How deep can you build?

[mpz]

How deep can you build? Also what about the temperature of the envoirement?

[KippenKaasBaas]

As deep as you want. Even in the deepest biomes.

Temperature does not matter either, but if you want to keep your character and your vehicles save I would not recommend building right above lava or heat vents.

Other than that, knock yourself out!

[Jonno.exe]

Building off the previous comment, preferably build your bases that match the diving depths of your vehicles, this way they work with the Moonpool. And dont forget to use reinforcements when you expand your base.

If you want to build close to a lava / heat vent, use the themal generators and power transmitters.. Other than that, good luck out there

[admiral1018]

While there is no limit on how deep you can build, the game does have a hull pressure mechanic that forces you to build significantly more reinforced structures at the deepest biomes. It's much more resource intensive, so just keep that in mind.

Building above water, if you choose to do that, does not require any reinforecments (i.e. you can have nearly all glass bases there).

[vinyblaster]

Originally posted by admiral1018:

While there is no limit on how deep you can build, the game does have a hull pressure mechanic that forces you to build significantly more reinforced structures at the deepest biomes. It's much more resource intensive, so just keep that in mind.

Building above water, if you choose to do that, does not require any reinforecments (i.e. you can have nearly all glass bases there).

Is it true that the depth impacts the base integrity? I built a base in the safe shallow, and one in between the lost river and the lava zone and I found that I used roughly the same amount of foundations/reinforcements.

[Agarillobob]

how deep below the map can you build? You now when you go OOB can you go deeper and deeper and deeper or whill it stop you from building at some point, or when you go down the void how deep can you build there?

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by vinyblaster:

Originally posted by admiral1018:

While there is no limit on how deep you can build, the game does have a hull pressure mechanic that forces you to build significantly more reinforced structures at the deepest biomes. It's much more resource intensive, so just keep that in mind.

Building above water, if you choose to do that, does not require any reinforecments (i.e. you can have nearly all glass bases there).

Is it true that the depth impacts the base integrity? I built a base in the safe shallow, and one in between the lost river and the lava zone and I found that I used roughly the same amount of foundations/reinforcements.

Yes.

Each meter deeper increases the depth multiplier. It's like 10 - value for a given base element * depth.
The difference is very large, depending on the depth. The same base will be good on 840 but on 850 will already leak.

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

how deep below the map can you build? You now when you go OOB can you go deeper and deeper and deeper or whill it stop you from building at some point, or when you go down the void how deep can you build there?

I did not build a base, but just under 8000 meters I was teleported near the starting point of the game.
I don't think the game prohibits building, but the depth multiplier can discourage.

[dreamrider]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

... I would not recommend building right above lava or heat vents.

To be elaborately clear, Kippen meant literally close above the fire of a heat vent/volcano, or literally right on / close above a lake or river of red glowing lava.

I have seen the images of little way station one tube or one MPR "camps" on a dark island surrounded by a lava lake, in the lava zones (spoiler: deepest on-map areas), and I have read a number of times of folks making their end-game that way.

[Claybot]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1503704466

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

how deep below the map can you build? You now when you go OOB can you go deeper and deeper and deeper or whill it stop you from building at some point, or when you go down the void how deep can you build there?

I did not build a base, but just under 8000 meters I was teleported near the starting point of the game.
I don't think the game prohibits building, but the depth multiplier can discourage.

thats quite interestingso around 8K is the deepest, if we ignore OOB whats with the void? theres a cliff iirc at some point there was ground at 3K but I think it goes deeper now? How deep can you go there and build? I know the ghost leviathans don´t attack while you are inside your base

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

I did not build a base, but just under 8000 meters I was teleported near the starting point of the game.
I don't think the game prohibits building, but the depth multiplier can discourage.

thats quite interestingso around 8K is the deepest, if we ignore OOB whats with the void? theres a cliff iirc at some point there was ground at 3K but I think it goes deeper now? How deep can you go there and build? I know the ghost leviathans don´t attack while you are inside your base

I don't know the answers to your questions.

In addition, note that English is an accepted language of communication, but it is not native to most. It is popular because it has been introduced in many places by fire. In addition, it is simple in the popular simplified form.
But when you use a shortcut. It's unreadable, and the translator won't translate it.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by grzegorz77:

Originally posted by Agarillobob:

thats quite interestingso around 8K is the deepest, if we ignore OOB whats with the void? theres a cliff iirc at some point there was ground at 3K but I think it goes deeper now? How deep can you go there and build? I know the ghost leviathans don´t attack while you are inside your base

I don't know the answers to your questions.

In addition, note that English is an accepted language of communication, but it is not native to most. It is popular because it has been introduced in many places by fire. In addition, it is simple in the popular simplified form.
But when you use a shortcut. It's unreadable, and the translator won't translate it.

I´m not a native english speaker I don´t know what you are talking about in the second part of your comment

[dreamrider]

@grzegorz77:

OOB = "Out of bounds"; like the automatic bounce back to the middle of the map to prevent the game engine from get hung in unresolvable math.

iirc = "If I Recall Correctly"

Also:
- Two words were run together in the first sentence. "Interestingso" => "Interesting. So..."
- After "iirc", I think there was supposed to be a period, so it would read "There's a cliff. If I recall correctly, at some point there was ground at 3K, but I think it goes deeper now?"


@Agarillobob:

If you can find a ledge or outcrop to hang your construction on, you can build all the way down to the lowest point of the cliff, just before you get administratively teleported back to map center.

Building something that would keep out water might be a problem. But at a theoretical -8100m, a 1x tube habitat with a hatch, on a platform foundation, with 2x Reinforcements, should be exactly a Hull Integrity of 0.00, if my math is sound. So it should be just barely possible.
Go crazy; build an x-compartment...with a chair.
(Oops! That won't work. No spot for the 2x reinforcements.)

I have seen video of a structure that was built DOWN to about -3000m, with lots of vertical connectors. But you can use Reinforcements on higher levels to raise the resistance of something like that.

It is pointless, however. There is nothing different to see at 8000m than there was at 2000m.

The designers/developers have, in fact, done everything they could, short of putting up an immersion breaking "force wall" flashing strobe lights, to say, "This is the end of the playing area. There is nothing out here. Don't waste your time trying to go here. We didn't DO anything out here. Go back and play the game as designed."

[grzegorz77]

Originally posted by dreamrider:

@grzegorz77:

...

Thank you good man.
It was impossible to understand.

[Agarillobob]

@dreamrider thanks I try to see to that cliff and get a base started there for challenge reasons I guess

and I wasnt even aware OoB being a shortening or it being unokwn to anyone same with iirc and that error I made but whatever
I guess the other guy was using DeepL or something to translat everything not sure