What is the best place for base?

[Breymen]

I grew bored of building bases in grassy plateaus

[Breymen]

Originally posted by kazcav:

A nice, big, flat terrain in the north-west edge of the mushroom forest (furthest away from the Aurora), where there is a long mountain to the right of it and a trench in front of it going down to the Blood Kelp Zone. Absolutely beautiful spot for a base, it's where I built mine before I accidentally deleted my save. RIP

thanks for suggestion

[penner3]

Good spot, that is the most convenient entrance to the Lost River IMHO

[Avelarius]

Ok. For me the best place for a base is the cyclops.

The second best is near the big volcano in the shallows. There is even a depression where you will place the cyclops exit while it is parked on top of the volcano, recharging while you are busy elsewhere.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3268462175

[StyledNebula]

That’s actually genius

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by Avelarius:

There is even a depression where you will place the cyclops exit while it is parked on top of the volcano, recharging while you are busy elsewhere.

Thanks for that!

I am currently sitting on building my base in the Lost River, but forgot to bring salt deposits with my Hoarder (Clops) :(
And they are not present down there.

So I'll go back up to the Safe Shallows with the whole Clops, get salt deposits and build the Thermal Reactor for to recharge it right there. :D

In the meanwhile I'll follow my main task to gather salt and magnetite for the Hoarder (too many lockers are empty :() with the Prawn Stonks.
It has 3 storage upgrades and the depth module. ^^

Originally posted by StyledNebula:

I’m too much of a wimp to go anywhere near the mountains tho lol

I had to go to the mountains, as I failed to find a fragment for the grappling arm elsewhere.
I found one piece in a wreck in the blood kelp zone near the great reef.
ONE PIECE! Everything else was drill arms and torpedo arms.
Not sure what the RNG was thinking there.

There was a nice wreck with tons of grappling arms in the Mountains and the thermal reactor blueprint in a data box.


I did not meet any reapers on my way there.

[Chale]

My go to base location in most of my game runs is on the edge of the dunes. Big flat area with heat vents nearby for power only bad part is some runs a warper spawns right there and can be annoying until pacified. The trench to the left goes to the lost river and is probably the fastest and safest route to the cove tree (no ghost leviathan but some runs can have a crab squid along the way).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3269200503

[Silver Arrow]

cove tree

[StyledNebula]

Cove tree is super far away from many areas tho. Imo a underwater islands base could be really useful

[penner3]

Originally posted by Just Chill:

I am currently sitting on building my base in the Lost River, but forgot to bring salt deposits with my Hoarder (Clops) :(
And they are not present down there.

Can you make a water machine? That will generate salt for you.

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by penner3:

Can you make a water machine? That will generate salt for you.

Thanks, but I've moved on to the lava lakes already. Was a bit quicker getting the Clops back up to the Shallows and do a resource run with the Prawn for salt and especially for lithium and magnetite (Jellyshroom caves).

All I need now is more titanium, so I'll head back to the inactive lava zone for these resources.

[penner3]

There's more magnetite in the blue brine around the Cove Tree.

[Just Chill]

Originally posted by penner3:

There's more magnetite in the blue brine around the Cove Tree.

But no nodes to drill on, right?
I only found these in the Jellyshroom caves.

[penner3]

True, the only drillable magnetite is in the jellyshroom cave. But there's plenty to pick up around the Cove Tree. If you're coming up from the lava lakes that's a much shorter trip.

[Just Chill]

Well, I was in for salt, lithium and magnetite and to reload the clops on the volcano in the safe shallows (which didn't work that well as I had to go away quite far stopping to trigger the volcano).
Later I went for some extra titanium to the crash site. So it was overall worth it.
Even though I've too much magnetite now. ^^

I've already reached the lava lakes and I am nonly up for some more titanium, which is easy to get in the inactivate lava zone.

[Rick May Tribute]

well....i know 1 location is is a good spot for make a base...but also...peoples who fear the dead zone should not go do it......cause i made a big TALL CAGE 1 in the dead zone.........with almost 50 ghost leviathan wanting me to pet them.......and 1 FRIKING GARGANTUAN LEVIATHAN who is under my base....no mods..just normal subnautica