Sparse reef is an insane biome, like it has easy diamonds, rubies and gel sacks completely safe and shallow

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.

Dang, i didn't know i was still a pacifist after putting all dem cuddlefish in the bioreactor

As a floating island lover with thalassophobia, we can confirm that the sea is quite terrifying and the island helps us relax.

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*

Nah Safe Shallows is goated. Best looking zone by far. Crystal clear water at all times, phenomenal colors. Peaceful. I like the Mushroom forest too.

“That final cuddlefish egg” Bro, you mean the one in that weird crater in the dunes? Because that was my first one 😭

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.

the void matching 100% of my personality

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

grassy plateaus: you like to build big bases. Meanwhile me having a base that is literally just 2 large rooms and the moon pool.

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 both love and hate blood kelp because of the blood crawlers and arachnophobia doesn’t help

When u defeat all the reapers and got the final legendary cuddlefish egg

Void: You like to have base observatory for ghost leviathans.

Bloodkelp fan. Those plants and dark depth really set the immersion and atmosphere of deep ocean just right

As an night owl that likes to build gigantic bases, this is extremely accurate

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.

ngl, when I got the "entering an ecologically dead zone" notification, I immediately noped the heck outta there. on the contrary, I feel relatively comfortable in the Dunes biome

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.

Lost River one is sooo accurate.

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

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.

The dunes will forever be my fav place cause it was SOMEHOW my first leviathan encounter, NOT EVEN A REEFBACK before i went there.

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

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

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.

I was deep mushroom forest(north of the aurora) and the ambience down there at the edge of the bulb zone is so incredible in a glass bubble.

Still enjoying this video a year later. Thanks for some good laughs, man.

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?

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

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!!)

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 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)

i LOVE mushroom forest because it's a good place to build a base next to end has decent materials, it also has a beautiful view from the base and i feel very safe around the tress as no leviathan can fit through them (even though there isn't a leviathan there)

Didn’t know what my favorite biome would be, but settled on the Grand Reef as it was the first base I decided to build after doing a lot of the “beginning” stuff and moving out of the shallows, and honestly, liking a little bit of everything is so true and fitting for me lmao

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.

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

Lost river was where I set up my main and probably favourite base. Building inside and around the gargantuan made for some pretty sick builds!

I had a hardcore base in the room between active and inactive lava zone. I had everything there. All materials, all energy. Four nuclear reactors and 10 heat generators. Giant aquarium and a garden inside and out. There was only two problems. There were absolutely ZERO reasons to leave the base, not even talking about the biom. And the second problem was glitch, that instakilled me☠️

personally I love building little pit stops all over the map: one normal room with a bioreactor, fabricator and cell charging station so I can recharge my cyclops whenever I stop by. Also either a fishtank for food and biofuel or an outside planter with edible plants, and finally a scanner room (usually). Really fun way to play this game if a small, self-sustainable home away from home is never too far away :)

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.

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.

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 am definitely a night owl, but I just love the blood kelp zone music. Gives me chills and fits the biome so well.

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

My favorite base building location is the north east mushroom forest. It is right next to the blood kelp trench which goes straight into the lost river. The mushroom forest is completely safe and it has plenty of good resources nearby.

I've put bases everywhere, in each biome cause i've killed ALL leviathan on this map and it was fun

I put messages in my time capsules saying to go behind the aurora 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.

If you're like me and you enjoy getting as many mats as possible without engaging with leviathans, Spare Reef is your best friend. Shale outcrops, rubies, gel sacks, and 2 wrecks with literally only 1 warper as the total enemy count in the biome.

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 just want to aggressively assert my presence as the reaper's new neighbor by building observatories in their faces.

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

Gotta love the fossils in the Lost River. And brine pools are a great naturally occuring phenomenon that I'm so glad is in the game.

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 miss having hoverfish tank lol. They look like they are smiling, cutest fish

0:38 relatable. Takes a lot of power too

i like the lost river, mostly chill but scary at times

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 computer can't render shite and i get 3 fps every time a sand shark appears but the big shrooms just spark joy. I just like the big fellas.

My base in the safe shallows is powered from the vents in the jelly shroom caves. I just ran some power lines back. And it’s amazing. I don’t ever have to worry about power. Pretty much I just build bases where ever I can get thermal vents near by.

Sparse Reef is definitely one of the best base locations, or even just a small outpost. It has many materials, is mostly safe (bleeders), is near a lost river entrance, and is bordering many resource heavy biomes.

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

Was not expecting to agree 100% with the Night Owl comment.

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.

I actually do like a little but of everything but I am also a night owl and I like really hot showers. The funniest thing is I like all of those biomes. IT WAS MEANT TO BEE

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.

I like building my bases in the safe shallows because it’s pretty there and centralized. But, definitely not a newbie. One of the things I like doing most in the game is going “Reaper hunting” where I kill them in ridiculous ways just for the fun of it.

I love Cove Tree Biome and Inactive Lava Zone so, yeah. Those descriptions are very accurate to me.

Safe Shallows = a thalassophobe's favorite area (Speaking from experience)

For the blood kelp zones, I would’ve gone with “you’re a big horror movie fan”

As I certified Ghost Leviathan I can agree with the last one.

I once built a base far and deep into the void. It was fun playing with the ghosts and building there

i LOVE the Dunes, it's very spacious, full of scrap, has thermal vents for energy, and you can jump into the trench for all the quartz and gold you want! Also, lots of silver + gold = ion batteries for my stasis rifle to kill Reapers!

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.

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.....

I'm down to the Neptune mission...and delaying it coz I still wanna hang around. But I'm still in Safe Shallows 😆 It's the prettiest biome!

This made me laugh. In my current (hardcore) game, I built a base in the mountain and another in the dunes. I'm currently prepping to go into the void for "The Silence" mod. I finished the game 4 times in Hardcore, but I never scanned a single aggressive Leviathan (Reaper, Ghost, Sea Dragon) yet.

I can confirm, half my mega base is dedicated to Hoverfish aquariums

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.

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

My favorite is the grand reef and blood kelp forest mainly because of how they look

Bravery is subjective. Is it possible to be brave when you aren't afraid in the first place?

0:25 its pretty.

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)

The lost river is right for me apart from another reason it’s my favourite is because of how it looks and the ghost levithan

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

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 built a base in the grand reef once and i loved it, that place is so beautiful (as long as you stick to a specific area 💀)

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.

I didn't even know the Bulb zone had another name. I just find it's vibe ELECTRIFYING! And I use ampeel eggs as a power source soooo

The mushroom forest one who said they played on pc I mean I loaded the biome on my Xbox one

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!

The ghost tree area is close to almost everything you need. If has table coral

It's true. ... I just finally sat down and started playing subnautica

"Jellyshroom Caves: You prefer to stay out of trouble, but you also won't back down from a fight." Wrong. I go down there because I know my fight/flight instincts *suck* and the crabsnakes are generally harmless. Also because crabsnakes are my favorite creatures in the game.

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)

The most relatable subnautica video I've seen, funny stuff my guy