Sparse reef and mushroom forest both have a lot of resources and are relatively safe

This place is for sharing your base, not asking for a place to build it. Show at least some creativity!

Below zero or OG? In BZ, go Koppa Mining Site, for OG subnautica, crash zone or jellyshroom caves, depending on which resources you need

Some build bases in the Lost River, some use cyclops as a mobile base. Both gameplay styles work. Choose what you enjoy more. You don't need to hoard tons of resources unless you really want to build a big deep base with all the luxuries just for the fun of it. You will need kyanite, sulphur, and nickel to progress in the game, but you don't need multiple cabinets full. You need enough to build better depth modules though, because 900m crush depth isn't going to cut it. Even the Cove Tree in the Lost River is skirting the max depth of your current prawn. Have fun finding the kyanite... It's oppressive down there.

Your nearly ready to go deeper

You need to get that prawn depth upgraded.

Kyanite will do it. Descend lower than the lost river.

The only “base” you need in the lost river is a mop pool so you can access upgrades for the prawn. The nicer upgrades are a mod station on my cyclops.

My moon pool also has a room with 4 water filters to make me the good +50 water. I use the thermal vents as power for those two rooms.

Everything else is on the cyclops.

As you go deeper there will be more resources that you need so a base is viable, but I prefer just going out in the Cyclops with the prawn suit and filling the lockers on it with resources I find there.

Also you got ALOT of resources you probably won't need more of what you got lol

I fill the cyclops with things you can only make near the surface. Stuff like stalker teeth, table coral, polymers from the kelp (lubricant too), and fibre. Mushrooms for batteries (though those can be grown). Everything else can be mined below.

Extra bases are a good place to shop for supplies, charge power cells, etc. Especially if they're deep enough for Cyclops parking.

Without going into details on plot and keep it spoiler free can say:

a) best locations are where you can easily reach 3-4 different bomes with relative ease, so scout a lot and find a spot that also has a nice view (you will be seeing it a lot)

b) have plenty of space to "grow", your initial base may change a lot as you progress....there is plenty of stuff that is additive to your current base and its interesting to try it out and expand.

c) give it purpose, by having a clear idea of what you want out of your base...a place to sleep, to re-supply, or manufacture, or sit and relax. Function guides design.

I'd love to use this in my world but I'm struggling a bit with deciphering the info in the spreadsheet? Am I dense or what

I used same trick, but with picture of biome map .. I used to have it in cyclops's helm so I could look at it while navigating 😄

Very neat trick.

I plant vine in front of my moonpool entrance over 50m to make like a entry vector

does this work for switch?

Honestly, I feel Subnautica is best when you look at it as your own personal journey. Don't worry if you're doing "good" or "bad", just enjoy the experience.

I'd build at least one near an entrance to the Lost River. I built mine near the Bulb Zone // Mountains entrance because it easily fits the Cyclops.

NW mushroom forest is a good spacious spot. Either where it meets the blood kelp or where it meets the dunes

The dunes

Inactive lava zone

Just restarted recently. My first and main base is a split between a the above and below of the jelly shrooms spot. My power plant is a mid section near the entrance so I can ladder deep into my main crafting, storage, research. It seemed central.

Watching your thread for my sub bases

Head to Lifepod 19. Along the black walls in that entire area you'll find a TON of ruby. It goes down to 300 meters.

Sparse reef, it is right under the big floating island

Only place I can think of is the place where officer keen's lifepod is

First of all make a Seamoth depth module if you haven’t yet, then make a depth module MK2. For that you need magnetite which is found in abundance in the Jellyshroom caves (big glowing mushrooms), then if you want rubies, the first place off the top of my head would be the grand reef (go in the direction of the big cloud to the right of the Aurora)

Deep twisty bridges. Another great location is the mesas and cracks of the Thermal Spires

Deep twisty brigdes but be carefull of the squid shark

Below the twisty bridges. You can get o2 quite deep and reach the bottom with your seaglide

Edge of the BK Trench is my favorite spot.

Very easy access to all resources. Lost River and thermal power nearby.

Just… don’t go too far north.

I normally build in the sw grassy plateaus or the nw mushroom forest

I usually just make a cyclops into my base.

I’ve built at spot 2! Near the blood Kelp and those two mountains near the floating islands is a good outpost imo, but I struggled with materials a small bit. My main base was elsewhere. The locals are nice, you’re not far from the shallows, not far from the deep end.

It’s a good spot for later game play with quick access to relevant areas. >!The cyclops has a path into the LR!< near that area, but I’ve never personally >!driven my cyclops into the lost river through that tunnel thanks to the Friend outside it!<

Blood kelp trench (option 3) ftw