Moonpools need to be underwater

Moonpools can be buggy to place, I have found that sometimes you need to start with the moonpool where you want it, then build off of it to connect to your base.

The fix for this I suggest is using the vertical tube to lower a path into the water, then adding a section of hallway. It should build onto that so long as it is deep enough.

No, he's not, I just now jumped into the game just to try it and built a moonpool right away about 10 meters up into the air, above the water surface.

Whatever OPs issue, it's not that the moonpool is out of the water. Something else has to be interfering with its placement.

In the video he made the foundation beams visible outside the water, this means that the foundation in the video is higher than mine

Here's the image, my foundation is not like this it is right on top with the water

Moon pool fragments can be found in the northwestern mushroom forest so just make a compass or if you already got one just go northwest until you find a place with a lot of tree looking things

Corridor sections can be really useful as fast easy bases.

Particularly when underground near heat.

I used section with fabricator, thermal generator, battery/power cell chargers and a couple of lockers as way points which were within swimming distance.

So if something went wrong I had a bail out route to get back to the surface (but I'm a bit paranoid)

You can still put lockers and chargers on the walls in the corridors so they’re not useless.

Multipurpose rooms can always be found at the degasi bases on the floating island. Idk where you can find moonpools tho, as I'm struggling to find one myself.

Mushroom Forest is probably the best and easiest...

Moon pool fragments

Seabed

Mushroom Forest

Wrecks

Dunes

Mountains

Sparse Reef

Grand Reef

Vehicle upgrade station data box

Grassy Plateaus Wreck

Mushroom Forest Wreck

Sparse Reef Wreck

I just got my seamoth license, please cut me some slack

Helpful Game NPC: Did you notice the GIANT HOLE in the bottom of the MOONPOOL? Gee, I wonder what it's for...

"This ecological moonpool matches 7 of the 9 preconditions for stimulating error in human brains"

That was a good one bro. Thanks for the laughs dude, and hope you have fun on your first play through! :) 👍

The circle goes in? The square hole, yes.

The triangle goes in? The square hole, yes good.

Is there a locker in one of the compartments you're trying to connect it to?

Yeah, these corridors modify the wall behind them as well. There could be something installed behind one of the walls, or even too close, and it would prevent new stuff being installed.

Same at my base

I can't conect Them ither

Work to your moon pool from the base, not the other direction.

Find Maida's base. She has the only one.

Deeper

I fish through mine, at my Underwater Base that is 1,400 deep.

Its a cool thing. What surprise me the most is the depth...i didnt think we could go that deep in the game.

very well known glitch, speedrunners use it as a strat

I have not heard of this before, thank you for sharing. I will now try this because I want to be banished to the depths of hell

When the map stopped loading I could just go down. Also, isn't the depth limit 8200 meters?

It's a well known thing. We know

There is a mod that lets you rotate the moon pool when building it.

The devs don't read Reddit. Try contacting the support. Although I agree with you, this stupid shit ruins all my base design planning. That's why I place functional-only minimalistic bases without thinking too much about the aesthetics.