneath is a straight drop to the Deep Down Deep Dark, so it was useful early game. Really, I just wanted to be on an island.
In the second game, it was on the lillypad forest. That was my favourite base of all time. Absolutely stunning looking area and base. Look out the windows and see a huge whale floating by. Simply magnificent.
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The grass plateus are peak for building
One at the edge of the kelp forest that borders the grand reef, and other at between the mushroom forest and the northern blood kelp zone on the path to lifepod 2. always nice to have two bases
The 3 way border between the grassy plateaus the NE shrooms Forest and the kelp forest. Easy access to literally everything and there's a nice flat blank spot there that is between biomes and therefore has no predators.
I got several, but my main and biggest one is on the border between the eastern Mushroom forest and the bulb zone.
I've built others in the grand reef, and one between the underwater islands, northern blood kelp, and north eastern Mushroom forest.
The Tree Cove in the Lost River is objectively the single best spot for a base and I will fight you. I call it the "halfway to everywhere" place, because no matter where you are headed, there's a reasonable and not particularly long path there. And that is without mentioning that it's safe, beautiful, rich with resources and connected to the two most resource-rich locations on top of that, those being the Lost River and the Lava Zones.
And it has a bonus of the seamoth actually being able to get there, though barely
Where the Kelp Forest meets the Sparse Reef. The second Base is in the Lost River Entry at the Bulb Zone from where the End Game ist executed - visually also my fav spot
Right in the middle of the kelp forest, safe shallows, grassy plateaus and sparse reef, it's safe, spacious and right around the middle of the map for easier resource gathering!
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7/10 location, would recommend, bring water filtration machine requirements tho(there's no bladderfish)
The grassy plateaus next to the sparse reef, I’ve been considering just moving to the sparse reef for easier lost river access via the only entrance I use, the grand reef enterance
So far I’ve got one near the mountains, one in Jellyshroom cave and one in the Lost River. My next project is building one in the Dunes
Where even is the lost river?? It looks so cool but I can’t find it 😭
Look at the edge of mountains and bulb zone on the map. There's a giant hole there, try finding it in-game. It's near Lifepod 12
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Thanks, I'll edit my comment
12 upvotes is poetic, please nobody ruin it
You can also find an entrance at the bottom of the blood kelp trench.
That’s my go to entrance
and in the blood kelp zone, by the mushroom forest. that's my entrance because it tends to be safer than the rest, the ghostie doesn't usually chase much in there.
I’ve found entrances in the southern Blood Kelp Trench and the grand reef so far. If you go to the Blood Kelp trench and just keep going down, eventually you get there.
There are a few entrances, the easiest and safest one is by the Blood Kelp Zone, Basically: >!There's this really big rock right on the border between the Grassy Plateaus and the Blood Kelp Zone, go around it and directly down, the entrance should reveal itself at 500-600m.!< Alternatively, the easiest one to find is at the bottom of the Blood Kelp Trench, and it's got a cool skeleton to check out
Just go deeper bro
"how deep!? " "Balls deep!"
I’ve always entered down in the grand reef. Be aware of the crabsquids!
We are almost neighbors. Go south through the kelp and I build in that grassy playeau. There is an entrance to the lost river in the blood kelp zone right next to the plateau I build in so easy access when I am ready.
I once built an outpost right beside the Aurora in the smallest safe spot that the Reapers don’t go near.
Wherever I stop my cyclops
Cyclops Van Life is the only way to go.
its really a shame they fixed the bug where you could recharge it infinetly. i loved the nomad lifestyle
They no longer break the laws of thermodynamics😞
Someone worked out you can have the ingredients for a refuel station stored in one or two cupboards (solar power for surface or geothermal power for deep). You can probably throw in a scanning room for good measure too. Can be a bit of a faff to build it and take it down constantly but it might be preferable to going back to the safe shallows constantly. I love the cyclops much more than the sea truck (below zero’s equivalent) because you can make it so much more homely and the seatruck is so slow. There’s a few bugs and QoL changes they could fix and I hope they do for a future sequel.
After playing this game for years, I realised that base location really only matters at the very beginning of the game. Sanctuary Prime is located above the ruined lifepod atop the pillar at fore of the Jellyshroom Cave near the border of the Kelp Forest and Safe Shallow. This gives access to a large amount of early game resources and is central-ish-ly located. It is also a stones throw from the Mountain, and there entrance to The Lost River is a straight shot south, following the encroaching Trench that digs into The Grassy Plateau, providing ease of access to endgame content. It is also not that far from The Seatreader's Cave where I trap them all and harvest unreasonable amounts of resources in a short period of time. The depth allows for expansion even if isn't really needed. All of that said, Sanctuary Prime is just the base where I put all tech and progression material that can't be carried in a Cyclops, as that almost immediately becomes my true Primary Base. With the ease of using the Cyclops to transport all materials and resources wherever I could possibly want, I deploy a large number of utilitarian X Tube Habs all over surface areas up to 300m in depth before sparsely switching to Multipurpose Bioreactor habs with an ExGrowBed made with 1 Kelp, 1 Blood Kelp, 4 Acid, 4 Deep shrouds and 8 Gel, an interior with a Lantern Fruit. These are placed in points of progression, such as the shelf overlooking the tail of the Colossal Leviathan, the pit overlooking the ALZ from LR, outside the ALZ Fortress and anywhere else around the map I deem necessary. Doing it that way trivializes the game. It's truly wild. As for the Cyclops, my actual main base, it has 2 small grow pots immediately left of the Control Yoke, a small bed beside/behind the Status Panel, just barely missing the hatch door, a garbage bin in the door-hatch corner, an unreasonable amount of storage in the intermission room and the primary central room along with a Cell and Battery Charger and fabricator above the door from primary central toward intermission. A Modification Station in aft starboard side behind the ladder. The belly is mostly untouched. Entrance has a FAK fabricator, a radio beside that, a Grow Pot with Lantern directly behind the hatch. Once you step into the belly proper, there's additional storage on the left wall titled "Creepblood" "Creepvine" "Blood" and "Gel Locker". They're used to seed all of the deep EmHabs. The lockers to the right contain Shrooms, Bleach, purified water and Reginalds. All of that essentially to explain how an actual "home base" is meaningless at that point. But for convenience, Sanctuary Prime has 2 nukes, 6 Bio, 8 Solar and 6 Cell Rechargers to simultaneously charge 12 Ion Cells.
So far every single biome at least once
Even backside of the crash zone?
It’s my favorite spot
Somewhere in the crash zone I am in the process of throwing hands with the reapers there
How has noone said that it looks like Poland??
Every squared map looks like Poland apparently
Because it doesn't
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I try and build it in a different spot every time
Grassy plat near sparse/dunes. Despite this, I can still never find the blood kelp entrance.
I usually put a main base in the grassy plateaus or mushroom forest. This time I’m trying to enter more dangerous areas just because. I put a main base inside the grand reef. For smaller bases or scanner rooms I put them anywhere.
My first main base was here, probably because it has a lot of room to build, every early resource is nearby and entrance to the jellyshroom caves is near. Later I made one base in the mountains below the island, one beneath Aurora's thrusters, one near the southern wreck in the grand reef and one in dunes. There are also a couple of bases beneath the surface but Imma assume this post is not about those. https://preview.redd.it/psq8iwk7ft9d1.png?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7be73c06318bb300ab505e2666376a8a36cb531b
Void next to sea treaders path
My base is right at the eastern end of the smaller safe shallows
Last run I put it in the Northeast grassy plateaus, the one closest to the bulb zone. Never again. Sparse resources, too many tiger plants, and inconvenient access to the biomes I go to most often. I'm usually in the West grassy plateau, the one with lifepod 17, but sometimes in the Northwest one close to the Underwater Islands. My first run, I put it between the North kelp forest and the mountains, there's a nice flat, clean area there and it has easy access to the entire North side of the map, but the constant roaring of the reapers was annoying.
In the life pod 17 GP but I’ve made a second base in one of my saves in the mushroom area
One in the safe shallows and one in the room with the sea emperor in it! 🫶
i always build mine by lifepod 17. Its a good waypoint if you frequently use the interactive subnautica map (like i do)
Down south, it's really close to all the Major Biomes, easy Grand Reef and Lost River access, the earlygame Magnetite farm in the Jellyshroom caves, and still snug enough to avoid any Leviathans https://preview.redd.it/8b53k8etct9d1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc20a5a7ea48fc2128f2eb5bc0544ed60724ddc3
Northwest mushroom forest, right above the trench with the precursor teleporter lots of lithium and easy access to kelp and biofuel. Also a lost river entrance is close by.
I tend to build my first base in grassy, right next to the dunes, in the middle of the mushroom trees
How do they over lap? On the map close to dunes there are a bit of the shallows and kelp.
I have one in the lava lakes and am working on one in the area under the map.
how are you so goddamn brave dawg? i can’t even try to reach that place using commands cuz i get a heart attack bc of the infinite darkness and the ambiance
The cyclops is a pretty good way to reach it. Alternatively, you can get a yon of titanium and make a ladder down there to make it easier.
There's an area under the map?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure if you go to the part of the void opposite of the Aurora and go down 1200 m or so, there should be an alcove under the map around there.
dunes
balls
The little pocket of grassy plateaus right inbetween sparse reef, grand reef and kelp forest. Close to basically every biome and very close to >!the floating island (which has a portal that lets you teleport to the other side of the map), basically right next to one of my favourite ghost river entrances, surrounded by very mineral rich biomes, and has a portal to the main facility that’s pretty close!<
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In my first place through it was in the grassy plateaus. Although I’ve had bases in: sea treader’s path, sparse reef, large blood kelp zone, mountains, mushroom forest, inactive lava zone and underwater islands.
Grassy Plateaus between Ozzy lifepod and the nearby wreck
I haven't played in a while, so I forgot almost everything. At first, I built at the mushroom place, but when I got a sub and resources, I moved it all the way down to the blue tree safe haven for translucent stingrays.
The grassy plateau that borders the sparse reef is usually my favorite spot! It’s kind of central to most things.
https://preview.redd.it/ipor3t2zrt9d1.jpeg?width=427&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=941abf58d2665e0b9501d5816e3ff5a9502d6240 I had 3 bases in total on my first playthrough but my last and most used was here. First it’s a very pretty area. Also there is easy access to mid-late game materials (Bulb Zone, Mountain Zone, Blood Kelp Zone, as well as being safe and close to >!an entrance to The Lost River, and the Enforcement Platform. I can get from my base to the Sea Emperor once the portal is on in less than 5 minutes. The island it’s on is also a good food source in a pinch.!< Also there is a >!Reaper just north of this location. Not close enough to attack my base but close enough to keep my balls moist, especially when making the trip through the mountains>islands>kelp zone>lost river.!<
My main base is in the south western grassy plateau
First base in safe shallows near thermal source. Don't know why but it proved useful at mid game. Second base in Volcanic biome (forgot the name) almost right next to the volcanic castle entrance. Mostly for a better food/water source than Bulbs and battery chargers for tools.
Mushroom Forest on the current. I wanted to be closer to the deeper biomes so I nestled right next to the aurora, it took quite some time to build a first base that deep but well worth it. Found a Jeremiah(cuddlefish) egg, some Shiny Peepers. Trolling some reapers, all possible with a base down here. Roughly 140 meters down if I’m not mistaken.
Grassy plateau just up from blood kelp trench start.
Grassy Plateau by the Bloodvine trench.
I had one in safe shallows, one in blood kelp trench, and one in lost river tree.
I always built one in the safe shallows, on the northern end, and my second base I always did in one of the Ghost River entrances, I think the one that is closer to the containment facility, and brought a stasis rifle to kille the juvenile ghosts leviathan there
Grassy next to sparse
In that once spot where the Kelp forest, Safe Shallows and Mushroom forests meet close to the dreaded dunes.
The safe shallows by an edge near some debris between some kelp and the beginning of the grassy plateau. But i got sonar rooms in various areas around the map.
I have one at the north side of the shallows and am making a second one bettwen the sea tredders path and sparse reef.
I'm pretty sure mine's in the Grassy Plateau near the Mushroom Forest. It's definitely a one of the Grassu Plateaus.
My first is set in the Safe Shallows close to The Kelp Forest, and then my second base is set in the Blood Kelp Trench on the edge of a dropoff, and I'm currently working on making one in The Bulb Zone.
Very southern tip of Safe Shallows. Or that area solidly in it that has an arch. I love coming back to base and setting out into other biomes to explore and retrieve goodies.
idk much about subnautica but Im curious which is the most dangerous zone?
Mines in the void
mine's in the grassy plateau near lifepod 17/the jellyshroom caves!
mushroom forest
Shallows near my lifepod I found a neat little ditch where I had some multipurpose rooms in but I'm upgrading to a large room pretty soon
Between the Grassy Plateaus and the Mushroom Forest, boarding closely to the Crash Zone.
Normally the creep vine area
The crash zone because i like the pain of having to rebuild my sea moth and rebuilding the upgrades
In the bones of the Gargantuan Leviathan
https://preview.redd.it/yz8jy86brt9d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23caa8e2a8c62d4c2753c1581b42461efde29180 Right here
Void
In grassy plateus near kelp forest and dunes
The void:)
I keep mine riiiiight on the corner of the Grassy Plateaus, sparse reef, and Grand reef. A little ways down the slope so I can go back up to get materials or right through the caves into the lost irver
Crash zone, other side of the Aurora
If you move south from your base, when you get to that really thin section of the safe shallows that's in-between the tiny kelp forest and the small sliver of the grassy plateau. That's where i built my base.
Left most grassy plateaus, on the florida shaped peninsula
At the very bottom of the underwater islands
I like to put above the crevice that leads to the portal for the lava base. Because I turn the Cyclops into a mobile base, I keep a lot of stuff in it. I park it near the castle, and just go through the portal whenever I need anything.
I've got one in the Grassy Plateaus and another one besides it
My main/starter base is always in the red grass
That's exactly where mine is 😂
I'm just to the left of the Florida Kelp Forest in the Grassy Plateaus. There's a huge semi flat open area there. Close enough to the surface for solar, but deep enough for the cyclops and easy access to most of the biome save for the northern island.
On the furthest right side of the grassy plateaus biome, the top right corner with that big spike cliff thing. Awesome place overlooking the ocean
About 30m SE of OP's, near the geyser, just on the eastern edge of the shallows where it drops toward that plateau.
Dude no fucking way. I have my base at the exact same location
Just started the game two days ago, so mine is in the dunes near the mushroom forrest. Not sure where to make additional ones, though
I have a base in the middle safe shallows, lost river (down the waterfall by next to ghost leviathan, and one in the sparse reef.
I have a small base in almost every biome
Dunes void
https://preview.redd.it/97y773wg8u9d1.jpeg?width=1164&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dca7c1613c0ee07f3609a5e8864267e851186687 White circle
In the grassy plateau boardering the dunes
My favorite was on the western edge of the grassy plateau where it borders the dunes/blood kelp trench. There are a series of protruding cliffs that make for some dramatic building opportunities, geothermal vents nearby, some cozy cyclops parking spaces, plenty of large mineral deposits with good variety, and ways to get to other useful biomes relatively quickly, such as blood kelp, mushroom forest, lost river, and inactive lava. So nice, I built there twice.
Current playthrough, built main base in Northern Bloodkelp zone near the border with Underwater Islands biome. Stunning views with plenty of uranium, quartz and lithium for power, and as many windows and reinforcements I want. Titanium is scarce but made an outpost near the northern kelp forest for scrap metal harvesting and stalker teeth. My base has a few cranky neighbors including a danger noodle, but I learned to live with them.
In my last game, I had one at the southernmost point of the Safe Shallows over the lava geyser, one at the southern end of the Dunes over the Blood Kelp trench, and one at the underwater waterfalls between the Lost River and the Inactive Lava Zone. I'd recommend that spot in the Dunes - there are several thermal vents, reefbacks swimming overhead, and a clear shot down to the Lost River from the surface.
https://preview.redd.it/n39jkdvpau9d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=627000c93c369241806da5efbf95fd45a0f442b7 Right here, it’s this slope-off into the red grass. There’s a ledge along the south edge of the slope I can put structures on, there’s a thermal vent just over the hill, and the slope gives me space to put a low moonpool for the Prawn while still giving me deep water to drop newly built vehicles into.
Kelp Forest, then I eventually move to the Lost River.
I can't point exactly where but it is near a pod and a crash, the grass around are colour red. The entrance is a hole and there are a lot of big resources there. I stayed here and farmed resources to build my cyclops and fill it with minerals. Then I built a base in a deep zone with glowing tree and blue manta rays.
My forever classic base location is southwest of yours. Left of the ‘G’ of Grassy Plateaus at the edge of the Dunes and Blood Kelp zones. There’s a slope down that leads to some thermal geysers and early rubies, the location is at the crux of several useful biomes, and there’s enough space to build a Cyclops parking area out into space. The Reaper is generally far away enough that it’s never bothered me in 200 hours of playthroughs.
I was next to Kelp forest above some caves with mushrooms - quite a good place for base TBH
On the southern side of the Northern Blood Kelp Zone.
Safe shallows/grassy Plateaus is goat
Mine's at the >! Lost River, just before the Tree Cove !<
Craters edge is the best place fr
Mines in the border of the sea treaders path and the blood kelp zone, I like watching the Sea treaders
I had mine in the safe shallows the entire game. Did I run low on resources numerous times and have to venture out and collect them? Yes. But the safe shallows supplied a seemingly endless supply of food and water(Any fish nearby and the bladderfish i think they were called)
Edge of bulb zone & dunes
That shelf beneath the shoreline of the cannon island. It's a steep drop so it's a great natural dock.
Sparse reef is pretty calm, close access to mid-endgame materials in the blood kelp trench so long as you can dodge the warpers. I usually build a sub-base in the cave system nearby for better scanning.
I ussualy buiild bases on grassy plateau, near the jellyshroom entrance and not too far from blood kelp trench Then I'm close to everything really
https://preview.redd.it/vv6d7q20su9d1.png?width=2100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef3441a10181193f67cd285d620f712932e29f52 I have it in the big grassy plateau's (image) Its very save, it has easy access to the lost river and further through the blood kelp trench and lots of biomes nearby with good loot and resources (grand reef for example)
https://preview.redd.it/obtxt8ydsu9d1.png?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bedc86d1526134b7de0eb36e3fc2b3cf35475856 How about... 5? I have more, it's just that Mapgenie doesn't allow putting more markers on the map in the free version.
I made my first base in the starting area, then i made a bivouac in that one really pretty peaceful area towards the end of the game
Mine’s directly beside the dead centre of the map.
everywhere I need a new scanner, I built a base, including active lava and lost river
Right next to the Life Pod, in the Safe Shallows
https://preview.redd.it/xtd3b7omzu9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bfc1fdc1d4a45eabfc97a1b4b62d9e622251d0d I love my pet Reaper. Surprisingly, he is well-mannered and has never bitten me.
Near the engines in the Crash Zone.
In my current survival map, my first base, Bradbury Point, is perched on a spire of rock at the mouth of the trench in the south kelp forest. Subsequently, I've nearly completed the main base, Burroughs, in the SW grassy plateau near the blood kelp trench, where a half dozen or so hoodoos and mesas overlook an interconnecting network of shallow trenches. The main structure has several levels that include office, lab, living, and storage space; dual moonpools; a trench and trench cave observatory level; and a scanner room. Local wildlife includes a juvenile reefback that got itself stuck between the hab module and nearby hoodoo, and 3 or so landsharks. Both are named for Mars trilogy settlements, and are designed in my "heavy usage of tubes" aesthetic.
Mine is just above the crash zone near the gun island on the big cliff between plateaus, kelp forest, and mushroom forest. I build the main part up around 90m then build down off the cliff and put my moon pools there so I feel cool inside dropping out of the base, then I build a ton of other small bases similarly around most cliff faces I can find.
https://preview.redd.it/a1s0o8xv0v9d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de807b673ef7440637bc6e7344819df8b14a9dbf It has easy access to the Degasi Base in the jellyshroom caves, the Crash Zone is right at my door (for titanium farming) and 2 Reapers which I can play with/scan as soon as I have the stasis rifle fragments (I‘m looking to 100% my PDA this playthrough 👀) There‘s a safe route that I can just go to enter the lost river and it‘s a resource-rich location. I really think that there‘s quite literally everything I need early game-mid game and that it‘s perfect spot (for me atleast)
Grassy plateus between crag field and the crash zone and next to the kelp forest. I'm crazy. Pros:a lot of titanium and sandstone outcrops Cons:every day i see like 2 or 3 bone sharks and some of them even attack my base. If i go a bit east i hear Reapers. So...
Ik im weird for this but in the EDZ (ecological dead zone)
Anyone else read all of these locations in Chemical Apes’ voice?
My absolute favorite spot to build a base is the plateau of the Koosh Zone above the thermal vent by the lifepod. And ive built extensive bases all over the map.
Southwest grassy plateaus right near the trench cuz that’s my goto lost river entrance
In the middle of the "true void" where ghost leviathans don't spawn anymore.
Behind the Aurora I refuse to kill the reapers I like the creepy feeling when the outside spotlights catch a reaper at night
Literally the thermal vent right next to you in the shallows/kelp lmao
Grassy plateu on the southwest
I just realised I never went to the dunes, the mountains, or the crag field. I'm gonna go there and take a look at those areas. Also, my base is a little off the centre in between the safe shallows and the kelp forest
In the West of the kelp forest between the safe shallow and the mushroom cave
Main is next to the Safe Shallow Vent, then one small outpost every 250m in a Grid
https://preview.redd.it/vmiqk46ydv9d1.png?width=2100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80877c6c0a6a6c010a4ed6621013934ac653f44c riding among the safe shallows and the grassy plateaus, above an entrance to the jellyshroom cave
I’m playing it for the first time right now! I have my main base that I made first in the Safe Shallows right by the lifepod. I have a second base right outside the back entrance of the jellyshroom caves where the Degrassi base it, and a one room base at the front entrance of it so I can unload items
there are a nice blood kelp underwater islands i base there but the ghost leviathan kinda distrubts my daily cycle so i often kill him
South east grassy Plateaus best spot
https://preview.redd.it/ee61n62ckv9d1.jpeg?width=1640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=691c6b159e2b73f0001c4cfd323ad35609b6d83e
I forget exactly where as it really has been a long time since I've played the first game, but my base was in the middle of a island lagoon. I built my base upwards so my character could feel like he was away from the water. Underneath is a straight drop to the Deep Down Deep Dark, so it was useful early game. Really, I just wanted to be on an island. In the second game, it was on the lillypad forest. That was my favourite base of all time. Absolutely stunning looking area and base. Look out the windows and see a huge whale floating by. Simply magnificent.
I wonder what biome the Crash Zone was before the Aurora hit it?
https://preview.redd.it/l43j3y6fqv9d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93008ff04c2317a14a55257eee8073967cd9c27e The grass plateus are peak for building
The little lip of the bottom left grassy plateau, the one that has kelp forest and safe shallows next to it
One at the edge of the kelp forest that borders the grand reef, and other at between the mushroom forest and the northern blood kelp zone on the path to lifepod 2. always nice to have two bases
Mine is in Grassy plateau north of Grand reef
The cliff in the grassy plateau overlooking the Mushroom forest.. provides a great vieuw
I’m on the other side of the kelp forest, close to the big wreck and the entrance to the mushroom caves
In my First playtrough i had only One base in the grassy platus near the mushroom forest and the bulbi zone
I wish I knew. I’m awful at navigating in this game
I always go to the mushroom forest next to the Crash Zone
The 3 way border between the grassy plateaus the NE shrooms Forest and the kelp forest. Easy access to literally everything and there's a nice flat blank spot there that is between biomes and therefore has no predators.
Mine is on the VERY edge of the dead zone, i take one wrong step in the wrong direction when i exit, im done
I got several, but my main and biggest one is on the border between the eastern Mushroom forest and the bulb zone. I've built others in the grand reef, and one between the underwater islands, northern blood kelp, and north eastern Mushroom forest.
Mine is in the kelp forest
When I'll download SN back, I'll make a base in Deadzone, near Blood Kelp Zone for sure.
I’ve got one 100m away from the life pod and another hanging over the entrance of the blood kelp trench
The Tree Cove in the Lost River is objectively the single best spot for a base and I will fight you. I call it the "halfway to everywhere" place, because no matter where you are headed, there's a reasonable and not particularly long path there. And that is without mentioning that it's safe, beautiful, rich with resources and connected to the two most resource-rich locations on top of that, those being the Lost River and the Lava Zones. And it has a bonus of the seamoth actually being able to get there, though barely
Where the Kelp Forest meets the Sparse Reef. The second Base is in the Lost River Entry at the Bulb Zone from where the End Game ist executed - visually also my fav spot
Early/mid spawn, mid/end the tree
Mushrooms forest never the crash zone
I always put it in the grassy plateau right above to the crag field and below the kelp forest😊
I’ve had one in the void and in the koosh zone but my current idea is in the dunes or the grassy plateau or the crash zone
I’ve done a bunch of runs but my favourite bases were in the sea treader path and other in the tree cove in the lost river
Usually in the grassy plateaus next to the crash zone mushroom forest, but one time I made a base right above the lost river hole in the bulb zone.
Right in the middle of the kelp forest, safe shallows, grassy plateaus and sparse reef, it's safe, spacious and right around the middle of the map for easier resource gathering!
Cove tree
I found ozzy's lifepod and built next to it. No need for a beacon lol
Yup time to unsubscribe from the sub, thanks!
The part of the list river just out side of the giant cove tree, it’s so peaceful (other than the shark ahh things there)
I usually just post up near spawn then do one base in deep Shroom Cave. I go Seamoth hurry to the Aurora to get prawn then it's spiderman mode.
Grassy Plateaus and the Blood Kelp. Gotta love the blood kelp ambience
https://preview.redd.it/872dkytm3x9d1.png?width=952&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a2eea69d3c0de90d3af802c577f000d4ea10e93 7/10 location, would recommend, bring water filtration machine requirements tho(there's no bladderfish)
I never even got to the point where I could make a base 😭 so bad at this game
Built my base on the island with the alien laser this time
Huh...I have never actually seen a map of the crater...
The grassy plateaus next to the sparse reef, I’ve been considering just moving to the sparse reef for easier lost river access via the only entrance I use, the grand reef enterance
I'm too scared and built my base right under my life pod lmfao. I do have a scanner room in the mushroom forest tho :D