My only complaint is that you didn’t test wearing a sombrero in a funny fashion or standing in an oval. Get in a circle and you will be safe from the sea bear
I've found tiger plants most useful positioned near a sensor room to prevent stalkers from running off with you camera drones. Captively raised stalkers are a great way to gather scrap metal (just don't release them right next to your base, and mark the spot with a beacon). and for personal defense, raise a few crashfish in captivity, grab a few out of the tank when you're going on a run, and use a propulsion cannon to launch the little shits like 40mm grenades, guaranteed to send reaper, and ghost leviathans packing (yet to test it on a sea dragon, I kinda feel like it's too big to care).
This actually happened in my base I commented about in your other video. While I was installing solar panels, the Reaper came in and tried to attack me outside his patrol area. He never bothers me in the base and he only comes by if a sand shark was swimming by my base, or I was outside it doing construction. *In an Italian Mafia tone* But don't worry......I took care of him. >:-)
@@Superchicken_36 Nope.....I grabbed my Prawn Suit and did a little Reaper rodeo riding until my drill ended him. Am going to miss him though. Liked seeing a huge dangerous creature just swimming outside the window.
I grew a bunch of stalkers and decided to release them into the wild right outside my base. 6 of them. And that’s the story of how I lost 4 lockers full of titanium
I raised one in a tank and made the mistake of releasing it outside my base... It started going ham on my seamoth that I'd left outside my base. That's how I learned they were immune to damage from my thermoblade. I've yet to return to the area to learn if I can kill a "tamed" lava lizard with my new survival knife. I have no idea if raised creatures are immune to damage from the player, but I sure hope not.
Best base defence = go out in your PRAWN and whack the sh*t out of any bugger that gets too close lol But seriously... if you have a base defence problem, you built your base in the wrong place. Simple as that. Build a base in a quiet area and there will be zero issues. There are plenty of areas even in the middle of "aggressive" areas where a base can be built that is hassle free as creatures don't travel near some areas.
James Kaplonek i built my base at the grand reef. And there is a portal to the seaemperor nearby. The problem is... that between my base and the portal there are 2 ghost levaithans xd. So i got a tamed stalker army and they are currently fighting the ghost levaithans
Matei Duma thanks for the advice. But somehow the stalkers scared the ghost levaithans away lol. I used the same tactic in my 2nd world in my lost river base near the teleport to the seaempror.
You say that it's in the wrong place.... But my best and safest base extended into the Dead Zone. The ghost leviathans only try to knock you back into the play area, so you don't have to worry too much. It's a great last game location, as there are a few areas with a bunch of vents for thermal generators. All you really need is a stasis rifle to freeze them leviathans as you build
I've watched many different playthroughs of Subnautica by many different people and I think the best thing you can do for 'base defense' is to just play smart. If you know where the hostile leviathans spawn, don't make a base anywhere near their patrol areas. Idk why you'd even want to do such a thing as they all spawn in deeper areas that are majorly out of the way of the Shallows, southern Blood Kelp, and Jellyshroom Caves which have always been sort of the main hubs of my playthroughs until I could get down to the Cove tree to make my main base. The only leviathan that you're kind of forced to interact with is the Sea Dragon and even then, idk why you'd be making a base in either the active or inactive lava zones due to all of the thermal vents that are around the Cove tree which provide more than enough power to sustain a base with an active scanner room and an active water filtration system.
Well... For fun! To prove you can, as an achivement. IGP in one of his videos, built out in the Dead zone, even going as far as to build down to the bottom. Why? He just wanted to. Why do people like horror games? Well it's the adrenaline! The fear that you could die any moment it's... Well... Exiting. Watch IGPs video where he builds down, he's in total fear, it's dark and Ghost Levithans screech at him all the time, but he doesn't give up, because he wanted a challenge.
But bases are more useful in dangerous areas though, as they can serve as a protection if you suddenly encounter a reaper. Sometimes you have reason to go into reaper territory such as fixing the aurora, plus there are a lot of blueprints there. Also gathering resources in general
Jar of Pickles i know I’m late but I’ve found that for a dedicated player, the best way to keep safe is complete and total annihilation, I got tired of being afraid of the Aurora so I made it my mission to eradicate the reapers. Now I have a safe path to access it
Hey! I've been doing some testing of my own recently and it seems as though the tiger plant projectiles have a fall-off range, at which the projectiles disappear and do no damage. This means that you can place tiger plants some distance away from your base and the projectiles will not have the range to reach your base and damage it - quite easy to do via a process of trial & error testing range in each location :)
4:57 Once I was trying to find the Quarantine Enforcement Platform with my Seamoth. And I ran into a Reaper while I was outside my Seamoth. Then the Reaper grabbed onto my Seamoth and started destroying it, all I could do is watch as it destroyed my Seamoth. R.I.P Seamoth......
Ok I’m a year late but this has happened to me when I was at the back of the ship we was in(I can’t spell it) collecting cyclops fragments when not 1 BUT 2 reapers came to collect my seamoth because I hadn’t paid my daily feeding to them(keep in mind I’m just watching this because I was scanning at the time) and just seaglided my way back to my habitat and ya bet I cheated myself a new seamoth because those 2 reapers were playing ping pong with it.
First time I saw a Reaper I was returning to my Seamoth after grabbing ore. Suudently this great beast came out of nowhere, smashed the Seamoth and left. Being at 350 meter with 23 seconds of oxygen left is a very lonely feeling.
Don't build a scanner by the stalkers. If you go just outside of their biome (such as the NE mushroom forest/ kelp forest edge) and do the range upgrades there is no need to build a scanner room where stalkers mess with your cameras and annoy you.
I made my base in the grassy plateaus, near the entrance to the jellyshroom caves(the one directly above the 250m Degasi base). Today I realized about 200+ meters away there are not one but TWO reaper leviathans patrolling off the stern of the Aurora, thankfully there is a kelp forest buffer between them and me that they don't seem to venture through.
I've tried a number of different things and ultimately found the mechanics for the base are just too underdeveloped to do anything other than goof around. A couple beds of tiger plants will also kill a warper stone dead if it appears right over them.
I build there for high efficiency solar and the fact that it's at the center of everything. Why build bases further away from resources than you have to?
I built my main base in the shallows too. Not only for safety, but also enjoy the views of the coral reef. Use a hub/spoke model, with remote outposts all-over. Never too far from a base.
@@comicsans4522 another bonus is that you will get tons of silver, lead, and titanium since i have noticed there are a lot of wreckages in grassy plateaus along with sandstone outcrops
I'm placing some Tiger Plants just to stop those damn Stalkers from stealing my damn Camera Drones all the damn time. XD I'm damn tired of damn chasing them to get the drones damn back. Damn.
I know this is old, but it's incredibly easy to kill reapers with gasopod gas, it takes about 20 full gas explosions to KO them for good. And I could've sworn they dont attack gasopods.
Even killing a Sea Dragon Leviathan doesn't take more than a few minutes with the PRAWN suit. All these creatures are only scary as long as you try to hide from them. And none of the Leviathans inside the crater will respawn, contrary to the Leviathans in the void. So if you kill them once, they're gone.
Biggest threats to my bases in my experience: gasopods getting stuck under foundations. I’ve had to chase off more than a few who were confused by my bases presence and just started wigging out
This alleviates so much worry that I have about base placement. It's good to know that I don't have to worry about my base or cyclops being attacked while leaving them all by their lonesome. Thank you much.
Yeah, leviathans will not attack your base at all, and they will not attack your cyclops if you're not in it. They will attack the PRAWN and seamoth regardless of whether or not you're inside tho.
Dude so interesting I made the mistake of planting tiger plants a long time ago died when I went out to my garden lol. I usually like to build under the degassi island! Around 70meters down. Great natural lighting with the ancient floaters and easy solar plus the grand reef is right below me. Hardly any fish and no predators up there either. I catch some Reginald and other safe shallows fish and breed them and release them around my base too for that nice safe shallows feel! Thanks for the video man love the channel
Yeah uhhh... you know ampeels ? They zap everything that comes close so I thought I would tame a few and have them protect my base. It works buuuut...it seems ampeels like hugs. I got zapped a lot.
There is one point in the game where basedef can be a good thing, when I am in the inactive lava zone i like to build a base at the outer rim where i park my cyclops while walking around in my suit. When you breed as many lava lizard eggs as you can, they will stay at the base and they hunt lava larvae and this will keep your cyclops powered and free of that pests (thermo generator will find enough heat to keep the rest up). Shure, you can remove the cells but thats a hassle and when you want to move the ship you have to set everything up again while removing the larvae. having a save bubble is just comfort.
So helpful man. I just started about a week ago and barely have the Sea moth. Took me days to figure out you need the habitat builder to start a base. Now it's time to make a nice ass base. Only problem is I can't find the main MP room blueprint.
I had an Ampeel get stuck under my Moonpool, which ended up dealing some pretty massive damage to said Moonpool. Really would like to avoid that in the future, though it sounds like its fairly uncommon
I once built a base in what was formerly the patrol path of the Sea Dragon Leviathan in the Inactive Lava Zone. My base was on one side of the Lava Castle and I placed a Creature Decoy on the other side. After that, the Sea Dragon Leviathan left my base alone and I was free to build it up as much as I wanted in peace.
I don't know why they don't just add bio-armor! Boneshark armor for the seamoth, & Leviathan armor for the sub(forgot the name), even give it the appearance of a Leviathan! A bumper that looks like it's mandibles, & maneuvering fins that look like a Leviathan's fins! The boneshark armor would give much greater durability & damage resistance, & an intimidating appearance much like the boneshark! Possibly even better energy efficiency while driving around! The Leviathan armor, would give increased 'life' for the sub, along with damage resistance! Plus, bonuses with energy efficiency modules, & a definite increase maneuvering of the sub!
Good video! What i usually do to defend my base is to raise gasopods, take their gaspods, stasis any attacker, then then in a metaphorical gas chamber by using the gaspods. Always works!
I like to build my bases near leviathan patrols mainly for the interesting view. My latest base is built next to the teleporter near the Cove Tree and I can watch the Ghost Leviathan charge the River Prowlers from the safety of my greenhouse chair, while I sip coffee. It also makes building the base a bit more... interesting.
Uniquekind I have big tanks built from compartments and foundations that hold many leviathans inside so if something attacks me I go “ release the hounds” (jk)
OH cool, they patched that, last time I used tiger plants for base defense they would only shoot at me. (mainly to defend camera drones from stalkers.) Also, you didn't try out crabsquid.
Not attacking per se, but I did have a stalker that had a bad habit of stealing the camera drones from my scanner room, taking them back to its nest, and using them as chew toys. A domesticated gasopod quickly put a stop to that.
I have reefbacks close to my base and sometimes bash and get stuck around thew base, I was thinking something similar but building free standing pillars ( not connected to any other part of the base ) of multipurpose rooms around the base or even just a free standing corridor or t-piece , with connecting tubes reaching upwards as a physical barrier
I use my Cyclops as a base mainly park it at lifepod 17 and I have max depth decoys Shield defense fire suppression and I'm a decent driver and if I turn off the engine no creatures come at you so I'm saying I don't know why I'm so scared
I've actually found a situation where I need base defense, which I'm going to try setting up tomorrow. Wild ampeels glitch into my alien containments and moonpools, killing animals inside and damaging my Seamoth and/or Prawnsuit. They aren't actively attacking, rather they're getting stuck inside and their perimeter electricity is doing the damage, I'm hoping I can use tiger plants around my base to drive them off and just keep them out of range.
If you build were Reefbacks swim and build a base where the directly pass they WILL damage your base, Happen to me, I don't think its the Reefback itself but all the stuff on its back.
I believe you are right about that because I remember at one point the Reefbacks were implemented in a way that made them not count as a "contact" object but the plants and such on their backs would of course still function normally.
Thank you I had a upper part of my base in a swim path of a reefback and I just got the prwan and drilll arm and went for mag ore, after farming in the mountains for what seemed about an hour, went back to base with my 3 sets of power cells (last set nearly dead 12%) and see my base and I cant docked in my 1st moonpool, then I get out and see everything flooded, I check the entire base which has a few useless rooms so its sizable, then I hear the leaks around the alien containment tanks stacked 3 high, right were a reefback would pass slightly over and sometimes right over on point center of the multipurpose room. I could only conclude that it had to be him, I never run into my base with anything you drive (cept the Seaglide) I had to go to the upper and mid highest rooms and repair the leaks and all was done took about a minute to drain the water. but yea I agree with you, and we see even with 1.0 Reefbacks do flips and swim under land till they disappear. But not sure if they can since I mean we know Reapers, and Ghost Levs can pass right threw it and nothing. but all that contact stuff on the back of Reefbacks? I think thats it. I never rebuilt the base to have to deal with the flooding issue, was refitted and moved to another part of the base which nothing swam there not even fish.
What about using inedible, non-aggressive ray creatures? For example, what if I tame a bunch of ghostrays or rabbitrays or such and I put them outside of my base. They wouldn't be edible, so they're not getting attacked, yet they crowd the place, so maybe this causes predators to stay further away to prevent crowding?
jelly rays are decent sized. much bigger than rabbit rays. plus, they are attracted to lights, so likely will stick very close to your base. I have yet to see a predator eat one, so they might just ignore them.
I've found that the best base defense is to build in one of the safe biomes, although I can understand wanting to build in the lost river and one of it's entrances, but as was said in this video, thats completely inneffective against leviathans. If you're building in the creepvine forest, I would reccomend the tiger plant defense for your scanner room.
Hey the Tiger Plants sound like a great idea for Base Defense! But whet if we were to put the Growbed on top of a Multi Purpose room so they can hit the base? Or maybe set up platforms that rise a bit higher than your base so the Tiger Plants can't hurt your base? Thanks for this Video! I liked and Subbed! :)
Based on my tests so far, if you are not in line of sight on the Tiger Plants then they do not fire at you. So placing a growbed on top of a Multipurpose Room should work but I expect there would be a risk of the Tiger Plants firing downward at you as you approach the base if you are not at the right angle. Then they would potentially hit the Multipurpose Room and deal damage.
MrSpicyGaming what if we were to slap some of the Multi Purpose rooms with Fortifying Walls rather than windows? That would increase Hull Integrity and thus be much more resistant to leaking into the base but however will still leave Tears in the Hull that will also need to be repaired sometime, otherwise... Flooding! Another Suggestion, if we were able to set up a Moonpool for our little Tiger plants to watch for us on top of it so we can get in our Seamoth/Prawn suit safely (Or safer) without any Hostile Creatures wanting to attack us so much? But hey, your the TH-camr here and you can test these out and post em whenever you want, ill be here to watch them ;)
@@enigmabound2843 make a dummy structure that is sealed off with bulk doors and put the plant there, no need to worry about leakings or fixing this way since the bulk doors wont let the water invade the real rooms
In Below Zero those bloody eye-jellies wrecked my base as they swim towards the player constantly, even when she’s inside a vehicle or base. They do contact damage so soon cause your base to spring leaks.
*me, not really experienced in the game*: wow, this biome looks so cool and peaceful, the color grading is awesome and seabed looks so close to reality, I wonder what biome this is cause I've never been there yet, I need to build a base there asap😌.......wait a minute
Holy shit, i didnt realise they could grab the seamoth like @ 5:00. I feel lucky now that i managed to escape from the 3 i found earlier by the aurora, was the first time ive seen a biiiig creature that tried to attack me, was actually pretty scary.
This game must be sooooo awesome. I just bought it this week and already see a lot of my time consumed. Already have to discipline myself so that I can actually focus on my important projects. This is an informative video since I am about to construct my first habitat today or tomorrow. Is it necessary to have base defence in or near the shallows?
On my first game i have a base on mushroom forest i heard strange roar i go out and i saw reaper he saw me in dunes alien base and he Came to my base it was scary he stalked me
I have a base in the safe shallows, but stalkers keep coming over and just were around it, which I found annoying. Now I'm gonna fight stalkers with stalkers.
I keep forgetting to bring creepvine to my lava biome (I keep forgetting the name of it) base but how do I keep the sea dragon from basically camping my base
Pro tip don’t raise a squidcrab and release it outside your base...things release are NOT tamed. I had to slay the crab squid because it’s emp attack would shut down my entire base
While I was watching and going back to my main base it somehow got flooded😂 idk how but the holes where I have the alien containment unit that were with the big fish
this to me is the biggest flaw of subnautica, the forced pacifism. i'm a player who enjoys taking the no kill route if there is a choice, but having it forced on me is annoying. you have no way of defending against those things despite being able to pull a submarine out of your ass and that, to me, is shoddy design. Also, what about making a layer of foundation ABOVE your base and putting the tiger plants on those?
As long as the tiger plants do not have line of sight on you (surprising since they don't seem to have eyes), they shouldn't be trying to attack you. Since the foundation doesn't leak, it should work but I think you may find it a bit troublesome to get it to actually place above your existing base since it will render the legs downward and into your base if it will place at all.
@@MrSpicyGaming yeah, i don't think that would work...i'll try to mess with it a bit and i hope below zero will not force you to just take punches from everything. i mean, they could have made the cyclops' horn scare away leviathans (maybe by modding it and making it sound like what the gargantuan fossil would have sounded like)
I just realized what if you like literally just to protect your base basically outline your base like far from the middle where you wanna protect with platforms and just put nothing but tiger plants and have a massive amount i wonder if that would kill big creatures
i use Mesmer that i raised because it gives me time to see the aggressive creature and attack them or ill put gasopods near my base but Mesmer a little far away
Me: sets up a dunes base in one of the holes" hey can you post a how to defend yourself from a reaper video? Because uhh Fantasy is getting more aggressive-
I haven't tried it and it seems expensive but could you make a shield around your base(a second base) out of tubes, possibly with windows, and let that absorb the damage of attacks and flood assuming your base even needs a defence at all
Best base defence: build the base outside the dangerous creatures patrolling range.
Build a base above the water.
Live in a submarine
Peeper leviathan
Ingenious
Don't crash the Aurora
My only complaint is that you didn’t test wearing a sombrero in a funny fashion or standing in an oval. Get in a circle and you will be safe from the sea bear
Yeah, but the really important question is whether he has anti-sea rhinoceros underwear.
@@GaaraSama1983 what about my snufulufagus repelent tee shirt
Just remember to wear your sweater made of tears and you should be fine.
@@macsenstavrakis205 Oh please, everyone knows that's a myth! Only a sweater woven from the tears of a sea-unicorn is proven to be effective.
I've found tiger plants most useful positioned near a sensor room to prevent stalkers from running off with you camera drones. Captively raised stalkers are a great way to gather scrap metal (just don't release them right next to your base, and mark the spot with a beacon). and for personal defense, raise a few crashfish in captivity, grab a few out of the tank when you're going on a run, and use a propulsion cannon to launch the little shits like 40mm grenades, guaranteed to send reaper, and ghost leviathans packing (yet to test it on a sea dragon, I kinda feel like it's too big to care).
good idea 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This actually happened in my base I commented about in your other video. While I was installing solar panels, the Reaper came in and tried to attack me outside his patrol area. He never bothers me in the base and he only comes by if a sand shark was swimming by my base, or I was outside it doing construction. *In an Italian Mafia tone* But don't worry......I took care of him. >:-)
sempermilites87 lolol
By took care of you most likely mean fled from in utter terror.
@@Superchicken_36 Nope.....I grabbed my Prawn Suit and did a little Reaper rodeo riding until my drill ended him. Am going to miss him though. Liked seeing a huge dangerous creature just swimming outside the window.
@@sempermilites87 they dont respawn???
@@sempermilites87 I've done this with my prawn suit by accident to see other creature attacking me
I grew a bunch of stalkers and decided to release them into the wild right outside my base.
6 of them.
And that’s the story of how I lost 4 lockers full of titanium
sounds like something I would do
My short-lived pet stalker decided to try and eat my camera drones
Spawned reapers using the dev console on xbox, the regular xbox 1 cant handle more than 200 entity's of that size
Totally Not Jar Jar Binks I will admit, I was over-exaggerating the amount of titanium, but I still lost a fair amount of it.
Just use crabsnakes
I can confirm that Lava Lizards will attack an empty PRAWN suit you leave near your base.
I raised one in a tank and made the mistake of releasing it outside my base... It started going ham on my seamoth that I'd left outside my base. That's how I learned they were immune to damage from my thermoblade. I've yet to return to the area to learn if I can kill a "tamed" lava lizard with my new survival knife. I have no idea if raised creatures are immune to damage from the player, but I sure hope not.
@@nhatvu8800 Good to know! Thanks!
WHAT DID THEY SAY????
@@autumnleaf2513 He said you can kill home grown critters of all types. The survival knife is required to kill Lava Lizards.
Tamed bone sharks will do that too
I didn’t wear the reinforced dive suit. I died in 3 seconds
Before this video I did not even know that your base can take damage from creatures
Best base defence = go out in your PRAWN and whack the sh*t out of any bugger that gets too close lol
But seriously... if you have a base defence problem, you built your base in the wrong place. Simple as that. Build a base in a quiet area and there will be zero issues. There are plenty of areas even in the middle of "aggressive" areas where a base can be built that is hassle free as creatures don't travel near some areas.
James Kaplonek i built my base at the grand reef. And there is a portal to the seaemperor nearby. The problem is... that between my base and the portal there are 2 ghost levaithans xd.
So i got a tamed stalker army and they are currently fighting the ghost levaithans
+FantasticKru just use the portal in the mushroom forest, the safest one, but not always close to your base tho.
Matei Duma thanks for the advice. But somehow the stalkers scared the ghost levaithans away lol. I used the same tactic in my 2nd world in my lost river base near the teleport to the seaempror.
You say that it's in the wrong place.... But my best and safest base extended into the Dead Zone. The ghost leviathans only try to knock you back into the play area, so you don't have to worry too much. It's a great last game location, as there are a few areas with a bunch of vents for thermal generators. All you really need is a stasis rifle to freeze them leviathans as you build
I've watched many different playthroughs of Subnautica by many different people and I think the best thing you can do for 'base defense' is to just play smart. If you know where the hostile leviathans spawn, don't make a base anywhere near their patrol areas. Idk why you'd even want to do such a thing as they all spawn in deeper areas that are majorly out of the way of the Shallows, southern Blood Kelp, and Jellyshroom Caves which have always been sort of the main hubs of my playthroughs until I could get down to the Cove tree to make my main base. The only leviathan that you're kind of forced to interact with is the Sea Dragon and even then, idk why you'd be making a base in either the active or inactive lava zones due to all of the thermal vents that are around the Cove tree which provide more than enough power to sustain a base with an active scanner room and an active water filtration system.
Well... For fun! To prove you can, as an achivement. IGP in one of his videos, built out in the Dead zone, even going as far as to build down to the bottom. Why? He just wanted to. Why do people like horror games? Well it's the adrenaline! The fear that you could die any moment it's... Well... Exiting. Watch IGPs video where he builds down, he's in total fear, it's dark and Ghost Levithans screech at him all the time, but he doesn't give up, because he wanted a challenge.
But bases are more useful in dangerous areas though, as they can serve as a protection if you suddenly encounter a reaper. Sometimes you have reason to go into reaper territory such as fixing the aurora, plus there are a lot of blueprints there. Also gathering resources in general
Jar of Pickles i know I’m late but I’ve found that for a dedicated player, the best way to keep safe is complete and total annihilation, I got tired of being afraid of the Aurora so I made it my mission to eradicate the reapers. Now I have a safe path to access it
@@jadyazbeck6089 wow you just genocide all reaper in that area but how?😆
Hey! I've been doing some testing of my own recently and it seems as though the tiger plant projectiles have a fall-off range, at which the projectiles disappear and do no damage. This means that you can place tiger plants some distance away from your base and the projectiles will not have the range to reach your base and damage it - quite easy to do via a process of trial & error testing range in each location :)
4:57 Once I was trying to find the Quarantine Enforcement Platform with my Seamoth. And I ran into a Reaper while I was outside my Seamoth. Then the Reaper grabbed onto my Seamoth and started destroying it, all I could do is watch as it destroyed my Seamoth. R.I.P Seamoth......
Ok I’m a year late but this has happened to me when I was at the back of the ship we was in(I can’t spell it) collecting cyclops fragments when not 1 BUT 2 reapers came to collect my seamoth because I hadn’t paid my daily feeding to them(keep in mind I’m just watching this because I was scanning at the time) and just seaglided my way back to my habitat and ya bet I cheated myself a new seamoth because those 2 reapers were playing ping pong with it.
@Get skrrted nerd I just save before I go into a hostile zone or when im done doing alot of gathering and reload if the shit hits the fan lol
@Ben Fletcher I use to kill Crabsquids only with my knife.....:)
First time I saw a Reaper I was returning to my Seamoth after grabbing ore. Suudently this great beast came out of nowhere, smashed the Seamoth and left. Being at 350 meter with 23 seconds of oxygen left is a very lonely feeling.
i know a good reson to have base defence, you know how stalkers can take cams out of your scanner room right, yea that happens to me alot
Kaiser2005 Cameras are a great way to farm stalker teeth.
I find that annoying every time I put the cams back there on the floor again and am a perfectionist
Don't build a scanner by the stalkers. If you go just outside of their biome (such as the NE mushroom forest/ kelp forest edge) and do the range upgrades there is no need to build a scanner room where stalkers mess with your cameras and annoy you.
@@Darion350 i just leave salvage around my base for teeth.
you can also remove them and store them inside until you need to use them
My tame Mesmer wiped out the Biters outside my base.
Now I can come and go safely.
Mesmers are my favorite 💜
I've never had problems with this as i only build bases in safer locations but will have to keep a eye out if i want to try somthing new.
I made my base in the grassy plateaus, near the entrance to the jellyshroom caves(the one directly above the 250m Degasi base). Today I realized about 200+ meters away there are not one but TWO reaper leviathans patrolling off the stern of the Aurora, thankfully there is a kelp forest buffer between them and me that they don't seem to venture through.
you lucky bastard
I've tried a number of different things and ultimately found the mechanics for the base are just too underdeveloped to do anything other than goof around. A couple beds of tiger plants will also kill a warper stone dead if it appears right over them.
And that’s why I build my main base in the safe shallows
I build there for high efficiency solar and the fact that it's at the center of everything. Why build bases further away from resources than you have to?
I built my main base in the shallows too. Not only for safety, but also enjoy the views of the coral reef. Use a hub/spoke model, with remote outposts all-over. Never too far from a base.
I build mine in the grassy plateaus. lots of salt and quarts, also reefbacks coming near my base
@@comicsans4522 another bonus is that you will get tons of silver, lead, and titanium since i have noticed there are a lot of wreckages in grassy plateaus along with sandstone outcrops
I have many bases but my main one in in save shallow
I'm placing some Tiger Plants just to stop those damn Stalkers from stealing my damn Camera Drones all the damn time. XD I'm damn tired of damn chasing them to get the drones damn back. Damn.
Damn you Damn typed Damn all Damn this damn
when you realised you started using a word too much halfway through your comment. damn.
Damm
Damn, this damn comment has way too damn many damns.
really? i just play tag with them as a mini game by setting up tiger plants as base and seeing how far i can get before they grab my camra :3
Best base defense: Build in the shallows.
put "turrets" on roof in order to limit chance of hitting base
I know this is old, but it's incredibly easy to kill reapers with gasopod gas, it takes about 20 full gas explosions to KO them for good. And I could've sworn they dont attack gasopods.
Even killing a Sea Dragon Leviathan doesn't take more than a few minutes with the PRAWN suit. All these creatures are only scary as long as you try to hide from them. And none of the Leviathans inside the crater will respawn, contrary to the Leviathans in the void. So if you kill them once, they're gone.
Those tamed creature mechanics gave me some ideas for themed bases...
Biggest threats to my bases in my experience: gasopods getting stuck under foundations. I’ve had to chase off more than a few who were confused by my bases presence and just started wigging out
This alleviates so much worry that I have about base placement. It's good to know that I don't have to worry about my base or cyclops being attacked while leaving them all by their lonesome. Thank you much.
Yeah, leviathans will not attack your base at all, and they will not attack your cyclops if you're not in it. They will attack the PRAWN and seamoth regardless of whether or not you're inside tho.
How about making a Prawn defence suit? Perhaps with a grappling hook and torpedo arm...
Dude so interesting I made the mistake of planting tiger plants a long time ago died when I went out to my garden lol. I usually like to build under the degassi island! Around 70meters down. Great natural lighting with the ancient floaters and easy solar plus the grand reef is right below me. Hardly any fish and no predators up there either. I catch some Reginald and other safe shallows fish and breed them and release them around my base too for that nice safe shallows feel! Thanks for the video man love the channel
Yeah uhhh... you know ampeels ? They zap everything that comes close so I thought I would tame a few and have them protect my base. It works buuuut...it seems ampeels like hugs.
I got zapped a lot.
Yeah, top tips, don't bring large, dangerous, electric animals that like hugs, near your base
There is one point in the game where basedef can be a good thing, when I am in the inactive lava zone i like to build a base at the outer rim where i park my cyclops while walking around in my suit. When you breed as many lava lizard eggs as you can, they will stay at the base and they hunt lava larvae and this will keep your cyclops powered and free of that pests (thermo generator will find enough heat to keep the rest up). Shure, you can remove the cells but thats a hassle and when you want to move the ship you have to set everything up again while removing the larvae. having a save bubble is just comfort.
So helpful man. I just started about a week ago and barely have the Sea moth. Took me days to figure out you need the habitat builder to start a base. Now it's time to make a nice ass base. Only problem is I can't find the main MP room blueprint.
Try the island 🌴 yr late hope u got it
I had an Ampeel get stuck under my Moonpool, which ended up dealing some pretty massive damage to said Moonpool. Really would like to avoid that in the future, though it sounds like its fairly uncommon
tiger plants on cyclops for those pesky lava parasites
I once built a base in what was formerly the patrol path of the Sea Dragon Leviathan in the Inactive Lava Zone. My base was on one side of the Lava Castle and I placed a Creature Decoy on the other side. After that, the Sea Dragon Leviathan left my base alone and I was free to build it up as much as I wanted in peace.
I don't know why they don't just add bio-armor! Boneshark armor for the seamoth, & Leviathan armor for the sub(forgot the name), even give it the appearance of a Leviathan! A bumper that looks like it's mandibles, & maneuvering fins that look like a Leviathan's fins! The boneshark armor would give much greater durability & damage resistance, & an intimidating appearance much like the boneshark! Possibly even better energy efficiency while driving around! The Leviathan armor, would give increased 'life' for the sub, along with damage resistance! Plus, bonuses with energy efficiency modules, & a definite increase maneuvering of the sub!
Good video! What i usually do to defend my base is to raise gasopods, take their gaspods, stasis any attacker, then then in a metaphorical gas chamber by using the gaspods. Always works!
Damn this game just keeps going. And to think that i had it for at least a year before i even played it.
I like to build my bases near leviathan patrols mainly for the interesting view. My latest base is built next to the teleporter near the Cove Tree and I can watch the Ghost Leviathan charge the River Prowlers from the safety of my greenhouse chair, while I sip coffee. It also makes building the base a bit more... interesting.
Uniquekind I have big tanks built from compartments and foundations that hold many leviathans inside so if something attacks me I go “ release the hounds” (jk)
A ton of stalkers play outside my base in the shallows. They keep damaging it and almost destroyed it once.
Were they yeeting scrap it it?
You should have killed them with your knife.
OH cool, they patched that, last time I used tiger plants for base defense they would only shoot at me. (mainly to defend camera drones from stalkers.)
Also, you didn't try out crabsquid.
So basically I can have turrets to defend my area..? BOI THIS IS AMAZING!!
I don't know if this counts but there was a stalker that keep on taking my cameras. I found it taking my second camera and killed it.
No defense needed grab a stasis rifle, a thermoblade and about 5-10 medkits after this you can serve some delicious reaper leviathan
The dude without the head at 5:51 its the most scary moment in the entire game
You could just put a ton of tiger plants on the roof and then they can’t hit your base because they’ll have to aim strait down
Not attacking per se, but I did have a stalker that had a bad habit of stealing the camera drones from my scanner room, taking them back to its nest, and using them as chew toys. A domesticated gasopod quickly put a stop to that.
Why would there be a sea dragon in Safe-Shallows?!??!
Me: builds my base overlooking the dunes and the reaper that roams there cuz i like the challenge and view
Yeah bases don't get attacked they just get damaged. How about a wall of cyclops subs with engines off?
That would be an interesting, but expensive, defense wall to build. May have to try it sometime.
Pizza Walrus Bases where suposed to be able to take damage from creatures in the "dangerous creatures" update,but they never added it :-P
I have reefbacks close to my base and sometimes bash and get stuck around thew base, I was thinking something similar but building free standing pillars ( not connected to any other part of the base ) of multipurpose rooms around the base or even just a free standing corridor or t-piece , with connecting tubes reaching upwards as a physical barrier
I use my Cyclops as a base mainly park it at lifepod 17 and I have max depth decoys Shield defense fire suppression and I'm a decent driver and if I turn off the engine no creatures come at you so I'm saying I don't know why I'm so scared
Btw pick up the gas pods and drop it if u wanna do the same anti pest defence
I built my base in the surface to not worry about water or attacks. Then made my cyclops my mobile base.
I thought we where going to talk about a spicy topic:)
What if I just want the wild stalkers to stop stealing my _goddamn cameras_
I've actually found a situation where I need base defense, which I'm going to try setting up tomorrow. Wild ampeels glitch into my alien containments and moonpools, killing animals inside and damaging my Seamoth and/or Prawnsuit. They aren't actively attacking, rather they're getting stuck inside and their perimeter electricity is doing the damage, I'm hoping I can use tiger plants around my base to drive them off and just keep them out of range.
If you build were Reefbacks swim and build a base where the directly pass they WILL damage your base, Happen to me, I don't think its the Reefback itself but all the stuff on its back.
I believe you are right about that because I remember at one point the Reefbacks were implemented in a way that made them not count as a "contact" object but the plants and such on their backs would of course still function normally.
Thank you I had a upper part of my base in a swim path of a reefback and I just got the prwan and drilll arm and went for mag ore, after farming in the mountains for what seemed about an hour, went back to base with my 3 sets of power cells (last set nearly dead 12%) and see my base and I cant docked in my 1st moonpool, then I get out and see everything flooded, I check the entire base which has a few useless rooms so its sizable, then I hear the leaks around the alien containment tanks stacked 3 high, right were a reefback would pass slightly over and sometimes right over on point center of the multipurpose room. I could only conclude that it had to be him, I never run into my base with anything you drive (cept the Seaglide) I had to go to the upper and mid highest rooms and repair the leaks and all was done took about a minute to drain the water.
but yea I agree with you, and we see even with 1.0 Reefbacks do flips and swim under land till they disappear. But not sure if they can since I mean we know Reapers, and Ghost Levs can pass right threw it and nothing. but all that contact stuff on the back of Reefbacks? I think thats it. I never rebuilt the base to have to deal with the flooding issue, was refitted and moved to another part of the base which nothing swam there not even fish.
That may not be true anymore. A Reefback booped my base's moon pool and changed direction without causing any damage.
The first one is ingenius tho
Its like using fireflies in a glass as a light
OMG! Headless man is freaky!
Yea I saw that too.. Very strange
Nice vid, ill make a base in the lost river and in inactive lava zone and other places
What about using inedible, non-aggressive ray creatures? For example, what if I tame a bunch of ghostrays or rabbitrays or such and I put them outside of my base. They wouldn't be edible, so they're not getting attacked, yet they crowd the place, so maybe this causes predators to stay further away to prevent crowding?
I do not know if the "crowding" aspect would work but this would be interesting to try.
The Pretender The only rays you can hatch in an aquarium is the rabbit ray and the jellyray(both small creatures)
jelly rays are decent sized. much bigger than rabbit rays.
plus, they are attracted to lights, so likely will stick very close to your base.
I have yet to see a predator eat one, so they might just ignore them.
Thomas Neal Predators will not eat those, as according to the PDA, they are poisonous.
@@thomasneal9291 i absolutely love jelly rays. So i'll try that.
I've found that the best base defense is to build in one of the safe biomes, although I can understand wanting to build in the lost river and one of it's entrances, but as was said in this video, thats completely inneffective against leviathans. If you're building in the creepvine forest, I would reccomend the tiger plant defense for your scanner room.
1 option for fearless chads: Kill the leviathan or the aggressive creatures
Good vid, thank you.. very new to subnautica and loving it
Hey the Tiger Plants sound like a great idea for Base Defense! But whet if we were to put the Growbed on top of a Multi Purpose room so they can hit the base? Or maybe set up platforms that rise a bit higher than your base so the Tiger Plants can't hurt your base? Thanks for this Video! I liked and Subbed! :)
Based on my tests so far, if you are not in line of sight on the Tiger Plants then they do not fire at you. So placing a growbed on top of a Multipurpose Room should work but I expect there would be a risk of the Tiger Plants firing downward at you as you approach the base if you are not at the right angle. Then they would potentially hit the Multipurpose Room and deal damage.
MrSpicyGaming what if we were to slap some of the Multi Purpose rooms with Fortifying Walls rather than windows? That would increase Hull Integrity and thus be much more resistant to leaking into the base but however will still leave Tears in the Hull that will also need to be repaired sometime, otherwise... Flooding! Another Suggestion, if we were able to set up a Moonpool for our little Tiger plants to watch for us on top of it so we can get in our Seamoth/Prawn suit safely (Or safer) without any Hostile Creatures wanting to attack us so much? But hey, your the TH-camr here and you can test these out and post em whenever you want, ill be here to watch them ;)
I placed some Tiger plants a distance away, so they're more of a perimeter defense than anything.
@@enigmabound2843 make a dummy structure that is sealed off with bulk doors and put the plant there, no need to worry about leakings or fixing this way since the bulk doors wont let the water invade the real rooms
In Below Zero those bloody eye-jellies wrecked my base as they swim towards the player constantly, even when she’s inside a vehicle or base. They do contact damage so soon cause your base to spring leaks.
One time I gassed out the creepvine forest bc the stalkers where taking my scanner room cameras
Thanks for making this video
I would think there would be some kind of like rod I something, that emitted a pulse or some sheez that made the baddies go away.
Good video. Thank you for the tips
What about crab squid and ghost leviathans? There are places this info would be needed, as crab squid are rather agressive to light and powered things
I'd suggest using flares for crabsquids, at least when it comes to getting your vehicles out of the moonpool/out from under the degasi base.
so basically advice about something u dont need at all...
Its necessarry for some hostile areas. You Safe Shallowers will never understand.
i don't uses base defence, even though a bunch of stalkers live in the shallows in my game
The Nerf Kid That is because they don’t even attack
@the gamer kid, they do, It’s a starter predator
@@sharissehyland8411 man a finished The game and i built just one big Base în Safe Shallows. I don't need something elsr
Not my base but they use to attack my prawn suit when It was in the moon pool. Bone sharks to be specific
*me, not really experienced in the game*: wow, this biome looks so cool and peaceful, the color grading is awesome and seabed looks so close to reality, I wonder what biome this is cause I've never been there yet, I need to build a base there asap😌.......wait a minute
Great video👍👍
Holy shit, i didnt realise they could grab the seamoth like @ 5:00. I feel lucky now that i managed to escape from the 3 i found earlier by the aurora, was the first time ive seen a biiiig creature that tried to attack me, was actually pretty scary.
Also setting a. Batch out in a area your working in to get attackers to back off
I have always put my base in dangerous
Areas and got a tiger plant farm to protect myself
Hey! Love your videos and accent, where’s it from? Do the tigers work on ampeels?
Pretty sure he's American
This game must be sooooo awesome. I just bought it this week and already see a lot of my time consumed. Already have to discipline myself so that I can actually focus on my important projects. This is an informative video since I am about to construct my first habitat today or tomorrow. Is it necessary to have base defence in or near the shallows?
Nope only worry there are gasopods and stalkers
Gee, I thought that MSG was not good for you? Hee Hee. Probably already said. Thanks for the tips, hints and advice. Very helpful.
Nice tips!! Thx!!
On my first game i have a base on mushroom forest i heard strange roar i go out and i saw reaper he saw me in dunes alien base and he
Came to my base it was scary he stalked me
I have a base in the safe shallows, but stalkers keep coming over and just were around it, which I found annoying. Now I'm gonna fight stalkers with stalkers.
If they don’t attack leviathans those plants are worthless to me
I keep forgetting to bring creepvine to my lava biome (I keep forgetting the name of it) base but how do I keep the sea dragon from basically camping my base
Thank you. Very interesting. Food for thought.
Its creepy to know that your avatar has no head. hopefully they design one with a mask on so its still anonymous
Iv never been able to kill anything but small fish i even trapped one of those sharks that take scrap metal and hit him 15 times with a thermal knife!
Pro tip don’t raise a squidcrab and release it outside your base...things release are NOT tamed. I had to slay the crab squid because it’s emp attack would shut down my entire base
If only you could just plant a bunch of Tiger plants in the lava zone and let them kill the sea dragon over time
supercomputer2004 they don’t target leviathans
@@Omen06 And that is why they said IF
While I was watching and going back to my main base it somehow got flooded😂 idk how but the holes where I have the alien containment unit that were with the big fish
they need to add sentry guns for the base and also allow the monsters to attack the base.
Imagine being at the bottom of the ocean and seeings a bunch of giant black eyes staring right at you
this to me is the biggest flaw of subnautica, the forced pacifism. i'm a player who enjoys taking the no kill route if there is a choice, but having it forced on me is annoying. you have no way of defending against those things despite being able to pull a submarine out of your ass and that, to me, is shoddy design.
Also, what about making a layer of foundation ABOVE your base and putting the tiger plants on those?
As long as the tiger plants do not have line of sight on you (surprising since they don't seem to have eyes), they shouldn't be trying to attack you. Since the foundation doesn't leak, it should work but I think you may find it a bit troublesome to get it to actually place above your existing base since it will render the legs downward and into your base if it will place at all.
@@MrSpicyGaming yeah, i don't think that would work...i'll try to mess with it a bit and i hope below zero will not force you to just take punches from everything. i mean, they could have made the cyclops' horn scare away leviathans (maybe by modding it and making it sound like what the gargantuan fossil would have sounded like)
I just realized what if you like literally just to protect your base basically outline your base like far from the middle where you wanna protect with platforms and just put nothing but tiger plants and have a massive amount i wonder if that would kill big creatures
Wrong with the bone sharks I released one and it ran away
"Base defence methods" dont build next to aggressive biomes
No
@@autumnleaf2513 ok
i use Mesmer that i raised because it gives me time to see the aggressive creature and attack them or ill put gasopods near my base but Mesmer a little far away
Please do a updated map guide.
Me: sets up a dunes base in one of the holes"
hey can you post a how to defend yourself from a reaper video?
Because uhh Fantasy is getting more aggressive-
I haven't tried it and it seems expensive but could you make a shield around your base(a second base) out of tubes, possibly with windows, and let that absorb the damage of attacks and flood assuming your base even needs a defence at all