Where do you like building your first sea base?
Lonnehart
Guam Join Date: 2016-06-20 Member: 218816Members
Guam Join Date: 2016-06-20 Member: 218816Members
I've started a new save game (which I will do as long as the game updates while in early access). I have a favorite place where I like building my first base. I don't know what it's called, but it's someplace between the pod and the floating island and is dotted by large stone spires. I usually build on the ledge close to the biome with red grass, just over a cliff at a depth of around 40 meters. This way my future moonpool will not have something beneath it that my seamoth could hit when it launches from there.
I suppose everyone builds their first base right where their lifepods are. I used to do that too 'til a couple of gasopods convinced me it was not a good idea...
I suppose everyone builds their first base right where their lifepods are. I used to do that too 'til a couple of gasopods convinced me it was not a good idea...
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Oh and the biome you're in? It's a transition between the rest of the world and the Grand Reef, but I suppose it'd be the closest to the Sparse Reef.
Its a good starting spot, but what I really like is that the Lava Geyser itself has some shallow side caves in the walls as you descend. At the very bottom, there is a small cave that has two levels in it, sort of a little step up onto a shelf after you enter it. I can build a completely hidden underground base in the back of that cave. (Its where my current mine shaft project is located, too). I usually end up with a visible base on the reef next to the geyser (growing underwater plants and stuff, parking for the Cyclops, my Moonpool, etc), and a second completely hidden base that is protected by the Geyser itself and a gatehouse.
I like the security of knowing I have the infinitely powered fabricator in the life pod in case the power in my base screws up and I can't craft anything. Also, crafted beacons don't display distance meters, and the lifepod does, so I always know how far I am from home.
I used to do that to. 'Til the pod started to drift away. Now I'm dependent on becons. I may now depend on the pod itself a LOT more due to the habitat builder being eventually removed from the starting blueprints.
However in the past few weeks my new areas of choice for this first base is usually any ledge thats surrounded by the 3 ''starter'' biomes, which are Safe Shallows, Kelp Forest and Red grass plateaus. Being on the limit of those 3 biomes the base is strategically placed so that youre relatively close to anything you need to get started in your game! Shallows contains plenty of titanium/copper/quartz, Kelp forest for the abundance of kelp/creepvine seeds and occasional silver/gold and finally the Grassy Plateaus for the abundance of silver/gold as well as most of the starter blueprints needed to get comfortable to explore the rest of the map.
Being a veteran Subnautica player, i now know by heart where everything is, which kinda sucks if you think about it as it lessens the ''discovering the game'' general experience sadly ... but i still love this game to death so i keep playing it anyway
They mostly ignore me, I guess I've just gotten good at keeping out of their way. After the first ingame week or so they seem to leave the area anyhow.
You can see them here trying to cause trouble while I'm just trying to take a photo, minding my own business. I keep breeding stalkers and setting them on the gastros but I actually quite like the big dumb things, kind of grown on me at this point.
One other thing I was pleased with was when building a glass tunnel through the rock, it actually went through perfectly. I was expecting it to tear down the whole rock formation but nah, it did exactly what I was hoping for. I was pleasantly surprised.