Video file got corrupted at 5:37. It was just some sped up footage of me building the exterior. I would have cut it out, but then the stuff I said about large rooms later on wouldn't make much sense. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is I guess :(

Fascinating. The idea of "build the base with no regard to hull integrety, then fix it afterwards" was something I had never thought of doing.

I recommend putting a nuclear reactor away from the main base but have it still connected, so you can put a bunch of reinforcements over there.

I always feel bad about leaving 4546B. After all, Riley is already 3 million credits in debt at the end of his first week -- I keep thinking I'd be glad of the opportunity to escape from the Alterra rat-race.

Something I like doing: Build a base near a thermal vent. Not because of the power, but because I can park my Cyclops on top of it and use the thermal reactor module to keep it charging at all times when not in use.

Tips for building a base in a Reaper controlled territory: DON'T build a base in a Reaper controlled territory

Veteran with 400 hrs of gameplay here. I recommend building an outpost in the safe shallows next to your life pod before building your home base. I recommend building one X-shaped compartment, with the hatch placed on top, for this. You can use 3 sections of the X for storage and 1 for your fabricator, battery charger, and power cell charger. When you first get the multipurpose room, build one so it attaches to the X compartment so you have even more storage. This has helped ensure I have enough resources to build my home base in my play throughs.

A little design trick I like is putting in a leaf wall then placing 3-7 sconce planters along it in different patterns. Scatter them, steppe them, whatever looks good to you, then plant some marblemelons in them. Looks great and provides a quick snack if you need it. The depth the wall planters add make the whole section pop.

Generally, I think the player should have one center of operations and a few other bases with a moonpool, a farm, and a fabricator. My bases are: Headquarters: Safe Shallows Deep sea center of operations: Lost River Land Base: Floating island Leviathan research facility: Bulb forest (Near a reaper) Sea dragon research facility: The entrance to active lava zone Mining facilty: Sea Trader's path

My final base was built in the Grand Reed. I had a starter home at the pod but wanted a beautiful place to settle down. Spending that much time around Crab Squids and Ghost Leviathans made me not scared of them. So i myself didnt have any fear in my first playthrough. Well i did get jump scared by a Peeper once. I turns and it was swimming at me and it got very close to the camera.

Don't forget about the beacon that is under the base so you don't lose your way

I put a base in the active Lava zone once. That cost a lot of Lithium. I literally had a couple of rooms dedicated specifically to fortification so I could put a moon pool, observatory, and a room with all glass windows (my bedroom). My large room also had a glass ceiling. Pretty much all the primary areas were glass. Then I built a pair of circular towers so I could put tall Alien habitats in to put fish in. These were ringed with fortification. All my bases always had specific nuclear reactors with water desalination machines. Very expensive, but fun to make.

Sometimes, I challenge myself to make a small hamlet base on shallows. It was cute, comfortable and manageable but the itch to build more is driving me nuts.

Treat this space as your home, but never forget that it is not. Anyway, it's also worth noting that exterior lights, grow beds, and power sources (and cargo crates, for my fellow DecorationsMod enjoyers) don't require a foundation if not attached to the main base. In fact, it's best to *not* have a foundation and instead place the solar panels on the seafloor or the thermal generators atop the vent/geyser. This is because Subnautica thinks that the foundation is the base you are trying to power instead of whatever the power transmitters are connecting to. If your base power fluctuates, it's probably because of an unneeded foundation. I had another tip, but I can't think of it. May come back to edit.

To this day I have been so tied up with Subnautica that my copy of Below Zero remains unopened, which is testament to how good the first game is.

I find it rather interesting that there seems to be this trichotomy between players of any game that involves base building, perhaps with the most relevant for obvious reasons, Minecraft. But even in the case of Subnautica, I've seen playthroughs from some players who like to make intricate, aesthetically pleasing bases, while others go for practicality and functionality above all else, especially aesthetics, and some view their base as literally nothing other than a storage room to dump items, craft, and recharge any machinery they may have.

That is a magnificent looking base, so much nicer than my usual X-corridor with extensions into multipurpose rooms. I must admit to preferring function over appearance, but even I have to admit that I want to build something similar next time. You've earned yourself a sub, nicely done. :)

Loved the Cyclops interior .. never thought of doing that!

The funniest thing was to see the sand shark going crazy to the mellow jazz tunes 😂

This was amazing but I couldn’t stand the idea of ladders on the exit. I like to consider what would annoy me in real life and the idea of tripping on a ladder every time I enter a room kills what is otherwise a perfect design

My base is literally random tubes connected and sometimes a glass tube here and there. A couple bioreactors that i forget to refill and overall the most messy base ever. I sometimes get lost in it

For me, I have my primary base also at Grassy Plateaus, but very close if not right next to a Kelp Forest, this way, I can immediately start scanning for things like Salvage for lots of Titanium, and most importantly, Stalker Teeth for Enameled Glass. Also having an Outpost at the Cove Tree in Lost River, with a Deep Shroom and Gel Sack plantation to feed my Bio-Reactor(might start planting Blood Oil later), it is right next to one of the various "hot" places there, that can range up to 80 degrees, where I park my Prawn Suit so it can charge quickly, before entering the Lava Zone. It also has a Scanner Room, due to the good resources that I can find there.

amazing video, lighting the exterior was always something i thought was useless but after seeing this video i tried it out and it looks so much better. thank you so much

bro I just started playing yesterday and i searched for tips, especially regarding base building. Thanks, that was exactly what I was searched

This is definitely the most comprehensive, helpful base building guide I've come across. Well done.

Great video. Never felt the need to fast forward. Straight to the point and incredible skill. I hope I will be able to create such a jaw-dropping base one day... One day.

i sometimes like to split up the large rooms with walls and doors and make something like an apartment with sleeping quarters, a kitchen, a lab, gardens with 3-4 interior grow beds and pots, workshop with the modification station or water purification unit or what ever else i feel like in that playthrough. the glass ceiling doesn't work well with walls though, so if you absolutely want a glass ceiling, stack another large room on top

I currently have my Main Base design locked in the center of the map, nothing thaaat unique but it has everything I need and I love it. Facing the Aurora's side. First a moonpool with 4 solar panels on the roof (they are above water) , then a glass corridor going into the 3rd floor of 4 multipurpose rooms. Top floor is the bedroom with one indoor growbed, above water. 3rd floor is the Main living area. A fabricator, battery rechargers, two big lockers, coffee & vending machine, some plants. 2nd floor: big aquarium and outer walls full of lockers Bottom floor got two water filtration machines and a reactor bio/nuclear

I love the choice of music while you built that base

My current base is just a big brick of large rooms stacked on top of each other. From the bottom up it goes: power level, workshop/ storage level with attached moon pool, food/ water level, lounge/ research level, completely glassed in bedroom level full of planters etc. I tried to build it so that the top level is just below the water surface so I can pretend all of my bedroom plants get "natural sunlight". There's also an aquarium going up the middle of the whole thing.

My dude, i LOVE your design! I think I'll install Subnautica again just to recteate this AMAZING WORK

Awesome video, glad I found your channel!! You encouraged me to actually spare some time on my next playthrough and get a nice looking base.

The way I planned the construction of my Deep Grand to Lost River outpost was getting a paper and pencil, writing down all my inventory space and the space costs of everything I must have and choosing what non essential parts I may want, then going on a small farming expedition to fill every slot of my inventory and two storage upgrades of my seamoth to build a respectable base with a scanner room and moonpool with just a few other additions. It felt like I was filing taxes, but in a fun way.

This is actually really helpful! I love base building I just suck at it. You just earned a sub

I'm definitely gonna keep this in mind on my second playthrough!

I love the tips here. All very good information!

LOVE the transition ant 0:38! Keep up the good work! P.s Good Tips ❤

The conference room is actually genius. I had 2 rooms in my Large Room modules that were empty and everywhere else was decorated. Thanks for the idea lol

Even though I only have a creative world I’m pretty sure these building tips will still help immensely!

Great stuff. My tip for step one is to find a focal point as a square one. Whatever the biome. My favorite base I built a MPR directly facing the sea dragon skull. Then I built around it using the steam vents and views of the acid waterfall’s as my guide points for where to put windows versus reinforcements. Similar layout as yours with a leisure side and a lab/construction side with some break areas dotted throughout. I also released four sand sharks inside the skull and they patrol the inner “courtyard” of the base adding spooky growls that fits the ambiance of the location perfectly.

This is the best base building guide I’ve seen on any game ever lol

Riley has finally lost it, having a meeting room with no one to meet with

Wow. What a great video. Very inspiring!

Omg, i've always felt like an idiot because my bases were always bad, this video helped me alot! Thanks Dude!

I couldn't imagine how much time it took to source the materials for this base. Great job! It looks nice

I loved the video! Hope it does as well as the last one!

This is an incredibly well made video. Nice to see some great quality content 👍

I was already planning on doing another run when I saw this in my feed. Thanks for the ideas!

Just started a fresh below zero play thru going for mega base on survival just for fun, I normally do a stair base but I'm going with the rectangle style this time. Building in lower purple vents dunno why

Sheeesh this video is so high quality! Hope you succeed in your youtube goals!!

Went from OBJECTIVE: SURVIVE to OBJECTIVE: THRIVE real quick 💪🏻

Conference room! Great interior ideas, I draw a blank there.

I found 2 craters with thermal vents not far outside the mushroom forest, great place for a couple of large builds if you don't mind a few reapers.

My guy you did it. I watched about 9min of the video and I felt the absolut need to Subscribe and Comment in that instant moment. no shit!!!1! You make videos on a quality level as if you had 1 Million Subs!!! im surprised that in comparasen to what quality you put out not that many people found you. If you keep that level of good content you will go far I hope. whatever you do keep doing :)

As someone who usually sucks at interior design this vid is insanely helpfull to get some ideas :D thanks for great content

Great video and a amazing looking base

As someone who is getting heavy into bases and making them oretty this makes me happy :)

Thanks a lot for this video, I wanted to expand my base but I was struggling on the location and overall layout. Since I was building in survival mode I did make a few changes to make it more practical. I do agree that floodlights are under utilised but I would say it is for good reason since their constant power draw is quite excessive for something that has little function outside of design.

Thanks man. Now I want to play this game again

🎉beautiful work!!!

I love the symmetrical design. I can't believe I haven't done that.

That conference room for yourself is definitely needed!

I am currently building a base from the top of the tall structure near Lifepod 6 with a 20 story Aquarium and my living quarters on the 21st floor. I started with an X section on the top of the tall structure, placed a glass corridor off towards Lifepod 6, attached a Moonpool to this, a glass corridor off to the left of the Moonpool to my Aquarium/Habitat set-up, and another glass corridor off to the right of the X section to a three story section for Water Filtration, and Bio and Nuclear reactors. I have a load of Solar panels all over the shop, and two external grow beds on top of the Moonpool (annoyingly I cannot get a third on the right side). Having completed the game more times than I care to mention, including several Hardcore swim-only runs, all that is really left for me is base building, and yes I have tried the endless tunnel from start to end, but my humble PS4 could not handle it passed the first Sea Dragon so I had to give it up (a ten minute wait time for every build action to complete got too much in the end). Oh and I am doing this on Hardcore, without a Prawn suit to mine. Nothing like making things needlessly hard for yourself.

Nice video ❤I like how he narrated his entire description😂

This will help me so much. THANKS!!!

For those just coming here. Here are some build ideas. -Seamoth Production Facility -Cyclops Production Facility -Prawn Suit Production Facility -Ring Base (TLDR) with L shaped glass compartments connected to multi purpose rooms(can br 4 in each corner. Connect them with straight glass connectors on each side of the L shaped glass compartment, then connect them to the multi purpose rooms for each corner, then put several multi purpose rooms in the middle (stacked) up to a height of your choice. Put glass wherever and reinforce anywhere to your liking. You can stack the alien containments in the each of the middle multipurpose rooms. And leave the top empty and create a research conduction room there -Abandoned bases (could be of any format such as, an abandoned lab/research facility, production facility. Storage/Warhouse facility, anything you can build an active one as) Here are tips: -Glass glass glass…. Glass makes everything look better -Try to keep things symmetrical as possible (can vary depending on the type of base you are building, doesn’t apply to everything) -Dont clump things together -Try to match colors in your rooms (use a color wheel) -You can take pda screenshots of databanks obtained (fauna, flora, anything in the “databank” of the PDA. Then put the picture into an picture frame (it will be clunky on console since you can’t customize it, you cant zoom in on the creature pictures. So you’ll be stuck with the list on the side) then put them in your laboratory.

Got the game today and this was very helpful ❤

I loved the Jass on the background :D

honestly I love your design I also love to make stuff like this but this did help me with my base in below zero

bro swallowed a frog

Breathtaker: finding a good base location is hard. Cove tree biome: Am I a joke to you?

if your not opposed to using commands you can definitely use the item command to spawn plants in the acu(including those without seeds) as the command will just spawn in a plant as if it were harvestable in a biome. i use this to make them look much more lush :)

when i first got the ability to built i decided to built a little base next to my pod, i wanted to make a new base a little further away from the pod, the base is pretty nice but i want to change it and its location, but that is gonna be a hard job since i will have to fill out the lockers and inventories, this video really helped me alot and gave me new ideas, thanks!

Tip: one can connect a large room to a nearby moonpool with pair I-compartments . It creates feeling of it being a very large room. Moonpool-to-moonpool works too.

Your base looks so good. makes me want to put in more effort into mine.

To add on to this if you have a base on the ground floor with an enclosed or mostly enclosed area turn it into a courtyard. Add growbeds for plants, lighting and even tables and benches as out of place as they seem, you can then add pipes that lead from the surface to these seating areas for oxygen and they become perfectly functional looking. I would also advise putting large rooms above sea level, if possible they are best placed on land.

extremely nice video dude

1)This guy is just too underated, you deserve way more than 2000 subscribers 2)I ussually like small bases, but I always end up expanding it and because I ussually make it in the safe shallows I don't have space to make a beatiful expansion so this tutorial really helps 3)I'd like to see a tutorial for land bases too. I tried making one once and is very hard, but also I have a surprise, because if you put a hatch close to the ground you will actually place a bulkhead with stairs , like in Below Zero 3)Hiw big is the base that you need 2 nuclear reactors to power it? 4)Planting undereater plants is just an underrated 5)If somebody ever needs lots of materials go with a cyclops full of lockers and a Prawnsuit with the drill arm to the lost river. You can find there deposits of titaniun, quartz, copper, silver, gold, lead, uranium, nickel and probably a few others I forgot about. You'll come home and won't have enough space to deposit everything 6)If anyone needs Lithium go to the mountain islands and find the caves (not the underwater ones) and you'll find plenty of shale outcrops and lithium on walls 7)I always liked the ideea of ouuposts, but I never build them because I'm lazy and the Cyclops kinda does everything I need already 8)External floodlights are so underrated, they are a bit expensive (1 glass each) but can turn the night time into something beautiful 9)I just had too many ideeas for a comment, I really wanted to write them all

For my early game super utility base: a single multipurpose room, bio reactor, hatch, and planter pot. You can easily swim with all of it and get air/water/food at depth. For my main decorative home base, I will have a section that goes off to a hidden area and build a grid of cross sections with bulkheads. For the cost of only rubber and titanium it can add plenty of hull strength to ignore the mechanic.

I prefer to dedicate a specific large room/multiroom/moonpool as a "Arrivals" where I can quickly deposit most common loot and restock supplies/batteries/ammo/change tools/change suit. No crafting here, just conveniently placed lockers and few chargers. I use storage containers of different appearance for different stuff so it is easier to remember where is what.

I really love base building in Subnautica, so many options, so many possibilities, especially now that we can have the large room! If I ever get my hands on the game, building an underwater base of my dreams (or several bases) would be the top priority project for me.

It’s nice to watch a Subnautica video that doesn’t scare the bajesus out of me for once.

I made base building the main goal. At one time i built a continuous base from the lava zone to the lifepod. But right within the last 3 or 4 sections, the game started crashing every time i tried to save it. But i figured out that; if you make a break in the base with new facilities that can't link to the old, it won't crash the game and it's effectively starting from scratch. In the current game, i have a base going from the big open area of the lava zone to the eastern cave entrance. Then will make a break there going back to the lifepod. I think it would be fun to link the entire map with bases that only have a few yards separation between them.

Wow. It is amazing idea. Now my issue is to gather over 300+ titanium. I am struggling with 50, but I guess I need to meet some leviatan.

One thing I like doing is building a 4x4 section of platforms with a single all-window room on it, offset to one corner, and surrounded by growbeds. I then plant kelpvine in the growbeds and make that room a bedroom. this is especially nice if the room just barely breaches the surface and has a glass roof.

I scattered a lot of kelp plants around so that they're seeds could provide a lot of warm light

I built a base in the Cove Tree cavern where the Cove Tree actually is. I packed it back up to go up to the surface to build the Neptune. I packed a lot of supplies before building it because its purpose was to upgrade my Cyclops. Which I used as my mobile base and my prawn suit because I needed it to go down to sterilize myself and hatch the eggs. I was kind of sad to leave it because of how beautiful it was, however, it's time to escape 4546B.

This took me so far for inspiration ❤❤ PS thx❤

The base can also be built at the starting location. On the border of the Shoals and the Algae Forest there is a geyser to supply the base with energy (look for a fragment of a heat power plant.) Watch out for kamikaze fish! Park in the future Cyclops at a distance from the base, I accidentally crushed Moth with it. It's good that he was empty. Favor resources were so much that built a new bathyscaphe. Just like I had. The base is a two-story tower type. Each multi-purpose room is assigned to a different role. 1 Factory/Warehouse module. Place the crate machines downstairs, upstairs storage for surplus. 2 Farm module. Have beds on the bottom, 2 water treatment plants on top. 3 Reactor room module. Backup bioreactor on the bottom, nuclear reactor on top. 4 "Dry Dock" module. Docking shafts for Crab and Moth combine into one for convenience. 5 Radar room/bedroom module. 6 Aquarium module at your discretion. The outside bed is planted with yellow algae, oil red bushes, gel bags, and Leviathan enzyme bushes. Oxygen was replenished from brain corals., convenient to fill the tank during construction. And for dessert 4 beautiful membrane trees. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

This is very useful

great video, however; wanted to share some of my opinions and breakdowns of this video(long ahh speech incoming): 1.Location- I do not recommend to build your first base in "the circle" because it seems to peek in the crash zone, crag fields, grand reef and the SW blood kelps, which are all REALLY dangerous biomes for when you're starting out your world, I think the grassy plateaus are the best to take here; they're deep, lots of free space, not far from spawn, they are biomes which are next to ones with good resources so you don't have to travel that much, and the cries of the reefbacks are real comfortable to hear up close. Idk about "outposts" don't make them too complicated since you wont be there that long I guess. 2.Materials-this guy talks about materials like you own the Amazon warehouse, your lifepod cant fit not half your inventory, your base building process is gonna be consisting of seagliding to your location, building 2-3 base pieces, then seagliding back and repeating this process until you can store enough materials to actually move in, and the most useless advice was telling us to use our cyclops for materials; buddy...never have I ever seen a Subnautica player that got the cyclops AND the P.R.A.W.N suit before building their first base, it is so unnecessarily dumb to advise that, 50% rule is debatable again by how much storage the player has. 3.Exterior design-I don't even know where to begin lmao this is just...exotic, starting with the biggest base piece? wha-"tower design" ??? where do you get these terms bro 😭😭 and why would anyone build their base with the the materials they've gathered before if they can't move in anyway because of the floods? hull integrity first, THEN worry about design and A E S T H E T I C S. Remember: your base should be treated as an utility before a home, so begin with a room for power sources, this COULD be the largest room don't get me wrong. Also, it's easy for you to build this base in creative mode since you don't actually need the materials to build things, in the end it looks good tho, but i don't think a new player is capable of having that many resources already at hand ready for use 4.Interior design-better than I expected tbh, smart thing to note is splitting the base to keep things organised, I also like the fact that you use solar panels on the foundations, not many players know that so it's great advice to give to newbies, for me bioreactors work better because you can use them in any base, not nuclear reactors though since they need uraninite to power them which is harder to find. Also covering a picture frame with an aquarium is weird, by the way: do not build rooms if you don't know what to do with them just to fill the symmetry, unnecessary. 5.Flora, fauna-exterior growbeds are 2 titanium each, there is no need for you to cram them all in one place, it looks better to spread them out across your foundations, it is also worth noting that your priority should be flora that you actually need to utilize; those being creepvine, acid mushrooms, gelsacks, etc. and then add the ones for aesthetics. For interior pots i recommend having some variety other than bulbo trees. But let me get this straight; you build 2 alien containments on top of each other...to fill them with...fish. FISH. Out of ALL THE CREATURE EGGS ON 4546B...you picked nearby fish😐you're right on the exterior floodlights though, it really lights up the place Notes: -I would love to see you building your first base in survival in a new world, uncut footage, without creative mode to back up this process of yours -don't have connectors that are too long since you're gonna have to walk a long way from one place to another -I like that you have 4 hatches in all 4 corners of the base, nice symmetry there -you have a very monotone voice bro, I feel like you should brighten the mood a little with some jokes maybe or just a happier tone, less seriousness I feel like I'm watching the channel 5 news lol -I'm not saying your builds are bad but that they are not begginner-friendly, which most likely is your target audience -I do NOT hate on you or your videos, I am just saying my opinion out loud and i do not mean to offend you, if I did I apologize -the "best base is subjective", it all varies per person, so don't get frowny when you think yours is ugly, the way I see it; you can always improve on it no matter what, "perfect" doesn't exist, but you can always improve on your base even if it's a 5 star hotel or a wooden shed

New Video! YAY!

I have saved this video for my subnautica below zero play through because while subnautica has lab equipment, below zero has posters and pictures. Either way, the building system is the same and I will be using this video along with some helpful comments to build.

concise, great pacing.

*Slow inhale follow by a sigh* I didn't know you could stack large rooms and multipurpose rooms- T^T Thanks for this new information

New subscriber, and based on this video, if you haven't played it already I think you'd love The Planet Crafter. I bought Subnautica ages ago, but only recently decided to play it. Thanks for all the help!

My number one choice of base location tends to be where I can integrate the base to interact with the terrain.

My son really appreciated the video and tips, thanks!

My go to base building site is the grassy plateaus next to the jellyshroom entrance

The building in subnautica is honestly the most overlooked part. It’s a nice escape from the terror of the ocean. Also you can tell your own stories and just have fun with it! Like a research facility near leviathans to act like you’re studying them, or as simple as adding a story to your main base. It’s also just very fun to build things in this game (tho why the heck can’t you attach hallways to the diagonal parts of multipurpose rooms 😡)