I found a nice spot on one of the larger underwater islands about 240m down, close to the wreck bridging two others. It has a geyser in the middle to provide for thermal power and plenty of space for moonpool access over the edges of the island.
@EnglishInfidel I believe you may have to just cross into another biome and come back for them to respawn, just to be sure. I was around my base the whole time …
Fauna definitely respawns, it was fixed in one of the most recent updates and mentioned in the changelog. I also pretty much wiped out all life around my main base before I got a self-sustaining food source up and running, all the fauna has repopula…
You cannot really call on the realism argument in this case, try to look at it from a gaming standpoint. The realistic thing to do would be to add billions of individual lifeforms and resource deposits large and dense enough to last for decades at l…