Actually its the best place where u can do a base, u have many resources, you have a very close access to lost river, no threats and more things too like a alien base with free ion cubes
I feel like the sea treaders path isn’t talked about enough. I love setting up multiples bases at different places along the path, occasionally switching in between them just to find the sea treaders slowly making their way to a new area. It’s just fascinating to me. I find it beautiful. I feel like Bart torgal rn lol.
I've always called them sea traders, because I started playing the game years ago and couldn't read English properly back then :D And it's actually really fun thinking that they tread to trade like a caravan
Ive always loved the sparse reef for how it is deceptively creepy, even though its almost entirely safe, and it perfectly builds tension for the other dangerous areas around it
First time I found the floating island, it took me forever to actually work up the courage to leave it again because I just happened to jump into the water looking straight down right as the Sea Emperor spoke to me for the first time. When that black image appeared in front of me, I literally screamed and I couldn't get out of the water fast enough. Even now, seeing the island from below unnerves me.
@@savin9100, there isnt actually one there. The Sea Emperor just happened to speak to me for the first time at the the exact moment I jumped in to the water looking straight down and the leviathans image just appears on screen and made me think it was actually right in front of me.
@@Breathtaker5000not to brag, but I've had a world when I did everything. I've had a cyclops stacked with storages (it was my main base), I've had a stationary base with all the fish in the aquarium, I've built the rocket, I was hunting reapers on my last day in the save, and then MY HARD DRIVE DECIDED TO PLAY DUMB AND ERASED HIS WHOLE INSIDES
Floating islands and mushroom forest make good alternatives to the crash zone when scanning for Cyclops fragments if you find reapers either too terrifying, or too annoying to deal with.
tbh, i spent my first 20 or so hours doing everything i could to avoid reapers because i thought they were scary. once i had the stasis rifle and realized how scripted the pathing is for the AI, i no longer find them scary but annoying. especially when i try and fight them and they decide to steal my seamoth or prawn suit as retaliation. like they know they’re going to die but they still want to inconvenience me with one final act of sabotage
@@idrisali3947 you are cool but i find gassopods scarier then reapers but reapers=scary to but reading this comet i find reapers less scary (I killed one in creative one time one fowled me to life pod six in that same creative save bro really tried to kill my cyclops of which had been my base in that creative save i also got pic of sea emperor not in containment but outside and it let me get face facing me and i screenshotted it in game that pic is just awesome
I like the shallows i won't lie such a tropical colorful place for me it's just pure eyecandy. But i like building the actual bases near cliffsides to have a fun moonpool entrance and bedroom overlook
@@Breathtaker5000yeah, it’s a shame that most of the mid-game biomes (which I consider the Dunes, Mountains, Blood Kelp zones, Crag Field, Mushroom Forests, Crash Zone, Grand Reef, and Sparse Reef) focus so much on the scare factor. If you kill the leviathans in the Dunes, Mountains, and Crash Zone, there’s very little else for those areas to offer in terms of atmosphere, and the Sparse Reef hardly has any to begin with. The Blood Kelp areas, Sparse Reef, and (for the most part) the Grand Reef just… stop being scary after you get cured, since the main threat is supposed to be the Warpers, but at least they look pretty. The Crag Fields and Mushroom Forests at least keep up what they’re trying to do (Mushroom Forests stay pretty and non-dangerous, Crag Fields stay excitingly dangerous due to Bonesharks).
dude i got all the 5 cuddlefish eggs, and 2 out of my 3 time capsules i found, contained another egg, I can't even believe it, but i somehow have 7 cuddlefish eggs in my save :)
The Mushroom forests give the best resources of any safe biome I SWEAR. Most cyclops parts are there, at the walls of the biome, theres so many shale outcrops, and *dat atmosphere*
I love the mushroom forests for resource gathering, especially the northern one. It's also the easiest place to find the vehicle upgrade and modification station blueprints.
That cave under the big mushroom tree on the edge of the biome? I was stuck in there for ages on my first play through, i went as deep in as i could and for the life of me couldnt find the way out, there was a Brain Coral that kept me alive until i bumbled my way out.😆
Honestly only thing I miss in safe shallows is depth, I put a glass roof on my large room cause otherwise it's so claustrophobic but there's barely any water between the base and the surface, meaning I barely see fish above my base
I like building big bases but I built a big base in the dunes right next to the blood kelp trench. There's plenty of space and there are a couple of heat vents nearby for thermal energy and its fast access to the lost river. There's a reaper nearby but it's farther north and in much shallower water so it doesn't come near the base but you can still hear it's screams.
I really don't know which biome is my favourite. I love the mysteriousness of the Grand Reef, the eeriness of the Blood Kelp zone, the wonder of the Lost River, The Super Marioness of the Mushroom Forest. I've built bases in every zone except the Jellyshroom Cave, Floating Islands, Crash Zone, and Crag Field, but I'm sure I'll get to those eventually it's just that most recently I've been working on my Hanging Garden base. It's built on the edge of the Mushroom Forest and Koosh zone, literally right off the cliff separating them. It's a very vertical base featuring a garden of all of the plant life on the planet, above and below water (or, that's the plan, it's still a work in progress.) as well as an aquarium that will eventually showcase life from each underwater biome. BTW, you forgot the Sea Emperor's Aquarium.
Which biome is your favorite? Me: Yes. :) I've literally built bases in every single biome. I use the fruit resources from the islands for survival. My most memorable base was built in the dunes near where two reapers' paths intersected. I called it the Reaper Observatory. Kind of a pain to get to, so I built a bunch of little microbases leading out of the area and "hop" between bases. Now, with the Big Room and glass ceilings for it and the MP room, I should go back and rebuild that base in a new playthrough.
I built a Dunes base too. Next to the Sea Treader's Path. There used to be two Reapers. One would come near Sea Treader's and even into it sometimes but now it's moved further towards the Shallows. The other one still swims around my base though.
In subnautica below zero I built a base to the edge of an underwater cliff, cant remember the biome, but I remember a leviathan lurking right in front of the cliff. I wanted my base there, so I built it anyways. From there on, the leviathan disappeared... but the scan room always persisted in pinging it right where it was the last time I saw it. Weird.
Same here. It unsettles me so much but I really liked building a base there. A little safe haven in the darkness. You mainly would see the Blood Kelp glowing in the waters and a little bit of the cavern lit up by floodlights and spot lights. Ended up being one of my favorite bases.
Didn’t know what my favorite biome would be, but settled on the Grand Reef as it was the first base I decided to build after doing a lot of the “beginning” stuff and moving out of the shallows, and honestly, liking a little bit of everything is so true and fitting for me lmao
I didn’t even know half these existed In my defense I can only really seem to go one direction for some reason idk why I can’t unless I’m watching a tutorial I think it may be just I know what’s in the direction I go
ngl, when I got the "entering an ecologically dead zone" notification, I immediately noped the heck outta there. on the contrary, I feel relatively comfortable in the Dunes biome
I like the Sea Treader’s Path because I like to turn something that’s almost worthless into valuable electricity. If I build my base there and put in a few Bioreactors (because I find that one is never enough to keep up with the endless supply), my batteries for my tools are always full.
I build my base in red grass and I look at the screenshot for the red grass and had to check that my base wasn’t the exact same. Also I love going behind the aurora there is so much good loot and no danger.
I’m currently residing in the dunes, it’s honestly a good biome to chill in. Gasopods, sand sharks, and reapers. It’s very friendly. Just to move to a friendlier environment I might expand to the mountains and/or crash zone. (If anyone is wondering where in the dunes, I’m right under the juvenile sea emperor)
I still can't render the game properly but still find the Mushroom Forest as my favorite biome. Mostly because I like mushrooms, it's super scenic if you can weave a base down there, and totally safe (The northwest one, not the northeast one)
My opinion on what your favorite biome says about you: Safe Shallows: You’re a Noob. Kelp Zone: You either love Hoverfish or farm Stalker Teeth. Grassy Plateaus: You love basing. Mushroom Forest: You enjoy titanium grinding. Sparse Reef: You absolutely LOVE Time Capsules. Floating Island: You Love scanning things. Sea Trader’s Path: You use these guys to farm Shale Outcrops. Alien Base Island: You know how to effectively grind Lithium. Cragfield: You’re boring. Grand Reef: You love exploring. Dunes: You’re a Veteran. Underwater Islands: Okayyyyy….. whatever floats your boat I guess… Mountains: What is wrong with you? Blood Kelp Zone: You either like to visit the Lost River, or you like to grind blood oil for Benzene. Crash Zone: You love exploring the wreck of the Aurora. Bulb Zone: You love exploring wrecks. Jellyshroom Caves: You either think they look beautiful, or you like abducting Crabsnake eggs. Lost River: You have no sense of fear. Inactive Lava Zone: You love rocks. The Lava Lakes: You like the underground a little too much. The Void: Why on earth do you like the void!!???
I actually do like a little but of everything but I am also a night owl and I like really hot showers. The funniest thing is I like all of those biomes. IT WAS MEANT TO BEE
Living in bloodkelp trench for my first hc game. The place is cool, and sparse reef actually has a decent amount of mats, without prawn suit it’s not too sustainable if you’re going for nuclear reactor or base expansion, but they both are really good especially after getting drill prawn
@@blank5519 yeah I have a neighbor amp eel but he’s not bad. All there is down there is a couple of amp eels and a couple warpers, the blood crawlers aren’t too bad either. I just have to travel a bunch for mats now that I have drained the mats like quartz
My fav is the shallows. Not becuase I’m new considering I have so many hours of playtime but because I love the beautiful ecosystem in it. OTHER THAN MR SUICIDAL FISH
My favorite base building location is the north east mushroom forest. It is right next to the blood kelp trench which goes straight into the lost river. The mushroom forest is completely safe and it has plenty of good resources nearby.
the blood kelp trench is just such a fascinating place to run into for the first time, right around a bunch of shallow water you find this spot where it just goes deeper and deeper and deeper, it's really cool (and yeah you're right i regularly stay up till 3am)
I 100% of the time set up my base in the mushroom forest, specifically the one next to the Aurora. Not because I can load it. But because it’s close to the ship and an entrance to the lost river, also has a butt ton of resources.
I haven't seen like... 90% of the map yet. But i've set up a cute little base near the head of the Aurora! I put it there as a Reaper Observatory :) The reaper's name is Chips, like Fish and Chips. He is my son and can no longer frighten me
The base I built was right at the edge of the grand reef and the treaders path. Easiest way there is to go to the floating island and just descend straight down
your Grassy plateau comment about people only being there because they wanna build a huge ass base for no fucking reason other than they want to recreate rapture is spot on, why? because I am doing that exact thing rn
I was thinking Lost River but I never actually built a base there 🤣 I was considering Giant Cove Tree as part of it, there was a really convenient vent there to build a base on.
That's where I built mine on my first playthrough. It's a good location for fast access to the inactive lava zone and there are plenty of resources in the area. If you build some planters and make a farm for stuff that only grows in certain biomes, you'll almost never have to leave the lost river.
I love to build big bases around the environments, like the twisty bridges in bz is really good for bases with huge verticality. a cool tip for base building is to tactically place two separate moonpools to make it really easy to go across the base. like instead of doing a giant U around a big base or climbing seven ladders, or going through hatch animations, you can just pop pout of a moonpool with a seaglide and come careening into another moonpool in 5 seconds instead of an entire minute of walking.
The only reason I go to the sparse reef is cause I’m and idiot and go the wrong way when going to sea treaders path. And I love free gold and diamonds, not alien poop!!
I like the Sparse reef but dang... I CAN LITERALLY NEVER FIND SHALE OUTCROPS! Dude i'm trying to build the cyclops but i CANT FIND LITHIUM TO SAVE MY LIFE!
I have a huge main base built in the aquarium (still working on it, just adding some finishing touches). That stretches from the back to past the middle of the hanging platform. And each side almost touches each wall. I have a large room for each egg laying alien, and a multipurpose room for the rest. To showcase the infected and non-infected versions. I use it as a hub. Since it's easy to get to pretty much everywhere from there. I've got bases built in almost every biome. But yea, I would have to say the Grand Reef is my favorite. I also have a 13 large room base built above the QEP. It houses all the plants in the game. 26 underwater plants, a separate ACU for each. And each room has all 11 of the land plants. All of this done in survival. Oh, and for each base, all rooms are connected by at the very least 1 glass i compartment, to another. For some spacing, it took more. I have multiple entrances/exists to every room. So... so much farming, lol.
I LOVE mushroom forest because it's a good place to build a base next to and has decent materials, it also has a beautiful view from the base and I feel very safe around the trees as no leviathan can fit through them (even though there isn't a leviathan there)
Subnautica memes say we aren't supposed to kill the reapers or ghosts because we don't get anything from it, but thats where they're wrong, you get peace of mind when they're all gone, and that's a wonderful resource.
I had to kill a reefback the other day because it swam into where I was trying to build my base and got hung up on my base and wouldn't leave so I couldn't place my base piece where I wanted it. I'm just glad those things aren't aggressive because it had way more HP than a reaper or ghost.
@@camrynsmith7631 I don’t really know how much it was but when he wouldn’t leave I started knifing him and must have hit him 50-60 times before getting in the prawn suit and double punching it another 20-30 times. When it died it just disappeared and all the stuff on it’s back just fell to the sea floor below. I felt bad killing it but it was interfering with my construction project and had to go.
Im a dunes person but i actually dont like cuddlefish, im just there to have some space to build a base and its close to a lotta stuff like the blood trench, the other blood kelp zone, a mushroom forest and the void but most importantly its just fun to torture the neighbors, like how could i resist the reaper killing spree
Hell yeah, i specifically have a multipurpose room with a bunch of frames where i put screenshots of my Reaper kills. Dunes is so worth clearing out of threats.
Sparse Reef is definitely one of the best base locations, or even just a small outpost. It has many materials, is mostly safe (bleeders), is near a lost river entrance, and is bordering many resource heavy biomes.
The plateau is indeed true, I love the scenery there like just before reaching the beach. It's beautiful and convenient to start your base there, like a main hub resources and advance items.
My favorite biome is a toss-up between the grassy plateaus and the mushroom forest. I usually build my base on the edge of the mushroom forest that's closest to the aurora.
Am i the only one who loves the lost river? Like i sometimes go there just to relax and to let my stress out on the crab squids by fucking eradicating there species. Ngl i dont understand why so many people are scared of it cause i go there for fun and to feel save😅 Edit:i think my new favorite biome is now the mountain biom cause my new hobby is killing reapers
Mountain island guy here - originally because the sunbeam crew said it was the best area for a pickup. Then I liked the beaches, spelunking, and how I can get to the alien building pretty quickly, as well as dive nearby to charge the Cyclops. I considered the floating island before until I realized it was floating and crumbling underneath. Besides, if I ever wanted to visit, I could just take the warp gate over from the mountain island where my base already is
Another reason to love the lost river: if you have a fear of open water the walls of the cave help alleviate that fear of wandering into somewhere you shouldn't be.
My favorite biome in the game is the Active Lava Zone, but NOT so much because I like hot showers... but rather because I *LOVE* the sea dragons! Although... I don't care for any of the OTHER leviathans as much, so I visit the crash zone and dunes a LOT, to kill reapers, and loot the place of valuable resources (like the INSANE amount of titanium, and a few other, awesome resources in the crash zone, and then not *ONLY* the cuddlefish egg, but an INCREABLE amount of far rarer materials ALL over the place... not to mention lots and LOTS of time capsules in BOTH of the two locations!!)
personally I love building little pit stops all over the map: one normal room with a bioreactor, fabricator and cell charging station so I can recharge my cyclops whenever I stop by. Also either a fishtank for food and biofuel or an outside planter with edible plants, and finally a scanner room (usually). Really fun way to play this game if a small, self-sustainable home away from home is never too far away :)
I liked the Lost River the best because the open water was terrifying to me, even in the kelp forest and stuff, because I never knew where an enemy was coming from. Just all that water around me was terrifying. But in the Lost River, especially the Tree Cove, the algae made it seem like it was a cave with a creek, and I was flying the whole time. Made me feel relaxed and chill.
blood vines are really cool I feel cause they have that horror thing going for them more than the other biomes. it feels like a metroid game even down to the unlocks in them
I built on the grassy plateau and have expanded off it ever since as I built outposts around the map. However, I also like killing Reapers. Also, finding out there was a whole area *RIGHT* next to your base that you have been somehow missing this entire time that had everything you desperately needed before but don’t now really makes you want to pull out your hair.
Sparse reef is an insane biome, like it has easy diamonds, rubies and gel sacks completely safe and shallow
It’s in-between my two main bases in my current playthrough, so I regularly go through it! (And also the blood kelp trench)
border between grand reef and kelp forest has all the resources you will ever need
Nah i prefer dunes since you can watch reaper there
Actually its the best place where u can do a base, u have many resources, you have a very close access to lost river, no threats and more things too like a alien base with free ion cubes
Wait, the gel sacks are there? Some dude told me they were in the dunes
I feel like the sea treaders path isn’t talked about enough. I love setting up multiples bases at different places along the path, occasionally switching in between them just to find the sea treaders slowly making their way to a new area. It’s just fascinating to me. I find it beautiful. I feel like Bart torgal rn lol.
The biome is really under appreciated tbh
My favorite part about that biome is the massive cave it has, perfect for a base
My main base is in The Dunes right next to Sea Treader's. I always visit there. I love the Treaders and the sounds the make and of course the poop!
Can u close off some sea treaders and farm their resources?
I've always called them sea traders, because I started playing the game years ago and couldn't read English properly back then :D
And it's actually really fun thinking that they tread to trade like a caravan
Ive always loved the sparse reef for how it is deceptively creepy, even though its almost entirely safe, and it perfectly builds tension for the other dangerous areas around it
I had a mining outpost in the sparse reef, just a moonpool, fabricator, bioreactor and scanner room. I was set with resources for life
It's those damn cliffs jutting out, making it seem like there's something bigger there than it actually is
The biomes South, East, and West of it:
*Pillar John intensifies*
YES, PERFECT ANSWER!
The sickly green and darkness really got to me, yeah. But the rubies, gel, lithium and diamonds, totally worth it.
Dang, i didn't know i was still a pacifist after putting all dem cuddlefish in the bioreactor
Bro woke up and chose violence 🤣
I woke up with no power in my base, time to go find some more cuddlefish!
its just the best looking place and we dont have to swim kilometers to get stuff. :)
there's a vent right there tho 🤣
Why
As a floating island lover with thalassophobia, we can confirm that the sea is quite terrifying and the island helps us relax.
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First time I found the floating island, it took me forever to actually work up the courage to leave it again because I just happened to jump into the water looking straight down right as the Sea Emperor spoke to me for the first time. When that black image appeared in front of me, I literally screamed and I couldn't get out of the water fast enough. Even now, seeing the island from below unnerves me.
@@Breathtaker5000 ok I went to the void in a prawn suit, and it’s… terrifying, never going there again
@@sherrykathman3309THERES AN SEA EMPEROR IN THE FLOATING ISLAND????????!?!!!!!!! I dint know that, now ill never go that island again
@@savin9100, there isnt actually one there. The Sea Emperor just happened to speak to me for the first time at the the exact moment I jumped in to the water looking straight down and the leviathans image just appears on screen and made me think it was actually right in front of me.
grassy plateaus: you like to build big bases.
Meanwhile me having a base that is literally just 2 large rooms and the moon pool.
I mean, it’s still technically ‘big’ just not very complex
I build the scanner room and some multipurpose rooms too
“That final cuddlefish egg”
Bro, you mean the one in that weird crater in the dunes? Because that was my first one 😭
Dude is braver than 80% of the subnautica community 🫡
@@Breathtaker5000not to brag, but I've had a world when I did everything. I've had a cyclops stacked with storages (it was my main base), I've had a stationary base with all the fish in the aquarium, I've built the rocket, I was hunting reapers on my last day in the save, and then MY HARD DRIVE DECIDED TO PLAY DUMB AND ERASED HIS WHOLE INSIDES
Omg I was about to comment this 😂
I went into that weird crater on my first play through and didn’t even grab the egg
damn I always end up getting the one near jochi kasar’s lifepod first even h tho my base is prolly 250m from the dunes cuddlefish egg 😆
Floating islands and mushroom forest make good alternatives to the crash zone when scanning for Cyclops fragments if you find reapers either too terrifying, or too annoying to deal with.
Yeah, I like to try and get my engine fragments from the underwater islands, and everything else from the mushroom forest
I go to that one wreck near sparse reef and in sea treaders path
tbh, i spent my first 20 or so hours doing everything i could to avoid reapers because i thought they were scary. once i had the stasis rifle and realized how scripted the pathing is for the AI, i no longer find them scary but annoying. especially when i try and fight them and they decide to steal my seamoth or prawn suit as retaliation. like they know they’re going to die but they still want to inconvenience me with one final act of sabotage
@@idrisali3947 you are cool but i find gassopods scarier then reapers but reapers=scary to but reading this comet i find reapers less scary (I killed one in creative one time one fowled me to life pod six in that same creative save bro really tried to kill my cyclops of which had been my base in that creative save i also got pic of sea emperor not in containment but outside and it let me get face facing me and i screenshotted it in game that pic is just awesome
I like the shallows i won't lie such a tropical colorful place for me it's just pure eyecandy. But i like building the actual bases near cliffsides to have a fun moonpool entrance and bedroom overlook
It’s definitely one of the most beautiful biomes
@@Breathtaker5000yeah, it’s a shame that most of the mid-game biomes (which I consider the Dunes, Mountains, Blood Kelp zones, Crag Field, Mushroom Forests, Crash Zone, Grand Reef, and Sparse Reef) focus so much on the scare factor. If you kill the leviathans in the Dunes, Mountains, and Crash Zone, there’s very little else for those areas to offer in terms of atmosphere, and the Sparse Reef hardly has any to begin with. The Blood Kelp areas, Sparse Reef, and (for the most part) the Grand Reef just… stop being scary after you get cured, since the main threat is supposed to be the Warpers, but at least they look pretty. The Crag Fields and Mushroom Forests at least keep up what they’re trying to do (Mushroom Forests stay pretty and non-dangerous, Crag Fields stay excitingly dangerous due to Bonesharks).
When u defeat all the reapers and got the final legendary cuddlefish egg
The great triumph!
dude i got all the 5 cuddlefish eggs, and 2 out of my 3 time capsules i found, contained another egg, I can't even believe it, but i somehow have 7 cuddlefish eggs in my save :)
I got it at 3 in the morning, when I was too tired to consider the consequences, and got ambushed by reapers thrice.
You have a solemn duty to put 6 Cuddlefish eggs in your time capsule whenever you finish that save/leave on the rocket :)
Eyyy my favorite bio reactor fuel is here!
The Mushroom forests give the best resources of any safe biome I SWEAR. Most cyclops parts are there, at the walls of the biome, theres so many shale outcrops, and *dat atmosphere*
I love the mushroom forests for resource gathering, especially the northern one. It's also the easiest place to find the vehicle upgrade and modification station blueprints.
That cave under the big mushroom tree on the edge of the biome? I was stuck in there for ages on my first play through, i went as deep in as i could and for the life of me couldnt find the way out, there was a Brain Coral that kept me alive until i bumbled my way out.😆
But navigating in it sucks
Apparently sparse reef has just as many resources and next to no sea life
All three of the main outcrops are there so it’s probably a good place to make a base if you have a scan room to find it
Nah Safe Shallows is goated. Best looking zone by far. Crystal clear water at all times, phenomenal colors. Peaceful. I like the Mushroom forest too.
The only thing I hate about the safe shallows is the stalkers that keep taking off with the scanner room cameras.
Shout out to all the players that built a base in the shallows and ONLY in the shallows.
Honestly only thing I miss in safe shallows is depth, I put a glass roof on my large room cause otherwise it's so claustrophobic but there's barely any water between the base and the surface, meaning I barely see fish above my base
@@the_steamtrain1642 Yeah you kind of have to use the red fields if you want any kind of height for the base, or to park your cyclops.
No way bro looked at the lava zone cove tree lost river grand reef and blood kelp and still posted this.
Void: You like to have base observatory for ghost leviathans.
Void: you like biulding base above the water, and saying: i see no god up there. Other than me!
Void: you like seeing deep water.
the void matching 100% of my personality
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The stupid one or brave one?
@@darshmishra8005prolly both
@@plaguenplay3516yea feel you there voids my fav as well
I like building big bases but I built a big base in the dunes right next to the blood kelp trench. There's plenty of space and there are a couple of heat vents nearby for thermal energy and its fast access to the lost river. There's a reaper nearby but it's farther north and in much shallower water so it doesn't come near the base but you can still hear it's screams.
Ima have to try out that location sometime
@@Breathtaker5000 You should really give it a Try. I always make my Big Homebase there and a Observation Post near the Reaper. Its Really Neat
@@Nightseekerxdyea and you have a kelp Forest not too far, some shallows and the sea treaders not far.
As an night owl that likes to build gigantic bases, this is extremely accurate
Bloodkelp fan.
Those plants and dark depth really set the immersion and atmosphere of deep ocean just right
Same
It’s actually pretty easy to find your way around it too, it’s very well lit certain times of day. My favorite biome for sure
Lost River one is sooo accurate.
I really don't know which biome is my favourite. I love the mysteriousness of the Grand Reef, the eeriness of the Blood Kelp zone, the wonder of the Lost River, The Super Marioness of the Mushroom Forest. I've built bases in every zone except the Jellyshroom Cave, Floating Islands, Crash Zone, and Crag Field, but I'm sure I'll get to those eventually it's just that most recently I've been working on my Hanging Garden base. It's built on the edge of the Mushroom Forest and Koosh zone, literally right off the cliff separating them. It's a very vertical base featuring a garden of all of the plant life on the planet, above and below water (or, that's the plan, it's still a work in progress.) as well as an aquarium that will eventually showcase life from each underwater biome.
BTW, you forgot the Sea Emperor's Aquarium.
Which biome is your favorite?
Me: Yes. :)
I've literally built bases in every single biome. I use the fruit resources from the islands for survival.
My most memorable base was built in the dunes near where two reapers' paths intersected. I called it the Reaper Observatory. Kind of a pain to get to, so I built a bunch of little microbases leading out of the area and "hop" between bases.
Now, with the Big Room and glass ceilings for it and the MP room, I should go back and rebuild that base in a new playthrough.
Absolute gigachad o7
The noise from them would be super annoying.
I built a Dunes base too. Next to the Sea Treader's Path. There used to be two Reapers. One would come near Sea Treader's and even into it sometimes but now it's moved further towards the Shallows. The other one still swims around my base though.
@@uhtred7860It's actually pretty relaxing and when it comes right next to ur base sometimes and roars will startle u in a good way
In subnautica below zero I built a base to the edge of an underwater cliff, cant remember the biome, but I remember a leviathan lurking right in front of the cliff. I wanted my base there, so I built it anyways. From there on, the leviathan disappeared... but the scan room always persisted in pinging it right where it was the last time I saw it. Weird.
I both love and hate blood kelp because of the blood crawlers and arachnophobia doesn’t help
Yeah, they do be weird looking
at least we can thank the devs those creatures have only 4 legs and no webs to swing around on
Same here. It unsettles me so much but I really liked building a base there. A little safe haven in the darkness. You mainly would see the Blood Kelp glowing in the waters and a little bit of the cavern lit up by floodlights and spot lights. Ended up being one of my favorite bases.
Didn’t know what my favorite biome would be, but settled on the Grand Reef as it was the first base I decided to build after doing a lot of the “beginning” stuff and moving out of the shallows, and honestly, liking a little bit of everything is so true and fitting for me lmao
I didn’t even know half these existed
In my defense I can only really seem to go one direction for some reason idk why I can’t unless I’m watching a tutorial I think it may be just I know what’s in the direction I go
Installing the map mod is very helpful for understanding where everything is.
The dunes will forever be my fav place cause it was SOMEHOW my first leviathan encounter, NOT EVEN A REEFBACK before i went there.
I put messages in my time capsules saying to go behind the aurora lol
Still enjoying this video a year later. Thanks for some good laughs, man.
ngl, when I got the "entering an ecologically dead zone" notification, I immediately noped the heck outta there. on the contrary, I feel relatively comfortable in the Dunes biome
You are an insane person
I like the Sea Treader’s Path because I like to turn something that’s almost worthless into valuable electricity. If I build my base there and put in a few Bioreactors (because I find that one is never enough to keep up with the endless supply), my batteries for my tools are always full.
I build my base in red grass and I look at the screenshot for the red grass and had to check that my base wasn’t the exact same. Also I love going behind the aurora there is so much good loot and no danger.
Apart from the reaper that lives there.
How dare you, I’ll have you know people remember me for at least 5 minutes after they meet me.
I’m currently residing in the dunes, it’s honestly a good biome to chill in. Gasopods, sand sharks, and reapers. It’s very friendly. Just to move to a friendlier environment I might expand to the mountains and/or crash zone. (If anyone is wondering where in the dunes, I’m right under the juvenile sea emperor)
I appreciate you watching the kids grow up
i like the lost river, mostly chill but scary at times
0:38 relatable. Takes a lot of power too
I still can't render the game properly but still find the Mushroom Forest as my favorite biome. Mostly because I like mushrooms, it's super scenic if you can weave a base down there, and totally safe (The northwest one, not the northeast one)
The dead zone: you just don’t know it
My opinion on what your favorite biome says about you:
Safe Shallows: You’re a Noob.
Kelp Zone: You either love Hoverfish or farm Stalker Teeth.
Grassy Plateaus: You love basing.
Mushroom Forest: You enjoy titanium grinding.
Sparse Reef: You absolutely LOVE Time Capsules.
Floating Island: You Love scanning things.
Sea Trader’s Path: You use these guys to farm Shale Outcrops.
Alien Base Island: You know how to effectively grind Lithium.
Cragfield: You’re boring.
Grand Reef: You love exploring.
Dunes: You’re a Veteran.
Underwater Islands: Okayyyyy….. whatever floats your boat I guess…
Mountains: What is wrong with you?
Blood Kelp Zone: You either like to visit the Lost River, or you like to grind blood oil for Benzene.
Crash Zone: You love exploring the wreck of the Aurora.
Bulb Zone: You love exploring wrecks.
Jellyshroom Caves: You either think they look beautiful, or you like abducting Crabsnake eggs.
Lost River: You have no sense of fear.
Inactive Lava Zone: You love rocks.
The Lava Lakes: You like the underground a little too much.
The Void: Why on earth do you like the void!!???
I actually do like a little but of everything but I am also a night owl and I like really hot showers. The funniest thing is I like all of those biomes. IT WAS MEANT TO BEE
ME TOO!!!
0:47 ...
[repeat]
All of The Time
Can I interest you in anything
All of the time
A little bit of Everything
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I was deep mushroom forest(north of the aurora) and the ambience down there at the edge of the bulb zone is so incredible in a glass bubble.
I only like underwater islands because of the song unknown flora. Its an epic song!
Living in bloodkelp trench for my first hc game. The place is cool, and sparse reef actually has a decent amount of mats, without prawn suit it’s not too sustainable if you’re going for nuclear reactor or base expansion, but they both are really good especially after getting drill prawn
Both biomes are also pretty chill since most creatures in the trench tend to reside near the bottom
@@blank5519 yeah I have a neighbor amp eel but he’s not bad. All there is down there is a couple of amp eels and a couple warpers, the blood crawlers aren’t too bad either. I just have to travel a bunch for mats now that I have drained the mats like quartz
My fav is the shallows. Not becuase I’m new considering I have so many hours of playtime but because I love the beautiful ecosystem in it. OTHER THAN MR SUICIDAL FISH
Lost river was where I set up my main and probably favourite base. Building inside and around the gargantuan made for some pretty sick builds!
My favorite base building location is the north east mushroom forest. It is right next to the blood kelp trench which goes straight into the lost river.
The mushroom forest is completely safe and it has plenty of good resources nearby.
Cove tree best base location change my mind
2:41 hate how accurate you are
the blood kelp trench is just such a fascinating place to run into for the first time, right around a bunch of shallow water you find this spot where it just goes deeper and deeper and deeper, it's really cool (and yeah you're right i regularly stay up till 3am)
I 100% of the time set up my base in the mushroom forest, specifically the one next to the Aurora. Not because I can load it. But because it’s close to the ship and an entrance to the lost river, also has a butt ton of resources.
I haven't seen like... 90% of the map yet.
But i've set up a cute little base near the head of the Aurora! I put it there as a Reaper Observatory :)
The reaper's name is Chips, like Fish and Chips.
He is my son and can no longer frighten me
The base I built was right at the edge of the grand reef and the treaders path. Easiest way there is to go to the floating island and just descend straight down
your Grassy plateau comment about people only being there because they wanna build a huge ass base for no fucking reason other than they want to recreate rapture is spot on, why? because I am doing that exact thing rn
It’s the only biome that’s open enough to build a sizable base, yet shallow enough to get good sunlight
I was thinking Lost River but I never actually built a base there 🤣
I was considering Giant Cove Tree as part of it, there was a really convenient vent there to build a base on.
That's where I built mine on my first playthrough. It's a good location for fast access to the inactive lava zone and there are plenty of resources in the area. If you build some planters and make a farm for stuff that only grows in certain biomes, you'll almost never have to leave the lost river.
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I had these big blue sting ray guys clip thru my base all the time. Was funny.
Good area.
actually i have 4 aquariums full of hover fish thank you very much
I love to build big bases around the environments, like the twisty bridges in bz is really good for bases with huge verticality.
a cool tip for base building is to tactically place two separate moonpools to make it really easy to go across the base. like instead of doing a giant U around a big base or climbing seven ladders, or going through hatch animations, you can just pop pout of a moonpool with a seaglide and come careening into another moonpool in 5 seconds instead of an entire minute of walking.
The only reason I go to the sparse reef is cause I’m and idiot and go the wrong way when going to sea treaders path.
And I love free gold and diamonds, not alien poop!!
I go to the Void to see the Garg
I like the Sparse reef but dang... I CAN LITERALLY NEVER FIND SHALE OUTCROPS! Dude i'm trying to build the cyclops but i CANT FIND LITHIUM TO SAVE MY LIFE!
i believe you'll find what you're looking for eventually, just dont give up! :)
1:12 I'm building base there ony to have extra fuel in bio reactor at start (cuddle fish egg) but base in void at deep at least 3k must have
I also love using cuddle fish eggs in my bioreactor
I have a huge main base built in the aquarium (still working on it, just adding some finishing touches). That stretches from the back to past the middle of the hanging platform. And each side almost touches each wall. I have a large room for each egg laying alien, and a multipurpose room for the rest. To showcase the infected and non-infected versions.
I use it as a hub. Since it's easy to get to pretty much everywhere from there. I've got bases built in almost every biome. But yea, I would have to say the Grand Reef is my favorite.
I also have a 13 large room base built above the QEP. It houses all the plants in the game. 26 underwater plants, a separate ACU for each. And each room has all 11 of the land plants. All of this done in survival. Oh, and for each base, all rooms are connected by at the very least 1 glass i compartment, to another. For some spacing, it took more. I have multiple entrances/exists to every room. So... so much farming, lol.
im a lost river kinda guy
I LOVE mushroom forest because it's a good place to build a base next to and has decent materials, it also has a beautiful view from the base and I feel very safe around the trees as no leviathan can fit through them (even though there isn't a leviathan there)
Subnautica memes say we aren't supposed to kill the reapers or ghosts because we don't get anything from it, but thats where they're wrong, you get peace of mind when they're all gone, and that's a wonderful resource.
True lol
I had to kill a reefback the other day because it swam into where I was trying to build my base and got hung up on my base and wouldn't leave so I couldn't place my base piece where I wanted it. I'm just glad those things aren't aggressive because it had way more HP than a reaper or ghost.
@@cmudd9788 how much hp do they have? The wiki says infinite!
@@camrynsmith7631 I don’t really know how much it was but when he wouldn’t leave I started knifing him and must have hit him 50-60 times before getting in the prawn suit and double punching it another 20-30 times. When it died it just disappeared and all the stuff on it’s back just fell to the sea floor below. I felt bad killing it but it was interfering with my construction project and had to go.
Im a dunes person but i actually dont like cuddlefish, im just there to have some space to build a base and its close to a lotta stuff like the blood trench, the other blood kelp zone, a mushroom forest and the void but most importantly its just fun to torture the neighbors, like how could i resist the reaper killing spree
Hell yeah, i specifically have a multipurpose room with a bunch of frames where i put screenshots of my Reaper kills. Dunes is so worth clearing out of threats.
You said what?!?!?!?!
My base always straddles the line between the mushroom forest and the blood kelp zone. Perfect blend of glowy mushrooms and horror.
I love Cove Tree Biome and Inactive Lava Zone so, yeah. Those descriptions are very accurate to me.
For the blood kelp zones, I would’ve gone with “you’re a big horror movie fan”
I just want to aggressively assert my presence as the reaper's new neighbor by building observatories in their faces.
Wait guys I went to the back of the Aurora and I see something you said it was safe
I am definitely a night owl, but I just love the blood kelp zone music. Gives me chills and fits the biome so well.
"Oh I have an singing in my ear- WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?"
Sparse Reef is definitely one of the best base locations, or even just a small outpost. It has many materials, is mostly safe (bleeders), is near a lost river entrance, and is bordering many resource heavy biomes.
As someone who does not have a good enough PC to live in the mushroom forest, that one gave me a chuckle.
The plateau is indeed true, I love the scenery there like just before reaching the beach.
It's beautiful and convenient to start your base there, like a main hub resources and advance items.
i just love the view of the cove tree with all the ghostrays.
Another thing that the floating island says about you:
You grew up watching Disney’s Tarzan and loved the base his parents built🤣
My favorite biome is a toss-up between the grassy plateaus and the mushroom forest. I usually build my base on the edge of the mushroom forest that's closest to the aurora.
As I certified Ghost Leviathan I can agree with the last one.
🤣
Am i the only one who loves the lost river? Like i sometimes go there just to relax and to let my stress out on the crab squids by fucking eradicating there species. Ngl i dont understand why so many people are scared of it cause i go there for fun and to feel save😅
Edit:i think my new favorite biome is now the mountain biom cause my new hobby is killing reapers
The crab squids are so annoying I’m like: “OH NO, WHATS ATTACKING ME!!” and then it’s just one of those those crab squids
@@tommysgamingadventures7214 yeah but they are easily handled with a perimeter defense system
@@ylberi1991 I’m taking about when I’m in my Cyclops
@@tommysgamingadventures7214 i hate the cyclops so i dont use it so i can not relate to that problem
@@ylberi1991 oh okay, I remember trying to get it into the Lost River and constantly getting it stuck
-3:05- yes, yes I am. (3:03)
Me in my 8000 m depth base
Mountain island guy here - originally because the sunbeam crew said it was the best area for a pickup. Then I liked the beaches, spelunking, and how I can get to the alien building pretty quickly, as well as dive nearby to charge the Cyclops.
I considered the floating island before until I realized it was floating and crumbling underneath. Besides, if I ever wanted to visit, I could just take the warp gate over from the mountain island where my base already is
Another reason to love the lost river: if you have a fear of open water the walls of the cave help alleviate that fear of wandering into somewhere you shouldn't be.
My favorite area is the Tripod Walkers place.
Only found it once through multiple playthroughs LOL
Sea Treader's Path
@@DoggosGames yea that :D
I've put bases everywhere, in each biome cause i've killed ALL leviathan on this map and it was fun
Nice👍
7th playthrough be like:
monster
"You spend 80% of your materials on floodlights and still can't see anything"
Please that was so fucking funny
My favorite biome in the game is the Active Lava Zone, but NOT so much because I like hot showers... but rather because I *LOVE* the sea dragons!
Although... I don't care for any of the OTHER leviathans as much, so I visit the crash zone and dunes a LOT, to kill reapers, and loot the place of valuable resources (like the INSANE amount of titanium, and a few other, awesome resources in the crash zone, and then not *ONLY* the cuddlefish egg, but an INCREABLE amount of far rarer materials ALL over the place... not to mention lots and LOTS of time capsules in BOTH of the two locations!!)
my favorite spots to build a base in are the grassy plateaus and grand reef and the descriptions match me perfectly lmao
my heart dropped when I heard a reaper thing behind me in the dunes lol
personally I love building little pit stops all over the map: one normal room with a bioreactor, fabricator and cell charging station so I can recharge my cyclops whenever I stop by. Also either a fishtank for food and biofuel or an outside planter with edible plants, and finally a scanner room (usually). Really fun way to play this game if a small, self-sustainable home away from home is never too far away :)
The dunes aren’t that bad you just need to kill all the reapers then it’s fine
Was not expecting to agree 100% with the Night Owl comment.
The most relatable subnautica video I've seen, funny stuff my guy
I liked the Lost River the best because the open water was terrifying to me, even in the kelp forest and stuff, because I never knew where an enemy was coming from. Just all that water around me was terrifying. But in the Lost River, especially the Tree Cove, the algae made it seem like it was a cave with a creek, and I was flying the whole time. Made me feel relaxed and chill.
blood vines are really cool I feel cause they have that horror thing going for them more than the other biomes. it feels like a metroid game even down to the unlocks in them
Yep. This biome scared me shitless the first time I went there, I don't remember why
@@Elvyne my guess is dark, disorienting, and very gigerous (I don't know the word but like H.R. Giger's art style)
I can confirm, half my mega base is dedicated to Hoverfish aquariums
Gotta love the fossils in the Lost River. And brine pools are a great naturally occuring phenomenon that I'm so glad is in the game.
I built on the grassy plateau and have expanded off it ever since as I built outposts around the map. However, I also like killing Reapers. Also, finding out there was a whole area *RIGHT* next to your base that you have been somehow missing this entire time that had everything you desperately needed before but don’t now really makes you want to pull out your hair.
I apparently like building large bases, but at the same time don't.
I miss having hoverfish tank lol. They look like they are smiling, cutest fish
I once built a base far and deep into the void. It was fun playing with the ghosts and building there
3:01 there is a thin line between bravery and foolishness.
The lost river is right for me apart from another reason it’s my favourite is because of how it looks and the ghost levithan