Originally posted by P O T A T O 🔥😿🥔🔥™:

Originally posted by Ryzilynt:

It'd be pretty cool. Apparently the devs have stated they don't want players to be able to completely circumvent the dangers of topside.

Gotta make bigger dangers bottomside

I was thinking the same thing as I wrote that. But ultimately it's a lot of work that isn't currently planned, maybe in the end as different approaches to game play are more thoroughly fleshed out.

As it stands now you can get close by digging out under the elder spawn and creating a base down there. You can also create a decent base under most copper nodes. No tunnels connecting them to other bases sadly.

Hell you can even build a massive base and then dig out a basement for a portal dungeon. I was hesitant I admit, but my mates were not. Low and behold it all worked out in the end.