The coral tube that sticks straight up out of the water just to the Northeast the bank slopes down towards the grassy plateaus. To me this is the ideal location to build. It's in the very middle of the map. Has access to deeper water. You can get anywhere in the map in a prawn suit in less than 5 minutes.

Anywhere? It’s the “safe” shallows. I suppose building near one of the two thermal vents would make for easy power.

Love how this was so threatening and scary in the beginning and now it’s really comforting to come upon and relax after scouring the depths

That's my home. I even have a friendly cow (gasopod) on my lawn constantly singing his song of joy everytime he sees me (I've built my first base on his territory, probably. Everytime I get out of the base, he starts gassing me and crying)

All your 8bit art is so cool! Especially loved the Grassy plateau! Would you be making one for Below Zero as well? I'd love to see one for Twisty Bridges.

Oh yeah thats really safe.... wait. Is that a crashfish?
*Booom*

Looks like the settings I run the game at.

Yeah. The AI is a bit wonky. A lot of critters wander far from home. One time, it was a Reaper. Another time, it was an Ampeel. Reapers like to clip through cliffs. I've died once while in a... safe house...all because it clipped through. Was at the final stretch, too.... So long hardcore save....

I am now at emperor leviathan and it has not happened again, BUT THOSE GOD DAMN CRASHFISH IKKKK!

"Safe" should really be in quotation marks. The number of things in there that can easily kill you in the first 5 min of gameplay, lol...

• Drowning
• Crashfish
• Gasopods
• Crashfish
• Thermal damage in the Geyser
• Crashfish
• Mesmers
• #$%^in' Crashfish...
• Stingers

I feel like I'm forgetting something...

Hostile leviathans that you damage but flee from may break patrol area and gravitate to spawn point.

Spoilers

It's a bug

Happened to me earlier today…had the duel of a lifetime

I had a Reaper and an Ampeel somehow drift in to the Safe Shallows in previous save file. Every time I passed my lifepod I'd see them duking it out lmao. I think if you drive around in your Seamoth or Cyclops with the front lights on it can pull hostile fauna, although sometimes I see it happen without my intervention. Earlier today in my hardcore playthrough I went to a wreck in the Bulb Zone that I had never been to before, but from my last playthrough I knew it was supposed to be relatively safe other than some Ampeels, but once I pulled up a Reaper came roaring out from below and snapped one of the Ampeels. It was quite shocking, but a pretty cool moment, especially since he didn't come for me. I think it was the Reaper that patrols next to the front of the Aurora and he must have somehow been aggroed by an Ampeel that came a little too close.

Or there's just something funky with the game's AI sometimes, I mean look how often Reefbacks wind up beaching themselves in the Safe Shallows, or getting tangled up awkwardly in the Kelp Forest. I played Below Zero before the OG game, and in BZ Leviathans all follow a very obvious patrol path that they pretty much never break away from, so I was pleasantly surprised when a Reaper showed up randomly in the beginning area of the game, I like being forced to be on my toes like that! If that had happened my first time ever playing though, I might not be so positive about it lmao

HOW YOU DO IT I WANT DO IT SAME!

They're great in a fish pond!

That is a very nice base with excellent landscaping

I'm all but done with my 2nd play through and I never thought of planting a brain coral. I guess I wouldn't have much use other than for visuals but its pretty cool.

I'm trying to think of an area that is really tight where I couldn't fit a seamoth but once inside I could build a bed and plant these.

Wow excellent use of glass corridors and windows to show off the flora and other parts of your base. Very aesthetically pleasing to walk through. I'm definitely going to steal your idea for the fabricator area jsyk. 10/10

I build a moonpool just outside of the tube and use it as a launch tube for my seamoth.

Ultimate base indeed

Bruh I wouldn’t even leave safe shallows for like the first week of playing

Why does a tank with 45 seconds of oxygen even exist?

Wish I could say the same... My spawn was further north just as the water gets deep and every time I get out of my pod there’s Sand Sharks below me ��

Actually never thought about that. Even though standard O2 tank is pretty small

>air bladder

What is this mythical device you speak of

not my problem

F_ck corporate greed, f_ck people, and f_ck everyone who was involved with this mindless destruction.

Wow

After going on a year-long sailing trip in the Bahamas, I can confirm a very large portion of the coral is pale and dead. That was 9 years ago now, I can't imagine how much worse it's gotten