What’s The Best Base Location In Subnautica?

Picture This!
You're tired of living in that old starter base, and decide to upgrade.
You go out, gather a bunch of materials, and everything is going well
Until, that is, you’re faced with the question of where to actually build

There’s just so many choices, what on earth is to be done

Well fear not! Using a highly advanced scientific system known as “rating stuff on a scale from 1 to 10”, we’re going to compare all the biomes across 5 different categories. Those being Safety, Convenience, Ambiance, Resources, and Style.

Each category will be ranked from 1 to 10 With a score of one being the lowest, and 10 being the highest. Then, everything is added up, and the biomes with the most points win.

Alright, no more messing around, lets get into this!

[DetectiveWraith]

Gets the cure
Sets up a rocket
Disables the defenses
Gets hypnotized by tree cove and never leaves

[t_gabiuel]

Conclusion: the cooler the biome, the more it wants to kill you (except the tree cove).

[easymodegamer]

I'd honestly probably bump both islands down a safety point because although they may not be very threatening, they do have hostile creatures in the form of those crab thingies.

[theogilbert]

Hey, for the Bulb Zone, you said it's 5/10 in convenience. I think it's way better in that category since you can eat the bulb bush samples, an almost infinite source of food. Also, theres a lot of ''hell holes'' or heat vents (holes in the ground that are really hot), so you can place thermal plants in them and have free, unlimited energy.

[mrjblacc]

My primary base will always be at the intersection of safe shallows, kelp forest and grassy plateaus, near the Jelly shroom cave entrance. Along with a secondary base location in the room right before the Tree Cove in the lost river, which is at maximum Seamoth depth. Both locations are rich in resources (even table coral) and are honestly very convenient too in their own ways.

[sawyermccall]

Personally, I like to build my starter base in the grassy plateaus because they are loaded with basic resources. After that, after I complete the story, I make a base in the lava zone because there you have access to almost every resource in the inactive lava zone, and then ion cubes in the primary containment facility for all my ion batteries

[imahaloguy]

Nice to see the Northern Blood kelp so high on the list! By far my favorite biome and base location. “This biome matches 7 of the 9 preconditions to stimulate a homely feel in humans!” 😂

[bombthing]

I personally love the quiet ambience of the sparse reef, and its honestly safer than the shallows because at least theres no crashfish. Right next to a lot of the important areas too and it looks great imo

[xy]

The Bulb Zone is highly underrated in terms of beauty. The amp eels and bulbs at night make the black ocean water look like a starry night sky. 10/10 ambiance!

[johnpett]

I'm the kinda guy to build bases everywhere. Specifically just the scanner room for the most part. That scanner room is great for finding reasources

[Dootybooty]

I’d bump the grassy plateau up especially with the resource points. Not only is there quartz, sandstone and limestone almost everywhere, the jellyshroom caves nearby add onto the resources. Id say it deserves the kelp forests spot.

[GwnTim]

Alternative Solution:
Become a Cyclops-hermit

[PolyphonicSpr]

Bro the Great Mushroom Tree is the best location, change my mind. Great style, total safety from reapers, all 3 rock formation types, multilevel options, right on the edge of a bunch of other biomes and their resources, lategame teleporter for mushroom biome is in your backyard, plenty of room to park a cyclops fleet, and just a short hop over to the lost river.

[CarMADforever]

Honestly, I have a favorite base location and I routinely build the main base there. I don't have coordinates but it's a Safe Shallows area to the East of the Seamoth Bay where I will lay down my initial room then build out into the Grassy Plateaus so it overhangs. Around the immediate area you have, Safe shallows for table coral and shrooms, 5 wrecks of varying size, 2 kelp forest biomes and 2 access points to the Jellyshrooms one of which being the Degasi entry point. Further afield you are near to the Grand and Sparse Reef, The Tench and the Crag Field. Materials 4 Days. And you get to watch the Reefbacks meander and sing their songs, while the Sandsharks and Stalkers prowl.

[WardyLion]

I always establish a base in the Tree Cove, specifically towards the back near the thermal spires and the entrance to the inactive lava zone. It’s beautiful, safe, has resources aplenty (and you can always pop out into the Lost River for more) and you can get free recharges on the Cyclops if you have the thermal generator and leave it parked close to the thermal spires.

[AloisAgos]

Surprised that the Grassy Plateau ranked so low. I loved the ease of access, plenty of space, spectacular views of the sweeping terrain, the low moans of the Reefbacks offering ASMR and an alien view as they swim overhead.

[abcsir]

me wanting to build my base somewhere different but always building it in safe shallows because subnautica scary😔

[chucheeness]

My most preferred location is the hydro vent facing the floating island, near the mushroom cave entrance. It has space for Cyclops parking and an eventual hydrothermal recharging area. In addition, it has a good vantage point for Reef Leviathan watching from an observatory

[TheLastBacon]

I'm a backrooms-base kinda guy ;) Great video!

[Dad_]

0:16 when he said” there are so many choices” and then showed 3 awful places to put a base.