One trick with bases is that once you put down the first room (or component), the orientation and height of your base is set. I'm not sure which of those rock pillars is taller, but you should probably start your first room on the taller pillar, so that by the time you extend your base to the second pillar, what happens is just that the legs underneath are slightly longer.

Doing the opposite, starting on the lower pillar, may mean that you can't build because the taller pillar's rocks collide with the position where the room needs to be.

Tip: If you want a multipurpose room on each pillar and want them all joined up, you might have to mess around constructing, deconstructing and realigning them until you get them all in the right place --connected base pieces must all align to a grid, and the alignment of that grid is set by the alignment of the first piece you place. Good luck!

great location imo. tips? reinforcements are much better than foundations for hull integrity. try to keep things like the fabricator and storage all in one place. seen so many run back and forth wasting time. build a lot of solar panels. then the bioreactor. I usually put down a foundation and make 6 of them. scanner and hud chip asap.

Watch your structural integrity. That is one of the most important things to remember. Go negative and your base will flood. Foundations made with lead and reinforcements made with lithium are pretty much mandatory

For power, unless I am deep in a cave I use solar power and nothing else. Nothing else is needed. You can run everything you need, including multiple water purifiers. 2 purifiers make more than I can drink.

Start growing food plants as soon as possible. Once you start growing the right foods you won't need water. You will get all the water you need from the juicy food you eat.

If you find the alien containment throw a couple of bladderfish in there and you will have limitless water. Same goes with the reginald or peeper. Throw a pair of those in and you will have limitless food. I prefer being a vegitarian in game though, it's simpler.

You need the "Habitat Builder" tool. It lets you build structures and most things in your base. Unsure where you find the recipe.

The “Habitat Builder” is one of the blueprints you start the game with. You make it in the fabricator. It’s one of the more complex recipes for early-game, though.

You have to build the Habitat Builder tool. After that you use the tool to place base components with the resources in your inventory.

Simplest base to start I think is a foundation with a multipurpose room on top, plus hatch to get in and out.

Upgrading items is done by building the modification station in your habitat.

• with a hatch on the underside and some solar panels on top will last you for a bit. Build some wall lockers and a fabricator and a radio and whatever else on the walls. Follow thru the story normally following the locations you get from the radio and the PDAs and make sure you explore the surrounding areas thoroughly and Scan Everything and by the time you have a need for the bigger rooms you’ll have found the blueprints for them.

You don't need the big rooms to make a starter base, almost everything can be built in the corridors

You have to scan the structures first in order to be able to build them. Explore the map to find them, or just follow the storyline and it will eventually lead you to them.

The first base I ever built was a 4-way with a hatch. It's all I needed for a while.

You need a habitat builder. To craft one you need a wiring kit. To craft that you need 2 silver. At first you have very limited blueprints. But you can get more by scanning fragments at wrecks and at abandoned bases

You need to make the habitat builder than it’s simple from there

Read the subreddit posts and look at the wiki walkthrough. If you’ve seen it in some of the posts then you clearly have the ability to go look up more info in the posts. I was a new user a couple of months ago and did exactly that.

Habitat builder + blueprints you will find + raw materials = Ability to build things

I HIGHLY recommend going into Creative and playing around with base construction in the different areas you want to build in. Not only does it help you get a visual of what you want without having to worry about oxygen or battery/material consumption, you can also get used to being in whatever biome you choose and find ways to navigate around all our aquatic "friends"

You could make the moonpool your whole main base if you wanted and just put all your lockers, fabricator and stuff on the walls in it. The only thing you can’t put in there and would need a large room for is a Bio or Nuclear Reactor if you were using that for power, or an Alien Containment if you wanted an aquarium for feeshies. If you’re using solar or thermal power you can just put everything in the moonpool if you wanted. You could also have a few corridors on the moonpool walls to give yourself additional room for storage or whatever else.

You should build a base in the lost river. That way, you have a safe place nearby to help you feel safer about exploring. Plus, it has great spots for thermal plants.

Ok so start by building out foundation maybe 6 to 8 to make a big enough space then go from there . Start with the X Compartment  and do 1 multipurpose room, 1 for the scanner and 1 for your moon pool

play it in the creation mode. explore at your rythm. no death, no oxygen, no food.

this helped me with my thalassophobia. just don't forget about the oxygen when retuning in normal mode

Spend less time on building a base right now, and more time looking for wreckages and things to scan in the world.

There are many blueprints that will make building much, much easier, and they are only found by scanning parts or wreckages. If you need more storage space, just build a couple tubes in a line and fill them with storage and essentials, to act as a storage unit.

You said "life pod". If that's what you meant, then you should know that you can't add or build onto the starter life pod. You need to find and scan other base parts (like the basic room or large room) and build a base from that.

Try building in the red grass biome, its open its beautiful its safe, all you need is a tube a hatch and a solar panel and you are ready to go

Keep it simple. Don’t overthink stuff. A simple base is a happy base.

There’s a base piece you can find and scan that makes building much better. Pretty rough to do much of anything when you just have the tubes

I think that leviathans should be able to attack bases, but if that will be the case there should also be a sort of a repellent. Maybe a base compartment which creates a sort of safe space around the base at the cost of some piwer.

Make it a setting. Toggle between "vanilla basebuilding" and "difficult basebuilding"

I just think about Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora Every fucking time i got in a (human) base and had to wait till i finally could enter/leave. Naaa i don't need that in Subnautica

I would just only build moonpools and never an airlock.

A lot of your complaints can be implemented into SN1 by simply roleplaying choices.

Hardcore is pretty difficult and tedious if you avoid using vehicles completely.

You can put “airlocks” in your base via the bulkhead door.

No bulkhead door yet? Your base is then restricted to being build above water level.

As a long term fan of project zomboid, keep it there, please, do not bring these kinds of mechanics for those games to ones that do not reflect them. People do not play Subnautica for realism.

Just make it a forcefield like the alien bases, alterra took the technology and uses it in their bases now. There you go realism intact

Well, oxygen production systems were built into the frame of the structure pieces you fabricate, it required external power to function. You have to remember that Subnautica is not a base building sim, it's operation is simplified to keep the flow of the game pleasant for most people.

Starting at the default start, look to the right. There is a pair of rocks shaped like an A.

Go there, turn left. You are on the flat land, right next to where the starting lake is gonna be. Build a framework back into the future lake, and build there.

Autocrafters in your base can reach your algae and water sources, and you don't need drones for automating that for trade.

The central plain is convenient to everywhere on the map. Just make sure you're up high enough. I usually put mine just a bit behind the arch that overlooks the bowl where your lander comes down.

The water will rise rocket y=25. Anywhere higher than that and you're golden

The Crater is lovely at this time of year...

I set up my base next to a wreck, next to a lake where my survival ship crashed