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
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 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.
Tbh, I never really liked it until I started playing the game. Now I’m in love with it and I always go there in creative (bc I’m too lazy to go there in survival), and I’ve never thought of making a base. Thanks for the idea, lol
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
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
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.😆
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
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 :)
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.
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.
game had good lore but my i was scared the whole game until the lost river i killed the ghost and my strat was to hold W and hope for the best because at the start of the game my friend told me behind the auroa is easy seaglide fragments and i was trumatized until the lost river
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.
As someone who loves the bulb zone I can confirm I still call it the koosh zone, the ampeels shockers, the river prowlers spine eels, and the shuttlebugs jumpers.
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
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 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 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 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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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!!)
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 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 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 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 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.
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!!
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.
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
Played this game at least 5 times in the last year. Loved it. Notes. 1) there’s a cuddle fish egg in the Dunes? 2) Sea Trader’s - went there once by accident, never been to find it again. 3) Deep grand reef - used to be super scary; now it’s my designated main base area. 4) Void - never gone there. Keeping that way. 5)… you can built in the surface I… what?
There is what appears to be a massive crater in the Dunes. In the dead center of the crater, there is a Cuddlefish Egg sitting on top of a rock formation. But there also happens to be a Reaper that swims right next to said crater. Which is why I wont go for it unless I have my PRAWN Suit with the grapple arm and drill arm to drive it away if it notices me.
@@killwalkerTo find the sea treader’s path, travel to lifepod 19 first. There will be a wreck site just to the north of the lifepod. If you go west from this wreck, you will find another large wreck. If you keep going west, there will be a cliff that will drop your depth from 200 meters to 300 meters. The sea treader’s path is at the bottom of this drop.
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.
Sea traders give you infinite ressources like diamonds , gold or lithium. So I consider them as atms , build a base nearby , gather resources in lockers and then with cyclops just gather as much as you need for your main base. Rinse and repeat.
My favorite biome is the lost river but not necessarily because of the lore. But because of versatility. You have access to pretty much every resource in the game or can go get them within a moments notice. Plenty of thermal vents and uranite for thermal or nuclear power. And the thermal vents make excellent places to pit stop your cyclopse to charge. I almost always end up building my main base in this biome. Usually in the tree cove area since it has wide open space and a pretty view of the jelly rays and the tree. And the inactive lava zone is literally around the corner.
I've got a 13 year old PC and it does just fine with the mushroom forest. I've upgraded the graphics card and the RAM but the motherboard and processor are from 2010.
clicked on this video expecting to be called an edgelord or something similar for loving the blood kelp zone/trench so much. but the night owl thing is spot on lmao
What if i give absolutely zero fucks, attack anything hostile within range, and built my base at the cove tree to have easy access to the inactive lava zone?
i built my base in the dunes and i love it, sometimes i go with my prawn suit and hunt the reapers down, they aren’t a problem once you know how to handle them, it’s fun, also full of thermal power
Okay the mushroom forest sent me 😂 I play on console and I always think maybe I'll make a base there THIS time and then clip into a tree that wasn't there before and give up.
My first playthrough, I slept on the jellyshroom caves. Seriously one of the prettiest biomes in the game, yet I don't think I ever explored it past the Degasi base. Now, I'm planning to make my next base in 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.
I prefer Grassy plateaus but not because it's safe but because it's equally close to all other important biomes and there's a plenty of room to build...and because it's safe
i like the void, why? because watching the bright blue ghost leviathans flow through the dark, black water at night is really mesmerizing (not during the day though, the blue water reminds me that i'm in an ocean and theres no floor below me and activates my thalassophobia again)
I do like hot showers. But also, people don't forget about me two minutes after they meet me lol, I'm kind of memorable apparently, so maybe I need to build somewhere boring to make me less conspicuous? And I do prefer to stay out of trouble, but won't back down from a fight.
my favorite biome is tied between the blood kelp zone and the grand reef, but for whatever reason i pretty much exclusively build my base in the shallows. ive played the game so many times i cant count, but my base is always right below my lifepod. less than a handful of times i built a base in the sea treaders path, because theyre my favorite creatures in the game
Lost river, because I like defying the ghost leviathans and having enormous skeletons visible out my front window. Second place shallows, because of the cheerful colours on all the fish.
Legit the lost river is a god tier biome sure it's far from the surface and has a couple ghosts + those annoying antennae fish, but it's easy to get around and surprisingly comfortable plus no warpers AYE!
Being told that my POS craptop is good enough to render the mushroom Forrest was kinda a pick-me-up and I dig it :) also so far my favorite biome is the grassy plateaus…. And yes I have a massive base. But I haven’t been to every biome but I really want to.. just gotta get over that thalassophobia…
i mean... the game lore is like REALLY good yknow? but i like the lost river cuz its the perfect middle point between scary and insane looking atmosphere if you know what i mean (also i park the cyclops in the gargantuar leviathan mouth and it looks cool af ngl)
I've played through Subnautica 3 times, spread over like 200 hours. My main bases was made in this order : Game 1: Middle of the lost river by the Seadragon Skeleton Game 2: Inactive Lava zone Game 3: By the ghost tree so I guess my favorite zone is the lost river.....
