Subnautica Base Building Tips For New Players

[@kinorris1709]

Tip to conserve resources while maximising base coverage: build 1 or 2 main bases (1 on the surface, 1 deep in the world (late game, you'll probably know where this should go naturally when you get there) and the rest as minibases. My minibase setup is no more than 2 multipurpose rooms, a few I connectors, a scanner room, a few vertical connectors (optional and dependant on terrain) and a moonpool. Powered by at max 5 solar panels (if above 100 metres deep, not close to heat sources), 2 thermal reactors (if close to heat sources) or 1 bioreactor (deep and not close to heat source). This is gives you 375 power (solar) or 500 power (bio/thermal). Any more resources on powering a minibase is wasteful. You will never need more than this, and often you can get away with 2 or 3 solar panels or 1 thermal reactor. I also try to build them so that the scanner room is about 1 km from another base's scanner room for max coverage. Good main base locations are at the edge of the safe shallows spawn area dropping into the grassy plateaus. I suggest doing it on the far side of the safe shallows to the Aurora (ship) for safety reasons that will become apparent a few ingame days in. Building here also makes it easier to get your vehicles close to it, as some will be quite big and cumbersome in the safe shallows. A main base should have a lot of power. solar panels will work for you early game, but you'll want more advanced options in the mid to late game.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Oh man nice 👍 I’m pinning this !

[@whocares2214]

Thanks bro!

[@Godsweet]

In my main base I had 1 nuclear reactor and 2 bio reactors idk why 😂

[@EnclaveSgt]

good tips thanks bro. I just started and I'm confused lmao

[@whocares2214]

@@EnclaveSgt you'll love this game bro....also I'm mad ur power armor is cooler than the brotherhoods

[@Yolo_Swagins]

10 hour in just build my first base. Got my small submarine eaten by leviathan, while was outside checning some crate, shitted myself in the proces. 10/10

[@J1__16]

I hate leviathans i swear they are made to jump scare you like wtf it is so annoying

[@soulcampbell]

@@J1__16 I haven’t met the first one... and not intending to.

[@xannyfrommars1897]

@@J1__16 just kill them an they don’t respawn i think

[@why_hellothere6148]

@@xannyfrommars1897 how do you kill em

[@texasred6814]

@@why_hellothere6148 idk, I guess just use torpedos on the prawn or cyclops, or maybe you have to be really good at dodging and persistent and keep cutting it until it dies.

[@joaovitorcarvalho588]

i wasn't even living inside tubes, I built a bunch of those water luggage and place them underneath the life pod touse as storage lol

[@sharkdrago8452]

Exact same here, literally 20 unlabelled storage lockers floating under the lifepod

[@zergy55]

I did that as well and then I thought to myself "this isn't something I can keep doing. I need to make a base" and thats how I moved into the grassy plateaus

[@akmal94ibrahim]

Same here. But after having to constantly go through each of the +10 water luggages to get a resource I need because I forgot in which I placed them and I never sorted them out, I realise this isn't viable long term. Hence watching this video.

[@alepepperoni2563]

@@sharkdrago8452 you goddamned psychopath

[@billybadass7718]

@@sharkdrago8452 I only had 12 and it was cumbersome af

[@ellucas2915]

Now that Subnautica is free on PS4 this is pretty helpful, I already built my base but this is a nice guide, thanks.

[@TDL_DSO]

@Karson Argenbright honestly💯

[@ellucas2915]

@Karson Argenbright Haha, yes it's my favorite survival game in the ocean, the story itself great and the creatures awesome. Btw today it's my birthday🥳 I'll write my PS4 username if you want to send a friend request: Lukass7w7

[@jonas6666]

@@ellucas2915 also my birthday, happy birthday man

[@ellucas2915]

@@jonas6666 Really? Happy birthday 🥳

[@sfe2164]

@@jonas6666 Yo guys, it's also my birthday!

[@2Leejah3]

4:05 Wow. I really never thought about this. I thought that you needed the Multipurpose Room first to be able to start creating your base. And since I didn’t know about this, and didn’t use the lockers because I didn’t know where to place them, I, instead used a whole bunch of those floating tiny chest thingies. And they are everywhere around my Lifepod. Oops...

Same here lmao 😂

[@HeidiCharlesLeon]

Same...until i just put tubes everywhere and realized it 3 hours later. I still dont know how to make a multipurpose room XD

[@blu.draigon]

I made it and thought this is to small made a turn a little more room found the muilti purpose room and boom we where in business

[@farmpunk_dan]

I feel like the game could have explained this just a little bit and it would have still been plenty mysterious and satisfying lol

[@onpsxmember]

I have two for some rarer stuff, but I just dumped titanium on one heap and copper, gold, lead, lithium in a small cavity nearby.

[@clayrogers2670]

A few other spoiler-free tips: 1) The scanner room is incredibly useful for finding resources, especially when upgraded properly. There's a HUD chip upgrade for it that doesn't actually take up an upgrade slot in the room; but rather attaches to your character and places on orange circle around items you're scanning for. And an important thing to know is that the scan-range upgrades can stack, so you can use 4 of them at a time to drastically increase your scan range. 2) The moonpool is finicky to place because you can't manually rotate it, so it's recommended to build your moonpool first. (Don't worry too much about this for your very first base, but it's very handy later on.) Also, while this isn't related to base-building, another tip is that you can carry a second oxygen tank and swap it out underwater to give yourself some extra oxygen when you're about to drown. Make sure to have a seaglide first though since a second tank in your inventory will slow your swim speed down (note: your tank won't automatically refill after this until you re-equip it in an area where oxygen is present)

[@ADHD_xBald]

They patched the two tank thing and having things in your inventory does not slow you down anymore

[@kidsavvy660]

How come I never thought about an extra oxygen tank

[@Alejandro-jk7md]

Tysm you help me a lot with the scanner room now I find it super useful but one thing do you know how could I get more thing to search bcuz right know I need diamond but I can't look for the stone that give to you. Do I have to scan one of those rocks with my personal scanner?

[@TheWarTrain]

Well these tips are helpful, thanks!

[@blu.draigon]

Can I have a tip where some of the moon pool is not exactly where just it's area

[@soulcampbell]

Am I the only one that thinks going very deep is the most scary thing ever in a video game?

[@mrchomp7332]

Same

[@hunter-367_pro8]

YES! I managed to gather up some courage and tried to go deeper but the A.I. Told me “there are multiple leviathan class predators in the area, are you sure that what you’re doing is worth it?” That line alone along with the pitch dark water scared tf outta me and made me turn back 😂

[@xannyfrommars1897]

@@hunter-367_pro8 i was trying to find the floating island and i heard that too, when u hear an ai say that u should turn back, u should so i did

[@virtualyme7659]

I got it on PS4 for free and started playing a couple games. One on the default setting where if you die you come back but you still have to find food and water. The other was where you don't need food water and basically not hurt by anything. The second mode I use to dive down very deep over 3,000 m and I must admit it was pretty freaky. I don't like the water in real life and I've had some unnerving experiences in deep water in the ocean for real. It made it that much worse having a bad experience in real life even though my character was literally invulnerable it still gave me that anxious and uneasy feeling.

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

Everything is fine until the floor disappears and you can't see a damn thing... Loll

[@Madhamz]

I only just discovered this game and tried to learn all the tricks on my own. And only recently just started looking for content on this. Thanks granddad. Yours is organised properly labeled and narrated at the same time the items are being presented and some parts are even prepared before recording. So I thank you for the effort put in before recording. The prep and flow of the video is top notch.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Glad to hear it!

[@toddkes5890]

Exterior Planter with Acid Mushrooms, and a Bioreactor. Fill up the Planter first, then harvest the Acid Mushrooms to put into the Bioreactor (making sure to replace them in the Planter as needed). The Acid Mushrooms are also used for making Batteries. The Blood Oil does produce 420 power each, but takes up 4 squares. Acid Mushrooms provide 210 power and only take up 1 square, so you can get twice as much power from a full array of Acid Mushrooms inside a Bioreactor. One note about the base power, is that even though you may have multiple power sources they will only charge up their own individual containment. So if you have a base with three Solar Panels that can store up to 75 power each (225 total), and a Nuclear Reactor that can store up to 2500 power, then even though the base will have a total capacity of 2725 power, the Solar Panels can only charge the base up to 225. You can't use an empty Bioreactor or Nuclear reactor to serve as a giant battery for the base. Put a couple Aquariums up in your base. In one of them you put at least 2 of your favorite food fish, and in the other one you put 2 Bladderfish. The fish will reproduce until there are 8 fish in each Aquarium, then stop reproducing. You can then harvest those fish and use them for food and water, and as long as you leave at least 2 fish in the Aquarium they will breed back up to 8. Make sure to put these Aquariums near your Fabricator so you don't have to walk too far to make breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, supper, or midnight snacks. Always install a Medical Kit Fabricator next to a Locker. The Fabricator will produce a Medical Kit every 10 minutes, so you can grab a new Medical kit for your inventory. If you already have enough Medical Kits in your inventory, put the extras in the Locker. That way if you need additional Medical Kits you can just open the Locker and use them. Battery Charger. If any Batteries in it are over 90%, take them out and use those nearly-full batteries to replace the lowest charged ones in your equipment. From there, compare all the lowest charged batteries, and put the Batteries with the lowest power levels into the Battery Charger, doing your best to make sure all slots are full. You want to be charging Batteries all the time, preferably with Solar or Thermal Power (since that is free). You will need at least three Solar Panels to feed this, as 1 Solar Panel near the surface provides 15 power per minute, while the Battery Charger can consume up to 36 power a minute (with a max of 400 power needed to charge all four batteries in it from zero to 100). Extra Solar Panels ensure a larger power storage to feed the Charger.

[@KPdewstar]

The game told me the aquarium is too small for breeding.

[@stevenscott2136]

If you're near the lifepod, remember to grab the medkits from that fabricator. You can store the extras there, too.

[@inuyashaVAL]

@@KPdewstar I believe you need the alien containment to breed things

[@silentfox1738]

ok honestly thats really helpful, ive been using reginalds which have been ok because they good food and multiply quick in alien containment, but i might try the acid mushrooms

[@luisen1996]

As you build your base, consider you’ll be needing two moonpools for the sea moth and prawn suit. Once I had the suit I basically rebuilt my base to fit the second pool.

[@simonghoul3602]

This is great to know I am just going to build two whole bases near each other

[@ssbuzeno]

I do prawn in cyclops, and seamoth in the moonpool

[@agamerdude7596]

You basically don't need a moonpool for the prawn, Just use your cyclops as its moonpool.

[@thebananakinggames4355]

Me: has cyclops Also me: still lives in safe shallows

[@guma9065]

Me too

[@darkpanda8818]

I live 250m down

[@soulcampbell]

@@darkpanda8818 like dealing with those cute Leviathans wasn’t enough

[@samuraiblindado6439]

I will live forever in safe shallows

[@darkpanda8818]

@@soulcampbell it's pretty easy getting down and I never see leviathans I have been to the aurora 20 times only spotter one

[@mattmenietti6015]

For beacons, I am very specific with naming and coloring, especially near wreckages and pods. Green means I've cleared the wreckage and red means it has not been fully explored. I will also put the depth (in meters) in the description so I have a general idea of how far down I need to go. I can even hide the cleared beacons from my HUD if they get too plentiful/annoying.

[@silentfox1738]

yo green? i didnt know there was green XD

[@dowobeha6875]

From a Granny my sincere thanks! It was very well done and incredibly helpful. Side note...you sound too young to be a Grandpa, but then again my hubby and online friends tell me I sound like I'm 18 - early twenties. At least my voice will stay forever young. lol Cheers! : )

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Lol ty kindly..

[@blip_blop6777]

A gamer granny, you love to see it.

[@frostysnadwich9728]

The kelp forest is also a good area to build your base I found out, It has easy access to silicone rubber and fiber mesh, and as long as you can deal with the stalkers its a good place, plus you can still get solar power.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

great tip .. thank you!

[@MegaChickenfish]

Spongebob: Oh Magic Conch Shell, what do we do to get out of the Kelp Forest? * pulls * MCS: _Nothing._ Patrick: THE SHELL HAS SPOKEN.

[@PandaInUganda]

Stalkers will repeatedly steal the cameras from your scanner room btw. It'll get really annoying, so unless you're planning to build a base without a scanner room, I think you should build your base in some place other than the kelp forest.

[@islerenner]

One great thing about having stalkers around your base is the endless supply of stalker teeth on the sea floor, which means an abundance of enameled glass.

[@silentfox1738]

i like the kelp forest and my current base is at the edge of a kelp forest, but im having trouble with space for piloting the seamoth and prawn suit, and i cant even get my cyclops in there because its so big

[@stevenscott2136]

Stack multipurpose rooms so one ends up above water, and you can mount foundations on the side to hold growbeds for air-breathing plants. It will be legless, so no clutter to get in your way. A hatch on the multi room will allow easy access, although you can jump onto it if you swim up and jump just right. I had a whole farm of growbeds keeping me and my reactors fed, and a stand of lantern trees is quite scenic at night.

[@traderjoes7976]

you could also just use vertical connectors and a ladder so you can instantly go up from the sea floor to the surface, it’s really convenient and take less titanium I just did that in my grassy plateau base and I’m feeling crafty about it, you can basically make two separate bases and teleport between them

[@ViiZiiOnZ915]

​@@traderjoes7976 vertical connectors from a multipurpose room? Can you explain more please this base sounds really interesting and convenient!

[@traderjoes7976]

@@ViiZiiOnZ915 I believe you can only use vertical connectors on corridors, so if you have a multi purpose room just attach a hallway and then stack vertical connectors from your sea floor base all the way to the surface, then you can go from the sea floor to the surface and back instantly when you use the ladder :)

[@ViiZiiOnZ915]

@@traderjoes7976 see I was trying this but I couldn't add a ladder to the vertical connectors? It simply wasn't letting me

[@traderjoes7976]

@@ViiZiiOnZ915 I believe you have to be inside the corridor and aim at the ceiling for it to let you construct it

[@hoax4312]

A tip that helped me a lot is not to overdo it, you will see other peoples huge bases and might want to build a huge base yourself, but if you're in survival it will take a lot of time to gather the resources for it, more base components = more lag, and finally do you really need an aquarium for every egg and grabbable fish?

[@Bagelshark2631]

Yes, I do need every fish

[@hoax4312]

@@Bagelshark2631 fair enough

[@slap_A_flamingo]

Creep vines are also a great source of light for outside. Once I unlock the nuclear reactor, when it comes to building a new base. I'll build 3 or 4 multipurpose rooms on top of eachother and fill in the gaps with reinforcement plates. Stick it to the very outside of your back and you should be able to get a fairly decent sized and powered base on the foundation. Personally that's the way I like to do it. It for if your in the lost river or ghost tree area where glass is definitely needed to enjoy the view.

[@gamerpoets]

It's always the ones with few subscribers who do the best work. You deserve more :)

[@Ender7j]

You can ‘store’ extra resources by building base components you don’t need and then deconstructing them later on. This helped me early on, but once I got going I really didn’t need to do it.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Good tip

[@MyH3ntaiGirl]

I use the floating storage early on which work, for 4 titanium, it is loads

[@Ender7j]

@@MyH3ntaiGirl it’s probably a better solution. I’m still afraid it will float away lol

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

@@Ender7j it won't. They stay exactly where you drop them

[@heisenberg4890]

There is an easy way to transport items using only a propulsion cannon and some water lockers. You pick up a full water locker with the stuff you want to transport you use the propulsion cannon to pick it up. Then you put the full locker in the other empty locker and you pick it up using a propulsion cannon.

[@silvereagle404]

5:20 there's actually a heat source in the center of the map in the safe shallows to use as power when you get that option. that's where i build my base.

[@justanordinaryidiot]

I built my base inside the big pool in the alien cannon building, and apart from Warpers directly outside, I feel pretty safe being boxed in

[@reeeeeeeeeeeeeeman6757]

U can do that?

[@justanordinaryidiot]

@@reeeeeeeeeeeeeeman6757 that’s exactly what my friends said, but apparently you can

[@Maverick512000]

Very helpful, just got the ability to build bases and I thought you had to build the floors first. Now I know I can build little storage pods before building Atlantis.

[@SeraSieghart]

Oh wow, I didn't realise that I can put the foundation *after* making my base. My own base looks like a floating mess because I put the foundation first before anything.

[@rachelannbunny]

This comment saved me.. I was trying to place the foundation first.

[@simonghoul3602]

I still don't understand why did they design the game this way-

[@DadBooom]

Ive been waiting forever to get the multi purpose room design and thinking i had to build a foundation first

[@cute_andfunny]

Thank you for posting this.

[@WO1Josh]

One year later and you saved me! I have been angry at the TV all after noon...

[@cryhavoc1879]

A word of advice to any new players. Do not make your bases too large if you're on last gen consoles. It really taxes the system and you will experience major slowdown. The only viable way for base construction on last gen consoles is to build multiple bases that are small and have everything you need. You will not be able to make a massive base as the game will experience severe frame rate slow down every time you look in that direction, regardless if you can actually see your base or not.

[@alexhernandez9697]

I leave beacons in every major wreckage that I find, It really helps when I'm trying to go somewhere specifically and I need reference points, the only reference point that you have is the aurora, so having all those beacons as extra ones is really helpful, and more than once I have checked those wreckages again and found things that I had missed the first time I went to them

[@abdullahjawad5785]

Do some items respawn at those wreckage sites or no?

[@erina8295]

@@abdullahjawad5785 don’t think so

[@BugVariant_SINO]

loving the fact that my base was a full-on multipurpose room when I first built it because I even had my seamoth WAY before I ever started to build a base. but I only started building it today and it’s really functional, with a scanner room, moonpool, water filtration machine, and an upcoming bioreactor. (had the chance to build the bioreactor more early on, but I didn’t need all the energy)

[@Dranzer777]

I thought I had to upgrade the fabricator to make buildings, so I didn't have a base for about 10 hours before I found the habitat creator tool. So I lived out of my seamoth and the starter base thing.

[@tadashihatsudai]

I was going through this game blind for the past 2-3 days and managed not to die too much, but these tips still help a lot! And yep! I’m one of the many people to downloaded the game for PS4 because it was free. 😆

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Im glad it helped

[@akmal94ibrahim]

10 hours in and I got my first death: Trying to place a beacon on the top of a mountain and accidentally falling off. Lol

[@legitimate8463]

@@akmal94ibrahim that is the only mountain in the entire game

[@akmal94ibrahim]

@@legitimate8463 [Spoiler Alert] in case you haven't finished the game. No it's not. There are 2. The one with the alien building and the floating island. I was putting it on the floating island since there's no beacon there.

[@themanthemyththejake]

This was the best beginners guide to subnautica building I've found yet, thank you so much!

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Glad to help!

[@Drako2k0]

To save on resources, it’s good to know optimal power usage. A fabricator + radio + medkit fabricator can usually be covered by a single solar panel worth of energy Add a battery charger, and you’ll want an additional solar panel worth Moonpool = +1 bio reactor or active thermal reactor When building your base above 200m you can get away with only solar panels with some Bio reactors or thermal reactors for emergency purposes. Always build 1 more than you think you need. Water filtration machines use a LOT of energy. Plan on extra energy production. You’ll never need a nuclear reactor for surface bases. Save those for your 500m and deeper bases

[@princesscadance197]

If I recall correctly, you could make a massive foundation, like 5x5, and in the very corner, place a tall stack of Multipurpose rooms and cover every face with reinforcements to heavily boost the overall base’s hull integrity without having to put reinforcement on your main base.

[@michaelman9281]

"Don't be depressed when you start out with a small tube"

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Yeah and?

[@Freezysauce]

@@GranddaddyGamer he just thinks it’s a funny quote

[@Bungholium]

Pp

[@ellucas2915]

@Marcus Rice 😳

[@blakesproule2165]

@@GranddaddyGamer if u want subscribers maybe dont be rude to someone that commented on your video

[@gamezort8724]

Oh so that’s how you build a base... What am I gonna do with all my waterproof lockers now? D:

[@stormbringer1539]

You can throw them on a trash can and they'll dissappear!

[@Maliseet_Monster]

Or you can use them as outdoor lockers for an island base if you want outdoor storage boxes

[@liltalon2964]

I put the waterproof storages inside my wall storage inside my base

[@dualwielder7852]

@@liltalon2964 or you can just, you know leave them outside. That way they won't take up extra storage and they'll stay there until you decide to use them

[@simonghoul3602]

take them to caves and such

[@camdenmorris7315]

The grassy plateaus is also a great place to build

[@polarispulsar]

I love building in the lost river and sea treaders path right on the boarder of the void and grand reef.

[@jackpfefferkorn3734]

One of my favorite spots is on the edge of the grassy plateau, just outside of the southern blood kelp trench. There's a lot of open space, and you have easy access to several different biomes.

[@f1redemon966]

How do you find the biome names

[@camdenmorris7315]

@@f1redemon966 you learn them over time

[@rosewaters2533]

In less than 10 hours I found the blood trees and thought they were so beautiful so I made the effort to try to build a base there. Then I realise I have no way to power it because it was sitting so far below the sea. I ended up packing up a part of it and rebuild it where my starter floater thing was situated in the shallows. Wait there’s a beacon option? I never saw one! I navigate by memorising the distance numbers from my floater, terrain structure and general direction from the crash ship... I feel so stupid to have somehow missed out seeing this option lol. This would have made my life so much easier! Thanks for the guide.

[@nightshadewrites]

Another thing to point out about hull integrity, foundations under multipurpose rooms don’t look very appealing, but I’ve got a trick that makes it look much better while still being higher. Add another multipurpose room below it, and just add a reinforcement to every one of it’s walls.

[@zagg8687]

thank you! you have a pleasent voice to listen to it kept me engaged throughout the video

[@jamie151994]

This is one of the best tip videos I have seen, well done man!!

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Thank you kindly

[@Airisuea]

@@GranddaddyGamer yes thank you it helped ت

[@dillonnichols6241]

The Ad before this was for Home Depot. *Home Depot Type Beat Begins*

[@eepyvoneeplestan]

Acid mushrooms work with the bioreactor. So you dont have to waste food.

[@TheBruuz]

Fruit works too. You can plant a lantern tree in a pot next to your bioreactor, and fill it with the fruit that grows off it.

[@acod319]

Yeah I just use acid mushrooms easy to get and are very good

[@agamerdude7596]

I use plants and oculus i have a 3 stacked alien containment with oculus and reginalds, Reginalds for food and oculus for power, Btw i salt reginalds so they would last longer do i also dont have to worry about starving to death, When i explore with my seamoth.

[@onpsxmember]

Thermal works 24/7 without any fuel you have to add.

[@vldmt2720]

For the Bio reactor i'd recomended putting kelp cuz u can out inly four and it will power up to maximum

[@jangofettjr1237]

I used the mushrooms you can use for making batteries

[@mighty6087]

tip: since coral tubes are infinite, use those. infinite power, especially if your base is near the shallows.

[@Alejandro-jk7md]

I just use marblemelon I have two growbeds of them one for eating and one for powering it and just with two of em you will never run out neither of food nor of electricity

[@robertlcgarcia123]

I remember having two days worth of time on one save and literally having almost everything I would need but never went below 900 meters and now I have four days worth and I'm hunting all the leviathans

[@mrmoocow2552]

for the bio reactor, I recommend traveling out to the floating island and grabbing some lantern fruit from there while also scanning everything else while over there

[@ayaan9646]

This guy isn’t being as informative as beginners should know. Each reinforcement adds +7 hull integrity to your base Each bulkhead adds +3 hull integrity to your base And, here it’s mentioned that as long as the hull integrity is at a safe level the base will be fine, well what do you mean by “safe level”? The safe level is anything above zero, as long as your hull integrity is over 0, you are fine, as soon as it drops below zero you’ll start to experience flooding. Also, each solar panel provides 75units of energy, not 150 so keep that in mind too

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Pinned to top! Great addition to the guide the community will get alot of value out this!

[@oxoras8635]

He corrected himself in the video saying it wasn't 150 it was actually 75

[@tdmfankiller]

i didnt start with a straght thingy i started with the multi

[@thedman2518]

Thank you, i had alot of trouble finding my base 😁

[@firefly690]

@@tdmfankiller then your games bugged

[@BrodieB762]

You have a big channel so not sure if you will see this comment but OMGosh! This helped me so so so much! I just got the game today and I couldn’t find a video that explained everything so well. THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I’m Swedish so my English is not the best sorry, the way you explained everything I could understand so well. Can’t wait to see all your other videos. Anyways thank you thank you thank you for this video!! Iv been so excited for this game and then BOOM! I was overwhelmed ( I think that’s a right word). I’m already fan so much. Skickar tack från Sverige 🇸🇪

[@GranddaddyGamer]

I’m glad it was able to help you! :)

[@AverageManClay]

This really helped me I just started playing the game and I was really worried about my base again thx

[@Mr_.G]

Just started playing this, on Monday, and what a cool game it is. Also just started to build a proper base too.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

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[@glitchy205]

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[@dreezy-qi7wj]

Love knowing there’s still recent subnautica vids Bro :) keep it up

[@wxIf]

Bruh I just seen a video of yours now it’s getting to me you have helped me get modification station and! moon pool! Your way to cool

[@nekonekomikan]

Next to salvage/wrecks I just used my vehicles for that. If it was in the safe shallows, I just planted mine near giant coral and thermal vents: for pure water and infinite power. Put the moon pool above the coral, dive down and grab some easy quick-like, expand from the MP. You should tell them the solar panels lose effectiveness *in* the water, should build em on a platform above sea level, either natural or of their making, for best results.

[@itsanewb5080]

Ps4 Play at home brought me here this is really useful thank u :)

[@stw_chevy7075]

You are now my go to subnautica guide whenever i need help so thanks

[@CigarSmokingPumpkin]

Location: does a top of a mountain work? XD

[@ryanjosephlock]

@tsunami of the tsunami p

[@ScandalousDuck]

Yes actually! Your base can't flood if you do somehow manage to break your base. I would recommend the floating island for items like lithium, diomands, and the other one from the sea treaders.

[@saditalian_dorito4289]

Obv

[@akmal94ibrahim]

I plan to do in on the beachside on the alien building island

[@nemo_is_real]

Holy shit, this helped me out so much! I'm a really new Subnautica player and couldn't figure it out. Thank the stars for people who make such informative videos

[@Illunamelon]

the bioreactor is op. just get something with a high amount of seeds, and fill up the bioreactor.

[@Heegaherger]

I have 2 major bases: one in the shallows about 100m from the life pod, the other is on top of the largest Mushroom stack in the Eastern Mushroom Forest, a launch base on the eastern edge of the Underwater Islands, A Meditation Chamber at the Tree in the Lost River and Sith Brooding Chambers in both the Lava Lake and Inactive Lava Zones along with waypoint and scanning stations scattered all across the map. I also built 2 carriers and a dreadnought by myself in EVE Online, so my long list of structures should come as no surprise.

[@jackmason5673]

I haven’t even made a base yet but I have tons of blueprints, I don’t have the moonpool yet (I have the sea moth) once I find that I’ll start making a base. This is a helpful video, once I decide to make a base. Anyone have tips where I can find moonpool fragments??

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Yes sir made a guide to help kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6qQhZiYoat2p7c

[@kirkmigliore1423]

Really appreciate the tips. I was a little confused at the start of my game but thanks to ur tips I think I get it on base building.

[@daniellevy4104]

I’m making the entirety of Subnautica into a base .

[@Sauspreme]

Dude I had no idea you could build just a tube for a base. I already have the seamoth and still no "rooms" so all I have is a foundation and like 15 deployable storage lockers filled with materials floating around my escape pod. Glad I didn't waste ALL my titanium on water proof lockers lol. Thanks again! I just couldn't imagine being able to hang stuff on the circular walls of the tubes, and had no idea they were so spacious inside.

[@Jack_Attack1234]

Amazing vid this should have at least 100k views

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Thank you

[@woodenstool6422]

*1 million

[@mocheeee]

@@woodenstool6422 *1 billion

[@M_D72]

@@mocheeee *1 trillion

[@eloscuro704]

Beacons are important but can sometimes be hard to find. In my current hard core game, I actually got the seamoth, moon pool, and prawn suit before I even found the first beacon fragment. But if you don't have them, there are other options you can use: Each life pod has a radio beacon. When you visit a life pod, it normally turns off. But on the beacon manager, you can turn it back on and change its color. And both islands are easy to find too. Just look for the grey cloud that stays at the horizon. Those are really fog banks around the islands. Just swim to the center and you will hit the island every time.

[@SzadoB]

Am I the only one that built my base on the surface?

[@duckmanduckman2982]

Nope, I found a raised bit of seafloor and have my base mostly above water

[@oogabooga217]

I built mine on the floating island

[@jllol784]

@@oogabooga217 ahhh yes

[@astronomyphilly]

Lots miss it as it's not really explained or ever shown but place the cursor exactly over the centre of the "locker" label and you can edit the name. Same for base lockers and labels. Makes storage, sorting and retrieval a damn site less annoying. Especially for the floating lockers. Hope that helps some, took me forever to realise it.

[@jackpfefferkorn3734]

Unfortunately, the larger freestanding lockers don't have nameplates. Would be nice if they did because they hold the most items.

[@CeriusDeluge]

@@jackpfefferkorn3734 The game has a "sign" (2 titanium) that you can place on walls and then set the text. I have not tried it yet but I presume that this can also be applied to lockers as well.

[@modeal317]

@@CeriusDeluge Nope. You can't stick sign to the big lockers, sadly. Really seems dumb that they didn't put nameplates on them.

[@Airisuea]

How did i not notice you could change the color of the beacons and stuff 🤦 lol

[@Shey025]

Rookie analysis (just started playing this week)....I've played way too long using the escape pod and little floaty containers as my base....little did I know that was severely limiting me.

[@Zaprozhan]

Same man. My friend started playing, and he very quickly dropped a tube, and starting stuffing it with storage lockers. Doh!

[@CEOrobotSpace]

Now I end up building my first base either in the mushroom forest or in the grand reef.... welp that’s perhaps because of experience and maybe because it’s cooler

[@GranddaddyGamer]

You only build one?

[@CEOrobotSpace]

Granddaddy Gamer yes

[@LadyBrightcynder]

Thanks so much! I was feeling a little overwhelmed not knowing where to start!

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Glad I could help!

[@demolitionskydive4890]

bioreactor is very useful with acid shrooms, i would recommend growing some acid shrooms because one shroom gives 300 power

[@nerdoutreachprogram5358]

This game is the best game since Witcher 3.

[@youareasock9752]

My 2 favourite games of all time you got good taste

[@jamiepacemizzi2822]

And Horizon Zero Dawnin my opinion lol

[@K1ndaAwkwardGayming]

I love how everything attached for you perfectly😂 I can’t even get a compartment to attach anywhere at all

[@yergirl3368]

Ah yes play at home play at home it's at home once again

[@SERPENTONORTHAM1992]

I built my first Moonpool and Scanner Room yesterday, after 15 hours of exploring different areas on the map. I will farm a lot in order to build a base far away form the Safe Shallows. Safe Shallows is the safest place for me, for now. Safe and Shallow lol. Also, I need to find the blueprints for the Growbed and the Living Quarters.

[@patto3652]

Everyone's here from the play at home thing. I bought the disk, then it suddenly came out free 😔

[@gamekhan124]

Pro tip for everyone still playing! Build your end-game base at the cove tree it has every useful material near it except for stalker teeth

[@EvilDuck2137]

nah, void is the best location

[@louis4679]

I use the exterior grow bed and plant those acid mushrooms that you use to make batteries with, then throw them in the bio reactor, which to me causes it to need me to refill it the least amount of times than other material I experimented with and therefore powers my base quite nicely. 🤷‍♂️ idk I also skip making a flashlight in the beginning and aim for making a seaglide as soon as I can (which has its own light in the front) I dont use the grav trap, I try to get a base going then plant stuff to grow on the inside, since once you have edible plants going, you spend much less time staying hydrated and nourished and needing to catch food to survive or go out to accomplish tasks, since salted fish stay edible for long in your inventory. Sometimes (not all the time) you can go out, do allot of stuff and be back, to eat of your fruit and stuff in your base, before you need to consume anything from your inventory. On xbox use your left bumper button (to ascend) and right bumper (to descend) it helps allot with staying at a certain level in the water (with seamoth or swimming) while looking at something below you. Also, while swimming, swim until you are directly above a place of interest to you, like a sandstone outcrop that is a little deep etc, then look down, swim backwards and leap out of the water in reverse, then as you stay aiming down and hit the water, head down faster to get to the place of interest

[@LABullDaddy]

Good color choice on the beacons. I made my pod yellow, because is the first color that humans notice in our environment. It's the reason caution signs are yellow. Orange, which of course has yellow in it and is opposite from blue on the color wheel, is also a good choice.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Aww yellow never thought about that..thank you for the info!

[@EjFvid]

@@GranddaddyGamer how do you build the beams that are holding it up because I can’t build anything without that and I don’t know how to do it

[@jvseventeen]

​@@EjFvid the legs on stuff can be weird. Sometimes they are there, and sometimes they will disappear after a while. I think it depends on the surface underneath what you're building, how smooth it is or if there's something (crates, debris, etc) blocking the poles. As far as I know, there isn't a way to just build them, or attach them after the fact. They're just there, or not there, as the game determines. I'd say if you want them to be there, probably build on the bottom, in a fairly flat area. If you don't want them there, you can try putting your base somewhere like on a Mushroom tree, because the game will not load (at least in my experience) the poles in after you've left the area and your base will be floating in a tree. Or dangling off a cliff/drop-off somewhere, that also works lol

[@kaylinpina]

Multi purpose room is key

[@soulcampbell]

Not key, it’s a must.

[@tylerleuschen8132]

For what?

[@darkzerox2555]

Thank you for doing examples in real time👍

[@JaiAcuneIdeeQuoiMettreIci]

windows accelerate growth of plants when close to surface

[@goku64100]

Getting back to the BASEics

[@donotmindmeplease3392]

-PLACE BEACONS NEAR YOUR BASES TO FIND THEM EASIER My brain- Place vehicles near your bases to find them easier

[@NohrScum]

My first time playing, I stuffed my inventory with mushrooms, didn't know how to drop them, and quit in frustration. I'm glad i gave it another shot

[@instinct_xd]

Bruh i started my base with scaner room i though that it was multipurposeroom🤣

[@Bungholium]

Pur-poser-room?

[@legitimate8463]

@@Bungholium purpose(r)oom There is only one r so it is is purpose room

[@Bungholium]

@@legitimate8463 ok

[@readysetgo4468]

I just started few hours ago and the locker thingy is very helpful thank you!

[@hondacivic199091]

An the same with this game got frustrated with it never could keep from dieing but thanks to you I might just start back to playing it thanks again an I just got a bug where I was on my raft had the binoculars looking thought them an when I went to put them up I couldn't an I couldn't pull anything up so I went to the nearest island an saved it I haven't started it back up yet an this is after the patch

[@RussianBotBlyatBlyot]

I had no idea you could grow gel sacks and blood kelp and whatnot. That's a game changer. I always spend a solid hour or two collecting enough gel sacks.

[@iknowyou393]

Thanks! I just started base building and I had no idea what I was doing.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

You're very welcome!

[@Danzilla111]

Heres a tip you forgot you can use acid mushrooms as a bio fuel which is more efficient then catching lots of fish

[@SwangoZone]

I just started playing this today and I'm stunned by it

[@spikeygirl5722]

Hey thanks for this video for beginners I've just started playing subnautica on ps5 and im trying to find my way. A lot of things ive figured our naturally but building tips and other videos are really helping me understand etc xx 😊

[@Dummie501]

Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I'm starting a new game cause Ive been playing the game really stupidly on my initial save, can't wait to jump in and use the tips from this video and get stuff done faster :)

[@ThatVolvoGuy942]

I've never heard of this game and I don't play it, but I still clicked on this video and it does actually look pretty cool.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Well its free on playstation right now ..

[@ThatVolvoGuy942]

@@GranddaddyGamer I might actually download it. Thanks.

[@FATI_SZN]

@@ThatVolvoGuy942 no. Download it straight away bc it's free forever. If you dont want to download it then save it to your library if your want to play later. Dont miss out on this game

[@ThatVolvoGuy942]

@@FATI_SZN What do you mean "No"?

[@FATI_SZN]

@@ThatVolvoGuy942 the "might download it". Please make it a "must download it"

[@Cunoslav]

This was so good i had to sub... Really good advice and excellent narration!! Enjoyed it a lot!

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Thank you very much...more guides to come as well!

[@Cunoslav]

@@GranddaddyGamer I have played around 26hrs and have a pretty big base with a thermal plant, moonpool, Cyclops... But it's always nice to see how someone else did something and steal an idea or two that you haven't thought of. Keep'em coming!

[@dday555]

a spoiler free tip: once you start to move away from solar power i do recall using a thermal vent in the safe shallows to power my safe shallows base and I managed to get it really close end got a ton of power so you know not a bad choice

[@0nyx.]

Tip even if you're in the safe shallows the bioreactor is an amazing power source you can have up to 500 power the Crepevine acid mushrooms coral and even fish anything organic and if you can't find the fragment at lifepod 17 there's a a really big wreck with prawn suit laser cutter battery charger bioreactor fragments and the metal salvage if you can't find it again just keep heading in between southwest and west but don't just go west I watched the video that told me to just go west I went to the mountains and was almost killed by a Reaper

[@LeoAzzakaGoile]

Nice, simple, concise. Thank you.

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Glad it was helpful!

[@noahnoahh_]

I just got Subnautica on PlayStation for free and this helped a lot! Thank you

[@GranddaddyGamer]

Im glad to hear this! I have a ton of guides for this game on the channel..just let me know if u need anything