Base Defence Methods: Subnautica Tips

Best base defence: build the base outside the dangerous creatures patrolling range.

My only complaint is that you didn’t test wearing a sombrero in a funny fashion or standing in an oval. Get in a circle and you will be safe from the sea bear

I've found tiger plants most useful positioned near a sensor room to prevent stalkers from running off with you camera drones. Captively raised stalkers are a great way to gather scrap metal (just don't release them right next to your base, and mark the spot with a beacon). and for personal defense, raise a few crashfish in captivity, grab a few out of the tank when you're going on a run, and use a propulsion cannon to launch the little shits like 40mm grenades, guaranteed to send reaper, and ghost leviathans packing (yet to test it on a sea dragon, I kinda feel like it's too big to care).

I grew a bunch of stalkers and decided to release them into the wild right outside my base. 6 of them. And that’s the story of how I lost 4 lockers full of titanium

This actually happened in my base I commented about in your other video. While I was installing solar panels, the Reaper came in and tried to attack me outside his patrol area. He never bothers me in the base and he only comes by if a sand shark was swimming by my base, or I was outside it doing construction. In an Italian Mafia tone But don't worry......I took care of him. >:-)

I can confirm that Lava Lizards will attack an empty PRAWN suit you leave near your base.

Before this video I did not even know that your base can take damage from creatures

I didn’t wear the reinforced dive suit. I died in 3 seconds

And that’s why I build my main base in the safe shallows

4:57 Once I was trying to find the Quarantine Enforcement Platform with my Seamoth. And I ran into a Reaper while I was outside my Seamoth. Then the Reaper grabbed onto my Seamoth and started destroying it, all I could do is watch as it destroyed my Seamoth. R.I.P Seamoth......

Best base defense: Build in the shallows.

My tame Mesmer wiped out the Biters outside my base. Now I can come and go safely.

i know a good reson to have base defence, you know how stalkers can take cams out of your scanner room right, yea that happens to me alot

I've watched many different playthroughs of Subnautica by many different people and I think the best thing you can do for 'base defense' is to just play smart. If you know where the hostile leviathans spawn, don't make a base anywhere near their patrol areas. Idk why you'd even want to do such a thing as they all spawn in deeper areas that are majorly out of the way of the Shallows, southern Blood Kelp, and Jellyshroom Caves which have always been sort of the main hubs of my playthroughs until I could get down to the Cove tree to make my main base. The only leviathan that you're kind of forced to interact with is the Sea Dragon and even then, idk why you'd be making a base in either the active or inactive lava zones due to all of the thermal vents that are around the Cove tree which provide more than enough power to sustain a base with an active scanner room and an active water filtration system.

put "turrets" on roof in order to limit chance of hitting base

Best base defence = go out in your PRAWN and whack the sh*t out of any bugger that gets too close lol But seriously... if you have a base defence problem, you built your base in the wrong place. Simple as that. Build a base in a quiet area and there will be zero issues. There are plenty of areas even in the middle of "aggressive" areas where a base can be built that is hassle free as creatures don't travel near some areas.

Hey! I've been doing some testing of my own recently and it seems as though the tiger plant projectiles have a fall-off range, at which the projectiles disappear and do no damage. This means that you can place tiger plants some distance away from your base and the projectiles will not have the range to reach your base and damage it - quite easy to do via a process of trial & error testing range in each location :)

I've never had problems with this as i only build bases in safer locations but will have to keep a eye out if i want to try somthing new.

I've tried a number of different things and ultimately found the mechanics for the base are just too underdeveloped to do anything other than goof around. A couple beds of tiger plants will also kill a warper stone dead if it appears right over them.

I made my base in the grassy plateaus, near the entrance to the jellyshroom caves(the one directly above the 250m Degasi base). Today I realized about 200+ meters away there are not one but TWO reaper leviathans patrolling off the stern of the Aurora, thankfully there is a kelp forest buffer between them and me that they don't seem to venture through.