Talk:Mushroom Forest/@comment-37948736-20181230145451/@comment-38500437-20190225123032

If you're planning on building a large symmetrical design base close to the seafloor, it's not ideal. If you're only building a functional "gas stop" or "resource-stripper" base, you could find enough room down there to build something reasonable. Building up high in the trees does give you more room. Safety-wise, it depends on which zone you are suggesting, and where in the zone you end up building it. Two reapers are known to wander at the borders of the NE zone: Aurora/Bulb Zone and Mountains. A reaper(s) is also known to stray nearby the border to the Dunes in the NW one. Small numbers of bone sharks occur in the NW zone (mostly around the huge Mushroom Tree & are manageable with a stasis rifle), while mesmers are known to be found in the NE one. I've had a combatitive Ampeel and Crabsquid wander over the border from the Blood Kelp Zone in the NW forest as well, so consider a central location for your base in either forest in a quiet area not patrolled by predators. My personal preference? The NW one.

A safer option is to build in either NW or NE Grassy Plateaus  Right against the border of either Forest works well. Wide open spaces for a large base with less predator problems and access to adjacent (and less hospitable) biomes. Just don't build it in the path of a Reefback Leviathan, or in range of Tiger Plants.