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Part of the fun of Subnautica: Below Zero is building and customizing your base. While it isn't required to beat the game, it makes survival easier and provides a place to put up your feet a bit.

How to Build a Base

As you play through Subnautica you will come across scannable base and habitat items like Windows, Reinforced Glass, Multipurpose Room and other elements. These can be found in the various bases like Outpost Zero, Delta Station, and even while Finding Marguerit's Seabase or Finding Marguerit's Greenhouse. Return to those pages for detailed instructions on their location.

However, even after you've unlocked blueprints you'll need the Habitat Builder to create them. Check out the Finding and Curing the Frozen Leviathan page for instructions on finding the Builder fragment at Outpost Zero. Once you've done that, it's time to build!

Building Your Base

You can build bases above and below water. You can even build multiple in separate locations to facilitate exploration. It's up to you! Regardless, the process is pretty simply.

Equip your Habitat Builder and open its build menu. Select an item you want to build and hold "Construct" until the item complete. You can construct single rooms, add on to it, and essentially create an entire base to your liking. Keep it simple or go big—your choice! However, we do hav e a few common and useful recommendations.

Basic Base Parts

Below water, you might begin by building a Multipurpose Room that allows you to display Collectibles and posters you've gathered, house an Indoor Grow Bed or install a Battery Charger.

Build the Multipurpose Room, which requires six Titanium.

Then, create a hatch so you can enter and exit, of course!

You'll notice the room is dark when you enter, and your PDA will warn you there's no oxygen production.

It's easy to build a Solar Panel that powers your base's oxygen production during the day and most of the night. You can upgrade power sources later, but this is a good place to start.

Next, we recommend building a Battery Charging Station. Now you can re-charge all those batteries you've built for your Seaglide, Scanner, Habitat Builder and other tools.

You can also display your Collectibles on the walls, or build a Single Wall Shelf to place photos.

We also recommend building an Indoor Grow Bed to begin farming resources, as well as an Exterior Grow Bed to farm Spiral Plants and other hard-to-find flora.

Add some additional flair with Basic Plant Pots, a Window, or other items you like. Remember that if you want to build your base further down, you'll need to upgrade structural integrity with items like the Bulwark, Foundation, and so on.

These are just the basics, and you will collect more recipes throughout gameplay. So go wild! Just remember to consider structural integrity and power sources as you build. The rules are essentially the same above water, minus the need for oxygen production.

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