I think you should try building your base in the sea treader’s path

Blood kelp or grand reef

The mushroom forest is pretty cool. It has very few predators and a lot of good fragments and resources.

Kasius idk if it’s a glitch but I encountered a reaper right near the mushroom

I don't think that's a glitch. There's a reaper leviathan spawn at the front of the aurora, which is near the mushroom forest's border.

Ah that makes sense